Facebook’s Draw Muhammad Day Removed

Is Everybody Draw Muhammad Day Facebook group page removed or Not? Pakistan official said Yes. Hence, the ban on Facebook is lifted. Other say no.

Facebook’s page group on Everybody Draw Muhammad Day is removed. Pakistan’s ban on Facebook is lifted.

Pakistan lifted a ban on Facebook on Monday after officials from the social networking site apologized for a page deemed offensive to Muslims and removed its contents, a top information technology official said.

The move came almost two weeks after Pakistan imposed the ban amid anger over a page that encouraged users to post images of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad. Many Muslims regard depictions of the prophet, even favorable ones, as blasphemous.

“In response to our protest, Facebook has tendered their apology and informed us that all the sacrilegious material has been removed from the URL,” said Najibullah Malik, secretary of Pakistan’s information technology ministry, referring to the technical term for a Web page.

Facebook assured the Pakistani government that “nothing of this sort will happen in the future,” Malik said.

Officials from the website could not immediately be reached for comment. They said earlier the contents of the “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day!” page did not violate Facebook’s terms.

However, Nick O’Neill of allfacebook.com which claim to get info from Facebook’s insider wrote that the Group Page is not removed:

Facebook has reached out to us to let us know that they did not removed the group. While we’re not sure why it disappeared, we’d assume the creator of the group decided to pull it. We’ll update when we hear more information.