Day: September 20, 2017

FACEBOOK, TWITTER, YOUTUBE DELETING POPULAR EX-MUSLIM’S ARABIC MATERIAL CRITICIZING ISLAM

 
FACEBOOK, TWITTER, YOUTUBE DELETING POPULAR EX-MUSLIM’S ARABIC MATERIAL CRITICIZING ISLAM 
BY ROBERT SPENCER
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 Here is still more about how the social media giants are steadily 
choking off all material that looks at Islam with a critical eye. 
Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism are all fair game, but Islam 
is off limits, as our moral superiors move to impose Sharia blasphemy 
laws upon the West.
 

“My dilemma with Facebook and YouTube in Arabic,” Brother Rachid, September 18, 2017:

As a former Muslim hosting a live TV show for over a
decade, I’ve come to rely on social media platforms to connect with my
audience now more than ever before. My show, “DaringQuestions,” is
watched via satellite TV (through Alhayat TV) by millions of viewers
around the world (mainly in Arabic speaking communities). My show is
popular among Muslims because it is highly controversial. I raise many
bold questions about the Islamic faith and I expose the danger of some
Islamic doctrine. I also present testimonies of ex-Muslims who have left
Islam and allow them to share their experiences in order to empower
others and encourage them to do the same. To engage further with
audiences and the wider, global, Muslim community, these questions and
testimonies are also posted on my two main websites, “BrotherRachid.com”
and “IslamExplained.com,” as well as on social media platforms such as
Facebook and YouTube. However, Muslim governments impose restrictions
and heavy censorship and my websites are often inaccessible in many
Muslim countries due to material I present which uses critical thinking
to address Islamic doctrines. As a result, social media platforms are an
increasingly crucial way for me to reach out to the Muslim world and
surpass the censorship that Muslim countries place on the material I
present.

However, I face a dilemma that needs to be addressed and exposed to
the whole world. The Arabic content for giant social media platforms
like Facebook and YouTube is overseen predominantly by Muslims (since
the majority of those who speak Arabic are Muslims). These companies
have offices in the United Arab Emirates and give their Arabic speaking
staff the authority to delete and block any material that does not fit
their guidelines. However, this authority is abused when any channel or
page that criticizes Islam or presents opposing views to Islam is
blocked, deleted or removed. For example, my Facebook page (which has
over 1.5 million likes) was once deleted, while the Facebook page of
Alhayat – the channel that broadcasts my show – was also deleted without
any explanation, causing the channel to lose all the money they had
spent on advertising, among other damages. My YouTube channel (which has
also garnered millions of views) was once removed for ‘breaking
guidelines.’ Thank God, I appealed the removal and explained the details
to those in charge in the US and have since been able to gain my
channel back. My Facebook posts are removed on many occasions and I am
frequently blocked from posting because a post allegedly “does not
follow Facebook guidelines!” No further explanation is provided.
Sometimes, even my own picture is reported and removed because it
violates copyrights! Recently, I posted a cover of my book in French;
the post was removed for breaking “Facebook guidelines” and yet nobody
could explain to me how a book that is published legally and sold on
Amazon can break Facebook guidelines.

I think Facebook and Twitter need to revise how Arabic content is
handled – there is no balance here. Muslims criticize Christianity right
and left and their Facebook pages and YouTube channels face no problems
whatsoever, yet Christians, Atheists, and ex-Muslims as myself face
huge challenges in criticizing Islam on social media in Arabic. Our
pages are unfairly deleted, our posts are wrongfully removed, and our
accounts are blocked and removed. We had thought that social media was
about freedom of speech, but unfortunately it appears that Muslim
censorship is prevalent even on social media. We are unable to express
ourselves even on platforms like Facebook and YouTube.

N.B: My show and my posts never promote hatred or violence against
Muslims; I always emphasize critiquing Islam as a doctrine but on loving
Muslims as all other human beings.

 

DENMARK: THOUSANDS OF CASES OF “LOW TECH JIHAD”-WORST SITUATION SINCE WORLD WAR II

DENMARK: THOUSANDS OF CASES OF “LOW TECH JIHAD”-WORST SITUATION SINCE WORLD WAR II 
BY SELWYN DUKE
 
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 

In Denmark, once one of the world’s safest countries, the army now
has been deployed domestically. It’s part of an effort to combat
“low-tech jihad,” thousands of “incidents involving loosened wheel bolts
on cars, large rocks or cinder blocks thrown from highway overpasses,
and thin steel wires strung across bicycle paths meant to decapitate
unsuspecting cyclists, reports Dr. Nicolai Sennels, a Danish psychologist and writer.

