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YouTube removes episode 23 of David Wood’s “Islamicize Me” as “hate speech”

Jun 8, 2018 4:33 am By Robert Spencer

Every day during this Ramadan, David Wood has been posting episodes of the video series he has produced in collaboration with Vocab Malone and Jon McCray, “Islamicize Me.” The idea is that three young men decide to live exactly as Muhammad directed for a month. It’s a biting satire based on the genuinely strange, dangerous, inexplicable, and violent things Muhammad is depicted as saying and doing in Hadith collections that Muslims accept as reliable.

I’ve posted the first 22 episodes here at Jihad Watch, but just now I went to get the 23rd and set it up for posting, and found the notice: “This video has been removed for violating YouTube’s policy on hate speech.”

Now, I haven’t seen episode 23, but I do know that it is entitled “Dawah to Jews,” and so I can imagine that it might depict the boys quoting some of the hateful material directed toward Jews in the Qur’an and Hadith. The Qur’an depicts the Jews as inveterately evil and bent on destroying the well-being of the Muslims. They are the strongest of all people in enmity toward the Muslims (5:82); they fabricate things and falsely ascribe them to Allah (2:79; 3:75, 3:181); they claim that Allah’s power is limited (5:64); they love to listen to lies (5:41); they disobey Allah and never observe his commands (5:13). They are disputing and quarreling (2:247); hiding the truth and misleading people (3:78); staging rebellion against the prophets and rejecting their guidance (2:55); being hypocritical (2:14, 2:44); giving preference to their own interests over the teachings of Muhammad (2:87); wishing evil for people and trying to mislead them (2:109); feeling pain when others are happy or fortunate (3:120); being arrogant about their being Allah’s beloved people (5:18); devouring people’s wealth by subterfuge (4:161); slandering the true religion and being cursed by Allah (4:46); killing the prophets (2:61); being merciless and heartless (2:74); never keeping their promises or fulfilling their words (2:100); being unrestrained in committing sins (5:79); being cowardly (59:13-14); being miserly (4:53); being transformed into apes and pigs for breaking the Sabbath (2:63-65; 5:59-60; 7:166); and more. They are under Allah’s curse (9:30), and Muslims should wage war against them and subjugate them under Islamic hegemony (9:29).

The Hadith are even worse, and much more voluminous, with a great abundance of material depicting Jews as evilly scheming against Muhammad and the Muslims. His poisoning is blamed on them. His death is blamed on them. They’re depicted collectively as greedy, untrustworthy liars.

The idea of “Islamicize Me” is to call attention to material of this kind in the Islamic sources, as well as material that is frankly absurd, such as the idea of drinking camel urine as a cure of what ails you. It’s a broadly comic series, but its intent is deadly serious, and it is scrupulously based on material that is actually within the canonical Islamic sources.

So by banning episode 23, YouTube is essentially saying that the Qur’an and Hadith contain hate speech. Is that really a position they want to take? Or are they being Sharia-compliant again, and banning this material because some Muslims found it offensive (while material offensive to adherents of other religions abounds on YouTube).

YouTube needs to be called to account, and to answer, for its tyrannical behavior acting as judge, jury and executioner, and offering no recourse or appeal, in banning videos. And as it is essentially a monopoly, it needs to be broken up, along with the other social media giants, under anti-trust laws.

Meanwhile, here’s hoping that David Wood will be able to make “Islamicize Me” episode 23 available somewhere forthwith.

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  1. St. Manuel II Palailogos says

    Jun 8, 2018 at 4:33 am

    But anti-Christian #Pride month videos are allowed.

    • Andy says

      Jun 8, 2018 at 9:11 am

      • beyondculturewars says

        Jun 9, 2018 at 10:28 am

        God Speed and protection to all protestors. I pray the protest will be peaceful and powerful. Any alteration of common law and silence of common speech is submission to sharia and not the law of the land in Britain.

        Thanks for video

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 8, 2018 at 8:22 pm

      How are Pride Month videos anti-Christian?

  2. Stephen says

    Jun 8, 2018 at 4:53 am

    A boring comment but had that been a satire addressing Christians, Facebook would have left it alone.

    Donald Trump still has a lot to do to fix America.

