From Allahpundit:
…It’s possible, I suppose, that the guy who created the page simply took it down himself, but why he’d do that before the day is over and without any sort of farewell post escapes me. We got a bunch of e-mails this morning claiming that the page had been removed briefly and put back online shortly thereafter, so maybe this is FB’s version of a compromise: Leave it up for most of the day, then censor it a few hours early as a sop to the nuts who are freaking out in Pakistan. If so, it’s a neat illustration of Matt Welch’s point that the more urgent threat to free speech comes not from bomb-toting jihadis but from western media that’s overly eager to avoid giving offense…
I suspect “chicken” will best describe what caused the problems with the Face book page.
Attentive readers know that I would not participate in such a thing – offering egregious insult is un-Christian. I’ve got enough personal failures in following Christ, I don’t need to add to them. That said, it is disturbing the way so many people are fearful of Islam.
I doubt much that there is an actual concern for the religious sensibilities of Moslems involved here. The people who took this down have no problem with the pages where the following sentiment is expressed:
I despise in your face christians, all ways trying convert everybody. (expletive deleted) scumbags should be executed, i’d pay to see it
So, it must be just rank fear – they are afraid of a violent reaction from Islamists if they allow the “Draw” page to continue. It is, of course, a real fear – but the answer to it is not to cravenly delete anything which might offend Moslems bot, rather, to either make a policy of absolute free speech, or a policy banning any insults to religious doctrine. Either would be more courageous than what is happening now.
UPDATE: Jewish Business Magazine says it was a hack job, not an act of cowardice.
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