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Pakistan PM orders suspension of YouTube over anti-Islam film
ISLAMABAD, Sept 17 |
ISLAMABAD, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Pakistani Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf has ordered the suspension of YouTube in the country over a video made in the United States which mocks the Prophet Mohammad and has enraged the Islamic world.
Ashraf's office said in a statement that the Ministry of Information had been ordered to block YouTube so that the "blasphemous" video could not be viewed.
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mamawati wrote:
The West is getting so owned by the madmen of Islam. And our government is enabling it. Stop the flow of money to Pakistan immediately.
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