One of the things that a growing number of people, myself included, have started to notice is a worrying trend of media outlets and discussion fora to engage in censorship of Islamo-sceptic speech. British newspapers, both nationals and locals, routinely shut down comment boards when they publish stories on the subject of Islam.
The BBC and Sky continue to feature Islamic spokespersons, some of whom are highly questionable, and allow their views on air with almost no challenge at all. In both print and in broadcast media, the counter Islam voice, whether it comes from non-Muslims or from ex-Muslims, is almost invisible. As for the reason for this self censorship by journalists and media organisations, well these are various, but some of it is due to the way journalists are trained and who does the training.
Another reason is the widespread influence of the political Left. The political Left may be dying in terms of mass support*, but there are many leftists who have embedded themselves in the upper echelon of the British Media.
It is this overt Leftist influence that concerns this story and comes via the Examine Islam website. In an free society, or at least as I see it, people should be allowed to hear both sides of an argument and be exposed to a diversity of opinion on a whole range of issues. Unfortunately this sort of free society is not one that is favoured by the Left and in particular the British middle class Left.
Examine Islam has been trying to engage in discussions on the parenting site Mumsnet about issues such as the Islamic attacks on women recently in Cologne and elsewhere. However, these attempts at creating a dialogue and exposing the denizens of Mumsnet to a diversity of opinion is elicting censorship from Mumsnet management.
Here’s Examine Islam with their take on censorship of Islamo-sceptic voices. As is usual policy for Fahrenheit211, EI’s comments are in italics whereas my comments are in plain text.
Examine Islam said:
“UPDATE: Mumsnet, a UK website created for women by women has begun deleting accounts it considers ‘Islamophobic’ for example commenting about the Cologne attacks by migrants is seen as beyond the pale. This censorship is taking place right now with posts being deleted for completely inoffensive comments (but criticising Islam and the behaviour of Muslim migrants) and entire accounts deleted for the same reason. Of course the woman who started Mumsnet is completely biased, being married as she is to Ian Katz the ultra Left-wing new man at Newsnight. See for yourselves the inoffensive debate going on and the very real level of concern for the Islamisation of Europe – http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/in_the_news/2565952-Sex-Attacks-in-Cologne-and-other-European-Cities-Part-IX?pg=14
Mumsnet’s connection with the upper crust Left and the Labour Party establishment does not just extend to the founders marriage to a BBC Leftie. Mumsnet has had a lot of support from Gordon Brown, Ed Miliband and other Labour figures and has also been heavily promoted on the now very Leftist Woman’s Hour. See Wiki here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumsnet
A very worrying development is taking place. People trying to speak the truth about Islam are being silenced. Accounts of social media are being deleted without warning for the ‘crime’ of criticising Islam.
Yes this is happening all over. I myself have had a Twitter account closed because, I believe, I criticised some of our more nefarious and mendacious Islamic organisations. Facebook and Twitter for example are now getting a very bad reputation for rolling over whenever a Muslim or an Islamic group whines about counter-Islam opinion. It seems some of the most horrible ‘kill the Kufar’ or ‘kill the Jews’ stuff coming from Muslims is allowed on some social media platforms , but criticising this stuff is not permitted.
Now gofundme.com a crowdfunding website has joined in the censoring of any narrative criticising Islam.
I have been trying to raise money for three victims of Islam on gofundme.com and out of the blue my account has been permanently deleted. The fact is that whilst I had to of course explain WHY the victims of Islam needed help (one was a child grooming gang victim and two were ex-Muslims seeking to escape Muslim countries) I only presented the facts and the truth about their situation. For this my account has been deleted and I can no longer raise money to help these people.
One victim was an ex-Muslim convert to Christianity whose very own family had tried to kill him by beating him up and setting his house on fire. He cannot seek help from the Muslim police as they will also want to kill or imprison him for the ‘crime’ of leaving Islam.
Another victim, Emily was a victim of Muslim rape gangs in Peterborough for 20 years – the truth of this is horrendous, she has chronic physical ailments and PTSD from the years of gang rape and sexual exploitation she suffered. I was trying to raise cash for her to see a private psychotherapist as the ones offered by the NHS were always Muslim, and as you can imagine that would not have been right for her. In fact her home town of Peterborough has an extremely high Muslim population, and she cannot even take taxis as the vast majority of drivers are Muslim. The third was Serkan Engin a Turkish ex-Muslim who was no longer being given work due to his outspoken criticism of Islam. He too was trying to leave Islamic Turkey.
This is not a good development. Although companies and media organisations have the right to decide what they do and do not allow in the spaces that they control, it cannot be denied that censorship of counter Islam speech is being censored. I can’t see why gofundme.com dropped these causes. The persons who set up the pages I question are not calling for fiscal support of an illegal act, they are trying to fund, in one case someones mental health care, and in another to support what used to be called* a ‘prisoner of conscience.’
What exactly is the problem with setting out these truths about the great problems which the Muslim world has with non-Muslims? The problem the Muslim world has with us is so great that they will try and kill their own family members for leaving or spend decades systematically abusing non-Muslim children. The facts of the gang abuse of women in Cologne in Germany on New Year’s Eve attest to the same. There have been similar attacks on countless Swedish women and children since Sweden opened its doors to unfettered migration from the Muslim world. But now we cannot spell out the problem honestly.
