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Twitter accepts paid ad promoting female genital mutilation

Sep 20, 2018 4:36 pm By Robert Spencer

Would Twitter run a paid ad opposing jihad terror? No, I don’t think so, either.

“Twitter backlash as tweet promoting FGM is seen 30,000 times author image,” by Joe Roberts, Metro.co.uk, September 20, 2018:

Twitter has been slammed after a tweet promoting female genital mutilation (FGM) on children was viewed more than 30,000 times.

A Muslim group calling itself Dawoodi Bohra Women for Religious Freedom posted a tweet last week justifying ‘khafz’ – or female circumcision – on young girls.

The tweet featured a video of group member Arwa Sohangpurwala saying: ‘My daughters have also undergone khafz, and they’re growing up as perfectly as other children of their age.

‘As a mother, I can never do anything to harm them.’

Despite FGM being illegal in the UK, with a penalty of up to 14 years, the group paid Twitter to ‘promote’ the tweet, so it showed up on the timelines of users who didn’t even follow their account.

Twitter users immediately slammed the controversial ad.

Esmael Omar wrote: ‘Speak for yourself woman. Don’t speak on behalf of innocent girls. ‘FGM is FGM no matter how you want [to] sugar coat it. Leave alone cutting – even touching the female genitalia of a girl is still child abuse.

‘Twitter must explain why they sponsored such a message.’

Paul Hart added: ‘Did you ask your daughters beforehand or did YOU make the decision to mutilate their genitals for them? Sick.’

Ingrid Srinath said: ‘Sorry, what?! Twitter is carrying an ad FOR female genital mutilation? #FGM’

Mariya Taher added: ‘I’m wondering how Twitter can say that an ad promoting female genital cutting/mutilation doesn’t violate community standards?’

Twitter has since removed the promoted post but taken no action on the original tweet….

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  1. Marina says

    Sep 20, 2018 at 4:46 pm

    Twitter will take no action when mudslimes are involved.

    • StellaSaidSo says

      Sep 20, 2018 at 4:56 pm

      Hopefully, Twitter users will take action, by closing their accounts.

      Twitter should be investigated for incitement to crime.

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      • Anjuli Pandavar says

        Sep 21, 2018 at 7:18 am

        This is beyond sick. I’ve just closed my Twitter account.

        • Frustrated an Citizen says

          Sep 21, 2018 at 12:47 pm

          Cruel act for a parent! No love in that religion and law!

    • Alex Dutka says

      Sep 20, 2018 at 9:08 pm

      We might need to ban twitter.

    • Eagle says

      Sep 21, 2018 at 8:45 am

      Totally have to agree, also, Twitter should be supporting (MGM) on the males of the religion of peace. Fair treatment!

  2. Old Fat Bald Socially Inept Ron says

    Sep 20, 2018 at 4:52 pm

    Just to be clear, because Allah designed the Quran it is perfect and therefore any attempt to alter it in any way is blasphemy. Didn’t Allah also create mankind in his own image?
    Shouldn’t any aftermarket modifications and mutilations to Allah’s perfect human design be seen as the worst of insults to their creator?
    Did Allah make a flawed product?

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 20, 2018 at 5:14 pm

      Unfortunately, Islam doesn’t care about logic and reason.

      • StellaSaidSo says

        Sep 20, 2018 at 5:24 pm

        OFBSI Ron was having a laugh, GI.

        • gravenimage says

          Sep 20, 2018 at 5:35 pm

          Alas, I am not familiar with this internet slang, nor was I able to find it in a search.

        • StellaSaidSo says

          Sep 20, 2018 at 6:21 pm

          @gravenimage

          What ‘internet slang’?

        • gravenimage says

          Sep 20, 2018 at 11:23 pm

          I had assumed that “OFBSI” was internet slang–now I see that it is an abbreviation of Ron’s username. Apologies.

    • FYI says

      Sep 21, 2018 at 6:04 am

      It seems that allah creates muslims in his own image.

      allah, the champion “best of deceivers” god of islam{koran 3:54}

      allah, who tells muslims its OK to break the commandments{..the whole point of the Torah is to get people to OBEY them!}

      allah ,who claims he wrote the Bible and that the koran confirms the Bible{koran 3:3}

      It DOES NO SUCH THING!

      It can be shown that things revealed by Jesus in the Gospel{which allah claims he wrote} and those all-important laws of God revealed in the Torah{which allah claims he wrote}are contradicted and denied by allah in the koran{which allah claims he wrote}

      Take ANY commandment of God revealed in the Torah:the koran teaches otherwise.
      Take ANY teaching of Jesus Christ in the NT:allah disagrees and denies them,especially that important 2nd chief commandment{found in Judaism AND Christianity but nowhere in islam}

      Instead of “LOVE thy neighbor”{“Look,at least TRY to get along and avoid hate”} we have allah teaching the OPPOSITE in koran 5:51{“Oh ye who believe!take not the Jews and Christians for friends”}{“Let’s NOT TRY to get along and give into hate”:allah’s version of the 2nd chief commandment}

      So given that koran 3:3 is a PROVABLY FALSE statement i.e the koran does NOT confirm the Bible,why should anything in the koran be taken seriously?

