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Facebook and YouTube still feature videos by leading al-Qaeda jihadis

Jun 29, 2019 11:56 am By Robert Spencer

Google/YouTube labels Ben Shapiro and Dennis Prager “Nazis,” and buries content that portrays Islam in a negative light, even if it’s accurate, but jihad terror preaching is OK with them. Likewise Facebook, which recently agreed to turn over data on “hate speech” suspects to the French government. Since foes of jihad violence and Sharia oppression are routinely defamed as purveyors of “hate speech,” what Facebook is essentially doing by targeting such people while allowing jihadis to post freely is aiding and abetting the global jihad. If free societies and free people survive this sorry age, and an accurate history of it is written, Mark Zuckerberg will be portrayed as the enemy of freedom that he is.

“Al Qaeda’s Master Terrorists Are Still on Facebook and YouTube,” by Michael Weiss and Moustafa Ayad, Daily Beast, June 27, 2019:

In 2006, Ibrahim Suleiman al-Rubaish was repatriated to Saudi Arabia from Guantanamo Bay after he’d served more than five years as an enemy combatant for training with al Qaeda, and fighting alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan against the United States. Released as part of the Obama administration’s plans to shutter the offshore prison, Rubaish was admitted to Riyadh’s rather lackluster “deradicalization” program.

Then, sometime in  2009, he escaped the program and Saudi Arabia with 11 other jihadists.  They all turned up in Yemen and Rubaish soon emerged as the mufti, or Islamic jurist, for al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) where he spent the next six years appearing in propaganda videos for the group’s media outlet Al-Malahem, as well as releasing a number of fatwas and articles for other al Qaeda outlets including the English-language Inspire magazine.

Rubaish was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Yemen in 2015.  But his ideas and legacy live on through his sermons and speeches, still hosted on Facebook and YouTube.

Rubaish is joined in digital preservation by other leading lights in jihadist proselytization and virtual recruitment such as Abu Mus’ab al-Suri, the strategist behind the expansion of al Qaeda into Yemen, who helped invent what’s now commonly known as the “lone-wolf” terror attack; Nasir al-Wuhayshi, the leader of AQAP and the second-in command to Ayman al-Zawahiri, al Qaeda’s global head; and Anwar al-Awlaki, the main cleric for AQAP who is considered by counterterrorism experts to be, even from beyond the grave, one of the primary drivers of those lone-wolf attacks.

Taken together, Rubaish, Suri, Wuhayshi and Awlaki can still be found in 105 videos on both social media platforms, despite corporate avowals that this stuff was fast becoming a thing of the past. Yet we identified the videos through simple searches in Arabic using only the names of these prominent jihadists….

Contacted yesterday, Facebook said it was looking into the videos that we highlighted on its platform; YouTube did not respond to our queries in time for publication….

The most-watched video is his half-hour history on the invasions and subsequent injustices that the Muslim world has faced; it seems to have been recorded somewhere in Europe, as he refers to the “Christian world here in Europe.” Suri has Spanish citizenship and between 1994 and 1996 he lived in the London suburb of Neasden. Following the London bombings of 2005, he released a statement praising the selection of mass transit as a major, legitimate soft target….

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  1. Walter Sieruk says

    Jun 29, 2019 at 12:26 pm

    Since the subject of Facebook and jihad terrorism has been brought up and how pro- Islamic terrorism it actually is. It’s therefore fitting to mention that just today 6/29 19 as the day I’m posting this , i had attempted again to post something on Facebook about Muslim terrorism.

    Nevertheless Facebook would not still let me post on its site because Facebook stated that I had posted two violations of it’s “community standards’ rules. .

