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Twitter Bans Amy Mek for Telling Inconvenient Truths

Jun 24, 2020 5:00 pm By Robert Spencer

She wasn’t the first, and won’t be the last. My latest in FrontPage:

President Trump on May 28 issued an executive order designed to prevent online censorship of voices that dissent from the hard-Left’s agenda, and since then Twitter’s Jack Dorsey seems determined to defy it and force a showdown. He has more than once flagged Trump’s tweets as supposedly inciting violence or committing some other transgression, and he continues his steady campaign to silence voices of freedom, including foes of jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women. His latest victim is the popular counterjihad writer Amy Mek, who had over 266,000 Twitter followers when she was summarily deplatformed.

Amy Mek’s RAIR Foundation reported recently that “on April 16, 2020, the @Amymek Twitter account was suspended (and still remains suspended) as 12 of her tweets were flagged for violating Twitter’s rules against ‘hateful conduct.’” The problem is that in these overheated days, virtually anything that Leftists don’t like is classified as “hateful conduct.” The twelve tweets in question all contained accurate information, as Amy herself documented in trying (to no avail) to get Twitter to reverse its ban. The issue with them was clearly not that they were spreading falsehoods or inaccurate information, but that they were telling truths that the Leftist elites would prefer not be known.

For example, on March 31, Amy tweeted: “INDIA: Coronavirus Jihad! Over 8K Indian Muslims & foreign nationals from Indonesia, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh etc. attended a Coronavirus infected Islamic event at a Mosque in Delhi. Almost a dozen are dead & many infected – Jihadists have put many countries at risk.”

It was horribly hateful to suggest that an Islamic event was a source of the spread of coronavirus, right? Wrong. The day before Amy published her supposedly hateful tweet, Quartz India published a story entitled: “A religious congregation in Delhi could be the coronavirus hotspot India was trying to escape.” The next day, Al Jazeera published an article called “India tracks attendees after Muslim event linked to virus cases.” On April 2, the BBC published a backgrounder: “Tablighi Jamaat: The group blamed for new Covid-19 outbreak in India.” Even that far-Left propaganda organ known as the Washington Post put up a story on this issue: “India confronts its first coronavirus ‘super-spreader’ — a Muslim missionary group with more than 400 members infected.” Then two weeks later, on April 16, the BBC ran a piece entitled: “India coronavirus: Tablighi Jamaat leader on manslaughter charge over Covid-19.”

Quartz India, Al Jazeera, the BBC and the Washington Post were not banned from Twitter. They no doubt didn’t even receive warnings. Only Amy Mek, a high-profile critic of jihad terror, ran afoul of Twitter’s Left-fascist censors, because only she had a prior reputation for being skeptical of the Left’s open-borders, internationalist, pro-jihad program.

Nor can her own critics argue that Amy got flagged for placing the virus-ridden Islamic event in the context of jihad, when the spread of the coronavirus from that event was clearly accidental. Amy compiled no fewer than 24 news articles about members of Tablighi Jamaat, the host of the event, deliberately attempting to spread the coronavirus among non-Muslims. So in what way was this not, as she put it, “coronavirus jihad”?

Amy provided similar documentation of all the claims that were made in her 11 other supposedly hateful tweets, but to no avail. Clicking on the links for the offensive tweets now takes you only to a note saying “This Tweet violated the Twitter Rules” and giving a link to those rules, without bothering to explain exactly what rules were violated and in what manner.

And so it is clear. Amy Mek is not gone from Twitter for lying; Twitter has never flagged CNN or MSNBC, so clearly it has no problem with that. Amy Mek is gone from Twitter because she is the woman who knows too much – too much, that is, about the jihadist allies of the Leftists who are running amok in many of America’s major cities these days, too much about the insidious agenda of all too many of the adherents of the religion we must believe is peaceful on pain of charges of “racism” and “Islamophobia,” too much about the half-truths, distortions, and outright lies that pass for news and that the elites feed the masses today.

She was not the first, and will not be the last. I’ve said it before and will doubtless say it again: if this isn’t stopped and the speech of dissenters protected, America will cease to be a free society and slip rapidly into authoritarian and totalitarianism. And I’ll keep saying it until they silence me as well.

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  1. Hank Mansfield says

    Jun 24, 2020 at 5:43 pm

    I joined Twitter years ago and made a half dozen Tweets before reading a news item about how criticisms of Islam were being moderated.
    I haven’t made a Tweet or in fact so much as used Twitter since, my last Tweet was to call out the company for it’s cowardice.

    • maria says

      Jun 25, 2020 at 3:36 am

      Can all freedom people in the US boycott twitter, tweet etc and start a new organization ?
      We could ask Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller and many others to get together and spread the truth all over the US and the world?

