{"id":488,"date":"2010-06-24T11:31:07","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T11:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=488"},"modified":"2010-06-24T11:31:07","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T11:31:07","slug":"order-to-block-nine-websites-with-blasphemous-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2010\/06\/24\/488\/","title":{"rendered":"Order to block nine websites with blasphemous material"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; float: right;\" alt=\"facebook-pak\" src=\"images\/stories\/news\/facebook-pak.jpg\" width=\"242\" height=\"179\" \/>LAHORE: A Pakistani court has ordered the authorities to block access to nine websites including Google, Yahoo and YouTube for allegedly offending Muslims with blasphemous material.<\/div>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Judge Mazhar Iqbal ordered Pakistan&#8217;s Telecommunications Authority to block the websites due to \u201cmaterial against the fundamental principals of Islam and its preaching,\u201d according to a copy of the judgement obtained by AFP.<br \/>Pakistan shut off Facebook for nearly two weeks last month in a storm of controversy about a competition to draw the Prophet Mohammad and has restricted access to hundreds of online links because of blasphemy.<br \/>Iqbal announced a short version of the order in the eastern city of Bahawalpur on Tuesday and released a written detailed order on Wednesday, lawyer Latifur Rehman who brought the petition for the ban, told AFP.<br \/>But while the PTA quickly implemented the earlier ban against Facebook in May, regulators told AFP on Thursday that they had yet to receive the latest order.<br \/> \u201cWe have not yet received any directives from the ministry of information technology. The ministry is the decision-making authority,\u201d Khurram Mehran, a PTA spokesman, told AFP.<br \/>The ministry was not immediately reachable for comment.<br \/>Iqbal called on the PTA and information technology ministry to submit detailed reports to the court next Monday.<br \/>Retired civil servant Siddique Mohammad had petitioned the court through Rehman for the ban on nine websites \u2014 Google, Yahoo, Amazon, MSN, Hotmail, YouTube, Islam Exposed, In The Name of Allah and Bing.<br \/>A spokesman for the Internet Service Providers Association of Pakistan warned that the order could strangle Internet access for millions.<br \/> \u201cIf implemented the decision will choke Internet users. It will seriously impact millions of Internet users in Pakistan who use search engines for email, education, business and other productive purposes,\u201d said Wahajus Siraj.<br \/> \u201cCourts are not a competent jurisdiction to handle technical issues. The issue should have been handled by the PTA,\u201d he said.<br \/>Islam strictly prohibits the depiction of any prophet as blasphemous and the row sparked comparison with protests across the Muslim world at the publication of satirical cartoons of Mohammed in European newspapers in 2006.<br \/>When a Facebook user decided to organise an \u201cEveryone Draw Mohammed Day\u201d competition to promote \u201cfreedom of expression\u201d, it sparked a major backlash among Islamic activists in the South Asian country of 170 million. <\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0 AFP<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: A Pakistani court has ordered the authorities to block access to nine websites including Google, Yahoo and YouTube for allegedly offending Muslims with blasphemous material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c59-islamic-world"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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