      Why should a muslim woman wear a hijab or have anything to do with FGM etc when the koran teaches nothing but falsehood!

  3. gravenimage says

    Sep 20, 2018 at 5:07 pm

    Twitter accepts paid ad promoting female genital mutilation
    ………………….

    Well, this is *just sick*–especially given that Twitter has banned those *opposing* such horrors.

    I suppose it is possible that no one at Twitter knew what “Khafz” is–but why would they accept an ad whose content they didn’t understand? And it just takes two seconds of Googling to find out what it means, in any case.

    • Indiana Tom says

      Sep 20, 2018 at 5:14 pm

      SSDD at Twatter.

    • Renate says

      Sep 20, 2018 at 6:20 pm

      I think Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal bin Abdulaziz al Saud owns a big stake in Twitter. There’s your answer. https://qz.com/519388/this-saudi-prince-now-owns-more-of-twitter-than-jack-dorsey-does/

      • StellaSaidSo says

        Sep 20, 2018 at 6:41 pm

        Yep. He also has a stake in Lyft, Citigroup, and Four Seasons Hotels, plus luxury hotels in UK & Europe, and real estate in Saudi Arabia. Several elite universities in the US have been compromised by his generosity.

        • Renate says

          Sep 20, 2018 at 6:52 pm

          It’s just obscene how rich those Saudis are.

  4. asa walker says

    Sep 20, 2018 at 5:09 pm

    an inch at a time we were lost.for ignorance ,for not caring, for not knowing the enemy,for just not accepting a new-old kind of war where all our mighty valor will be surrendered to stone age savages~~where the God of death will reign without end~~

  5. Indiana Tom says

    Sep 20, 2018 at 5:13 pm

    Next Twatter will be taking ads for Honor Killings and Jihads.

    • Anjuli Pandavar says

      Sep 21, 2018 at 8:09 am

      Or become a zakat franchise.

  6. Dude says

    Sep 20, 2018 at 6:23 pm

    It was all about water in the desert, as valuable as gold.

    Sure, they could rub their armpits with sand, but rubbing away urine from delicate places would not be practical.

    • tt says

      Sep 21, 2018 at 11:14 am

      Dude,

      +1

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 21, 2018 at 11:13 pm

      Dude’s claim that FGM is about saving water in the desert is absurd.

      Muslims regularly emphasize its killing a woman’s ability to feel sexual pleasure, and hence enforcing ‘chastity’. This has *nothing* to do with saving water.

      • Dude says

        Sep 23, 2018 at 1:07 am

        Muslims are idiots. They may say that, but just as the Jews cut the males to avoid the common desert infections, so it was proposed for women too. It has all become so twisted, because absolute irrationality spawns idiocy in its defence.

        The whole idea that God is such an idiot that He constructed the female form with glaring errors (which it seems He cannot correct), and He awarded free will, which He now realizes He cannot change, so He now wants those who misuse that independence to be murdered unless they adopt a cult regiment, unless they abandon their free will, their intellect, their admiration for Him. No one with half a brain or half a heart will respect let alone worship such a monster.

  7. penelope says

    Sep 20, 2018 at 7:28 pm

    i dare anyone who recommends female genital mutilation to come forward and have it done to them or someone they love.

    open your legs wide; larger people will be holding you down; other fgm victims will then pull out the rusty razor blade and start cutting; no anesthetic; if they don’t die from shock or bleeding to death I will be surprised.

    you who think this shit is so great should try it before you open your stupid mouths.

  8. Krishna says

    Sep 21, 2018 at 1:35 am

    Bohra Muslims are from India and they are very sick as they still practice female genital mutilation and Indian government is least bothered to stop

    • Cicero says

      Sep 21, 2018 at 2:26 pm

      Hey Krishna

      Since the Indian government is least bothered about FGM why don’t you as a cscious citizen begin a campaign to outlaw it? Instead of asking the government to do everything.

      • gravenimage says

        Sep 21, 2018 at 11:16 pm

        +1

  9. abu taleb says

    Sep 21, 2018 at 2:43 am

    twitter, google, facebook, the three headed evil

  10. J.W.K. says

    Sep 21, 2018 at 8:25 am

    Twitter is a TWIT program. I thought it might be interesting, so I tried it. Then the Spam and lousy, disgusting “tweets” started: who CARES what Hollyweird wackadoodle actors think aanyway?!! I tried to unsubscribe. Their program had a supposed glitch! It wouldn’t let me unsubscribe, so now I report EVERY email evenly remotely connected with TWITTER as SPAM!! IT IS GARBAGE, absolute VERBAL EXCREMENT.

