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Bangladesh blocks YouTube over anti-Islam video
Phys.Org 18 September 2012
The country's telecommunications regulator blocked the website "to prevent violence and social disorder over the derogatory video", its acting chairman Giashuddin Ahmed told 
Pakistan blocks over 700 anti-Islam YouTube links
Times of India 18 September 2012
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has blocked over 700 links to an anti-Islam film on YouTube that has triggered anti-US protests across the Muslim world, including Pakistan, officials
Provocative Anti-Muslim Movie Should Be Banned, Russian Senators Say
The Moscow Times 17 September 2012
By Alexander Winning
Two Federation Council senators said Sunday that Internet providers should restrict access to websites hosting a trailer for the "Innocence of Muslims” movie, whose release has
Saudi Grand Mufti denounces violence against embassies
PakistanToday.com.pk 17 September 2012
RIYADH - The Kingdom’s Grand Mufti, Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Asheikh, has denounced attacks on diplomats and embassies as un-Islamic after deadly protests against a US-made
Islamist Atrocities and Double Standards
AINA (press release) 14 September 2012
By Joseph Klein
"While the United States rejects efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others, we must all unequivocally oppose the kind of senseless violence that took the lives of these public servants,” President Obama said in response to the brutal murder of the U.S. ambassador to Libya John Christopher Stevens and three other embassy staff members. Obama promised to "bring justice” to the killers and added: "There is absolutely no justification to this type of senseless violence. None.”
Pakistan orders anti-Islam video block on YouTube
DAWN.com 14 September 2012
The Afghan government earlier ordered an indefinite ban on the entire YouTube video sharing site to prevent access to the film made in the United States, which Kabul said was
Afghanistan Blocks Anti-Islamist Video
KABC 14 September 2012
KABUL, Afghanistan) -- Anticipating backlash in its own country following the attacks on U.S. embassies in Egypt and Libya, the government in Afghanistan has blocked an
UPDATE to Muslim reaction to scholarly criticism of Islam in the UK – Breaking News
faithFreedom.org 13 September 2012
By Babs Barron
Tom Holland, the presenter of "Islam, the Untold Story”, has been threatened online and inundated with abusive Twitter messages as a result of daring to ask pertinent questions
BBC is full of liberals afraid to mock Islam (says veteran of the BBC)
Vlad Tepes 13 September 2012
By Paul Revoir
Roger Bolton said BBC bosses were out of touch with the public A respected BBC broadcaster has claimed television is dominated by ‘liberal sceptical humanists’ who laugh at
Video: YouTube Bans Anti-Islam Movie ‘Innocence of Muslims’ In Libya, Egypt Following Attacks Against U.S. Diplomats
iDigitalTimes.com 13 September 2012
YouTube has blocked the anti-Islam video that sparked riots in Egypt and Libya on Wednesday. The movie "Innocence of Muslims" was plastered around the Internet following the riots because of its laughably bad acting and editing.
High alert at US embassies: Fear that anger at anti-Islam film may engulf Middle East
RT 13 September 2012
US embassies across the globe are tightening security after the ambassador to Libya died in a militia attack against the Benghazi consulate. The attack was sparked by a US film
Salman Rushdie: India banned Satanic Verses hastily
BBC News 13 September 2012
Sir Salman has made these remarks in his upcoming memoirs Joseph Anton, excerpts from which have been published in The New Yorker magazine. Many Muslims regard The Satanic
Channel 4 cancels Islam documentary screening after presenter threatened
Telegraph.co.uk 12 September 2012
Historian Tom Holland's Channel 4 film Islam: The Untold Story sparked more than 1,000 complaints when it was broadcast. Holland was threatened online with a torrent of abusive messages on Twitter.
A Channel 4 spokeswoman said: "Having taken security advice, we have reluctantly cancelled a planned screening of the programme Islam: The Untold Story. We remain extremely proud of the film which is still available to view on 4oD."
Dozens of Kurdish journalists face terrorism charges in Turkey
The Guardian 11 September 2012
The biggest media trial in Turkey's history has begun in what human rights groups say is an attempt by the government to intimidate the press and punish pro-Kurdish
Hamas bans internet porn from Gaza Strip as Islamic hardliners crackdown on Palestinian freedoms
Daily Mail 5 September 2012
Hamas has ordered a full ban on internet pornography in the Gaza Strip -- the latest restriction on personal freedom imposed by the hardline Islamic political party. Under a
Channel 4 documentary Islam: The Untold Story receives 1,200 complaints
The Guardian 4 September 2012
By Lisa O'Carroll
The number of complaints about historian Tom Holland's Channel 4 documentary questioning the origins of Islam has now reached 1,200. Broadcast last week, Islam: The Untold
New Internet censorship rules take effect in Gaza
Jerusalem Post 4 September 2012
By OMAR GHRAIEB
Many Gazans have long lamented that there’s not much to do in the Gaza Strip. There are no movie theaters, pool halls or bowling alleys -- all of which are seen as
Fight for them or lose them…free speech and freedom of expression under attack by Islamists
Canada Free Press 3 September 2012
By Jerry Philipson
Unfettered, unrestricted free speech and freedom of expression are the fundamental, essential building blocks of freedom…the foundation upon which freedom is built. There is no freedom without unfettered, unrestricted free speech and freedom of expression, nor can there be. When unfettered, unrestricted free speech and freedom of expression are attacked and curtailed, all of our other freedoms are attacked and curtailed too, freedom itself is placed in very real jeopardy and true freedom essentially no longer exists.
An SOS From a Turkish Journalist
Gatestone Institute 31 August 2012
By Claire Berlinski
Before I left Istanbul, Barçin Yinanç, the opinion editor of Turkey's English-language Hürriyet Daily News wrote a column that deserves attention. I reproduce it here:
