December 08, 2007

When Radical Muslims Get Their Own YouTube....

So many Islamists have been kicked off of YouTube for racist, fascist, or terroristic videos (not nearly enough if my estimation) that it was inevitable that they'd start their own video sharing website. And the kinds of videos they'd post? Also inevitable:

That's a screenshot from the home page of MuslimVideos.com. I didn't do any searches for "Jew" or "Jews are racist" or "Jews sacrifice children" or "is it allowed to kill Jews?". Those videos aren't at the bottom of the page. Those are the videos at the top of the page. In fact, these are all the videos you'll see on their homepage.

The only three videos you see that aren't overtly related to some alleged Jewish malfeasance are Shaikh Yousef al-Qaradawi's Advice to the Ummah, Surat al-Buruj -Abdel Rahman al-Khattab, & Laa Illaha Illah Allah.

The first, a lecture by a man often described as a "moderate" Islamist cleric, Yousef al-Qaradawi, gives his rationale for why it's okay to blow oneself up as long as the victim is a Jew.

The second is a reading by a former Jew living in New York city, Joseph Cohen, reciting something or other in Arabic. Naturally, Cohen hates Jews and thinks its funny when they get their heads cut off.

The website is registerd in Danbury, CT. Judging by the e-mail address associated with it (mnmc m_ghounem@yahoo.com), appears to belong to Mohamed M. Ghounem author of books that take Judaism and Christianity to task, such as 200+ Ways the Quran Corrects the Bible. Ghounem lives in Danbury.

He is also described here as the founder of "Jews for Allah".

Who is the featured member of "Jews for Allah"? Yousef al-Khattab, who was once known as Joseph Cohen. Oh, and he's buddies with Ghounem, who is not a former Jew but was a Christian.

As a sidenote, the website bills itself as, "Uniting the children of Abraham through love and understanding of Islam". But since Jews for Allah appears to be run by the same people as Muslim Videos, a site rife with antisemitism, isn't it a little disingenuous to say your goal is the uniting of Jews and Muslims?

It appears that Cohen and colleagues have started their own Muslim version of YouTube. With predictable results.