Answering Muslims has the story:
YouTube just removed my video “ABC’s Islam Deception: Raisins or Virgins in Paradise?” Since several people mirrored the video, you can watch it on someone else’s account here to see whether it conflicts with any of YouTube’s policies:
Uploaded by AbdullahTaleb61 on Aug 20, 2011
http://www.answeringmuslims.com/
Muhammad promised that his followers would spend eternity deflowering virgins. Yet ABC News and Irshad Manji denied this in their 20/20 special, “Islam: Questions and Answers,” suggesting to American viewers that the Qur’an merely promises “raisins” to Muslims who enter paradise. Unfortunately for ABC, the Qur’an refutes their claim.
Now for the interesting part. YouTube gave me an “explanation” of the policies my video violated. They sent me a message which said:
The YouTube Community has flagged one or more of your videos as inappropriate. Once a video is flagged, it is reviewed by the YouTube Team against our Community Guidelines. Upon review, we have determined that the following video(s) contain content in violation of these guidelines, and have been disabled:
ABC’s Islam Deception–Part One: Raisins or Virgins in Paradise? – (Acts17Apologetics)
Everyone hates spam. Misleading descriptions, tags, titles or thumbnails designed to increase views are not allowed. It’s also not okay to post large amounts of untargeted, unwanted or repetitive content, including comments and private messages.
Your account has received one Community Guidelines warning strike, which will expire in six months. Additional violations may result in the temporary disabling of your ability to post content to YouTube and/or the permanent termination of your account.
If you attempt to click on my original video, you’ll see this message:
Now if you watched the video, did you see any “misleading descriptions, tags, titles or thumbnails designed to increase views”? No. Did you see “large amounts of untargeted, unwanted or repetitive content, including comments and private messages”? No. You saw a video exposing a false claim made by ABC News. If open discussion is no longer allowed on YouTube, tens of thousands of videos should be taken down.
There’s only one possible explanation of YouTube’s removal of my video (along with their nonsensical reason for doing so). YouTube is once again removing content critical of Islam. They started this process last summer when they removed our “Sharia in the U.S.” video, which you can watch on a mirror site here:
Uploaded by Snayr on Jul 7, 2009
Received this video in an email with the following information about it below:
This is a video of David Wood and Nabeel Qureshi asking questions at Arabfest, Dearborn. The date is June 21st, 2009. There was a booth at the festival which had a banner titled “Islam: Got Questions? Get Answers.” From their table, we picked up a pamphlet claiming that Islam promotes peace. We noticed that it was full of poor logic and errors, so we decided to make a video refuting it. We went to the booth that gave us the pamphlet to give them the opportunity to defend their claims. Security, however, stepped in and forced us to turn off our camera.
We left the booth, received advice from police, and found out that the actions of the security guards were illegal. We went back to the booth to record a potential answer again. Realizing that the Muslims present had no answer, we left.
When we came outside, we were asked some questions by two young men, who had been sent by security to entrap us. While we responded to them, festival security started assaulting us, as you will see in this video. The conclusion of this video is a mob of festival security attacking our cameras, pushing us back, kicking our legs, and lying to the police.
We ask you, is it a coincidence that the city with the highest percentage of Muslims in the United States is the city where Christianity is not allowed to be represented (let alone preached) on a public sidewalk? Is it coincidence that in this city, people will say “No way!” when we say “This is the United States of America”?
Is this what will happen when Islam takes over the United States?
Share this with as many people as you can.
I posted a response video, titled “Welcome to ShariaTube”:
Uploaded by Acts17Apologetics on Aug 19, 2011
http://www.answeringmuslims.com/ Videos about Sharia are being shut down.
Since YouTube gave me a “warning strike” after removing my “raisins” video, and since dozens of my other videos follow the exact same format, my account could be removed at any moment. Please inform as many people as possible. If YouTube is censoring even the most basic discussions of Islam, then we need to find an alternative site. Please contact YouTube and express your thoughts.
Posted by David Wood at 8:05 PM
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Youtube has many stinking muslims working for it. What the hell did you expect? Why don’t you try to run your video in mecca some place and see if you get different results.
Use liveleak. Use muhammadtube. and others. Phukin, stinkin muslims…..
The main problem is that the other video servers don’t have anywhere near the server capacity and bandwidth that Google/YouTube has. That means it takes longer to acquire the video from the server. In addition, YouTube offers various social networking features that help to draw people to your video.
Some people do use http://mrctv.org.
Owing to YouTube’s preponderance in the marketplace at this time, I do think it is worthwhile to keep complaining about, and exposing, YouTube’s pro-Muslim bias, even if you don’t use YouTube yourself.
Youtube bends over like an U-tube from which you don’t see things straight !!