It is easy to see where all this is tending, although no one seems to have the wit or the will to do anything about it. The social media giants, anxious to make sure that President Trump is not reelected, are moving quickly now to defame and discredit, or silence altogether, all those who dissent from their far-Left agenda. Google recently deep-sixed Jihad Watch from the first page of search results for “Robert Spencer,” which is now filled entirely with the libels of the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Bridge Initiative, and the like, with nothing favorable at all. Nor am I the only one this has happened to: I noticed it when I saw Daniel Greenfield writing about the same thing having happened to him, and tried it on my own name. The far-Left’s favored religion, Islam, will be protected on Facebook, even in its jihadist forms, while Tawakkol Karman and her colleagues will make sure that the social media behemoth, through which most people get their news, is entirely divested of all content critical of the religion of peace. We have been blocked from posting on our Jihad Watch page at Facebook for several months now; this new “oversight board” will mop up any dissenting voices that are still active there.
“Facebook sparks controversy by naming Brotherhood figure to oversight board,” Arab Weekly, May 8, 2020 (thanks to Northern Virginiastan):
LONDON – The name of Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated Yemeni Nobel Prize winner Tawakkol Karman stood out as an odd addition to the list of Facebook’s first 20 oversight board members.
The new oversight body includes four chairs: Former Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Stanford Law School Professor Michael McConnell, Columbia Law School Professor Jamal Greene and Dean of the Universidad de los Andes Faculty of Law Catalina Botero-Marino.
Apart from Karman, other members include Kenyan human rights activist Maina Kiai, Pakistani digital rights activist Nighat Dad and former editor of the Indonesian publication Jakarta Post, Endy Bayuni.
Facebook said it selected the four co-chairs who in turn helped choose the rest of the 16 members.
“The Oversight Board is an external body that members of our community can appeal to on some of the most significant and challenging content decisions we face,” announced Facebook.
The social media company pointed out that it expected the members “to make some decisions that we, at Facebook, will not always agree with — but that’s the point: they are truly autonomous in their exercise of independent judgement.”
The decisions by the oversight board are expected to influence “content moderation guidelines” for Facebook and Instagram.
Brent Harris, Facebook’s director of public policy, said the company “will implement the board’s decisions unless doing so violates the law.” Over the next few months, the body expects to grow to around 40 total members.
Radicalisation experts believe that by choosing Karman for the influential role, Facebook failed to recognise the link between the Muslim Brotherhood’s ideological advocacy and extremist activity….
When Karman won the 2011 Nobel Peace prize for her “role in Arab spring protests,” the Muslim Brotherhood’s website, Ikhwanweb, released a statement on Twitter identifying her as a “Yemeni Muslim Brotherhood member,” sparking widespread speculation and criticism about her connection to the group.
Despite tactical disagreements about alliances in Yemen’s war, Karman is a leading figure of Yemen’s Islah Party, a Muslim Brotherhood affiliate.
Karman has repeatedly defended the Muslim Brotherhood, even describing the group as “one of the victims of official tyranny and terrorism in the region, which Trump gives his supports and assistance.” She has said she believes the movement’s role in the region will “necessarily” grow in the future.
Many social media users in the Middle East and North Africa region reacted to Facebook’s selection of Karmancwith [sic] confusion and derision as the Yemeni writer is more known for her Islamist activism and divisive stances than for public service commitment….
The choice of Karman to Facebook’s advisory board will add to suspicions about the social media body’s political leanings and is unlikely to enhance the company’s credibility in the Arab world, experts say.
Honest Ali says
Dec 21, 2016 – OIC Media Strategy in Countering Islamophobia and its Implementation Mechanisms. (Google it and read the memo PDF)
The OIC laid out its plan to gain control of media, and social media corporations in order to censor anything honest about Islam.
This censorship board is but one tactic. We had better wake up before it is too late.
Don’t quit Facebook… instead, subvert it… be a thorn in their side until they kick you out for speaking the truth. Silence is submission to Islam.
