By this May means, as Pamela Geller has pointed out, that “the fight against jihad and those who oppose jihad is a joint one.” This is because opposition to jihad terror is routinely characterized by Theresa May and her colleagues as “hate speech.” It has been a years-long chess game: first came the charge, ridiculous on its face but relentlessly and indefatigably repeated, that to speak honestly about how jihad terrorists use the texts and teachings of Islam to justify violence and make recruits among peaceful Muslims constituted “hate.” Then came the likewise specious charge that “hate speech” was not “free speech,” and was capable of being identified by neutral, impartial observers, and that it did not deserve the protection that various governments gave to the freedom of speech.
None of that is true. In reality, hate speech is a subjective judgment based on the political perspectives of the one doing the evaluating, and freedom of speech protections were first instituted in order to ensure that speech that was hated by the party in power could still be aired: the freedom of speech is our fundamental bulwark against tyranny, and prevents tyrants from declaring opposition to their will to be “hate speech” and thereby outlaw it.
But I never was any good at chess, and now Facebook and Twitter have blocked 90% of their daily referrals from Jihad Watch, and the site is blocked by many Internet service providers in the UK and Europe. Soon, apparently, Google will follow suit.
“Exclusive: Google and social media companies could be prosecuted if they show extremist videos,” by Christopher Hope and Laura Hughes, Telegraph, March 24, 2017 (thanks to Pamela Geller):
Google, Facebook and other internet companies could be prosecuted if they do not stop extremist videos from being seen on their websites by people in Britain, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.
Ministers are considering a new law which would mean Google – which owns YouTube – and other social media sites like Facebook and Twitter can be prosecuted if they allow such videos to be disseminated.
Theresa May, the Prime Minister, made clear her displeasure at internet companies that publish extremist content on Friday, saying “the ball is in their court” over taking action.
Google publicly apologised this week after the growing scandal over extremist videos on YouTube led to a series of companies pulling their adverts from the internet giant.
Google, which owns the video sharing website YouTube, and other social media sites have an agreement to take down extremist content within 24 hours when they are alerted to it.
But ministers are worried that this still allows the videos to be viewed thousands of times before they are taken down.
However ministers in the Home Office are now looking at a new law to force the websites to take down content immediately or face court action.
Officials are trying to work out how the law can be enforced in the UK given that many films that can be seen in the UK are hosted on foreign websites.
One source said: “We want to see them take on their responsibility. The problem with the law is in itself we can do what we can but these are global companies.”
The Home Office’s talks with the internet companies are being led by Baroness Shields, who as Joanna Shields was a former Facebook executive.
The news came as Mrs May’s spokesman said that “social media companies can and must do more”.
The Prime Minister’s official spokesman said: “The fight against terrorism and hate speech has to be a joint one. The government and security services are doing everything they can and it is clear that social media companies can and must do more.
“Social media companies have a responsibility when it comes to making sure this material is not disseminated and we have been clear repeatedly that we think that they can and must do more. We are always talking with them on how to achieve that
“The ball is now in their court. We will see how they respond.”…
Frank Verderber says
I say let Theresa May and the royals eat up Islam. When she is put in a 24/7 burka and told to marry a Muslim and have sex with him at his delight – I think then, Ms. May might get the picture straight. Let the EU and the Commonwealth Gnostics bathe themselves in the blood of Islam, rather than the Blood of Christ!
gravenimage says
How can you think that just Theresa May would suffer from letting Islam run amok? The suffering would be felt by Britons, by Europeans, and by the whole of the West.
Thinking you can abandon the fight in order to ‘teach her a lesson’ is very much mistaken.
Pastor C says
To the detriment and destruction of Western civilization, these incremental steps are being taken in Europe.
The more they conceal and reject the truth, the more they embrace being totally consumed by the lie. And they are conquered.
Take heed, America! Should we continue to follow their suicidal pattern, we will fall as well.
Jeanette says
Forced to have sex with him the day after she has been Muslim mutilated, at that.
