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2.5 Million Muslims Threaten to Leave Facebook
NBC Bay Area ^ | Wed, Jul 14, 2010 | LORI PREUITT

Posted on 07/14/2010 8:49:42 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Facebook has a new PR issue on its hands.

Apparently, its made as many as 2.5 million customers mad enough to threaten a boycott.

The group claims to represent Muslims who are mad about the removal of four Facebook pages.

These are the pages no longer available on the site:

Facebook.com/Rassoul.Allaah Facebook.com/Logo.Ramadan LikesFacebook.com/I.Love.Mohammed Facebook.com/Quran.Lovers

The deadline is a week from today. The group claims it has hundreds of thousands of users who are ready to jump ship to another site called madina.com, which is a Islamic social networking site.

For now, the group is trying to get its message out by posting the same comment over and over on Facebook blogs. Facebook Admins, Moderators, Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Sheryl Sandberg, and Matt Cohler; Although you have attended the world's best communication skills courses you have been most successful in growing great hatred and hostility between you and Muslims around the world, but seriously this time you have caused an almost unrepairable damage.

They go on to list their demands:

Reactivating the four pages that have been disabled Adding a Facebook Term that illegalizes disrespecting all Islamic religious symbols, including Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) and the Qur'an, as well as Prophet Moses (PBUH), Prophet Jesus (PBUH), and the original Bible Disabling any Facebook Page, Group, or Event that shows direct or indirect disrespect towards Islamic religious symbols

We have a message into the Facebook press folks to see if they have a comment on the movement. We also have no idea why the four sites were taken down in the first place. Hopefully Facebook will answer our inquiry soon. Check back for updates.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: buhbye; facebook; islam; socialnetowrking
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1 posted on 07/14/2010 8:49:49 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Don’t let the bacon and pork hit you on the a$$ on the way OUT!!


2 posted on 07/14/2010 8:51:24 PM PDT by PROCON (Independence Day + 10, Let's see how long it lasts!)
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oh...no...please...dont...leave.


3 posted on 07/14/2010 8:51:27 PM PDT by VanDeKoik (Iran doesnt have a 2nd admendment. Ya see how that turned out?)
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To: nickcarraway

Will they issue a fatwa against Mark Zuckerberg ?


4 posted on 07/14/2010 8:52:27 PM PDT by libh8er
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To: nickcarraway

Buh-bye!


5 posted on 07/14/2010 8:53:08 PM PDT by SoKatt ("Change" is not a strategy!)
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To: nickcarraway

These guys make Democrats look like logical, stoic, rational people.


6 posted on 07/14/2010 8:53:20 PM PDT by hometoroost (McCain is a Ron and Nancy Republican: Campaigns like Reagan, governs like Pelosi)
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And the downside is .... ?


7 posted on 07/14/2010 8:53:35 PM PDT by WashingtonSource
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Oh my! How the heck are the rest of us going to get by without 2.5 mill camel jockies not being in your face.

Maybe they’ll get mad enough to leave the PLANET.


8 posted on 07/14/2010 8:53:37 PM PDT by dusttoyou (Remember come November)
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... 2.5 million muslims threaten to leave Facebook ...

Great, good riddens


9 posted on 07/14/2010 8:53:47 PM PDT by J Edgar
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....and the downside to this is?.....they are going to srart “Burkabook” or something?


10 posted on 07/14/2010 8:54:07 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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Bye-Bye


11 posted on 07/14/2010 8:55:35 PM PDT by kindredspirit (The U.S. Contitution IS my ideology.)
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I bet it’ll be TurbanBook! LOL!


12 posted on 07/14/2010 8:55:44 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: nickcarraway
Please don't get mad and leave.

Just leave.

13 posted on 07/14/2010 8:56:16 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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Here would be my response:

“It sounds like madina.com will better serve your needs.”


14 posted on 07/14/2010 8:56:22 PM PDT by scott7278 ("...I have not changed Congress and how it operates the way I would have liked." BHO)
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Don’t let the screen door hit ya where your moon-god Allah split ya.


15 posted on 07/14/2010 8:56:56 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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"....Adding a Facebook Term that illegalizes disrespecting all Islamic religious symbols, including Prophet Mohammad (PBUH)"

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16 posted on 07/14/2010 8:57:27 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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Buh-bye!


17 posted on 07/14/2010 8:58:30 PM PDT by mkboyce
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To: Slings and Arrows; JoeProBono; Markos33; Salamander



"Well ... bye!"


18 posted on 07/14/2010 8:59:31 PM PDT by shibumi ( "Tsuru no Sugomori")
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Do I gotta say it ?

19 posted on 07/14/2010 8:59:57 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
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To: nickcarraway

Buh-bye.


20 posted on 07/14/2010 9:00:45 PM PDT by La Lydia
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