Free Expression Quashed: YouTube Removes ‘Blasphemies’ Against Islam

Posted on March 3, 2008

The Islamofascists are mad at YouTube… or at least they were. They aren’t anymore, of course, because YouTube has folded to a cyberterror campaign launched in Islamabad, Pakistan. Islamists in Pakistan launched a cyber attack against YouTube over the video service’s hosting of the trailer to a Dutch documentary that claims that Islamic doctrine is an “inspiration for intolerance, murder and terror.”

So, in another strike against freedom of expression, YouTube has promised to eliminate any content that is deemed by extremist, Islamists half way across the world as “highly provocative and blasphemous” against Islam.

Once again, extremist, Islamists win another battle against the ever more weak spined and compliant West. And this win is ominous for the Internet because now the Islamofascists don’t even have to take control of a government or a population to impose their oppression on the people of the world. They can do it all across the world at once with cyberterror.

Investor’s Business Daily has the story:

Experts say the method used to block the site leaked onto the Internet and caused traffic to YouTube to be directed into a kind of “Web cul-de-sac in Pakistan,” as UPI described it.

The method involved Pakistani ISP operators “deliberately putting false information out there” that diverted traffic to the site across the globe for hours, said Daniel Castro of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a nonpartisan research group in Washington.

In other words, the Pakistani government essentially committed an act of cyberterrorism. Islamabad denies it, claiming its crashing of YouTube was “not intentional.”

Youtube even admits that this attack came from Pakistan. A spokesman for YouTube said, “we have determined the source of these events was a network in Pakistan. We are investigating and working with others in the Internet community to prevent this from happening again.”

And even faced with evidence of the actions by extremists, YouTube is folding anyway.

Meantime, YouTube is giving in to its blackmailers in Pakistan by removing “highly profane and sacrilegious footage” that was offensive to Islam, including cartoons of the Muslim prophet Muhammad.

IBD ends their piece with a perfect line:

Acquiescing to the demands of theocratic blackmailers is no way to bring the other side into the light of the modern world. It only emboldens them.

And there you have it. One more example of how we in the West simply don’t have the guts to stand up for our own principles. This clash of civilizations is less a clash and more a rolling over…. by the West.

YouTube should be ashamed of itself.

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6 Responses to “Free Expression Quashed: YouTube Removes ‘Blasphemies’ Against Islam”

Rory Flood on March 3rd, 2008 9:22 am

So YouTube caved, no big surprise there after all, would you want your head lopped off for putting a cartoon out there. ROP, my big ole hairy butt!
BDillon on March 3rd, 2008 10:38 am

What do you expect from a company owned by Google?
Mark William Paules on March 3rd, 2008 7:21 pm

Youtube bows to Muslim sensibilities but won’t pull violent jihadi videos showing American and coalition troops getting blown to pieces by IED’s.

Here’s a chance for patriots to fight back. Join “Youtube Smackdown” and make it personal. Our counter-jihad movement has already forced Youtube to pull hundreds of violent videos. The work is ongoing, and we need your help.

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lillypearl on March 3rd, 2008 9:18 pm

Cowards–yes–that is what YouTube is! Perhaps someone should disarm their website if they post anything anti-Christian or anti-Jewish! Any takers out there to sabotage their site and stop them totally unless they take off all items offensive to Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, etc….?
gunjam on March 4th, 2008 12:01 am

Memo to the kids who own YouTube: Look up the meaning of the word “blackmail.” Then look up the meaning of the word “Dhimmi.” You folks may be geniuses at marketing, but you are clueless about how to deal with tyrants and bullies. You have just been played like a fiddle. You have told the world that you are afraid of threats.
Alex on March 4th, 2008 11:44 am

What do you think of this samsonblinded.org/blog/israel-cannot-blockade-gaza.htm ? Shoher is arguably the most right Israeli today, but he argues Israel should talk to Hamas as Egypt will not maintain the blockade of Gaza.