Jon wright says
FBI is not the only one that can effect the your post if it lives or dies as ALSO you simultaneously . Another entity plays a role here and that is the presence of moslems. They can kill your post if they don’t like what u say. I have had the problem on u TUBE and f.b. I FIND MEWE AS THE BEST FOR FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION.
Linde Barrera says
To Honest Ali-I joined Facebook sometime around Feb. 22, 2015 and left Facebook on Sept. 1, 2017 because I was censored for writing about the doctrinal verses of the Quran telling Muslims to “kill the infidels” found in verses 9:5 and 8:12. Of course all thinking people know there is a distinction between doctrine and human behavior, and that in the case of Islam, 95-96% of all Muslims do not adhere to those verses. But the 4-5% who do, such as Boko Haram, Al-Queda, ISIS,
Al-Shabaab, Al-Nusra, and the Taliban, as well as dozens of other similar groups, do a lot of damage and destruction wherever they are.
Yet the “mainstream” Muslims do not criticize their terrorist Muslim counterparts! ? I wonder why!
As to my hero, Robert Spencer, he should be reminded of that famous quote from American writer Elbert Hubbard: “Every knock is a boost.”
And in the Holy Bible, Joseph was sold into slavery by his brothers because they were jealous of him. I suspect many people are jealous of Robert Spencer also for his intelligence and accuracy in explaining the Quran to “infidels” such as me.
I remember learning in high school world history class back in the late 1960’s that “Islam is known as the ‘Religion of Peace’”. Hmmm… sounds like world history teachers were told to disseminate this propaganda by higher-ups in the NYS Board of Regents curriculum committee. ?
gravenimage says
+1
toomanyhobbies says
so FB names a terrorist sympathizer over what? is it muslim book now?
AnnChristine says
I just need to scream and yell at someone to open their eyes——–Facebook Mark Zuckermann are admitting
they do not know how to oversee Facebook——We know these Islamists have only a one track mind leading to Allah and Bloodshed——–Our World has changed dramatically in just a few years for the Worst——-They depend on the West for their wellbeing and we give it to them for nothing——They must be laughing their heads off——Even though they are such a miserable Cult of people !!
Walter Sieruk says
This should be of no surprise to anyone knows about the pro- Islam polices of Facebook. With Facebook it even goes further than having “community standards’ which is very favorable towards Islam.
The Facebook polices is even favorable toward Islamic terrorism. For example, this year twice and ,many times, other years before I have been put on thirty day ban for violating the C.C. of Facebook.
Those violations were for condemning murderous jihad attacks. Other times I was put on a number of thirty day bans condemning the imams and mullah who brainwash impressionable young Muslim and then manipulate them by sending them out as there stooges and tools to engage jihad suicide /homicide bombing attacks .
I was even put on thirty ban for a time, by Facebook for explaining the those same Muslim clerics they are insincere cowardly and manipulative for never ,ever, strapping on the bomb vest themselves and then go out and blow themselves up ,they never practice what they preach.
So Facebook put me on a ban again for”hate speech ” for exposing those hypocritical manipulative imams and mullahs.
In reality actual ,real hate speech comes form those Muslim clerics who indoctrinate hate for Christians and Jews into the hearts and minds of Muslim youth and then go even further by making those young Muslims, literally, dangerous to self and others.
Shame on Facebook.
Wellington says
It’s Farcebook and not Facebook.
Don’t use it and do your best to inform others how complicit this putrid site is respecting exculpation of the worst religion of all time, and yet engaging all the while in censoring those who point out all the iniquities that exist in the Islamic theological blueprint.
Upside-down world. Farcebook helps to prove this. It’s despicable, not as bad as Islam though (few things are), but still bad enough.
Being a realist, I cannot otherwise conclude that most good people, sadly, won’t do anything about Farcebook. And this aligns with the profoundly unfortunate truth that most good people will say nothing, do nothing, to combat stupidity (e.g., Farcebook) or pure evil (e.g., Islam).
