Pakistan leading in porn search google report
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has banned content on more than a dozen websites because of offensive and blasphemous material. The Muslim country, which has laws on dress codes, ranks as the top country to proportionally search for certain sex-related terms, writes Kelli Morgan at FoxNews.com.
The Muslim country, which has banned content on at least 17 websites to block offensive and blasphemous material, is the worlds leader in online searches for pornographic material, FoxNews.com has learned.
You wont find strip clubs in Islamic countries. Most Islamic countries have certain dress codes, said Gabriel Said Reynolds, professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Notre Dame. It would be an irony if they havent shown the same vigilance to pornography.
So heres the irony: Google ranks Pakistan No. 1 in the world in searches for pornographic terms, outranking every other country in the world in searches per person for certain sex-related content.
Pakistan is top dog in searches per-person for horse sex since 2004, donkey sex since 2007, rape pictures between 2004 and 2009, rape sex since 2004, child sex between 2004 and 2007 and since 2009, animal sex since 2004 and dog sex since 2005, according to Google Trends and Google Insights, features of Google that generate data based on popular search terms.
The country also is tops or has been No. 1 in searches for sex, camel sex, rape video, child sex video and some other searches that cant be printed here.
Google Trends generates data of popular search terms in geographic locations during specific time frames. Google Insights is a more advanced version that allows users to filter a search to geographic locations, time frames and the nature of a search, including web, images, products and news.
Pakistan ranked No. 1 in all the searches listed above on Google Trends, but on only some of them in Google Insights.
We do our best to provide accurate data and to provide insights into broad search patterns, but the results for a given query may contain inaccuracies due to data sampling issues, approximations, or incomplete data for the terms entered, Google said in a statement, when asked about the accuracy of its reports.
The Embassy of Islamic Republic of Pakistan did not reply to a request for an interview.
In addition to banning content on 17 websites, including islamexposed.blogspot.com, Pakistan is monitoring seven other sites Google, Yahoo, Bing, YouTube, Amazon, MSN and Hotmail for anti-Islamic content, the Associated Press reported in June.
But its not to censor the Pakistani people, Reynolds said. Its to shut out the rest of the world.
[It] could lead to conversion, which would undermine the very order of the state, he said. Part of protecting the society is making sure that there is no way it could be undermined in terms of foreign influences.
Pakistan temporarily banned Facebook in May when Muslim groups protested the page containing blasphemous material. The page remains on Facebook, but Pakistani users are unable to view it, said Andrew Noyes, manager of Facebooks Public Policy Communication.
And while Pakistan is taking measures to prevent blasphemous material from being viewed by its citizens, pornographic material is certainly contradictory to Islam, too, Reynolds said.
The countrys punishment for those charged with blasphemy is execution, but the question remains what if anything can be done about people who search for porn on the Web. Its a new phenomenon, Reynolds said.
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