Tuesday, February 13, 2007

YouTube Banned Gisburne for Quoting Koran

Filed under: Technology by Chad at 2:06 pm CST

If you recall the news that an atheist who had reportedly taken on Christianity on YouTube deciding to tackle Islam before his account was suspended, you were probably wondering what it was that he said about Islam that was deemed cancel-worthy.  Webpronews carves it up:

Gisburne is a self-described atheist with, at least from the one video, a deep questioning of Muslim claims about the Koran. To express his doubts about Islam being a religion of peace, Gisburne created a 10-minute video, entitled “Islamic Teachings” that was nothing but violent quotations taken from the Koran instructing followers to kill nonbelievers and speed their way to Hell where Allah will torture them forever.

It would seem quoting the holy book in a sort of testament against itself was over the line for someone working at Google-owned YouTube. Not only was the video deleted without any type of warning to the uploader, but the uploader’s account was also deleted with only the explanation (or accusation) of submitting inappropriate content, a category usually reserved for nudity or video violence.

It is not, however, content within the Koran that YouTube finds wrong which is as plain as day considering the number of Islamists on YouTube preaching directly from the Koran, but rather it was using the Koran to illustrate another point against the religion of Islam that YouTube found demeaning.

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