    • Lydia Church says

      Jun 8, 2018 at 8:19 pm

      And, if it is merely historical and documented in the koran, you can’t even call it a parody or anything.
      It may be, but what I am saying is it is not ‘open ridicule’ even. It’s just an educational documentary. We can’t help it that this is what their book says to do and their history that they hold to! And that it is so darn ridiculous!
      (Not that it isn’t worthy of ridicule, trust me, evil islam is one of the most deserving things to be mocked. It’s just some things are not on the ‘high road’ depending on how they are done, but I have not had time to watch anyway so I’m not referring to any of these items around here. I am all for exposing evil all the way, of course, or I would not be on here every day. There is a case in the Bible where Elijah mocks the false gods worshiped in Israel, like baal, it is a riot. Yet that is a different context as well. There is a little showdown, and of course God wins. But it is a riot, you all need to read this stuff. And Elijah’s name means ‘the Lord is God,’ meaning the God of the Bible, the one that brought Israel into the land, and indeed, He is God and none other!)

  3. Linda says

    Jun 8, 2018 at 5:07 am

    I wondered why I couldn’t find it on Youtube.

    • mortimer says

      Jun 8, 2018 at 8:28 am

      BINGO … YOUTUBE has declared that Islam’s PRIMARY SOURCE TEXTS, the Koran, Sira and hadiths contain HATE SPEECH. What other conclusion is there?

      If you quote any of these HATEFILLED PRIMARY SOURCE PASSAGES, they do not comply with youtube’s policy ! Devastating for Islam!

      The next step is to find several examples where these HATE-FILLED PRIMARY TEXTS are considered ‘HATE SPEECH’ in the modern world and then TAKE IT TO COURT in countries that have ‘HATE SPEECH’ laws.

      The courts will be forced to agree that Islam’s PRIMARY SOURCE TEXTS are hate-filled by modern legal definitions. The court will have to find a way to avoid coming to a verdict.

      Eventually, politicians in these countries will have to admit that these texts are indeed hate speech as defined in their laws.

  4. David Wood says

    Jun 8, 2018 at 5:12 am

    Here it is on Minds.com:
    https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/851748893710585856

    • eduardo odraude says

      Jun 8, 2018 at 2:24 pm

      Thank you, David Wood, for your courage.

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 8, 2018 at 8:24 pm

      Thank you, David. I *love* these videos!

  5. Phil Martin says

    Jun 8, 2018 at 5:52 am

    We all have to try to convince all our friends and relatives to vote Republican this November to really try to drain this putrid swamp that stems out of the FBI but encompasses our entire Federal government

  6. SRN says

    Jun 8, 2018 at 6:39 am

    No Muslims = No Jihad

    • eduardo odraude says

      Jun 8, 2018 at 2:16 pm

      Jihad is not really the worst thing about Islam. The worst thing is what jihad, as exemplified by Muhammad in the core texts of Islam, mainly is: a military tool of terror for the purpose of spreading a totalitarian system. In fact, that isn’t even the worst either. The worst is that such large numbers of Muslims have been inculcated with Islam’s totalitarian ethos, even where totalitarian Islamic law is not in effect. Thus even in the West, when numbers of Muslims grow enough, civil and political rights are diminished and corroded. We can easily see how free speech has been dramatically eroded in Europe and even in the US, where Molly Norris, who was advised by the FBI to change her name and go into hiding, is just the tip of an invisible iceberg of self-censorship about Islam. THINK ABOUT THAT! Islam has to a very large extent succeeded in silencing criticism of itself. It could not succeed in that without help from useful idiots on the Left — nor could the Left bring that self-censorship about all on its own without the backing of Islamic terror and death threats.

  7. Allan White says

    Jun 8, 2018 at 6:40 am

    YouTube banned me, for posting a link to a petition to Free Tommy Robinson in comments’ sections of videos about the arrest of Tommy Robinson!

    I had had my account for over ten years with absolutely no problems at all. But poof, I am gone.

    I appealed well over a week ago. But have not even received a reply from them.