Nigel GFF says
…“The fight against terrorism and hate speech has to be a joint one. The government and security services are doing everything they can and it is clear that social media companies can and must do more…”
Distraction. OK, let’s blame social media and ignore the elephant.
Nigel GFF says
“The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.”, The Usual Suspects (1995).
Creole Gumbo says
One of my favorite quotes.
Carolyne says
This is saying you are either against me or against me. How can one defeat an enemy against whom you may not speak? The problem is that one man’s hate speech is another man’s truth.
I am sad to think that I can never again visit England, the land of Magna Carta and repository of Western civilization.
Siegfried Dietrich says
If you want to eliminate hate speech, you must ban the Qu’ran
somehistory says
She is giving someone the evil eye.
It is not possible to control all speech, even if all speech is labeled. And it will take strong medicine to get this woman to realize that.
The *hatred* expressed by moslims in their daily preying sessions is what should be closely watched…since they don’t prosecute it.
Actions speak louder than words, anyway. And with moslims, hateful murders follow the hate-filled speech.
Shmooviyet says
“She is giving someone the evil eye.”
Same thought here; My Lord look at the tightened mouth and chin. She is one scary broad.
Jeanette says
Since she is willing to hand over innocent Brits to savage Muslims, I’d say one “evil” broad.
Diane Harvey says
There once was a pol named May
who burst on the scene to say
I’ll promote the Shariah
to help my career
even if others with their lives will pay
Westman says
May might as well say, “Let the QuranOkilling continue. We just don’t want to see it!”
meinnit says
you cant go around telling the truth. It makes people into Terrorists…..
What a joke.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
You stole that thought from Hillary. She got her insight from Yale Law Tool, so it must be right, or legal at least.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Hate speech is a legal fiction that establishes thought crimes when one hates this or that. Terrorism is code for Islamic activism. The former is an abomination created to keep a fake peace. The latter is a reality created to enforce another fake peace. Both require submission of free thought.
Westman says
Apparently, governments think they can turn citizens into sheep as they suppress any response to the “cold” war of Islam’s aggression upon them. The UK Aristocracy thinks, quite wrongly, it can turn Muslims into the “jewel in the crown”.
We are all the same – just educate them and they will be like Westerners is the governing thought of the day. Of course that fails from the beginning when Muslims refuse education and outside work to the women, and instead, overwhelm Britain with a horde of indoctrinated children.
davej says
A better idea would be to concentrate on hate ACTS and pay attention to which ideology is associated with those committing them.
Unless you don’t really wish to protect your country from them.
Infidel lives matter says
“If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”
George Washington
Jeanette says
Halal, in this case.
Bradthefuzz says
They can silence or kill the speaker but they will still stand before Yeshua and give a damning account of their sins. God will have the last word.
Halal Bacon says
well who started the fight dumb dumb? moHAMhead perhaps, geesh
Wellington says
Profoundly foolish and destructive woman. Orwell, were he still here, would have a field day with her. Ditto for Lewis Carroll. As for Winston Churchill, were he still around (and I wish he were), he would have nothing but withering contempt for such a horrible excuse for a Prime Minister.
Britain has sunk very low and I take no delight in stating this. Quite the contrary, I wish I didn’t feel compelled to state this but state it I must. Truth demands it, truth being something that May has such a sorry-ass understanding of. What a destructive creature she is. She fills me with contempt.
Anyone, and I mean ANYONE, who makes a distinction between free speech and hate speech, as May has many times, is an enemy of freedom, only their motive being a variable.
Elaine McMurren says
Theresa May looks like a devil in that scarf. Disgusting.
Stan Lee says
P.M. May and company must think that they oughtn’t call the evil deeds of Islam for what they really are. After all, in their minds patience and appeasement will ultimately “win the day.” For the innocent Brits who look to her government to protect the people who depend upon that government, the word “ultimately” is a helluva long time because the P.M. and her company of politicos cannot find the courage to call the threat what it is. The first requirement is for a government to stop fooling itself and its people. The Muslims among them are not fooling, they are dead set upon emphatically demonstrating that fanatical Islam has the muscle to sink British secularism and/or its occasional Christianity.
