Reporting on the horrific persecution Christian minorities experience in the Muslim word is a “punishable” offense for Facebook, as that topic falls beneath the social media giant’s “standards.”
Raymond Ibrahim That’s what I was told when I logged onto my Facebook account a few days ago. A box popped up saying, “This post goes against our Community Standards,” followed by, “Only you can see this post because it goes against our standards,” with a link to the “offensive” post. I was then locked out for 24 hours.
The problematic article in question, which I published online and shared on Facebook back on Feb. 15, 2021—a full eight months ago—is titled “New Film Commemorates 21 Coptic Christian Martyrs.” In it, I discussed how an Arabic-language film was being made about the 21 Egyptian Christians savagely slaughtered by the Islamic State in Libya in 2015.
So what is it about that particular article that caused it to be banned—again, eight monthsafter it first appeared on Facebook—and me “punished”? If it’s the accompanying picture, which is hardly that graphic, Facebook could’ve done what it has done to other articles of mine: keep the post but remove the image. Aside from mentioning the movie, that article recaps the execution of 2015, quotes some family members’ views on the forthcoming film, and closes by mentioning how a memorial for the 21 Christian martyrs was erected in the Egyptian village of Al Our, whence several of them hailed.
The following excerpt from that article is the only thing I can think of that might have especially vexed Facebook (even though it’s 100% true):
It’s worth recalling that, at the time of their abduction and subsequent butchery, Western media were largely absent. Indeed, before the video appeared, the BBC had falsely reported that the majority of those now slaughtered Copts were “released.” (Such downplaying of Muslim persecution of Christians is not uncommon for the BBC.)
Here are (BNI-saved) screenshots from the above video that was banned:
Around the same time that article got taken down from Facebook, on Oct. 15, 2021, the following comment appeared under another much more recent article on my website—one also about the Muslim persecution of Christians in Egypt:
I shared this article on Facebook and Facebook took it down saying it violated “Community Standards” with no further explanation given.
That article, titled “Coptic Christian Building Abruptly Demolished in Egypt,” merely summarized the findings of an Arabic language report about how Christian minorities in one Egyptian village, because they were banned from having a church, decided to build a community hall to hold their weddings and funerals in. As even that was deemed offensive to Muslim sensibilities, the authorities suddenly came, tore it down and beat and arrested the Christians. Everything about that account is also 100% true.
So what about it does not meet Facebook’s “standards”?
The only conclusion is that, not content with shadow banning articles on the brutal persecution Christians suffer at the hands of Muslims, Facebook is now openly and more aggressively outright banning them.
Moreover, there is reason to believe that Facebook’s actions are at least partially motivated by foreign entities. Seeing that the two articles that got “flagged” both dealt with the persecution of Egyptian Christians—Copts—I contacted Coptic Solidarity, to see if they’ve had similar experiences. Its director, Lindsay Vessey, wrote back saying,
Numerous countries, including Egypt, employ large cyber teams to flag content critical of their leader/government meaning that discussion of human rights violations in countries like China, Saudi Arabia and Egypt can be blocked, with repercussions to the account owner. Facebook needs to hire individuals who not only have the language skills to review posts, but who can maintain professional neutrality and distinguish between abusive content, and legitimate criticism of human rights abuses. My colleague, Faith McDonnell, who is a titan in the realm of religious freedom advocacy, had her Facebook account shut-down without warning, merely for posting an image of the Coptic martyrs on the beach in Libya. Her account was only reinstated after substantial negative publicity towards Facebook.
Facebook, it’s worth adding, is hardly the only one among “Big Tech” to suppress information on the Muslim persecution of Christians: Youtube censored my Prager U video on that exact topic; it also once “punished” me for sharing a video that the Islamic State made of its members destroying crosses and desecrating churches in Syria and Iraq—even though that video was not “graphic” (it depicted buildings and crosses, inanimate objects) and was going viral in the Arab world. As for Google, where once its search results for Islam-related topics would yield many of my articles on the first page, they now tend to be invisible, buried under a mountain of irrelevant if not fake information.