    🙁

    • Tom S. says

      Jun 8, 2018 at 12:03 pm

      Youtube and Bing are suppressing links and defaming information related to the Tommy Robinson demonstrations tomorrow June 9th. If you are in the Washington DC area, please come out to Normanstone Park, Mass. Ave., across from the British Embassy, to rally for Tommy.

      • eduardo odraude says

        Jun 8, 2018 at 2:20 pm

        I’m guessing Muslim employees of youtube are exerting influence, and others running youtube agree with that influence, or when they don’t, are afraid of being booted out as “racists” should they object — though Islam is not a race but a choice, namely a slow motion genocidal theocratic ideological system. The main thing lacking is a sufficient number of people with the courage and integrity of Robert Spencer and David Wood.

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 8, 2018 at 8:45 pm

      Appalling, Allan.

  8. Gjallarhornet says

    Jun 8, 2018 at 7:14 am

    Youtube didn’t remove Wood’s ‘Farting in the mosque’-video though. Thank god. Guess this means that farting in a mosque is encouraged from now on …

  9. FYI says

    Jun 8, 2018 at 7:54 am

    Oh dear!Let’s hope You Tube never find out about islam’s koranic anti-Semitic,anti Christian bigotry..

    They’d have to ban muslims and their “holy” koran.

    If you want,hate speech:nothing beats the koran,the hadith…

  10. rob says

    Jun 8, 2018 at 8:01 am

    I have seen it and then it got taken down seconds later

  11. Stop Kafirophobia says

    Jun 8, 2018 at 8:08 am

    Perhaps David should consider uploading his videos to Bitchute.

  12. Lenore Cooper says

    Jun 8, 2018 at 8:47 am

    I’m disappointed I can’t watch episode 23. I have a sick fascination with what Islam has in it’s text. The boys are hilarious. Keep up the good job.

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 8, 2018 at 8:48 pm

      You can see it. There is a new link above.

  13. Ekondig G says

    Jun 8, 2018 at 9:12 am

    I just tried it and could still watch it (15:00 Paris time). Has it been reinstated, or has the ban not arrived across the atlantic yet? I’m a little confused…

    • Westman says

      Jun 8, 2018 at 11:23 am

      Click on the URL in David Wood’s post, above, to view episode 23 on minds.com

  14. Michelle says

    Jun 8, 2018 at 10:11 am

    Maybe they should post it to PewTube.com.

  15. mariam rove says

    Jun 8, 2018 at 10:20 am

    I knew this was coming. No shock. But what is shocking me is that it took them so long!!! M

  16. Opinionated says

    Jun 8, 2018 at 10:37 am

    Ma sha Allah YouTube.

  17. MikeyParks says

    Jun 8, 2018 at 10:41 am

    As Charlie Chan said in “the Black Camel,” “the truth can never be an insult.” The Muzzies are afraid of the truth because it’s cleansing and they don’t want their scurrilous cult exposed. “Hate speech” doesn’t apply to things that are truly despicable.

  18. David Longfellow says

    Jun 8, 2018 at 11:25 am

    The truth hurts. Muslims can’t stand their ideas to be exposed to sunlight.

  19. Billy Chickens says

    Jun 8, 2018 at 11:50 am

    YouTube probably banned it for saying that Muhammad was white and had black slaves. Liberals would much rather Muhammad had been brown with Jewish and white slaves. That would have been acceptable.

  20. bill gates says

    Jun 8, 2018 at 11:51 am

    it’s been uploaded on minds: https://www.minds.com/media/851743617213239296

  21. eduardo odraude says

    Jun 8, 2018 at 1:59 pm

    Here are a bunch of youtube alternatives. I don’t if they are any better than f’ing youtube, but here they are:

    https://twitgoo.com/best-youtube-alternatives/

    • eduardo odraude says

      Jun 8, 2018 at 2:07 pm

      People who know of good youtube alternatives should post them. This s**t is just outrageous, and if we can punish youtube, we should do so. And if we can get Congress to treat youtube as an effective monopoly that needs to be broken up into smaller entities, we should do so. Don’t forget this BS from youtube.