    So here,again, are my two Facebook violations

    The first is “Those Muslim migrants who were allowed to enter Britain a along with the other countries of Western Europe with result in them not only being ungrateful but even worse yet many of those Muslim migrants becoming so very arrogant to the point that they became criminals . As in some of them engaged in rioting and even rapes of the European girls and women. In addition to this vile brutal behavior by the heinous Muslim who were kindly permitted to enter the nations of Europe to live, As the countries of ,for example France, Germany Sweden, Denmark etc. This unthankful Islamic spirit on the part of those lawless violent Muslims who immigrated to the countries of Europe may be explain, in part, by the fact that the Muslim fundamentalist group that even had the president of Egypt assassinated in the month of October of the year 1981 has a fifty –five booklet that is was written only for Muslims fundamentalists but was later discover by non-Muslims. This booklet’s title is THE NEGLECTED DUTY. One scholar, Johannes Jansen who had thoroughly investigated Islam and Islamic terrorism has even discover that those Muslims, who had entered Europe of behaved in violent and heinous ways, are actually action out what they view and a sacred individual duty of the jihad as by engaging in awful violent criminal action in non-Muslim lands . As Jansen revealed that jihad booklet of Islam, THE NEGLECTED DUTY “contains all the ideological material needed to justify the attacks of 9/11 or any other acts of terror committed to frighten non-Muslims. And he thinks the document explains the criminal behavior of suburban and center –city immigrant youngsters in many European cities; its author clearly ‘sees Islam as license to kill rob and commit arson.’ “ [1] Nevertheless, many of the apologists for Islam still have that blatant gall , in spite of all the facts of reality, to actually make the claim the Islam is a “peaceful religion.” What a totally false to make that Islam is “a peaceful religion “What Bull! A “peaceful religion” indeed.

    [1] THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM by Ibn Warraq pages 308, 309.”

    My other CC violation of Facebook is “Don’t let them fool you, the many apologists for Islam is will endeavor to set up a smokescreen to hide the reality of the truth about the violence and deadly essence of Islam by making the bogus claim that the al Qaeda operatives mass murderer on 9/11 were not real Muslims and that they were breaking the laws of the Qu ‘ran by their violence and deadly actions.” The apologists for Islam will further make the totally false claim that “Those terrorists on 9/11 were only criminals who hijacked the peaceful religion of Islam for Politics.” Those outrageously false claims are weak attempt of damage control for the image of Islam to the West. For the “holy book” of Islam the Qu ‘ran. For the Qu ‘ran instruct in Sura 9:111. Muslims who are engaging the jihad that “The believer’s fight in Allah’s Cause, they slay and are slain ,they kill and are killed “ That’s just what happened on September 11, 2001 the jihadists of al Qaeda “killed and were killed” in those 9/11 jihad attacks against both humankind and America. The Quran also teaches in Sura 9:123 to that jihad –minded Muslims behavior towards non-Muslims “let them find harshness in you…” Those Islamic attacks on 9/11 were indeed very “harsh.” As Sura 2:191 instructs “kill the disbeliever wherever you find them.” That’s a very strange kind of “peaceful religion” if there ever was one. Just to site one more out on many from the Qu ‘ran about the instruction of deadly violence is Sura 47:4. Which instructs “Whenever you encounter unbelievers strike off their heads until you make a great slaughter among them …” Let’s face it, using jet planes a missiles as those jihadist/ Muslims did of September 11, sure made a greater “slaughter among them” then sword can. Wake up West to the actual nature of Islam before it’s too late.

    • CRUSADER says

      Jun 29, 2019 at 1:00 pm

      See, the problem, Walter, is that you mentioned TRUTH,
      and Farcebook doesn’t believe in such a thing…..
      let alone promoting or allowing for it.

      Farcebook only wants “bread and circuses” to spread among the masses,
      and keep everyone as drones and minions feeding into their system for
      eventual propaganda control. It is the means of real Evil…. best to be avoided.

      I’ve met many fine people who unplugged from much of this social media and
      tech stuff, and gone back to basics — they’re much happier people, forming
      more real contacts and communicate face to face more.

      Oh, here’s to :
      Making Life Great Again!

      • Bee says

        Jun 30, 2019 at 6:19 am

        Agree,
        Subscribing to email updates one does at least know what is going on even if fascistbook doesn’t allow posting. The post above proves just that. We can still get the word out and leave fb to dumb people who don’t want to think beyond their iPhones and tablets.

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 29, 2019 at 8:06 pm

      Grotesque, Walter–your posts are always very measured.

    • mortimer says

      Jun 29, 2019 at 8:40 pm

      Thanks to Walter for mentioning THE NEGLECTED DUTY. “Al- Faridah al-Gha’ibah” was written by Egyptian Muhammad “Abd al-Salam Faraj and the full text was translated by Dutch Islamologist Johan.G.Jansen.

      Anyone who is serious about counterjihad should read this important book immediately.

  2. nicu says

    Jun 29, 2019 at 12:29 pm

    I have left facebook after 8 years ( Germany ) cos I was banned almost 2 years ( always 30 days and once even 6 months ) Has Mr . Zuckerberg forgotten where he comes from ? German administration will sue FB if they don’t remove ” hate speech ” up to 50.000€ — so it’s our traitor government ! Most go to vk.com meanwhile . — Hate speech of course means : the truth about Muslim crimes – while Turkish or Arab posts don’t even get checked ! GDR 2.0 under Merkill – sharia law to come , soon !

