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Saudi Arabia Calls for Internet Censorship of Material Critical of Islam
Hmmm, now I’m confused. Whenever I warn Westerners to guard their freedoms against demands for Sharia, I’m assured that there are absolutely no differences between Western values and Islamic values. So why do I keep seeing calls for major reductions in our freedom to critique Islam?
TELEGRAPH–In a submission to forthcoming international talks on internet governance, the Gulf state said “there is a crying need for international collaboration to address ‘freedom of expression’ which clearly disregards public order”.
During the controversy over a 14-minute clip posted on YouTube and purportedly a trailer for a feature film called “The Innocence of Muslims”, Google resisted pressure, including from the White House, to remove it.
“This video – which is widely available on the web – is clearly within our guidelines and so will stay on YouTube,” Google said last month.
The Saudi government has now told the World Telecommunications Policy Forum, a UN body, that the incident was “an obvious example” of the need for greater international cooperation to restrict content online.
“Any reasonable person would know that this film would foment violence and, indeed, many innocent persons have died and been injured with this film as a root cause,” the Saudi submission said. (Continue Reading.)
Since I insist on being respectful of Muslim demands, I humbly offer my two responses:
2012-10-12 23:20:05
Source: http://www.answeringmuslims.com/2012/10/saudi-arabia-calls-for-internet.html
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