      • Kepgha says

        Jun 25, 2020 at 6:40 am

        Maybe go to Parler?

      • Drew says

        Jun 25, 2020 at 8:26 am

        Should have been done years ago. The leftists/communist s/islamists have already inserted themselves in each & every institution in most Western countries. Be it at the level of politics, education, media, print. China has bought most of the media houses, with so- called donations: Arab countries have been donating to Universities in the name of Islamic studies! Most of the members Congress or Parliament have someone of Pakistani or Arab origin as head of cabinet or secretary. Bernie Sanders chief campaign manager is someone of Pakistani origin!! They also resort to India bashing in the name of islamophobia. It’s ironic that a race that has been bombing/ murdering/killing all other races in every country of the world has been crying islamophobia & the world at large is defending them!

      • Charlene l. Bennett says

        Jun 25, 2020 at 8:32 am

        Yes. Do it.

      • Bob K. says

        Jun 25, 2020 at 12:01 pm

        Yes. It is called “Parler”. https://home.parler.com/about/ Dan Bongino is a big supporter of Parler as a replacement for Twitter.

    • Grace says

      Jun 25, 2020 at 8:31 am

      It’s time we declared, loud and clear that Twitter is an arm of the Democratic leftist and has left the realm of ‘social media’. Call them what they are ‘Publishers” and tax the hell out of them! Any conservative that thinks they will not be sensord by twitter is dreaming and needs to go somewhere else for the truth.

      • Clifford Fodor says

        Jun 26, 2020 at 11:27 am

        What about Facebook? They are just as bad. And they are much bigger–at least three times bigger.

        • David says

          Jun 27, 2020 at 6:01 am

          Ditch them both folks, I get along just fine without either of these sites.

  2. Wellington says

    Jun 24, 2020 at 5:57 pm

    Excellent article by Robert Spencer.

    We live in an era of reverse McCarthyism. But it’s an even worse situation than the McCarthy era for this reason: McCarthy was correct on substance but not on method. Leftism in our time is incorrect on both substance and method.

    And one more “footnote” about the McCarthy era in the early 1950’s. Change “one item”—those blacklisted for being Communist sympathizers (like many were, for instance the writer, Dalton Trumbo, who was actually a member of the American Communist Party and who blamed Truman, not Stalin, for the Cold War) were instead Nazi sympathizers. Think loads of Lefties, clueless moderates and even some conservatives who have regularly condemned the 1950’s blacklisting still would?

    This again demonstrates that Far Left totalitarianism gets a pass but Far Right totalitarianism does not. Neither should. And, yes, from 1934 onward, after the Night of the Long Knives eliminated all Leftist elements from the Nazi Party, thereafter Nazism was pure Far Right and so tired of those who still don’t get this.

    Phony world. Double standard world. Very much a wrong and silly world.

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 24, 2020 at 7:35 pm

      +1

      • mortimer says

        Jun 24, 2020 at 8:52 pm

        Yes, ‘double standards’. Free speech for me, but not for thee.

        Billionaires can buy all the free speech they want … they call it advertising. They now want ‘own’ all writing, all words and all thought.

    • David says

      Jun 25, 2020 at 3:04 am

      10 out of 10!

    • Kepha says

      Jun 25, 2020 at 6:43 am

      You insult mcCarthyism, sir. On a facebook page, I saw someone who put in a good word for “patriarchy” (fathers taking care of their families) villified as supportive of pederasty. We live in an era of unreason that stinks of Maoist Red Guard and Dmeocratic Kampuchea wannabes.

    • Patricia Koenig says

      Jun 25, 2020 at 8:01 am

      NAZI stands for National Socialism, in German. Socialism is LEFT. NAZI’s were Leftists, and still are.

      • Wellington says

        Jun 25, 2020 at 12:54 pm

        Patricia Koenig: The 25 Point program of the Nazi Party issued in 1920 was filled with both Far Left and Far Right blather. Until the Night of the Long Knives, June 30th, 1934, both leftist and rightist elements existed in Nazism, so muddled was it overall. But after Hitler came to power in January of 1933 (and almost certainly even before) he had concluded that the leftists in his party were not welcomed at all by German businessmen. They were indeed a problem.

        Also, most of Hitler’s competitors within the Nazi Party were on the left (e.g., Ernst Rohm head of the SA) and so on the night of June 30th, 1934 and into the early morning hours of July 1st, Hitler had many fellow Nazis killed (and some non-Nazis like Kurt von Schleicher) and thereafter Nazism was a pure Far Right phenomenon with German businessmen making huge profits, which is not at all a feature of socialism.

