Fwd: [ALOCHONA] More than 2.5m Muslims threaten to leave Facebook after four Islamic pages are taken down

This sort of news makes me wonder, how the "Producer" of the headline knew what 2.5 million Muslims were thinking? Facebook is an internet portal and has certain rules. It has right to post or cancel any page. If those pages were used to SPAM, they may take them down. Sometimes they may do it for political reasons ( Protest from other religious groups etc).

 

We Muslims do not need to "Threat" anyone. Personally I think it is a marketing ploy of madina.com and a good one at it. I wished they did not resort to using Islam to advance their business goals. For most people FB is an addiction and waste of time. Therefore, as a community it should not a major reason to join or quit this group.

 

Drawing picture of our last prophet (PBUH) is prohibited in Islam. But if certain non-Muslims want to agitate us by drawing imaginary pictures, we need not to get so upset over some idiots. Just leave idiots alone. That is what our prophet (PBUH) has done frequently during his life time.

 

Our noble prophet(PBUH) was the symbol of patience, compassion and mercy. People called him all kinds of names, physically abused him, mocked him etc. Most of the time he left them alone and forgave them. This is my two cents on the whole issue.

 

And We have sent you (O Muhammad) not except as a mercy for all the worlds.

(Al Qur'an 21:107)

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Subject: [ALOCHONA] More than 2.5m Muslims threaten to leave Facebook after four Islamic pages are taken down

 

More than 2.5m Muslims threaten to leave Facebook after four Islamic pages are taken down

By Niall Firth

More than 2.5million users will leave Facebook unless certain Islamic pages are reinstated, it has been claimed.A template letter that has been pasted into numerous Facebook pages accuses founder Mark Zuckerberg and other senior members of Facebook of 'ignoring the feelings of more than 2.5million Muslims'.The Muslim community is angry that four extremely popular Islamic pages were removed from the site and the letter warns that unless its demands are met Facebook's Muslim users will move to an Islamic alternative.

The letter demands not only that the pages are reinstated but that new rules are introduced which make it a violation of Facebook's terms to post anti-Islamic comments.And Facebook is given notice that unless the changes are introduced then 2.5 million Muslim users will leave to join madina.com, a social networking site for Muslims.

The letter reads: '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, but seriously this time you have caused an almost unrepairable [sic] damage.'

It also accuses Facebook of 'irresponsible behaviour' for allowing to host 'Everybody Draw Mohammed Day' pages which sparked controversy for encouraging users to draw portraits of the Prophet.

There is no specific ban on images of Allah or the Prophet Mohammed in the Koran but there is one line which is commonly taken to mean that it is impossible for human hands to recreate his likeness. To attempt to do so would is an insult to Allah, it is believed.

The letter demands that the four deleted pages are reinstated, disrespecting Islamic religious symbols is banned and any Facebook page which does so is disabled.Madina.com was a social networking site set up specifically for the Muslim community. It pledges to abide by the 'highest Islamic principals' and encourages Muslim unity. Female users are asked not to use pictures of themselves as profile pictures.

According to Facebook the Islamic pages, which included 'I love Mohammed' and 'Quran Lovers', were taken down because they were being used to 'spam' users, which is against the company's policy.The pages were  were using a JavaScript code that when entered in the address bar, would add all a user's friends to the Page Suggestions – making it similar to spamming people across Facebook.

A spokeswoman said: 'The pages in question were taken down because they violated our policies about spamming users. These pages were not removed because of content violations.'

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