Hear No Evil, See No Evil...

I'm surprised I'm even allowed to log on to my Blogger account, my emails and perhaps my personal cell phone also. Its no news story anymore that Facebook is gone, followed promptly by YouTube and I hear Twitter is on its way out now as well. What purpose has this ban served? I really don't understand. Seriously.

So the story goes that the 20th of May was declared 'Draw Muhammad Day' by a group of mentally delayed people on Facebook in protest of the protest against the return of Super Best Friends on South Park which featured a depiction of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). And then some ardent Musalmans in Pakistan took this as personal affront and declared 20th May as a day when all God-fearing Muslims should boycott Facebook. For the first time in the history of Pakistan, the judiciary was a step ahead of the 'needs' of the people and decided to ban Facebook until further notice - followed promptly by 800 other websites.

Lets just make one thing clear. There is no excuse for curtailing the people's right to information. - however, offensive it may be. Furthermore, Pakistan is already in a bit ( read huge) PR nightmare - labelled as an extremist, terrorist nation - and to ban Facebook in the midst of all this in the name of religion is only going to do us more harm than good.

Also, the whole story is a bit ridiculous. However, thought of a 'Draw Muhammad Day' is obviously looking to get a rise out to the Muslim community and we're giving him/her exactly what he/she wants. Let's not. Please.