Facebook’s Vice President Joel Kaplan traveled to Pakistan last July to assure the Pakistani government that it would remove “anti-Islam” material. That endeavor had already started before Kaplan’s trip. In mid-February, traffic to Jihad Watch from Facebook dropped suddenly by 90% and has never recovered. We do not post any hateful or provocative material and neither incite nor approve of violence, but Facebook is acting as judge, jury and executioner in all this. There is no appeal and no recourse. Facebook is implementing Sharia blasphemy laws, and also doing everything it can to muzzle all opposition to the Left before the 2018 elections, so as to ensure that they will turn out in a way that will make it easier to destroy Trump and stop the swamp-draining.
In any case, Michael Hesemann is absolutely right that “Islam is not part of German history, but the defense against Islam.” You can see exactly how that defense played out in my forthcoming book, The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS, which you can preorder here now.
The book also notes that there was one German who was sorry that the jihadi invaders had been defeated at Tours in 732, as he would have preferred Germany to have been Muslim rather than Christian. His name was Adolf Hitler.
“German Catholic Historian Blocked by Facebook for Comments on Islam,” by Maike Hickson, One Peter Five, April 4, 2018:
…Facebook has recently deleted a post by a renowned German Catholic historian and prolific book author. As the Austrian Catholic news website Kath.net reported on 20 March 2018, Dr. Michael Hesemann – who is known to our readers for his discovery of an important historical 1918 letter concerning the organized Freemasonic plans to destroy throne and altar – was notified by Facebook that his comments on the historic role of Islam in Europe had been deleted, because they do “not correspond to our community standards.” As the Facebook notification continues, they will delete any comment that “attacks persons because of their race, ethnicity, national background, religious orientation, sexual orientation, sexual identity, or physical impairment.”This is what Hesemann said which Facebook determined to be in violation of its policies:
Islam always plays only one role in the 1700-year-old history of the Christian Occident: the role of the sword of Damocles which hung above us, the threat of barbarism against which one needed to unite and fight. In this sense, Islam is not part of German history, but the defense against Islam!
Dr. Hesemann made this comment in the context of the current discussions in Germany after Horst Seehofer, a newly appointed member of Chancellor Merkel’s new cabinet, insisted on 16 March that “Islam does not belong to Germany” and that Germany has been formatively influenced, rather, by Christianity.
According to Kath.net, Dr. Hesemann has now been punished by Facebook for his confirmatory comment about this matter, reminding his readers of the fact that there was, in the history of Christianity, a vivid memory of serious mortal confrontations with Islam. Facebook has banned Dr. Hesemann from using his Facebook account for thirty days — a move some users are referring to as “Facebook Jail“. The action taken against Hesemann has already provoked wide attention in Germany.
Dr. Hesemann himself has written an open letter to Facebook, protesting its censuring of his public remarks. In his open letter, he refers to the constitutional right of free speech which is especially protected with regard to academic freedom. He adds “With my being blocked for 30 days (!), Facebook has violated, to my own chagrin, my right to free speech and I consider taking legal steps against it.” Dr. Hesemann, who received his Ph.D in history and teaches in this academic field at a Catholic academy, “immediately commented” upon Seehofer’s own comments which at the time had been contradicted by Chancellor Merkel herself. In giving proof for his claim that Islam has been always a threat to Christianity, he refers to the case of the time of Charles Martell (732), that of the Crusades (1096-1294), as well as the Holy League and the Ottoman Wars (16th and 17th century).
Dr. Hesemann continues by saying: “Islam, with its brutal intimidation techniques, let alone with the idea to spread a religion with the help of the sword in the first place, has been understood in Europe generally as barbarism.” “When you look at [Martin] Luther’s Sermons on the Turks, for example, it becomes clear how true my claim is,” he adds. Dr. Hesemann then shows how the defense against Islam has mainly contributed to the unification of Europe and to its own specific identity. “This is an incontestable historical fact, even if you [Facebook] might see it as not ‘politically correct.’”…
Shawn says
If not for Charles Martel winning Battle of tours against the ummayads, all white people would’ve probably Muslim today. Another important battle was vienna 1000 later. This time it was from the east and not southwest. And it was turks not arabs.
mortimer says
Mark Zuckerberg is a DHIMMI who has submitted to Sharia blasphemy law.
gravenimage says
This is true, Mortimer–and Joel Kaplan of Facebook is also a dhimmi.
