Yahoo and Islam: Conspiracy? Why does Yahoo delete answers critical of Islam but allow praise of Islam?

Question

There are lots of offensive q/a, such as that gays are going to hell and that jesus was a fraud, but they are allowed to remain. I posted that islam is an evil religion, which i think it is, and yahoo deleted it faster than you could blink. However, yahoo allowed another post which praised the virtues of the islamic faith.

Answer 1

They are afraid of terrorist retaliation if they don't.

This I believe;
http://homelessheart.com/testimony.htm

Answer 2

Sorry, but if you say that Islam is an evil religion, then you really haven't understood anything about religion at all and surely nothing either about Muslims.
Don't you ever read the articles where Islamic priests and a lot of other Muslims condemn the attacks that are being done in the name of Islam? There is no justification whatsoever for all the crimes that are done in the name of Islam or any other religion by a few people.
As long as that is the case, I think it's perfectly right that such indifferent generalizations get deleted immediately.
Between being critical towards a religion and being indifferent, is a substantial gap.
And looking back at the very unfortunate event of displaying that cartoons, freedom of speech is also taking responsibility and considering the consequences. To me, freedom means I could do it but I choose not to because I know of the impact.

Answer 3

Probably on grounds that they´ve crosed the line between being critical and being offensive. For example, if I were to say:

"I think that the religion of Islam encourages violence against women"

Then that could be taken as simple criticism, it´s only my opinion after all and I haven´t accused anybody of doing anything, when I have no way of backing up such a claim. However, if I were to say:

"All Islamic men abuse their wives"

Then that would simply be offensive. Firstly it´s not true, there are millions of muslims on this earth and assuming all of them follow full sharia law and think that it´s okay to beat their wives is the same as thinking that all Christians are rabidly conservative George Bush supporters. Secondly, it´s almost guaranteed to upset any muslim who were to read it, imagine if you were to read that kind of statement about your race or religion or nation, chances are you wouldn´t be too happy.

Yahoo obviously doesn´t want to sit round and publish over the top racist rhetoric, they work in Islamic countries and don´t want to be seen as condoning those kinds of attitudes about Muslims (or anyone else). You seem to be saying that this just happens with Islam related issues, I would guess that they also do it with inflamatory statements about gay people, black people and members of other religions as well. Why not do an experiment, post horrible statements about jews or whoever and see how long they last. I suspect you´d find they get deleted just as much as the islamic ones.

Answer 4

If a question is phrased properly and it is critical it stays, but I agree that the ridiculous attacks get deleted very very fast more so then the attacks on christianity,

so there is a double standard and i would guess those are reviewed with higher priority in the que,

but i asked one yesterday that is still there that very much attacks "islam" some not all

Answer 5

I think you're missing the point, it's not about Islam, its about the being critical part. You can praise things all you want. Yahoo is trying to prevent hate by deleting the questions that are critical.

Answer 6

becuse it is not just critical , in fact it's not even questions , it's declaring war and insulting muslims , it bring hate among people .. when you ask " despite muhammad is a lustfull , killer , raper .. why he is considered a great man? " then you add details to convince everybody that he is so , then you chose the best answer for a man who explained how much is Muhammad a killer and terrorist and reper , and how muslims are terrorists , then you comment on the best answer " wow , you rock , that is the whole truth , thank you "

well that is not a question , it's something else and very insulting and aggressive

yahoo answers is not a place to show hate or ask people to join you in hate , it's a peacefull site to innocently when you wanna know something , you ask , and people answer , not a war arina

imagine something like that from muslims at jesus and christians , would yahoo keep it ?

Answer 7

I think the intention of Yahoo is to disallow non-Islam being critical of Islam. It is presumed that no one gets offended when Islam is praised. Let us praise our own and not criticize others.

Answer 8

Does it offend anyone when someone praises Islam? No. Does it offend anyone when someone criticises? Definately. Yahoo is simply omitting questions that crude and offensive. Praise fits neither category.

Answer 9

because these questions are reported very fast .. a lot of Muslims use yahoo Answers and they notice these kind of questions at once and they report it as Abuse ...

I do that when i encounter a question or an answer that is not intended to ask ... but is asked to spread hatred to Islam and with no intention to gain any knowledge ...

as for other offensive questions about other religions ... it's the duty of Christians and Jewish to defend their religion ... or don't .. and they oftenly don't ... "i said oftenly not always"...

i hope i answered your question ... best regards ...

Answer 10

I think you are wrong, I am spending a lot of time responding to very rude questions about Muslims and Islam that are reposted and copy/paste again and again.

Answer 11

Most of the "questions" and "answers" about Islam aren't valid questions or answers, they are thinly disguised (very thinly disguised) attacks on Islam.

People who want to spread hatred should find a website that supports their cause.