Another YouTube incident in the Islamic world
Once again, the conflict between the Internet service YouTube and the Islamic public has ripened . This time, the “Islamic question” arose sharply in Indonesia. On April 8, Indonesia’s providers banned access to YouTube, MySpace , Google Video, and other file hosting services.
The reason is the placement on the sites of the anti-Islamic film Fitna. The film was created by Dutch politician Geert Wilders, a 15-minute video contains quotes from the Koran skillfully superimposed on a video sequence containing fragments from filming of the 2001 attacks in the United States and 2004 in Madrid.
Protests about the appearance of the film in the public domain were expressed by many Arab countries, as well as the UN Secretary General, and, oddly enough, the Dutch authorities.
It seems that the case with the blocking of the YouTube Internet service in Indonesia will be in a number of similar cases. Last year, the Thai authorities blocked access to YouTube for four months because of a video that offends the local monarch. In February of this year, the “ban” was kindly provided by the Pakistani authorities (again the “Islamic Question”), and there were no blockages from China and Turkey.
via Associated Press
The reason is the placement on the sites of the anti-Islamic film Fitna. The film was created by Dutch politician Geert Wilders, a 15-minute video contains quotes from the Koran skillfully superimposed on a video sequence containing fragments from filming of the 2001 attacks in the United States and 2004 in Madrid.
Protests about the appearance of the film in the public domain were expressed by many Arab countries, as well as the UN Secretary General, and, oddly enough, the Dutch authorities.
It seems that the case with the blocking of the YouTube Internet service in Indonesia will be in a number of similar cases. Last year, the Thai authorities blocked access to YouTube for four months because of a video that offends the local monarch. In February of this year, the “ban” was kindly provided by the Pakistani authorities (again the “Islamic Question”), and there were no blockages from China and Turkey.
via Associated Press