Religious flamewar is not welcome here and we ban accounts that post like this, so please don't post like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Each offshoot Abrahamic cult is worse than the last.

It is power and the drive to preserve power that is behind much of this. Religion is a convenient scapegoat in the case of islam because much of the islamic world is some combination of poor and lacking freedom. Islam is also in the relatively unique situation of mixing religion with politics that leads to the power struggle in the first place.

Some context here.

There were a series of large scale terrorist attacks in Pakistan recently, with recent killing 101 people.

This has caused an extreme level of criticism of the government, and the government is trying desperately to find a way to do a diversion.

Ban on Wikipedia is a highly visible attempt to distract Pakistani literati class from security issues.

Nothing to do with religion

@dang this need to be flagged for inflammatory content.