Raymond Ibrahim Prager University, which produces short videos on subjects “important to understanding American values,” explained that “YouTube has chosen repeatedly to restrict some of our videos for violating their ‘Community Guidelines.’ Those guidelines are meant to protect users against viewing sexual content, violent or graphic content, and hate speech,” even though “our videos contain nothing even remotely close to any of these categories.”
Prager U had “filed a complaint with YouTube, hoping that there was some kind of innocent mistake. That’s when we were told by YouTube that after reviewing our videos, they determined that they were, indeed, ‘not appropriate for a younger audience.’”
The first is called “Radical Islam: The Most Dangerous Ideology.” Although in it I distinguished between “radical” Muslims and those many Muslims in name only; although I (very conservatively) suggested that perhaps ten percent of the world’s Muslims are “Islamists,” and of those, only two percent are willing to take violent action to enforce their supremacist worldview; and although I said “Islamists have killed far more Muslims than members of any other group”—YouTube deemed that video “inappropriate” for younger audiences.
My other Prager U video, titled “The World’s Most Persecuted Minority: Christians,” is dedicated to shedding light on the plight of Christians, specifically in Muslim lands, where the overwhelming majority of persecution takes place. It too is censored.
In other words, shedding light on what many Western authorities have referred to as a “genocide” of Christians, is, for YouTube, as “inappropriate” for youth as sexual, graphic, or hate filled videos. Needless to say, not only are there no real images in the video (sexual, graphic or otherwise), but I attribute the violence against Christians to “fundamentalists” and “fundamentalist interpretations” of the Koran, meaning there’s no “hate” either.
Steve S says
It is the classic double standard. The inconsistency is glaring. Evidently not all “hate speech” is equal. And there is even inconsistency as to what is even considered “hate speech.”
I own a Facebook account. I signed up for a new account in late June or early July. But I never talk about religion or politics on the forum. I just post pictures of my cats and some of my 3D artwork, and even then, nothing with sex, nudity, or any controversial topics, and anything else that might be prohibited by Facebook, and I occasionally chat or comment on things from people I know from work. That’s it.
For commentary on Islamic fanaticism and the ongoing jihad throughout the world, I use only this forum to talk about that.
BareNakedIslam says
I have been told that a lot of stuff from BNI gets deleted from FB.
MuhahahahahahahahahaMAD says
I’m of the opinion that outside of Israel, Christianity will be completely annihilated from N. Africa and the Mid-East by the moslame vermin sometime this century. For evidence of this I point to the steadily decreasing number of Christians in Lebanonistan, Egyptistan, Iraqistan and the Paleswine Authority.
Pray Hard says
F*ck facebook. Mark Zueerberg can eat sh*t and die.
Linda Rivera says
Facebook, Twitter, youtube and social media don’t want non Muslims informed that Islam is a MURDER BLOOD CONQUEST CULT whose adherents barbarically slaughtered hundreds of millions of our non Muslim brothers and sisters for the sole reason the innocents didn’t believe in warlord Mohammad’s god of MASS MURDER.
This makes Facebook, youtube and social media complicit in the Muslim persecution and daily mass genocide of Christians around the world.
americanpatriot says
Big social media networks such as Google, Facebook and Twitter are totally biased against any genuine critical and objective writing regarding Islam or Muslims while all other criticism of Jews, Christian, Hindus and Buddhism are tolerated. This is unacceptable for all intellectual thinking persons. Such social media networks should be a non-biased platform of information exchange where genuine, non-biased, fact-based analysis of human thoughts and creative activities are welcomed and promoted. But the situation is quite opposite of it. These social media networks are giving Islam and Muslims a free-pass even though Muslim atrocities and Islamic jihad is happening non-stop in EU, Africa, Asia and parts of the world.
SJ says
I hot my SECOND You Tube channel banned for life! Why? When Sam Pety, the schoolteacher was beheaded in France, I found myself on a YouTube channel with about 3000 muslim commenters saying “all infidels should be killed” and “behead Macron ” and “All Muslims should boycott France, these infidels won’t survive.” My comment you wonder? I said::::
“Viva France. I’m going to buy a French pastry.” THAT’S IT!!!
I never uploaded a video to any channel and they sent me an accusatory email that seemed strangely personal. They accused me of not having a picture on my YouTube account (which was true), but the other accusations were strange, not true and not a community guideline breaker.
