Australia: Muslim group lodges ‘hate speech’ complaint against Facebook

All over the West, the Sharia police have a stranglehold on Facebook. Islamic supremacist organizations have worked assiduously to impose Sharia tenets upon the West, enabling the cancel culture to keep on escalating.

“The Australian Muslim Advocacy Network has alleged the social media giant is responsible for direct and indirect discrimination and liable for hate speech under the Racial Discrimination Act.” Aside from the fact that Islam is not a race but a set of beliefs, this group expects to be the arbiter of what constitutes discrimination, and in Islam, anything that offends Islam, Muslims or Muhammad is considered “Islamophobia” and “hate.”

Specific examples of hate are provided in the article:

The group has previously highlighted a lack of action from the platform against comments, such as, “Muslims are the only people on Earth who will earn their genocide”, “Drown ’em at birth”, and “Can we go kill these f***ers yet”.

These are a handful of carefully selected examples, and are certainly abhorrent, but the author fails to crystalize what the full definition of hate is according to the Australian Muslim Advocacy Network. Calling for murder and genocide are indeed “hate,” but another statement that might constitute an offense to Muslims may not be deemed “hateful” in Western countries, but fair discourse and fodder for valid discussion. All too often, honest analysis of the jihad ideology is smeared as “hate” and lumped in with comments such as the ones quoted.

The All-Parliamentary Party Group on British Muslims officially defined “Islamophobia” as :

“targeting expressions of Muslimness or perceived Muslimness.”

But where does divine law in Islam, i.e., Sharia, fit in? The Sharia is part and parcel of normative Islam, and therefore of “Muslimness.”

Calling out the pervasive problems of jihad threats, persecution of Christians and other religious minorities, the treatment of gays, and human rights abuses that are justified by Sharia is considered to be an insult to Islam and thus is routinely deemed “Islamophobic,” inappropriate, and “hateful.” That’s the insidious agenda behind this complaint.

“Australian-Muslim rights group lodges hate speech complaint against Facebook,” by Maani Truu, SBS News, April 22, 2021:

An Australian-Muslim rights group has lodged a complaint against Facebook under the Racial Discrimination Act, accusing the social media giant of failing to take down hate speech against minority groups.

The Australian Muslim Advocacy Network has long campaigned for Facebook to do more to remove hate speech and Islamophobia from the platform since the 2019 Christchurch terror attack.

In the complaint to the Australian Human Rights Commission, the group alleges Facebook is responsible for direct and indirect discrimination and liability for hate speech under section 9 and 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975.

They accuse Facebook of allowing pages that “superficially position themselves as ‘anti-Islam’” to remain live despite “routinely and dangerously” proliferating hate speech against Middle Eastern, African, South Asian, and Asian people.

The group has previously highlighted a lack of action from the platform against comments, such as, “Muslims are the only people on Earth who will earn their genocide”, “Drown ’em at birth”, and “Can we go kill these f***ers yet”.

“Our concern is that Facebook only takes action when the community does the heavy-lifting in documenting the violations and is prepared to escalate through media,” AMAN advisor Rita Jabri-Markwell said on Thursday.

“This approach isn’t sustainable and places an unreasonable burden.”

AMAN sent Facebook a legal letter in March outlining their concerns and warning it could be liable under anti-discrimination legislation. It is understood AMAN has been providing feedback and engaging with Facebook over the past year.

“Australian communities have paid the price too long. We have no choice but to escalate this,” Ms Jabri-Markwell said…..