Google won’t ban al-Qaeda terror preacher Anwar al-Awlaki’s vile rants even though it now blocks anti-Semitic posts
Search engine has removed twisted websites denying the Holocaust but has not cracked down on lectures and videos used to radicalise kids in the West
GOOGLE is refusing to censor a terror nut who is said to have inspired deadly attacks on the West, despite recently blocking anti-Semitic websites.
Radical imam Anwar al-Awlaki influenced atrocities including the 7/7 bombings and shooting at an Orlando nightclub in which 49 were killed and 45 wounded.
Dubbed the pied piper of Jihad, al-Awlaki features in hundreds of hate-filled lectures that are now searchable on Google.
And the search engine's new autocomplete function even suggests jihadi material to click on after typing the cleric’s name.
This means wannabe terrorists searching Anwar al-Awlaki will be prompted to read quotes and encouragements to become suicide bombers.
A quick search brings you to a downloadable PDF, which urges: "Martyrdom operations; we must refrain from calling it what the West labels it, 'suicide bombings,' since suicide is haram in Islam; and shahada [martyrdom] is not suicide".
Awlaki – who was killed in a American drone strike in 2011 - lives on in various YouTube videos too.
Families of Orlando nightclub victims said they were planning to sue Facebook, Twitter and Google for "providing a terror group with a platform to carry out massacre".
But Google have not banned al-Awlaki's preaching from its top search results, despite removing sick anti-Semitic posts earlier this month.
Google’s director Matt Brittin said that it was working "very hard" to remove hateful content but that autocomplete was a useful function to save time.
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A spokeswoman for Google said: "Autocomplete predictions are algorithmically generated based on users’ search activity."
A YouTube spokeswoman said: "YouTube has clear policies prohibiting content intending to incite violence and we quickly remove videos violating these policies when flagged by our users."
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