Two of the most notorious bigots in the House of Representatives signed a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg demanding that he “eradicate anti-Muslim bigotry from Facebook”.
The three-page letter signed by Rep. Ilhan Omar, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, as well as 28 other left-wing House members, spends a great deal of time demanding the removal of what it calls “anti-Muslim content” without ever specifically defining it. That’s convenient considering Omar and Tlaib’s own history of racism and antisemitism, and support for the sorts of Islamic bigotry and violence that groups like CAIR, which supports the letter, have become known for.
The letter spotlights one violent incident, but then goes on to call for a ban on “anti-Muslim content”, “anti-Muslim animus”, “anti-Muslim bigotry”, and finally, “anti-Muslim content and organizing” on the platform, without ever explaining what exactly they want to ban.
Considering the letter’s call for, “100 percent proactive detection and removal of anti-Muslim content”, the safe assumption would be that they want to ban everything critical of Islam.
That’s a disturbing attack on the First Amendment coming from 30 House members.
If House Democrats were serious about removing hate, they would have removed Rep. Omar.
Democrats have repeatedly pressured Facebook and other social media companies to remove speech they politically disapprove of, whether by President Trump or other conservatives, eroding the thin line between private companies acting on their own initiative and government officials conspiring to violate the First Amendment by banning certain kinds of political speech.
After multiple hearings, legal proposals, and legislative threats, it’s no longer possible to view Facebook’s censorship of political speech as anything other than government censorship. When enough pressure by government officials has been applied to a company to censor certain kinds of speech, the company’s decision to censor speech becomes government censorship.
30 House members would now like Facebook to censor criticism of Islam and political protests against Islamic terrorism. One of the few examples of anti-Muslim content in the House letter was a political protest against the Islamic Society of North America’s 2019 conference.
That was the conference which included an appearance by two Democrat presidential candidates, Bernie Sanders and Julian Castro, whose forum was moderated by Salam Al-Marayati, the head of MPAC, who had defended Hamas and Hezbollah. Also participating in a round table at the conference was Imam Siraj Wahhaj, an unindicted co-conspirator in the World Trade Center bombing, who has defended the Islamic mandate to kill gay people.
This is the sort of information that AOC, Omar, and 28 other House Democrats, want banned.
House Democrats trying to shut down protests targeting their own candidates is a blatant violation of the First Amendment which was meant to prevent exactly that kind of thing.
And the party of social justice wants to stop Americans from protesting against an Imam who says things like, ”Brothers and sisters, you know what the punishment is, if a man is found with another man? The Prophet Mohammad said the one who does it and the one to whom it is done to, kill them both.”
What happens when ‘anti-Muslim content’ meets anti-gay content?
The 30 House Democrats don’t want to talk about any of this which is why their letter doesn’t.
Omar and Tlaib can’t quite openly call for blasphemy regulations for social media, but they conveniently leave terms like “anti-Muslim content” undefined and then demand that Facebook outsource the suppression protocols to “senior staff focused on anti-Muslim bigotry issues” backed by diversity training on “civil rights issues and common words, phrases, tropes or visuals used by hate actors to dehumanize and demonize Muslims”.
And if that’s not enough, there’s an independent third-party review of Facebook’s compliance.
CAIR and other Muslim Brotherhood groups would be brought in to define what “anti-Muslim content” is and then senior staff, approved of by CAIR and its allies, would set moderation policies to suppress “tropes” used by “hate actors” words like Jihad, Sharia, Taqiyya, and terrorism.
Cartoons of Mohammed, mentions of blasphemy, hate, and terrorism would all be censored.
It’s not hard to spot what sort of content they’re after.
The House Democrat blasphemy and terror letter has been endorsed by CAIR and the Islamic Networks Group, but beyond these traditional Islamist groups, it has the backing of pro-terror groups like Code Pink and JVP, and assorted anti-war organizations. These groups are less concerned with blasphemy, but very focused on preventing America from fighting terrorists.
