A Facebook Controversy
Posted by Sitemaster on February 7, 2010
By DL Adams
In the internet world of social networking Facebook is the premier platform. Its reach is global and its user community numbers in the hundreds of millions. According to statistics about Facebook posted on Facebook’s own site there are 350 million users, 50% of whom log in on “any given day”. This means that at any given time there are likely at least 150 million people logged in on the site. Facebook has deeply affected the way that individuals and groups communicate and interact with one another.
Facebook’s rules are extensive and clearly listed on their “Statement of Rights” page. However there are terms used that are open to interpretation. Most specifically the nature of content posted on personal and group pages is open to scrutiny and judgment by Facebook staff; action taken by Facebook against its users sometimes appears arbitrary and harsh. Accounts are disabled or removed generally with no warning or explanation. Returning to the site and recovering one’s content can be difficult or impossible. For people with large “friends lists” or who use Facebook for professional purposes loss of their Facebook account can have unpleasant consequences. For many users especially those who access their accounts throughout the day via mobile device (blackberry, etc.) Facebook is an almost ubiquitous communications tool.
Many Facebook users express political views and opinions – often challenging and unpopular views. There are millions of pages dedicated to discussion of issues across the political and cultural spectrum. SIOA, SIOE and other like-minded groups as well as those holding opposing views use Facebook extensively to get their messages out. With a potential audience in the hundreds of millions the significance of Facebook to those who wish to spread knowledge and engage in direct discussion with interested people, often in real-time, the loss of a Facebook presence can be significant.
Several days ago, without warning or explanation, and in an apparently simultaneous action Facebook removed the personal accounts of Anders Gravers, Stephen Gash, and Harald Andersen of SIOE and SIAD (Denmark). Organizers of Stop Islamization of Bulgaria (Pavel Chernov), and Stop Islamization of America (Kendra) also had their personal Facebook accounts removed. As no explanation for these actions has been provided, one can only speculate as to the cause and purpose of these account removals.
While it is understood that Facebook is privately held and is not required to provide access the removal of SIOA/SIOE organizers’ personal accounts appears to demonstrate a particular opinion on the part of Facebook management, a certain bias against the message if the not the individuals themselves. Notably, the organizer of the Jewish Internet Defense Force (JIDF) has long been banned from Facebook.
Facebook’s user guidelines regarding content can be interpreted in any number of ways. Simultaneous account removal of multiple users having a common viewpoint appears to demonstrate a negative bias relating to the philosophical and political positions espoused by the individuals mentioned above. Because almost every user of Facebook could be said to be in violation of one or more guidelines at any given time the removal of accounts of users with the same political positions must therefore be specific and targeted rather than arbitrary.
There are many controversial individuals and groups on Facebook including Islamists, supporters of terrorism, Nazis, and even terrorists themselves, etc. People having these views and worse remain on Facebook but those having anti-jihad perspectives apparently are now targets for account removal. How can this be explained?
It is understood that because of the reach of Facebook and its large user community the Facebook “world” is another theater in the current culture wars and in the existential war that is Islamic jihad against the non-Muslim (kafir) civilizations of the West. In the war of ideas that is ongoing in public and behind the scenes (with much dissemination of opinion and information on the internet) there are vigorous, important, and fascinating debates that occur on Facebook pages hourly.
Facebook is a platform used for educating the people about the threat that Islam and its warfare poses for our country and the entire West. Kendra is particularly adept at online debate and had thousands of Facebook friends following her posts and discussions prior to the removal of her account without warning or explanation.
We have seen in recent events in Europe and the United States that the message about the truth of Islam and its doctrine of jihad and intolerance is making its way from scholarly fringes to a wider audience. The message involves an acceptance of the fact that political correctness and multiculturalism are empty and false notions that are impediments to knowledge and understanding.
Political correctness and multiculturalism require the adherent of these corrupt philosophies to jettison thousands of years of human and civilizational history and experience so that a fairly recent post-modernist utopian concept of how the world and humanity function can be accepted. These false concepts must be destroyed so that the truth can be discussed openly and understood.
Many in the United States and Europe do not want to let go of the accepted (but generally unspoken) dogmas of political correctness and multiculturalism; they refuse to discriminate. The ability and even the desire to discriminate between right and wrong, good and evil, victim and aggressor is now a rarity in our culture due to political correctness and multiculturalism and the radical tolerance that such utopian notions demand.
Events occurring in our daily lives and the historical record prove the emptiness of these two barren philosophies. Preference for fantasies over realities is rife across the culture now and is foundational to the ongoing philosophical and moral conflicts we see daily. The message of the dangers of Islam is spreading; how can it not when Hassan at Fort Hood and the Christmas underwear bomber do the horrors that they do to innocents and place their actions in an Islamic doctrinal context as do all Islamist terrorists/jihadists?
