Trackbacked at Howie’s Moisture Farm, the Jawa Report, MY Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, Pirate’s Cove, Wizbang, Michelle Malkin:
From the Wall Street Journal:
India’s Internet regulators have started blocking several Web sites in a move that borrows a page from China, where government censors heavily restrict the flow of online information.
India’s Department of Telecommunications sent an order late last week to Internet-service providers to block several Web sites, according to a department spokesman. The spokesman, Rajesh Malhotra, declined to disclose the contents of the letter or discuss the order, saying it was a “confidential exchange of information between the department and the operators.”
Several telecom operators confirmed there were more than 15 sites they were directed to block. Close to a third of the sites were home to blogs, the personalized Web logs that have become popular in India, just as they have in other parts of the world. Among the Web sites blocked are parts of Blogger and GeoCities. Included on a list seen by The Wall Street Journal are sites that showcase views of an Islamic holy man, conservative Hindus, and Dalits, the low caste in India pejoratively referred to as untouchables.
The Internet-service providers declined to explain how the sites were blocked or whether all Internet users in India would be affected.
Most Indian newspapers have reported the ban. They have also included the URLs of the banned sites.
And one of the listed sites, according to this scanned copy the order by the Indian government, is my former blog at commonfolkcomonsense.blogspot.com. I don’t know if they singled me out because of my being hosted at Blogger or because of any particular posts.
But I haven’t even blogged at my old site since December 2005. And I’ve erased a bunch of the stuff that’s still left over there. And I thought I had already cancelled that site with Blogger.
Geez.
Hey Ministry of Communication and Information Technology: I’M OVER HERE NOW!
What’s going on here? I’ve been supportive of India’s battle against intrusive militant Islam, and this is how they repay me? Hey India, can you spell “Dhimmitude“? This is crazy.
Says Dr. Rusty Shackleford of the Jawa Report:
The short answer to the first question is that we offended Islamists and India is afraid of its own Muslim citizens. The short answer to the second question is that, sadly, it is increasingly becoming evident that liberty may not be able to exist wherever there is a large population of Muslims.
Boy, did he hit the nail on the head. What I’ve been saying for months. And for you Liberals I’ll re-type his words slowly enough for even you to understand:
T H E R E _ I S _ A _ L A R G E _ P O P U L A T I O N _ O F _ M U S L I M S.
Islam is not compatible with western democratic values. It’s that simple.
I’ll write more on this later. Right now I’m way too proud (and LMAO) to type.
- Shamalama
India, ban, blog, commonfolkcomonsense.blogspot.com, Islam, Dhimmitude
3 responses so far ↓
1 William Teach // Jul 20, 2006 at 2:48 pm
I just have to wonder what would happen if we did another Flush the Koran photoshopping carnival
2 Shamalama // Jul 20, 2006 at 3:01 pm
Oh great, William. NOW you’ve got the wheels turning in my head. I won’t get any sleep tonight!
3 William Teach // Jul 21, 2006 at 7:23 pm
Heh heh!
Danny Carlton is working on a “Banned In India” header, one of those ones on an angle for the top corners. I’ll let you know.
I’ve actually done worse photoshopping of the Koran a month or so ago.
You couldn’t ask for better press. I feel like sending a thank you note to the Indian DOT.