New Delhi (Sputnik): The Bollywood movie “Gul Makai”, based on the story of the life and struggle of 22-year-old Pakistani Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai, has drawn the ire of a Muslim cleric.
A Muslim cleric from the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh has issued a fatwa, an Islamic legal decree, against Amjad Khan, the director of a film about Pakistani Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai, who was shot by Taliban militants at the age of 14.
A poster for the film “Gul Makai” shows a girl holding a burning book in her hands with an explosion coming out of it. The cleric alleged that the book in question is the Quran, which means, per him, that the poster is against Islam and that the movie is showing their holy text as well as their religion in a "bad light".
“Darul Ifta Jama Masjid Mufti issues a fatwa against H.E Amjad Khan, the director of the Bollywood movie Gul Makai. The poster of the movie shows a girl holding a book and the book is Quran, hence it is against Islam and showing their religion in bad light”, a letter issued by the Mosque read.
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Speaking to Sputnik, the director of the film rubbished reports of filing any police complaint, saying:
“The cleric is the victim of misconception. He is a religious scholar, he is thinking that the lead actress, who is depicting Malala in the film, is holding a Quran in her hands. He is assuming that because of his prejudice and because the protagonist of the film is a Muslim, she will only hold the Quran. The film is about girls child education, he is unable to understand this. This is not a dignified move, but I will try to talk to him and will send him a letter", he added.
Khan denied taking any legal action against the cleric as he doesn’t want him to land in legal trouble.
The movie, slated for release on 31 January, tells the story of Malala Yousafzai, a 22-year-old woman who became the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for campaigning for girls' education rights in 2014.
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"Islam is perfect and its arguments are conclusive." We all grew up believing this shit. There are tons of heavily edited videos that are mostly Dawah arguing with less informed Westerns. Many times the video ends giving the other person no chance to respond.
But then why do we ban so many websites that challenge Islam? What are we afraid of? Why do we ban books, atheists books, YouTube Channels, even this page is banned in Pakistan, when we have the perfect faith and response to anything (apparently not!!).
The desired effect is that most of our compatriots are living in an artificial bubble. They believe Islam is perfect. We all but love see them come here when they are outside the country to burst their bubble.
They come with so much confidence that they can beat any argument by comparing it to Christianity... Boom we burst that. They cannot respond to carefully sourced and presented facts, so they resort to insults and accusing us of being secret Hindus, argue with them in Arabic instantly... Boom burst that bubble.... They cannot get their heads around it. So eventually they start finally reading what we have to say. What remains is two things. Will they use that brain or not? Is it blind faith or not?
Next is how far Pakistan went to block the outside world. Same can be said to nearly every Islamic country.
YouTube was blocked in Pakistan following a decision taken by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority on 22 February 2008 because of the number of "non-Islamic objectionable videos."[17][18] One report specifically named Fitna, a controversial Dutch film, as the basis for the block.[19] Pakistan, an Islamic republic, ordered its ISPs to block access to YouTube "for containing blasphemous web content/movies."[20] The action effectively blocked YouTube access worldwide for several hours on 24 February.[21] Defaming Muhammad under § 295-C of the Blasphemy law in Pakistan requires a death sentence.[22] This followed increasing unrest in Pakistan by over the reprinting of the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons which depict satirical criticism of Islam.[20] Router misconfiguration by one Pakistani ISP on 24 February 2008 effectively blocked YouTube access worldwide for several hours.[21] On 26 February 2008, the ban was lifted after the website had removed the objectionable content from its servers at the demand of the Government of Pakistan.[16]
