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UK Pressures the US To Takedown Extremist Videos
chrb writes "BBC News and the Telegraph are reporting that the British government has pressured the US government to take down privately hosted extremist web sites and videos, particularly on YouTube. The request follows the conviction of a 21-year-old woman who attempted to murder MP Stephen Timms after watching YouTube videos of radical American Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki. YouTube hosts more than 5,000 videos featuring al-Awlaki, but has begun to remove them following the British government's complaints. The issue obviously raises First Amendment issues in the US, but Security minister Baroness Neville-Jones has said 'Those websites would categorically not be allowed in the UK. They incite cold-blooded murder and as such are surely contrary to the public good. If they were hosted in the UK then we would take them down but this is a global problem. Many of these websites are hosted in America and we look forward to working even more closely with you to take down this hateful material.'"
So since the British now are making our content decisions, are they also going to be putting governmental cameras in our homes too?
Oh, can't wait.
-Hack
Got Geometrodynamics? Awe, too hard to figure out? Too bad.
That's insulting. The 'terrorists' aren't nearly as bad as the British government.
No kidding; have you seen their teeth? Talk about terror! "No, please mister MP, I'll do whatever you say; just quit smiling on TV!"
(is it just me, or does making fun of British dental hygiene never get old?)
Below is from an e-mail forwarded to me. I haven't verified the authenticity of its contents. None the less, I think it's worth posting.
In January 2007, Democrat Keith Ellison, (D - MN) was sworn into the House of Representatives. For the ceremonial photo afterwards, he chose to place his hand on a 1764 copy of the Quran, once the property of Thomas Jefferson. One assumes he felt this would soothe those who opposed him being the first not to place his hand on the Holy Bible, but instead on the Quran ... he should have read his history on WHY Mr. Jefferson had a copy of the Quran in his possession ... he might not have felt so comfortable with his choice ... I hope you will take the time to read why ...
Democrat Keith Ellison is now officially the first Muslim United States congressman. True to his pledge, he placed his hand on the Quran, the Muslim book of jihad and pledged his allegiance to the United States during his ceremonial swearing-in.
Capitol Hill staff said Ellison's swearing-in photo opportunity drew more media than they had ever seen in the history of the U.S. House. Ellison represents the 5th Congressional District of Minnesota.
The Quran Ellison used was no ordinary book. It once belonged to Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States and one of America 's founding fathers. Ellison borrowed it from the Rare Book Section of the Library of Congress. It was one of the 6,500 Jefferson books archived in the library.
Ellison, who was born in Detroit and converted to Islam while in college, said he chose to use Jefferson's Quran because it showed that "a visionary like Jefferson " believed that wisdom could be gleaned from many sources.
There is no doubt Ellison was right about Jefferson believing wisdom could be "gleaned" from the Muslim Quran. At the time Jefferson owned the book, he needed to know everything possible about Muslims because he was about to advocate war against the Islamic "Barbary" states of Morocco , Algeria , Tunisia and Tripoli .
Ellison's use of Jefferson's Quran as a prop illuminates a subject once well-known in the history of the United States, but, which today, is mostly forgotten - the Muslim pirate slavers who over many centuries enslaved millions of Africans and tens of thousands of Christian Europeans and Americans in the Islamic "Barbary" states.
Over the course of 10 centuries, Muslim pirates cruised the African and Mediterranean coastline, pillaging villages and seizing slaves.
The taking of slaves in pre-dawn raids on unsuspecting coastal villages had a high casualty rate. It was typical of Muslim raiders to kill off as many of the "non-Muslim" older men and women as possible so the preferred "booty" of only young women and children could be collected.
Young non-Muslim women were targeted because of their value as concubines in Islamic markets. Islamic law provides for the sexual interests of Muslim men by allowing them to take as many as four wives at one time and to have as many concubines as their fortunes allow.
Boys, as young as 9 or 10 years old, were often mutilated to create eunuchs who would bring higher prices in the slave markets of the Middle East . Muslim slave traders created "eunuch stations" along major African slave routes so the necessary surgery could be performed. It was estimated that only a small number of the boys subjected to the mutilation survived after the surgery.
When American colonists rebelled against British rule in 1776, American merchant ships lost Royal Navy protection. With no American Navy for protection, American ships were attacked and their Christian crews enslaved by Muslim pirates operating under the control of the "Dey of Algiers"--an Islamist warlord ruling Algeria .
Because American commerce in the Mediterranean was being destroyed by the pirates, the Continental Congress agreed in 1784 to negotiate treaties with the four Barbary States . Congress appointed a special commiss
Life is not for the lazy.
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We have LYING drug fucked cunts like George W Bush and the U$A military seeking to push it's influence into that reigon - and keep it there; along with taking the all the oil for themselves.
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We have fucking lying cunts like John Winston Howard ex PM of Australia - who is George W's pet arse licker - "the man of steel" that George W liked to call him, that most other people regard as a lying terd. Then you have shit like Tony Blair - the pathological liar - the only man who could pull his head out of his arse by pulling it over his head...
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Then these cunts go "off to war" (steal oil) and then the people who's countries are invaded and murdered get pissed off and fight back and then post their videos up for all the world to see...
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Then these globalising bank financed shit bags, say "Oh no better not allow other people to see them"....
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http://www.abc.net.au/tv/bigideas/stories/2010/10/19/3041128.htm
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What We Can Learn From Terrorists 19 Oct 2010, 11:00
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Tariq Ali argues that terrorists have changed the world in ways that serve their own religious, political and ideological aims. They've forced the West to compromise on the very foundations of liberal democracy and wind back hard-won freedoms in the name of security.
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Speaking at the recent Festival of Dangerous Ideas, Ali provocatively suggests that the terrorists' actions pale in comparison to the West's retributive "Wars on Terror". In fact he calls these wars "State Terrorism" of which the cruel backlash has been an increase in the ranks of extremist organizations.
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In this broad-sweeping discussion, Ali draws a parallel with the current geopolitical situation and that of the Western world in the late 19th century. Like today, that society was in a period of transition, with no meaningful political opposition. What emerged then was a group of violent activists in the form of anarchists.
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Ultimately Ali's message is: we must understand the motivations of terrorists in order to deal effectively with them. And to Ali this means relinquishing our bias to Israel and our occupation of parts of the Middle East.
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Tariq Ali appeared at the 2010 Festival of Dangerous Ideas, presented by the Sydney Opera House and St James Ethics Centre. Chair of the discussion was Ann Mossop.
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Tariq Ali was in Australia to present the 2010 Edward Said Memorial Lecture at the University of Adelaide.
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Scion of a famous Punjabi political family, Tariq Ali is a writer, filmmaker and occasional broadcaster. He has written more than two dozen books on world history and politics, and seven novels (translated into over a dozen languages) as well as scripts for the stage and screen. He is a regular contributor to "The Guardian" and the "London Review of Books", and is a longstanding editor of the "New Left Review". He currently lives in London.
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Ann Mossop is Head of Public Programs at the Sydney Opera House, and was the co-curator - with Simon Longstaff, of the St James Ethics Centre - of the 2010 Festival of Dangerous Ideas.
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Voting up, Voting down - If I really gave a fuck about your approval or not, I'd come and ask you.