Facebook Enables
Islamic Jihad
By de Andréa
Opinion Editorialist for
‘THE
BOTTOM LINE’
Posted July 19, 2017
Taqiyyah is Arabic for doublespeak.
Doublespeak is a language that deliberately distorts or even reverses the
meaning of words or a statement. For example, when critics of Islam expose this
barbaric Cult for what is it, Islamists and their “Globalist” enablers call
them “Islamophobes;” when those who call themselves “social justice warriors”
campaigning for tolerance exhibit just the opposite (i.e., intolerance) by
shutting down any conversation with which they don’t agree; when others force
their religious beliefs (i.e., Islamic Sharia blasphemy laws) upon others in
the name of freedom of religion (as in Canada’s new motion against criticism of Islam); or when perpetrators of crimes
frame themselves as victims (i.e as in Muslims).
Doublespeak often leads to
doublethink, as George Orwell writes in his seminal novel 1984: “To tell
deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has
become inconvenient.” In the novel, people explicitly learn doublethink due to peer pressure and a desire to
fit in or gain status with in the “Party.”
With these definitions in mind, I
will introduce an expose of some of the worst offenders:
A high-level Facebook executive met with the interior
minister in Pakistan, an ally of the U.S. last week to discuss Pakistan’s demand that
the social media platform remove what the Jihadist country deems “blasphemous
content.”
The fact the meeting took place at all speaks volumes
about Facebook’s intent.
First, the first-ever face-to-face discussion on the
issue between a senior Facebook exec and the Pakistani government, comes on the
heels of the decision by a Pakistani “counter-terrorism” court to sentence a
30-year-old man to death for making “blasphemous” comments on Facebook.
Such an outrageous verdict should have caused any
company serious about human rights to refuse to engage with such a regime. Even
the fact that there exists such a law such a law that violates the basic — and
what should be universal — right to freedom of speech should be reason to
protest. Although it is just a step up
from hate speech, which is just something someone else doesn’t like.
Yet apparently, business is business for Facebook.
Facebook has 33-million users in Pakistan. So not only
did Facebook engage with the Pakistani government, they made
assurances
to the Sharia-compliant country that they were committed to keeping
their platform “safe by promoting values that are in correspondence with their
“community standards.”
In Pakistan, that means blasphemous content (as per
Pakistan’s definition of blasphemy). Because in Pakistan, just the mere mention
of blasphemy can incite mob violence and extra-judicial lynching’s or
beheadings.
Pakistan is active in pursing internet service
providers to convince them to make any criticism of Islam forbidden. In March,
it convened a
meeting of Muslim countries to discuss how they can shut down freedom of expression on
social media with regards to blasphemous content.
As to how the meeting went with Facebook, Pakistani
Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said, “We appreciate the understanding
shown by the Facebook administration and the cooperation being extended to us
on these issues.”
So, when Facebook – which has a history of taking down
material critical of Islamists —
says to Pakistan it will remove “hateful
and provocative” material, it is most likely doublespeak for “We
will comply with Islam’s blasphemy laws.”
Unfortunately, the West is fast becoming the East. Compliance
with – and even enforcement of—Islamist blasphemy laws has become an
all-too-common fixture in the West.
In most cases, the West has simply bowed Islamic Jihad
under the threat of violence. After the Danish cartoon riots which spread
across the globe and the Charlie Hebdo massacre, Western publications
have demurred from publishing most any material deemed offensive to Islam. This
is how Islam surupticiously takes over an changes a countries culture
Yet other examples are more insidious. Canada just passed a motion condemning all forms of Islamophobia.” The motion, hailed as a “first-step” by its supporters, is
dangerously close to and may even make illegal any criticism of Islam at all.
THE BOTTOM LINE: Europe, which has no bill
of rights guaranteeing the freedoms enshrined in America’s constitution, has
traditionally balanced freedom of expression with social concerns. In recent
years, that balance has become defined through the relativistic morality of
each country’s political climate, with freedom of speech of any kind in serious decline due to pressure from
Islamists and their “progressive Communist Globalist” supporters.
If we intend to hold on to the freedoms we now take
for granted in the U.S., pressure should be put on Facebook as well as any
other company which exhibits compliance with Islamic Sharia blasphemy laws. Otherwise, we will sadly see our rights
slipping away as is the situation in Europe today.
Thanks for listening. Now go do the right thing and fight for truth and
freedom.
-
de Andréa
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