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Pakistani government: Facebook heeded its demand and has removed 85% of “blasphemous” material

Mar 27, 2017 11:17 am By Robert Spencer

The Western world is adopting Sharia blasphemy restrictions with nary a whimper. Now Facebook and Twitter have blocked 90% of their daily referrals from Jihad Watch, and the site is blocked by many Internet service providers in the UK and Europe. I would say that it’s all over but the shouting, but the shouting is what is all over, replaced by a restful Sharia-compliant silence.

“Facebook removing blasphemous material, Pakistan govt tells court,” The News International, March 27, 2017:

ISLAMABAD: Facebook is now obliging Pakistan government requests to remove blasphemous content from the platform and almost 85 percent of such material has been taken down, senior government officials have informed the Islamabad High Court (IHC).

A single-judge bench of the IHC on Monday resumed the hearing of petition filed against blasphemous content on social media.

On the last hearing, Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui had observed that the court would decide whether the Facebook should be banned in Pakistan.

The court had directed the Chairman Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to present a fresh report regarding the measures taken to stop the practice on social media.

The PTA chief informed the bench that the authority is working diligently on the matter and a team of 25 people is searching sacrilegious material on social media. We have initiated action against owners of 40 such pages.

‘Facebook has now removed blasphemous material from its platform and the company is now acting on our request. It is our success that they are doing this as earlier the company even not considering it a serious matter.’

The Interior Secretary apprised the court about the steps taken by the government in this regard. The law enforcement agencies have arrested three suspects who were involved in this heinous crime, he said.

The government has formed an investigation committee. Almost 85 percent of blasphemous content has been removed, and shutting down Facebook is not the solution, he added.

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  1. Karen G says

    Mar 27, 2017 at 11:27 am

    SAY NO shariah law in CANADA
    Sign the petition against shariah law in CANADA.
    Thousands of Canadians are signing petition e-909 on the government’s petitions website. It reads like a direct response to certain concerns about M-103, calling upon the government to propose an amendment to the Constitution Act “stating that Shariah Law or separate Shariah family courts will never have a place in the Canadian Justice System
    https://petitions.parl.gc.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-909
    Please forward it to others and post on FB.

    • Amit says

      Mar 27, 2017 at 12:05 pm

      Agree. Unless there is strong united opposition canada will become hellhole for non muslims.

      • mortimer says

        Mar 27, 2017 at 1:19 pm

        Discriminatory Sharia law kills women and others.

    • JIMJFOX says

      Mar 27, 2017 at 4:05 pm

      OFF TOPIC. This is about Facebook & Twitter bowing to Islamic censorship, NOT Canada.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 27, 2017 at 11:16 pm

      Thanks for posting this, Karen. If I was Canadian I would sign it in a second! I hope all patriotic Canadians sign it.

      • jim hane says

        Mar 28, 2017 at 11:12 pm

        Everyone needs to fight for liberty including freedom of speech.
        Communism, fascism, Islam and all dictatorships are against free speech and the truth.
        The truth hurts them.

    • Robert says

      Mar 28, 2017 at 12:42 am

      it is amazing that disgreeing or having reservations against, for instance, that slavery is part of Islam, is now blasphemous by the Pakistani authorities and FaceBook and other social media bend to their knees…

    • paul bremner says

      Mar 28, 2017 at 5:53 am

      …..when truth is deemed to be blasphemy.
      This is the greatest threat in the world, today.

    • Biff H says

      Mar 28, 2017 at 10:12 am

      Our Mission: silence any voice that fucks with our revenue stream.

    • LR says

      Mar 28, 2017 at 12:25 pm

      Miri,

      Totally agree…Too many people in the west don’t really support free speech.

      Biff H,

      That would make a good bumper sticker, T-shirt. I’d like to see a graffitti artist billboard that in reference to Facebook. Maybe that guy in Sweden, if he is out of jail…: )…

    • Frank says

      Mar 28, 2017 at 5:14 pm

      BOYCOTT Facebook and Twitter

    • ninetyninepct says

      Mar 28, 2017 at 11:09 pm

      Canada – arm yourselves.

  2. Karen G says

    Mar 27, 2017 at 11:28 am

    Motion 103 new group:

    New organization, Canadian Citizens for Charter Rights and Freedoms, goes national in its efforts to hold the M-103 “Study Committee” to account. Their web site is here, consider joining: http://www.canadiancitizens.org

  3. Karen G says

    Mar 27, 2017 at 11:29 am

    Canada – Religion out of schools: Sign petition – hopefully the Peel District parents will win and this can become a movement across Canada.

    Immediate discontinuation of religious congregation and faith clubs in PDSB (Peel District School Board, Ontario) public schools
    https://www.change.org/p/pdsb-director-immediate-discontinuation-of-religious-congregation-and-faith-clubs-in-pdsb-public-schools?utm_medium=email&utm_source=notification&utm_campaign=petition_signer_receipt&share_context=signature_receipt&recruiter=53123235

    • Mariam says

      Mar 27, 2017 at 5:40 pm

      Thanks for posting the petition information.

