Pakistani activists of Islami Jamiat-e-Tulaba (IJT), a student wing of hardline party Jamaat-i-Islami (JI), shout slogans during a protest in Lahore on May 20, 2010, against the published caricatures of Prophet Mohammed on Facebook. The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) blocked access to Facebook and YouTube in a growing row sparked when a private Facebook user asked people to send in drawings of the Prophet Mohammed.
Pakistani Islamists shout slogans during a protest in Karachi on May 20, 2010, against the published caricatures of Prophet Mohammed on Facebook. Pakistan condemned caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed that appeared on Facebook, blocking the social networking site and YouTube in a growing backlash over Internet ‘sacrilege’. Several thousand activists protested against the drawings and denounced the West in an expression of outrage that sparked comparisons with riots across the Muslim world in 2006 over drawings published in European newspapers. The caricatures appeared on Facebook after a private user asked people to submit drawings of the Prophet Mohammed in an online competition that sparked fury in conservative Muslim Pakistan.
Pakistani women affiliated with a religious party rally against the Facebook page “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day!” A Pakistani court ordered the government to block the popular social networking website Facebook temporarily because of the controversial page that encourages uses to submit images of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad, a senior legal official said.
Pakistani women rally holding a placard with the name of Prophet Muhammad in Multan, Pakistan, on Thursday, May 20, 2010. Pakistan’s government ordered Internet service providers to block the social networking site Facebook on Wednesday amid anger over a page that encourages users to post images of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad.
A woman wearing a banner with the shahada, the Muslim profession of faith “There is no god but God and Mohammad is the prophet of God”, takes part in a protest organized by the Islamic political party Jamaat-e-Islami against Facebook in Karachi May 19, 2010. The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority directed Internet service providers to block Facebook indefinitely on Wednesday because of an online competition to draw the Prophet Mohammad.
Women supporters of Islamic political party Jamaat-e-Islami hold a placard during a protest against Facebook in Karachi May 19, 2010. The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) directed Internet service providers to block Facebook indefinitely on Wednesday because of an online competition to draw the Prophet Mohammad.
A Pakistani woman affiliated with a religious party rally against the Facebook page “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day!” A Pakistani court ordered the government Wednesday to block the popular social networking site because of the controversial page that encourages uses to post images of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad, a senior legal official said.
A Pakistani employee pastes news about blocked Facebook pages on the entrance door of an internet cafe in Islamabad on May 19, 2010, against the published caricatures of Prophet Mohammed on Facebook. A Pakistani court has ordered authorities to block Facebook temporarily over a competition encouraging users to post caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed on the social networking site. The depiction of any prophet is strictly prohibited in Islam as blasphemous and Muslims across the world staged angry protests over the publication of satirical cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in European newspapers in 2006.
