Islamophobia” is a propaganda term that is used for two unrelated phenomena: vigilante attacks against innocent Muslims, which are never justified, and honest analysis of the motivating ideology behind jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women and others. The goal of this conflation is to inhibit such analysis and intimidate people into thinking it’s wrong to oppose jihad terror. And it’s working great. If Facebook cracks down even herder than it already does on what it deems “Islamophobia,” no opposition to jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women will be allowed on its platform.
Remember alsothat Facebook’s Vice President Joel Kaplan went to Pakistan in 2017 and assured the Pakistani government that Facebook would remove “anti-Islam” content. Since material opposing jihad terror is routinely smeared as “anti-Islam,” it would all be gone.
Pakistan’s PM asks Facebook to ban Islamophobic content,” BBC, October 26, 2020 :
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan has written a letter to Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, asking him to put a ban on Islamophobic content.
In a letter, Mr Khan said “growing Islamophobia” was encouraging “hate, extremism and violence… especially through the use of social media”.
It comes a day after Mr Khan accused French President Emmanuel Macron of “attacking Islam”.
Facebook already has a policy of removing hate speech on its platforms.
It defines hate speech as “a direct attack on people” based on protected characteristics including race, ethnicity, national origin and religious affiliation, through “violent or dehumanising speech” or “harmful stereotypes”.
In a letter which he published on Twitter, Mr Khan referred to a recent decision by Facebook to ban any content that denies or distorts the Holocaust.
He called for a similar policy to be put in place for anti-Islam comments.
“Given the rampant abuse and vilification of Muslims on social media platforms, I would ask you to place a similar ban on Islamophobia and hate against Islam for Facebook that you have put in place for the Holocaust,” he said.
“The message of hate must be banned in total – one cannot send a message that while hate messages against some are unacceptable, these are acceptable against others.”
On Sunday, Mr Khan accused the French president of “attacking Islam”….
“It is unfortunate that [Mr Macron] has chosen to encourage Islamophobia by attacking Islam rather than the terrorists who carry out violence.”…