  4. cyrus basile says

    Mar 27, 2017 at 11:42 am

    The people of Pakistan is idiot,uncivil,unusable,bad,deformed,barbarous,caveman, only pollute the air and water and are destructors as locusts,with the brain of the fish, the pore skin has the color of human excrement, are a damn for the human race,are worse gypsies,and stole the plans for the atomic bomb, and have also manufactured, have provided the atomic projects to several Islamic nations, with the intent to threaten India, Israel and the West, between all the devils Muslims are precisely the Pakistanis the most wicked,are terrorists,infamous and jealous of the West and of our civilization because they can never be like us, why west allows these cockroaches to come to us and make demands? Cursed left, cursed merkel, because of your mind dulled our children must suffer the shit immigrta from all over the world, and certainly must fight a war to oust the islamic devil from our land. Please someone reminds me of what Pakistan has ever done positive for the human race or what they have invented?

    • Mariam says

      Mar 27, 2017 at 5:41 pm

      Please delete this post.

    • LR says

      Mar 28, 2017 at 1:29 pm

      Cyrus,

      Many Pakistanis have been murdered trying to defend Christians and others against free speech persecution, and persecution in general. If you are going to judge someone on their skin color, and where they were born, then you are simply a piggy racist.

  5. mortimer says

    Mar 27, 2017 at 11:53 am

    Zuckerberg will have BLOOD ON HIS HANDS if he gives in on censorship. PEOPLE WHO EXPRESS OPINIONS WILL SUFFER GREATLY AND DIE HORRIBLE DEATHS if ZUCKERBERG fails to WAKE UP and understand that SHARIA LAW IS COMPLETELY INTOLERANT.

    MARK, SHARIA IS DRACONIAN… DO NOT COOPERATE WITH THIS DEATH CULT.

    • JIMJFOX says

      Mar 27, 2017 at 4:03 pm

      Mortimer-didn’t you notice? Zuckerberg has already caved! He is the most ‘useful idiot for Islam’ of anyone.

    • Mariam says

      Mar 27, 2017 at 5:43 pm

      It could get even worse if Zuckerberg runs for president.

  6. Frank J. Verderber says

    Mar 27, 2017 at 12:15 pm

    The recent Facebook decision to limit free speech across the web and especially in Pakistan, demonstrates an ideal of Globalism that most Americans do not understand. In the twelfth chapter of “Globalization and the Future of Global Governance” [Andreas Geog Scherer and Guido Palazzo (Eds.): Handbook of Research on Global Corporate Citizenship. Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar. Forthcoming – 2008] Professor Stephen Kobrin of the University of Pennsylvania writes under as subheading that Multiple firms or global corporations are political actors and he quotes Britain’s Prime Minister, Tony Blair: “Individuals become part of mass movements for change and action…Business gets involved in politics, not as a patrisans of a political party, but as important actors in global debate (Blair 2007)”

    Prof. Kobrin goes on to say, “In his speech, Tony Blair recognized the fundamental change that has taken place in the political ro;e of the corporation. Traditional firms are products of the Westphalian international system, corporations “which have their home in one country, but which operate and live under the laws and customs of other countries as well”

    During this same period, the US Supreme Court [2010 and 2012] granted corporations the first amendment right to free speech that finds its most powerful expression as donors to political parties or candidates. By doing this the USSC gave corporations the right to direct elected officials with greater force than the common citizen, because the corporations can supply millions of donor dollar as compared to tens of dollars of the average citizen.

    It has now become a belief among Globalists that corporations are equal partners in shaping and running the world. The common people do not count as partners with government. The foundation of Globalism is economics – not equality or race, health, or employment of persons. The governments are looking to the corporations to solve the needs of the people while working as an equal partner in governance. Therefore, since Facebook is a cross border cartel and a global governance partner with governments, it is able to solve a government’s cross border dilemma easily and efficiently, where the government had no sovereignty to cross.

    The New World Order is a perfect example of Life imitating science fiction’s Dystopian movies.

  7. Michael Blair says

    Mar 27, 2017 at 12:17 pm

    What do Facebook and islam have in common? Both worship false gods. Both are the pathway to Hell.

  8. px fragonard says

    Mar 27, 2017 at 12:24 pm

    I’m still getting all posts on FB. I’m in Canada.

    • JayFromIndia says

      Mar 27, 2017 at 3:43 pm

      Fantastic

  9. Shmooviyet says

    Mar 27, 2017 at 12:54 pm

    “…the company is now acting on our request…”
    “… it is our success…”

    Listen to the arrogant boastful response, so victorious that a giant Western concern is on its knees to them. It bears a resemblance to a brag made by a known liar– IF voracious lil’ MZ wasn’t so willing to capitulate for his bottom line.

    “How do you sleep at night ( ya c… )” Apologies for the expression; the lyric popped into my head.

  10. Jesse says

    Mar 27, 2017 at 2:06 pm

    Sad, but genocide is close.

