Pakistan publishes list of "obscene" words now forbidden from text messages, reportedly including "athlete's foot" and "Jesus Christ"

This measure is not the first of its kind. In January, Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik "directed the authorities to block websites and [texts] 'propagating an anti-Islam agenda'." And now, part of the magic list, from a sidebar in the same link as this report:

Athlete's foot
Flatulence
Jesus Christ
Monkey crotch
Back door
Bewaquf (foolish)
Bakwaas (nonsense)
Wuutang (a presumed reference to American rap group the Wu-Tang Clan)

The claim might be made that "Jesus Christ" was banned to ensure "respect." But the ban would have a unique and disproportionate potential impact on Christian users.

You can't make this stuff up, but the war on free speech is never held up by reason or practicality. "Pakistan telecoms authority to block 'obscene' texts," from BBC News, November 17:

The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) has told mobile phone companies to begin blocking text messages containing "obscene" words.
Mobile phone companies Telenor Pakistan and Ufone confirmed to the BBC that the PTA has sent them a "dictionary" of banned words and expressions.
The PTA has reportedly ordered operators to begin screening text messages by 21 November.
Ufone say they are now working on how to block the offending words.

Ban first, figure out the particulars later. In the meantime, will there be prosecutions for violating the ban?

A letter dated 14 November, apparently written by Muhammad Talib Doger, an official at the PTA, has been leaked to Pakistani media.
It states that mobile phone operators should begin screening the words, provided on a list attached to the letter, within seven days.
"We have received both the dictionary and the memo and we're discussing a way forward," said Anjum Nida Rahman, corporate communications director for Telenor Pakistan.
The ban is a reaction to consumers' complaints of receiving offensive text messages, Mohammad Younis, a spokesman for the PTA, told The Guardian newspaper.
"Nobody would like this happening to their young boy or girl," he said. He added that the list was not finished and that the authority would continue to add to it.
'What am I missing?'
An unconfirmed version of the PTA's list is being circulated online, containing hundreds of words and expressions in both English and Urdu.
According to this version, the entries range from those too obscene to repeat to the bizarre.
Some of the choices on the list have baffled Pakistani mobile phone users, many of whom have taken to Twitter to ridicule the move.
Syed Adnan Yousuf, tweeting as @AdnanWhy, asked: "Why is 'head lights' banned? What am I missing here?"

People will find plenty of ways around the ban:

Some people have suggested bypassing the ban by replacing words with their number on the PTA's list.
Pakistan has seen a big increase in mobile phone use in recent years - 100m Pakistanis are now estimated to be mobile phone users.
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"Nobody would like this happening to their young boy or girl," he said. He added that the list was not finished and that the authority would continue to add to it.

How about thighing and mufa'khathat?

Scared of the Light. .vampires.

What utter hypocrisy from those pigs...

WASHINGTON: Google, the world’s most popular Internet search engine, has found in a survey that mostly Muslim states seek access to sex-related websites and Pakistan tops the list. Google found that of the top 10 countries - searching for sex-related sites - six were Muslim, with Pakistan on the top. The other Muslim countries are Egypt at number 2, Iran at 4, Morocco at 5, Saudi Arabia at 7 and Turkey at 8. Non-Muslim states are Vietnam at 3, India at 6, Philippines at 9 and Poland at 10.

(...)

Pakistan led all nations who hunted for “dog sex”, and in all years and regions, it still tops the list. Pakistan leads the field in 2010 in hunts for web searches for “pig sex”, as it did in 2006 and in all hunts from 2004 to 2010. Both pigs and dogs are regarded as “unclean” in Islam, so such hunts may be seen as a rebellion against their upbringing. From the time period 2004 to 2010, Pakistan has consistently been far ahead of any other country in web hunts for “donkey sex”, and also “goat sex”, “horse sex” and “camel sex.”

Oops, porkistani black-cube worshippers... You can fool no one with your talk about moral values and purity.

It is a country of blinds! They don't know what they want, don't know where they are going! Very sad state!

Typical, because the message of the cross(of Jesus Christ) is foolishness to those who are perishing!-St Paul

no surprises, (el)bbc always pushing this b/s in a positive light...yawn

mind you given airtime on bbc national radio 5live,this morning,
some idiot spokesman, what denotes racism...not only race
apparently....religion, culture, anything you might deem to find offensive, can be deemed racist???

yep! you couldn t make it up

If we could get a list of cell numbers issued Purelanders, every one in the civilized world could text the offending words thereby creating full employment for the redactors for about 100 years.

Islam lobotomizes its cultist adherents. Whatever is true in Lobotoslam is ugly, beyond barbaric, anti-human, conscienceless, etc. Pakistanis appear human in shape but here, looks are truly deceiving.

Good thing I don't live in Pakistan, calling someone "monkey - crotch"' via text is one of my favorite pastimes.

Apparently, it is not a lobotomy, but beheading, as it was clear from the gruesome murder of Daniel Pearls in Pakistan. He was a Jew, thus a fair game for Allahu akbar sponsored murder, as it is a fair game to chant death wishes for the Jews and Israel by the Muslim mobs around the world, including those in the West, who are attracted by the government dole and good life in those countries.

Everybody should read Koran and Hadith to see what is wrong with 1,600 millions of Muslims taking as a role model a pedophile polygamist (who married Aisha, one of his 12 wives when she was 6 and he was 50 years old) and a murderer, responsible for gruesome murder of 900 Jews who refused to accept this guys are THEIR prophet. It is all about power and violence over the "other" and apartheid (dhimmitude) sanctioned by the "holly" scripts.

