Now that’s over doing it. Seriously!!!!
I am all for the ban on Facebook. But is Pakistani government now going to use this incident as a ruse to censor and monitor internet usage?
Where exactly are heading with this?
The attempt to offend muslims across the world has been a huge success, far as Facebook is concerned. But it has given the Pakistani authorities the perfect excuse to monitor internet websites, like UAE and China, and simply control the flow of information to its citizens.
So will Google be the next site to be blocked?
I never expected something like this to happen in Pakistan. Ever.
So some one decides to hold a Draw Muhammad Day, and uses Facebook to popularize it. The main purpose in my view was to make sure that as many muslims as possible see it, get angry, start retaliating, and hence… provide some cheap popularity and satisfaction to the anti-muslim sentiments of this person hosting it. And what do you know? It worked… in fact… it worked really well.
I got numerous messages from people in my Facebook friend’s list yesterday… some about reporting this page, some about deactivating my account for a few days in protest and register the protest with Facebook admin, and some that went to the extent of requesting that I stop using Read more…
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I took this photo on March 29th, a perfect spring evening.
1- “It’s really not a number I’m terribly interested in.”
-General Colin Powell [When asked about the number of Iraqi people who were slaughtered by Americans in the 1991 "Desert Storm" terror campaign (200,000 people!)]
2- Q. We have heard that a half million children have died (because of sanctions against Iraq). I mean, that’s more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?
A. I think this is a very hard choice, but the price–we think the price is worth it.
-Madeleine Albright, [US Secretary of State, on the death of Iraq children because of US sanctions against Iraq, talking to Lesley Stahl on “60 Minutes.” May 12, 1996]
3- “I will never apologize for the United States of America – I don’t care what the facts are.”
-President George Bush 1988 [Bush was demonstrating his patriotism by excusing an act of cold-blooded mass-murder by the U.S. Navy. On July 3, 1988 the U.S. Navy warship Vincennes shot down an Iranian commercial airliner. All 290 civilian people in the aircraft were killed. The plane was on a routine flight in a commercial corridor in Iranian airspace. The targeting of it by the U.S. Navy was blatantly illegal. That it was grossly immoral is also obvious. Except to a patriot.]
4- “To maintain this position of disparity (U.S. economic-military supremacy)… we will have to dispense with all sentimentality and day-dreaming…. We should cease to talk about vague and… unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standard and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts…. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better.”
-George Kennan [Director of Policy Planning U.S. State Department 1948]
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Article Source: The Radical Middle Way
Last month, three Muslim men were arrested in Britain in connection with the London bombings of July 2005. In light of such situations, a number of non-Muslims and Muslims alike yearn for “moderate,” peace-loving Muslims to speak out against the violent acts sometimes perpetrated in the name of Islam. And to avoid association with terrorism, some Muslims adopt a “moderate” label to describe themselves.
I am a Muslim who embraces peace. But, if we must attach stereotypical tags, I’d rather be considered “orthodox” than “moderate.”
“Moderate” implies that Muslims who are more orthodox are somehow backward and violent. And in our current cultural climate, progress and peace are restricted to “moderate” Muslims. To be a “moderate” Muslim is to be a “good,” malleable Muslim in the eyes of Western society.
I recently attended a debate about Western liberalism and Islam at the University of Cambridge where I’m pursuing my master’s degree. I expected debaters on one side to present a bigoted laundry list of complaints against Islam and its alleged incompatibility with liberalism, and they did. Read more…
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