        So, don’t get hung up on the word “Socialism” in “National Socialism.” Besides, real socialists, Far Left types, detest nationalism, seeing it as just one more “capitalist construct” to keep the workers of the world down. Thus Nazism from the outset was full of silly contradictions. I wish more people would get all this about Nazism. So many don’t and keep engaging in error by asserting Nazism was Far Left. After June 30th of 1934 there was NOTHING left of Nazism that was Left except the stupid name, “Socialist.”

        If you have a rebuttal, Patricia, to what I just stated, I would very much like to read it. Give it a shot.

    • Sun says

      Jun 25, 2020 at 4:46 pm

      +1

  3. gravenimage says

    Jun 24, 2020 at 5:58 pm

    Twitter Bans Amy Mek for Telling Inconvenient Truths
    ………………

    Appalling, but hardly surprising. And–as noted–nothing that Ms. Mek said was inaccurate.

    • mortimer says

      Jun 24, 2020 at 8:53 pm

      Yes, old-style journalists were required to be accurate and balanced.

      • gravenimage says

        Jun 24, 2020 at 9:05 pm

        Very true, Mortimer. Too seldom the case now.

    • David says

      Jun 25, 2020 at 3:06 am

      Ive never been a tweeter, I cancelled FB 2 years ago, surely there are some Fair & balanced sites to post the other view on.

      • Follow The Cat (@catstrangler101) says

        Jun 25, 2020 at 4:50 am

        Join VK (Russian Facebook free speech equivalent), GAB and Parler

      • Grace says

        Jun 25, 2020 at 8:37 am

        Sorry, no there aren’t any places for conservatives to go to spread truth. Only jJhad digest. Our feckless conservative leaders were unprepared for the onslaught of the global thugs and continue their dereliction of duty. Only Robert Spencer has our back. JHAD Watch is my first stop in the morning.

  4. James Lincoln says

    Jun 24, 2020 at 6:04 pm

    The social media companies categorized themselves as “platforms”; e.g., passive bulletin boards and not the “curator” of content.

    If they decide to “edit” the content, which they can legally do, they should lose their liability shield – like all other editorial content businesses.

    They can’t have it both ways…

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 24, 2020 at 7:40 pm

      True, James.

    • Wellington says

      Jun 24, 2020 at 9:35 pm

      Yes indeed, James. Platformist or editorialist. Choose. Can’t be both.

      But again demonstrative of just how phony the Left is.

    • Patricia Koenig says

      Jun 25, 2020 at 8:03 am

      James Lincoln, you are so right! The US Government is too passive about Social Media violating it’s legal parameters. Government should reclassify Social Media as publishers, now that they are censoring, i.e. publishing.

  5. keith O says

    Jun 24, 2020 at 6:13 pm

    Of course, if she had said anything that promoted the looney lefts fantasy she would have been hailed as a hero by not just twatter but also farce book.

  6. Mike says

    Jun 24, 2020 at 6:31 pm

    head line says it all
    THE TRUTH
    the MUSLIMS can’t handle the truth
    if the world only knew

  7. tgusa says

    Jun 24, 2020 at 6:51 pm

    Little Jack might not be directly inciting islamist violence sexism bigotry and discrimination but he sure is a co-conspirator. The poor boy doesn’t have any long term friends within islam and he is doing a great job of making enemies among non muslims. His only real friend is a fist full of dollars. Oh and he has made a lot of money so the left is coming for him eventually. Enjoy your billions while you can Jack.

    Just look at the left, hatred violence looting killings and cover ups. I for one am proud to be in violation of the lefts rules. Dorsey is akin to something that gets stuck to the bottom of your shoe on a hot summer day. A small but irritating nuisance that takes some effort to scrape off.

  8. mortimer says

    Jun 24, 2020 at 8:56 pm

    Jihad terrorism has killed an estimated 185,735 people in 37,147 reported JIHAD-TERROR ATTACKS since September 2001 !!!

    How can JACK DORSEY remain silent about such CARNAGE? Is he HARD-HEARTED? It’s mostly Muslims who die in those attacks … and Christians. Or does DORSEY just NOT CARE about the vulnerable who are killed by jihadists because he lives surrounded by 24-hour security guards?

    The Big-Tech companies should have their licences changed to be ‘PUBLISHERS’ if they do not promote DIVERSITY OF OPINION. If they want to commercialize public opinion and CENSOR IT, then they should be under a different law.

    Twitter is NOT a forum or town-square … it is a PROPAGANDA mill, like the old Pravda and Izvestiya.

    • Wellington says

      Jun 24, 2020 at 9:36 pm

      Seconded, mortimer. Twitter is disgusting.

