YouTube pulls video, bans user for quoting violent Qur'an verses

[Dracos]

At YouTube, You can say pretty much whatever You want, as long as it's not about Islam. If that's not true, YouTube user Nick Gisburne begs to differ after his account – his entire account – was deleted for its "inappropriate content." What exactly did he say? Well, nothing really. He let the Koran speak for itself.

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.

http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2007/02/12/youtube-censors-islam-critic

[msongs]

1. evidently the truth will NOT set you free, just get you evicted hehe

then again there may be more to this than we know.

some things wither in the face of light and exposure.

then again, who knew that slavery is a good thing?

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[Malikshah]

2. Uh..hmmm. Free speech-yay--religious incitement--boo

"violent quotations"...

Yup, nothing like half-truths prepared to skew ideas and incite hatred.

Yup, self-professed atheist who has a bone to pick with Islam, yup.

Getting banned-- a bit OTT

Getting the video yanked? Spot on.

Spent the last 8 years giving public lectures in my area of research and at each lecture I have to deal with the selective quoting from the Qur'an and break down the bigotry and hatred. Having someone stopped from perpetuating the hatred and lies, makes everyone's job a bit easier.

Now this whole banning/deleting of account-- that's going above and beyond in a draconian fashion in
my opinion.


Should he be pilloried? Oh yes. Ridiculed even and taken to task for incitement.

[Fridays Child]

3. The video is still up here...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGZh5w30g3U

I wonder if quoting equally violent and morbid passages from the Bible would get a person banned from You Tube.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

4. Seems Reasonable Enough.

Banning the user might've been a bit knee-jerk, though we don't know what other implicating factors there may have been, but as far as deleting the video is concerned I can understand completely why they would've done so.

The last thing we need is more ignorant and pathetically twisted propaganda designed to alienate and spread hatred towards the Islamic community. This guy was a hateful ignoramus.