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Islam

Loosen my religion

November 4, 2009

With apologies to Msrs Berry, Buck, Mills and Stipe. The first story concerns the burgeoning scene of Muslim punk, which goes by the name of Taqwacore after the novel by Michael Muhammad Knight. I posted a story about this on my Facebook a few months ago (before I’d resumed blogging), but it’s doing the rounds [...]

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Facebook says ‘No’ to hate

June 14, 2009

Facebook has disabled the ‘I Hate Muslims in Oz’ group from their site. This was due to its “explicit statement of hate”, rather than any sense of religious vilification. Holocaust denial groups have also been removed in the past, but only when similarly related to a message of hate. apud AFP ‘Facebook shuts down Aussie [...]

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Towards an halal Facebook

May 22, 2009

Indonesian clerics met at the Lirboyo Islamic boarding school to discuss, among other issues, possible guidelines for Muslim Facebook users. Fearing that Facebook, Indonesia’s most popular site, may encourage “pornographic chatter”, clerics considered an edict on the matter was necessary. “The clerics think it is necessary to set an edict on virtual networking, because this [...]

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