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A template letter posted into numerous Facebook
pages is warning Mark Zuckerberg and his team that 2.5 million
Muslims will leave the social networking site if certain demands
are not met.
Ahlul Bayt News Agency (ABNA.ir), A template letter posted into
numerous Facebook pages is warning Mark Zuckerberg and his team
that 2.5 million Muslims will leave the social networking site
if certain demands are not met.
The anger of these 2.5 million users appears, from the letter,
to revolve around the free display of anti-Islamic symbols and
pages and the removal of four Facebook pages that were highly
popular amongst the site’s Muslim users.
The letter wants those pages re-instated and wants new rules
that make it an offense to post anti-Islamic comments on the
site, otherwise 2.5 million people will move to an Islamic
alternative to Facebook.
“Although you have attended the world’s best communication
skills courses you have been most successful in growing great
hatred and hostility between you and Muslims around the world,”
reads part of the letter.
It goes on to decry the company’s acceptance of an ‘Everybody
Draw Mohammed Day’ page, which is controversial because it
allows users to draw the Prophet Mohammed, a highly revered
figure in Islam whom Muslims believe it is an offense to portray
in any visual medium.
t goes on to decry the company’s acceptance of an ‘Everybody
Draw Mohammed Day’ page, which is controversial because it
allows users to draw the Prophet Mohammed, a highly revered
figure in Islam whom some believe it is an offense to portray in
any visual medium.
The letter asks Facebook to respect their beliefs and feelings
and reinstate their pages, but Facebook said in a statement that
the ‘I love Mohammed’ and ‘Quran Lovers’ pages were disabled
because they were spamming users.
“The pages in question were taken down because they violated our
policies about spamming users. These pages were not removed
because of content violations,” said a spokesperson, though her
comments referred to why the pages were disabled, not why they
couldn’t be reinstated.
Source:
http://www.abna.ir
Date: 2010/07/21
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