Halal Google Gives Muslims An Internet Free Of Vice
Yasmine Hafiz ("Huffington Post," July 24, 2013)
Halalgoogling.com is dreaming big, as they aim to become, "the number one
search engine in the Muslim community." Simply put, the site's strict
filters prevent users from accessing haram, or forbidden, content through the
search engine, although according to their blog, users can do much more.
Haram literally means "forbidden," and is applied to moral and dietary
guidelines for Muslims, whereas halal means "permissible."
>From their blog:
Halalgoogling has a special filtering system that excludes Haram
(forbidden) sites or content from the search results such as pornography,
nudity,
gay, lesbian, bisexual, gambling, anti-Islamic content or anything else that
is Haram according to the Islamic law.
The Haram filtering system is not the only creative technology that makes
Halalgoogling unique. We also offer many other innovative features like
Category assistant, Random topics, Quick look, Special Shopping and other.
Google beware!
This is what happens if you try to look for porn on HalalGoogle:
(Image: "No results found or you have searched Haram (forbidden) content")
Pretty advanced stuff.
How does one develop a "haram filter," you ask? According to their press
release, a team of international "internet experts" has been hard at work for
years to determine what is halal or haram according to "the Law of Islam."
So why Halalgoogling? The makers of of the tool cite easy access to
pornography as one of the internet's biggest dangers, particularly with regard
to
the large amount of children that use it. According to the blog,
approximately 90% of children aged 8 to 16 have seen Internet porn.
Their Twitter announces that an app for iOS users is coming soon, so people
can HalalGoogle on their iPads to their heart's content. The Android app
is already up and running on Google Play.
It's worth playing around with to see which search pages have been altered
the most, and Kim Kardashian is a case in point. The curvaceous reality
star and new mother has apparently been deemed almost totally haram, and her
search results are almost completely scrubbed of anything that actually
relates to her.
Halalgoogling.com joins a host of other religiously-oriented search
engines, such as Jewogle, a parody which "celebrates the Jewish contribution
to
civilization," and SeekFind.org, a Christian website with content filters
that prevent users from accessing pages that attack or denigrate their faith.
____________________________________
--
--
Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community
<[email protected]>
Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism
Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org
---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email
to [email protected].
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
