With most Muslims opining that any depiction, no matter how favorable it may be, of Prophet Mohammed can be termed as sacrilegious, the creator of the Facebook page promoting the contentious “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day” contest has taken it down.

According to the Associated Press, while the litigious page was removed from the site on Friday, Facebook said that it had not taken any action on the page. Probably, the page was probably taken down by the creator after Muslims protested that it was offensive to Islam; and the web announcement of the Thursday-scheduled contest had led to a ban on the Facebook site in Pakistan.

Saying that the decision to ban the Facebook site in Pakistan came after a Wednesday court order, Najibullah Malik, the secretary at Pakistan’s information technology ministry, said: “We know some people are suffering because of this blockade, but we have to obey the court order in letter and spirit.”

The announcement of the controversial contest on the Facebook page, which attracted tens of thousands of supporters, followed the satirical suggestion of a Seattle cartoonist Molly Norris who asked people to draw caricatures of the prophet.

Norris explained that her suggestion about the contest essentially came in support of the creators of Comedy Central's “South Park,” which earlier this year featured an episode that depicted Prophet Muhammad in a bear suit.