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Media | YouTube bans as inappropriate a video displaying violent verses from the Quran | Mark Bergin

Atheist commentator Nick Gisburne is addicted to YouTube, the enormously popular video-sharing website that Google purchased for $1.65 billion last fall. For the past several months, Gisburne fed that cyber dependency with a steady diet of anti-Christian rhetoric, building a strong viewership with his sardonic style and English wit. But when he sought to take a bite out of Islamic theists, YouTube cut him off.

Gisburne's offending video featured inflammatory quotations from the Quran set to background music. The passages included chilling admonitions such as, "Kill disbelievers wherever you find them."

Within days of posting his musical slide show, Gisburne received an email from YouTube staffers explaining that they had removed the video "due to its inappropriate nature." The correspondence further informed Gisburne that his entire account was now disabled permanently, an action that deleted all of his previously posted content.

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