Yes, it’s the majority of good people on earth who are the greatest threat to an optimal world and not the majority of bad people. If my study of the past and my own life experiences have taught me anything, it has taught me this.
Goodness without courage and proper knowledge is worse than useless; it actually abets malevolence many times. Nothing truer I know of is this maxim.
James Lincoln says
Wellington,
I certainly agree 100% regarding your opinions about Facebook.
That being said, it’s difficult to not use it AT ALL.
Some businesses now do not have a regular website – but do have a Facebook account listing opening hours, menus, etc.
How do we get around this?
Wellington says
“How do we get around this?”
Alternatives, James, to Farcebook accounts is the way to go. Easy to say, hard to do. But just because something is hard to do and easy to say does not, in and of itself, make it any the less valid. As here for example.
Long road ahead for truth to prevail. A very long road. Truth, a great and staunch ally, often does demand a lot. As it should. As here for example.
James Lincoln says
Wellington,
Much thanks for the reply.
Yes, hard to do – but not impossible.
As soon as a good alternative comes along, I’ll start using it immediately – and stop using Facebook COMPLETELY.
Facebook has been getting, most deservedly, a very bad rap lately.
Perhaps many millions of people would also drop Facebook “like a bad habit” and go with a politically “neutral” alternative…
gravenimage says
Ironically, I only signed up for Facebook because of “Everybody Draw Mohammad Day” ten years ago. I haven’t used it since.
Aladdin says
Make your own web page!
mortimer says
Easier said than done, Aladdin. Many websites require you sign in using Facebook. This should stop. To me that is like being forced to join a political party that opposes all my principles in order to get a job or to be able to participate at a meeting.
Facebook is a trap and once you join, it is a police agency that takes everything you post there and makes you a target for political correctness.
commonsense says
Wellington: Your memorable and piercing comment here deserves to be widely disseminated and not merely limited to this post on jihadwatch, where it will be buried, forgotten, and all but irretrievable after a couple of days.
Wellington says
Thank you, commonsense. Much appreciated.
mortimer says
Response to Wellington: (It’s FARCEBOOK)
It’s FATWABOOK … the dhimmified, Islamicized formerly free platform that once permitted people to speak their mind.
EURIPIDES wrote many years ago:
“A slave is one who cannot speak his mind.”
Facebook is clamping down on the freedom of expression guaranteed in the Constitution.
Col457 says
Well written and I thoroughly agree.
DHazard says
Eventually the only thing we will know about Islam is that one, always stated out of context, verse from the Quran:; “And whoever saves one – it is as if he had saved mankind entirely.” (kran 5:32).
mortimer says
People will only be able to talk about the weather.
Anne Wayne says
That verse comes originally from the Talmud. Another aspect of Judaism co-opted.
gravenimage says
Exactly. And the Qur’an makes clear that this verse is only intended to castigate Jews–it does not apply to Muslims.
Anne Wayne says
Yes, it does not apply to Muslims although I’ve heard Muslim clerics claim that it does. As I’m now remembering, I believe it is denoted as a charge (from G-d) to the Jews and what follows is a charge (from Allah) to Muslims to kill non-believers (I think from Surah 7)
Anne Wayne says
As I’m now remembering, I believe it is denoted as a charge from G-d to the Jews and what follows is a charge (from Allah) to Muslims to kill non-believers (I think from Surah 7)
Battle says
Boycott Facebook.
gravenimage says
Facebook names Muslim Brotherhood operative to oversight and censorship board
………………………
So now the *Muslim Brotherhood* is censoring social media? Suicidal madness.
mortimer says
good summary
gravenimage says
Thank you, Mortimer.