Michael says
Zuckerberg isn’t a dhimmi. He’s a Muslim.
Agi says
Why does that bother you? Why do you hate?
Ira Edwards says
“Hate is a word much over-used, mainly to intimidate and to prevent examination.
gravenimage says
Agi thinks we should be fine about not being able to say anything critical about the horrors of Jihad. And why not? That’s how it is under Shari’ah.
If we have a problem with Muslims raping and murdering us, that is “hate”…
Richard says
I wonder how Zuckerberg’s wife would feel about him having three other wives and a lot of slave girls…let alone being able to beat her after circumcising her? “Say, O Mohammed…Ouch!”
mortimer says
Does Facebook believe that there is NOTHING to criticize in Islam?
Islam is 21 cults in one:
,,, a DEATH CULT, a RAPE CULT, an EXTORTION CULT, a PLUNDER CULT, a CENSORSHIP CULT, a MISOGYNY CULT, a LIE CULT, a PEDOPHILIA CULT, a SADOMASOCHISM CULT, an OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE CULT, a SUPREMACISM CULT, a JEW HATRED CULT, a CHRISTIANOPHOBIA CULT, a MALE CHAUVINIST CULT, an INBREEDING CULT, an OBSCURANTISM CULT, a SUPERSTITION CULT, a PERSONALITY CULT, a CRUELTY TO ANIMALS CULT, a GROUP-THINK CULT, a SUICIDE CULT.
Does Mark Zuckerberg believe we should NOT criticize a JEW HATRED CULT? Or is Mark Zuckerberg SELF-HATING?
Richard says
Brilliant!!!!!!!!!!
Granddaddy says
Facebook needs to be taken to account for this sort of thing. Why is it just automatically assumed that nothing can be done about it? To object to a personal opinion is one thing, but to censor factual history is something else. Otherwise, I’m sure the Left and Islam both have their own PC version of history ready in the wings. Not only that, but both the Left and Islam are indoctrinating children in public schools and universities now. And no one seems to be doing anything about that either. Or do they believe their own lies? Does the U.S. Dept. of Education do nothing? Is history just a matter of someone’s opinion now?
gravenimage says
Facebook is a private company, which complicates things.
Jan Aage Jeppesen says
I think I know from whom Merkel and Facebook took history lessons about Islam:
“As a student of history, I also know civilization’s debt to Islam. It was Islam – at places like Al-Azhar University – that carried the light of learning through so many centuries, paving the way for Europe’s Renaissance and Enlightenment. It was innovation in Muslim communities that developed the order of algebra; our magnetic compass and tools of navigation; our mastery of pens and printing; our understanding of how disease spreads and how it can be healed. Islamic culture has given us majestic arches and soaring spires; timeless poetry and cherished music; elegant calligraphy and places of peaceful contemplation. And throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality”
(Obama’s Speech in Cairo, June 4, 2009).
Dave says
Get real, Obama was, and continues to be, one of the many puppets of Satan who works to deceive and destroy people.
Guy Jones says
This contemptibly dishonest speech, filled with obsequious flattery, blatantly dishonest historical revisionism and utterly contrived fantasy, was penned by Obama’s lackey, the odious Ben Rhodes.
I find this line, in particular, utterly revolting:
“And throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.”
This speech couldn’t have been more offensive if Obama had been paying tribute, instead, to German National Socialism and its 1930’s practitioners.
Obama will rightly go down in history as a willing and foolish apologist and enabler of totalitarian, supremacist Islam.
gravenimage says
Yes–sickening whitewash of barbarism.
josie o'neill says
What was he drinking? Which planet is he on?
libertyORdeath says
Hitler may have thought that he would have preferred a Muslim Germany and Austria but with his occult views and aversion to “organized religion”, he would have never existed in an Islamic Europe. This is the same misinformed view that threatens the Europe of today and its future with the liberal left standing in for the Nazis of the early 20th century.
