Armed+Islamic+Group

= Who: = =The Armed Islamic Group did the censoring.= = What was being censored: = = The Algerian Government. = = Why: = = Because the Algerian Government was insulting the Islams. = = How: = =The Islams had a mass killing of the Algerians. Anyone who was insulting the Islams were killed, including writers, government officials, and publishers.= = Public Reaction: = = The President (Bush) designated the Salafist Group for Call and Combat (GSPC) as a financier of terrorism when he launched the financial war on terrorism on September 24, 2001. The Salafist Group for Call and Combat was designated by the State Department as a Foreign Terrorist Organization on March 27, 2002. = = Punishment: = = ﻿If you went around censorship you would be killed  = = Taslima Nasrin = = a Bangladeshi-born physician, poet and author. In 1993 Nasrin, a self-declared apostate, was sentenced to death by Muslim clerics for “insulting Islam.” That year 300,000 people demonstrated in her native land, calling for the poet to be burned alive. She escaped to the West, but still hides, her life blighted by a price on her head and not one but two death fatwas issued by pious Muslim clerics. = = Farag Foda = = an Egyptian writer and human rights defender. Foda was shot dead by militants from an Islamic fundamentalist group after being branded as an apostate by officials at Al-Azhar, the leading Islamic educational institute in the world. = = Anwar Sheikh = = a Kashmir-born man of letters, was targeted with a death fatwa for writing books that explored the imperialist nature of Islam. As a young man, Sheikh admitted to have been a fundamentalist who murdered innocent non-Muslims in cold blood during the partition of India in 1947. He now lives discreetly in a Western nation. []  []  =