I realize the USA didn’t do much better, what with having the covert Muslim, Obama, as President for eight years of “allowing him a chance,” which was the Democrat Party’s request of the people to be patient. The poor man was frightened at calling Islamic terrorism what it truly was. He could never say “Jihad,terrorism, or the obvious “Muslim terrorism.” About half-way through his term of office, many of us realized he was an elected charlatan with racist tendencies mixed with devotion to Islam.
Now steps in P.M. May & Co. into the fallacy which was Barack Hussein Obama’s. If the UK ever thought, for a moment, she would be like Margaret Thatcher, that thought has been completely dispelled. For all we know, Margaret Thatcher, or bless his heart Winston Churchill may never happen again….or did the people quit seeking that kind of greatness which would serve and protect the nation without fail.?
mortimer says
Theresa May is incompetent to lead a democracy. She studied GEOGRAPHY, a subject where ROTE LEARNING is essential and creative, conceptual thinking is unnecessary. NOT SO, the prime-ministry.
A prime minister must EXCEL in conceptual thinking. It’s not EITHER/OR thinking that is required. LONG TERM CONCEPTUAL THINKING is the essence of the top governmental job. ROTE LEARNING WILL NOT HELP HERE.
Theresa May might be good as a bean counter, but making law requires a different sort of thought. SHE SHOULD BE DISMISSED IMMEDIATELY BEFORE SHE WRECKS THE COUNTRY TOTALLY.
Al says
Seeing the photo of Theresa May in a damnable headbag says it all! She is an enemy of the British people and should be immediately deposed as a traitor to her own country! Maybe she should try running for office in that Shariah hell hole Saudi Arabia where women are routinely beaten and jailed for walking down the damn street without a male escort!
Troybeam says
No matter where the political figure is you can bet they never cracked open a Kroran or sharia law, they are dimwitted bafoons. All it will take is a Muslim(s) attacking her as any other kafir which may happen once her usefulness wares off.
gravenimage says
Theresa May: “The fight against terrorism and hate speech has to be a joint one”
………………
In other words, fighting against Jihad and being able to speak honestly about it has to be a joint one. We’ve seen how well that works…
Al says
In other words, if you dare have the common sense and decency to say anything about the evil Satanic POS nature of Islam then you’re just as bad as an Islamist terrorist! Can you imagine what would have happened if this insane mindset existed during the time of the Blitz and WWII where we had the very leader of England in simpathy with the Nazis! England most certainly would have been conquered and subjugated to Nazi rule. So it’s clear, the people of England need to get armed and revolt and take back their beloved nation from the Marxist-Globalist ideologues that are steering them and the entire country over an Islamist cliff!
Paul says
All of this goes back to the Bible, what they say about a servant being unable
to serve two masters. Unsurprisingly, our glorious ‘leaders’ have chosen Mammon
(represented on Earth by Saudi-Arabia and Qatar) over the will of God. Even though
Mammon came close to devouring them. On this occasion at least…
utis says
Oh damn, does this mean I have to start learning how to use the “Dark Web”? A free Web is full of crazies and scammers, but there is also truth there, if you know how to pry it out of all the um, mud.
Voytek Gagalka says
So, enjoy the freedom until it lasts! And when it ends we’ll have no choice but to go underground, learning on the way from experience of our great ancestors how underground can quite survive and prosper even in tyrannical periods and regimes. And how they succeeded! Neither Nazis nor commies ever overcome them. NEVER despair!
Matthieu Baudin says
The Prime Minister appears to have come to the leadership without any new ideas on how to tackle Islamic Violence. It will soon be time for Conservative Party to decide whether or not she was the best pick for the top job and if not then declare the office open and seek new talent. There is absolutely no ‘moral equivalence’ between those advocating International Jihad and those opposing it. Some of the clearest thinking and original ideas for formulating new government policy to tackle the current Jihad Terror are to be found amongst many of the contributions to Jihad Watch and other international community forums.
tgusa says
These nuts are nothing more than talking dolls with a pull string. You pull the string and out comes the same tired message, every time.
