Comments on: UAE blocking Baha’i Websites http://www.bahaiblog.net/2005/03/23/uae-blocking-bahai-websites/ Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:03:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Marco Oliveira http://www.bahaiblog.net/2005/03/23/uae-blocking-bahai-websites/#comment-3 Marco Oliveira Thu, 24 Mar 2005 08:56:27 +0000 http://www.bahaiblog.net/?p=7#comment-3 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&section=theuae) I wonder what happened since then... 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&section=theuae)

I wonder what happened since then…

]]> By: Heather B http://www.bahaiblog.net/2005/03/23/uae-blocking-bahai-websites/#comment-2 Heather B Wed, 23 Mar 2005 15:08:22 +0000 http://www.bahaiblog.net/?p=7#comment-2 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. 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.

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