“The weaponisation of online fake news and disinformation poses a serious security threat to our societies.”
Who decides what ‘fake news’ is? And who are the societies being threatened?
“Internet platforms have a vital role to play in countering the abuse of their infrastructure by hostile actors and in keeping their users, and society, safe”.
That’s it. Your safety is our first and foremost concern. Or is it?
The European Commission has proposed new measures to tackle disinformation and so-called ‘fake news’ online, including an EU-wide code of practice on disinformation and support for an “independent fact-checking network.”
The EU Commission announced the new proposal earlier this week, arguing that the new measures would “stimulate quality journalism and promote media literacy,” according to a press release published on the Commission’s website. (More below the fold)
Muslim leaders contacted by AFP acknowledged that anti-Semitism was a problem in France.
But they charged that the nearly 300 signatories, who included ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy and former prime minister Manuel Valls, were blaming a whole religion for the actions of an extremist minority.
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy leaves after a national ceremony for late Lieutenant-Colonel Arnaud Beltrame at the Hotel des Invalides in Paris, France, March 28, 2018. Beltrame was killed by an Islamist militant after taking the place of a female hostage during a supermarket siege in Trebes.
A group of 300 French politicians and artists demanded prominent Muslim leaders denounce Islamic anti-Semitism and declare anti-Christian and anti-Jewish verses in the Quran outdated.
Predictably, the Mustards have no intention of caving in:
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Egypt’s Al-Azhar blasts French manifesto calling for “outdated” Quran verses to be ‘amended’
A senior official in Egypt’s top Islamic authority has slammed a controversial French manifesto that calls for certain passages of the Quran to be redacted.
Abbas Shoman
Deputy to the Grand Imam of al-Azhar, Abbas Shoman, said on Wednesday that the signatories of the open letter should “go to hell”, local daily al-Masry al-Youm reported.
“The people making these strange, perverse and unacceptable demands must correctly understand God Almighty’s book,” Shoman urged.
As Norway considers a total ban on the annoying and offensive Muslim call to prayer, a Norwegian politician (below) says he ‘doesn’t give a crap about Muslim human rights, and thinks all mosques should be banned from broadcasting the amplified call to prayer that can be heard for miles around.
DailyMail Jon Helgheim, immigration spokesman for Progress Party, part of Oslo’s ruling two-party coalition, said the country’s residents needed ‘peace and quiet’. He rejected arguments that banning the religious announcement being played over loudspeakers would violate the European Convention on Human Rights.
‘I don’t give a toss what human rights provisions say in this case,’ he told Vårt Land.
What I care about is that people get peace and quiet in their neighbourhoods, and that means not being disturbed by the call to prayer. ‘If there are conflicting provisions in the Convention on Human Rights, I simply don’t care, because it’s completely stupid.’
Article 9 enshrines the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion in all signatory countries including Norway. The party’s local branch in Buskerud county, west of Oslo, used the same argument but in reverse in its proposal to ban the call to prayer.
‘In several places in the country have now established regulations under which mosques have permission to issue the call to prayer over loudspeakers,’ it claimed, according to The Local Norway.
‘A great many people perceive this as annoying and inappropriate. In Norway we have freedom of religion, which should also include the right not to be exposed to public calls to prayer.’
Nowhere is safe for the good doctor who risked his life to help the CIA. Especially in Pakistan Dr Shakil Afridi is a highly endangered species.
Pakistan: ‘Bin Laden doctor’ moved to safe location
Former surgeon was given 33 years in jail in what US lawmakers say was punishment for helping CIA find Osama bin Laden.
US special forces killed Osama bin Laden during a raid in Abbottabad in May 2011 [File: AP]
A Pakistani doctor who helped American intelligence track down and kill Osama bin Ladenhas been transferred to an unknown location because of possible threats to his life, a Pakistani official and a family member said.
Shakil Afridi, who assisted the CIA in finding bin Laden, was being held in a prison in the northwestern city of Peshawar where he has languished for much of the past eight years for alleged connections to banned organisations.
