Luis, Spanish blogger, from Desde el Exilio (From Exile) -he writes on Spanish, dudes- wrote about what Islam should do to get rid of a supposed Islamophobia. Well, apart from not abuse physically, its supporters could begin by support rational criticism and not asking for the erase/crackdown on private blogs that fight against Islam. Spanish blogger Yahel tells us about Europenews, who has been deleted on charges of supposed xenophoby, nazism-extremism and supposed infractions on author’s rights.
Its provider blogg.de has erased the blog, an striking move, considering that the author Holger Dansk, did never comment the news, only published them with no self-comments. He linked to several German newspapers, such as “Die Welt” and “Taz”. If his posts are considered as nazis or extremists, then the culprit are the MSM newspapers from which he got the information.
The blog’s readers have also explained that the real reason has been only the wide and unconventional information offer about the subject in Europe. Several Muslims have complained to the blog provider, Blogg.de, de Europenews.
you can write to blogg.de to protest at info@blogg.de. The answer everyone gets is very important because, depending on it, some people are proposing an international boicot on the platform. In the 1st critical meeting at Wertheim on June 2nd they are going to speak about this subject.
Muslim censorship appears to be the first cause of the deletion of the blog, that was very informative for German readers. It had several subjects such as: Sharia law, mutilation of women’s genitals, Turkey, Turks in Germany, Killings due to honor issues, Women and Islam, Jihad, Terrorism, there was even a section specialized on Spain: Islam and Al-Andalus.
Source: BLOG INFORMATIVO “EUROPENEWS” ELIMINADO DEL INTERNET A LA FUERZA POR BLOGG.DE « NUEVA EUROPA h/t Ignacio.
This is not the 1st European blogger accused of xenophobia for critisizing Islam. Early this year we have also the case of Finnish blogger Mikko Ellilä.
There is also the case of Bill Warner, who has been reported by Pamela from Atlas Shrugs:
Blogger sued and facing an injunction to cease and desist publishing stories about Muslims linked to terrorism
This is a serious threat to First Amendement rights of Freedom of Speach for bloggers and news reporters everywhere, and if I lose the law suit and the injunction is enforced, it will set a precedent for future law suits and injunctions to be imposed on any blogger or news reporter who writes about Muslims linked to terrorism.
n 5/21/2007 I was served summons of Complaint and an Injunction by the Mcintrye Law Firm of Tampa Fl who represent Abdul Raouf M. Dabus in a Defamation Law Suit against myself and my company for supposedly linking Mr. Dabus and his company VIP Motors in Tampa with shipping vehicles to the Middle East for resale in support of terrorism and that Mr. Dabus had worked at the Islamic Academy of Florida with Sami Al-Arain (The School that Terrorism Built) as an instructor from 1999 to an unknown point and that Mr. Dabus was linked to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and that such information is posted on my web site www.wbipi.com .
Just to chime in with our point of view: we did temporarily disable the europenews blog, yes.
But the reason behind it are not the views or opinions expressed in the weblog. We very much support the freedom of speech and oppose censorship. We tolerate every political aspect on our server as long as they don’t violate the German law or our Terms and Conditions.
I hope you can understand that we do not disclose the reasons, which are purely administrative and have nothing to do with the political views. We are trying to contact the blogger who wrote europenews and hope to resolve this issue as soon and amicable as it is possible for us.
Please do not hesitate to contact us with further questions.
Well, I cannot understand why you cannot disclose your reasons, if they are not political.
I cannot understand why you can’t contact him. Don’t you have his mail?
I hope everything is solutioned in an amicable way for both.
Yeah, I hope this, too. We really have nothing to gain from blocking our customer’s blogs without good reason.
I agree with Lady Vorzheva’s point of view.
Why that secretism? if it’s just an administrative issue it’d better to everybody to explain ASAP.
Well, basically we just don’t want to put issues that exist between our customer and us out in the open.
Maybe in this case we’d have fared better if we’d have put open everything right in the beginning but out of respect for our customers we try to be discreet with our relationship to them. And we explained to the author of the weblog weeks in advance that there are certain problems that might force us to temporarily block his weblog.
Well, if the blog is free, I do not know what administrative issue can exist. And in this case, I really think you are doing more harm than good for not explaining it.
Anyway, I will not erase the entry. In case Holger explains what has happened, I will post it here also.
[…] En Toasted Bread se co0menta el cierre de Europenews y tambien otros casos de cierres y condenas a Bloggeros por hablar en contra del Islam. El mismo comentario tambien en inglés en Spanish Pundit. […]
Yo no escribiré en ingles.
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