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Top Saudi Muslim cleric calls on Muslim countries to sue Google over Muhammad video and force it to proselytize for Islam

Mar 2, 2014 4:04 pm By Robert Spencer

Innocence-of-Muslims“We shouldn’t be content with Google removing the abusive movie but should oblige them to correct their mistake. In the same way that it spread lies, it should be obliged to spread truth and rightness by presenting credible information about the Messenger, and his various qualities and ethics” — in other words, Islamic dawah and propaganda, as if there wasn’t already quite enough of that on YouTube already.

“Top Saudi cleric calls for suing Google over anti-Islam Youtube film,” from Al Arabiya, March 1 (thanks to Lookmann):

Khaled al-Shaya, a top Saudi cleric, recently called on Islamic countries to ban and legislate against Google, after the internet search giant’s apparent “disrespect of Islamic beliefs” in continuing to display an inflammatory video against Islam, news website CNN Arabic reported on Saturday.

Google – the parent company of video sharing site Youtube, which hosted the controversial video entitled “The Innocence of Muslims” – had “insulted the Prophet” by not removing the video, said Shaya, who serves as the assistant secretary-general of the Global Commission for Introducing the Messenger, a Riyadh-based Islamic organization.

The video “insulted the Prophet through distorting facts and spreading falsehoods, which was condemned by Muslims as well as all those who support rightness and justice,” said Shaya, adding that the Islamic world needed to “look into” freedom of expression.

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Shaya also said that Google should “repent” of being an active participant in spreading false information about Islam.

“We shouldn’t be content with Google removing the abusive movie but should oblige them to correct their mistake,” said the cleric.

“In the same way that it spread lies, it should be obliged to spread truth and rightness by presenting credible information about the Messenger, and his various qualities and ethics,” he added.

The film enraged many Muslims worldwide upon its release on Youtube in 2012.

Google is currently fighting a court order that requires it to take down all copies of the video after an actress in the film sued – claiming that she was misled into acting in the film and that her presence in it would cause irreparable harm to her reputation.

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  1. Cody Chadwick says

    Mar 2, 2014 at 4:12 pm

    we should be able to sue Saudi Arabia for causing most of the world’s terrorism…

    • Aardvark says

      Mar 2, 2014 at 5:59 pm

      I’ll second that!

      • Kepha says

        Mar 2, 2014 at 9:32 pm

        Naaaah. Let’s just riot in front of their Embassy and demand the right to barbecue whole hogs in the precinct of the Ka’aba.

      • Bob says

        Mar 2, 2014 at 11:35 pm

        I’ll third that !! Muslims are so deceived and deranged why would a media site even think about advocating islam

    • mortimer says

      Mar 3, 2014 at 10:49 am

      270 million corpses and counting. Sue everyone promoting it!

      Saudi Arabia might stop promoting jihad in their school curriculum if they were sued. The law suit wouldn’t succeed, but the NEGATIVE PUBLICITY might force them to stop teaching hatred of kafirs in their curriculums.

  2. Cody Chadwick says

    Mar 2, 2014 at 4:12 pm

    we should be able to sue Saudi Arabia for causing most of the world’s terrorism…

    • Vivienne Leijonhufvud (goldie) says

      Mar 2, 2014 at 6:08 pm

      Agree 100%

  3. boakai ngombu says

    Mar 2, 2014 at 4:20 pm

    “… In the same way that it spread lies, it should be obliged to spread truth and rightness by presenting credible information about the Messenger, and his various qualities and ethics,” he added. …

    and in the same vein: all truth and rightness from the credible information presented should be examined for veracity and corroborated by “outside” sources so that nothing like bigoted opinions are let to stand

    and about this Messenger, this servant of the Allah god (unknowable; the best of all deceivers), let a thorough examination be done regarding the origins of this entity – imaginary and contrived – so that no one is deceived by falsehood to their damnation….