AleX says
Muslimah censor is the parable of the fox guarding the chicken coop. One more reason to never have had a fakebook account.
eduardo odraude says
Well, I just googled “Robert Spencer,” and this time it didn’t all look negative on the first page. The first item was from the Sounthern Poverty Law Center. And the next item was Wikipedia’s entry on Robert Spencer, which describes him as “anti-Muslim” — not how he describes himself. But the other entries on the first googel page appear to be mostly publishers of his works.
However, I’m not disagreeing with the general point Robert Spencer is making about censorship.
gravenimage says
Your Google results often vary somewhat depending on your own search history. Anti-Jihadists usually get better results than the average person would.
mortimer says
Let’s make an imaginary list of people who aren’t ‘neutral’:
1) member of DNC 2) member of Communist Party of China 3) member of Joe Biden campaign 4) admirer of Kim Jung Un 5) admirer of Adolph Hitler 6) admirer of Stalin 7) admirer of Trotsky 8) former employee of Hillary Clinton 9) member of Antifa 10) employee of George Soros 11) former upper management of Barack Obama FBI 12 member of anti-oil lobby.
Which of this list do you think Facebook will hire to adjudicate?
mortimer says
As we all know … the Muslim Brotherhood is known for its devotion to the freedom of expression!
(sarc/off)
mortimer says
Facebook is now SHARIABOOK.
Ray Fowler says
goodbye facebook
Maemae77 says
I’ve been telling my family and friends that Fascistbook is Sharia Law compliant but one wanted to listen to me.
mortimer says
good name for it … they are actually Fascist. Globalists are actually thinly-disguised Fascists promoting the enslavement of the masses.
Globalism is a political philosophy for the mega-rich and their highly-paid toadies.
Rob R (Brit stuck in Britainistan) says
Hey Robert. This is all utterly terrifying but… please don’t ever stop.
Do you know what you need to do? You guys in America need to have protests against Trump for not stopping this censorship. Show up at the White House with signs.
That’s right, you need to Tea Party President Trump just like they did to Obama. ( And possibly protest the media outlets too. I mean a physical protest ,you have to show up there.)
He ran on an anti-Islam platform but is letting us down. After the travel ban he just seemed to forget about it. Then he hosted Saudi douchebags at the White House just like every other president. Yeah I know, it’s about oil money and they “have to” co-operate with them but obviously I still don’t like it.
Listen, I have so many millions of fresh ideas about how to combat these goons and show them for what they are but I’m stuck here in Europe, I don’t have access to America since I don’t have a good job or money. It makes me so annoyed.
We are further down the line here in Europe, you guys still have hope there.
Please don’t let these complete morons working in Silicon Valley grind you down. I’m telling you Americans to get your asses into gear and start shouting about this stuff.
Rob R (Brit stuck in Britainistan) says
She’s a woman in the Muslim “brother”hood… only just noticed that…
FYI says
muslim-English dictionary for Google
{not in alphabetical order}
“peace”..not peace,violence
“perfect”…actually full of errors
“prophet”…actually a false prophet
“islam is the religion of peace”….!
allah=not God but an Arab counterfeit{sort of like baal is to YHWH}
“discussion”…not to be discussed
“debate”…never an actual debate,just shouting a lot
taqqiyah….lying to promote islam
halal….cruelty to animals
“islamophobia”…term used to silence critics of islam
“holy”…fraudulently pious
zebibah…the international islamic symbol of virtue-signalling false piety
….
OLD GUY says
She will definitely sensor anything truth or otherwise that is negative about Islam or Muhammad. Talk about butting someone who has definite discriminatory views on the rest of the world in charge of censoring the media butting a muslim in that position is like Hitler in the same position and expecting a fair shake.
AP says
Don’t use Fakebook, free yourself, and enlighten all of your young people. Its as simple as that.
Rob R (Brit stuck in Britainistan) says
“Enlighten all of your young people”..
Um yeah good luck with that…. try not getting arrested for hate crimes (or lynched) on the very 1st time you try to “enlighten” a young brainwashed person with the truth about Islam…