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Pakistan asks Facebook and Twitter to identify Pakistanis outside country who post anti-Islam material

Mar 26, 2017 6:51 pm By Robert Spencer

So that they can be extradited and punished. There is to be no escaping the long arm of Sharia. And most disquieting of all is that the social media giants seems to be cooperating, or at least Facebook appears to be: “Federal Interior Minister Nisar Ali Khan announced this month that a Facebook delegation is to visit Pakistan soon to discuss the issue with his government.”

“Detained Pakistani Bloggers Face Blasphemy Charges,” by Ayaz Gul, VOA News, March 24, 2017:

ISLAMABAD — An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan has put three online bloggers in the custody of a federal agency for a week so it can investigate blasphemy charges against them and determine whether they should be formally tried and punished.

Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency, or FIA, arrested the three men earlier this week as part of an ongoing crackdown on suspects involved in posting blasphemous material on social media.

Authorities say that laptops of the detainees have also been seized for forensic analysis….

Shortly after they went missing, radical clerics and hardliners through television interviews and talk shows accused the bloggers of committing blasphemy through online activities.

The five men have fled Pakistan because even allegations of blasphemy can provoke Islamists to kill those suspected of it.

A provincial governor, a federal minister and members of non-Muslim minority communities have been among those killed in Pakistan for criticizing or seeking reforms in the anti-blasphemy law, or for being wrongly accused of insulting Islam.

Social media challenged

Pakistani officials have also contacted Facebook and Twitter to request them to identify Pakistanis outside the country who are posting anti-Islam material so the government can pursue their extradition and prosecute them at home.

Federal Interior Minister Nisar Ali Khan announced this month that a Facebook delegation is to visit Pakistan soon to discuss the issue with his government….

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  1. Peter Buckley says

    Mar 26, 2017 at 7:14 pm

    In that case, Pakistan are going to have to grab a lot more people than they think.

    The Council of Ex-Muslims have recently released another film on the growing number of apostates in the UK. JW readers can watch it on youtube:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bupBgmtsNWU

    Maryam Namazie recently stated that the Internet would do to Islam what the printing press did to Christianity. Something I’ve been saying since the Internet became a household thing. The genie is out of the bottle, and devout muslims (“Islamists”) are desperately trying to put it back in. They’ll fail.

    http://www.considerationsofacanadianex-muslim.org/conclusions.html

  2. utis says

    Mar 26, 2017 at 7:33 pm

    Pakistan can ask. Facebook and Twitter don’t have to accommodate the demand. If Facebook and Twitter surrender to this despotic request, why should I believe they won’t do the same thing if Pakistan makes the same demand to demand the betrayal of Western critics?
    If Facebook and Twitter grovel to Pakistan, they’ll grovel to any enemy of freedom. Why should they cater to non-Western values?

    • SweetOlBob says

      Mar 27, 2017 at 1:50 pm

      Facebook will do as they ask. They are always ready to censor news about filthy muslim atrocities !
      They will stupidly insist that islam is “just another religion” even as the dull knife saws through their necks !

  3. Terry says

    Mar 26, 2017 at 7:46 pm

    I am not on Facebook, nor Twitter.

    IF I WERE TO BE ON EITHER-IT WOULD BE WITH A GMX (I think that is the name- easy to check) email account and a phony name. (GMX -or similar-no phone number or other email or anything to open an account; and is free for the basic).

    Facebook- a complaint about a post about assassinating Pres Trum- within their boundaries and guidelines

    A post about hunting down and killing white women, so that they cannot have white babies- and to eradicate white people- also within their boundaries, and guidelines.

    Criticism of Islam- hate speech.

    I am not on it. And could not care (nor would I) if it went broke tomorrow.

    – .

    • Jeanette says

      Mar 27, 2017 at 11:08 pm

      I would be delighted if it went broke tomorrow!

  4. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Mar 26, 2017 at 8:06 pm

    The social media giants have bitten off more than they perhaps can handle. None of the giants invented anything (Facebook is a copy of MySpace, Twitter was engineered by a cell company cooperative to create SMS, etc.). They don’t have the capability to patrol and control their content in real time because they’re technical hillbillies. Never underestimate incompetence when it comes to computing. Add to that the globo-socialist leanings of the likes of the revered dolt Mark Zuckerberg and you have a recipe for disaster. Moslems always win in the disaster game.