CAIR had demanded the removal of Mohammed’s image from the Supreme Court, and more recently compared magazines publishing cartoons of Mohammed to ISIS. A board member of the Muslim Brotherhood group had insisted that, “[t]he right to free speech is not absolute.”
The Founding Fathers and the Constitution disagreed.
The letter also cites a Muslim Advocates report which listed examples of “anti-Muslim content” that they wanted Facebook to censor that included President Trump’s call for a ban on migration from Islamic terror nations, and a Trump campaign ad which described AOC, Omar, Tlaib, and Pressley as socialists who had made “anti-Israel, anti-American, and pro-terrorist remarks”.
AOC, Omar, Tlaib, and other Democrats have signed a letter demanding that Facebook censor political speech critical of them. That’s a grotesque assault on the First Amendment.
Another example of “anti-Muslim content” from the Muslim Advocates report was an Israeli Facebook user who had written negatively about Omar, Trudeau, and Corbyn.
Omar responded to this by ranting that “foreign interference – whether by individuals or governments – is still a grave threat to our democracy” and that “malicious actors operating in a foreign country, Israel”, were “spreading misinformation and hate speech to influence elections in the United States.” Even though there’s no evidence that elections were actually influenced.
But, once again, the kind of “anti-Muslim content” that Omar and her political allies seem to want to ban involves criticism of her and of them. The “grave threat” here is coming from Rep. Omar.
The letter claims that its signers also want Facebook to remove “any hate content directed at a religious or ethnic group”, but Rep. Ilhan Omar, one of the letter’s signers, has been the House’s worst offender, tweeting antisemitic content, including her infamous “Benjamins” tweet.
If House Democrats were serious about removing hate, they would have removed Rep. Omar.
Facebook already engages in extensive monitoring and censorship. This isn’t about taking down bigotry, but about removing political speech and content that Islamists consider blasphemous. It’s also about suppressing the political organizations that combat Islamist hate and violence.
It has the backing of pro-terror groups like Code Pink and JVP, and assorted anti-war organizations. These groups are less concerned with blasphemy, but very focused on preventing America from fighting terrorists.
It’s no coincidence that the type of political speech that Omar, Tlaib, Carson, and other House members want to censor casts a negative light on their own political alliances with Islamists, their bigotry, and their ugly views. And they would like Facebook to do the censoring for them.
The more Democrat officials lay out the kind of censorship they would like internet platforms to perform, the more the First Amendment’s guarantee of free speech becomes a dead letter. And this letter, signed by 30 House Democrats, is a new threat to our freedom of speech.
America does not have blasphemy laws. And politicians are not allowed to ban speech they don’t like. The letter to Facebook makes it more urgent than ever that our elected officials find ways to protect the marketplace of ideas from political censorship by Democrats and Facebook.
Richard I Ellis says
ALONG WITH REMOVING THE SO CALLED ” MUZZY ANTI COMMENTS ON ISLAM,” LETS REMOVE THESE THREE UNAMERICAN TRAITORS FROM CONGRESS AND AIR MAIL THERE BUTTS TO IRAN!
Maria says
Away with them. Send them to Somalia all of them and take Ayanna Presseley and Linda Sansour with them, too. Hopefully they will be enslaved there. No muslims in Congress or Senate or the House
Grace says
This is a Judaeo-Christian country and if you wont swear your oath of office on a Christian bible take your sorry butts back to where your beliefs are practiced.. America doesn’t need you.
Sally says
I said GOODBYE to free speach on FB about 5 years ago, after it started deleting posts, + punishing truth by 3 day bans, then 30 day bans on FB, + if you continued, your FB page was GONE.
somehistory says
No facebook for me, but if I decide to say I don’t like islam, nor do I approve of the behavior moslims learn and practice due to their book of evil filth, I’ll continue to use whatever means possible to say so.
Humans have a God-given right to think, to decide, to believe, to say, what they wish. No human nor human group nor human government or business has authority to say otherwise.
No one can force a person to “like” another person, nor to “approve” of the actions or attitudes or beliefs, of another. If disapproving of islam makes me a “bigot,” then bigot I am. However, I believe that disapproving of islam makes me a lot more discerning than those ones who approve of islam and those who practice it.
