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It is no secret that Islam has a goal of conquering the world by controlling world affairs. Recently, a number of trends have developed showing that this is in the process of developing. For example, global dependency on oil, a global clock situated at Mecca, a mosque to be built a few blocks from the 9-1-1 epicenter and now the development of a substitute "Intranet" that is named 'Ya Haq', which means "Oh Lord" in Persian.

August 31 - Iran to replace Google with 'Oh Lord'

Article: Misc.

It all began in the early 1990's with Internet search engine startups like Excite, Galaxy, Lycos and Webcrawler. Now Iran would like to introduce the new kid on the block...Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome 'Oh Lord,' a homegrown Iranian search engine sure to highlight very high resolution photos of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the regretful testimony of green movement opposition activists.

Hadi Malek-Parast, Director General for Research and Development at the Iranian Information Technology Company, told the Iranian Mehr News Agency on Sunday that Iran has started developing a national search engine dubbed 'Ya Haq', a Persian expression meaning "Oh Lord."
Speaking of the need for faster search capacity and higher security for the country's online communications, Malek-Parast said Ya Haq would be ready to launch in 2012 and referred to the project as a domestic Intranet, as opposed to an international Internet.

"They are not just developing a search engine, they want to develop an Intranet, instead of an Internet, which would be some kind of local Internet and only give access to state institutions and internally approved sites," Pujan Ziaie, a senior IT strategist in Iran's 'green' opposition movement told The Media Line. "The discussion began a few years ago and is based on a feeling that the Internet is a Western weapon. They are threatened by it but they cannot ignore it so they are trying to imitate what China has done."

"The official reasons they give for such a project is it's cheap, faster and more secure in terms of data," he told The Media Line. "But they are trying to replace Google and Yahoo and create a parallel Internet in order to have more surveillance on the Internet users of Iran. They are certain to follow this with a launch of a national email service."

"There are two things going on," he told The Media Line. "One is the fact that they are anxious to be able to filter any electronic communications in any conceivable way that they can, or at least to scare people into believing they are capable of doing this, so that they enter the process of self censorship. Another is to portray this image that they are punching above their weight in trying to convince people that they are able to do things that they are not."

"So I don't see this as replacing the Internet or current search engines," he said. "In general the government is just trying to become less and less reliant on Western sources for everything."