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by Ruthie Blum • June 23, 2017 at
5:00 am
- If
anyone still doubted at that point the connection between
terrorism and Google's video platform, the Daily Telegraph
revealed that British counterterrorism police had been
monitoring a cell of ISIS "wannabes" since March, and
recorded its members discussing how to use YouTube to plot a
vehicular ramming and stabbing attack in London. Terrorists have
learned that YouTube can be as deadly a weapon as cars and
knives.
- YouTube
and Google, by posting such videos, are effectively being
accessories to murder. They are also inviting class-action
lawsuits from families and individuals victimized by terrorism.
They need to be held criminally liable for aiding and abetting
mass murder.
- In
Arabic with French subtitles, the clip lauds terrorists
"martyred for Allah." User comments include:
"beautiful... may Allah give us all the knowledge and power
to accelerate our imams." In other words, the pictures of
smiling terrorists and their dead bodies serve as an inspiration
to young Muslims seeking Paradise through martyrdom. This is not
theoretical. According to the website Wired UK, as of
June 5, there were 535 terrorist attacks around the world --
with 3,635 fatalities -- since the beginning of 2017 alone.
A screenshot
from one of the terror-supporting jihadi videos on YouTube that was
flagged by MEMRI. The video remains on YouTube to this day.
In mid-March this year, major companies began withdrawing
or reducing advertising from Google Inc., the owner of YouTube, for
allowing their brand names to pop up alongside videos promoting
jihad, a new report released on June 15 by the Middle East Research
Media Institute (MEMRI) reveals.
According to the report -- which documents the failure
of Google to remove jihadi content that MEMRI volunteered to assist
in flagging -- thus far, AT&T, Verizon, Johnson & Johnson,
Enterprise Holdings and GSK are among the companies pulling their ads
from the platform. Google responded by promising to be more
aggressive in ensuring brand safety of ad placements.
Then came the Westminster attack. On March 22, 2017,
Khalid Masood rammed his car into pedestrians -- killing four people
and wounding dozens of others – then stabbed an unarmed police
officer to death.
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