p2p news / p2pnet: With the ongoing Muhammed cartoon wars powerfully in mind, it seems Yahoo has ruled against Allah.

Ed Callahan’s mother, Linda, was trying to sign up for a Verizon email address,” reports The Register, but, “She could not get it to accept her surname.”

Verizon’s partnership with Yahoo was the problem because, “Yahoo! will not accept any identies which include the letters ‘allah’,” says the story.

But god, messiah, jesus, jehova, buddah, satan, priest and pedophile are A-OK.

“On one level this is just silliness,” The Register has Callahan saying. “But we have a war on terrorism and it’s migrating to be a war on Muslims - this just shows the confusion there is between the two and how pervasive this is.”

A spokesman for Yahoo! UK said, “This sounds like a glitch. But we will get back to Ed and Lindy Callahan with a full answer as soon as possible,” adds the story.

But, “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),” says, Yup, Kallahar on his web site.

He goes on, “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.”

Kallahar, too, found god, messiah, jesus, jehova, buddah, satan, priest and pedophile were cool with Yahoo, as were Nazi, pussy, cock, penis and mohammad.

Also acceptable were:

• 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,” says K-allah-ar. “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.”

Famous *allah*s include Dirty Harry Callahan, points out The Register ……

Stay tuned.

Also See:
Muhammed cartoon wars - Animated Jesus, Muhammed cartoons, February 9, 2006
The Register - Yahoo!Mail bans Allah and Dirty Harry handles, February 20, 2006
web site - Is Yahoo banning Allah?, February 20, 2006

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