  3. Clarity of Signal says

    Jun 29, 2019 at 12:33 pm

    Exposing the White Helmets : Collated Video Evidence of Terrorist Collusion – Over 50 Video Clips

    • Angemon says

      Jun 29, 2019 at 2:11 pm

      What, exactly, has that got to do with the topic at hand?

      • Terry Gain says

        Jun 29, 2019 at 5:17 pm

        It seems like Christianblood, the spammer, has a new name.

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 29, 2019 at 8:28 pm

      I think exposing the “White Helmets” terrorist links is a good thing.

      The problem with christianblood in the regard is his claiming that if Westerners believe that the “White Helmets” are a humanitarian group that this means that Muslims have the right to conquer and murder them.

      • Angemon says

        Jun 30, 2019 at 6:12 am

        “The problem with christianblood in the regard is his claiming that if Westerners believe that the “White Helmets” are a humanitarian group that this means that Muslims have the right to conquer and murder them.”

        Or his claim that white helmets = terrorists therefore “the West” – as in, every single person living in a Western nation – created terrorist groups to murder Christians and the only thing preventing that is Hezbollah and Iran. Because motives and reasons, no evidence necessary you sheep blinded by deep state, Israeli propaganda!!!

        • gravenimage says

          Jun 30, 2019 at 7:56 pm

          Yep.

  4. J_not_a says

    Jun 29, 2019 at 12:38 pm

    Zuckerpig is nothing but a stain, a boil on the face of freedom of thought and free expression.

    He worships money, obviously. He has to be being paid off by his muzzlum overlords, the sowdis. I will never use any of his social media platforms. He’s beyond repugnant.

  5. CRUSADER says

    Jun 29, 2019 at 1:03 pm

    “… Zuckerberg forgotten where he comes from ?”

    In other words, that he is of Jewish extraction…. ergo….

  6. Raja says

    Jun 29, 2019 at 1:27 pm

    I am appalled to know that Facebook and Twitter are still having a field day. What started as a “free” service have become leaches in every sense of the word. Now they are emboldened to host Islamic terror’s war manual including videos. This must stop as this is no justice but highly discriminatory.

    Social media should also be paid services just as we paid for the operating system we “took” from Bill Gates on every computer system.

    In hindsight, Bill Gates seems to be a saint, considering that he took a fraction of the money for the IBM computers etc. Whereas for a “free service” we are losing everything we hold dear especially justice and liberty
    Google is another giant that is chocking us to death through unwanted apps, sneaking apps, all kinds of malwares to name a few, and its search engine is also pandering to Islamic thugs through censorship.e.g:
    I discovered Jihad Watch when I googled “evil Islam”, some six years back today there is no trace of JW when “evil Islam” is googled or searched.

    The best recourse against these modern day evil-giants might be to sue them and claim for compensation in millions by all affected.

  7. Angemon says

    Jun 29, 2019 at 2:08 pm

    Google/YouTube labels Ben Shapiro and Dennis Prager “Nazis,” and buries content that portrays Islam in a negative light, even if it’s accurate, but jihad terror preaching is OK with them. Likewise Facebook, which recently agreed to turn over data on “hate speech” suspects to the French government.

    This makes them de facto publishers, as opposed to platforms, and thus accountable for what their users publish. The sooner the lawsuits start, the better…

    • Joe says

      Jun 30, 2019 at 5:38 am

      The recent Veritas video uncovered a plan from high ranking Google managers to change the result of the 2020 election. You can’t get more bias than that. For sure, they are no longer in the unbiased public square that the DMCA safe harbor requires. This means they could be sued for copyright violations, and there are thousands of those every day.

  8. Terry Gain says

    Jun 29, 2019 at 5:23 pm

    In 2006, Ibrahim Suleiman al-Rubaish was repatriated to Saudi Arabia from Guantanamo Bay after he’d served more than five years as an enemy combatant for training with al Qaeda, and fighting alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan against the United States. Released as part of the Obama administration’s plans to shutter the offshore prison, Rubaish was admitted to Riyadh’s rather lackluster “deradicalization” program.
    ………
    If Ibrahim all-Rubbish was released from Gitmo in 2006, his release had nothing to do with Traitor Obama. Attention to detail is not dying. It is dead.

