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Facebook Censors Persecuted Christians-While giving Muslim hate speech an open platform
Frontpagemagazine ^ | May 18, 2022 | Raymond Ibrahim

Posted on 05/18/2022 6:40:39 AM PDT by SJackson

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Facebook Censors Persecuted Christians

While giving Muslim hate speech an open platform.Wed May 18, 2022

Raymond Ibrahim

Raymond Ibrahim is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center.

Facebook is at it again—censoring the (Christian) victims of violence and sexual abuse while covering up for their (Muslim) abusers.

A few months ago, I wrote about how Facebook had variously “punished” and censored me for writing about the Muslim persecution of Christians. The only explanation the “social media giant” gave was that I had offended its “standards.”

If there were still any ambiguity as to Facebook’s true motivation, consider the following story which was reported by ReMix earlier this year:

A UK-based Catholic charity has accused Facebook of censoring its campaign to protect Christian women who have been exposed to violence in predominantly Muslim countries.

Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) had launched a digital campaign in November to raise awareness of the violence often experienced by persecuted Catholic women in Islamic countries, and had chosen to spend money on Facebook to promote its posts.

However, the social media giant opted to severely restrict the organization’s ability to publish adverts online on Facebook, whilst simultaneously banning the charity from its affiliated platforms, Instagram and WhatsApp.

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The campaign had been directed towards United Nations authorities and the UK government, and had included a report titled Hear Her Cries which detailed the acts of sexual violence committed against Christian women in Muslim-dominated countries such as Nigeria, Mozambique, Iraq, Egypt, Pakistan and Syria.

For the record, the plight of Christian women in Muslim nations is, indeed, deplorable. That is because they suffer from a “double whammy”: they’re both women and infidels. Thus, in the words of a 2018 report dealing with the Muslim persecution of Christians, “The most significant findings were that Christian women are among the most violated in the world, in maybe a way that we haven’t seen before.” Six women were raped every day simply for being Christian, the report found.

Another 2016 report states:

Unfortunately, more and more women are the target of [Muslim] terrorist groups. There are numerous international incidents of women being kidnapped, raped, and forced to convert from Christianity to Islam by radical extremist groups.... Many are also sold on the open market. This brutality is not only occurring in the Middle East but in Africa and in many other places. In many of these countries, women are subject to persecution because they are considered second-class citizens because of their gender. As minorities in both gender and faith, Christian women face double the persecution. Although we don't have an exact number, we know that millions of women are being persecuted.... In these Muslim-dominated countries, Christian women are systematically deprived of their freedom to live and are denied basic human necessities.

Despite this pandemic that plagues the Islamic world, Facebook has decided that such information must be censored or heavily curtailed. As the ReMix report continues:

Facebook restricted the ACN’s [Aid to the Church in Need’s] campaign by 90 percent in November, explaining to the charity that it had taken the measures to limit the charity’s reach due to a number of users reporting the ads as “offensive, misleading, sexually inappropriate” or “violent.”

For the record, openly libeling organizations or websites that specialize in exposing and seeking to redress ongoing atrocities committed against Christian minorities as “pornography” is an old, communist tactic. According to Brother Andrew, author of the bestselling God’s Smuggler, that’s exactly what the Soviet Union labeled and confiscated smuggled Bibles as—pornography (p.227). Indeed, and as discussed here, “Big Tech” has used the very same tactic against me—banning my website, which is largely dedicated to exposing the persecution of Christians under Islam, on the claim that it is “pornographic”.

The Remix report concludes:

[T]he tech giant has not yet lifted any of the constraints imposed on the organization [ACN], and has repeatedly refused to explain exactly how the adverts violated its guidelines, despite numerous requests by ACN to do so.

“We are horrified,” said the director of the UK branch of Aid to the Church in Need, Neville Kyrke-Smith, in an official statement, “that our campaign which aims to help suffering women has been censored in such a draconian manner. By claiming to have banned our advert for violating its guidelines, but refusing to say which guidelines or how, Facebook have made themselves judge, jury and executioner.”

Meanwhile, censoring the victims of Islamic violence and abuse is only half of the problem. The other half, which few know about, is that Facebook and other social media and big tech do not censor Muslim hate speech and calls to violence—even calls to behead Christians—so long as such talk only appears in Arabic or other non-Western languages, thereby largely shielding it from non-Muslim eyes.

