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Critics of Islam Are Being Silenced in the UK

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The Italian journalist Giulio Meotti provides disturbing examples of the infringement of the freedom of speech in the UK: “Orwell’s 1984 is now! Don’t dare to criticize Islam in the UK,” by Giulio Meotti, Israel National News, May 14, 2025:

In London, Niyak Ghorbani, an Iranian dissident, has been marching alongside the Jewish community for months with his “Hamas is terrorist” sign protesting pro-Hamas marches. Ghorbani was forcibly removed by the Metropolitan Police for holding the sign and arrested many times.

Do you find it normal that an Iranian exile would be arrested for protesting against terrorists? The organizers of the same marches from which Ghorbani is being chased by the police have ties to Hamas, have met with Hamas officials, or have publicly praised its terrorist atrocities. One group, the Muslim Association of Britain, was founded by Muhammad Kathem Sawalha, a former Hamas leader who now lives in London.

In this case, everything is “legal”: because the authorities are no longer liberals (the original definition), but submissive positivists.

Think of it: Niyak Ghorbani is an Iranian dissident living in London who is no doubt a target of Iranian secret agents determined to eliminate him (as they are determined to kill any Iranian exiles who prove too effective in their verbal attacks on the Islamic Republic), yet he shows up in public in a sign of solidarity with Jews, joining in their marches and holding up a sign saying “Hamas is terrorist.” That is also the official position of the UK government, that has designated Hamas as a terrorist organization. Yet Ghorbani was arrested merely for carrying a sign that expressed what is supposed to be the view of the British government. Why? On what grounds?

Christian preacher Hatun Tash was preparing to give a speech on the Koran at Speakers Corner in London when she was dragged away by police officers, as a crowd surrounded her and shouted “Allahu Akbar”. The police then paid £10,000 in damages to Tash.

Speakers Corner at Hyde Park is celebrated as the place where individuals are famously free to arrive, stand on a figurative (or literal) soapbox, and speak to groups of listeners about all sorts of issues, expressing the most unpopular views under the watchful eyes of the police, who are there to ensure that speakers are not shouted down or roughed up. There are dozens of speakers, for example, on any given day, conducting da’wa, in an attempt to win more converts to Islam. Hatun Tash is a former Muslim, now a Christian preacher, and hence anathema to Muslims. When she arrived to give a speech on the Qur’an — one that was critical of many passages — a large crowd of angry Muslims surrounded her, intent on keeping her from speaking, and possibly hoping to do her physical harm. They shouted the Islamic war cry of Allahu akbar (“Our god is greater than your god”). And the police, instead of protecting Hatun Tash, whisked her away, preventing her from continuing her talk. This is the “heckler’s veto,” and the whole point of Speakers Corner at Hyde Park is to prevent audience members from shouting down or threatening unpopular speakers, by having the police protect those speakers. But not this time. It was the Muslim hecklers who won and stayed put; it was Hatun Tash who was hauled away, prevented from speaking her piece. Is this now to be the policy at Speakers Corner? If enough members of the audience violently threaten a speaker critical of Islam, will the police now remove the speaker instead of rounding up those who are threatening that speaker? Speakers Corner, which has been in operation for more than 160 years, might as well shut down; it will no longer be a place where free speech — if it is critical of Islam — will be permitted.

In February, 50-year-old Turkish citizen Hamit Coskun was charged with causing “anguish” to the Islamic faith after burning a Quran outside the Turkish consulate in London. If Coskun is convicted, it would mark another step in Europe’s continued capitulation to the jihadists’ veto, where fear of a violent backlash dictates the limits of free speech.

When a retired police officer, a Telegraph journalist, an Iranian exile, a disabled activist and a Turkish Christian are arrested, interrogated and taken away by the police for expressing their views, it means that democracies are being overwhelmed by the newbarbarians already inside the city walls.

Meotti gives five examples of how critics of Islam are being silenced in the UK. But the most outrageous of all attempts to prevent the British public from hearing critical remarks about Islam is well known to readers of Jihad Watch. That is the ban on Robert Spencer from entering the UK, in force since 2013, since if he were allowed in, he would surely deliver some home truths about Islam that the four million Muslims in Great Britain don’t want heard.

Comments

    • They have already acquiesced, the pot is boiling and the frog will get hotter but they will just boil to death. Too many Brit’s don’t want to confront the danger or even admit it exists, just like Neville Chamberlain. They will sacrifice anyone for the illusion of peace, they are cowards. The genes of the brave left Europe for the new world and left Europe with the cowards and hypocrites.