Moreover, despite Denmark’s ultra-strict gun-control laws, gangs of
immigrants from the MENAP countries (Middle East, North Africa, and
Pakistan) are randomly shooting people in the capital city of
Copenhagen, Sennels further informs.

Sennels, who spent years working with Muslim youth in prison, claims
that his nation itself is beginning to resemble a prison, with the rule
of law breaking down and migrant gangs controlling some streets.

For example, after citing the shootings of three young men used for,
as he puts it, “target practice,” Sennels reports that police warned 17-
to 25-year-old men to avoid public spaces in Copenhagen. He quotes
Preben Bang Henriksen, spokesman for Denmark’s majority government
party, as being horrified and stating, “We have not had such warnings
from the police since the 2nd World War. It is totally unacceptable.”

But wholly predictable, many would say. In Western Europe, crime has
exploded and terrorism become frequent as the Mideast migrant population
has risen, prompting nations such as Hungary and Poland to take a hard
line against Muslim migration. Even liberal Denmark is waking up to, and
warning of, the gathering storm. As 10 News wrote in July:

Danish police warn that the excessively liberal refugee policies of Germany and Sweden endanger lives in neighbouring countries.
Intelligence services in Europe and the
US have long warned that Islamic jihadis are among refugees coming to
the West. Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET) is now
criticizing Merkel’s and Sweden’s refugee policies, with direct warnings
that they destabilize security in the region.

They have reason to worry, too, as these migrants cannot be reliably
vetted. After all, Third World countries such as war-torn Syria,
Afghanistan, and Sudan simply don’t have comprehensive Western-style
databases providing accurate information on citizens. Yet it wouldn’t
matter if they did because in places such as Syria, you can pay a bribe
and get official government documents saying you’re whoever you want to be.

Thus, it’s no surprise that an intelligence warning last year indicated that Islamic State hit squads were hiding among migrants in Germany.

In a similar vein, self-described orthodox Muslim Dr. Mudar Zahran, a
Jordanian Palestinian academic and political leader currently living in
the United Kingdom, warned
in a 2015 interview that many of the migrants are not Syrian, but claim
to be so, to get refugee status. Moreover, he avers that 75 percent of
the Syrians come from safe areas and that the imperiled Syrians cannot
even get out of the country. In other words, Zahran stated, most of the
migrants are unknown quantities entering the West for economic reasons —
or something darker.

As to the latter, Zahran said at the time, “I can authoritively [sic]
confirm — I have photos, I have images, I have pictures, I have names
of terrorists who actually are already in Europe posting their photos in
Europe on Facebook.” He also warned about the migration that if “you
read Arab magazines and Arab newspapers, they are talking about, ‘Good
job! Now we’re going to conquest [sic] Europe.’ So it’s not even a
secret.” Zahran called this “the soft Islamic conquest of the West.”

As for Sennels, he delves into these problems’ root causes.
Apparently drawing upon his experiences working with Muslim teens, he writes that we “must not underestimate how strongly the Qur’an’s message of holy war affects Muslim youth.”

Yet it’s not just the Koran. As I reported in February, “The Islamic canon — the Koran, Hadith, and Sira — has literally 9.6 times as many words devoted to political violence as
does the Old Testament: 327,547 vs. 34,039. (The New Testament has
zero.)” Moreover, these violent injunctions aren’t limited but apply in
every time and place.

Sennels explained the result, writing,

80 percent of young Turks in Holland see “nothing wrong” in jihad against non-Muslims. The very high number must be seen in the light of the fact that Turks are considered to be among the more Western Muslims. 27 percent of all young French and 14 percent of all young brits [sic] under 25 sympathize with the jihad movement Islamic State. This probably includes a very large majority of young Muslims in the two countries. The figures closely match that 75 percent of Muslims in Europe believe that the Quran — a book that hundreds of places preaches violence against non-Muslims — must be literally interpreted.

The above helps to explain a comprehensive German study of
45,000 youths that was reported in 2010. It found that while increasing
religiosity among Christian youths made them less violent, increasing
religiosity among Muslim youths actually made them more violent. 

What seems certain is that Denmark, and the rest of Europe, are also
getting more violent. But, hey, having the violent, and not just the
non-violent, increases diversity, too.