RIYADH, 11 July 2006 — A young Saudi man who was declined admission to Riyadh’s King Saud University to study computer science got angry, went home, fired up his computer, and shut down the university’s online discussion forum, the daily Al-Watan reported yesterday. The prospective student said he got angry after an official at the admissions department insulted his high school coursework and told him to come back when he had better grades. After hacking into the website, the university’s webmaster urged the admissions department to admit the tech-savvy student. The student told the paper that he belongs to a group of computer geeks that work to shut down Zionist and anti-Islamic websites in order to prevent those views from appearing on the World Wide Web. Unfortunately, the group didn’t say if it works to shut down the other type of anti-Islamic websites: the ones that perversely hijack Islam in order to advocate violent terrorist actions against Muslims and non-Muslims alike.
