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Ready for a Halal web?
After the launch of Koogle — a kosher search engine for orthodox Jews, Pakistan bloggers look at the funny side of a halal browser!
PTI
Posted On Tuesday, July 14, 2009 at 02:15:39 AM
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The blog is a take on a kosher search engine — Koogle — that has been launched for orthodox Jews. “This (Koogle) provides an impetus to our more religious-minded Muslim brothers to come up with a halal search engine or perhaps something even better: a halal browser,” Tazeen Javed wrote in her latest entry in the blogs on Dawn.com. “The halal browser could scan the web and act all big brotherly for the benefit of its devout and virtuous users,” she added. “Ideally, the halal browser will check out the halal quotient of the content in cyberspace. The browser could also label web content according to different levels of halal-ness. “The varying degrees of halal-ness could range from barely halal to standard halal and extra or strictly halal and everything in between. The new and improved halal browser, equipped with halal firewall, will take care of it for you,” she wrote. Javed also wrote about the halal web browser leading to the creation of “totally halal” advertisements for items like halal chicken, chips, banking and “Umrah tours” to Makkah and invited a very orthodox designer duo to invest in such a venture. Though Tazeen’s write-up was in good humour, it was taken more than seriously by readers. Tarik Jaffery pondered on the Islamisation of the web through designing a halal browser. Another blogger with the nickname Kiv suggested that the browser pass a jolt of electricity at users who commits blasphemy. Salman Latif took the debate forward with an interesting comment. “That’s such a fine business idea. Plus let’s see how many versions we’ll have to launch. The Wahabi version, the Deobandi version, the Barelvi version and the Shi’ite version.” In his comment, Tanvir suggested that apart from several versions of the Halal browser, it should shut down during prayer times and work only if the user’s “looks” comply with the Shariah — males should wear a beard, and women should be covered. And, this, he said, will be detected by intelligent image recognition algorithms. Bindu Rama Rao had the last word. There should be a Halal Street on the lines of Wall Street, Halal Potter a la Harry Potter and a Halal airline, a better version of PIA. “Soon, the whole world will be halal,” he wrote. |
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