This is the same miscalculation that has been made over and over again by the West since the collapse of the ottoman caliphate. From the British and French support of the “house of Saud” made famous by Lawrence of Arabia, to the Americans arming the mujahadeen in Afghanistan of the 1980’s, to the present day training and arming of jihadists in Syria and Iraq, the West has consistently backed the side of the most zealous of Islamists in every way possible.
This strategy has been guided by the ridiculous view that the jihadis and islamism are the lesser evil when compared to communism or a tyrannical regime. What is never considered is the solidarity, devotion and modernisation of the jihadi forces that make them much more dangerous than any opposing force we have seen thus far. Add to that the sheer number of possible mujahadeen (especially Sunni) that could be called to action by the right circumstances and you have a recipe for a modern “holy war” that would dwarf any fighting seen in human history.
Honestly, if not for the Sunni – Shia split, we would possibly already be living in the horrors of a world caliphate. We must take this time to try to ensure that a full scale war is never possible but instead we continue to ignore the threat while the islamists patiently wait for enough power and the right moment to strike. They boast about their plans in the open to do just that, yet we do not take their threat seriously despite the evidence that we should.
Richard says
I do not understand the idea that Hitler wanted Islam in Europe. His stated aim was a return to the Old Norse religion, which, incidentally, sacrificed the darkest people available by different forms of asphixiation (the reason there are so many blondes in the Nordic countries). Other than its aversion to alcohol and pork, I see absolutely nothing in common between his philosophy and Islam, which would have weakened his power to rule as he wished.
gravenimage says
Richard, Hitler said this: “The Mohammedan religion too would have been much more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?”
He also thought that if Muslims had prevailed at Tours, that “ultimately not Arabs, but Islamized Germans could have stood at the head of this Mohammedan Empire.”
He admired Islam as a martial creed.
And no–the reason one finds blonds in Nordic countries has nothing to do with Norse pagans sacrificing “the darkest people available”. This is ahistoric claptrap.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
I don’t do Facebook. Never have, never will. If no one used Facebook then this problem wouldn’t exist. No one can argue that Facebook provides a necessary service; that it is part of a needed infrastructure. It exists because of human weakness, nothing more.
gravenimage says
Jihad Watch is on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/JihadWatch/
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
So? That’s Spencer’s decision, not mine. Most who got on that bandwagon will, if they don’t already, regret it.
gravenimage says
Flavius, i’m saying that Robert Spencer is not using it out of human weakness–not that you have to use it.
Richard says
Flavius: So does prostitution and gambling exist because of human weakness. People use Facebook because it is a means of their communicating with others. As those involved in Facebook are now subject to its various rules, they will have to change their ways of expressing themselves in order to continue using it. Because what Facebook deigns to allow are the only thoughts they find available to them, eventually, those users being berift of other forms of communication and information, will begin to think and write in the ways they read and write on Facebook. It is a wonderful means of brainwashing.
Lydia Church says
Other means of networking and remaining connected should be implemented if possible.
You never know when they will pull that plug 100%. We need to be prepared.
gravenimage says
Facebook bans historian for saying “Islam is not part of German history, but the defense against Islam”
……………………….
Kudos to Michael Hesemann, and shame on Facebook for censoring the truth.
Wellington says
Certainly it would be a far better world if Islam did not exist but, to a lesser extent admittedly but at least to some extent, it would be a better world too if Facebook did not exist.
Just as I will never have a good opinion of Islam, so will I never have a good opinion of Facebook, which has helped to dumb down the West, trivialize life and let stupidity and wickedness wax and not wane.
infidel says
The misdeeds of Zucky are coming out into the open and so also his connections to Saudi oil money will.. SHAME ON FB…
Mark Swan says
There is the belief that the Internet in general, and social media in particular, promotes free speech. This is myth! It is well-known that Silicon Valley executives are among the most liberal of people, and are attempting to change the world to their liking through political correctness.
The young millennial parrot back ideas espoused by socialist university professors. This has caused a backlash from individuals who see their countries losing their identities and historic values. The backlash sometimes comes in the form of violent speech, and this in turn “justifies” attempts to suppress anything thought of as hate speech.