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 22, 2018 at 12:02 am

      Not all of it, J.W.K.

      Robert Spencer, for instance, has a Twitter feed:

      https://twitter.com/jihadwatchRS?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

  11. Brenda says

    Sep 21, 2018 at 10:43 am

    ‘As a mother, I can never do anything to harm them.’ ????????
    These people are monsters, savages, vile fiends and barbarians. Anyone who promotes FGM should be sterilized, castrated and never ever be allowed around children, their own or anyone elses.

    I wonder if Twitter would accept an advertisement promoting castration of boys? My guess is – absolutely not.

  12. Walter Sieruk says

    Sep 21, 2018 at 12:01 pm

    This is totally unconscionable of that corporation , entity,, twitter.. This company is proving that it has no business ethics . For that cruel, brutal and vicious Islamic tradition of female butchery which some Muslims so inappropriately call “female circumcision.” This heinous Islamic custom of misogyny has been exposed in the book by Brigitte Gabriel which is entitled THEY MUST BE STOPPED. For on page 178 it reveals to the reader that “One of the most devastating practices to young girls of the Islamic world is female genital mutilation. Young girls have their clitoris removed without anesthesia…”
    Indeed, they must be stopped !

    • Peter WF says

      Sep 21, 2018 at 11:05 pm

      I read somewhere that there are a number of forms. What you mention is one.
      There is also another “tidy up” that is possible.
      The most severe is when a cut is made each side of “…” and this has the intention of severing the nerves that give the female pleasure during intercourse.
      Who dreams this stuff up? How does it get started? Pedophiles.

      • gravenimage says

        Sep 22, 2018 at 12:10 am

        Actually, Peter, removing the girl’s clitoris is the *least* extreme form of mainstream FGM–Type I. Type II also includes cutting away the labia, and Type III all of the above as well as infibulation.

        The rare catchall “Type IV” includes everything else:

        https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/female-genital-mutilation-fgm/

        • Jay says

          Sep 22, 2018 at 3:54 am

          Yep Type I is considered the “Sunna” form of FGM in that part of all of the cilitrois is removed. Types II and III are not considered ‘Sunna’ as such, however the hadith which recommended against this practice are considered weak.

          Generally two Islamic schools of jurisprudence either have FGM as compulsory (Shafi’i ) or very highly recommended (Maliki). The areas where FGM is practiced corresponds perfectly to where the former school of Fiqh is practiced and somewhat to a lesser extent the former. Also there are Shia groups in the Arabian peninsula or originated from it (Dawoodi Bohras) which practice it as well.

  13. Peter WF says

    Sep 21, 2018 at 10:59 pm

    Are they promoting it to their female employees?

  14. Bowen G says

    Sep 22, 2018 at 6:08 pm

    Twitter Claims It Doesn’t Judge Political Beliefs, but Bans Pro-Life Content
    Lila Rose, the president and founder of pro-life organization Live Action, called out Twitter for claiming it doesn’t censor content based on political beliefs while simultaneously cracking down on pro-life posts and campaigns.
    “Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has repeatedly told the news media that Twitter doesn’t ban content based on users’ viewpoints… Yet for years, Twitter has blocked one of the most prominent pro-life organizations online from advertising our pro-life message on the platform,” declared Rose in an article for USA Today. “So I can tell you from experience, Jack Dorsey’s statements are not the truth.”
    “Twitter’s reasoning for blocking Live Action’s message? In emails to us, the company has said that our content violated its sensitive advertising content policy, which prohibits ‘inflammatory or provocative content which is likely to evoke a strong negative reaction.’ Some examples of this supposedly offensive content include pictures of children developing in the womb and even simple ultrasound images of babies — like the ones that expectant parents hang on their refrigerator doors,” she continued, claiming, “Twitter’s actions suggest it’s OK for Planned Parenthood to tweet that a woman has a right to an abortion, but when I tweet and try to promote that a baby has a right to life, Twitter considers that inflammatory.”
    “Twitter is walking a dangerous line. It seems to pretend that it’s merely a platform for users to post content so it can benefit from legal protections against libel, copyright infringement and other illegal acts by its users,” Rose added. “Yet when it chooses to exercise editorial judgment to exclude certain viewpoints, it’s acting more like a publisher, taking more responsibility for its content, and should face the consequence any other publisher would face.”
    Twitter has frequently cracked down on pro-life content, and last year, Twitter even blocked a campaign advertisement from Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) which documented the sale of abortion body parts.
    Blackburn’s advertisement was reportedly “deemed an inflammatory statement that is likely to evoke a strong negative reaction.”
    In April, Twitter also blocked a British pro-life activist with Down syndrome from posting for 24 hours after she tweeted pro-life content on the social network.
    https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/09/18/lila-rose-twitter-claims-it-doesnt-judge-political-beliefs-but-bans-pro-life-content/

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