      • Well Brenrod , from what you’re writing I distill you probably are from the “new world “. My assumption . “The genes of the brave left Europe for the new world and left Europe with the cowards and hypocrites “, hahaha , what utter nonsense . You clearly don’t know what you’re talking about . Many people from the new world can track their origins/ancestry from…….. fugitives , part of my own family included ……And yes , I’m from Europe . I’m NOT a coward nor a hypocrite .

  2. Yes, the UK is enforcing Islamophobia laws on the public. The UK is on Islamophobia steroids, will jail or imprison regular citizens for speaking the truth about Islam. They’ve been working overtime for the last 12-15 years, Sharia law isn’t far away. 🥷🏻

    With President Trump appointing known Muslim Brotherhood key members to a Religious Liberty Commission, in the U.S., will ensure Islamophobia laws will be instituted in America.

    • Never happen in America; you have 50 million veterans, most well armed, that will never allow it.

      I would rather die on my feet; then live on my knees!
      Sword of God!

      • Even veterans aside, there is the Second Amendment, which most people make use of whenever they sense an increased threat. Like when we saw gun sales go through the roof in 2020

        In fact, the Second Amendment is the one reason that the US will never be an islamic country, even if everyone else falls through the cracks

      • I have two brothers who are not veterans but they share the same mindset that I have. If every veteran were to have two brothers that makes it 150 million that will never allow it. I like those odds.

    • The English government is channeling George Orwell’s 1984, “War is peace”. The gullible citizens, it believes, will eventually accept the periodic machinations inspired by Islam are of no consequence and a new normal. From there 2 + 2 = 5 is within range for ruling elite thought.

      We are literally watching a former great empire slowly descend into eventual impoverished chaos as it denies a diseased wound of globalism, lack of patriotic fortitude, diminishingly identifiable culture, and denied invasion.

  4. It’s over for Britain because jihadists have the state on the run because it has 40,000 potential terrorists on the radar and cannot cope with more potential threats of violence. The political class is also cowed and Labour and Lib Dems cannot survive without the swing votes of angry Muslims in over 100+ parliamentary constituencies. Critics of Islam have been silenced by tue fear of assassination:

      • The idea that anyone noting anything concerning about the President is a “Nazi” is mistaken. Trump has mostly been pretty good, but there is stuff aobut the threat of Islam that he *does not* understand.

    • How did a depraved supporter of Hamas like yourself lose his way on to this website. Do you seriously think folks here would fall for your taqiyya lies.

    • Since you asked for my comment I think that anyone who spreads your taqiyya lies deserve the same fate as hamas is getting.

      • Benrod, Robert Spencer and other contributors here have espressed concern ovr some of President Trump’s shortcomings re understanding the threat of Islam–is that Taqiyya?

  7. This has actually been going on for decades now: it’s only now that it’s becoming more noticeable among those in the public who don’t pay attention to muslim trends in UK

  8. “Jihadists’ veto” is a nice turn of phrase. It’d be even better if it caught on and people knew what it meant.

    The fact that Mr. Spencer has been wrongfully banned from entering the UK for so long with such little publicity is an indication of the continued ignorance of the true jihad threat in America.

    Britain, on the other hand seems doomed to be swallowed by the former colonial subjects they treated so well. When even the leader of the opposition party says “we’ll never win political power without Muslim votes,” you kinda know you’ve already lost.

    That’s not to say they can’t right the ship. But it’ll take some DRASTIC moves to even have a chance. And I don’t know if the modern Brit has it in them anymore. But I’m rooting for you, mates!

  10. Critics of Islam Are Being Silenced in the UK
    ………………………………

    Yes–and this enabling of Shari’ah law has been going on for some tme now. The ban on peaceful speakers Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller are more of the same.

  11. You guys should have a “British correspondent” who talks bout how crappy life is here. The same way newspapers used to run articles about life behind the Iron Curtain. (And of course u had movies about that too) You don’t look like you realise that uh, as we approach towards Islam taking over, life in general gets darker and more unpleasant.

    I could do it if I had journalistic training or whatever but I’m not good at typing out long things.

    • Quite a number of British citizens comment here, Rob. They pretty much tell of life there now and how bad things are.
      As many *news* outlets will have several ‘reporters’ write some of the same articles’/stories, it’s kind of like that when reading all of the comments from the U.K.
      Just join those other guys in telling us….in a few words….how bad things are from your view.

      • I meant an actual published blog. Yes, I know im not the only commenter… ****in retard.

        • You are one of *few*special commenters Most commenters from the U.K. are polite and respectful.
          I’d rather be considered retarded than rude and impolite.

        • Thank you, g. His opinion means less than nothing. Kind of like asking what biden or harris thinks of me. Or k starmer…or the head cheese in iran.

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