- They banned conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and far-right Milo Yiannopoulos
- Pakistani cleric Khadim Hussain Rizvi is allowed to spread anti-Christian hate
- Holocaust denier Alison Chabloz is also still allowed to keep a Facebook profile
Facebook is allowing anti-Christian extremists freedom to peddle hate despite closing down accounts of far-right and anti-Semitic leaders, MailOnline can reveal.
The social media giant this week said it had shut down profiles belonging to Alex Jones and Milo Yiannopoulos were thrown off Facebook, along with Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and the white nationalist Paul Nehlen, saying they had violated its policies against dangerous individuals and organizations.
But the company was today accused of hypocrisy when hordes of anti-Christian fanatics and anti-Semites are allowed to function freely on the site despite a raft complaints.
They say hate preachers like the Pakistani cleric Khadim Hussain Rizvi – spiritual leader of the extremist group Tehreek-e-Labbaik – spreads anti-Christian rhetoric to thousands of followers on the network.
Rizvi was behind massive demonstrations to demand the death penalty for Asia Bibi, a Christian mother-of-five accused of blasphemy by a Pakistani court and was sentenced to death by hanging in 2010, before being acquitted last year.
He also praised the murder of Muslim shopkeeper Asad Shah by Islamists in Glasgow in 2016.
Fiyaz Mughal, director of the anti-racism group Faith Matters, reported him to Facebook in November 2017 amid concerns that his hatred was influencing British Pakistani communities.
But no action was taken and the fanatic remains active on the social network today.
'How long can this farce continue when Facebook says it acts and then does not?' Mr Mughal told MailOnline.
'How long can violence inspirers have Facebook pages? This man has praised the murderer of a British resident for allegedly 'blaspheming'.
'It is like we are back in the barbaric Dark Ages with Facebook giving us spin, whilst the founders lounge in San Francisco, batting away these issues with slick public relations statements.'
Rizvi is not the only Islamist using Facebook to spread his messages of Christian-hatred.
Wael Aleji, an associate at the Wilberforce Alliance foundation, said that the platform has become 'a sewer of poisonous anti-Christian hatred and anti-Semitism'.
'Extremist groups like Hizb ut-Tahrir and the Muslim Brotherhood are very active on Facebook, both as organisations and as individual members,' he said.
'They have been reported so many times but Facebook does nothing. In fact, when a Muslim friend of mine wrote an article that was mildly critical of Islamic fundamentalism, Facebook removed it.
'Sometimes I wonder whether the platform is really being run by Islamists.'
Mr Aleji demanded to know why Facebook purge hasn't included Ayat Oraby, the Egyptian blogger linked to the Muslim Brotherhood living in the US.
'Some of the things she writes on Facebook about Christians are truly poisonous, especially in Arabic,' he said. 'People have complained many times. Yet she is allowed to carry on freely.'
It comes as a report by the Foreign Office found Christians are 'by far the most persecuted' religious group and are enduring what amounts to genocide in some parts of the world.
They are being driven out of the Middle East in a modern-day exodus that means the religion could be wiped out in parts 'where its roots go back furthest', the study found.
Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt blamed 'political correctness' for a failure to confront the oppression of Christians, which he called the 'forgotten persecution'.
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