On 19 and 20 May 2010, Pakistan's Telecommunication Authority PTA imposed a ban on Wikipedia, YouTube, Flickr, and Facebook in response to a competition entitled Everybody Draw Mohammed Day on Facebook, in a bid to contain "blasphemous" material[23][24] The ban imposed on Facebook was the result of a ruling by the Lahore High Court, while the ban on the other websites was imposed arbitrarily by the PTA on the grounds of "objectionable content", a different response from earlier requests, such as pages created to promote peaceful demonstrations in Pakistani cities being removed because they were "inciting violence". The ban was lifted on 27 May 2010, after the website removed the objectionable content from its servers at the Demand of the government. However, individual videos deemed offensive to Muslims that are posted on YouTube will continue to be blocked.[25][26]
In September 2012, the PTA blocked the video-sharing website YouTube for not removing an anti-Islamic film made in the United States, Innocence of Muslims, which mocks Mohammed. The website would remain suspended, it was stated, until the film was removed.[27][28] In a related move, the PTA announced that it had blocked about 20,000 websites due to "objectionable" content.[29]
On 25 July 2013, the government announced that it is mulling over reopening YouTube during the second week of August. A special 12-member committee was working under the Minister of IT and Telecommunication, Anusha Rahman, to see if objectionable content can be removed. The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority, the telecom watchdog in the country, has already expressed its inability to filter out select content.[30]
On 21 April 2014, Pakistan's Senate Standing Committee on Human Rights requested the Federal Government remove the ban on YouTube.[31][32]
On 8 February 2015, the government announced that YouTube will remain blocked 'indefinitely' because no tool or solution had been found which can totally block offensive content.[33] As of June 2015 — 1,000 days on — the ban was still in effect, and YouTube cannot be accessed from either desktop or mobile devices.[32]
The ban was lifted due to technical glitch on December 6, 2015 according to ISPs in Pakistan.[34] As September 2016, the ban has been lifted officially, as YouTube launched a local version for Pakistan.[35]
On 25 November 2017, the NetBlocks internet shutdown observatory and Digital Rights Foundation identified mass-scale blocking of social media and content-sharing websites including YouTube, Twitter and Facebook throughout Pakistan imposed by the government in response to the violent Tehreek-e-Labaik protests.[36][37][38] The technical investigation found that all major Pakistani fixed-line and mobile service providers were affected by the restrictions, which were lifted by the PTA the next day when protests abated following the resignation of Minister for Law and Justice Zahid Hamid.[39]
In 2019, The National Assembly Standing Committee on Information Technology and Telecom was informed by Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) that 900,000 URLs were blocked in Pakistan for "reasons such as carrying blasphemous and pornographic content and/or sentiments against the state, judiciary or the armed forces."[40]
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But then why do we ban so many websites that challenge Islam? What are we afraid of? Why do we ban books, atheists books, YouTube Channels, even this page is banned in Pakistan, when we have the perfect faith and response to anything (apparently not!!).
The desired effect is that most of our compatriots are living in an artificial bubble. They believe Islam is perfect. We all but love see them come here when they are outside the country to burst their bubble.
They come with so much confidence that they can beat any argument by comparing it to Christianity... Boom we burst that. They cannot respond to carefully sourced and presented facts, so they resort to insults and accusing us of being secret Hindus, argue with them in Arabic instantly... Boom burst that bubble.... They cannot get their heads around it. So eventually they start finally reading what we have to say. What remains is two things. Will they use that brain or not? Is it blind faith or not?
Next is how far Pakistan went to block the outside world. Same can be said to nearly every Islamic country.
