No “ALLAH” @ Yahoo!
Written by Haitham Sabbah on 20. February 2006, 2300hrs // Part of Haitham Sabbah's adventure in Failures, Internet 'n Computers, Islam // Other posts by Haitham Sabbah
Is Yahoo! Banning Allah?
Hello, my name is Kallahar (well, it’s an alias, but Kallahar really is a family name of an 1800’s Irish family (Ancestry of William Kallahar, born 1830). I recently tried to create a user on Yahoo with my name.
Unfortunately, Yahoo said it was unavailable.
“That’s odd” I thought, “maybe I created a user years ago and forgot about it.” Thus I tried “kallahar2″, then “kallahar3″ then “kallahar385753984753″. All of them came back as “unavailable”.
I did some more research, and came up with the following interesting results. All of these were tested in the “test4allah408754873″ format to ensure they weren’t simply conflicting with an existing user.
Banned Words:
# allah # binladen # osama # raghead # yahoo # security # admin # fuck # asshole # cunt
Allowed Words:
# god # messiah # jesus # jehova # yahweh # savior # buddah # quran # koran # mohammad # islam # usama # nazi # satan # devil # jihad # terrorist # suicide # murder # kill # priest # pedophile # rape # sex # pussy # cock # penis # rapeismyhobby1 # pedophilepriest88 # killallmuslimsandarabs1 # nazisaremybestfriends # jewskilledjesus999 # iloveadolfhitler293409 # wasapmahniggah8888
Obviously some of these words are legitimately banned, it’s understandable that yahoo doesn’t want fuckme@yahoo.com or anything like that. Similarly they don’t want people impersonating administrators, security, yahoo, etc. However when they ban “allah” they also ban “theyareallaheadofme99″.
There is a valid profile at profiles.yahoo.com/kallahar2 which is my old profile (now disabled) with an update date of 1998. The Kallahar account lists 2000 as the last update date. So apparently allah wasn’t banned until after 2000.
Additionally, why are they banning allah but allowing god, jesus, and mohammad?
More here! [Hat tip: Angelo]
And I was complaining no Palestine on Yahoo!
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February 21st, 2006 at 12:36 am
Yea! Let’s ban everything. (Especially this last statement I just wrote… And that last one… This one too…)
February 21st, 2006 at 12:52 am
That’s actually a pretty amusing story Haitham. I understand the frustration and the inconvenience it may cause for someone with a legitimate name that has the letters “A-L-L-A-H”, but I must say, I envy whoever has got “god[at]yahoo.com”
February 21st, 2006 at 1:21 am
well if there was someone sending emails as Allah, who knows what the reactions would be this time!
February 21st, 2006 at 1:32 am
lol
good ones guys
Maybe that’s where Bush is getting messages from Allah
February 21st, 2006 at 1:37 pm
Dear readers,
Ignorance was their criteria. Apparently, Allah didn’t act to stop those planes from flying through the twin-towers. Now, Allah is banned from blogging, unless he calls himself by the proper Judeo-Chrisitian names of God, or Yahweh. And it’s a good thing that Bin-Laden was the only Osama on the planet, so they can block his name and noone is the wiser.
Sincerely,
Messiah Jihad
(my real name, really)
:uP
February 21st, 2006 at 1:41 pm
That last one was a joke, in case you were wondering. I apologise if I offended anyone.
March 27th, 2006 at 8:03 am
[...] ster it, even if Allah was just a row of letters in the middle of a surname. As noted by Haitham Sabbah last week, versions of the word Allah were banned in Yahoo! email acco [...]
April 10th, 2006 at 6:02 am
Mougly and Kinzi are both getting my certificate of brilliance! Right on.
April 11th, 2006 at 11:07 am
Thanks Philip
April 12th, 2006 at 8:08 am
Well, that’s a first! Thanks Phillip!
April 21st, 2006 at 7:29 pm
khalidah’s comment sort of stands out. cheers!