  22. eduardo odraude says

    Jun 8, 2018 at 2:03 pm

    The people who run youtube are too greedy and/or too ignorant to realize a very basic fact that makes civilization civilization: We don’t need free speech laws to protect inoffensive speech, as no one will object to what is considered inoffensive. The First Amendment is there precisely to protect speech that one or another group finds offensive. But youtube is run by greedy ignoramus dweebs, so try to use alternatives.

  23. someone says

    Jun 8, 2018 at 6:30 pm

    The best part is that they don’t talk to actual Jews, but to a bunch of Hebrew Israelites.
    Then Jon, an african-american, holds up a sign stating Muhammed was white and had black slaves.

  24. nicholas tesdorf says

    Jun 8, 2018 at 6:37 pm

    YouTube obviously has no sense of humour or reality.

  25. gravenimage says

    Jun 8, 2018 at 8:18 pm

    YouTube removes episode 23 of David Wood’s “Islamicize Me” as “hate speech”
    ……………………..

    How *dare* Infidels mock Islamic savagery? Bad, bad dhimmis…

  26. firefoxhits says

    Jun 9, 2018 at 12:13 am

    YouTube (aka Not-Your-Tube-It’s-Our Marxist-Tube) has once again shown their utter arrogant hypocrisy!
    Islam behaves with an arrogant supremacism. YouTube is no different. Islam’s quran contains quotes from stating clearly that Muhammad’s god allah hates unbelievers. He calls Jews pigs and apes!! Moslems pray for the death of Jews and Christians in their daily papers. Yet, nary a word from YouTube. But should a Christian quote from the Islamic texts, then suddenly it’s hate speech! Marxist insanity.

  27. Pete says

    Jun 9, 2018 at 4:55 am

    How about it if all of us upload this video to youtube?

  28. james c a reid says

    Jun 9, 2018 at 7:55 am

    Disgraceful! All these guys are doing is quoting directly from the sacred Islamic texts & passing comment on them! Has youtube.com removed ANY video clips posted by Muslims or their Imams calling for the wholesale slaughter of infidels, Jews etc.? Have they informed the Police that there are people (Muslims) out there wanting, urging, demanding the genocidal killing of non-Muslims? A complete disgrace.

  29. Noel says

    Jun 9, 2018 at 12:03 pm

    Forget Youtube. If you want to post a video then post it on https://pewtube.com. It’s sensor-free.

  30. Ade Fegan says

    Jun 9, 2018 at 4:17 pm

    I don’t like the series and belive it damages the reputation of serious critics of islam ..
    I much prefer it when David is being scholarly and informative

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 10, 2018 at 12:00 am

      So you believe that Infidels should not be allowed to mock Islam? Shari’ah law very much agrees…

  31. More Ham Ed says

    Jun 9, 2018 at 9:39 pm

    It’s no longer a “private company” if it’s the world’s largest video platform and a virtual monopoly.
    Legislation please.

  32. terry says

    Jun 10, 2018 at 9:29 am

    I got banned for 15 days by CBC for criticizing islam through verifiable facts, they called it hate speech.

    No criticism of islam is allowed, while it is open season on christianity and others.

    CBC is sharia compliant, it submitted years ago.

    • james c a reid says

      Jun 10, 2018 at 10:58 am

      If you are getting done for alleged “Hate Speech”, it would be interesting to see them justify this in a Law Court. Especially when you reference your statements about the murderous, hate-filled, quotes from the Koran & other Islamic sources. I think it is because the Authorities are afraid of being called “Racist”, when Islam is NOT a Race. They are relying on people’s ignorance of this Fascistic, Death Cult.
      All the Very Best.
      JCAR.

  33. Phil McDonald says

    Jun 12, 2018 at 12:00 pm

    I’m shocked. The Koran and the vast volumes of the Hadith contain hate speech?

  34. Soren Kuula says

    Jun 12, 2018 at 12:33 pm

    No prob the video has been saved and re-published by other Youtubers, eg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGPJAzGJ9OM

  35. Anonymous says

    Jun 16, 2018 at 12:37 am

    While Twitter is not doing anything to Iranian supreme leader Khamenei’s account.
    https://twitter.com/khamenei_ir?lang=en
    He is the one who spreads hatred in a massive scale, on daily basis.
    Everyday he threatens to destroy USA and Israel.
    Let’s report him and pull him off the world.

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