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Twitter hires “experts in Islam” and “right-wing populism” to banish “intolerant discourse”

Jul 31, 2018 8:01 am By Robert Spencer

This will be more Left-wing bias, and more censorship of views that dissent from the Left’s agenda, since it is certain that the “experts in Islam” that Twitter has hired are apologists who insist it is a religion of peace, not people who actually know and are willing to state what is in the Qur’an and Sunnah.

“Twitter hires experts in Islam and right-wing populism to banish ‘intolerant discourse,’” by Jasper Hamill, Metro, July 30, 2018:

Twitter has launched a new scheme to clamp down on ‘abuse, harassment and other types of behaviours that can detract or distort from the public conversation’.

It has selected two teams of academics to begin a project aimed at silencing the wrong type of speech on the social network.

The researchers have expertise in a wide range of subject areas including Islam, diversity and the spread of right-wing populism.

They will work to measure the effect of echo chambers and hate speech on Twitter, with the data used to guide the tech giant’s future strategy.

‘Earlier this year, as part of our global health initiative, we committed to serving the public conversation and working to increase the collective health, openness, and civility of the dialogue on our service,’ wrote Vijaya Gadde, who works as legal, policy and trust and safety lead at Twitter.

‘We want everyone’s experience on Twitter to be free of abuse, harassment and other types of behaviours that can detract or distort from the public conversation….

Dr. Rebekah Tromble, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Leiden University, is leader of a scheme called ‘examining echo chambers and uncivil discourse’.

She has a PhD in political science with a minor in ‘transnational Islam’ and wrote her dissertation called: ‘Who Framed the Prophet? Media, Stakeholders, and the Debate over the Danish Cartoon Controversy.’

Tromble will work with several scientists including Dr. Michael Meffert, who also works at Leiden University and has written several papers on the right-wing.

‘In the context of growing political polarization, the spread of misinformation, and increases in incivility and intolerance, it is clear that if we are going to effectively evaluate and address some of the most difficult challenges arising on social media, academic researchers and tech companies will need to work together much more closely,’ Tromble said….

It will also attempt to develop algorithms which hunt out ‘intolerant discourse’ and automatically recognise hate speech, racism or xenophobia.

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  1. Mary says

    Jul 31, 2018 at 8:08 am

    Will these algorithms also hunt out the truth and let it be discussed or will it just gag Twitter?

    • Moshe says

      Jul 31, 2018 at 8:53 am

      Twitter is to be applauded for its use of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (ML/AI) to implement the ethical precepts of former President Obama.

      “So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed,” said our transformational young leader in Cairo in 2009. “That experience guides my conviction that partnership between America and Islam must be based on what Islam is, not what it isn’t.”

      Such is the premise of the Twitter algorithm. The company’s brilliant soft engineers are simply implementing social justice as inherent in the long arm of history.

      “And I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States,” continued former Pres. Obama, “to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.”

      I urge J-W readers to reflect on the wisdom and importance of these words.

      • Mary says

        Jul 31, 2018 at 9:01 am

        BULL S%^T

        • SAE says

          Jul 31, 2018 at 10:04 am

          Perfect response, Mary…….clear, concise, complete, & CORRECT!

        • gravenimage says

          Jul 31, 2018 at 5:50 pm

          I see that “Moshe” is trolling us again.

      • SAE says

        Jul 31, 2018 at 10:02 am

        Complicitly and covertly, obama committed treasonous deals with Iran, one of the most dangerous sponsors of terrorism in the world. Since he was the very worst president ever, quoting obama in your ridiculous comment lends no credibility to it, Moshe, but exposes exactly where your allegiance lies ….and with whom.

      • boakai ngombu says

        Jul 31, 2018 at 12:17 pm

        ” … aimed at silencing the wrong type of speech on the social network ..”

        is WRONG the same as “NEGATIVE STEREOTYPES OF ISLAM” that O mentions?