If our existential enemies say that they hate us and must fight us till we submit to Islamic domination because their doctrine tells them so, it is folly for us to suggest that they are mistaken. These abysmal criminals have the authority of Koran, Sira, and Hadith and the historical record to justify their statements. Our silly western politically correct multiculturalists have nothing but their fantasies, dreams and ignorance to support their positions.
The removal of SIOA and SIOE organizers accounts from Facebook may indicate a pro-Islam or anti- anti-Jihad bias on the part of Facebook management; we may never know. However, what is more likely is that online discussion and debate as seen on the pages of the individuals mentioned above has been effective.
Thousands of people have followed these online Facebook discussions. Many now view the statements and actions of terrorists and Islamists in a different light, now illuminated with their knowledge of Islamic doctrine – a doctrine never taught to them in our institutions of higher “education”. A great deal of learning and erudite discussion has been occurring on the pages of Facebook.
The truth of Islamic jihad and intolerance is difficult to deflect, even with politically correct multicultural biases and fantasies that diminish the truth to something both unpalatable and unacceptable. Islamic ideology is fundamental to what is happening across the world today. A re-invigorated Islam fighting its jihad against the kafir West does so because of ideology and doctrine. The doctrine behind this ideology is available and can be studied and understood. The falsehoods are falling away, in large part due to the efforts of the people mentioned above and many others.
An American who joined the al Shabab Somali terror group and is now one of its leaders and propagandists puts the matter succinctly. For the Islamic terrorist ideology and doctrine are the central motivators.
“They can’t blame it on poverty or any of that stuff,” he continued. “They will have to realize that it’s an ideology and it’s a way of life that makes people change.”
The idea that all of this horror is due to poverty-stricken peoples lashing out at the West is now all but delegitimized and dismissed. Ideology is at the center of this struggle. Once the ideology is known defensive action can be taken. What is at stake in this jihad against us is … everything.
Article posted on SIOA
Article about the subject on JIDF
DP111 said
Who Are the Real Infidels?
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/
By marking Mohammed as the last prophet to mankind, Islam makes Sharia law and the Koran uncontestable. Mankind has two choices, the same two choices that the people of the Middle East had when Mohammed’s hordes poured down on them with a lust for murder and loot in their hearts, to recite the Shahada or die. When a suicide bomber detonates himself aboard an airplane or a grinning bearded terrorist slashes the throat of his unarmed captive or a grim group of Madrassa students armed with AK-47′s open fire in a public square, they are following that same momentum that demands either acceptance of Islam or death.
The war against Israel, the war against Europe, America, China, India and every non-Muslim country on the globe, which has had the misfortune of being cursed with a Muslim minority( in our case, a self inflicted curse), follows that same exact narrative in which Muslims wage war against it to make supreme the Koran and the religion of Mohammed. Though this war may be dressed up in class warfare rhetoric and nationalism, it is ultimately a religious war being fought by way of terror, much as Mohammed’s followers originally fought it. Its mandate is religion. Its endgame is religion. And from the religion of Islam it draws its absolute supremacy over all human norms, dissolving all obligations and oaths in the name of Allah and his prophet.
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Tolerance humiliates the Muslim, for in his storied past it was always he who had the choice to extend tolerance to the Kufr who were his social and political inferiors. The Muslim does not wish to be tolerated, he wishes to be obeyed. He does not want his beliefs respected in a plurality of beliefs, thereby equating them with the horrid beliefs of those he despises. He wishes that Islam alone be recognized as a true and unique belief, as the one true faith for all mankind. For by recognizing this, he becomes superior through it.
The Muslim Infidel has little investment in the Constitution or any international declaration on human rights, for he does not want all men to be equal. Such a notion is absurd and offends his sense of propriety. His idea of freedom is not the freedom to co-exist, but the freedom to be superior, to take what others have and to know that he is better than them. It was of such men that Mohammed built his horde of killers, looters and rapists who turned a once thriving region into a backward morass of fear, ignorance and poverty. It is of such men that the hordes of Islamists draw from when there are throats to be cut in Asia or Africa. For there are always men who want to toss out the old rules in favor of new ones that favor them.
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/
Read it all
anonymous said
Taliban Uses 12 Year Old Boys To Place IED’s Because They Know We Won’t Shoot 12 Year Old Boys
Once again, they are taking advantage of our decency to kill us. We won’t fire on Mosques. We won’t limit free speech. We won’t shoot 12 year old boys.
But Jihadists will do all these things.
From Jawa:
Afghanistan: Not Only Do The Taliban Sexually Assault Young Boys, They Also Use Them For Placing IED’S
Apparently these children didn’t please the sexually perverted Taliban:
Via UK’s Major Paul Smyth’s Helmand Blog
Boys as young as 12 are being used by the Taliban to plant bombs designed to kill and maim British troops in Afghanistan.
