Peaceful Muslims?, Part 2
May 21st 2010 18:05
So in response to the discussions from yesterday’s article I decided to continue on with this topic to see what others thought.
I am not the person who made the decision to ban Facebook in Pakistan, so I am only guessing as to why, but from what I have read it is because of that one page asking people to submit pictures of prophet Muhammad. Do you think it is right for them to ban Facebook altogether? Should Facebook have removed the page themselves?
Personally, I think it is crazy that Pakistan banned all of Facebook for this simple thing. However, I understand that I am looking at it from the perspective of an American, where I see my rights as different than those from other countries see them. If I had different beliefs then maybe I would see things differently and have different opinions about subjects like this. I guess I am saying that although I think it is crazy their government banned Facebook, it is their government and they should decide if they agree with it or not.
Should Facebook have removed the page? I don’t think that they should have. No matter what the issue (or Facebook pages) there are going to people that agree with it and disagree with it for some reason. There is no way to make everyone happy all of the time. Facebook is based in the United States, therefore it must follow all of the laws in the US. However, I do feel like any business that does operate in another country, even only on the internet must follow the laws of that country. So what was the responsibility of Facebook? As far as I know there is no governmental law in Pakistan that the prophet Muhammad can not be in a picture. It is a religious law. So I don’t think that Facebook was under any obligation to legally remove it. However, as a business you should try to accommodate your customers. By not doing that they have lost an entire country of current/prospective clients. But I argue that Facebook had no choice but to leave it. If they did remove it they would be obligated to at least consider removing anything that a significant number of people did not agree with. Who is to say what that significant number is….it just opens a can of worms. Surly with today’s technology Facebook and Pakistan could have worked something out even if it was to only keep those in Pakistan from seeing that particular page. Or better yet they could have just not looked at it.
Now about my posting from yesterday. As I am sure most can tell, I am not Muslim and do not agree with what they teach. I am a Christian and therefore believe that their religion is not the truth. But I do understand that not everyone agrees with my. In fact I understand that I am in the minority.
>>>>>>>>After typing my last sentence I decided to look it up. Although not everything on the web can be trusted, I find that Wikipedia is very accurate. I was surprised that it stated Christianity (counting Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox) is the world’s larges religion. Here is a graph about it.
So I may not be in as much of the minority as I first thought.
But I digress. I do not want harm to come to anyone because of their faith. I do tell others about my faith, but I know that I can not force them to believe what I believe. I do hope that they choose my way of thinking though. In a world where everyone does not believe the same thing we do have to get along, and that does involve not making others accept your own personal beliefs. (This could open a can of worms about government supporting specific life styles by making laws, but that will be a topic for another day!!)
I am not the person who made the decision to ban Facebook in Pakistan, so I am only guessing as to why, but from what I have read it is because of that one page asking people to submit pictures of prophet Muhammad. Do you think it is right for them to ban Facebook altogether? Should Facebook have removed the page themselves?
Personally, I think it is crazy that Pakistan banned all of Facebook for this simple thing. However, I understand that I am looking at it from the perspective of an American, where I see my rights as different than those from other countries see them. If I had different beliefs then maybe I would see things differently and have different opinions about subjects like this. I guess I am saying that although I think it is crazy their government banned Facebook, it is their government and they should decide if they agree with it or not.
Should Facebook have removed the page? I don’t think that they should have. No matter what the issue (or Facebook pages) there are going to people that agree with it and disagree with it for some reason. There is no way to make everyone happy all of the time. Facebook is based in the United States, therefore it must follow all of the laws in the US. However, I do feel like any business that does operate in another country, even only on the internet must follow the laws of that country. So what was the responsibility of Facebook? As far as I know there is no governmental law in Pakistan that the prophet Muhammad can not be in a picture. It is a religious law. So I don’t think that Facebook was under any obligation to legally remove it. However, as a business you should try to accommodate your customers. By not doing that they have lost an entire country of current/prospective clients. But I argue that Facebook had no choice but to leave it. If they did remove it they would be obligated to at least consider removing anything that a significant number of people did not agree with. Who is to say what that significant number is….it just opens a can of worms. Surly with today’s technology Facebook and Pakistan could have worked something out even if it was to only keep those in Pakistan from seeing that particular page. Or better yet they could have just not looked at it.
Now about my posting from yesterday. As I am sure most can tell, I am not Muslim and do not agree with what they teach. I am a Christian and therefore believe that their religion is not the truth. But I do understand that not everyone agrees with my. In fact I understand that I am in the minority.
>>>>>>>>After typing my last sentence I decided to look it up. Although not everything on the web can be trusted, I find that Wikipedia is very accurate. I was surprised that it stated Christianity (counting Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox) is the world’s larges religion. Here is a graph about it.
(From Wikipedia.org)
So I may not be in as much of the minority as I first thought.
But I digress. I do not want harm to come to anyone because of their faith. I do tell others about my faith, but I know that I can not force them to believe what I believe. I do hope that they choose my way of thinking though. In a world where everyone does not believe the same thing we do have to get along, and that does involve not making others accept your own personal beliefs. (This could open a can of worms about government supporting specific life styles by making laws, but that will be a topic for another day!!)
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Comment by sam sall
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I'm a Saudi arabian born in the same city the prophet was born and in my country the religious law is the the law as our religion is very wholistic and reseliant ( juicy stuff ha... I really think you will right about this in near future
In Islam prophets not suppose to be drawn because it wold be just speculation to what they might look like and people also might worship them..as times pass by and their belief get weaker .
As a Muslim I always wonder why we are antagonized under the guise of "freedom".