gotta find out more about this group http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=48383 Anti-Prophet Campaign Hits Facebook
CAIRO - The anti-Islam debate has reached Facebook, the world's leading socialworking website, prompting a petition supported by thousands of Muslim (more) CAIRO - The anti-Islam debate has reached Facebook, the world's leading socialworking website, prompting a petition supported by thousands of Muslim and non-Muslim members, The New York Times reported on Monday, September 10. "We r quitting Facebook," more than 58,000 Facebook members are threatening unless a one-month-old anti-Islam group was removed. One of the champions of the petition-drive group is Essma Bargewee, a 20-year student of business at Montclair State University in New Jersey. She joined and invited some friends and posted at a few other groups in Facebook. "Next morning I came and was expecting 15 or something to join but found hundreds," Bargewee said in an e-mail to the Times. "As you have seen we ended up with thousands of both Muslims and non-Muslims defending our idea." The petition is rallying against a 750-member group which carries the name "Based on the facts...Mohammed was a murderer." "The Qur'an contains many lies and threats. Islam is false, no god exists, and someone should say that loud and clear," it states on its website. "Heaven and hell are fables, prayer is a waste of time, and angels and jinn are obviously mythology." Pointless The petition complains against the group's attack on Islam as a faith and prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him). "Please notice that Muslims take this issue very seriously as it harms our beliefs and our prophet," it reads. The petition accuses the anti-Islam group of violating the very basic policies of Facebook under the pretext of freedom of expression. "We want you to know that we respect the freedom of speech and opinions but Beliefs must be respected also as the mentioned group attacks individual and group in which it's violating the policy of Facebook that we all respect." The group creator's account was removed temporarily before being reinstated, the US daily said. "Facebook briefly deleted my account, and I assumed they did so because of the group, but they reinstated the account and told me that it was a mistake of some sort," the organizer of the anti-Islam site said in an e-mail. Facebook declined to comment on the subject or on what steps had been taken, if any. Founded in 2004, Facebook's membership was initially restricted to students of the Harvard University. It was later expanded to other universities in the United States and later to any student with a university email address from all over the world. Networks were then initiated for high schools and some large companies. Since September 11, 2006, it has been made available to any email address user who inputs a certain age range. Users can select to join one or more participatingworks, such as a high school, place of employment, or geographic region. As of July 2007, the website had the largest number of registered users among college-focused sites with over 34 million active members worldwide. In July, it was ranked between the top 10-13 web sites, and was the number one site for photos in the US with over 8.5 million photos uploaded daily. Facebook is also the sixth most visited site in the US. 11.09.2007 islamonline.net [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. 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