Army commanders say insurgents are forcing children to lay improvised explosive devices (IEDs) because they know they will not be shot by British snipers.[...]
A senior Army source said: ‘The Taliban know that if they get caught in the sights of our snipers, they don’t last long, so they have resorted to hiding behind compound walls and directing children to plant bombs for them.
‘Lots of home-made IEDs detonate before they have even been laid, but the Taliban don’t seem to care whether a child gets killed or maimed. Some boys are as young as 12.’
http://www.ibloga.blogspot.com
RRWest said
“Tolerance becomes a crime when applied o evil.” – Thomas Mann.
This quote illistrates what is wrong with political correctness and multiculturalism as it is applied to ideologies such as Islam.
I will be cancelling my Facebook account ASAP and I would urge those who love freedom and support Geert Wilders to do the same as a protest against the Islamification of social network sites like Facebook.
If its war Muslims want, its war they will get.
Support the troops in Afghanistan, Geert Wilders and those in the EDL who oppose all sharia law and the incusrion of Islam into the free world.
nojizyatax said
Well said. When will the West wake up and start the real fight?
DP111 said
RRWEST wrote: Support the troops in Afghanistan, Geert Wilders and those in the EDL who oppose all sharia law and the incusrion of Islam into the free world.
Yes to all of those. We are at war, and the only horses we have in the race are the ones in Afghanistan and Iraq.
They are proving really good entries, and are the ones most likely to bring home the bacon. So, yes support our troops.
scott said
We must all wake-up before the sword of the islamic death cult is at all of our throats!!!!!!
Joe said
The faux-liberal do-gooders who think their actions will prevent hatred to muslims are wrong. People like us are the canaries in the coal mines. We can see what’s going to happen because we dare to extrapolate from past events and from taking muslims seriously.
Those faux-liberals in control of the media (and I include Facebook as part of the media) don’t realise that most people in the west are already hostile to islam, and that’s before they even read the Koran or Ibn Ishaq’s “The Life of the Prophet”. It’s heartening to know that sites like http://www.thereligionofpeace.com and http://www.jihadwatch.com have seen large increases in their readership in the past year.
If something is not done now the conflict will only increase. If the resistance to islamization is delayed too long, then it is undoubtedly true that western europe will descend into civil war. People like Anjem Choudary have already openly stated that that is the fate for Europe that they seek.
There is only 1 political party in the UK that is going to stop this. And it’s the same party that wants to put Tony Blair on trial for war crimes. I have very serious misgivings about that party, but I see no alternative. We have to take a firm stand before it’s too late. As Pat Condell says in his latest video, the Europe we’re allowing to develop for our grandchildren is not a Europe we would want to be born into.
None of the other parties truly believes in democracy or freedom of speech. They are all trying to hog the middle ground, and have jettisoned any principles. (The Labour party still laughingly describe themselves as socialists, whilst they’ve supervised a massive transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich.)
The Liberal Democrats should be defending liberty and democracy, but they are turning a blind eye.
Geert Wilder’s criminal prosecution says it all. He asked for 17 witnesses, but was only allowed 3. None of the orthodox muslims who he wanted to testify (and who would have shown if what he says about islam is true) are being called. And of the 3 who have been called, their testimony is going to be sub judice — the liberal elite don’t want the media to even let the public know what these expert witnesses have to say about islam.
It’s probably only a matter of time before the faux-liberals behind wordpress close down this blog. If all of this has echoes of totalitarianism it should. Geert Wilders has been told that even if what he has said about islam is true, it is still illegal to say it.
Did you get that: the truth is illegal. How can generations of children have studied Orwell’s 1984 in school and not be shocked by that? No wonder we are drifting into a totalitarian islamic caliphate.
Nick Griffin (the leader of the BNP) was also told that his truthful claims in a previous trial were illegal. Luckily for Griffin, he had a jury trial and the jury did not accept that the truth can be illegal.
It doesn’t matter how much we personally might despise Griffin or his party. Freedom and democracy are under attack and the faux-liberals are not going to defend those principles, because they no longer have any principles.
Bill Hosni said
All it takes is one Muslim employee at Facebook to pull the plug for Allah with a few clicks. As you are not allowed to refuse them employment or even (in some cases) ask about their religious views in job interviews, this form of infiltration can only increase. In these huge companies without adequate customer care you can have a lot of loose cannons wandering round the digital empire with carte blanche to sabotage whom they will. Hey the owner of FB is Jewish, better ring him on his mobile if you want to protest.
wiskeyrider said
political correctness of our leaders is the main issue… they’ll change and allow anything as long as they are personally benefited…. they just don’t believe in anything… which is the biggest issue.
Lets support the troops… pray for em
steve said
Islam is the enemy. Islamics believe in islam. islamics therefore are the enemy. kill them.