Yahoo News allows the public to make comments on its news articles.
The funny thing is, @#$% is substituted for “Islam” in every comment. For example, in comment 19 here, I entered:
Why is Islam being changed into special characters and Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism and Taoism are not?
What was posted was:
Why is @#$% being changed into special characters and Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism and Taoism are not?
Surely this could not be another example of a pusillanimous Western technology company, could it? It must be a variant of the infamous Google “bug”.
Very Islamophobic by what ever causes this. If I were an Iman of a thin skinned sort I would be calling down a terrible revenge on Yahoo for allowing what is commonly used instead of an inappropriate expletive (in print) to be set as an alliterative to the name Islam. In other words they are actually saying the word Islam is a swear word. Good grief what a bunch of idiots.