  11. Jack Holan says

    Mar 27, 2017 at 2:13 pm

    Who knows these policies of Zuckerberg may yet get people executed locally for exercising their Thoughts, Beliefs but Wonder Boy would prefer $ or accede to Islam as a fellow Jew (unfathomable.)Germany, Turkey but for those with Great Memories it All began with China years ago threatening to throw FB out within a week’s time if Zuckerberg could not show them how to build filters to block out certain disagreeable content. This was the first baby step that started his descent to HELL.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 27, 2017 at 11:43 pm

      Exactly–how many people is this putting in danger of their lives?

  12. Vasile says

    Mar 27, 2017 at 2:35 pm

    Just close your FB and Twitter accounts. I did it few months ago. If we don’t flock them, they will flock us all.

  13. Francis Merde says

    Mar 27, 2017 at 2:53 pm

    Not concerned. Remember MySpace? Facebook and all of the others will go the same way if they keep it up. When you try to silence people, then they’ll just move onto platforms where they can talk freely.

  14. JayFromIndia says

    Mar 27, 2017 at 3:40 pm

    Is Canada aspiring to be the first western sharia compliant country?

  15. JayFromIndia says

    Mar 27, 2017 at 3:42 pm

    Has anybody heard anything from Facebook in this regard? The Muslims and specially the Pakistanis are masters of deceit…so it could be just bragging. .

  16. JayFromIndia says

    Mar 27, 2017 at 3:46 pm

    I wonder why these devout Muslims need Facebook …they want to drink non alcoholic beer…they want to participate in beauty pageant with hijab…why are they so unsatisfied with Islam’s diktat?

  17. Angemon says

    Mar 27, 2017 at 4:01 pm

    Facebook is now obliging Pakistan government requests to remove blasphemous content from the platform

    Why wouldn’t they? They’re a company out to make money, and abiding by Pakistan’s rules, as opposed to being prevented to operate there, ensures they have another potential market.

    • Vasile says

      Mar 27, 2017 at 4:07 pm

      Companies producing radioactive materials and biochimic materials should follow the same commercial rule. At the end, profit is all we need.

  18. Richard Paulsen says

    Mar 27, 2017 at 4:20 pm

    Terrible so many leading persons do not understand the threat to themselves and the world. Probably believing they are protecting themselves while doing things worse for themselves as well as for others.

  19. Richard Paulsen says

    Mar 27, 2017 at 4:23 pm

    It is terrible that so many leading persons and commoners do not know what is a threat to them and others and not.

  20. berserker says

    Mar 27, 2017 at 5:00 pm

    Thank you Mr. Zuckbook for contributing to the enslavement of the human mind. I hope you and your children enjoy your billions.

  21. pennant8 says

    Mar 27, 2017 at 7:46 pm

    I can see it now. Members of the OIC [Organization of the Islamic cooperation] who have been working through the UN to make it universally illegal to criticize religions [read Islam] are laughing and congratulating themselves, saying who needs the UN, who knew it would be this easy.

    • LR says

      Mar 28, 2017 at 1:50 pm

      Pennant8,

      You might be right…Ugh, that turns my stomach…

      It’s the mamby pamby stuff that will do us in way before any kind of Jihad…

      I hope there are some rebels out there..How about some Mohammed cartoons on T-shirts?…

  22. gravenimage says

    Mar 27, 2017 at 11:12 pm

    Pakistani government: Facebook heeded its demand and has removed 85% of “blasphemous” material
    ……………….

    Appalling dhimmitude–all the less defensible because this was not done under fear of violence.

  23. Samuel Barthis says

    Mar 28, 2017 at 6:59 am

    I already refuse to use Facebook the power is in the consumer’s hand . There is more than 1.5 billion Muslims and sympathizers to give them validity don’t you be one!!!

  24. Robert John Bennett says

    Mar 28, 2017 at 9:33 am

    I think Robert Spencer should be commended for the work he’s doing and for his courage and persistence. I live in Europe, and Jihad Watch has not been blocked by my ISP or by my VPN provider. Not yet, anyway.

    I’m old enough so that I probably won’t live to see a world ruled by Sharia, but that’s not much consolation, because I pity the generations to come.

  25. LR says

    Mar 28, 2017 at 1:40 pm

    I rarely use Facebook, and never liked Zuckyface…He seemed like a bratty, little weasel, who didn’t give a sh*t about people’s privacy other than his own…

    Blast away on Facebook people…Now is your chance…

    Here is an article about the condition of ‘free speech’, around the world..

    http://www.economist.com/news/international/21699906-freedom-speech-retreat-muzzle-grows-tighter

  26. Lydia says

    Mar 28, 2017 at 1:54 pm

    Sharia law is evil. It comes from satan.

  27. Barry says

    Mar 29, 2017 at 3:33 pm

    …this facebook founder is a clown….has the audacity to think he actually knows the difference between his left shoe and his right…..he doesn’t – just another moronic idiot….

  28. rick says

    Mar 30, 2017 at 7:55 am

    Lets hope that another computer savvy group will open a site where people can express their opinions. I am surprised face book can be this easily controlled. Just one more example of the globalist elite trying to control the media. The people are starting to wake up and the elite don’t want you to have your own opinions. Most of all they are afraid we will all get together and put a stop to there plans.

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