        … rapists, thieves, acid throwers, cutters, honeybucket dowsers, killers, child molesters, enslavers … none of that is stereotypes so wrong must be peaceful, helpful, sympathetic, honorable … stuff like that. not so?

      • El Guapo says

        Jul 31, 2018 at 2:53 pm

        …implement the ethical precepts of former President Obama…

        !!

        What ‘ethical precepts’? So, they’re going to issue brown shirts, jackboots, federal immunity and Stielhandgranate’s to antifa? Send Iran a few hydrogen bombs?
        Because that’s what you get when you implement the ethical precepts of former President Obama.

      • Indiana Tom says

        Jul 31, 2018 at 9:48 pm

        Do I detect a twinge of sarcasm in Moshe’s post? Sounds like something in the style that Pravda might write.

      • BC says

        Aug 1, 2018 at 7:02 am

        There can be no relationship between I slam and the West except an adversarial one. Islam is and has been for 1400 years the aggressor. Islam is fundamentally in opposition to the values of Western civilisation, which we must remember founded the United Nations and promulgated the Universal declaration of Human Rights to which the Muslim countries as far as I know are not signatories, because they do not agree with its precepts.

      • Monica Dean says

        Aug 1, 2018 at 7:19 am

        Islam is coming to the U.S. and all reports of its impact will be silenced online and in the media. Much is hidden today, already.

      • dhans says

        Aug 1, 2018 at 11:21 am

        “I urge J-W readers to reflect on the wisdom and importance of these words”

        We have examined Obama’s words and we totally reject them. That’s what makes us the opposition.

    • mortimer says

      Jul 31, 2018 at 10:35 am

      Suggestion: BANISH THIS FROM ISLAM …

      The Koran’s 164 Jihad Verses: K 002:178-179, 190-191, 193-194, 216-218, 244; 003:121-126, 140-143, 146, 152-158, 165-167,169, 172-173, 195; 004:071-072, 074-077, 084, 089-091, 094-095,100-104; 005:033, 035, 082; 008:001, 005, 007, 009-010, 012, 015-017, 039-048,057-060, 065-075; 009:005, 012-014, 016, 019-020, 024-026, 029,036, 038-039, 041, 044, 052, 073, 081, 083,086, 088, 092, 111, 120, 122-123; 016:110; 022:039, 058, 078; 024:053, 055; 025:052; 029:006, 069; 033:015, 018, 020, 023, 025-027, 050; 042:039; 047:004, 020, 035; 048:015-024; 049:015; 059:002, 005-008, 014; 060:009; 061:004, 011, 013; 063:004; 064:014; 066:009; 073:020; 076:008.

      • Giacomo Latta says

        Aug 1, 2018 at 10:37 am

        Another suggestion: banish islam, period.

      • Jack Holan says

        Aug 1, 2018 at 11:13 am

        The article about Twitter’s attempt to erradicate their perception of what “Hate Speech” & Civil Diiscourse should be be on their Social Media Creation is missing the Bill of Rights, makes the broad and questionable assumption that the ‘Right’ is their definition of such, that all discussion from the ‘Right’ is by its nature uncivil and be publically banned, and Twitter has the Authority, Power, and Wisdom to make these decisions even though its a shot-gun blast to the Heart of the Bill of Rights starting with #1A. The Cries that would be heard through-out Left World if Twitter tried to attempt this feat on the Far Left and Islamo-Facism would be deafening. Likely, many Far-Left Organizations would take up Arms, Antifada would become the SDS of our age. A target would be posted to members o Twitter. However, the “Right” Twitter is going to wsr with wong take such action because they arent the people portrayed by Twitter. Most, like Daniel, Robert Pamela and Brigitte seek through knowledge, political action guaranteed by the Constitution as a ‘Right’ and Civil Discourse that Twitter FB and others to deamonize as Racist, a non-word Islamaphobe in the pursuit to discredit them and their message.
        Sharpies at Twiter who are dumb pawns may not even realize this was already a model used by Uncle Joe (Stalin) who purposefully starved 10s of millions to death in the Ukraine (once the bread basket of Russia) whe Joe drove the Ukraine towards Collectivization that failed beyond belief.
        The other shinning example is Adolph Hitler (National Socialist) who not unlike Twitter soughtt to eliminate dissention at home and abroad. Like Twitter he realized he needed to identify those opposed to his Agenda, isolate and remove them from society on both the conscious level and influence. He figured out he need to create incidents blame it on Jews and others, rile passions and demand for action and this resulted in the Nuremberg Laws. German Jewish Citizens stripped of their constitutional Rights. He also abolishished the Reischtag )Parliment) declaring a period o National EMergency. Im the founders and officers Twitter FB and other Social Media know this much.
        One caveat. During the run up to the Revolutionary War the more hard George, his Agents and the Hdson Bay Co pushed they solidified a group that having no means of redress went underground and arose all at once By then it was too late for George to do anything except go to war. Anotheris the Newspapeprs and local politicians were so critical of Lincoln at the outset of the CW and before, in danger from elements that he would be thrown out of office as the media called for: Lincoln suspended habeas Corpus, locked up many newspaper editors, jounalists and local politicians. As the Left continues its journey into Hell dragging the American People its best for them to remember that the playbook has been written already bby the 16th President and one of the most reverred. Also incompetent Obama and liar Clinton should heed this advice

