Internet censorship in UAEWe apologize the site you are attempting to visit has been blocked due to its content being inconsistent with the religious, cultural, political and moral values of the United Arab Emirates.  Internet censorship in the United Arab Emirates.
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Cenzura Internetu ve Spojených arabských emirátech. Religion is a bad bad thing, especially when it is powerful enough to enforce censorship of competing ideas. In United Arab Emirates all sites not compatible with the state religion (Islam) are blocked. I am very happy Christianity in Europe lost most of its former power centuries ago... Náboženství je zlo, zvláště pokud má dost sil prosadit persekuci konkurenčních myšlenek. Ve Spojených arabských emirátech jsou blokovány všechny weby nekompatibilní se státním náboženstvím - islámem. Jsem moc rád, že evropské křesťanství ztratilo většinu své moci již před staletími... Comments
alarch says:UAE doesn't censor child pornography or hate
speech. It bans free speech about religion.
And sorry, I do not see how secularism can be
worse than religious extremism. Secularism
doesn't kill, it doesn't censor Internet. And
here in Europe, I can access any page I want
to. There are no censor screens. 
khalid says:Secularism is sometimes just another form of
religion, with its own dogmas, it own views
on truth and human nature. Non-religious
regimes, such as Stalin's and Mao's, and
perhaps Hitler's, are responsible for the
majority of killings in the last century.
alarch says:It may be illegal to DISPLAY nazi content in
some European countries, but it is certainly
not illegal to READ it, and I can reach any
nazi/whatever page whenever I want to without
any problems (although it is usually of
course waste of time to read stupid nazi
propaganda).
khalid says:Well, it seems that the UAE is just blocking
the display of hate materials. Do you know
if it is really illegal to read them there?
I'm sure many UAE citizens have read such
material (even through the internet, there
are many proxy servers which make it
possible) without fear of arrest.
alarch says:The problem is that while secular states can
be good or bad (the problem of regimes of
Stalin/Hitler was not secularism but
communism/nazism), theocracies almost always
use censorship, they are undemocratic and
very often evil (anywhere in the world,
European theocracies were probably some of
the worst regimes that ever existed). That is
why separation of church and state is a very
good thing. 
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khalid says:Well, the UAE isn't a theocracy-- it's a
monarchy. Church and state are indeed
separate; in fact, in Sunni Islam there isn't
any Church to speak of whatsoever. Religious
people are actually a little disturbed by how
materialistic the UAE has become. In
practice, it's very similar to Singapore,
which is officially a democracy and which
also bans access to material it considers
anti-social.
John Mark van Rozendaal
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khalid says:
Many secular states ban hate literature, child pornography, obscene materials as well. There's nothing wrong with having community standards, so long as they allow important critical thought to have its dialogue. And atheistic secularism can be just as 'bad bad' if not worse than religious extremism; someone from your part of the world ought to be especially aware of that.
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