Pakistan Blocks Cartoon Blogs

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Sat Mar 4, 2006 at 3:33 pm PST • Views: 210

Our friends in Pakistan are cracking down on cartoon-related web sites: Pakistan blocks blogs on cartoons.

Pakistan telecom authorities have blocked several websites inviting people to draw cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, it has emerged.

Instructions were issued to internet service providers across Pakistan on 27 February to block about a dozen websites of various origins.

The BBC says there isn’t likely to be an outcry, because Pakistanis are in favor of this kind of repression:

The BBC’s Aamer Ahmed Khan in Karachi says the blocking is unlikely to turn into a major freedom of expression issue in Pakistan as there seems to be a consensus against allowing such freedom to extend to irreverent treatment of religious figures.

And Pakistan is pushing for an international law against “blasphemy,” so that everyone can experience the joy of Islamic censorship:

Pakistan, meanwhile, is seeking an internationally applicable law against blasphemy.

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