News reports about Islamic terrorist attacks are awkward. Videos even more so.
Governments aren't afraid of Islamic terrorism
they're afraid their people finding out about Islamic terrorism
that's why the Australian government is trying to cover up the video of a Muslim terrorist stabbing a bishop in Mohammed's name pic.twitter.com/13uf6miW21
— Daniel Greenfield – "Hang Together or Separately" (@Sultanknish) April 25, 2024
Australian authorities have refused to use the “I” or “M” word to discuss the Muslim terrorist attack on a bishop.
Now they’re demanding that Twitter take down a video of the stabbing on the Australian Jewish Association Twitter account.
At issue is the right of X to publish a video showing the moment a 16-year-old allegedly stabbed a bishop in an Orthodox Christian Church in Sydney earlier this month.
Australian authorities say the clips threw fuel on a riot that erupted outside the church after the attack and shouldn’t be available for general viewing on a global platform, where it could be used to radicalize potential offenders.
CNN uses “allegedly” to describe a video of the stabbing. And the real concern is not the Muslim terror attack but the “riot” afterward.
Muslim terrorism isn’t a problem. People noticing it is.
And Australia’s modest proposal is to censor it for the entire planet.
On Wednesday, more than a week after the attack, the video was still available to view on the X account of the Australian Jewish Association (AJA). President David Adler told CNN he hadn’t been asked to take it down, either by X or Australia’s e-safety commissioner.
Adler said the AJA received an email from X saying Australian authorities had contacted the company with a takedown request, noting the video “violates the law(s) of Australia.”
The AJA hasn’t taken the video down, because Adler believes it’s important for people to see.
“The reason we did that is because security issues are of critical interest to the Jewish community,” said Adler. “Politicians are not adequately taking the risks of extremism seriously enough. And one of the benefits of showing exactly what happened is a public awakening. Politicians often won’t act without public pressure and there needs to be a bit of an awakening about the risk.”
The video has already been blocked for Australians, but now it’s supposed to be blocked around the world, after an Australian judge issued an order demanding that the video be blocked not just in Australia, but around the world.
Does Australia have the right to determine what people can see around the world? According to leftist leaders, it’s obligated to stop anyone anywhere from finding out about the threat of Islamic terrorism.
They’re not afraid of Islamic terrorism, they’re afraid of people finding out about Islamic terrorism.