BareNakedIslam says
My account got banned for life at Youtube several years ago for a video I had posted several years before that. It was benign compared to what I post here.
Andrew+Blackadder says
I will never understand why men dressed in orange jump suits are on their knees knowing they are about to be slaughtered but dont just jump up kick one of them in the Balls before he is killed or at the very least roll over and away and when the coward in the black mask comes close to kick him right in the nuts.
Personally I will die standing up in my boots rather than kneeling down and allowing myself to be killed by some cowards, and cowards is what they are, like most muslim soy boys who often attack five of them against one, this is also why they rape because they have no idea, nor respect, for a woman.
BareNakedIslam says
Andrew, they drug them before they behead them so they can’t resist.
Linda Rivera says
It was IMPOSSIBLE for the Christians to escape!!!
ronyvo says
Yes, THIS IS THE REAL ISLAM. It is very easy to get educated about THE REAL ISLAM. Just read a small book THE KORAN. Please, make sure you have the original Koran, the TRUE Koran like the ones they use in their dens of worship (the mosques). Muslims are not shy to distort and make changes to deceive, this action is supported by the Islamic takyya. It is a book the Muslins hold dear to their hearts, which contains extreme violence and hate to the Jews and Christians. It is purely Satanic. It is utterly against the Human Rights values. The so called ‘moderate’ Muslims WHERE ARE THEY??? There is no such animal.
Sadly, very sadly, we lost, for the time being, a true American president, president Donald J Trump, who was replaced by means of theft, by treasonous regime the Democratic Party, which I call it the American mafia, which is WAY more dangerous than the Italian mafia since they acquire the control of the most powerful army in the world. To realize the difference between the Trump administration and the ‘Biden’s”, just look at what is already happening in our country in a matter of 10 months. No intelligence is required just HONESTY.
LJW says
Ronyvo, please, how to do know if you have an original Koran?
MuhahahahahahahahahaMAD says
Interestingly enough there are different variants of the holey quranus — some of which have been deliberately edited/redacted for consumption of the kafir (i.e. to make islame and moslames look innocuous).
BareNakedIslam says
YES, CAIR has a whitewashed version that they hand out to infidels for free.
Ramez says
On my original FB account which I had started in 2005 C.E., I wrote tens of thousands of articles on the “History of Jihad from Muhammad to ISIS” and the European Roman Catholic Christian and Orthodox ☦ Christian militant resistance against Mohammedan expansionism, before the Egyptian National Security Agency’s operatives disabled my original 5 FB accounts in September 2018 C.E. for ‘insulting’ islam and Koranimals on social media.
Below-linked is one of said articles on my new FB account:
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=259237509486415&id=100062005040684
BareNakedIslam says
Ramez, instead of using Facebook, why not set up your own website?
Ramez says
I’m not tech-savvy enough to launch my own website, sadly!
BareNakedIslam says
I wasn’t at all tech-savvy. Still am not. It isn’t that hard. I could help you if you want.
Daniel Erbstoesser says
Facebook is a stasi folder that you write yourself and i have never had facebook or any of that bull. I dont even have a handy because i dont like it when other people watch me and know what and with whom i do whatever.
Bugsy278 says
Is it facebook that has a muslim bytch as its content coordinator, or some type of title like that? Anyone know?
BareNakedIslam says
Bugsy, it’s Twitter. Here’s a post I did on her: https://barenakedislam.com/2021/11/05/anti-islam-commentary-at-twitter-is-often-banned-but-anti-semitism-is-just-fine/
Donovan Nuera says
Seriously, publicize the film about these poor Martyrs at your local Church and say that we HONORED them as NEW SAINTS this past Monday on All Saints Day. Get their horrific story out.
BareNakedIslam says
Great idea.
Donovan Nuera says
Of course Bill Gate’s daughter just married an Egyptian muslim Stanford alumnus horserider from a very wealthy family; maybe Gates is helping out his new in-laws by funding more oppression against Copts. I cannot wait for the daughter to visit the Old Country.
BareNakedIslam says
The Arab Muslim equestrians I’ve seen in showjumping competitions appear to be very Westernized. But, you never know.
MuhahahahahahahahahaMAD says
Nazis enjoyed spring days, movies, dancing, singing and music — none of that made them good people.