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Thousands of Mohammed images uploaded on Facebook

Thousands of provocative images of the Prophet Mohammed have been uploaded to the social networking site Facebook, sparking a fresh wave of outrage in Pakistan.

internet regulators shut down YouTube and hundreds of other websites in protest at the online contest "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day".

Students and Islamist militants marched in their thousands through the cities of Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad.

Any representation of the Prophet Mohammed is deemed un-Islamic and blasphemous by Muslims.

On Wednesday a Pakistani court ordered internet service providers to block customers from Facebook. The following day, most also lost access to Wikipedia, YouTube and more than 450 websites that referred to the online contest.

However, that did not stop Facebook members elsewhere in the world posting photographs and cartoons.

Read entire article at Telegraph (UK)