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Picked this up from Jihadwatch. What next? Maybe we'll have jihadis running our port systems. Naw, I'm joking.
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Good choice of enemies fellas...
By John Oates
Published Monday 20th February 2006 16:27 GMT
Yahoo! is banning the use of allah in email names - even if the letters are included within another name.
This was uncovered by Reg reader Ed Callahan whose mother Linda Callahan was trying to sign up for a Verizon email address. She could not get it to accept her surname.
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Enquiries to Verizon revealed that a partnership with Yahoo! was to blame. Yahoo! will not accept any identies which include the letters "allah".
Nor will Yahoo! accept yahoo, osama or binladen. But it will accept god, messiah, jesus, jehova, buddah, satan and both priest and pedophile.
Ed Callahan told us: "On one level this is just silliness. But we have a war on terrorism and it's migrating to be a war on Muslims - this just shows the confusion there is between the two and how pervasive this is."
The Callahans are still waiting to hear back from Yahoo!
A spokesman for Yahoo! UK said: "This sounds like a glitch. But we will get back to Ed and Lindy Callahan with a full answer as soon as possible." . More from the blogosphere here.
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4 comments:
I too had my screaming fit. One must wonder how some people survive crossing the street, how they managed to feed themselves, how they look at themselves n a pool of water without drowning themselves. And the conclusion I come to? I recall a friend saying the the difference between an amateur and a professional is that a professional continues even when it's not fun anymore. Yeah, there are those many times when it's worse than no fun. I'm going to take another few minutes to scream some more, and then I'll get back to work. Cover your ears.
If the Callah(swt)nans lived in Scunthorpe England they'd get hit by a double whammy.
Apparently some ISP's refuse to host any site referencing the town's name because it contains an embedded word which could be interpreted as a synonym for Mohammed.
OK, when you're done shooting yourself, please pass me the revolver.
BTW, do you read old English?
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