Posted on 05/28/2010 11:27:48 PM PDT by Steelfish
Facebook Rival Launched In Pakistan After 'Blasphemous' Prophet Images Published
Web developers in Pakistan have launched a version of Facebook for the Muslim world after the social networking site was blocked for showing “blasphemous” images of the Prophet Mohammed.
By Rob Crilly 28 May 2010
Six young IT experts in the city of Lahore have set up MillatFacebook – using the Urdu word for nation – which they hope will become a hub for Muslims around the world. Omar Zaheer Meer, one of the founders, said the site was launched on Wednesday and had already attracted 8,000 users.
The aim, he said, was to register their disapproval of the images of the Muslim prophet and to offer an alternative to a site that has also been criticised for its lax and confusing privacy controls. "We are saying that we are technologically independent and that you can't make money from us and then not respect our views," he said.
Thousands of people in Pakistan have demonstrated against the US-based social networking site for hosting a contest calling for cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. The country's courts ordered internet service providers to block the social networking site last week, along with others that featured sacrilegious content. YouTube, Wikipedia and hundreds of other pages have all been subject to temporary bans. Muslims argue that any representation of the Prophet Mohammed is blasphemous.
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It’s better when you view their page through the wonders of burka vision... http://www.burkavision.co.uk/www.millatfacebook.com/
To paraphrase Freud: sometimes a pic of a dog turd is just a pic of a dog turd.
I hope Facebook lets this grow for a while, and then pulls the plug via copyrights infringement suits. Then, a double-whammy: Facebook will be seen as un-Islamic, driving out the nutters there, in addition to killing this stupid site.
They developed their own Facebook.
Good for them.
Although I don’t understand how it will work out for them, considering all the chicks have their entire body and face covered. How do you know if you dig the chick?
IIRC, in Islam it is forbidden to make a picture of anybody, not just of Mohammed. Shouldn’t this new service be called Facelessbook?
Every hacker on the planet will be hammering this site in order to get in and post muhammed pics.
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