From The Daily Mail U.K.
More than 2.5m Muslims threaten to leave Facebook after four Islamic pages are taken down
By Niall Firth
Last updated at 12:04 PM on 16th July 2010
More than 2.5million users will leave Facebook unless certain Islamic pages are reinstated, it has been claimed.
A template letter that has been pasted into numerous Facebook pages accuses founder Mark Zuckerberg and other senior members of Facebook of ‘ignoring the feelings of more than 2.5million Muslims’.
The Muslim community is angry that four extremely popular Islamic pages were removed from the site and the letter warns that unless its demands are met Facebook’s Muslim users will move to an Islamic alternative.
The letter demands not only that the pages are reinstated but that new rules are introduced which make it a violation of Facebook’s terms to post anti-Islamic comments.
And Facebook is given notice that unless the changes are introduced then 2.5 million Muslim users will leave to join madina.com, a social networking site for Muslims.
The letter reads: ‘Although you have attended the world’s best communication skills courses you have been most successful in growing great hatred and hostility between you and Muslims around the world, but seriously this time you have caused an almost unrepairable [sic] damage.’
Facebook has been warned that Muslims will leave unless certain pages are reinstated
It also accuses Facebook of ‘irresponsible behaviour’ for allowing to host ‘Everybody Draw Mohammed Day’ pages which sparked controversy for encouraging users to draw portraits of the Prophet.
There is no specific ban on images of Allah or the Prophet Mohammed in the Koran but there is one line which is commonly taken to mean that it is impossible for human hands to recreate his likeness. To attempt to do so would is an insult to Allah, it is believed.
The letter demands that the four deleted pages are reinstated, disrespecting Islamic religious symbols is banned and any Facebook page which does so is disabled.
Madina.com was a social networking site set up specifically for the Muslim community.
It pledges to abide by the ‘highest Islamic principals’ and encourages Muslim unity. Female users are asked not to use pictures of themselves as profile pictures.
A spokeswoman for Facebook said that the Islamic pages, which included ‘I love Mohammed’ and ‘Quran Lovers’, were taken down because they were being used to ‘spam’ users, which is against the company’s policy.
Quote: “The Muslim community is angry that four extremely popular Islamic pages were removed from the site and the letter warns that unless its demands are met Facebook’s Muslim users will move to an Islamic alternative.“
So, if Facebook doesn’t surrender, eh? Ha ha ha ha ha ha! Islam, believe it or else!
If Facebook has any sense (doubtful), fb will apologise for not kicking jihad-sympathizing arses out earlier. May the door of liberty slap Islam’s wounded ego on its arse upon it’s exit. Lan Astaslem.
Facebook should tell the arselifters to go f*ck themselves. They aren’t welcome in the civilised world.
Their feelings are hurt???? Their co-religionist murdered over 3000 Americans , and tho they claim that the perps were ‘extreme radicals’, we are still waiting to hear ONE ‘moderate’ Muslim speak out and condemn this horrendous act.
Most other immigrants to another country try to assimilate while maintaining personal traditions. The Muslim immigrant seems to expect the new country to change anything that is not in keeping with Sharia law to accommodate their wishes. If they find western culture so odious, perhaps they should return to their original homelands.
,
There is no moderate Islam.
someone who doesn’t exist cannot be insulted.
there is no moderate islam, but there are Islamic moderators.
sorry, silly word-joke.
How do they know it’s 2,5 million? do they have 2.5 M signatures? And by whose authority will they be told to boycot facebook?
Will there be a fatwa against FB?
How many subscribers does Facebook have anyway?
Why not boycott computers all together. Jews are heavily involved in Google.These muslims have no idea of the Zionist Crusader allianiance. How powerful these Jews are. They put together Face Book, Google and the Pentium processer. Just Boycott the compute and have done with it or the Zionist Crusader alliance will make you jump up and down for Allah from now till eternity. Jews are getting smarter and muslims are getting angrier!
@D. G. Neree
facebook claims 400 million
http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics
Seriously! Image researching yahoo for hours just for this and i finally thought it was right here!
Live Quran Education” provides FREE Online Quran Classes to teach the rules of Tajweed for kids and ladies to lead their lives according to the Islamic rules.