Hello,<br><br>It is not amusing. This could inspire other religious groups to start Kosher search engines, satvic search engines ?? Such divisions could create closed Internet communities. <br><br>Usually, Internet communities are specialized groups that do not restrain or prohibit the members of the community from being a part of any other community; religious communities with a restrained attitude could emerge to be communities that restrain or influence (if not prohibit) its members from being a part of other communities.<br>
<br>Sivasubramanian Muthusamy<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Meryem Marzouki <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marzouki@ras.eu.org">marzouki@ras.eu.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Very funny indeed. I'm eagerly waiting for the <a href="http://www.iamharam.com" target="_blank">www.iamharam.com</a> search engine (the domain name is still free BTW).<div>But after all, simply a targetted form of blocking: isn't blocking all about "unethical" websites, whatever the "ethic" reference?</div>
<div>But what is *really* clever with this is the possibilities of really well targeted advertisement. </div><div><br><div><div>Le 4 sept. 09 à 10:26, Shahzad Ahmad a écrit :</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div></div>
<div class="h5"> <div><font size="2" face="Arial"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Dear Colleagues,</span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Do you know something about this "HALAL" Search Engine... <span> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.iamhalal.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">www.iamhalal.com</span></a><br>
<br></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">It seems that now cyberspace is heading towards religious divisions also... This search engine only wants to focus Muslim Internet Users. Couldn't figure out that who is behind it?</span></div>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span> </p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">They claim to be blocking ALL "unethical" websites... I reckon a new interesting form of blocking..isn't it? I also feel that this search engine wants to develop their business "using" religion :)</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">It is very funny... they have somehow arranged 3 levels of searches being Haram... Don't know the logic behind it though as how they decided these levels. Level 3 is the serach at top most level... which they think is really really haram.</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">For example, put "Sex" in the search area, it is haram at level 3 (BTW how "sex" can be haram ;)). If you search "Penis", it is at Level 2 of being haram and "Breasts" are also at level 2 ;))) See for yourself, am not attaching the screen shots :)</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Would really love to hear your thoughts on this... particularly, if someone know that how will it work...and who is behind it?</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">best wishes</span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;">
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