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Assalamualaikum Mufti Sb. I have some questions with respect to following article :
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-------------------- Below is an excerpt from an Express Tribune report on the now infamous hate-mongering by the Islamophobic Facebook CEO Mr. Mark Zukerberg:
"In his Facebook post, he said, “A few years ago, an extremist in Pakistan fought to have me sentenced to death because Facebook refused to ban content about Prophet Muhammed (pbuh) that offended him.”
“As I reflect on yesterday’s attack(Paris Attack) and my own experience with extremism, this is what we all need to reject — a group of extremists trying to silence the voices and opinions of everyone else around the world,” Zuckerberg wrote.
“I won’t let that happen on Facebook. I’m committed to building a service where you can speak freely without fear of violence,” he assured.
His response was: “It’s not against our policies to talk about Prophet Muhammed (pbuh). We did block the content in Pakistan where it was illegal, but we didn’t block it in the rest of the world where it is legal.”
Instead of very lengthy writeup exposing the hypocrisy of Mr. Zukerberg in detail, I'd just a raise a few questions to put the entire matter in perspective:
a) Clause 3.7 of Facebook's terms of service states
"You will not post content that: is hate speech, threatening, or pornographic; incites violence; or contains nudity or graphic or gratuitous violence."
( facebook . com /
legal / terms )
Why is it that the content even questioning Holocaust is removed & strictly penalized but DESPITE requests and protests by over 1.5 Billion Muslims, ridiculing of Prophet Muhammad PBUH (the most revered personality on the planet) is allowed which incites violence & promotes hate speech in VIOLATION of YOUR OWN TERMS of SERVICE?
b) Why is it that a cartoon of Condolezza Rice is termed as Rascism, a cartoon of Mark Zukerberg is called anti-Semitic but ridiculing of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) (Nauzbillah) is termed as freedom of expression. What is it, if not hypocrisy of the highest order?
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Here are my questions (after reading above article, please answer):
1) Is it allowed to use facebook ?
2) Facebook has bought whatsapp, so will it be permissible to use whatsapp ?
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Bismihi Ta`ala
Haamidan wa Musalliyan
Respected Brother in Islam
Assalamu Alaikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakaatuh
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1. The respect of Nabi (sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) requires that we disassociate ourselves from such people who do not have the heart to show even the slightest form of respect to Nabi (sallallahu alaihi wa sallam).
2. As above.
And Allah Ta`ala knows best
(Mufti) E Salejee
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