Michelle Malkin wants to know why YouTube has removed certain anti-jihad videos she created for Hot Air.  Here’s her most recent “Vent” on the topic:

Interesting.  Especially when you can jump onto YouTube anytime you like and find things like this: 

And this:

People—American people—most likely died in those incidents.

I wrote a post a couple of weeks ago in which I pointed to a YouTube video detailing the shootdown of an American helicopter in Iraq.  Iraqi militants shot the video, quite obviously.  There was all kinds of the typical “Allahu Akbar” screeching going on when the helicopter was hit (apparently by a shoulder-fired missile).  I mentioned the YouTube user name in my post and linked to his user page.  Since that time, the “gentleman’s” account has been discontinued.  (I wouldn’t flatter myself for being responsible for his disappearance, mind you.  I’m just saying he’s gone.)

But that doesn’t mean that terrorist video material doesn’t still abound on YouTube.

In the spirit of full disclosure, I must mention that the videos I posted above are in the account of an American.  I’ve known that they’ve been there for some time, but haven’t cried to YouTube to have them removed because I feel that it’s better for Americans to be fully aware of the kinds of things that are going on in the world—pleasant or not—than to be ignorant of them.

I suppose that typifies the vast divide between the Western (Christian) Weltanschauung and Islamic religious dogma.

I would think that the key difference has something to do with tolerance.  Or the lack thereof….

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