Pakistani courts, who previously banned Facebook for 13 days (May 19, 2010 to May 31, 2010) in response to the page called 'Everybody Draw Muhammad Day', are now again taking actions for a more permanent nature of ban on Facebook. A compliance report will presented in the court on October 6, 2011. Further action will than be taken.On may 31, 2010 Pakistan finally lifted the ban but the blasphemous pages were remain hidden.
The question arises that when those pages are already hidden than what is the need of a complete ban on Facebook. And reason behind this action is that after that Facebook blasphemous event's popularity, many people created blasphemous pages just to screw with Muslims by dishonouring their Holy figures and some for the sake of popularity.
This has resulted in hundreds of new blasphemous pages being created on Facebook each day. Adding insult to injury is the attitude of Facebook, which is very uncooperative rather insulting for the Muslim community as they mostly don't take down such pages even after being 'reported abused' thousands of time. Not to mention that all these pages are against the TOS of Facebook.
This incident is not the first in its nature. Before this Danish papers published caricatures of the Holy Prophet of Muslims and even after many protests by the Muslim community the cartoons were republished by other newspaper. Later it became a delightful thing for some people to outrage Muslims by such events. Later some cartoon were published by a website claiming that holocaust was fabricated and denied the holocaust but was not considered a criminal offense because it was intended to be a contribution to public debate regarding a perceived double standard in the distribution of the Danish Mohammad cartoons.
So after the govt has realized that its hard blocking/taking down all those pages being created each day. They have come up with a solution of permanent ban on Facebook.Is this the complete solution to prevent further blasphemies by the soulless wild animals round the globe eager to invoke the Muslims and then label them with terrorist? Ofcourse not! As it may not be that easy to create a page on facebook but building a new website is not that difficult nowadays. So the next step would be to block the internet access?? and then may be the newspaper??
The more appropriate solution would be to identify the culprits behind such actions and brought them to justice. So that no one else do this again. This should be considered a cyber crime. If a website or a page against holocaust doesn't last a week then why does blasphemous pages against Islam last like forever?
Disclaimer: Everything Mentioned here is best to my knowledge and experience. Any suggestions or comments will be appreciated!