And what is more, I don’t just disapprove of islam, I detest it, abhor it, hate it and will be eternally glad when it is no more. If that is taken as a “hatred” of moslims, then that is on those who take it that way.
Just because I don’t like eggplant doesn’t mean I hate those people who like it. If moslims want to live free and leave others alone…If moslim terrorists want to murder, rape, or take away the freedoms God gave….it’s up to each moslim to make that choice.
I hate what God hates, and what He hates, He makes plain. God loves freedom or He wouldn’t have given man so much of it.
gravenimage says
+1
ronyvo says
Well said, somehistory.
mortimer says
somehistory, be very cautious to hate. The Koran’s god hates kafirs, and their are over 400 references to hate in the Koran. Don’t mirror what Muslims do.
The Bible’ God hates 7 things (#1 haughty eyes #2 Lying tongue #3 Hands that shed innocent blood #4 A heart that devises wicked schemes #5 Feet that are quick to rush into evil #6 False witness who pours out lies #7 A man who stirs up dissension among brothers).
Jesus said: Bless … curse not (your enemies). Jesus used ‘hate’ in hyperbole in Lk 14.26, but that is about being totally sincere in one’s faith and avoiding what weakens one’s commitment to living a good life.
Don’t be quick to hate. That’s what Muslims do. Jesus said: Love your enemies.
Hating is not our job. Muslims are people who have much wrong information about Mohammed and the Koran and many other things.
somehistory says
mortimer, mortimer, mortimer,
You have a lot to say about islam, moslims, and even what Jesus said, etc. You have taught some about the dangers of islam, and perhaps enlightened many.
However, I do not need you to tell me how to live my life as a Christian. Your words to me this time are very insulting.
You may not recall this, but a couple of years ago…before Mr. Glazov wrote his very good book on the moslim “psychopath,” I called devout moslims psychopaths.
You were quick to disagree with me, telling me how wrong I was. Another time or two, you called me insulting names.
Now, I say that God makes plain what He hates and that I hate what He hates, and you advise me ‘not to hate,’ and not “to be quick to hate,” because that is what moslims do.
I find that very insulting. Jesus told us to be like our Heavenly Father Who makes the sun shine and the rain fall on the good and the evil. He allows even the evil people to have what they need. We are supposed to be like Him.
Jesus also called the Pharisees “serpents, offspring of vipers, unwashed cups, whitewashed graves,” and asked them how were they to avoid “Gehenna.”
What I said about hating islam and that moslims can decide whether or not they wish to take offense and call me a bigot because I hate their religion and its evil, and they have the choice to ‘live and allow me to’ or they can be a terrorist…that is their choice.
I am allowed by God to make choices. He hates “lying tongues,” “hurtful schemes,” “false witnesses,” “those hands shedding innocent blood,”
If I were to just write that I hate “hands shedding innocent blood, lying tongues, people who bear false witness,” would you, mortimer, be confused by that and tell me “don’t be quick to hate because then I am being like moslims”?
I have never, ever, been unkind to moslims…even when some were very unkind to me. I helped moslim children when they rode the school bus I drove, the same as I helped the other children. I have spoken kindly to moslim women, smiled at their children…who frowned in return…and never said anything to them to offend them or hurt them in any way.
When moslims come to this site and reply to my comments, I say the Truth, just as Jesus did. If a moslim feels that is unkind or hateful, it is because they embrace islam, just as the Pharisees embraced their personal views about our Creator and His Laws.
I hope you come back and read this, mortimer, but somehow I don’t think you will. If you do, I hope you can remember for the future that I don’t wish you to compare me with moslims and their hateful, ungodly, evil actions and attitudes. Of course, there is nothing to happen if you do such, because even if we were in the same room speaking, I wouldn’t take out a knife, gun, or even a pencil.
And, hating may not be your “job,” but it is required of me, because the Psalm commands, “Oh you lovers of Jehovah, Hate what is bad.”
somehistory says
A few other Scriptures you might want to read:
Jesus said that “rotten trees produce rotten fruit and will be chopped down and thrown into the fire.”
