A reader of The BFD for many months has been chasing the Office of Film and Literature Classification over a text published on a New Zealand website that supports the use of violence against non-Muslims. The headline of the text is “44 Ways to Support Jihad'”
Because NZ’s Chief censor moved so rapidly to ban the manifesto of the Christchurch terrorist our reader expected them to move swiftly to ban and remove the publication of “44 Ways to Support Jihad” which some would argue is a manifesto on how to wage war against non-Muslims. Only yesterday Newshub reported that the Chief Censor banned the Christchurch mosque shooting video game and the Synagogue gunman’s manifesto so you would think that they would take seriously a manifesto that is about waging war on non-Muslims.
Instead of swift action, our reader was fobbed off repeatedly. He persisted and sent follow up e-mail after follow up e-mail until at last this week he received the following judgement.
“While the text implicitly supports the use of violence against ‘unbelievers’, it stops short of explicitly promoting violent acts of terrorism…”
The Office, therefore, has decided that no restriction will be placed upon it. Below are our reader’s thoughts on the decision:
Well, given the time that it took for the Office to actually consider my submission, I’m not at all surprised by the decision. There was clearly no urgency given to what at least might have been Moslem advocacy of violence against non-Moslems. And the Office’s judgement statement confirms that there was that advocacy.
We are not allowed to know what the eco-fascist slaughterer of Moslems in Christchurch wrote in his “manifesto”. So, I don’t know whether he advocated violence against anyone. But his document was banned immediately.
It’s difficult not to notice a completely different attitude taken towards this document presented by a Moslem of whom the Office’s judgement says:
“…his rhetoric became more violent, and his ideology shifted from anti-American sentiments to advocating direct violence against America. In his later years, he joined Al Qaeda and became an editor of Al Qaeda propaganda magazine Inspire before his death by U.S. drone strike in 2011. His name has been linked with numerous terror plots and attacks in the U.S.A.”