Update: More evidence of Facebook’s discriminatory policies continue to surface. Most recently, according to a PJ Media report titled “Facebook Blocks Christian Children’s Book Publisher From Advertising”:

A Christian children’s book publisher says that Facebook has disabled its ad account, severely limiting its ability to reach new customers.

Good & True Media is a Christian company dedicated to making wholesome children’s literature. Since launching in the Fall of 2021, they’ve already had several best sellers. Since September, they’ve been advertising on Facebook without any problems but found their ad account disabled two days after posting an ad containing a Bible verse….



TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: facebook; fakebook

1 posted on 05/18/2022 6:40:39 AM PDT by SJackson
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To: SJackson

Not surprising.


2 posted on 05/18/2022 6:43:45 AM PDT by sport
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3 posted on 05/18/2022 6:43:47 AM PDT by SJackson (nations that are barren of liberties are also barren of groceries, Louis Fisher)
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To: SJackson

If they have communist Indians like Twitter has running the show it doesn’t surprise me at all. Check the latest from Project Veritas.


4 posted on 05/18/2022 6:45:05 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: SJackson

Fake book is a toilet, Zukerbucks is the bad janitor pushing around up verbal scat.


5 posted on 05/18/2022 6:46:09 AM PDT by The Louiswu (We couldn't 'afford' $4 billion for Trump's wall at the southern border?)
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To: SJackson

Like Twitter, it’s a business decision.

Basically Twitter executives spilled the beans to project Veritas. Conservative Christians are militant, don’t attack or create problems when they are censored like liberals do. They made a business choice to platform liberals because they didn’t want to loose their business, but didn’t care if a few conservatives left.

Facebook is basically saying the same thing. Facebook sees prior outcomes of conflict with Muslims, like in France, and believes it’s not worth their lives to censor left wing or Muslims. Christians are sheep, non-violent, so it’s ok to censor them.

Perhaps asking for money oriented corporations to show courage and financial fortitude is really asking to much. That’s why the Communists and NAZI’s are successful in overtaking democracies and then turning them into third world countries.


6 posted on 05/18/2022 6:46:22 AM PDT by Pete Dovgan
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To: SJackson

How many bots does facebook have? Twitter makes no money on advertising and they have 90% bots. The advertisers on facebook vs. Bots will be legendary.


7 posted on 05/18/2022 6:46:56 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: Pete Dovgan

So, do Christians and conservatives have to become as violent as leftists and Muslims to be heard? I am afraid it is coming to that.


8 posted on 05/18/2022 6:51:27 AM PDT by Betty Jane
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To: SJackson

This is illegal discrimination, and Facebook should be sued.


9 posted on 05/18/2022 6:55:49 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: SJackson

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10 posted on 05/18/2022 6:56:55 AM PDT by sauropod ("We put all our politicians in prison as soon as they are elected. Don’t you?" Why? "It saves time.”)
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To: SJackson

Satan has his fingers in many different companies these days.


11 posted on 05/18/2022 6:57:48 AM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: UnwashedPeasant

They should.


12 posted on 05/18/2022 7:01:03 AM PDT by SJackson (nations that are barren of liberties are also barren of groceries, Louis Fisher)
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To: SJackson

That’s because Satan hates Christians.


13 posted on 05/18/2022 7:12:36 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith… )
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To: SJackson
Cold is the absence of heat.

Dark is the absence of light.

Hate is the absence of Love.

Anybody notice which direction our culture is headed?

14 posted on 05/18/2022 7:15:17 AM PDT by G Larry (Anybody notice that Satan is hard at work?)
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To: Betty Jane

Your answer is in the bible. Evil will not ‘hear’ you anyway, they reject you.

2 Timothy 3:1-5 But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.

Psalm 11:4-5 The LORD is in His holy temple; the LORD’S throne is in heaven; His eyes behold, His eyelids test the sons of men. 5 The LORD tests the righteous and the wicked, And the one who loves violence His soul hates.

Matthew 5:39 But I say to you, do not resist the evildoer. But whoever strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other to him as well.

1 Peter 3:9 Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were called, that you may obtain a blessing.

Romans 12:17-18 Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men. If possible, so far as it depends on you, be at peace with all men.


15 posted on 05/18/2022 8:57:16 AM PDT by Pete Dovgan
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To: SJackson

The control and domination of media platforms by avowed communists must be brought to a screeching halt. We need a turning tide.


16 posted on 05/18/2022 9:51:29 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Seek refuge in Christ. He is your sword and shield.)
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