    • mortimer says

      Jul 31, 2018 at 10:40 am

      Did Rebekah Tromble study the KORAN, SIRA, HADITHS, CANONICAL COMMENTARIES, FATWAS, SHARIA LAW MANUALS and ISLAMIC HISTORY? NO???

      Then WHY THE HECK NOT?

      Does Rebekah Tromble have a CLUE about the JIHAD DOCTRINE, the TAQIYYA DOCTRINE, the KAFIR DOCTRINE, the AL WALAA WAL BARAA DOCTRINE??? No???

      Then WHY THE HECK NOT?

      Apparently, TWITTER doesn’t think a THOROUGH KNOWLEDGE OF ISLAM is required to do a HIT JOB on ACCURATE INFORMATION ABOUT ISLAM.

      Dr. Tromble, the following list can be VERIFIED FROM THE ISLAMIC TEXTS:

      Islam is 22 cults in one:
      -a death cult, a rape cult, an honor-killing cult, an extortion cult, a plunder cult, a censorship cult, a misogyny cult, a lie cult, a pedophilia cult, a sadomasochistic 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.

      • mortimer says

        Jul 31, 2018 at 10:56 am

        Rebekah Tromble is not an EXPERT on Islam or jihad per se.

        She specialized in a NEWPAPER CONTROVERSY. That is entirely different.

        If Rebekah Tromble DOES NOT READ the new ‘HISTORY OF JIHAD’ by Robert Spencer, she must be considered a TOTAL FRAUD.

        • Cicero says

          Jul 31, 2018 at 1:46 pm

          She ought to be sent a copy of Spencer ‘s new book. In fact she should be sent several copies of thi# incredible work

        • Giacomo Latta says

          Aug 1, 2018 at 10:38 am

          Just send her a copy of the koran to read, or offer to read her the koran, if that’s the problem.

    • mortimer says

      Jul 31, 2018 at 11:11 am

      TWITTER TARGETS CONSERVATIVES … thus imposing censorship.

      TWITTER DISCRIMINATES AGAINST CONSERVATIVES.

  2. StellaSaidSo says

    Jul 31, 2018 at 8:10 am

    “…It will also…automatically recognise hate speech, racism or xenophobia.’

    Well, there goes 90% of the Koran.

    • Jaladhi says

      Jul 31, 2018 at 8:25 am

      Ah, Quran is exempt from any such examination! to review Quran will be Islamophobic,hateful and xenophobic!!

    • SAE says

      Jul 31, 2018 at 2:18 pm

      Oddly enough,Twitter exempts the Quran as the only exemption to their anti-free-speech policy. Any factual truth pointing to that hypocrisy will not be tolerated.