Afridi’s lawyer, Qamar Nadi, said his client had been held in solitary confinement in Peshawar’s central jail.
The hypocritical Khan is actually no fan of free speech. He has even come to the USA to denounce free speech online.
The irony of a left-wing British pol bleating about the “liberal” value of free speech is downright pungent when you consider what happened to Lauren Southern, Martin Sellner, and Brittany Pettibone when they tried to visit the U.K. to exercise free speech. They were detained and forbidden from entering the country on suspicion of being thought criminals. Robert Spencer, Pamela Geller, and Geert Wilders have also been forbidden entry into Britain lest they say something that people like Khan don’t want heard.
The European Commission has proposed new measures to tackle disinformation and so-called ‘fake news’ online, including an EU-wide code of practice on disinformation and support for an “independent fact-checking network.”
The EU Commission announced the new proposal earlier this week, arguing that the new measures would “stimulate quality journalism and promote media literacy,” according to a press release published on the Commission’s website.
Several other “fact-checking” services, including the German Correctiv, have also been linked back to Soros and the Open Society Foundations. (Read the whole thing)
EUSSR Comrade Jean-Claude Juncker celebrates Karl Marx’s 200th Anniversary…
JUNCKER is set to pay tribute to Karl Marx at a celebration of the father of Communism’s 200th anniversary in Germany, leading to accusations he has forgotten about the many millions of victims of his ideology.
The European Commission President will travel to Trier, Germany, where he will give a speech to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Marx’s birth.–More here.
Hussein Obama got a Nobel Peace Prize for instigating chaos all across the world and emboldening the enemies of the United States. By this standard, not only should Trump receive 100 awards, but the award should be named after him. The Trump Peace Prize.
DemocRats CHEERED when Obama received a Nobel Peace Prize immediately after being elected, before he could “accomplish” anything. But now they want to RIDICULE Trump for achieving something that no other President before him could? Get real.
Former CIA Director-turned-Twitter troll, John Brennan issued President Trump a warning Friday morning after the House Intel Panel released their much-anticipated Russia report, officially clearing Trump.
There was no Trump-Russia collusion. End the witch hunt now and start prosecuting all involved in the attempted coup.
Tucker: House report has no collusion, but ‘deep state’
House Intel Committee release report that finds ‘no evidence’ of collusion between the Russian government and Trump campaign. However in has insight on former DNI James Clapper, former CIA Director John Brennan and the ‘deep state’ work #Tucker
Despite heavy opposition from residents and campaigners, councillors approved the proposal
More than 700 objections were filed
Residents were represented by Gavin Pearce, a lawyer who specialises in the opposition of mosques.
He goes by the name of ‘Mosque Buster’ on social media.
Cllr Ricky Duveen, ward member for Tilehurst, accused Mr Pearce, otherwise known as Gavin Boby, of stirring hatred by distributing leaflets and organising a protest.
Congressional Democrats launched an all-out war against conservative concerns about censorship on social media today, calling the concerns a “conspiracy theory,” even as they defended tech giants’ right to censor content on the basis of political viewpoint.
If Congress is looking for a pattern of bias against conservatives, they don’t have far to look.
Pamela Geller posted an accurate news story, accompanied by a genuine photo of two niqab-wearing Muslimas carrying a sign saying “God Bless Hitler” — a vivid, and sickening, illustration of Islamic antisemitism. For doing this, she has been blocked from posting at Facebook yet again, in what is just the latest indication of the social media giant’s determination to silence all voices that dissent from its hard-Left agenda.
Mark Zuckerberg recently claimed, risibly, that Facebook’s censors had no political bias. He actually had the audacity to say this in a Congressional hearing. No one asked him why Facebook’s Vice President Joel Kaplan traveled to Pakistan in July 2017 to assure the Pakistani government that it would remove “anti-Islam” material. That endeavor had already started before Kaplan’s trip. In mid-February 2017, traffic to Jihad Watch from Facebook dropped suddenly by 90% and has never recovered. And there are so many other sites that have experienced a similar dropoff.