  9. David Halterman says

    Jun 24, 2020 at 11:21 pm

    Robert, I don’t know how many times, I’ve been put in Facebook Jail for criticizing Islam or pointing out the truth of Islam. Like you I have no problems with Muslims.Muslims are the first victims of Islam.

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 25, 2020 at 12:16 am

      Grimly common, David.

    • James Lincoln says

      Jun 25, 2020 at 9:49 am

      David,

      I would like muslims a lot more if they would stop their financial – and other support – for islam.

  10. kiki says

    Jun 25, 2020 at 12:17 am

    She’s ON Parler, YEAH!

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 25, 2020 at 12:22 am

      I had to look up Parler, which I had not heard of:

      https://parler.com/auth/access

      Thank you, kiki.

    • Michael Copeland says

      Jun 25, 2020 at 9:05 am

      Like Katie Hopkins.

  11. Deanne says

    Jun 25, 2020 at 2:02 am

    FACT…
    All cultures are NOT equal and anyone who respects a culture who bases their entire ideology & laws on “HONOR KILLINGS”(killing their own children for shaming their family), stoning women to death, 8 yo. child brides, rape, marital rape, molestation, pedophilia and torture is to say that you respect the atrocities that it perpetrates. They can call themselves, al qaeda, boko haram, isis,devout, moderates, etc., the COMMON DENOMINATOR is ALWAYS SHARIA which violates our Constitution, breaks every single LAW in America and should not be on American soil.All cultures CANNOT COEXIST & that’s why every nation has borders & laws. REENACT the NATIONALITY & IMMIGRATION ACT of 1952…
    What defines a religion from a cult is what happens when you try to leave either one:#ExposeSharia
    PS- there are NO “lone wolves” or “copycats” when it comes to the SHARIA IDEOLOGY
    #WorldwideCrusaders

    • David says

      Jun 25, 2020 at 3:14 am

      First class Deanne. I recon we can add FMG, but molestation, torture, paedophilia covers that crime.

    • Ade Fegan says

      Jun 25, 2020 at 3:30 am

      I have to correct you ! ..
      ISIS describe “lone wolves” as “lone wolf mujahideen” ..
      and publish guides for them to follow in their “lone wolf” activities
      So, Islam tells us there are lone wolves and offers them support and guidance
      Thanks for your time

  12. Ade Fegan says

    Jun 25, 2020 at 3:26 am

    The “Rules for Radicals” are Saul Alinsky not Alexander Solzhenitsyn

  13. Jake2169 says

    Jun 25, 2020 at 4:18 am

    We live in a time of great cowardice. Excuses are continually made up as the media outlets drive towards instilling their lefty immoral platitudes upon us that can see the dangers of not combatting Islam in all its forms. People telling the truth are banned and not allowed to voice an opinion, whilst left thinking morons seem to consider their way is the best. Well we can see how that is working out. Many areas inhabited by Muslims seem to resemble downtown Islamabad, and we’ve had to tolerate the cultural demands whereby the male Muslim tends to prefer 11 year old girls to rape and abuse. Of course this cultural practice is acceptable to the leftards, just as long as it’s not their family member being made use of by middle aged perverts!! Still, we mustn’t tell the truth, just in case the sensitive Muslim male should be offended!!

  14. Patrick White says

    Jun 25, 2020 at 7:00 am

    Why doesn’t the Trump administration simply cut aid to various Muslim and African countries, and put $200 million towards the establishment of a powerful rival to Twitter instead? The moderators there could comprise the many smart people who have been banned from Twitter over the years.

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 26, 2020 at 12:18 am

      This is starting. We have cut aid to the “Palestinians” and Pakistan because of terrorism. I hope Trump makes more cuts.

  15. Bob says

    Jun 25, 2020 at 9:46 am

    That organization is already here. It’s called Parler. Try it.

  16. Rob R (Brit stuck in Britainistan) says

    Jun 25, 2020 at 11:00 am

    I hate the left so much. Bunch of total idiot self-hating freaks who want to hand over the civilised world to savages.

    Unhinged. Power crazed. Freaks.

  17. grandpahalfdime says

    Jun 25, 2020 at 3:20 pm

    Welcome to the group. I’m in Twitter Prison for calling out an ignorant politician.

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 26, 2020 at 12:18 am

      All too common.

  18. Conrad says

    Jun 25, 2020 at 10:48 pm

    @jihadwatch

    DId you know that twitter is full of porn that every child can see without a registration?
    Google Twitter xxx or something.

    Is this legal in the USA?Perhaps you can write about it.

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 26, 2020 at 12:19 am

      Porn is legal–unless it is pedophilia or violence. I’m not sure what laws are regarding on-line pornography.

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