    • mousey says

      Mar 26, 2017 at 11:56 pm

      yes, myspace came first and then was left behind. Why doesn’t someone strong and into freedom start a new social media site and let facebook go the myspace way? And youtube too.

      • Joe says

        Mar 27, 2017 at 3:53 am

        There are literally thousands of social media sites. The basic tech is called a “wiki” which is why you have a wiki this and that. It is pretty simple as tech goes. FB creamed Myspace for two reasons.

        1. FB was funded at a thousand times more than Myspace. Bill Gates and Warren Buffett saw an opportunity to get inside data on essentially every adult. This is worth billions as a marketing tool, and can be used for many other causes as well. At the time, social media sites were funded as several million. Gates and Buffett put about $850 million into FB, and setup a deal with Goldman Sachs to have their investors put in another $3 billion. So FB started pouring hundreds of millions into their marketing. No other company had even 1/1000 as much resources.

        2. Myspace realized that they were hopelessly out funded, so the founders sold the company down the river.

        • mousey says

          Mar 27, 2017 at 4:38 pm

          thanks joe. So most of the $$ was for getting people to know it existed and lure them in? I’ve always stayed away from social media for precisely that reason, prying eyes. But what about youtube? The only other video place i’ve dealt with is vimeo and it’s not as good, so what’s the deal with youtube? If they start censoring, is there someplace else people can upload their videos?

        • billybob says

          Mar 27, 2017 at 10:18 pm

          It is possible to develop a replacement for Facebook based on peer-to-peer communications completely outside the control of big multinationals, and governments too. In fact, it could be totally secure with end to end encryption as well. This isn’t rocket science. In fact most of the pieces needed to put this together already exist in open source software and in projects such as the Onion Router and the Dark Web. Problem is to draw people in. The technical problems have already been solved. However, other problems remain, as it could quickly devolve to a marketplace for drugs, child porn, and contraband. I think this is the main problem to solve, not the technical problems. If we can solve that, the time may be ripe for this as we face threats to our freedom of speech from every direction. Suppose this tool already existed, and I put a link up. No doubt many of you would click on it and check it out. It could catch on like wildfire.

        • mousey says

          Mar 27, 2017 at 10:55 pm

          yes, the time is ripe, now’s the time.

  5. somehistory says

    Mar 26, 2017 at 8:16 pm

    Not on either, but if I was a paki, …oh so very glad not to be…would not get on and if on, would get off.

    If enough people get off, the executives will be re-thinking the effect on their bottom line.

    It’s all money to them. Billionaires getting richer and now if they willingly give over the information…snitch on and rat out their customers, they should go down, all the way to chapter 11.

    • Jeanette says

      Mar 27, 2017 at 11:13 pm

      Chapter 7, which is is liquidation bankruptcy.

      Chapter 11 is Reorganization (also called “rehabilitation) bankruptcy.

  6. gravenimage says

    Mar 26, 2017 at 11:33 pm

    Pakistan asks Facebook and Twitter to identify Pakistanis outside country who post anti-Islam material
    ……………………..

    Pious Muslims don’t want *anyone* to escape from Islam–*ever*.

    The only question is whether the bloody dhimmis at Facebook and Twitter will halp them.

    More:

    ISLAMABAD — An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan has put three online bloggers in the custody of a federal agency for a week so it can investigate blasphemy charges against them and determine whether they should be formally tried and punished.
    ……………………..

    Look at this perversity–it is an “anti-terrorism court” that is persecuting these non-violent victims for practicing freedom of speech.

    *This* is the sort of thing that pious Muslims mean when they say they oppose “terrorism”. How many Infidels understand this?

    • bernie says

      Mar 27, 2017 at 8:21 am

      Where was this Pakistani “anti-terrorism court” when Osama bin Laden was living in a large house in Pakistan, a short distance away from the top Pakistani military academy, for 5 years before the United States finally got him?

      • gravenimage says

        Mar 27, 2017 at 11:19 pm

        Good question, Bernie.