He said that when discussing people and their behaviors.
Jesus also said, “You are from your father the devil and you wish to do the desires of your father.” He said that to those who hated Him for telling the Truth and wanted to kill Him.
The Apostle John said that if someone “brings a different teaching, neither invite him into your home or say a greeting to him.”
moslims demand that we allow them to come in to our ‘home’ countries and that we treat them better than we treat each other. moslims insist that we ‘greet’ them as they want to be greeted, and not say things they don’t like…such as ‘merry Christmas,’ and ask them about their beliefs in such a way that they know we disagree with what their ‘prophet’ told them.
We have Jesus’ example in numerous ways to show us how to treat others. He did not hold back from telling those who opposed Him what was wrong with them and their thinking, nor what was going to happen to them if they didn’t change.
Tell a moslim what they are doing is wrong and see where it gets you, even if you say it with the kindest of words and in the kindest of voices.
“Don’t cast your pearls before swine, nor give what is Holy to dogs.” Do you know how to apply that Scripture?
One last thing: the Apostle Paul said, “We are not the masters over your faith.”
Neither are you the master of anyone’s faith. Work on your own faith…or not…as you choose; and leave mine to me.
Telling me how to live is “not Your Job.”
gravenimage says
Agreed, Somehistory. There is also Romans 12:9:
“Hate that which is evil; cleave to that which is good”.
There are also similar verses.
somehistory says
Thank you, g. And you are right. The Bible is filled with verses that tell us to hate things that God hates as we love what is good and righteous.
somehistory says
Thank you, ronyvo.
asa walker says
let me see if i have this right, moslems can behead us,stab us,bomb us ,steal from us kuffers but we cannot speak of it in any way.but post anything about kuffers being burned alive etc it will stand facebook is already so pro moslem why are these apologists wasting time on a letter.last year i posted a cartoon of mo-head and in about 10 minutes i was shut down finale.this happens hundreds of times a day. we thank you swordsman that your blow is swift and keen and that your blade is sharp~
gravenimage says
That’s it–under dhimmitude, the victims of Islam are not even allowed to complain about its violence and savagery.
jim says
If they were really good people, they would be teaching the muslims to shape up and start treating other people the way they want to be treated themselves. They do not have a golden rule in Islam, as far as I know from Bill Warner and other experts. But, if they behaved like persons, they would face less prejudice. And they would have a moral highground to stand on.
Mojdeh says
Three Stooges indeed. The Islam we talk here are ISIS, Terrorist regime of Iran and others. They do not represent Islam and Mohamed, So my advice to them buzz off. We talk about honor killings, and crap of Islam is brought to us. We say there is no reform in Islam and Islam what is it as you see blood shed, explosions, and much killing all minorities in other nations. Islam want to conquer all mountains of world.
The quote was from Donkey Nejad ex PR of Iran.
gravenimage says
Mojdeh–with all respect–the Qur’an, Hadiths, and SIra of Mohamed are hideously violent–this is orthodox Islam. This fantasy Islam and “Prophet” have never existed.
Keith O says
I’m deeply shocked that these three clowns could even put a three page letter together between them, they must of had their sycophant’s do it for them!
Also I would not be surprised if Mark Suckarseburg complies with their ludicrous demands.
revereridesagain says
Didn’t we just read this in CAIR’s list of demands to so-called “president elect” Senile Joe Biden:
“17. Support the free speech of all Americans and the right to boycott without government interference.”
Of course Muslims do not consider criticism of Islam to be “free speech”, but “blasphemy” deserving of the death penalty. And no, not all other religions on earth but Islam say “love everybody and co-exist with all”. There are an estimated +/- 4,000 religions in the world and since the number of “great world faiths” is far lower than than, a certain amount of the slack must be take up with various small sects and cults. From extensive experience, I’ve observed that a large percentage of these have no “love” for or real yen to “co-exist” with those outside their particular mini-“true faith”. Most are too small to have any widespread influence that enables them to enforce their prejudices. Islam, alas, inflates the number of those sharing its intolerance and hostility by hundreds of millions.
