No problem here. Anjem Choudary has been convicted of providing support to the Islamic State and has been linked to numerous jihad attacks that his followers carried out. Calling for or supporting jihad terrorism or other criminal activity ought indeed to be grounds for immediate banning. However, the social media giants are also apparently preparing to ban me (and others) for the crime of opposing jihad violence and Sharia oppression, despite that fact that I have never called for or approved of any violence or criminality. The social media giants control the means of communication today and have scant regard, if any, for the freedom of speech, and are banning people who oppose the dominant perspective and agenda.
“British Islamist preacher banned from multiple social media platforms,” by Jeremy Beaman, Washington Examiner, August 4, 2021:
British Islamist preacher Anjem Choudary has been blocked from joining employment networking site LinkedIn, the latest decision among major social media platforms to ban him.
A LinkedIn spokesperson said the account belonging to Choudary, who was convicted on terrorism charges in 2016 and once praised the Sept. 11 hijackers as Muslims “carrying out their Islamic responsibility and duty” with the attack, was taken down because the platform doesn’t “allow any terrorist organizations or violent extremist groups on our platform.”
“And we don’t allow any individuals who affiliate with such organizations or groups to promote their activities,” the company said in a statement. “We enforce those rules to help keep LinkedIn safe, trusted and professional. These rules apply to everyone on LinkedIn and if they are violated, we take action.”
Choudary had already been blocked from Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, with a spokesperson for the latter two saying his accounts violated its Dangerous Individuals and Organizations policies.
“Under these rules, we ban organizations or individuals that proclaim a violent mission or engage in organized hate or violence,” the spokesperson said in a statement.
“That was quick, a record, just five days after I set up my account,” Choudary told Sky News on July 29 of his ban from Twitter.
Choudary asserted he was “quite moderate” in his Twitter posts and that the company did not provide a reason for blocking him. The companies did not immediately disclose whether a particular post led to their actions. He had been posting about his interpretation of the Quran and Sharia before his accounts were deactivated….
In July 2016, Choudary was found guilty of providing support to ISIS and was sentenced to five and a half years in prison. He was released in October 2018 and served the rest of his sentence under supervision.
Choudary had been subject to public speaking restrictions as part of his sentence, most of which expired in the last two weeks.
mortimer says
‘Soliciting to murder’ is a most serious crime in UK. (“… whosoever shall solicit, encourage, persuade, or endeavour to persuade, or shall propose to any person, to murder any other person, whether he be a subject of Her Majesty or not, and whether he be within the Queen’s dominions or not, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and being convicted thereof shall be liable … to [imprisonment for life] …”)
Anjem Choudary should have been put away for life.
mortimer says
About 15% of all Muslims worldwide share and support Anjem Choudary’s views on jihad and hatred directed against non-Muslim KAFIRS. That is what Amazon, Twitter, Facebook, etc. DO NOT GET.
One Muslim out of six is a fellow traveller with Anjem Choudary … a covert jihadist. Approximately 250 million Muslims worldwide share Anjem Choudary’s views on jihad and the canonical Islamic duty of warfare to subjugate disbelieving KAFIRS.
Amazon, Twitter, Facebook have a LOT of work to do to INVESTIGATE and BAN 250 MILLION jihadic Muslims who are filled with HATE and HOSTILITY towards KAFIRS.
Shawn says
Mr.Mortimer,such numbers of our true enemies out there and the reality is the Nazis numbers were not even near what our enemies are today.Thank goodness Muslims are so unorganized and in their countries when non Muslims are eliminated they just kill each other.That is why Islam will never amount to worldwide domination.Lets hope they never join forces cuz we in for one heck of a Crusade.
Raja says
Mortimer the great,
When you are ascribing a percentage to Muslims who are for jihad mass murder, rape etc you are treading or slipping into a quagmire wherein we lose the big picture.
Virtually all of Muslims have supported jihad in quasi or full blown form. e.g: Muslims in Kashmir remained silent during genocide of Pandits, What about the terror attacks of Palis on Israel?, Muslims have never come out in the open against rapes or mass rapes in the lands they live, including “free” Western nations. Their love for Hilter is almost universal, he seems to be their second role model because of Islamic religion. Muslims are relieved that Americans are out of Afghanistan. Again what percentage of Afghan Muslims who account for 99 % are against the Americans leaving their country. Hardly any ! There seems to be unanimity in islam !
gravenimage says
Agree, Raja.
