Google Staffers Claim Rigging Was Not Implemented

by Robert Spencer  •  September 25, 2018 at 4:00 am

        

• It wasn't implemented? Really?
• On July 26, 2017, I posted this at Jihad Watch: "Google bows to Muslim pressure, changes search results to conceal criticism of Islam and jihad." '
• In it, I recounted Texas imam Omar Suleiman's successful effort to compel Google to drop search results about Islam-related terms and topics that reflected negatively upon Islam. Turkey's Anadolu Agency reported happily:

"Google's first page results for searches of terms such as 'jihad', 'shariah' and 'taqiyya' now return mostly reputable explanations of the Islamic concepts. Taqiyya, which describes the circumstances under which a Muslim can conceal their belief in the face of persecution, is the sole term to feature a questionable website on the first page of results."

It wasn't implemented? Really? On July 26, 2017, I posted this at Jihad Watch: "Google bows to Muslim pressure, changes search results to conceal criticism of Islam and jihad." In it, I recounted Texas imam Omar Suleiman's successful effort to compel Google to drop search results about Islam-related terms and topics that reflected negatively upon Islam. Turkey's Anadolu Agency reported happily:

"Google's first page results for searches of terms such as 'jihad', 'shariah' and 'taqiyya' now return mostly reputable explanations of the Islamic concepts. Taqiyya, which describes the circumstances under which a Muslim can conceal their belief in the face of persecution, is the sole term to feature a questionable website on the first page of results."

"Reputable": i.e., acceptable under the Sharia prohibition on criticism of Islam. "Questionable website": i.e., one that tells hard truths about Islam and jihad.

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