This was no accident. It has happened to counter-jihad sites and others that oppose the hard-Left agenda across the board. Either Zuckerberg perjured himself, or has no control over his company.
If Facebook is not broken up by anti-trust initiatives or stopped in some other way, the First Amendment freedom of speech will soon be a completely dead letter.
“Facebook Blocks Pamela Geller (Again!) for Reporting on Muslim Anti-Semitism in Germany,” by Allum Bokhari, Breitbart, April 27, 2018:
Days after Facebook, along with Google and Twitter, refused to attend a congressional hearing on social media censorship, the social network banned the account of author and free speech activist Pamela Geller for 30 days after she posted an article about Muslim anti-Semitism in Germany.
“For us the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is nothing but a collection of mumbo-jumbo by disciples of Satan”. — ‘Ali Khamene’i, Iran’s current Supreme Leader.
The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHCR) itself has become a prime motivator and enforcer of the rejection of human rights.
Anything that falls within Islamic shari’a law is a human right; anything that does not fall within shari’a is not a human right.–Continue Reading Article
Hugh Fitzgerald: In Germany Now, Wearing the Kippah Can Be Dangerous
Jews in Germany now are so worried about assaults by Muslims that some — many — of them are afraid to wear their kippahs in public. It has come to this.
Inger Støjberg has lashed out against what she claimed to be widespread cheating among migrants and refugees, which is aimed at securing various benefits and often goes unpunished.
German Police Study Finds Africans Most Criminally Prone Asylum Seekers
A study conducted by the German Federal Police (BKA) on migrant crime has found that African asylum seekers are far more prone to criminality than their Middle Eastern counterparts.
The study shows that migrants from countries which are far less likely to receive a positive asylum claim are also far more likely to engage in crime while in the country, Stuttgarter Zeitungreports.
Paris prosecutor François Molins stated that they have confirmed 416 donors who participate in the financing of ISIS gangs. Hundreds more are in Turkey and Lebanon.
Spain’s increasing migrant sex attacks rock the nation:
There are so many cases of immigrant violence in these regions which go almost completely unnoticed – understandably so, as tourism is one of Spain’s biggest industries.
Importing a massive amount of mostly young, male immigrants into Europe, disrupting the population gender-balance of the host countries, is a recipe for certain disaster.
Germany, Sweden, France and the UK have already found out. Spain’s problems are just beginning.
Mahmoud rubs it
Shams Mahmoud, who is of no fixed address but is originally from Afghanistan, was sentenced on Monday, April 23 to three years and ten months after pleading guilty to attempted rape and two sexual assaults in the town.
Detective Constable Matthew Sharp said: “The offender in this case demonstrated no humanity to the three victims.”
The director of the UN World Food Programme has warned that jihadists leaving Syria are working with Islamists in Africa to push a massive new migration wave towards Europe.
David Beasley urged leaders in Europe to “wake up” to the fact that Islamic State fighters forced out of the Middle East are now in sub-Saharan Africa and plotting with local militants from radical Islamic groups to exploit food shortages and create further instability in the region.
“What we are picking up is that they are partnering with the extremist groups like Boko Haram and al-Qaida to divvy up territory and resources and to continue to infiltrate and destabilise in the hope of creating migration into Europe where they can infiltrate and cause chaos,” he toldThe Guardian.
“My comment to the Europeans is that if you think you had a problem resulting from a nation of 20 million people like Syria because of destabilisation and conflict resulting in migration, wait until the greater Sahel region of 500 million people is further destabilised.”
![US special forces killed Osama bin Laden during a raid in Abbottabad in May 2011 [File: AP]](https://www.aljazeera.com/mritems/imagecache/mbdxxlarge/mritems/Images/2015/2/10/67d72765c9ca43bbb4e48aa5ba635565_18.jpg "Pakistan: 'Bin Laden doctor' moved to safe location")
A study conducted by the German Federal Police (BKA) on migrant crime has found that African asylum seekers are far more prone to criminality than their Middle Eastern counterparts.
