If you've ever wondered why stories critical of Islam are often dropped off sites like YouTube and Digg, look no further than this email currently being circulated among YouTube users encouraging the formation of a private group to promote Islam through gaming YouTube's favorites system:
From: ...
Date: May 14, 2007, 11:18 AM
Subject: salamto all muslim brothers and sisters please read
Our Islamic videos will not get full attention unless they come in the top ranked videos in youtube. For this purpose we all Muslims have to rate the videos to 5 stars and have to add them to our favorites. This will not be achieved if we Muslim Youtubers are scattered, i.e., one muslim rating one video and other muslim rating another. So we have to be highly organized. We will do a massive campaign of focusing to rate a single video collectively at once, so that it can show up on the top videos at least in the “Today’s top videos” list.
Doing this job in an open broadcast or in a public group is not a good idea. So it should be done in a private group. I have made the private group with the name: Burn the Boats. The group URL is in accordance to its goal as:
http://www.youtube.com/group/actnow
How to act immediately?
1- If a memeber wants a video to rate 5 stars and to be added as favorite video and to add a comment in video, then he will send the video link as:
Good Video: [video link here.....]
2- If a memeber wants a video to rate to 1 star and as an inappropriate video, then he will send the video link as :
Bad Video: [video link here...]
(Link sender must mention if it should be rated as hatespeech or graphical violence etc.)
#### Please propagate this message to the youtubers who are confirmed to be Muslims. ###
Do not send this message to any person who you doubt if he is Muslim or not. Any brother/sister who wants an invitation to the group, he can send me a short personal message.
JazakAllah.
—Matthew Sheffield is the creator of NewsBusters and its Executive Editor.
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Oh wow...this is priceless in
May 15, 2007 - 17:06 ET by bigtimerOh wow...this is priceless information.
What the heck can be done about this?
Our military cannot use this same forum, which I don't know if that is good or bad as I posted before with a link...but the enemy who want us all dead can.
where is the hate?
May 15, 2007 - 17:38 ET by treshanWhere is the hate of this youtube message? If we simply define Muslim Youtube users as "the enemy," our society is not in good shape.
I think you missed the poin
May 15, 2007 - 18:42 ET by The PresbyterI think you missed the point. Not that there is any hate, it's a matter of how they organize themselves to promote there cause and to crush others. It should already be pretty apparent how well Muslims (or Islamics) flood there information onto the masses in there respective regions. That they are trying to do the same here (they already get plenty of help form the MSM) is scary.
muslims
May 15, 2007 - 18:05 ET by tejanodiabloso, can someone make a video of a camel jock arriving in heaven to recieve his 72 virgins and they're all miss piggy ..
never look a gift skunk in the tail ..
Been happening for a long time
May 15, 2007 - 17:10 ET by c5thenI've noticed the Google results, when searching a topic or key-word, are often laced with sites that have little or nothing to do with the search term.
I suggest perhapse a thumbs-down symbol so you can vote for the worst video, and perhaps a loath list
The day that "politician" became a career choice is the day we started losing the Republic
The article seems to point
May 15, 2007 - 17:52 ET by blogonatorThe article seems to point the finger at YouTube for allowing the circulation of this user's letter. YouTube is the medium of delivery (just as NB and Green Footballs now are), not endorser of it. Personally, I object to the reprinting of the letter here in full. It only spreads the message.
There are two elements in the
May 15, 2007 - 20:01 ET by alamojbThere are two elements in the Democratic Party that are on a collision course. One is the out-of-the-closet-and-in-your-face version of Homosexuality and the other is the Muslim presense. I believe they will both try to use each other for as long as possible. The MSM covers anti-homosexuality if it comes from the right, but ignores the Islamic version. I increasingly think the Muslims are the smarter of the two groups and could eventually triumph, especially if many in the Left begin to convert.
Wow, here's a surprise...A
May 15, 2007 - 21:45 ET by BigBWow, here's a surprise...A culture that has never contributed ONE THING to this world. Other than ignorance, murder and hatred. Parasites is the word I'm looking for....
They are, no doubt, accessing the internet on the compewters developed in Saudi Arabia, driving to plant IEDs in their Syrian built cars, treating their WELL DESERVED wounds with drugs developed in all the Arab states....and calling up their asshat buddies on the cell phones invented by Bin Laden...
(Host to Miss America hopefuls).."If you could have one wish, what would it be?"
My wish would be to make oil irrelevant tomorrow...Then these backass cavemen could go back to doing what they do best....killing each other and starving to death...
Now, this might sting just a little bit.....
However, prior to 700AD the A
May 16, 2007 - 07:19 ET by BeanManHowever, prior to 700AD the Arab world had developed intellectually at a far greater pace than the rest of the world. Plato and Aristotle had to be translated from Arabic into Europran languages, Arabs had made vast strides into the high levels of mathmatics and astronomy.
All of this, of course, occured prior to the advent of some self proclaimed religious person...I'll remember his name in a minute...wait, oh yeah it was, I think, some guy named Mohammed and he started some religion called Islam, I think. Since then....
On that note
May 16, 2007 - 08:25 ET by Right_of_LeftYour post made me think of this:
http://www.mapsofwar.com/ind/history-of-religion.html
Also, BigB, deep breaths.
Ok, that was purty kewl....
May 16, 2007 - 21:26 ET by BigBOk, that was purty kewl....the map thingy that is...but what was the point??? How can I apply it to say...today...or mebbe tomorrow?? I guess my whole point is that, as the kewl map thingy backs up, is what has that culture ever done but try conquer...back in the good old days you could say 'Conquer'...when every one just had sharp things to poke each other with...And TODAY...we have the Western civilizations living in the here and now...and we have these pricks stuck in the 7th century....All they have is a FT of money, which allows them to purchase things that work on some KIND OF EVIL MAGIC but puts them on even footing to carry on with their backwards assed CaveManF##k culture of murder...Oh wait...ConQuest!!!
Now, this might sting just a little bit.....
Bean...They have steadily gon
May 16, 2007 - 21:34 ET by Clear thinkerBean...
They have steadily gone backwards.
The liberal MSM has become an enemy of the USA.