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 29, 2019 at 8:33 pm

      You are correct, Terry. Things were worst under Obama, but he was not the only president to release these Jihadist thugs.

  9. Steve Meikle says

    Jun 29, 2019 at 7:59 pm

    Face book did not ban me. I banned them. I boycotted them about 2 years sago after eight years. I don’t suppose that a mass boycott could ever be organized to teach them a lesson they need

  10. gravenimage says

    Jun 29, 2019 at 8:03 pm

    Facebook and YouTube still feature videos by leading al-Qaeda jihadis
    ………………………….

    Social media’s censorship is pretty selective–mostly civilized, non-violent Conservatives…

    • mortimer says

      Jun 29, 2019 at 8:46 pm

      Agree with GI’s conclusions. Zuckerberg is mainly censoring those who defend Western values and he has become a friend of thuggish totalitarians.

      Robert Spencer has pointed out in this article that Zuckerberg will be viewed by later historians as an enemy of our freedom of expression and thus an enemy of democracy.

      Zuckerberg is unaware of the dangers of censorship and seems to feel that working with totalitarian governments is a ‘good thing’ to do.

      Zuckerberg doesn’t realize many friends of democracy, reason, and progressive values may end up in jail due to his COLLUSION.

      • gravenimage says

        Jun 30, 2019 at 8:00 pm

        He either doesn’t know, doesn’t care, or wants it that way.

  11. Hmmm..... says

    Jun 30, 2019 at 9:55 am

    I suspect Facebook and You Tube are simply afraid of islam. This is appeasement policy. This never works. The more media sites and outlets do this for islam, the more horrific it is going to be when, with no where to turn, the enemedia attempts to undo damage they did.

  12. Gork says

    Jun 30, 2019 at 2:04 pm

    I, for one, don’t care that radical jihadists are still on YouTube. I think it should stay there and continue to be visible as an indication of what these people think and believe. Where I take issue is when Dennis Preager or JihadWatch are no longer permitted.

    How else can we answer the hate without the sunlight of scholarship?

  13. Laurence says

    Jul 1, 2019 at 12:37 pm

    Wake up world. The very first muslim I ever met in my life was in the mid 80s at ERAU Daytona Beach FL. I tried to make friends with him because he worked under me. I even ate Halal food with him God forgive me. One day in the Physics lab this muslim bursts out “America is defeated because you have no defense against the suicide bomber”. For real – so this psychotic problem with muslims isn’t anything new – this guy who said this was a “moderate” muslim. My next encounter with Islam was working at the World Trade Center in NYC when the blind sheik and his muslim followers from the Jersey City mosque tried to knock down one of the towers with a massive truck bomb and kill an estimated 10,000 people if they had of succeeded. During the Presidential run in 2016 they called Trump a liar but not one of them ever brought up the 1993 bombing which would have proved they don’t know what they are talking about and don’t want to hear the truth. When I got back home to Journal Square NJ on the PATH train from NY, the muslims were RIOTING, not celebrating like Trump said about 9/11. You want to know how these subhuman murderers really think? The morons went back to the van rental garage and tried to get their $400 deposit back after murdering a pregnant woman and a cop in the bombing. They were arrested on the spot by the Feds who had located the VIN number on the bombing van in the crater. They put the blind sheik into prison for life where he died. When they shipped his carcass back to the Middle East the muslims there buried him like he was a hero. This is Islam.

  14. Laurence says

    Jul 1, 2019 at 12:55 pm

    Yeah – the muslims say the rest of us are painting them all with the “same brush” every time there is a muslim terrorist attack. Yeah that is how we do it here in the West now – if a muslim commits a terrorism atrocity anywhere in the USA – the rest of us are going to hold ALL muslims responsible until the perpetrators own up and admit their crimes or are turned in by their fellow muslims. This is not a new concept – and it is very effective because as we have seen muslims will not turn in fellow muslims that are perpetrating this violence. We can’t expect muslims to police themselves because according to them all of this violence they commit all over the world is caused by “Islamophobia”. Islam is a type of mass insanity totally in denial of reality.

  15. Laurence says

    Jul 1, 2019 at 2:02 pm

    Think about this for a second – Facebook has millions if not billions of users all over the world creating writing, photography, music, entertainment, the arts, commentary and editorials etc. etc.. Have you ever heard about one single person getting paid by Facebook for providing this type of creative work on their platform? Stop working for Facebook for free and being a slave. All you have to do is say “I quit”!!

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