Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Islamic themed version of Facebook is launched

Millatfacebook

The New York Daily News is reporting that Omer Zaheer Meertold, a 25-year-old Pakistani man, has launched a version of Facebook for Islamic people. He told the HinduStan Times that he was motivated by the Facebook "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day� controversy that resulted in Facebook being banned in Pakistan briefly.

Meertold said: "People from all faiths are welcome to come and interact with one another and understand Muslims." The site is "to provide a platform to decent people of different faiths to come in harmony.

Observers, however, have found anti-western and anti-Israel material on Millatfacebook.

NY Daily News story here.

The two stories we�re going to be seeing here shortly will be:

-- �Facebook sues Islamic rival over name theft�
-- �Hacktivists from Facebook and Millatfacebook duke it out�

It would be nice if ��sweet people from other religions� on both social media outlets prevail.

Tom Kelchner

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