Amazingly, all those vile properties of the Islamic societies, the Muslims project onto Jews, as it is clear from Juden-frei most Muslim countries and desire for domination of "other", which they claim Jews want, using forgery the Protocols of the Elders of Zion to "prove" it. Most Muslim countries never signed and certainly do not practice the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and therefore should not be members of UN.

Re: ban on the word Flatulence at moz websites

*** Bukhari Vol 1 Bk 4 Nbr 139 ***

I asked Mohammed about a person who imagined they passed wind during prayer. He replied: "He should not leave his prayer unless he hears a sound or smells something."

Minister Malik doesn't know his Ko-Ran or his Hah-Deaths. He should be dragged into Sharia Court at once and made to explain how an exec working for an Islamic Republic can make policy going against the gut instincts of Allah.

To ban something you gotta talk about it. For example, I hear Moslems blabbing all the time about women dressing up like tarts. How can an earnest Moslem discuss the hot topic of female morals without using the word slut?

To avert Hadath at prayer, a Moslem's gotta be able to use the word fart.

Tarts & Farts
I let a steamy Hadath go, deep inside of my robe
A gaseous cloud, shaped like an inflating globe
But there will be no offense, no stink, no sound
Cuz Moslems are pure, ain't no stench to be found
- the Holy Prophet APF

Is deleting a text message with the word "Muhammed" haram?

If so, then that name should be blocked! Oh, the insolence!

And then a tenth of the country could not be named! hehe

Smelt that one HP. .malodorous springs to mind and nostrils. .then again you ain't no Moslem and pigs can be excused their nature.

As 'Jihadwatch' indicates, the BBC avoids the Islamic context of this particular bout of censorship in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

And, it has to be said that the BBC, along with most of MSM does not understand that this sort of censorship is echoing that of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation(OIC); as 'Jihadwatch' reminds MSM all the time, but to little avail, the OIC is actively campaigning for a total ban of any criticism of Islam on a world-wide basis.

... pigs can be excused their nature.

Yeah, except for Ahmed, the troublemaker bull pig who has the nerve to wear a white skullcap on my property. Ahmed's full growed now, and he never stops with the bitching about what sheet asses his pen mates are, and how he doesn't fart cuz he has attained a purity through diet, exercise and careful reading of the Ko-Ran he keeps hidden under Slough 10-B, just behind the left stanchion.

As you probably know Thomas, the Beeb has as many Moslems encamped around it, in Shepherds Bush, as at the gates of Vienna way back then. .guess they're slightly intimidated, tho' that's no excuse for not standing up to the bully. Wimps.

Ahmed sounds beyond reformation. .and light-years away from enlightenment.

Can I say foot fungus?

How about rear entrance? (My house has one.)

Vulgar as it is, a revolution probably came to Mohmet that granted it halal. Mo was Allah, so wot he saiz goes.

"Good thing I don't live in Pakistan, calling someone 'monkey - crotch' via text is one of my favorite pastimes."

Myself, I prefer "gorilla-groin", and I guess that's still legal.

Wuutang (a presumed reference to American rap group the Wu-Tang Clan)

Isn't this the group that the State Dep't has touring Paki-land as some sort of cultural mission?

And reports of the Islamic jihad murderous network extending from the
Islamic Republic of Pakistan, to Britain:


1.)

"2 Brits thought killed in US drone strike in Pakistan"

By Bill Roggio.


Read more: http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2011/11/two_brits_thought_ki.php#ixzz1e5zsTc2g


2.)

"Two British terror suspects killed in U.S. drone attacks in remote region of Pakistan."


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2063306/British-terror-suspects-killed-U-S-drone-attacks-remote-region-Pakistan.html#ixzz1e5xNvza5

The Mail article has two comments, each with over 600 approvals:
Thank you America for making sure they will never set foot on British soil to spread their hatred and threaten innocent people ever again. - Fergus, London
Thank you America! We should be doing this stuff for ourselves though! - Graham, London

Geehhaaad is as 'British' as Portland Limestone nowdays. .groan.

I like them both. We should text each other.

HAHAHAAAA!! YES!! Let's text all this out! It's a party!

Thomas Pellow

a propos the story of the two British-passport-holding Mohammedans who got themselves blown up in Pakistan...

better out than in.

Two less jihad-minded sharia-pushers for the UK to worry about.

Where is George Carlin when we need him?

Aww, common guys, gals, cut the Pakistani Telecommunications Authority (PTA, not Parents Teachers Ass) some slack. There are a minimum 171,476 words in current use in English alone, so 1000 words censored from text messages is a measly 0.58% (just over half a percent) of all the words they can still use. What's the big deal? Why worry? It's not like it's "censorship" or anything. (Sarc/off)

I wonder if the word "Jihad" or "Islam" is on that list too, in compliance with our Obama State Department - Pakistani alliance in the fight against "Terrorism"?… Oh, yeah, add that word too, maybe some dozen other words offensive to me personally, like "Taqiyya" and "Karo-kari" to bring list up to 0.6%. Don't get me wrong, I don't think they should go overboard, I draw the word line at 1%… or that's Censorship! ;-)

Hope they never ban ''Monkey Shoulder'', as it's a fine drop o' Scotch Whisky.

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