(Actually, some states do retain vestigial “blasphemy” laws, Marxa/Maskachusetts among them. They sit on the books unenforced because no one has the spine to remove them. I do not know whether any of them specifically forbid criticism of Islam, however.)
JohnTheRevelator says
This is the goal of all Muslims, to shut us up and not talk about the rapes, terrorism, theft and warfare they’re waging against us? Why because we’d then wake up, realize what they were doing and then work to defeat them.
Unfortunately the major social media organizations, already doing their bidding and banning any criticism of Islam and Muslims, like the good little traitorous dhimmis they are. We need patriots and strong leaders to stand up for free speech or we’ll definitely lose it.
Clayton Tolliver says
The three of them could be charged, convicted, and imprisoned – right NOW.
3 of them constitutes a “conspiracy”… AGAINST our 1st Amendment rights…
And they are doing so publicly, which means there is NO hiding it – or denying what they said.
I refer you to:
18 USC 241: Conspiracy Against Rights
Look at the fine print; their political careers SHOULD be finished.
abad says
That’s Biden’s goal, to do away with our rights, the Constitution, everything that goes with it.
gravenimage says
Actually, it was an RV that blew up–this was not a missile. Here’s this odd story so far:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/26/us/nashville-tn-explosion/index.html
The AT&T building was damaged, but it is not clear if this was the main target, Certainly, the RV was not parked right outside this building, and the RV was broadcasting warnings about the incipient blast, which is *very* unusual.
And I don’t see any linked video–did you provide one?
gravenimage says
Omar, Tlaib and AOC demand Facebook remove 100% of ‘anti-Muslim content’
………………..
In other words, censor anything critical of the horrors of Islam.
Mojdeh says
https://www.brighteon.com/2ac0a779-0efd-40d7-a695-b426347b5fe7
Antony Fauchi did vaccinate without a needle? lol… Vaccines are fake want change your DNA?
Go to Pfizer and see what are components of Pfizer or Moderna or any one?
By the way police has gone to the house possible suspects and looking also this is latest report by RT.
Suicide bombing’? Nashville blast suspect ‘likely’ died in explosion, media claim, as FBI raids his house to establish motive
Federal agents have raided the house of a ‘person of interest’ in the Nashville Christmas blast case. Multiple law enforcement sources said the suspect is believed to be dead, with CNN declaring it a “likely suicide bombing.”
While officials decline to name the suspect, one of ‘more than 500’ initial leads brought them to a two-story red brick suburban house on Bakertown Road in Antioch, Tennessee on Saturday. After a bomb squad swept the house for potential explosive devices, federal agents began their search for any clues in an attempt to establish a motive.
Agents have started carrying what looks like evidence bags out of the Antioch home. There’s been about 4 bags so far. #nashvillebombing#Nashville@WSMVpic.twitter.com/YjSHh0c2pq
— Joshua Cole (@JoshuaColeLive) December 26, 2020
The investigators are also “vigorously working” to identify suspected fragments of human remains found at the blast site, according to FBI Special Agent in Charge Doug Korneski.
Was the son became Islam and followers of Ayatollahs? May be he had Rice and Kebob he became a suicide bomber made in Iran? Grave Image remember clashes of different opinions real truth shal comes out. Peace be up on you. I was in Evin Prison and i was raped by Ghasen Soliemani. Do you understand my pain? of course not! I am glad he went to hell now with 72 virgins girl ?
gravenimage says
Mojdeh, I did not know that you are the survivor of rape–I’m so glad you survived. I am also a rape survivor. That you were in the notorious Evin Prison is horrifying–glad you got out. Be safe.
Re vaccines, though, your claim that they are all fake is simply not borne out. Vaccines have eliminated the scourges of polio, measels, and smallpox. The threat of polio ended just a few years before I was born, and it ended because of the Salk and Sabin vaccines. Smallpox was a feared disease for centuries, and devastated much of the Americas. But now the disease only exists in saved samples–it has been completely eradicated. This is actually a good thing.
