The Muslim community is very upset over facebook removing 4 very popular pages that could result in 2.5 million users who will go to an alternate Islamic friendly site. Madina.com
Reasons given by facebook are violations of spam policy, not content. Still though Muslims are demanding the pages be back up, as well facebook to address certain freedom of speech issues when they are very offensive to muslims.
According to Facebook the Islamic pages, which included 'I love Mohammed' and 'Quran Lovers', were taken down because they were being used to 'spam' users, which is against the company's policy.
The pages were were using a JavaScript code that when entered in the address bar, would add all a user's friends to the Page Suggestions – making it similar to spamming people across Facebook.A spokeswoman said: 'The pages in question were taken down because they violated our policies about spamming users. These pages were not removed because of content violations.'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1295187/Muslim-Facebook-users-threaten-leave-site-Islamic-pages-taken-down.html#ixzz3v1SppsIJ
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