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I can get why testing for "Jimmy Clitheroe" and "Horniman Museum", but can't make a reason for "Linda Callahan".

In February 2006, Linda Callahan was initially prevented from registering her name with Yahoo! as an e-mail address as it contained the substring Allah. Yahoo! later reversed the ban.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

that was unexpected. but I guess I should have expected it given how much islam is iconoclastic. it's probably muslims protesting the use of the name of allah in email addresses that caused it (alternate explanation: the word was raising too much false positives in Xkeyscore)

1. That’s not what iconoclastic means. If you actually care about iconoclasm in Islam, the Saudi government has unfortunately destroyed almost 90% of Muslim holy sites without a word from other countries.

2. The Second Commandment Christians follow is “Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain” and I can tell you a lot of Christians follow that.

3. You have it backwards. It’s not Muslims’ fear of the name of God, it’s Yahoo’s fear of literally just the Arabic word for “God.”

It's their fear of people constructing offensive names (<deity>-sucks, etc.) that will spark another Charlie Hebdo incident.

Perhaps it's 'allah'?

Any idea why "Lightwater Country Park" is on the list?

Twat, maybe?

"twat" substring probably.

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