Monday, 28 March 2011

Just How Does Facebook Define "Incitement"

One of the online dictionaries gives this definition for "Incitement"--to stir up or provoke to action. Seems clear enough to me, however, a News Brief today from Arutz 7 has this little bit of information: (Emphasis Mine)

Facebook announced it is monitoring an Arabic social networking page calling for a "Third Intifada" against Israel, but  the site's decision makers say they don't believe it has crossed into incitement and will not remove it. 

The site has 330,000 members and advocates a mass march into Israeli territory by residents of neighboring countries.  

The page's administrators posted a quotation of a Hadith (Islamic tradition) that is popular with radical groups, which reads, 

"The hour [of redemption] does not come until the Muslims fight the Jews and even the stones and trees say, 'O Muslim, a Jew is behind me, so kill him.'"

Nope--No Incitement Here--moving right along...

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