And we are still learning about what happened in Nashville–but I think I can say with confidence that eating rice and kebab does not turn anyone into a suicide bomber. I made kebabs last month, and I’m not blowing anyone up.
Mojdeh says
I ate Kebob and Rice as well… But you know Muslims do first make you like better than father and mother and give you love then deceive you by little little and make you a suicide bomber. I did not say exactly past because this Ghasem Soliemani i burn his photo every day i pray to Jesus that he will be in the mother of hell. I am sorry for your situation as well. So now we can understand each others better.
Iran war is coming January Surprise? go to bran new you tube and see videos that censored by you tube
is there now.
http://brandnewtube.com/ I hope you are recovered. I apologize to you now i can understand you better.
Hope now we are in same shoes , we both understand each others now for better always.
Clifford Fodor says
Omar wears a scarf on her head because of her religion. Tlaib doesn’t wear any scarf even though she is of the same religion as Omar. Tlaib should wear a scarf around her face. It would be a big improvement.
This is a really crazy world we live in. We fought the Nazis in WW2, and we purge them wherever they were, and many of their leaders were executed. The youth of Germany had to be re-educated.
Islam is the same as Nazism or worse. Why do we tolerate them? They attacked us on 9/11 by obliterating the Twin Towers and killing thousands of people. But two days later, our president tells that Islam is a religion of peace. They tell us they are war with us, but we allow them to send representatives to our Congress where the vilify us nearly every day.. .
Ade Fegan says
Totally with you ..
I agree on the parallels between islam and the nazis ..
If we had 3 or 4 million people in the UK self identifying as nazis …
who insisting that being a nazi is just about exercise, a vegetarian diet and loving alsatians,
we wouldn’t buy that bullshit for a second !
.. so why are our dickhead leaders suckered hook, link and sinker by islam ?
Mojdeh says
Scarf is just show off. I always dress nice and good and never put that Hijab or scarf on my head because i know is symbol of fascism in Islam . Islam can not tell lady how to dress or put lipstick or make up or wear shorts or not. We dress like European and North American. Hell to Fascist Ayatollahs and we will celebrating soon the killing of Ghasem. I want that men who raped 1000 of prisoners and order their death sentences as well.
Mojdeh says
Hijab is sign of weakness of women. They know Mohamed said 2 women = with a men. Then they fear women to succeed and not accept the fascism Islamic Hijab.Islam is most barbaric regime that kills its citizens and not let them make decision for themselves. Soon i will be put i need find a great video when people in divorce in Islamic Iran court is English or subtitled.It is 2 hours so i think. You will be all amazed that Mullah still the divorce women to work for him as cow girl with protections?lol…
gravenimage says
Yes–Muslim men can use the “Triple Talaq” and instantly divorce their wives, but women need a ruling from a Shari’ah court–almost impossible to gete froman Imam or Mullah. Islamic judges regularly send women and even girls back into violent, abusive marriages.
Ade Fegan says
Well then let us demand they remove all pro-islamic content
Goofy says
What is the ladies’ definition of anti-Muslim? Is it defamation of Islam which is not solidly based on the actual contents of that religion and how it is being practiced or is it any information, factual or not, which is inconvenient from the perspective of Muslims. I am afraid that it is the latter, and no free country can commit to protect religious lies.
OLD GUY says
Why don’t these three representatives of the American people also ask for banning of islamic hate speech and terrorist threats against American citizens. There is no shortage of violence and hate being promoted by imams and other leaders of the islamic religion/ideology. But of course not these three are trying to destroy the middle class American citizens.
Art Nickel says
Here we see them, supporting HONOR KILLING, APOSTASY KILLING, PEDOPHILIA, FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION, and JIHAD and wanting to remove our ability to speak against it under the guise of “islamophobia” and “hate speech.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, as well as 28 other left-wing House members who support anti-Semitism and anti-Christianity and any other real religion, following in the footprints of Joseph Goebbels and Adolph Hitler.