Article #8 Brawl Over Islam on Facebook

Posted: July 12th, 2008 | Author: Lindsay | Filed under: fulbright | Tags: | No Comments »

I’m back at it again.  Reading articles to make sense of my Fulbright research ideas.  This time, I’m reading an actual editorial-reviewed newspaper article courtesy of the NYTimes.  Link to Article

Basics

  • Facebook dealing with speech codes
  • Group denies Islam as a religion
  • A bunch of outcries including the “we will stop using facebook” threat
This article highlights the issue of hateful groups which is certainly the case for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.  But I’m not so interested in the protection of “freedom of speech” as I am concerned what these groups do for exasperating the differences between the two sides versus bringing them together.
One of the important things in this example to note is that both Muslims and Non-Muslims protested which means there is evidence of coming together by people that are directly and indirectly involved with the conflict, whatever it may be, at hand.

Related posts:

  1. Article/Blog #7 (I’ve lost Count): Israel, Facebook, and National Security
  2. Blog/Article #2 Rima Barakat: Unfit to Serve in our State Government
  3. Facebook Group #1: MK Effi Eitam for Prime Minister of Israel

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