| Islamic cyber protest as strong as ever |
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| Friday, 03 November 2006 | |||||||
The controversy about Pope Benedict’s lecture at Regensburg University is still open, and no diplomatic action has been able to sedate the wounded pride of many Islamic people who felt deeply offended by that situation.
The web is the place where such feelings are mainly expressed, spread and amplified from one side of the world to the other: not only forums, websites and blogs keep this issue alive, actually many attackers use their skills to carry out attacks and defacements to convey this topic, as testified by the amount of defacements concerning such an issue, that are daily registered by Zone-H digital archive.
Specifically, many of these last attacks are noticeably aimed to embody the attackers’ opinion concerning Pope’s words, as for the defacements by BroKeN-PrOxy who quotes the Mahatma Gandhi, the Koran and many other sources to make clear his personal vision about religion, after the premise:
“More than 1,500,000,000 Muslims have been Insulted ... You've Started It !”
The defaced page is full of links leading to other web pages that work as a sort of confirmation of the attacker’s thesis: from the assertions testifying that “Muslims Love Jesus ( Isa ) *P.B.U.H* & his Mother Mary ” to the “Guide to Islam” , the intention seem to be that of wiping out all negative impressions on Islamic religion (that are called “misconceptions”) and spread a new vision (“the truth”)about it.
A specific section is devoted to the Response to Pope Benedict whose speech on the nature of Islam is compared to a statement by Mahatma Gandhi on the same topic:
"I become more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of the Prophet, the scrupulous regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers and his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and his own mission. These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle." But in spite of wise quotations, the message conveys some resentment that is expressed through a link showing a defacement (published on Zone-H archive) by Net^Devil under the title “See what the Zionist Terrorists ( Israel ) did in Lebanon ” .
As we can see, the protest is still alive and there’s no peace on the digital ground where single spots of rage, propaganda or resentment burst out continuously, under the veil of anonymity .
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