Ade Fegan says
Every muslin who choses to identify as a muslim
subscribes to the Choudary agenda
(Otherwise they are not muslims by the quran
and they are not muslims by muhammad)
gravenimage says
Sadly true–how many Muslims actually deny Islam? Needless to say, *very* few, or they would not be Muslim.
Keith O says
Wishful thinking Mortimer, the world would be a safer place with the key thrown away.
mortimer says
A linkedin spokesman said, ““Under these rules, we ban organizations or individuals that proclaim a violent mission or engage in organized hate or violence,” the spokesperson said in a statement.”
The problem in the statement is ‘hate’, because it can mean anything the company oligarch wishes ‘hate’ to mean.
If they were serious about ‘hate’ (and they obviously are not) they would ban the Islamic organizations that implicitly or explicitly support jihad … Jihad is hostility and warfare directed against non-Muslim KAFIRS … ‘for the sake of Allah’.
All Muslims are canonically required by Sharia law to ‘hate’ and show hostility towards the KAFIR and to attack, fight, assassinate, subjugate, enslave, dominate them and further to remove their property by various means in order to keep them poor and politically weak. If those are not ‘hateful’ actions, then LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and Amazon all have a scatter-brained and opportunistic definition of ‘hate’.
The whole matter of ‘hate speech’ declared by these companies is actually disingenuous and deceitful virtue-signalling on their part. They actually want to suppress all ‘politically incorrect’ speech which does not match their political and business agendas of controlling world markets and world politics at the board room level worldwide and by thwarting the ballot box through electoral trickery and censorship.
These companies are acting as ‘PUBLISHERS’ who edit and suppress comments and ideas they do not share. The hate is coming from LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and Amazon and is directed against people who DISSENT from their financial, business and political goals … which goals, by the way, are neo-fascist in nature.
Ren says
All true muslims should be banned because they incite to crimes.
Crusades Were Right says
Yup… when the “big tech” mob shut down a so-and-so like Choudary, you can be sure a big purge of anti-jihad folk and other truthtellers regarding Islam can’t be far away.
Crusades Were Right says
That’s what they like to call “balance”.
“Sure we’ll suspend a jihad apologist’s account; but now we have to suspend the accounts of numerous ‘far right’ anti-jihad speakers.”
“Seems fair.”
lol
gravenimage says
Grimly likely.
Donovan Nuera says
Will the Royal Family finally speak out about the dangerousness of people like Choudary who have incited violence against British servicemen (Corp. Rigby), returning Soldiers from overseas, and continue to groom and enslave vulnerable poor British girls into sexual bondage and murder? Junior High-Level Squabbling about Wokey Harry & Meg isn’t helping the British people. The Queen should realize by now that Her Subjects are sick and tired of marxoislam idiocracy and that NOBODY would dare arrest her for finally speaking out. She should have let Prince Philip have 1 hour uninterrupted time on the Royal radio to speak his mind before he died.
Keith O says
Donovan, A lot of people give Harry a hard time, but what they conveniently fail to remember is that Harry, along with one of his uncles are the only members of the royal family to serve their queen in battle for several centuries, Harry both as a grunt platoon commander and an Apache crew in the Ghan.
He and he alone among them has killed in battle.
The British people have been crying out for a warrior prince for years and when they got one they didn’t know how to handle him.
So as far as I am concerned he deserves more than a little respect. Even if fatherhood has changed his perspective, which is understandable.
But you are right, the Queen should have let Phil have his say, it would have proved “interesting”.
James Lincoln says
Keith O,
One has to absolutely respect Prince Harry’s military service…
gravenimage says
I do respect Prince Harry’s military service. Since then, very little to respect, I’m afraid.
James Lincoln says
+1
gravenimage says
Social media giants ban UK jihad preacher Anjem Choudary
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I guess they have to throw in a couple of the worst Jihadists from time to time, just so they can continue to pretend they are even-handed.