YouTube Channel Circumvents YouTube's Removal Of Anwar Al-'Awlaki Videos By Omitting His Name From Video Titles

March 27, 2018

In late 2017, YouTube removed from its website most of the videos of sermons by the late Yemeni-American sheikh and Al-Qaeda figure Anwar Al-'Awlaki. Searches for the cleric's videos on YouTube now mainly yield news reports about Al-'Awlaki's death. On November 22, 2017, a YouTube channel called The Prophetic Mission was created. The channel has posted dozens of Al-'Awlaki sermons without using his name in the video titles or descriptions. On March 20, 2018, a Telegram channel posted a link to The Prophetic Mission YouTube channel.

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