  3. Terry Gain says

    Jul 31, 2018 at 8:13 am

    Yo Twitter

    There is nothing more intolerant and widely distributed as the Koran. GET A CLUE.

    • mortimer says

      Jul 31, 2018 at 11:13 am

      Agree with Terry. Over half of the ISLAMIC TEXTS are POLITICAL.

      Over 60% of the Koran is the RANT that KAFIRS ARE EVIL and that MUSLIMS must SUBJUGATE THEM using violence and subterfuge.

      Sharia law COMMANDS MUSLIMS to ATTACK the KAFIR COUNTRIES NO LESS THAN TWICE YEARLY.

      Islam is SYSTEMICALLY GENOCIDAL.

      • boakai ngombu says

        Jul 31, 2018 at 12:32 pm

        mort, there’s a spiritual aspect to some of what’s deemed political. DISLOCATION OF FAITH; that’s demonic

        the koranic instruction bends the God-given “seeking things eternal” of the human soul, warps it, and causes it to focus on something false upon which none should depend.

        extolling the beneficence of the allah god of islam (unknowable; the best of all deceivers) is one example, a vengeful bloodthirsty one it is

      • Susan B says

        Jul 31, 2018 at 12:35 pm

        Jay Boo, I have an excellent website for you to visit that spells it all out. It was put up by and ex-muslim, Ali Sina, who offered any islamic scholar to disprove anything he claims and which he backs up with only islamic texts. He has offered $100,000 US dollars to anyone that can prove him wrong and said if they could he would resort back to being a muslim. No one has been able to and he put this website up in 2001.

        http://www.faithfreedom.org/challenge.htm

      • SAE says

        Jul 31, 2018 at 2:24 pm

        Some excellent books are; STEALTH INVASION, Leo Hohmann, SEE SOMETHING, SAY NOTHING, Phillip Haney, MUSLIM MAFIA, Paul E. Sperry, among others.

  4. Jaladhi says

    Jul 31, 2018 at 8:22 am

    If Islam is so “good” then why does it require “experts” to defend it?? The Western elite has become totally delusional and stupid and insane!

    • Susan B says

      Jul 31, 2018 at 10:27 am

      Very good point Jaladhi!

    • Cicero says

      Jul 31, 2018 at 1:50 pm

      Yes why are the powerful elite and MSM making so much noise both in the UK and USA that Russia is THE ENEMY of the West and that PUTIN is SATAN himslef whilst ignoring the parasite of Islam busily worming and burrowing itself into the powerful entrails of American and British society.

  5. John says

    Jul 31, 2018 at 8:39 am

    I for the Life of me can not understand how Western People can stick up for muslims knowing too well that muslims believe in Female Genital Mutilation( not just cutting a Piece of skin but the Entire Clitoris off), Pedophilia , Slavery, Child Brides, having 4 wives , Honor Killing and usually the Females are Murdered , Blatant Lying, Terrorism, only following the quran and not a Countries Laws, Murdering Gays, Murdering Non Believers, Treating Women as a Commodity like Cattle and being at best, Worth half a man, if a Woman is Raped, she bought it upon herself unless 4 men testify on her behalf , Stoning People to death, Public Floggings, the Barbaric Savagery just goes on and on yet People defend them . So in my mind, those who defend them are themselves , agreeing with islamic Atrocities against Civilization and they are also SUBHUMAN Beings.

    1] Kill any one who insults Islam or Mohammad (MHCTRIH).
    2) Kill all Muslims who leave Islam.
    3) Koran can not be doubted.
    4) Islam is the only acceptable religion.
    5) Muslims must fight (jihad) to non-Muslims, even if they don’t want to.
    6) We the non-Muslims are pigs and apes.
    7) We the non-Muslims cannot be friends with Muslims.
    ? We the non-Muslims sworn enemies of Muslims and Islam.
    9) We the non-Muslims can be raped as sex slave.
    10) We the non-Muslims the vilest of creatures deserving no mercy.
    11) Muslim must terrorized us (non-Muslims).
    12) Muslims must strike terror into non-Muslims hearts.
    13) Muslims must lie to us (non-Muslims) to strengthen and spread Islam.
    14) Muslims are allowed to behead us (non_Muslims)
    15) Muslims are guaranteed to go to heaven if they kill us (non-Muslims).
    16) Marrying and divorcing pre-pubescent children is OK.
    17) Wife beating is OK.
    18) Raping wives is OK.
    19) Proving rape requires 4 (four) male Muslim witnesses.
    But she’ll still die as an honor killing to save the families honor.
    20) Muslims are allowed to crucify and amputate us (non-Muslims).

