San Francisco, May 22: A Facebook page that fueled rage and protest in Pakistan was gone from the popular online social networking service on Friday.
The Facebook user that organized an “Everyone Draw Mohammed Day” competition to promote “freedom of expression” evidently took down the page along with a separate blog about the campaign.
“Facebook has not taken any action on this page,” the California-based social networking titan said after reporting the page was gone.
Islam strictly prohibits the depiction of any prophet as blasphemous and the row has sparked comparison with protests across the Muslim world over the publication of satirical cartoons of Prophet Mohammed (Peace Be Upon Him) in European newspapers in 2006.
The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) banned access to Facebook, YouTube and more than 450 links, including restricted access to Wikipedia in view of what it called “growing sacrilegious content”.
–Agencies