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FB is also used for making masses aware about
religious dogmas, rituals, historic events. Often friend’s
exchange the information about religious events through
FB to each other. The information about Idd prayer

timing, procession timing, majlis organizing.
However, there are certain FB / accounts which are
created with a biased approach.There are some pages/
account which are against a particular school of thought of
Islam. E.G ,Some accounts/pages are named as: Shia Kafir,
shia exposed.
There are various accounts/pages against the Ulmas of
other schools of Islamic thought, in particular. The result
is that there develops controversy between the page
visitors. It is generally seen that these accounts/pages are
created out of hatred or jealousy. These pages often lead
to conflicts.
It has been seen that whenever there is a communal
strife at some place, the social networking sites such as
face books are used to throw petrol on fire. I do remember
an event when on the eve of Muharam ceremony some
miscreants in order to disturb the coming procession,
apealed the people to disturb the event.
The cyber wing police came into force, on break of the
news and arrested several of the youth from among them.
The episode led to a lot of disturbance in the locality and
with great difficulty communal strife was prevented.
The conflict on fb can also be seen in the form of
chatting where the users abuse and accuse each other.The
abusing and accusing does not limit to personal level but it
goes to religious level. Each others religious elites and
spiritual authorities are involved therein. Religious rituals
ad festival of others is also attacked.