I received this email from YouTube over the weekend. At first I thought it was another malicious copyright or flagging strike, but no, this one turns out to be different. Here’s the text (my highlights):
Regarding your account: Brian London
We have received a legal complaint regarding your video from the government. After review, the following video: Robert Spencer on Fox and Friends has been blocked from view on the following YouTube country site(s): Pakistan
YouTube blocks content where necessary to comply with local laws. Please review our help center article on legal complaints.
Sincerely,
YouTube email
This bit catches my eye: “We have received a legal complaint regarding your video from the government.”
THE GOVERNMENT?
Oh…. let me read on, this is from THE GOVERNMENT of Pakistan! Strange how it just reads “The Government” at the beginning though.
What we have here is Google/YouTube enforcing the censorship laws of an Islamic State (Pakistan) even though those laws should not apply to me or to Google. Google have chosen to be good Dhimmis, respecting the laws of superior Muslims.
The video itself, which I’ll embed below, is one of the very first clips I put on YouTube in 2006. I taped it off Fox News and it is Robert Spencer of JihadWatch and the most remarkable thing about it is how consistent Robert has been through the years. And right. He even talks about an Islamic State, long before what came to be known as ISIS or The Islamic State emerged in the ruins of Iraq and Syria.
Of course Robert doesn’t get booked on Fox and Friends these days: I guess the influence of Pakistan extends beyond YouTube.

Ren says
“We have received a legal complaint from the government” — of Pakistan
So what?
David M says
Maybe we should all start writing to the Pakistani government & tell them what we think of Islam & Muhammad, including his desire for little 6 year old Aisha.
b.a. freeman says
excellent idea, David; i think i just might do that!
Spirit of Pierre Boulle says
Oh, wait, but Mohammed waited until Aisha was at the ripe old age of 9 years before he started having sex with her…………..
balafama says
is it the money that google finds so appetizing that they are willing to throw under the bus,the sociopolitical and democratic values that lead to their founding and success in the first place,and kotow to an oppressive system that embraces blasphemy laws, minority persecution ,govt censorship and religious tyranny .are those extra million dollars so worth it ?
talk about shitting all over your birthright for an extra morsel of rotten food.
observer says
Thank goodness I’ve managed to order Robert’s latest book !!!
Before the West bans it as well…
Very concerning…
Max Richard says
Max and I (from Switzerland) are in Bangkok for some weeks. We visited the largest bookstore for books in English, Kinokuniya. I wanted to check whether they had books by Robert Spencer. I asked at the information desk. The computer found two books. I wanted to see them. They were: ‘The truth about Muhammad’ and ‘Did Muhammad exist?’ Bangkok has about 300 mosques. (Ruth Richard)
observer says
Thank goodness I’ve managed to order Robert’s latest book.
Before this gets banned as well by the West.
Very concerning…
Wellington says
Demonstrating again that Islam is the secondary problem with obsequious behavior by dhimmis sucking up to Islam representing the primary problem.
gravenimage says
Grimly true, Wellington.
Renate says
The Government of Pakistan makes these kind of complaints all the time nowadays. If it isn’t on YouTube, it’s on Twitter. Why do they think they have a right to be the world’s Islamic thought police?
Queen Rex says
You Tube’s true desire is to serve as the mouth piece of Newspeak under a one world government,just like Big Brother. Already they attempt to rewrite history by claiming you are in violation of “The Government”.
somehistory says
If someone produced a video promoting the practices of the paki gangs in the U.K., “the government” of pakis would probably not have any problems with it,.
The Truth is what bothers these scum and anyone whom the truth offends, will cover for them.
Charles says
“In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act”…George Orwell once again proffers a timeless quote forewarning of political climates where power and subterfuge supersedes truth. I hope that youtube takes its lessons from the age of enlightenment and defends your right to speak, and criticize freely. I can only say in a comment that will likely not be read, that I was at first skeptical of Robert Spencer’s message until I read the citations for myself. The reading is difficult because you must realize that the Quran is not written in chronological order. You must have a list that orders the chapters. Then you must read the Hadith to construct a plausible narrative of Muhammad and his life, and the of the Rashidun Caliph’s that followed his example.
Indeed the early Muslims themselves recorded the motives, the wars, the tortures, the assassinations of critics, the beheadings, the slaughter of prisoners of war, the rapes of vanquished women and the treatment of slaves.
I have no ill will toward Muslims as a people, but I am shocked at the lies and filtered propaganda designed to delude the followers and conceal the truth. The Danish girl and her hiking friend are yet more perfect examples of an endless war against unbelievers on the pretext of disbelief, and the dangers of delusional denial. I find the actions of ISIS to be a deliberate mimicry of the Ridda wars, even the name Abu Bakr copied from the first Rashidun Caliph.
