YouTube banned in Pakistan

Internet free-for-all video site YouTube banned in Pakistan by Islamist Muslim censors

Agence France Press reported Monday, Feb. 25, on censorship by Islamist Muslim religious authorities in Pakistan through an order to Internet providers to block YouTube.

The action is aimed at YouTube, banned in Pakistan because of “blasphemous” content, or material considered offensive to Islam, religious officials said on Sunday in reference to Shari’a rulings.

An inter-ministerial committee has decided to block YouTube because it contained "blasphemous content, videos and documents," a government official said.

"The site will remain blocked until further orders," he said.

Other officials said the site had been blocked because it contained controversial sketches of the Prophet Mohammed…which were republished by Danish newspapers earlier this month.

One major service provider, Micronet, said in an email to subscribers that the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority had directed all ISPs to block access to YouTube "for containing blasphemous web content/movies."

"Meanwhile Internet users can write to YouTube.com to remove the objectionable web content/movies because this removal would enable the authorities to order un-blocking of this website," the email said.

At least 17 Danish newspapers republished the controversial [Muhammad} drawing, vowing to defend freedom of expression a day after Danish police said they had foiled a plot to murder the cartoonist.

In the latest in a series of demonstrations over the cartoons in Pakistan, hundreds of hard-line Islamists in the southern city of Karachi torched effigies of the Danish prime minister and the cartoonist yesterday, witnesses said.

"Death to cartoonist," the demonstrators chanted.

Note to self, and our dear readers, critical renderings of Islamism’s first convert, Muhammad, is considered “blasphemy.”

This would seem to ascribe to the seventh-century brigand turned self-proclaimed prophet the status of equal deity or holiness, equal or approximate to God.

This is an interesting contradiction to Qur’anic verses opposed to placing before God, indivisible, any “partners” or “begotten” heirs, “equals” or near equals.

Just a thought, hmmm… 

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