Posted on 02/21/2006 8:44:34 AM PST by dennisw
Yahoo!Mail bans Allah and Dirty Harry handles
By John Oates
Monday 20th February 2006 16:27 GMT
Yahoo! is banning the use of allah in email names - even if the letters are included within another name.
This was uncovered by Reg reader Ed Callahan whose mother Linda Callahan was trying to sign up for a Verizon email address. She could not get it to accept her surname.
Enquiries to Verizon revealed that a partnership with Yahoo! was to blame. Yahoo! will not accept any identies which include the letters "allah".
Nor will Yahoo! accept yahoo, osama or binladen. But it will accept god, messiah, jesus, jehova, buddah, satan and both priest and pedophile.
Ed Callahan told us: "On one level this is just silliness. But we have a war on terrorism and it's migrating to be a war on Muslims - this just shows the confusion there is between the two and how pervasive this is."
The Callahans are still waiting to hear back from Yahoo!
A spokesman for Yahoo! UK said: "This sounds like a glitch. But we will get back to Ed and Lindy Callahan with a full answer as soon as possible." .
More from the blogosphere here.
Famous *allah*s: Dirty Harry Callahan, Lord Jim Calla(g)han (ex-British PM), errr...that's all...®
Senator Reid must be PO'd!
That is interesting since most of the post on Yahoo are pro terrorist.
Callahanahu akhbar!
Just in case you guys and gals missed this earlier. I am sure someone could do a better job than me at this but then you would have to put up with the death threats.
Take a look it is pretty funny. Check out the stars name tag... hint it starts with Moe.
http://www.weddingcrashersmovie.com/crashthistrailer/index.htm?id=262179
LOL
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