    . Sharia law:

    • Theft is punishable by amputation of the right hand (above).
    • Criticizing or denying any part of the Quran is punishable by death.
    • Criticizing or denying Muhammad is a prophet is punishable by death.
    • Criticizing or denying Allah, the moon god of Islam is punishable by death.
    • A Muslim who becomes a non-Muslim is punishable by death.
    • A non-Muslim who leads a Muslim away from Islam is punishable by death.
    • A non-Muslim man who marries a Muslim woman is punishable by death.
    • A man can marry an infant girl and consummate the marriage when she is 9 years old.
    • Girls’ clitoris should be cut (per Muhammad’s words in Book 41, Kitab Al-Adab, Hadith 5251).
    • A woman can have 1 husband, but a man can have up to 4 wives; Muhammad can have more.
    • A man can unilaterally divorce his wife but a woman needs her husband’s consent to divorce.
    • A man can beat his wife for insubordination.
    • Testimonies of four male witnesses are required to prove rape against a woman.
    • A woman who has been raped cannot testify in court against her rapist(s).

    • A woman’s testimony in court, allowed only in property cases, carries half the weight of a man’s.
    • A female heir inherits half of what a male heir inherits.
    • A woman cannot drive a car, as it leads to fitnah (upheaval).
    • A woman cannot speak alone to a man who is not her husband or relative.
    • A female regardless of age can be stoned to death by her own family as an honor killing.
    • Muslims should engage in TAQIYYA and lie to non-Muslims to advance Islam.
    • The list goes on.

    • Al says

      Jul 31, 2018 at 9:07 am

      The reason Twitter, Facebook and Google are falling over themselves to censor criticism of Islam and more broadly Multiculturalism is that European people are waking up to the escalating problems caused by these things!

      They are trying to control the narrative and are failing massively as European voters swing to the Right.

    • Susan B says

      Jul 31, 2018 at 12:40 pm

      Jay Boo I like your colorful descriptions of the head choppers and carpet kissers. Keep it up. Your prose always puts a smile on my face.

    • SAE says

      Jul 31, 2018 at 2:28 pm

      ….carpet kissing…with their smelly asses elevated toward heaven.
      Revolting!

  6. Ann Marie says

    Jul 31, 2018 at 9:00 am

    Guess my days are numbered on Twitter…all I do is tell the truth about Islam. And we all know that’s not what they want to read..

    • mortimer says

      Jul 31, 2018 at 11:14 am

      Keep telling it, sister.

      • Ann Marie says

        Jul 31, 2018 at 2:44 pm

        As long as I can….

  7. Charlie says

    Jul 31, 2018 at 9:01 am

    There is no intent on taming social discourse. The goal of Twitter is to appease capitalized investors in the Twitter platform who may have political or religious proclivities. Citable criticism is the new “hate speech”. Patriotic Americans have come to grips with the truths of our past. We accept the facts that many founding fathers were hypocritical in that they touted freedoms and rights, yet owned slaves. While the constitution is a stellar work of political rules and personal rights, they themselves were not perfect examples. When you point out, from confirmed multiple Hadith narratives, that Muhammad was an enslaver and a slave trader, the truth does not matter to the Muslim “expert”, It is you who are slandered and labeled “Islamophobic”. If Twitter wants a real debate in the tradition of Aristotle, Socrates, Voltaire, DesCartes, they will also hire educated critics of Islam to balance the proponents. Since they are plutocratic totalitarians, they will never consider true discourse or dialogue, but will acquiesce to their capitalized patrons.