    • boakai ngombu says

      Mar 2, 2014 at 4:24 pm

      oh, and FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION should be examined for all of the benefits derived by society from such a freedom which militates against the limiting of expression by traditions surrounding the SHARIA – an enslavement tool that limits thought, let alone expression and invention.

    • Eddie says

      Mar 2, 2014 at 6:28 pm

      What truth? That he was a murdering child molester? That he was a lier and a cheat?

    • Scot says

      Mar 2, 2014 at 8:37 pm

      What do you mean lies sue me you pieces of shit because Mohammed is a piece of shit. Hes Satan and all you dumb asses have no common sense not a lick of it you looser’s! It don’t take a rocket scientists to know its not alright to mutilate little girls vagina’s and to stone a woman to death for a face book account. Your all pieces of shit and we need to remove you from this earth for good so your evil ways do not continue to reap fear in the hearts of the innocent so do us a favor child molesting homos go back where you came from thanks people of the united states of america

  4. Barry Wagoner says

    Mar 2, 2014 at 4:22 pm

    Sharia law for all!

    • Ongey Kambah says

      Mar 3, 2014 at 5:00 am

      You obviously don’t know much about Shariah law. It defies logic like Islam, a religion of peace! You’ve got to be kidding. You obviously haven’t lived under Shariah law. Just look at ALL the troubled spots in the world!

  5. Barry Wagoner says

    Mar 2, 2014 at 4:22 pm

    Sharia law for all!

    • A Hjort says

      Mar 3, 2014 at 8:42 am

      If you are so enamored of Sharia law—move to Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Turkey or any of the multitude of countries that already have it. Do not even stop to pack a bag—just GO

    • veggiedog says

      Mar 3, 2014 at 9:06 am

      Idiot

  6. Dan says

    Mar 2, 2014 at 4:33 pm

    I wish I could see the video again. Not sure their were some mistakes in it in the first place. Would be good to verify. Is it true he actually like to bathe in * fill in the blank ______________

  7. Diann Vail says

    Mar 2, 2014 at 4:38 pm

    do we need WW III for this insanity to stop? I’m beginning to think that is the only answer – and it has to be directed against Islam

    • Vivienne Leijonhufvud (goldie) says

      Mar 2, 2014 at 6:11 pm

      At last another person with the same belief as me. Yes WWIII needs to be started to totally desecrated Islam in all Sunni and Shiia nations. It is quite evident the Gulf States and Iran are determined to carve up the world between them. Presumably they will then compete with each for top position!

      • Charli Main says

        Mar 3, 2014 at 2:51 am

        Perhaps we can get the Indians to drop a 50 mega ton ICBM on Satan´s hell hole—-Mecca

        • Defcon 4 says

          Mar 3, 2014 at 11:08 pm

          That would be a good start. I’d suggest Iran, Pakistain and Turkey as viable targets as well.

    • veggiedog says

      Mar 3, 2014 at 9:08 am

      The answer is more devastating than that. Time to cleanse the earth one more time, lower forms of life are smarter than we seem to be.

  8. Galvin Fox says

    Mar 2, 2014 at 4:42 pm

    petition to ban Islam world-wide http://www.petitiononline.com/MYSTIC/petition.html

    • voegelinian says

      Mar 2, 2014 at 7:54 pm

      What does “banning” mean, exactly?

  9. Wellington says

    Mar 2, 2014 at 5:00 pm

    In short, dhimmis, in this case Google, can never grovel enough to please the Islamic world.

    And respecting “credible information about the Messenger,” here’s my credible information on “the Messenger”: fraud, psychopath, sexual deviant, one enthralled with death and violence, one deeply confused about what Judaism and Christianity really asserted, a true control-freak, an illiterate, someone which no self-respecting deity would ever rely on, and, in general, a total fruitcake albeit a deviously clever one. How’s that for credible information about the Messenger?

