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I have published some thoughts on my Times of Israel blog, https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/author/michael-vanyukov/. When I tried to publish the above piece there, I had my doubts that that generally politically correct website would allow that. Here is what happened:

toi_editor said on September 13, 2021 at 10:36 am

This post is not approved for publication because it contravenes our guidelines against inciting to violence or promoting hatred based on race, religion, gender or sexual preference.

Michael Vanyukov said on September 13, 2021 at 8:55 pm

I respectfully disagree. The post does not promote “hatred based on race, religion, gender or sexual preference.” You are punishing the messenger: the post informs about such hate. The post provides objective information about Islam as a totalitarian ideology, which is the basis for the crimes of 9/11 as well as all prior and subsequent violence in the name of that ideology. That ideology, as described in the post, is directly enacted in the Koran and the Sunna (e.g., the “gharqad” hadith, considered “authentic” by mainstream Islam: Abu Huraira reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews. (Sahih Muslim, Book 041, Number 6985; also Sahih Muslim, Book 041, Number 6981-6984; and Sahih Bukhari, Volume 4, Book 52, Number 176-179, 56: 791).” I understand, however, your reluctance to share that information with the ToI audience. That is exactly what the post is about.

Michael Vanyukov said on September 13, 2021 at 9:11 pm

The post, again, only promotes objective information about Islam as a totalitarian ideology having a goal of world domination and extermination of the Jews. That goal is the actual “hatred based on religion,” and closing one’s eye to that is as dangerous as closing one’s eyes to the dangers of Communism or Nazism. Just because Islam contains a deity in its arsenal does not change the fact that it is a political ideology – that deity, like in Muhammad’s times, only serves to reach political objectives. It is censorship, which I am very familiar with, coming from the USSR, to categorize this post as “inciting to violence or promoting hatred based on race, religion, gender or sexual preference.” I respectfully request that you publish it or, at least, indicate what exactly is false in it.

toi_editor said on September 14, 2021 at 10:46 am

This post has already been declined for publication. If you continue to submit it we will discontinue your blog.

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