brothers and sisters comrades and
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friends I congratulate each and every
one of you hundreds of you who have
braved this inclement weather to join
with all of us here this evening to
defend the honor of of the Muslims to
defend the honor of Islam and to defend
the honor of the Prophet Muhammad peace
be upon
him let me tell you that I'm going to
speak to you tonight from my
heart and for whatever I
say there is no power on this Earth will
make me
apologize or withdraw
I make that point on the subject of
freedom of
speech because the last speech I gave
from these
steps in which I
criticized the state of
Israel
Zionism and its murderous Rampage in
Gaza I was questioned under caution by
the West Yorkshire police so there's
freedom of speech for some people on
some issues but not for others on other
issues I want to say right at the
beginning what the priest so powerfully
just
said no person no human being should be
subjected to violence still less
death for anything that they have said
written or
drawn so we condemn
utterly the murder of 17
people in the events in
Paris
but we will not
allow this Charlie hebo
magazine to be described
as a kind of
lovable
anarchic
fun book of
cartoons these are not
cartoons these are not depictions of the
Prophet these are
pornographic obscene insults to the
prophet and by extension
1.7 billion human beings on this
Earth and there are
limits there are limits to free
speech and free
expression especially in
France of All European
countries in France it is forbidden for
Muslim women to dress as they
please they can wear as little as they
like but they cannot wear as much as
they
like in France it is illegal to deny the
Holocaust which massacred millions of
Jews in the
1930s and 1940s it is illegal it should
be illegal because of the harm and hurt
and offense which it causes
to the millions of Jews in the
world but how come it's illegal to hunt
and offend Jews in France but it's some
kind of freedom of speech to offend and
obscene
pornography be drawn and published now
in the millions of copies against
Muslims that's hypocrisy not democracy
shame on the government of
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France it wasn't free for the Muslims in
Paris last summer who wanted to March
through the center of their own
capital in support of the people of Gaza
and were forbidden by law and thousands
of Riot police from doing so disgus the
this is
hypocrisy this is double
standards
now the onslaught the backlash against
Muslims in France and in Britain is well
underway in the last 10
days more than 60 attacks against
Muslims and their places of worship and
their businesses
have been
reported well reported is one way of
describing it mosques have been bombed
grenades have been thrown bullets have
been fired fires have been started and
last night a Muslim in front of his wife
and child had his front door smashed
down and stabbed 17 times
and to death he was murdered in front of
his wife and child last night by someone
shouting crazed hatred of Islam I don't
know if you've seen that reported much I
have not so ask Not For Whom the Bell
Tolls for the Bell TOS for you and
everyone in this insane
confrontation which has been begun and
which is continuing British mosques have
been attacked British Muslims have been
attacked and I say we have to bring this
confrontation to an end before more and
more people are consumed by
it they say that some atrocity
was going to happen in
Belgium the head of the British Security
Services has said that such an atrocity
is almost inevitable in Britain God
forbid but if such a crime were to be
committed it would have been committed
by the criminals who committed it not
the 2 million people in Britain who
profess
their religion as Islam when Anders
braic murdered more than 1 people in
Norway in support of his praised
campaign for a
monocultural Christian Europe that's
what he said that's what he wrote nobody
blamed all Christians nobody demanded
that Christians get down on their knees
and apologize for the actions of a
fascist murdering criminal and neither
should they be doing so to the millions
of Muslims in Britain nobody blamed all
white people no for the crimes of braic
nobody blamed all doctors for the crimes
of doctor
shipment crimes are carried out by
criminals not by their
co-religionists or people of the same
color or Nation as
them we cannot avoid this
point at least I will not avoid
it all over the world
tonight Muslims are being bombed and
shelled and growned and
killed and they're almost always being
bombed droned shelled and
killed by the same Western countries and
their Ally
Israel that are
Marching for Freedom on the streets of
Paris that March last weekend was led by
some of the worst tyrants dictators
criminals Mass murderers that could be
assembled anywhere in the world
Netanyahu was weaving for his
election at the front of that
demonstration the representative of
Saudi Arabia was on the front of the
March when his government is lashing
people for
blogging the governments of Egypt
Egypt which has jailed hundreds of
journalists including two Western
journalists working for Al jazer the
military Jun of Egypt was at the front
of the march with Netanyahu and
Holland protesting in favor of freedom
of
speech these are hypocrites these people
and we should have nothing but contempt
for them
my last point is this the proper
job of a
saturnist the proper job of a
Cartoonist the proper job of a
journalist is to hold the powerful and
the rich to
account Charlie
hebu Charlie hebdo's entire purpose and
for
years has been to further
marginalize further alienate and further
endanger exactly those parts of the
community who are already
alienated already
endangered it is a
racist
islamophobic
hypocritical rag Jen sweep char hebo
we
say that the
honor of religious people their prophets
their
beliefs is not fair game for such people
because there are already limits to
freedom of
speech I cannot defame Lio anybody in
this
crowd other than being ready to face a
court and condem
Punishment I
cannot incite racism from this platform
and rightly so I cannot incite hatred of
any kind I cannot say things which are
likely to
lead to aggression or crime against any
group in society
no one can shout fire in a darkened
Cinema because their right of freedom of
speech to shout fire is
trumped by the right of the people in
the cinema not to be trampled and killed
in the resultant Panic well when you do
the
pornographic
obscene
provocations like hebo did every week
and now has done in millions of
copies you're doing the same as the
inciter you're doing the same as the
dangerous man falsely shouting fire in
that darkened Cinema so for the sake of
social peace for the sake of unity in
our
society we have to demand from our
government the protect ction of the
prophets from obscene and pornographic
provocation and in Parliament I intend
to fight for
that thank you very
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much