TWITTER WARNS FOES OF JIHAD TERROR & SHARIA OPPRESSION THAT THEIR TWEETS VIOLATE PAKISTANI BLASPHEMY LAWS
BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
Twitter has become a Sharia police.
Last month, as Jihad Watch noted, Ensaf Haidar, the wife of Raif Badawi, “who has been languishing for years in a Saudi prison for ‘insulting Islam,’” posted an anti-niqab tweet on twitter. She received a notice from Twitter that she was in violation of Pakistani law.
Canadian columnist Anthony Furey also received an email from Twitter warning him about violating Pakistan’s blasphemy laws for his posting of cartoons of Muhammad years ago. Imam Mohammad Tawhidi from Australia is a third person to receive the same such warning.
Add to this the fact that Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan vowed to go to the UN to stop all Muhammad cartoons and criticism of Islam.
Pakistan is a state sponsor of jihad terror that is actively exporting jihad beyond its borders. Aside from spreading Sharia blasphemy laws, its spy agency, Inter Service Intelligence, is now manipulating the general elections in Bangladesh that are coming up this month in order to help the jihadist Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and Jamaat e Islami Bangladesh (JIB) to be part of the next government.
“Twitter warns global users their tweets violate Pakistani law,” Channel News Asia, December 11, 2018:
WASHINGTON: When Canadian columnist Anthony Furey received an email said to be from Twitter’s legal team telling him he may have broken a slew of Pakistani laws, his first instinct was to dismiss it as spam.
But after Googling the relevant sections of Pakistan’s penal code, the Toronto Sun op-ed editor was startled to learn he stood accused of insulting the Prophet Mohammad – a crime punishable by death in the Islamic republic – and Twitter later confirmed the correspondence was genuine.
His perceived offense was to post cartoons of the prophet several years ago.
Furey and two prominent critics of extremism in Islam say they are “shocked” to have received notices by the social media giant this past week over alleged violations of Islamabad’s laws, despite having no apparent connection to the South Asian country.
They say the notices amount to an effort to stifle their voices – a charge Twitter denies, arguing the notices came about as a result of “valid requests from an authorized entity,” understood to mean Pakistan, helped users “to take measures to protect their interests,” and the process is not unique to any one country.
But Furey is the third prominent user in the space of days to publicly complain about receiving a message linked to Pakistan.
The other two are Saudi-Canadian activist Ensaf Haidar and Imam Mohammad Tawhidi, a progressive Muslim scholar from Australia who was born in Iran.
Both are outspoken critics of religious extremism and have accused the social media giant of helping to silence progressive ideas within Islam.
‘VALIDATES BLASPHEMY LAWS’
Furey, who detailed his experience in a column for his newspaper on Saturday (Dec 8), told AFP: “I’m somewhat alarmed that Twitter would even allow a country to make a complaint like this, as it almost validates their absurd blasphemy laws.”
The tweet in question was a collage of cartoons of Mohammad that he posted four years ago.
“Looking back, I remember I did it right after there had been an ISIS-inspired attack in retaliation over the cartoons,” Furey wrote in his column, adding he had not posted similar material before or since….