Pakistan Bans YouTube
Published by Haseeb February 25th, 2008 in Current News, Islam, PakistanThe Pakistani Government has banned YouTube because of the anti-Islamic content on the website. I think this ban is futile. Unfortunately there are many sites throughout the internet filled with content that is offensive to our deen. Youtube is just a medium that promotes free speech and has content that can be both beneficial and harmful.
This ban will only further invigorate those that hate on Islam for its intolerance. Moreover, the trouble within Pakistani people who have issues with their deen (corruption, spread of promiscuity, alcohol, drugs, etc.) cannot be blamed on youtube, but stems from a far greater problem within Pakistan.
Just yesterday I was discussing the issue of a new condom advertisement on Pakistani Television with a friend. Times are a changing - and this has nothing to do with the west. Its the surge of unconstrained human impulses; people living lives serving and satisfying only their nafs.
Pakistani people to a large extent already are troubled with “religious police” that in some parts of Pakistan are already raiding video shops for any DVDs with women on the covers, or shutting down weddings with loud music, etc. This all does not help to promote Islam to the surging young population, but rather only fuels their disconnect from Islam. This youtube ban will just add to that.
We need to focus on personal relationships with God, taqwa, purifying the hearts, and developing and increasing our Iman - and that should be our priority. From within, then, and only then, can people make the right decisions as to what haraam content to avoid, etc. If you have a large young population, without any real solid understanding of God and Iman, and just being bombarded with a bunch of rules - you are only asking for trouble.
And God knows best.
Source: Guardian.co.uk
Pakistan bans YouTube over anti-Islamic film clips
Pakistan’s government has banned access to the video-clip website YouTube because of anti-Islamic movies posted on the site, an official said yesterday.
The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority told the country’s 70 internet service providers that the popular website would be blocked until further notice.
The authority did not specify what the offensive material was, but a PTA official said the ban concerned a trailer for an forthcoming film by Dutch politician Geert Wilders. The film portrays Islam as a fascist religion prone to inciting violence against women and homosexuals.
The unnamed official said the PTA had also blocked websites showing the controversial Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad 
. The drawings were originally printed in European newspapers in 2006, but were reprinted by some papers last week.
The PTA urged internet users to write to YouTube and request the removal of the films, saying that the authorities would stop blocking the video-sharing site once that had happened.
Pakistan is not the only country to have blocked access to YouTube. In January, a Turkish court ordered the site to be blocked on account of video clips that allegedly broke the law by insulting the country’s founding father, Kemal Ataturk.
Last spring the Thai government banned YouTube for four months because of clips regarded as offensive to the country’s revered monarch, King Bhumibol Adulyadej.
Moroccans were unable to access YouTube last year after users posted footage critical of Morocco’s treatment of the people of Western Sahara.
Actually, an Islamic cover could have been used for a political decision. YouTube has some videos of banned talk show hosts and anti-Musharraf stuff.
Internet is spelled with a capital “I”.
Ah, yes! Pakistan: our partner in freedom and democracy. Home to Osama bin Laden. There’s something on YouTube to offend just about everyone. Until the nations of the Muslim nations of the world ban Islamists from holding public office, they have no hope of being accepted by the rest of the world. That’s fine, if that is what they choose, but they must accept that they will live forever in ignroance and under the thumb of religious oppression.
What does Bush have to say about this?
Bush says MR blog should be banned.
maaan if they ban youtube in the US i would have nothing to do
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I think its stupid.
these things are out there and muslims have to learn to deal with it-the right way. banning the colour red and valentine gifts and what not..these knee jerk reactions are useless.
An Iranian friend was telling me on her last visit to the country, she saw that facebook was banned and western movies were shown but with the women blacked out. it’s not just the images that can be unislamic and harmful but the *messages* that are given out too and im talking about some pakistani tv shows too.
you can’t go round banning things..i mean what next, put a ban on the use of the internet?
you’re right, pakistan has SO MANY problems that go way beyond simply Youtube
there’s plently of pro-islam stuff on it too, it’s not as Youtube is the only website with trash on it
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how about i ban your face
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Pakistan ZINDABAAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
youtube banning is completely useless.
and it was banned more than once in turkey. the one in january didnt last long,
i think ..more than a year ago, it got banned for a couple months.
what a waste of valuable youtube time.
if they want to control the information people get, they should ban the internet, then pray no one reads a book.
Actually, I’ve been told that youtube was banned because people were posting videos of some of the elections being rigged. That might explain the sudden timing.
Youtube has some good dawah videos and such, along with some dumb stuff and just stupid people. Like any mall.
Actually, I’ve been told that youtube was banned because people were posting videos of some of the elections being rigged. That might explain the sudden timing.
Youtube has some good dawah videos and such, along with some dumb stuff and just stupid people. Like any marketplace
This is futile. If there is a significant demand for haram, then that is the problem and not so much the haram itself. People need to work on their hearts.