    Again I might add that the key to destroying Islam, which very much needs destroying, is to destroy its reputed founder, a malevolently influential human being if ever there were one, right up there with Marx, Hitler, Lenin, Stalin and Mao. They were all totalitarians at heart, the whole damn lot of them, inveterate enemies of liberty each and every one, and if you destroy them, you destroy what they stood for.

    • Cheryl says

      Mar 3, 2014 at 2:53 am

      Awesome. You hit the nail on the head.

    • Defcon 4 says

      Mar 4, 2014 at 2:32 am

      How can you “destroy its reputed founder”? He’s been dead (if he ever existed) for over a thousand years. We’re not fighting Nazi Germany, we can’t kill Hitler and end the Reich. Islam0nazism is everywhere, all over the globe and spreading like a cancer.

  10. Angemon says

    Mar 2, 2014 at 5:03 pm

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgQqAHv6-t4

  11. London Jim says

    Mar 2, 2014 at 5:04 pm

    These freaks are just asking to have the piss taken out of them. I say f**k ’em. Never surrender.

  12. London Jim says

    Mar 2, 2014 at 5:09 pm

    . . .apologies for my bad language, I’ve just been watching Peter O’Toole playing the lead role in ‘Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell.
    Sure beats ‘Lawrence of Arabia’.

    • Defcon 4 says

      Mar 3, 2014 at 11:11 pm

      I’ve read that one of the reasons Lawrence of Arabia enjoyed Arabic culture is that he *really* liked his little boys.

  13. pdxnag says

    Mar 2, 2014 at 5:39 pm

    Let’s not forget that “affirmative action” originated in the courts as a temporary remedy to supposedly proven actual unlawful discrimination. Only later did it graduate into a legislative license to affirmatively discriminate against all white people because they are white. The system has become a farce already.

    A court command to a private party to affirmatively speak in favor of slaughtering non-Muslims somehow does not seem too absurd to visualize. To say for example that: “Killing infidels is good. Allahu Akbar!” rather than “Killing infidels is evil.” Once upon a time U.S. District Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange declared that the entire population of Oklahoma was motivated by an intent to unlawfully discriminate against Muslims, when they rejected the application and enforcement of Sharia law. (Invalidating Oklahoma Question 750.)

    Maybe the Saudi’s can try to file a complaint in the Oklahoma federal court, where they might draw Vicki Miles-LaGrange.

    Facebook has already expressed their support for spreading the true nature (the goodness, I suppose) of Islam by allowing the posting of Islamic beheadings of enemies of Islam. Saudi’s like public beheadings. It is a cause to celebrate. Allahu Akbar! (Do they object to that?)

  14. John Spielman says

    Mar 2, 2014 at 6:01 pm

    It’sNOT the video that the Saudis should be afraid of, but JIHADWATCH , and other websites that reveal the ugly truth about Mohammed and the vile religion of Islam.

    • Petey says

      Mar 5, 2014 at 8:09 am

      If they succeed with google, you think jihadwatch and atlas shrugs isnt on the list? dont worry, some backward no name lawyer in any one of the shitholastans will come up with some irrelevant international law just so he can show the local muslima sluts hes the “man”. lets just hope barack surrender obama will be gone by then

  15. Poca Hontas says

    Mar 2, 2014 at 6:24 pm

    This ought to be good, pass the popcorn.

  16. Poca Hontas says

    Mar 2, 2014 at 6:24 pm

    This ought to be good, pass the popcorn.

  17. Vivienne Leijonhufvud (goldie) says

    Mar 2, 2014 at 6:28 pm

    Saudi Arabia and fellow Muslim nations all have two things in common. The elites if you like i.e. royal families live the lives of debauched gambling sex craved individuals and slave owners. The second common factor is the greed and gratuitous violence they all display.

    I received last year from the ‘Muslim Edition’ a video showing the rituals at the Hajj. The Black stone has at its centre a red stone around the red stone is a carved silver vulva displayed. On the same page an ancient representation of the fertility goddess, her eyes inset with pigeon blood rubies!