I don’t see a problem. We allow criticism of other political and religious ideologies, and free societies also permit internal debate and pluralism within ideologies and religions. Islam should not be exempted from that criticism. Giving Islam a ‘criticism free’ existence in our non-Muslim societies is dangerous. For one it is giving in to the Shariah restriction on ‘blasphemy’ and for another it stops non-Muslims and heterodox Muslims from discussing many of the problems that emanate from Islamic ideology. I agree with Examine Islam on this issue, there is nothing inherently wrong with discussing the problem of Islamic predatory sexuality or Islamic inbreeding or the violence inherent in Islamic theology.
There were of course rapists and paedophiles before Muslim immigration. The point is that the numbers of cases have flown out of all control, and importantly, the crimes have very much more the appearance of hate crime than pure sex crimes. In all these cases the attackers are Muslims attacking non-Muslims for the ‘crime’ of being non-Muslim. This is clearly hate crime under any definition – but rather than prosecute the perpetrators of these VERY REAL crimes against non-Muslims, the authorities prefer to clamp down on those of us who are brave enough to speak out against them.
That’s correct. There have always been and will always be, sexual predators in our societies, and the motivations for the behaviour of these nonces will be many and varied. Such predators can and should be controlled, even if the desire to be a sexual predator can never be eradicated. The big difference between some of the nonces that I saw in front of me when I was a court reporter many years ago, and the current crop of Islamic predators is both the very precise targeting of non-Muslim victims, and the fact that these criminals operate in packs.
Most of the nonces I encountered in a legal setting were loners, the emotionally retarded or people for whom life and circumstance had twisted out of kilter. They also more often than not, operated alone and chose their victims in an opportunistic manner. These nonces were also completely unlike the Islamic sex criminals of today, in that they did not have or follow a book that said ‘it’s OK to have sex-slaves’ or belong to a supremacist and indeed racist culture. Islam has created these monstrous rape gangs and we can see the genesis of them in Islamic texts. Why then can we not discuss this? We should be able to discuss this. It’s important. It’s also right to define Islamic Rape Gang behaviour as a hate crime, that fact that it is not is a total scandal. The fact that it is not makes the whole idea of ‘hate crimes’ seem like the mockery of justice that it is and brings our whole legal system into disrepute.
There is a massively insidious trend appearing of free speech from people who are worried about Islam being silenced in favour of liberal propaganda and Muslim ‘Islamphobia’ narratives. Yes, this does involve Muslims because without Muslims believing in Islam there would not be a problem with Islam – because there would be no-one to act on its orders to kill the unbelievers.
Without a doubt Examine Islam is correct in that there is a trend to close down criticism of Islam and its replacement by political propaganda. It is a trend that must be resisted but we should also take some comfort from the fact that it is also a sign of the weakness of the polticial Left in all this. If they could defend their views and especially their views on Islam they would be much more comfortable with allowing more freedom of speech on this issue. They can’t give good sensible reasons for their pandering to Islam or explain away the failures of previous Leftist policies towards Islam, therefore they censor. It’s the only way they can defend themselves.
This sort of censorship is highly dangerous in the long run as it corrodes people’s right to speak on what some would call controversial issues. It should never be forgotte that this right was one dearly bought for Britons by both campaigners for the right to speak, and those who took up arms to defend Britain and its values. We should not surrender to the censors of the Left, their views and the views of their Islamic pets should not be off limits for discussion.
Read the rest of Examine Islam’s post via the link below.
http://examine-islam.org/2016/03/the-silencing-of-the-truth-of-islam/
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*The Left have done a serious number on the rest of us by capturing so many areas of the State and public life. Here is an article about Leftist influence in Israel a lot of which could equally apply to the United Kingdom
https://www.fahrenheit211.net/2016/03/11/the-zombie-left-dead-but-still-in-control/
Wikipedia page on the history of Mumsnet. Note the high level Labour Party backing.
“Mumsnet, a UK website created for women by women has begun deleting accounts it considers ‘Islamophobic’ for example commenting about the Cologne attacks by migrants is seen as beyond the pale. “
And yet we are always told that electing more women brings a kinder, gentler, more balanced politics.
I was banned from commenting in the Daily Mail a year ago for my views about Islam.
In the wake of the Rushdie Affair, when no Muslim was prosecuted for marching round English towns inciting murder, Muslims set up an organisation called The Muslim Parliament. One of the founding documents of that organization stated that Muslims in Britain will not obey any law unless obeying that law was consistent with obeying sharia law.
My book argues that the only thing that appears to make the people who administer the country respond are street protests. Until the EDL took to the streets no-one had been able to broach the subject of the grooming gangs. Thus those gangs got away with decades of abusing schoolgirls. Those who have been recently convicted in Rotherham cannot be responsible for more than 5% of the 1400 girls groomed and raped in that otherwise unextraordinary town. Equally, an analysis of news reports on FGM shows that FGM was also verboten in the quality newspapers until the EDL started marching. http://4freedoms.com/xn/detail/3766518:Comment:145209
I also go into great detail to expose how the Labour party in government demonstrated extraordinary persistence in making it a crime to offend a Muslim (even if the offence was unintentional). The Labour Party’s determination in this sphere was clearly to stop anyone explaining the grooming gangs or terrorism by Muslims either by reference to the history of Islam or to Islamic doctrines. History will show that the years 2001 to 2006 were pivotal in the effort to stop the citizens of Britain from discussing Islam in anything other than approving tones. Labour got within one vote of instituting Islamic blasphemy law via the English parliament.