Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has accused Facebook of failing to curtail the spread of Islamophobic content on the social media platform. In a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Sunday, Khan requested that the company implement a ban on Islamophobic content, similar to its recent policy on holocaust denial. He referred in length to the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and National Register of Citizens (NRC) in India as examples of growing Islamophobia across the world. Khan's letter comes days after the murder of Samuel Paty, a history teacher in France who was beheaded for showing caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed in class. France president Emmanuel Macron subsequently paid tribute to Paty, and said the country "will not give up cartoons". Macron is also reported to have said Paty was killed because "Islamists want our future". Khan, in a series of tweets, Khan criticised Macron for his stance, which he claimed is polarising the public and leading to increased hate, Islamophobia and "space for extremists". https://twitter.com/ImranKhanPTI/status/1320440661385093121 Growing hatred against Muslims on social media Khan told Zuckerberg that Islamophobia is growing across the world, encouraging hate and violence especially through the use of social media platforms such as Facebook. He appreciated Facebook for banning all denials of the Holocaust, the Nazi pogrom of Jews in Europe. In the same vein, Khan compared the Holocaust to conditions of Muslims in India, and presented it as a prime example of Islamophobia. He also referred to the Tablighi Jamaat being blamed for the spread…
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Pakistan PM Imran Khan asks Facebook to ban Islamophobic content, takes shot at India’s CAA-NRC
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