  8. James Lincoln says

    Jul 31, 2018 at 9:15 am

    Twitter hires “experts in Islam” – more like “experts in Islam propaganda”.

    The world needs competing social media platforms run by independents / conservatives to serve as a counterbalance to the current existing leftist / liberal social media platforms.

    If this does not happen, Islam will spread at an ever-increasing rate.

  9. Berengaria says

    Jul 31, 2018 at 11:11 am

    Twitter is like a Little Obama World, ruled by Little Val Jarrett Wannabes.
    I don’t understand why Twitter decides whose Speech is Free, because Twitter appears to be an arm of Fake News Media.
    The Few People, who are able to express their Conservative ideas, are those who have enough Clout to
    Fight Twitter, but the Trump Supporters are being hunted down on Twitter & banished forever.

  10. eduardo odraude says

    Jul 31, 2018 at 11:55 am

    God help us.

    • Susan B says

      Jul 31, 2018 at 12:29 pm

      God has helped us, he gave us Trump and so do not worry God is in control.

  11. CogitoErgoSum says

    Jul 31, 2018 at 1:10 pm

    Twitter must silence the intolerant.
    Twitter is intolerant of the intolerant.
    Twitter is intolerant.
    Twitter must silence itself.

    • Susan B says

      Jul 31, 2018 at 2:44 pm

      Gogitoergosum, Silly, twitter does not understand logic. Twitter only understands anti truth logarithms.

  12. Michael Copeland says

    Jul 31, 2018 at 1:34 pm

    Presumably simple (but unattributed) quotations from the Koran, such as “Kill them wherever you find them” will be automatically stopped by these algorithms. It would be interesting to see.

  13. Wellington says

    Jul 31, 2018 at 4:15 pm

    Liberty on one side, social engineering on the other. Take your choice because you can’t have both, just as you can’t have both liberty and Islam. Twitter has made its choice and it’s clear where it stands, which is why I don’t stand with Twitter.

    • Susan B says

      Jul 31, 2018 at 5:42 pm

      +1

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 31, 2018 at 7:18 pm

      So true.

  14. Ibrahim itace muhammed says

    Jul 31, 2018 at 5:05 pm

    Twitter wants adherence to the ethics of responsible journalism away from rascality and lies. How can you imagine a social media descending so low disseminating lies and falsehoods and expect people to believe in the stories it contains?

    • Mary says

      Jul 31, 2018 at 5:16 pm

      Twitter is good for nothing. Freedom of speech is not allowed. It is intolerant.

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 31, 2018 at 5:21 pm

      What Ibrahim itace muhammed means is that he wants to see the crushing of any criticism of the horrors of Islam.

      He has openly said here that “blasphemers” should be murdered.

    • Keys says

      Jul 31, 2018 at 10:39 pm

      Itace, Twits will ban you for your holy spirit satan and evil scums of mithraist Christians “intolerant discourse”; not to mention your vulagar sexual comments, etc., etc.

      You better clean up your act, or are you one of the experts the Twits hired ?

  15. gravenimage says

    Jul 31, 2018 at 5:49 pm

    Twitter hires “experts in Islam” and “right-wing populism” to banish “intolerant discourse”
    …………………………

    My guess is that this will mean “Islam good”, “anything right of center bad”.

    More:

    Dr. Rebekah Tromble, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Leiden University, is leader of a scheme called ‘examining echo chambers and uncivil discourse’.

