Pakistan banned facebook and youtube for blasphemous materials. Facebook had a page with title-’Draw Muhammad Day’ which made Pakistan court ban facebook. Later it banned youtube too , citing blasphemous  videos as reason. The facebook page has sparked protest by Muslims all across the globe while Pakistan being only country (as of now) to have banned this site. This has sparked debate of freedom of speech v/s religious sentiments. Does freedom of speech gives license to hurt sentiments of people who believe in their faith and get offended by it?. Does being believer in one’s own faith give license to threaten anyone? Let us first see various incidents where people were killed or death threat were either made or people were dragged to court because of hurt of religious sentiments : 1) M.F.Hussain : He drew … Read entire article »