My hopes are that youtube understands the need for this nuanced, well informed source of disclosure, since we seem bereft of any information in our early education. I would also add that we sugar coat for fear of offending. I learned in high school the 5 pillars of faith. I did not learn in high school about the extermination of Jews of Yathrib. Nor did I learn of the destruction of Christian North Africa, the Levant, Anatolia, or Zoroastrian Persia, or Buddhist Bactria…etc…
We must confront this theocratic censorship with our own rules of FREE EXPRESSION. We must expose this financially induced warfare designed to curtail our rights of expression and criticism. We know that $billions of laundered political money are being filtered through proxies like Soros, disguised as “philanthropic” and intended to silence criticism of Islam, by falsely conflating criticism with “racism”. Twitter, Google, etc must fight this trend.
Youtube, please make a critically correct decision here.
Qur’an:8:12, “I will instill terror into the hearts of the unbelievers: smite ye above their necks and smite all their finger-tips off them.”
Qur’an:8:39 “Fight them until all opposition ends and all submit to Allah.”
Qur’an:8:39 “So fight them until there is no more Fitnah (disbelief [non-Muslims]) and all submit to the religion of Allah alone (in the whole world).”
Qur’an: 8:55: “Surely the vilest of animals in Allah’s sight are those who disbelieve”
Ishaq:324 “He said, ‘Fight them so that there is no more rebellion, and religion, all of it, is for Allah only. Allah must have no rivals.'”
Ishaq:587 “Our onslaught will not be a weak faltering affair. We shall fight as long as we live. We will fight until you turn to Islam, humbly seeking refuge. We will fight not caring whom we meet. We will fight whether we destroy ancient holdings or newly gotten gains. We have mutilated every opponent. We have driven them violently before us at the command of Allah and Islam. We will fight until our religion is established. And we will plunder them, for they must suffer disgrace.”
Qur’an:8:65 “O Prophet, urge the faithful to fight. If there are twenty among you with determination they will vanquish two hundred; if there are a hundred then they will slaughter a thousand unbelievers, for the infidels are a people devoid of understanding.”
Qur’an:4:78 “Wherever you are, death will find you, even if you are in towers strong and high! So what is wrong with these people, that they fail to understand these simple words?”
Tabari IX:69 “Arabs are the most noble people in lineage, the most prominent, and the best in deeds. We were the first to respond to the call of the Prophet. We are Allah’s helpers and the viziers of His Messenger. We fight people until they believe in Allah. He who believes in Allah and His Messenger has protected his life and possessions from us. As for one who disbelieves, we will fight him forever in the Cause of Allah. Killing him is a small matter to us.”
Tabari IX:25 “By Allah, I did not come to fight for nothing. I wanted a victory over Ta’if so that I might obtain a slave girl from them and make her pregnant.”
Ishaq:530 “Get out of his way, you infidel unbelievers. Every good thing goes with the Apostle. Lord, I believe in his word. We will fight you about its interpretations as we have fought you about its revelation with strokes that will remove heads from shoulders and make enemies of friends.”
Muslim:C9B1N33 “The Prophet said: ‘I have been commanded to fight against people till they testify there is no god but Allah, that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, and they establish prostration prayer, and pay Zakat. If they do it, their blood and property are protected.'”
Qur’an:4:94 “Believers, when you go abroad to fight wars in Allah’s Cause, investigate carefully, and say not to anyone who greets you: ‘You are not a believer!’ Coveting the chance profits of this life (so that you may despoil him). With Allah are plenteous spoils and booty.”
Bukhari, volume 9, Book 84, #57
Narrated Ikrima, “Some Zanadiqa atheists were brought to Ali and he burnt them. The news of this event, reached Ibn Abbas who said, “If I had been in his place, I would not have burnt them, as Allah’s messenger forbade it, saying, “Do not punish anybody with Allah’s punishment (fire).” I would have killed them according to the statement of Allah’s Messenger, “Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him.”
Bukhari, volume 9, #58
Narrated Abu Bruda, “Abu Musa said…..Behold there was a fettered man beside Abu Musa. Muadh asked, “Who is this (man)?” Abu Musa said, “He was a Jew and became a Muslim and then reverted back to Judaism.” Then Abu Musa requested Muadh to sit down but Muadh said, “I will not sit down till he has been killed. This is the judgment of Allah and his messenger,” and repeated it thrice. Then Abu Musa ordered that the man be killed, and he was killed. Abu Musa added, “Then we discussed the night prayers …..
