KARACHI (Web Desk) – Pakistani actor and director Hamza Ali Abbasi Sunday 12,January,2015 said that Facebook authorities deactivated his profile and removed his status in which he had condemned the killings at the Parisian office of satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo.
In the status shared on his verified Facebook account – which has over 1.6 million followers – he said that while “freedom of expression should include criticism, disagreement or even rejection of faiths or ideology but should not and must not allow “insult”.
Hamza went on to say that the West must revisit and fix its definition of ‘freedom of speech,’ otherwise someone from the two billion Muslim population will go ballistic and kill unjustly. “Would it be ‘freedom of expression’ if I brand black people as niggers or if I say Hitler was a messiah?” he quoted.
Internet rights groups in Pakistan had slammed Facebook ‘double standards’.
The incident comes just days after Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg stressed on the company’s commitment to freedom of speech by saying “I won’t let that happen on Facebook. I’m committed to building a service where you can speak freely without fear of violence.”
