On Monday, Pakistan lifted a two-week ban on Facebook. The country banned Facebook on May 19 because of the discovery of an online contest where drawings of the prophet Muhammad were featured. The Muslim faith considers any representation of Muhammad to be heretical.

There were protestors with hand-lettered signs that were out in force to support the ban on Facebook. Pakistani in past weeks has banned several other websites such as Wikipedia and YouTube, but people in that country can how access these sites once again. The country of Bangladesh also banned Facebook on Sunday, and claimed that the restriction would be lifted only when the offensive material had been removed.

This censorship in Pakistan also showed up on as tweets on Twitter as well as on other English-speaking media outlets in that country. Those in Pakistan who use the Internet were at first able to get into the restricted web sites by using proxy sites, but were soon prevented when the Pakistani government blocked the proxy sites as well.

The Pakistani official who started all this censorship, Najibullah Malik, commented that Facebook had removed the “sacrilegious material” from its website, and then made a promise that such a thing would never happen again.

Facebook also commented that while Muslim leaders found it to be offensive, the page “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day” did not violate any of their terms. Pakistani leaders commented that their government will continue to block any and all pages that contain any sort of sacrilegious material.