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Pakistani religious body declares using VPN is against Islamic law (www.voanews.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 102 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Does the Noble Quran only refer to OpenVPN tunnels or it also covers WireGuard? What if I'm setting my own server on a halal VPS?

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago

    What they actually said is not that VPNs are banned, but using them to access blocked content is. First they mention porn, which is straightforward religiously, but then they also state that accessing blocked "disinformation" is also haram, which is gibberish and has no basis in either religious or secular morals.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It depends on where your VPS physically is and the last name of the persons father hosting it.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Explain the last name joke?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    In trying to explain my joke I think I found it may not directly apply outside of the Arabic speaking Arab world, but typically last names are important as they say who the person is the son or daughter of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_name?wprov=sfti1#Ism

    It isn’t just a lineage of last names but who your daddy is.

    If I remember correctly from my Arabic class in college some people can have even longer lineage names with multiple peoples included.

    Pakistan seems to be sort of a mix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistani_name?wprov=sfti1#Full_name

    I also found this random paper describing Afghani naming so I wonder if I was wrong. https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=e7a649988b7aad015ea8fa972239c7fe9e6ede03

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