    These people still practice Ashura another pronunciation for Astarte I believe. This ritual takes the form of cutting into the unformed part of a babies or toddlers heads, bleeding profusely.

    I find the design of mosques even more pagan, representing what appears to be a Penis x 2 or 4 either side of the breast (dome) surmounted by a further 1-3 nipples. Again on the top of a further perpendicular spike a waning crescent moon. On many statues of the fertility goddess her head is crowned with the waning crescent moon a symbol synonymous with menstruation. I really do believe it is time to expose the truth about Islam the fact that Islam plagiarized from the Torah Talmud and New testament and still underlying all of this are pagan origins. After all Mecca is in the Arabian peninsular and where were Arabs in the year 1000 BCE?

    • Dave says

      Mar 4, 2014 at 7:22 am

      I liken Islam to 7th century version of Scientology. Hubbard is (rightly or wrongly) credited with saying: “Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wanted to make a million dollars, the best way to do it would be start his own religion”, recognising that in the 20th century, power was derived from money. I think mohammed used the same approach 13 centuries before Hubbard, except in his case, power was derived from violence and warfare. mohammed wanted to create his own state in the Arabian peninsula and started a religion in order to accomplish just that.

      • Defcon 4 says

        Mar 4, 2014 at 2:49 pm

        Scientology looks a lot better when compared to islam.

  18. Jay Boo says

    Mar 2, 2014 at 6:41 pm

    Aha!
    The real reason the whole non-Islamic world thinks that Islam is a scumbag religion is because of the negative publicity from a once obscure poorly made video trailer.
    All this time we thought it was because of the brutal blasphemous buffoonery dredge up from a disgusting political ideology.
    Thank you for the advice top Saudi clericKhaled al-Shaya.

  19. Blangwort says

    Mar 2, 2014 at 7:35 pm

    Rather than censor the Internet; a difficult thing to do; why not just block the Internet from their countries? If they can’t handle an open medium, then they shouldn’t have it.

    • voegelinian says

      Mar 2, 2014 at 7:57 pm

      They’re not interested in segregation (much less in reasonable cooperation); they want to subjugate the world, to force the world to abide by their dictates.

  20. citycat says

    Mar 2, 2014 at 7:46 pm

    Promotion of Islam is promotion of division in the mind.
    If Google speaks the truth it will get a fatwa.
    Islam divides humanity in the mind and then kills or converts the other side.
    Islam is a gang, like all religions.
    The world must forget their religious differences, cooperate, stop arguing, and kill this divider or die at the hands of Islam.

    • Defcon 4 says

      Mar 3, 2014 at 11:13 pm

      “Islam is a gang, like all religions” Nothing like reading the usual retarded, amoral atheist telling us all religions are the same….AGAIN. Ever heard of argument of false equivalence?

      • citycat says

        Mar 4, 2014 at 1:46 am

        i didn’t say they were the same, they are each a gang, each with differences, all with a god, a different god, lots of differences, all with a book, a different book, all with music, different music.
        Some, if not all, religions have committed atrocities in the name of their so called holy god, so called holy purpose,
        i would not bother being here if it was not for the fact that the most important thing is defence against Islam that unlike the rest is still in the barbaric stage, and i have children who have been threatened with death by Islam. therefore i am suggesting that religion is getting in the way of solving the problem of the evil Entity Islam.
        There are a number of times more infidels than Muslims, but the infidels are separated into groups by their religions, i can’t be bothered
        Otherwise religion is no problem to be bothered with.
        personally speaking, most religious people i know are fine, except YKW

        • Defcon 4 says

          Mar 4, 2014 at 2:39 am

          “islam unlike the rest is still in the barbaric stage”. What a bunch of bullshit. Buddhism was never barbaric. Yeshua never participated in, nor advocated, violence against anyone. Instead he stopped such persecution. Furthermore, Islam has been in its barbaric state for over a thousand years. GTFOH.

