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"YouTube Shuts Down Counter Jihad Video Using Anti-ISIS Policy

The educational video about Islamic extremism presented in the three-minute video does much to explain the facts and little to offend.

In implementing its new “hate speech” policy, YouTube has removed a video posted by an anti-extremist organization for “violation” of this very policy. The video in question, posted by CounterJihad.com, points to the Islamist ideology behind terrorism – specifically the implementation of sharia governance (Islamic law) and the goal of building a worldwide caliphate ruled by sharia.

See below for a complete transcript of the video. Watch the video here.

It goes on to detail two different kinds of jihad – violent jihad and civilization jihad, quoting the infamous “Explanatory Memorandum” where the Muslim Brotherhood’s strategic plans for civilizational jihad in America were laid out.

The memorandum is an official document from a 1991 meeting of Brotherhood supporters which federal investigators found the document in the home of Ismael Elbarasse, a founder of the Dar Al-Hijrah mosque in Falls Church, Virginia, during a 2004 search. Elbarasse was a member of the Palestine Committee, which the Muslim Brotherhood had created to support Hamas in the United States. It was entered as evidence in the 2008 Holyland Terror Funding Trial, the largest terrorism financing trial in American history.

YouTube’s hate policy states that while they encourage free speech and try to defend your right to express unpopular points of view,” they don’t permit  speech that “promotes violence or hatred against individuals or groups based on certain attributes, such as race or ethnic origin” among other factors.

Besides lacking certain nuances (a common problem of the YouTube short video format), the case presented in the three-minute video does much to explain the facts and little to offend. Listeners might not agree with a particular example the video chooses to illustrate civilizational jihad, however, to state that pointing out these issues promotes hate is certainly a stretch.

One of the reasons YouTube developed this policy was to use this powerful social media tool as a way to fight media savvy extremist groups such as the Islamic State, who use such platforms to recruit new fighters and promote their cause.

CounterJihad quotes Jim Hanson, executive vice president of the Center for Security Policy, who oversaw productions of the video as saying, “I am stunned that the policy that YouTube developed for the express purpose of fighting Islamic State propaganda is now being used to silence critics of radical jihad.

“Instead of counteracting radical propaganda online, these policies are now being used to silence the very speech that YouTube said it wanted — speech that challenges ISIS.”"
https://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/youtube-shuts-down-counter-jihad-video-using-anti-isis-policy#