AOL and Censorship.

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The following is something from "Yahoo News."  Some Muslims apparently are
celebrating this victory. I say there should be something done.

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Thursday June 25 12:11 PM EDT 

Islamic university officials applaud site shutdown

CAIRO (Reuters) - Islam's prestigious Al-Azhar university Thursday welcomed
the shutdown of an Internet web site which had propagated parodies of
Koranic suras, or verses. 

"We don't want any apologies or anything of that sort. We're just happy
it's been closed," Al-Azhar spokesman Sheikh Omar el-Bastawisy told
Reuters. "The media certainly helped us." 

Internet provider America Online said Wednesday it had closed the
SuraLikeit site because it violated its terms of service by carrying
material offensive to Moslems. The provider had received several complaints
about the site, an AOL spokeswoman said. 

Scholars at al-Azhar University in Cairo had protested over the site and
threatened to sue AOL for hosting it. 

Suralikeit's mockery of the Koran, which Moslems believe Allah revealed to
the Prophet Mohammad in the seventh century. had stirred up a media storm
in Egypt. 

Bastawisy said dozens of people had marched into his office to complain or
sent angry faxes and letters. 

"Egyptians are very keen about their religion, but now everyone can go back
to their business. Allah protects the Koran," he said. 

Ahmed al-Taibe, dean of al-Azhar's Islamic Studies College, had said he
would propose that the university set up a Web site to counter
"anti-Islamic sites" rather than threatening to sue. 

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