We can see the danger? How will they define inciting fear, or reducing someone to less than human? How will they determine what constitutes promoting hostility against religion or sexual orientation?
Given political correctness, micro-aggressions, and the ease with which liberal university professors convince students they should feel offended, can we not see where this is headed?
However, due to speech that attempts to stir people to violence, along with fake news and vulgar discourse, it is understandable that some want monitoring and deleting of such postings on social media and the Internet in general. Google hired 10,000 people in 2017 for this very purpose. Twitter jumped on board to do the same.
True violent speech exists and should be condemned by all sensible people everywhere, but here is the problem: How exactly do you define hate speech? This is not nearly as easy as it seems, because not everyone can agree as to what it is.
Much that the illiberal left labels as hate speech is no more than politically incorrect difference of opinion.
nicu says
I was banned 5 times at the moment I still am : well , it’s like knighthood -shows you speak the truth !
nicu says
By the way in Germany Arabian and Turkish posts also those from the Antifuck – NEVER get checked or banned ! Thank you to Heiko Goebbels – um Maass !
roger standen says
Facebook outsources its moderation to North African countries. Most of the moderators are Muslims
gravenimage says
Oh my God–you’re right:
“Facebook’s Fatwa: Outsourcing Content Moderation to Muslim Countries”
https://gellerreport.com/2017/10/facebook-fatwa.html/
That’s terrifying.
Apparently most French language moderators are Muslim North Africans.
Indiana Tom says
Yes and No.
Some of Europe has been soft on Islam through the years.
Lisa says
Just deactivated my Facebook acct.Our best weapon is walk away.
CT says
“That endeavor had already started before Kaplan’s trip. In mid-February, traffic to Jihad Watch from Facebook dropped suddenly by 90% and has never recovered.”
And my Facebook time has since dropped by 90% or more. Not just a coincidence.
WESTPAC Spy says
“Dr. Hesemann continues by saying: ‘Islam, with its brutal intimidation techniques, let alone with the idea to spread a religion with the help of the sword in the first place, has been understood in Europe generally as barbarism.’”
The fact that Facebook is bending over and implementing Sharia blasphemy laws after being called on the carpet by Pakistan shows those “brutal intimidation techniques” work. On cowards.
William Parker says
He is far from the only one. Back in January I was in a discussion with a fellow veteran about Islam and the spread of terrorism and I had stated that terrorists and those who support them can go f@$k themselves. My free speech opinion. Nothing inflammatory or hate speech not a threat or directed at any one person and yet, aside from the 30 day ban I received for it, I couldn’t find anything in their community standards that this would’ve violated. I mean it’s generally accepted that terrorists and terrorism is bad and wrong. I simply affirmed my position on the matter.
Beyond that, another violation of my free speech, I am almost done with a SECOND 30 DAY BAN because I was in a conversation with yet another veteran but this time is was about cars. He is a Ford lover while I am a Chevy man. He posted something making fun of Chevy and I replied and I quote “ya there is another one out there of a bunch of fords with f@$ked up trannys. Now most ppl know that for decades-nearly a century, the term tranny or trannys has been used as mechanic slang for a VEHICLE transmission. Yet, even WITH that context of the conversation not 3 minutes after posting the comment I got the 30 day sentence to Facebook jail because trannys regardless of context in usage it seems is now nothing more than a derogatory term. It’s ridiculous. Facebook is supposed to be a SOCIAL media site where ppl are meant to talk and converse freely with each other and if something offends you can simply block them and scroll on by. Now I understand for certain things like open threats and the like to have the ability and function to ban ppl as punishment but to ban free speech simply because the ppl running the platform don’t agree with it is nothing short of censorship. Last I checked we live in the FREE WORLD and not China or the DPRK. Yet we are having to deal with this censorship as if we lived in such oppressive places.
Remember911 says
A year from today, you will STILL be here whining about your umpteenth FB ban, you STILL won’t have started your own blog, you STILL will be giving Zuck your personal data for free, and you STILL will not have understood WHY you are a sucker.
Sorry, no sympathy for you.