Al says
Well if you want to ban true hate speech then why don’t you start with banning the so called “holly” Koran with it’s 18 Genocide verses and 164 War verses. Hell, if you’re an adverage Musselman you only have to read the first six chapters of the Mahound’s damnable “Mein Kampf” a.k.a Koran to be exposed to the majority of the hate verses to get “radicalized”. So the entire bull crap main stream media narative regarding ISIS radicalizing Musselmans is mostly fake news. All that it takes for a Musselman to get radicalized is to read their Satanic Moon devil inspired Koran.
Al says
Have any of you wondered why in hell would first responders administer medical aid to a terroist murderer? He/She should be the last to get any sort of medical aid in the aftermath of a terrorist incident.
Carolyne says
I think they were trying to keep him alive so they could get information from him. Of course, they wouldn’t dare ask him about his associates. That would be “Hate.”
There is no such thing as hate speech. It is in the eye, or ear if you will, of the beholder. What my truth is most certainly is not what PM May’s is.
Be nice to them and maybe they won’t kill us hasn’t worked. Time for a change.
Al says
BTW, Attention everyone! Read the book “Moon-O-Theism” by Yoel Natan. It’s a free pdf download. You can get it from archive.org or http://www.yoel.info/moonotheismv1andv2.pdf. If you truely want to understand the extreme Satanic evil nature of Islam and the threat that it poses to the entire world then you need to read this book. Also I ask that you to inform your family, friends and acquaintances regarding this book. Everyone needs to understand the true nature of the threat. Just reading the first chapter will give you insight into how evil @ss this POS socalled “religion” really is.
duh swami says
When I look at T May, a stream of hate speech comes pouring out of me…
I also yell at the TV a lot…I always feel better when I do that…
Carolyne says
Then you should probably arrest yourself.
Dan King says
Have there ever been ANY Hate speech charges and prosecution of any islamic muslim for their speeches about killing infidels or their right to treat the females as 3rd class humans or their constants rants about killing jews and destroying Israel and the western civilizations?
Jeanette says
Livestock, not 3rd class humans.
One wonders how Muslims explain that Allah was unable to create human companions for Muslim men, rather than animal companions.
The exception is when Muslim women are accused of having done something wrong – at that time it is instantly understood that they are humans, and therefore responsible for their behaviors.
And that’s only because Muslims always need fresh victims that they can enjoy lashing, stoning, beheading, and starving to death in their homes.
p says
She is unable to speak truth.. Obama clone!
gee says
The solution to ending terrorism and hate speech is one in the same. Ban Islamofascism! They preach rape, slavery and genocide every single day.
AngB says
The British people need to march and have signs that tell HER and parliament: YOU STAND ALONE! Muslims are marching stating OPENLY….THIS IS OUR COUNTRY! The British MUST MARCH and let them know in NO uncertain terms…that UK BELONGS TO US!
Carolyne says
There was a Muslim march not long ago with signs saying “No Democracy. We want Sharia.” To my mind, that is hate speech, Over the weekend there was to be a huge march in England objecting to leaving the European Union. The EU is the group of thug who caused this in the first place. Also, England should get rid of the House of Lords, those unelected idiots who run the country.
Kepha says
While I’m “Anglo-Saxon” chiefly by osmosis, it pains me to see Britain going this way. Considering all that it did for so much of the globe, it deserves someone far better than Mealy-mouthed May.
Angemon says
This is a terrible idea and nothing good will come of it.
Lydia says
What the bottom line here is, is this:
They will target Christians and call us ‘extremists’ and forget about everybody else.
Their target was never to extinguish terrorism. When we speak the truth, we will be their target.
This has been in the works for a long time. It is coming to fruition. It is the next holocaust and it will be world wide. Anyone who tows the party line and is a public puppet in favor of sin, violent religion, etc. will escape unharmed. But those who oppose it and speak the truth, we will be the target. Remember, we must carry our cross daily. The line will be drawn and one will fall on one end or the other. Let those who are able, understand what is being said.
Dacritic says
Another fucked up, useless politician. No matter how many lives are lost to Islam, they will NEVER learn.