UAE blocking Baha’i Websites
A report released by the Open Net Initiaive shows that UAE is blocking Baha’i websites:
ONI tested over 8000 Web sites in the past six months, finding that UAE blocks material viewed as culturally inappropriate or offensive to the state’s perception of Islam…
…ONI’s testing of the UAE filtering regime also found blocking of sites on the Bahai faith…
March 23rd, 2005 at 5:08 pm
It’s very interesting to me that Baha’i sites were found to be blocked—to the extent that it was worthy of mention in this rather clinical report. Sites related to religious conversion are being blocked, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that all sites related to other religious activities (of any faith) are blocked by default. In other words, they may not be blocking Christian, Zoroastrian, Hindu or Jewish sites. Yet Baha’i sites are being blocked across the board, perhaps because the UAE views any Baha’i site as a potential conversion effort.
March 24th, 2005 at 10:56 am
Congratulations on this new blog.
It has the best layout I ever saw on a baha’i blog. :-)
Concerning the UAE blocking of baha’i websites, it seems weird. Last October the Khaleej Times published an editorial “UAE is an oasis of religious tolerance” concerning religious tolerance in UEA. (http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/theuae/2004/October/theuae_October415.xml§ion=theuae)
I wonder what happened since then…