Egyptian regulator appeals against court's YouTube ban
Reuters | Friday February 15, 2013
Egypt's administrative court ordered the ministries of communication and investment to block YouTube because it had carried the film "Innocence of Muslims".
Muslims being framed in terror cases, CPI(M) tells President
Press Trust of India | Saturday November 17, 2012
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) met President Pranab Mukherjee to protest against the alleged targeting of Muslims in terror cases and demanded that innocent youths harassed by the police and investigative agencies be compensated.
Block access to blasphemous material on Internet: Pakistani court
Press Trust of India | Friday October 19, 2012
Acting on a petition filed by Jamaat-e-Islami leaders, a Pakistani court has directed the government to immediately block access to "blasphemous material" on Google and YouTube.
Hafiz Saeed moves Pakistan court over anti-Islam film
Press Trust of India | Friday October 12, 2012
Jamaat-ud-Dawah chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed today filed a petition in the Lahore High Court, asking it to direct the Pakistan government to approach the International Court of Justice against the makers of the anti-Islam film 'Innocence of Muslims'.
Pak govt blocks 20,000 websites, including YouTube: Reports
Press Trust of India | Monday October 8, 2012
Pakistani authorities have blocked about 20,000 websites, including YouTube, for hosting "objectionable" material like footage from the anti-Islam movie "Innocence of Muslims", an official said today.
US actress sues anti-Islam filmmaker, YouTube in federal court
Reuters | Thursday September 27, 2012
An actress who said she was duped into appearing in an anti-Islam film that stoked violent protests across the Muslim world took her legal bid to federal court on Wednesday in a renewed effort to force it off YouTube.
Pakistan Islamist accuses Barack Obama of religious war on Muslims
Reuters | Wednesday September 26, 2012
One of Pakistan's most feared Islamists accused U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday of starting a religious war against Muslims over his handling of a video that mocked the Prophet Mohammad.
Turkey to block access to anti-Islam film
Associated Press | Wednesday September 26, 2012
Turkish authorities say they have obtained a court order to block Internet access to an anti-Islam movie that has enraged Muslims.
World Muslim group demands laws against 'Islamophobia'
Reuters | Wednesday September 26, 2012
The world's largest Islamic body called on Tuesday for expressions of "Islamophobia" to be curbed by law, just as some countries restrict anti-Semitic speech or Holocaust denial.
Iran pulls movie from Oscar race over US anti-Islam film
Agence France Presse | Tuesday September 25, 2012
Iran announced on Monday it was yanking its entry in the Oscars race because of the "intolerable insult" of a US-made anti-Islam film.
Massive anti-American protest in Sri Lankan capital
Press Trust of India | Monday September 24, 2012
Thousands of Sri Lankan Muslims marched towards the heavily barricaded US embassy on Monday calling for ban of American brands, denouncing an anti-Islam film that has triggered protests across the world.
Anti-Islam film protests: Mob sets church on fire in Pakistan
Press Trust of India | Sunday September 23, 2012
A mob of hundreds of Muslim men attacked and burnt an 82-year-old church and an adjoining school in northwest Pakistan during a protest against an anti-Islam film, sparking concerns among the minority Christian community.
Newsweek's 'Muslim Rage' cover sparks wave of scorn
Agence France-Presse | Tuesday September 18, 2012
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How outrage against the anti-Islam film unfolded
Agence France-Presse | Thursday September 13, 2012
Entitled "Innocence of Muslims", the film, directed by Israeli-American filmmaker Sam Bacile - a pseudonym - portrays Muslims as immoral and gratuitously violent. It also pokes fun at the Prophet Mohammed and touches on themes of pedophilia and homos...
Police, protesters clash outside US embassy in Cairo
Agence France-Presse | Thursday September 13, 2012
Police used tear gas as they clashed on Thursday with a stone- and bottle-throwing crowd protesting outside the US embassy in Cairo at a film mocking Islam, witnesses and the interior ministry said.
