When a Danish newspaper published Prophet Mohammad’s (PEACE BE UPONG HIM) caricatures, the whole Muslim world reacted and the cause was just. It was a cruel act by the person who did this, the newspaper that published the cartoons, the Danish government which did not apologize for this and thousands of people who posted those images on their blogs, websites and circulated them via emails only to hurt the muslims around the globe in the name of freedom of expression which does not allow you to talk about Holocaust (which btw, I believe didn’t even happen… ever), to question Bush and American Government’s secret projects and intentions, to question the number of nukes Israel and America has, to question the atomic attacks carried by the Americans in cities of Japan where only civilians lived… I can keep going on and on and the list won’t end.
Pakistani government also protested this act but our beloved people in the Ministry of Science and Technology, PTA (Pakistan Telecommunication Authority), basically the government of Pakistan decided to BAN the blogspot why? Because you could find some of those caricatures in some of the blogs hosted on blogspot. Here is where you can read more about what happened.
Now I understand that by using proxy and other channels you can still access blogspot which makes the people who decided to blog these sites even more stupid but it has become a little problem for all the people who wanted to communicate and confron the people that posted those images on their blogs. How stupid is that?! PTA actually wants us all to act like a bunch of pigeons who’d close their eyers everytime something is thrown at them!? What the heck is that about? Some elements in the west can abuse the freedom of speech and act like complete idios and nazzis but our beloved PTA won’t let us defend our religion, our beliefs and won’t let us spread OUR word out there by killing OUR freedom of speech!? How they loth and make us loth with them!
Not just this but I believe they have also cut the source of income of so many people who used to earn some $$$ via google adsense programs that you can run on blogspot. The government does not help any of us here, they do not support us in any possible way, there is no welfare system here which is pretty damn pathetic — but to make things worse they even got the guts to kill the chances of so many people trying to support themselves. They are actually pissing the educated, civilized and internet savvy people surviving in a country which scores low when it comes to the literacy ratio while they should actually use the internet ready people to spread education, awareness, gather international support for the local poors and the uneducated people, market the country in the global village by being a part of the better, more learned and moderate community which condemns acts of blasphemy and other acts which make the world a bit more dangerous place to live in.
Shame on you Pakistan Telecommunications Authority, shame on you Government of Pakistan. You hold us back… way back!
