Mon 25 Feb 2008
From CNN:
Pakistan has become the latest country to block access to the video-sharing Web site YouTube on the grounds that one or more videos on the site offend Islam, authorities said Monday.
The Pakistani government is also asking YouTube to remove “objectionable content,” said Nabiha Mehmood, a spokeswoman for the Pakistani Telecommunications Authority.
If YouTube removes the video or videos that concern Pakistan, she said, the government may once again let its people post and view video clips.
It is unclear what the video or videos in question depict, but a PTA official, who asked not to be identified, told the Associated Press that the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority blocks Web sites that show controversial drawings of the Prophet Mohammed.
How is it Bush thinks we are terrified of these people when the mere sight of pen and ink can bring their country to its knees? Or endless videos of cats sleeping in laundry baskets for that matter?
The power of free speech will always trump the power of a gun. You can kill a person, but you can’t kill an idea. No matter what the Clinton Campaign wants you to think.
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February 25th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
This is not surprising at all… I mean, it seems to me that the most intolerant regimes and organizations of any sort simply refuse to allow criticisim.
As much as I hate “Religion” (the organizational aspects, not the spiritual), I find it interesting that when someone mocks Judasim or any of the flavors of Christianity/Chatholicism it is generally brushed off as “meh…whatever”. Or it is at least taken at face value, especially if it is humor.
Islam on the other hand is quite vocal…and even violent about people criticizing it.
I can only shake my head and laugh as these people cry out and bemoan how people simply “don’t understand” or “refuse to respect” them. They do not seem to be able to understand that respect is not given, it is earned and the *very* vocal minority has only shown that the religion is capeable of intolerance, violence and a way of thinking that has, for the most part, become obsolete within the past hundred years at least.