  7. mortimer says

    Mar 27, 2017 at 1:24 am

    It’s time for the FACEBOOK and TWITTER DIRECTORS to learn about the Sharia law blasphemy punishments: imprisonment, fines and beatings for Muslims and the DEATH SENTENCE for non-Muslims.

    If they go along with these SHARIA WITCH-HUNTS, they will have blood on their hands.

    • Jeanette says

      Mar 27, 2017 at 11:17 pm

      I don’t think they would care unless that translated into a big decline in the value of their stock.

  8. sidney penny says

    Mar 27, 2017 at 1:31 am

    AS as well that Robert Spencer is not a Pakistani.

    • sidney penny says

      Mar 27, 2017 at 1:32 am

      Just as well,

  9. Debi Brand says

    Mar 27, 2017 at 1:41 am

    “Pakistani officials have also contacted Facebook and Twitter to request them to identify Pakistanis outside the country who are posting anti-Islam material so the government can pursue their extradition and prosecute them at home.”

    Yet we continue funding Pakistan, like damned fools, counting them as allies.

    When will we have a leader who has both the understanding and courage to speak squarely to and stop this stenchful obsequious to Islam?

    • AMAN says

      Mar 27, 2017 at 2:42 am

      They are still sitting in the lap of China and cursing USA and expecting more dolls. Azad Kashmir is the new place for keeping all anti-America and anti-India Jehadis. Their new batch will be sent to America with Christian names and ids.

  10. AMAN says

    Mar 27, 2017 at 2:38 am

    Pakistanis have eliminated almost all of their minorities which were 14% and is said to be around 0.5% now. They are currently holding a religious census to identify the rest. Soon, all those who are left will either be converted or tried for blasphemy or the worst burnt alive by the masses. They are now in the phase of eliminating Shias – a less fanatic version of Sunnis
    http://www.globalresearch.ca/target-killing-mass-murder-of-shia-minority-in-pakistan/5303348

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 27, 2017 at 11:22 pm

      All true, AMAN.

  11. brane pilot says

    Mar 27, 2017 at 3:13 am

    If you are a Pakistani in Europe or the US, just post a message that Mohammad sucks and voila; your asylum application is assured.

    As usual, the Pakis are playing a double game here.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 27, 2017 at 11:36 pm

      What? So far, Europe and the US have not been specifically granting asylum to those truly in danger from Islam. Where did you get that?

      And the idea that Pakistan–which has vicious Blasphemy laws–doesn’t really care about imposing censorship doesn’t really hold water.

  12. frederick King says

    Mar 27, 2017 at 3:30 am

    They should demand facebook be renamed Shariabook, and pay tribute of 100 white virgins every month too.

  13. frederick King says

    Mar 27, 2017 at 3:32 am

    Wouldn’t it be strange if as many christians named their sons Jesus as muslims name their sons muhammad ?

    • billybob says

      Mar 27, 2017 at 8:50 pm

      They do in other countries such as Brazil. There are thousands of Jesus’ and Maria’s too.

      • Jeanette says

        Mar 27, 2017 at 11:22 pm

        You don’t have to go as far as Brazil; Mexico, and now Texas and California, are full of Jesuses and Marias.

        • Jeanette says

          Mar 27, 2017 at 11:22 pm

          (Or is the plural of “Jesus” “Jesi”? I’ve never seen the plural!)

  14. Twerzig says

    Mar 27, 2017 at 7:16 am

    It seems that Facebook facilitates hundreds of millions of dollars of tax avoidance.
    Tax payers in most marketplaces will be subsidising Facebook.
    It is an unregulated, untaxed secret economy. Very high tech, but all the transactions are in cash and so are untraceable.
    This is how Facebook provides benefits to its club members.
    One wonders whether Facebook stymies the growth of a more diverse internet. And whether it would be as successful without this special business advantage.

  15. Jerry says

    Mar 27, 2017 at 7:52 am

    Bit by bit we see islam and sharia invading our lives. The violent delusions of that fake religion are like vipers nipping at our heels. We’ll never get these muslim idiots to understand their own madness, it’s beyond their mental capacity to grasp rationality free of religious delusion. Muslims love a murderous and hateful god and the whole world has to suffer for it, including themselves. The fate of the entire civilized world depends on what we do today. Trump is off to a good start, but he’s only done 1% of what needs to be done in regard to islam. I’m tired of seeing the west bust their balls trying to please a hateful and bigoted religion that’s more political violence than spirituality. I know a Nazi-like ideology when I see one. We need to stand against it because that’s what moral people do, they fight evil when they can. No more appeasement. We must save ourselves and the future of humanity. Islam must be defeated.

