Pakistan Bans Latest Issue of Newsweek

[Rose Siding]

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Pakistani authorities have banned an issue of Newsweek magazine for publishing material they said was offensive to Islam, local media reported Friday.

A government official in Islamabad had ordered the "forfeiture of all copies of the weekly Newsweek of November 22," the state-run agency Associated Press of Pakistan reported, quoting Tariq Mahmood Bajwa, a government official in the capital, Islamabad.

The edition published "objectionable remarks which (were) tantamount to desecration of the Quran," Islam's holy book, the agency said. The report said authorities were considering legal action against the magazine but gave no details.
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The Nov. 22 issue of the magazine carried a story about the slaying in the Netherlands of filmmaker Theo Van Gogh and religious and ethnic divisions in Europe under the headline "Clash of Civilizations."
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Under Pakistan's blasphemy law, anyone convicted of insulting Islam, its Prophet Mohammed or the Quran can be sentenced to death.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-pakistan-newsweek-ban,0,4888145.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines

[NYC Liberal]

1. How long till they ban Newsweek here

for having "objectionable remarks which were tantamount to desecration of the Bible"?

[tk2kewl]

2. Damn liberal-elites running the media!

Trying to pollute our God-fearin' young'ins minds with fag-lovin'-baby-killin' liberalism.

[Tempest]

3. This is good news

It means more Pakistanis will want to read the issue than if there were no ban.


When will these religious retards realize bans only help the objects being banned?

You'd think Fahrenheit 9/11, and its popularity after conservatives boycotted it, would have clued them in.

[tk2kewl]

5. Bans are used to inflame.

The fact that they may cause more people to take notice is the whole point. It is intended to rally the true believers. F911 probably did the dems more harm than good, and that is what the pukes were counting on (that is not to say that I disapprove of F911 in any way).

[Tempest]

6. "F911 probably did the dems more harm than good"

Complete BS.

As a matter of fact, I personally know several conservatives Fahrenheit 9/11 made them take a second look at Bush. And they voted for Kerry.


A movie doesn't make $120 million and hurt anyone.

[tk2kewl]

7. the pukes don't care about your mod republican friends

they are working off the strategy that most of them will vote their pocketbook and they can afford to lose the ones who get a sudden attack of conscience so long as they continue to inflame the wingnuts and get them to the polls.

[TahitiNut]

4. Our "ally" - a nation with 'blasphemy laws'

It is an incredibly callow and corrupt society that relies on 'blasphemy laws' to (purportedly) protect their "God". To even pretend that The Creator or "his children" are somehow benefited by some secular death penalty for free expression is an egregious insult to both that 'Creator' and "his children." No 'Creator' that I can imagine would be so weak as to warrant such behavior.

[slay]

8. This is what happens when religious extremists run the government

eom

[dkofos]

9. True

And we are next.

Have a nice day (if you still can).

[nashville_brook]

11. yeah, i need to peel myself away from the computer

but it's like watching a train wreck.

[DS1]

12. Bush would outlaw writings that insulted him first

[nashville_brook]

10. nice ally

just the kind of people bushitler can relate to