Just a coincidence?
Malkin latest tweeter
to feel Muslim heat
The conservative commentator Michelle Malkin has received an odd message from Twitter urging her to seek legal counsel following complaints that she had broken Pakistani law. Twitter's second largest shareholder is Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud of Saudi Arabia, a Sharia Law country. The prince owns more of the company than does Twitter’s co-founder and CEO, Jack Dorsey.
“I’ve been #SiliconValleySharia -ed. Here’s the notice Twitter’s legal dept sent me last week, warning me to get legal counsel because anti-blasphemy Muslim zealots complained that my Mohammed Cartoons tweet violates Pakistan’s laws,” Malkin said.
“My innocuous tweet featured a compilation image of the 12 Muhammad cartoons published by Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten in 2005,” Malkin said in a post on her website. “It also linked to my Jan. 8, 2015, syndicated column on the Charlie Hebdo jihad massacre in Paris. There’s no hate, violence, profanity or pornography, just harmless drawings and peacefully expressed opinions about the Western media’s futile attempts to appease the unappeasable enforcers of sharia law, which bans all insults of Islam.”
It should be noted that many Muslims regard cartoons supposedly depicting the Prophet Mohammed as hate speech.
Images of the prophet Mohammed are strictly prohibited by Islamic law, which is effectively the law of the land in Pakistan. There was no mention in news reports whether Malkin had deliberately targeted people in Pakistan with her tweets, but even if she had, she is protected by America's First Amendment. Any controls Pakistan attempts to impose on the internet are its rersponsibility, and not the responsibility of foreigners whose messages show up in Pakistan.
Malkin is not the first Twitter user to be warned by the company following posts construed as critical of Islam.
“Over the past few months, several other prominent critics of Islamic extremism have received similar warning letters from Twitter’s legal department, including Saudi-Canadian activist Ensaf Haidar, the wife of imprisoned Saudi blogger Raif Badawi; Imam Mohammad Tawhidi, an Iranian-born Muslim scholar and reform advocate from Australia; Jamie Glazov, a Russian-born Canadian columnist who just released a new book called “Jihadist Psychopath”; and Pamela Geller, an anti-jihad blogger and activist,” Malkin said.
Big League Politics, which covered this story, noted that a Big League Politics contributor and activist, Laura Loomer, was also "suspiciously banned by the platform after criticism of Rep. Ilham Omar (D-Minn.), a practicing Muslim."
Malkin challenged Twitter's chief, Dorsey, with this thought:
“As a US citizen subject to AMERICA’S laws—NOT Pakistan’s or Mohammed’s—I’ll now retweet my Mo cartoons & columns to 2.1 million followers every day & stand with free speech & free thought. How about you, @Twitter @jack?”
She added, "I have written to Twitter's legal & media relations departments seeking answers and comment on why American citizens who use their service are now subject to Pakistan's oppressive anti-blasphemy laws. No response yet - hi @jack can you respond==>#SiliconValleySharia"
Malkin appended a "#F... Sharia" to one of her tweets.
“My innocuous tweet featured a compilation image of the 12 Muhammad cartoons published by Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten in 2005,” Malkin said in a post on her website. “It also linked to my Jan. 8, 2015, syndicated column on the Charlie Hebdo jihad massacre in Paris. There’s no hate, violence, profanity or pornography, just harmless drawings and peacefully expressed opinions about the Western media’s futile attempts to appease the unappeasable enforcers of sharia law, which bans all insults of Islam.”
It should be noted that many Muslims regard cartoons supposedly depicting the Prophet Mohammed as hate speech.
Images of the prophet Mohammed are strictly prohibited by Islamic law, which is effectively the law of the land in Pakistan. There was no mention in news reports whether Malkin had deliberately targeted people in Pakistan with her tweets, but even if she had, she is protected by America's First Amendment. Any controls Pakistan attempts to impose on the internet are its rersponsibility, and not the responsibility of foreigners whose messages show up in Pakistan.
Malkin is not the first Twitter user to be warned by the company following posts construed as critical of Islam.
“Over the past few months, several other prominent critics of Islamic extremism have received similar warning letters from Twitter’s legal department, including Saudi-Canadian activist Ensaf Haidar, the wife of imprisoned Saudi blogger Raif Badawi; Imam Mohammad Tawhidi, an Iranian-born Muslim scholar and reform advocate from Australia; Jamie Glazov, a Russian-born Canadian columnist who just released a new book called “Jihadist Psychopath”; and Pamela Geller, an anti-jihad blogger and activist,” Malkin said.
Big League Politics, which covered this story, noted that a Big League Politics contributor and activist, Laura Loomer, was also "suspiciously banned by the platform after criticism of Rep. Ilham Omar (D-Minn.), a practicing Muslim."
Malkin challenged Twitter's chief, Dorsey, with this thought:
“As a US citizen subject to AMERICA’S laws—NOT Pakistan’s or Mohammed’s—I’ll now retweet my Mo cartoons & columns to 2.1 million followers every day & stand with free speech & free thought. How about you, @Twitter @jack?”
She added, "I have written to Twitter's legal & media relations departments seeking answers and comment on why American citizens who use their service are now subject to Pakistan's oppressive anti-blasphemy laws. No response yet - hi @jack can you respond==>#SiliconValleySharia"
Malkin appended a "#F... Sharia" to one of her tweets.
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