Tabari page 191
…But there was an old man among them, a Christian called al-Rumahis b. Mansur, who said, “By God the only error I have made since attaining reason was abandoning my religion, the religion of truth, for you’re, the religion of wickedness. No by God, I will not leave my religion and I will not accept yours so long as I live.” Ma’qil brought him forward and cut off his head.”
Qur’an 5:51—O you who believe! do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends; they are friends of each other; and whoever amongst you takes them for a friend, then surely he is one of them; surely Allah does not guide the unjust people.
Qur’an 9:29—Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the Religion of Truth, from among the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizyah with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.
Qur’an 9:30—And the Jews say: Uzair is the son of Allah; and the Christians say: The Messiah is the son of Allah; these are the words of their mouths; they imitate the saying of those who disbelieved before; may Allah destroy them; how they are turned away!
Sahih Muslim 4366—It has been narrated by ‘Umar b. al-Khattab that he heard the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) say: I will expel the Jews and Christians from the Arabia and will not leave any but Muslim.
Etc….This is not slander, this is early Islam in their own words.
jewdog says
It’s the long lash of Sharia. You cannot run, you cannot hide. You will be whipped wherever you are, and you will like it, you Infidel dog.
Rarely says
So a Robert Spencer video has been blocked by YouTube from its feed into Pakistan at the request of the Pakistani government apparently claiming that the video violates Pakistani law.
What’s the big deal?
Is anyone surprised that Pakistan does not have Freedom of Speech laws like those in the USA?
Is anyone surprised that YouTube et al will adhere to the laws of each country that it is servicing? Of course they will and THEY SHOULD.
There is nothing dhimmi about that. Where US Freedom of Speech laws differ from those in Canada and a posting is revealed to be breaking Canada’s laws that posting should be deleted from the feed into Canada especially if that request comes from the Canadian government. That is if YouTube wishes to continue operating in Canada.
U.S. law is NOT the law of the planet and Americans do not carry it with them wherever they go or do business.
That being said, it is deceitful of YouTube in not clearly identifying the “government” that made the request/demand. It would be very disturbing to find that it came from a department of the U.S. government. We all know what that would mean.
But don’t expect the social media companies to be the spearhead of American values to the less civilized countries of the World. That is not their job.
They (YouTube et al) ARE censoring free speech in the U.S. and, by extension, in Canada and the West in general by taking a hard left stance on what it will and will not allow here. Now THAT is something to be very, very concerned about.
gravenimage says
The idea that YouTube *should* be enforcing Shari’ah law is *very* questionable…
Rarely says
They MUST follow Pakistani law in Pakistan.
gravenimage says
Pakistan can enforce its own savage laws–they should not expect the civilized world to do their nasty dirty work.
ntesdorf says
For You Tube, the government is now the government of Pakistan.
Rarely says
Yes, and appropriately so, BUT only regarding its actions in Pakistan.
gravenimage says
Rarely, you are mistaken in believing that Robert Spencer was in Pakistan.
Rarely says
It doesn’t matter. If it is illegal to have that video on YouTube in Pakistan and the Pakistani gov’t points that out to YouTube and demands that it be removed from the feed into Pakistan YouTube MUST comply or risk being blocked from Pakistan totally.
It’s a no brainer.
Lydia Church says
Pakistan doesn’t like it?
Will anyone tell them that this is an ‘internal affair’ of theirs?
And yes, that wording is interesting. Sounds like the one world government to me. It is interconnected like that, not as much a ‘brick and mortar’ thing…
gravenimage says
YouTube on Robert Spencer video: “We have received a legal complaint from the government” — of Pakistan
………………..
Since when are free people under the government of Pakistan? If YouTube had a modicum of decency, they would tell Pakistan to take a flying jump, instead of enforcing Shari’ah law for them. *Ugh*.
Georg says
Robert spoke way, way, way too ably concerning the R.O.P. and is thus way, way, way far into “Islamophobia” territory. You simply can’t have an intellect that pristine, armed with the facts at gamma ray burst capacity speaking publicly with regard to Mein Koran or Jesus’s evil cousin.
na says
youtube.com/watch?v=rbzwVn0cUBM
Brian hoff says
It it is now know that trump is than russian spy working for russian government.
gravenimage says
More crap from “Brian hoff’–really, “DefenderofIslam”. He has said that as soon as they can get away with that he and his fellow Muslims intend to impose savage Shari’ah law here.
Linda M Clark says
Christian Prince/the Arabian Prophet also received a letter from YouTube saying the same thing. He just laughed it off, but since we then, his videos have had some transmission problems- like the filming just stops mid way.