    She has a PhD in political science with a minor in ‘transnational Islam’ and wrote her dissertation called: ‘Who Framed the Prophet? Media, Stakeholders, and the Debate over the Danish Cartoon Controversy.’
    …………………………

    I haven’t been able to find this dissertation, but this is the bloodless way she has characterized this issue for an abstract for her paper, “Are We Talking With or Past One Another? Examining Transnational Political Discourse across Western–Muslim ‘Divides’”:

    “In a time of rapid, globalized communication, what are the possibilities for truly meaningful cross‐cultural political dialogue? …in the wake of 9/11 and the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, many express specific skepticism about the potential for Western and Muslim societies to bridge such divides. …we examine the discursive links formed during a quintessential transnational media event: the 2005–2006 Danish Muhammad cartoon controversy. Comparing the frames deployed and actors engaged in each of these countries [Britain and Pakistan*–GI], we find clear evidence of genuine transnational engagement between Muslims and non‐Muslims…”

    (*yes, I know Britain is not a country–blame Ms. Tromble)

    https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/isqu.12167

    Notice there is *no* mention of freedom of speech or the Muslim death threats against the Danish cartoonists. I guess she considers threats of violence to be “transnational engagement”. Very disturbing. This does not bode well for her actions with Twitter.

    • StellaSaidSo says

      Jul 31, 2018 at 11:12 pm

      Doubtless Twomble’s dissertation would be an interesting, if predictable, read. I agree, GI, her commitment re freedom of speech appears distinctly feeble. Once a great university, Leiden has become – like so many great universities – a lefty cesspit.

    • elee says

      Aug 1, 2018 at 2:52 pm

      Thanks for posting, I tried to access that dissertation too.

      I read the quoted abstract differently. It says there’s “transnational engagement.” Squishy term, but it just might mean that some Pakistani Muslim has found occasion to examine his beliefs and the beliefs of his culture.

      Remember, our culture and our institutions have nothing to fear from fair and open discussion of Islam. If she can bring this about, I’m for it.

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 1, 2018 at 8:24 pm

      Thanks for the replies, Stella and elee.

  16. Ibrahim itace muhammed says

    Jul 31, 2018 at 6:32 pm

    Liar Gravenimage, all what you have been doing here are bunches of lies against Islam, it is a criticism. How can you criticize something you don’t know? you just cite Quranic verses and hadiths without knowledge. Fools!!

    • Andy says

      Jul 31, 2018 at 6:38 pm

      Ibrahim itace muhammed look in the mirror

      You will see the biggest Fool!

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 31, 2018 at 7:30 pm

      Ibrahim itace muhammed wrote:

      Liar Gravenimage, all what you have been doing here are bunches of lies against Islam, it is a criticism. How can you criticize something you don’t know? you just cite Quranic verses and hadiths without knowledge. Fools!!
      …………………….

      Note that Ibrahim itace muhammed does not cite a single thing that I have said that is untrue, nor does he cite anything I have gotten wrong re the Qur’an and Hadith. Of course, this is because he cannot.

      The fact is that he *himself* often reveals the savagery of Islam. He has condoned FGM, child “marriage”, forced marriage, wife beating, the “Triple Talaq”, “Honor Killing”, rape in Jihad, slavery and sex slavery, stoning women to death, dhimmitude and Jizya, kidnapping and ransom, bloody conquest of all Kuffar lands, mass slaughter of Infidels, murder of “blasphemers” and apostates, and the genocide of the Jews.

      Of course, most of those “blasphemers” have criticized the horrors of Islam, as I am doing here.

      And he considers himself to be a defender of Islam–he doesn’t realize that civilized people are horrified by these atrocities.

      • Ibrahim itace muhammed says

        Jul 31, 2018 at 8:28 pm

        Liar Gravenimage, civilised people? How civilised you people are? married and unmarried women having sex outside marriage, appearing half-naked reviving stone age way of life, homosexuality polluting the environment with bad smells, mithraist churchmen having anus and vaginal sex with kids, genocide, colonisations or neoconisations and deprivations of other nations, international brigandage destroying other nations? All of these are savageries, not civilised ways of life. To hell with them together with the Satan god you call Holy Spirit who inspires you to commit them

        • gravenimage says

          Jul 31, 2018 at 8:54 pm

          Ibrahim itace muhammed wrote:

          Liar Gravenimage, civilised people? How civilised you people are? married and unmarried women having sex outside marriage, appearing half-naked reviving stone age way of life, homosexuality polluting the environment with bad smells, mithraist churchmen having anus and vaginal sex with kids, genocide, colonisations or neoconisations and deprivations of other nations, international brigandage destroying other nations? All of these are savageries, not civilised ways of life. To hell with them together with the Satan god you call Holy Spirit who inspires you to commit them
          ……………………..