    • Jerry says

      Mar 27, 2017 at 8:27 am

      Muslims are in love with islam’s tradition of violence like we’re in love with our tradition of democracy. Violent jihad is ingrained in their thinking just like democracy is ingrained in ours. The peaceful muslim of today is going to be the warrior of tomorrow. But they won’t be fighting to preserve America or her freedoms, they’ll be fighting against us for the sake of sharia and allah. We need to derail this one way train to hell before it gets there. Or we will all be drowning in the muck and mire of islam’s delusional quest to please their demon god. The world has never seen a more tangible manifestation of a devil than islam’s ill effects on humanity. It’s time all decent people of the world ban together and fight the bad ideas muslim’s proffer as divine truth. Islam is NOT divine, it is far too evil to be from a humanitarian god. Our peace, our freedoms, are under threat by a people who are morally and spiritually corrupt. Islam and the left will never force us to love evil. I’m certain the good people of planet earth will fight back. But we must act now or it will be too late.

      President Trump, help us!

  16. bernie says

    Mar 27, 2017 at 8:25 am

    Where was this Pakistani “anti-terrorism court” when Osama bin Laden was living in a large house in Pakistan, a short distance away from the top Pakistani military academy, for 5 years before the United States finally got him?

  17. Florida Jim says

    Mar 27, 2017 at 10:02 am

    They must feel they have illegals everywhere to begin massive beheading as they dream of in every Mosque worldewide.

  18. Mitch Classic says

    Mar 27, 2017 at 10:17 am

    The obvious goal in announcing Facebook sharia-compliance is to scare people into shutting up. Is Facebook really going to visit Pakistan? Does is matter?

    If it’s a lie, FB needs to call it out loudly.

    “Federal Interior Minister Nisar Ali Khan announced this month that a Facebook delegation is to visit Pakistan soon to discuss the issue with his government.”

    The murky phrase is “Facebook delegation.” If Facebook doesn’t make an official statement denying this, it will become – delegation or not – effectually true.

  19. Angemon says

    Mar 27, 2017 at 10:57 am

    Pakistani officials have also contacted Facebook and Twitter to request them to identify Pakistanis outside the country who are posting anti-Islam material so the government can pursue their extradition and prosecute them at home.

    They can run but they can’t hide?…

  20. Lydia says

    Mar 27, 2017 at 4:51 pm

    Me!!!
    Right here!
    I do it all the time!
    Let them know I’m on that list!
    ( :
    I’m not kidding.

  21. billybob says

    Mar 27, 2017 at 8:43 pm

    What in the heck is a “.cms” file? I wouldn’t click on that link because I have no idea where it will go.

  22. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Mar 27, 2017 at 9:16 pm

    Who’s running FASCBOOK, now that Mark Kappoberg has stepped down to further his newly-discovered Presidential career path?

  23. billybob says

    Mar 27, 2017 at 10:38 pm

    I’d like to raise the money to send a high altitude balloon over this country and bomb it from 120,000 feet, well out of range of rockets, with millions of cartoons of Muhammad humping goats and such. Imagine those rabid mobs we always see going totally berserk, working themselves up into a frenzy and foaming at the mouth. Do it during Ramadam when they are most irritable. One could buy up surplus weather balloons cheap. Launch them from a ship at night in the Arabian Sea. Launch a hundred then sped off into the night

    Now looking at my comment above, I wonder why in the world did I ever write that? What do I hope to gain you may rightly ask? But I know why I wrote that. It is one of my favourite fantasies, and as such, does not require a rational or any practical reason.

    • Jeanette says

      Mar 27, 2017 at 11:19 pm

      Hey, I like it!

  24. Lilythewise says

    Mar 29, 2017 at 11:43 am

    I would never rat out these so called blasphemers. They are telling the ugly truth about Islam.

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