What Google fails to mention is that the " bug " is the Obama Administration & their political correctness towards Islam in general & terrorists specifically. *************************************************************************************************
On Jan 15, 8:09 pm, Travis <[email protected]> wrote: > http://frontpagemag.com/2010/01/15/google-goes-jihad-by-robert-spencer/ > > *Google Goes Jihad* > > Posted By *Robert Spencer* On January 15, 2010 @ 12:03 am In *FrontPage* | *7 > Comments<http://frontpagemag.com/2010/01/15/google-goes-jihad-by-robert-spence...> > * > > [image: islam] > > Google, the Internet’s ubiquitous search engine, is under fire this week for > censoring negative search results about Islam. If you type “Christianity is” > into the Google search box, there immediately pop up a series of suggested > completions to the sentence, most of them derogatory: “Christianity is > bulls—t,” “Christianity is not a religion,” “Christianity is a lie,” > “Christianity is false,” “Christianity is wrong,” “Christianity is fake.” No > positive suggests come up. Likewise with “Buddhism is,” and the sentence is > once again completed with numerous negative suggestions: “Buddhism is > wrong,” “Buddhism is not what you think,” and so on. But type in “Islam is,” > and nothing comes up at all. The negative suggestions inundating the > searcher for other religions are nowhere to be seen. > > Google, however, says it was all a mistake, and denies have done anything to > favor Islam. “This is a bug,” insisted a Google spokesman, “and we’re > working to fix it as quickly as we can.” Oddly enough, however, even with > all of Google’s technical savvy, this “bug” persisted for days and continues > as of this writing, long after Google’s announcement that it would quickly > be fixed. > > Or perhaps it isn’t so odd, in light of Google’s long-established penchant > for favoring the hard Left and its allies in the global jihad. Critics have > complained for years about Google’s tendency to decorate its logo colorfully > for cherished days of the Left such as Earth Day and International Women’s > Day, while ignoring Christmas (aside from bland Holiday greetings) and > Easter. What’s more, Google-owned YouTube has more than once removed > material critical of Islamic jihad supremacism, while allowing > blood-curdling pro-jihad and vile anti-Semitic material to remain on the > site. Google’s policies on removing videos all too often has appeared to > follow a consistent Leftist line: anti-American, anti-Israel, pro-jihad. > > It is also a remarkable coincidence that Google’s “bug” would appear in > Google not about Judaism or Christianity or Hinduism or Buddhism, but in > connection with the world’s most thin-skinned religion. The one religion > shielded from adverse judgment at Google is also the only religion that has > is currently engaged in an organized campaign to stifle honest discussion > about its texts and teachings that inspire violence. In 2008 the Secretary > General of the 57-government Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), > the largest voting bloc at the United Nations today, Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, > warned the West about “red lines that should not be crossed” regarding free > speech about Islam and terrorism. For years now the OIC has spearheaded an > effort at the UN to compel member states to criminalize what it calls > “defamation of religions,” but by which it clearly means any honest > discussion of the texts and teachings of Islam that jihadists invoke to > justify violence and supremacism. Interestingly enough, the OIC stepped up > this campaign in the wake of the publication of cartoons of Muhammad in a > Danish newspaper that touched off worldwide Muslim riots. Google, at the > time those riots were raging, was dutifully removing from YouTube videos > that depicted the cartoons. > > Thus when the OIC has Google, it doesn’t need international edicts muzzling > free speech. *Like many on the Left, Google seems all too willing to carry > water for the Islamic bloc’s war against free speech* and to oblige the > OIC’s totalitarian and thuggish influences, by voluntarily refraining from > doing anything that might offend Muslims. While its restriction of the > automated search suggestions may seem insignificant, its overall willingness > to conform to notoriously fragile Islamic sensibilities and deep-six > criticism of Islam is anything but trivial. > > What’s more, what with Google’s influence as by far the premier search > engine, the idea that Western non-Muslims must make special allowances for > easily-offended Muslims sets a precedent that can only bear bitter fruit in > the future. Ultimately Google, and every individual, group, business, and > governing authority in the West, is going to have to decide whether it is > going to stand for the hard-won principles of free speech and free inquiry, > or kowtow to Islamic supremacism and intimidation. When the censorship is > voluntary and self-imposed, as in Google’s case, it is all the more > shameful. > ------------------------------ > > Article printed from FrontPage Magazine: *http://frontpagemag.com* > > URL to article: > *http://frontpagemag.com/2010/01/15/google-goes-jihad-by-robert-spencer/* > > URLs in this post: > > [1] Image: > *http://www.addtoany.com/share_save?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Ffrontpagemag.... > * > > image001.jpg > 88KViewDownload
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