          Let’s parse this, shall we? Ibrahim itace muhammed has said that anyone who marries for love must be killed. Meanwhile, he believes that Muslim men can be chaste married to four females (including little girls), raping Infidels in Jihad, and keeping an unlimited number of sex slaves.

          He regards anything short of being immured in a Burqa as “half-naked”. He believes that anyone so much as suspected as being homosexual should be murdered.

          And pedophilia is *illegal* here, and there is no condoning it in Christianity. Whereas, the “Prophet” Muhammed himself raped a little 9-year-old child, and Ibrahim itace muhammed himself has said that Muslims have the right to “marry” little girls, no matter how young they are.

          As for genocide, he has said that the United States trying to curb the entrance of Jihadists is “genocide”.

          Whereas, Ibrahim itace muhammed has said that he wants to personally take part in the genocide of the Jews.

          He has also said that Infidels not allowing Muslims to enslave them are engaged in “deprivations” of Muslims. He has referred to free trade as “international brigandange”.

          In other words, this is all projection.

        • Wellington says

          Jul 31, 2018 at 9:18 pm

          Echoing gravenimage and others, Ibrahim, you are a sicko and so is your religion of choice.

          Look, either freedom will win out over Islam or Islam will win out over freedom. Yes, freedom can be abused by those who don’t understand that with freedom comes responsibilities but, this aside, there is nothing that Islam can do for the cause of freedom.

          Absolutely nothing.

    • Mary says

      Jul 31, 2018 at 8:59 pm

      You’re the fool if you think everyone believes your lies.

      • elee says

        Aug 1, 2018 at 2:54 pm

        Thank you Ibrahim Itace. You demonstrated my assertion, above, that our culture and our institutions need fear nothing from a fair and objective comparison with your cult.

        • gravenimage says

          Aug 1, 2018 at 8:28 pm

          Spot on, elee.

  17. Mary says

    Jul 31, 2018 at 9:05 pm

    My last message was for Ibrahim

  18. Indiana Tom says

    Jul 31, 2018 at 9:42 pm

    “Twitter hires experts in Islam and right-wing populism to banish ‘intolerant discourse,’”
    The experts are experienced sophophists from the Ministry of Truth.
    ‘We want everyone’s experience on Twitter to be free of abuse, harassment and other types of behaviours that can detract or distort from the public conversation….
    We are open to free speech as long as it adheres to the standards and goals of the Ministry of Truth and INGSOC.

    • Susan B says

      Jul 31, 2018 at 10:50 pm

      + 1

  19. Lydia Church says

    Jul 31, 2018 at 10:53 pm

    As we know, in other words, anything that does not agree with their Orwell think will be deemed
    ‘unacceptable’.

    The truth? All those things we are calling evil, truly are evil.

    But as someone said; “Those who hate truth call truth hate.”

    The social media gestapo has arrived!

  20. Mac says

    Aug 1, 2018 at 3:18 am

    I received a permanent ban from Twitter, for conflating Quran 9:29, with violent, external Jihad.

    As David Crosby once said, “they thought they could bury us, they did not know we were seeds”.

    • Susan B says

      Aug 1, 2018 at 9:23 am

      +1

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 1, 2018 at 11:17 pm

      Ludicrous ban, Mac–for just noting how violent Islam is.

  21. Kalifornia Kafir says

    Aug 1, 2018 at 11:36 am

    Twitter is a sewer. Get out of it.

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 3, 2018 at 12:55 am

      Robert Spencer uses Twitter.

  22. jack cade says

    Aug 1, 2018 at 9:10 pm

    There is no need to do anything except post verses from the Koran. Let Allah condemn the filth, violence, and stupidity of Islam.

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