Close Bangladeshi Facebook Site Go Again If It's Not Contempt

Bangladesh became the second country in Asia, after Pakistan, which block access social networking site Facebook. The policy aftermath of Muslim anger over an account that opens a drawing competition figure of the Prophet Muhammad caricatures.

END anger last week was the culmination of Islamic countries on the loading of a number of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in one of the Facebook account. Saturday night (29 / 5), local time, Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) to block the Facebook site. Hasan Mahmud Delwar BTRC head stating the policy was taken because the load is in the most popular social networking sites are hurting the religious sentiments in the Muslim-majority country.

Access to these sites is blocked temporarily and will reopen if the load is sensitive to offend Muslims were removed. Command to block access to Facebook has been issued to all Internet provider companies in the country.

"A number of links (links) in these sites (Facebook) also contains the pictures that insult to a number of state leaders in Bangladesh. Including the father of the nation Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, and prominent opposition leader," said Hasan, as quoted by the Associated Press.

Previously, Friday (28 / 5) in Dhaka thousands of Muslims took to the streets to protest a Facebook page titled "All The Drawing, in Muhammad's day." They assess these charges will spur Facebook users to upload a picture of their own imaginations.
In Islam, the depiction of the Prophet Muhammad is a strict prohibition. Although the image is imaged good or positive side of the prophet. Figure depiction of Muhammad is considered as an insult.

"Drawing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad same attack Islam and this is a very shameful thing for Muslims," shouted the Coordinating Action Hemayet Uddin Dhaka in front of supporters.
Blocking Facebook site reap disappointment of its users. Association of ISPs (Internet Service Provider) of Bangladesh reported that there were approximately one also Facebook users in the country of 150 million people.

"The government should just stop using the problematic pages only, rather than blocking sites (Facebook) as a whole," complained a facebookers Farzan Hasan.

The group also staged a counter-blockade separately. Dhaka University students staged on campus, Saturday night (29 / 5) demanded that the blocking is immediately revoked. Action was held shortly after the government announced the blockade.

Rapid Reaction Battalion (RAB), Bangladesh police also arrested a man accused of drawing a caricature of a number of prominent political leaders. "A special team of intelligence caught her and she demanded premises accusations spreading hatred," explained Senior RAB Enamul Kabir.

Kabir added, the man known to use at least six Facebook account to upload pictures. But officials refused to explain the pictures of anyone who has made the perpetrator.

Previously, May 19, the Pakistani government in response to an invitation harder to draw cartoons on the internet these prophets. Besides Facebook, the local authorities also blocked the video site YouTube and other internet sites for 1200 include mater-material is considered an insult to God.

The decision was taken after a local court decided that the site is not feasible to access. The court will convene again today, Monday (31 / 5) to decide whether to block it will be revoked or continued. Pakistan has lifted a block tehadap Youtube site. But the 1200 block to the other site is still maintained.

According to Agence France-Presse, years ago, Bangladesh had also blocked the Youtube website for a few days, after the broadcast feud between Prime Minister Hasina with military commanders, linked a plan of revolt. (Cak / dos) Share this post to other.