  21. nacazo says

    Mar 2, 2014 at 7:54 pm

    even if the video is removed, it is removed not because it’ s untruthful (quite the contrary according to father zakariya only one scene may not be truthful).

    the reason why it may be removed is for a copyright interpretation where any actor can stop a movie from being exhibited if she does not want it to be.

    the movie still depicts the truth according to islamic sources.

    from here to jump to making google do dawah is a non sequitur if ever there was one.

    someone shot a video where i’m robbing a bank. one of the bank tellers sues because she doesnt want it published and then i want videos saying how honest i am????

  22. Salah says

    Mar 2, 2014 at 8:43 pm

    “We shouldn’t be content with Google removing the abusive movie but should oblige them to correct their mistake.”

    The “abusive” movie DISSECTED:

    http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2012/10/innocence-of-muslims-dissected.html

  23. Savvy Kafir says

    Mar 2, 2014 at 10:12 pm

    I hope Google will have the wisdom and the fortitude to tell the Allah junkies to go piss up a rope.

  24. Thor Skaftason says

    Mar 2, 2014 at 10:36 pm

    Stay Strong Mr Spencer

  25. swazon says

    Mar 2, 2014 at 11:40 pm

    That illiterate warlord called himself a messenger. How far from the truth can you get and still have people believe?

  26. Sammy Jones says

    Mar 3, 2014 at 5:43 am

    yeah lets sue em use money for jihad ennit lol and court sides with the cavemanic ideology they are merely giving money for the Jihad the west refuses to acknoledge

  27. gravenimage says

    Mar 4, 2014 at 12:29 am

    Top Saudi Muslim cleric calls on Muslim countries to sue Google over Muhammad video and force it to proselytize for Islam

    “We shouldn’t be content with Google removing the abusive movie but should oblige them to correct their mistake. In the same way that it spread lies, it should be obliged to spread truth and rightness by presenting credible information about the Messenger, and his various qualities and ethics” — in other words, Islamic dawah and propaganda, as if there wasn’t already quite enough of that on YouTube already.
    ………………………………….

    What gall. Even though the ruling was pretty craven, it was *not* about the content of the trailer at all, but only about whether Ms. Garcia had given permission for her image to be used in that film.

    And why was she so concerned? Why, because the film maker and actors received death threats. Good ol’ “religion of peace”…sarc/off

    Moreover, despite its poor production values, there is very little in “The Innocence of Muslims” that is *not* accurate, either in the depiction of modern-day oppression of the Copts or in in its characterization of the baleful “Prophet”. Virtually all the scenes shown are from the texts of Islam itself—the Qur’an, the Hadith, and the Sira.

    What Muslims like this Saudi cleric object to, of course, is that Muhammed isn’t being *lauded* for his barbarism—that he is being criticized for being a mass-murderer, caravan raider, and pedophile, rather than praised for it.

    More:

    …said Shaya, adding that the Islamic world needed to “look into” freedom of expression.
    ………………………………….

    Oh, the Muslim world has “looked into” freedom of expression, all right—by restricting it, enforcing “Blasphemy” laws, issuing death Fatwas, and oppressing, imprisoning, and murdering those who dare exercise their freedom of expression.

    The appalling lack of freedom in Saudi Arabia itself is just one example.

    More:

    Google is currently fighting a court order that requires it to take down all copies of the video after an actress in the film sued – claiming that she was misled into acting in the film and that her presence in it would cause irreparable harm to her reputation.
    ………………………………….

    I’ve seen articles that are more honest—where she makes it clear that it isn’t just harm to her “reputation” she is concerned about, but harm to her person from violent Muslims.

    • Champ says

      Mar 4, 2014 at 12:54 am

      Hi Graven! …glad to see you posting again 🙂

  28. gravenimage says

    Mar 4, 2014 at 12:31 am

    test

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