Bangladesh also bans Facebook
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May 31, 2010, Monday
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BANGLADESH has become the second South Asian nation after Pakistan to block the popular social networking Website Facebook over a page that urged people to draw images of Islam's Prophet Muhammad.
Chief telecommunication regulator Zia Ahmed said yesterday that access to the site has been temporarily blocked because it was publishing caricatures that may hurt the religious sentiments of people in the Muslim-majority nation.
Ahmed said the government had asked local Internet service providers to block the objectionable content, and that access to Facebook would be restored if the offending material was removed.
Muslims regard depictions of the prophet, even favorable ones, as blasphemous.
Thousands of Muslims protested in Dhaka on Friday against what they called Facebook's "blasphemous content" because of a page called "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day."
Chief telecommunication regulator Zia Ahmed said yesterday that access to the site has been temporarily blocked because it was publishing caricatures that may hurt the religious sentiments of people in the Muslim-majority nation.
Ahmed said the government had asked local Internet service providers to block the objectionable content, and that access to Facebook would be restored if the offending material was removed.
Muslims regard depictions of the prophet, even favorable ones, as blasphemous.
Thousands of Muslims protested in Dhaka on Friday against what they called Facebook's "blasphemous content" because of a page called "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day."
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