YouTube was blocked in Pakistan following a decision taken by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority on 22 February 2008 because of the number of "non-Islamic objectionable videos."[17][18] One report specifically named Fitna, a controversial Dutch film, as the basis for the block.[19] Pakistan, an Islamic republic, ordered its ISPs to block access to YouTube "for containing blasphemous web content/movies."[20] The action effectively blocked YouTube access worldwide for several hours on 24 February.[21] Defaming Muhammad under § 295-C of the Blasphemy law in Pakistan requires a death sentence.[22] This followed increasing unrest in Pakistan by over the reprinting of the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons which depict satirical criticism of Islam.[20] Router misconfiguration by one Pakistani ISP on 24 February 2008 effectively blocked YouTube access worldwide for several hours.[21] On 26 February 2008, the ban was lifted after the website had removed the objectionable content from its servers at the demand of the Government of Pakistan.[16]
On 19 and 20 May 2010, Pakistan's Telecommunication Authority PTA imposed a ban on Wikipedia, YouTube, Flickr, and Facebook in response to a competition entitled Everybody Draw Mohammed Day on Facebook, in a bid to contain "blasphemous" material[23][24] The ban imposed on Facebook was the result of a ruling by the Lahore High Court, while the ban on the other websites was imposed arbitrarily by the PTA on the grounds of "objectionable content", a different response from earlier requests, such as pages created to promote peaceful demonstrations in Pakistani cities being removed because they were "inciting violence". The ban was lifted on 27 May 2010, after the website removed the objectionable content from its servers at the Demand of the government. However, individual videos deemed offensive to Muslims that are posted on YouTube will continue to be blocked.[25][26]
In September 2012, the PTA blocked the video-sharing website YouTube for not removing an anti-Islamic film made in the United States, Innocence of Muslims, which mocks Mohammed. The website would remain suspended, it was stated, until the film was removed.[27][28] In a related move, the PTA announced that it had blocked about 20,000 websites due to "objectionable" content.[29]
On 25 July 2013, the government announced that it is mulling over reopening YouTube during the second week of August. A special 12-member committee was working under the Minister of IT and Telecommunication, Anusha Rahman, to see if objectionable content can be removed. The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority, the telecom watchdog in the country, has already expressed its inability to filter out select content.[30]
On 21 April 2014, Pakistan's Senate Standing Committee on Human Rights requested the Federal Government remove the ban on YouTube.[31][32]
On 8 February 2015, the government announced that YouTube will remain blocked 'indefinitely' because no tool or solution had been found which can totally block offensive content.[33] As of June 2015 — 1,000 days on — the ban was still in effect, and YouTube cannot be accessed from either desktop or mobile devices.[32]
The ban was lifted due to technical glitch on December 6, 2015 according to ISPs in Pakistan.[34] As September 2016, the ban has been lifted officially, as YouTube launched a local version for Pakistan.[35]
On 25 November 2017, the NetBlocks internet shutdown observatory and Digital Rights Foundation identified mass-scale blocking of social media and content-sharing websites including YouTube, Twitter and Facebook throughout Pakistan imposed by the government in response to the violent Tehreek-e-Labaik protests.[36][37][38] The technical investigation found that all major Pakistani fixed-line and mobile service providers were affected by the restrictions, which were lifted by the PTA the next day when protests abated following the resignation of Minister for Law and Justice Zahid Hamid.[39]
In 2019, The National Assembly Standing Committee on Information Technology and Telecom was informed by Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) that 900,000 URLs were blocked in Pakistan for "reasons such as carrying blasphemous and pornographic content and/or sentiments against the state, judiciary or the armed forces."[40]
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Anyone who says that Islam respects free speech or freedom of religion does not even understand the basic history of Islam or Islamic teachings. Starting with Muhammad, he did not tolerate critics or people who used poetry or politics to challenge him. From Abu Lahab who ended up being cursed in the Quran and killed after the fall of Mecca, to Umm Qirfa who was an old lady and the leader of an opposing tribe who got killed by having two camels run in opposite directions till she got split in two for writing poetry critical of him, Nadhir Ibn Harith who challenged Muhammad on the science of the Quran and asked challenging questions and got his head chopped..and many more you can read here:
So, what we hear in the news about Salman Rushdie should not surprise us. If Salman had lived in Muhammad's days, he would not have survived this long. But we should never take this incident lightly. We should all condemn it and expose Islam's and Muhammad's violence towards its critics as nothing less than cowardness from having anyone challenge their teaching. How can you, with all honesty, claim you have a religion that is the undisputed truth yet anyone who dares to challenge this truth should be eliminated?? How can you honestly say it is free choice to accept Islam when those who leave it becomes liable for execution for simply leaving or expressing why they left? Stop kidding yourself. If this was another religion, you would be the first to point out that this is ridiculous and sounds more like a cult. Without threats, without violence, without forced slavery, Islam would have never expanded. Fact: Truth does not mind being questioned, a lie does not like being challenged.
What is Salman Rushdie accused of? In Satanic Verses was the first blockbuster book to expose a well hidden secret in Islam about the Quran. That is Muhammad received some revelations from Satan and included them in the Quran! Research it. It is all over Islamic sources. He is targeted because he exposes it as evidence of Islam being made up!
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