Some background: A British teacher’s use of an offensive cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad as part of a lesson sparked an outcry this week, causing protests, the temporary closure of the school and a student petition in the teacher’s defense. The teacher, who has not been publicly named, was suspended after showing a 9th-grade class […]
Ricky Gervais on Muhammad cartoon controversy: ‘Blasphemy? F***ing Blasphemy? It’s 2021 for f***s sake.’
Get used to it, Ricky. The British intelligentsia has sold you out. The British intelligentsia has betrayed Britain as a free society for fear of being called “racist.” If you speak out against this too much now, you’ll be targeted as an “Islamophobe” and your career will be ruined. Fall into line behind the others, […]
UK: Teacher suspended for showing Muhammad cartoon fears he’ll be murdered, says school threw him under the bus
The school did throw him under the bus, yes. But it isn’t just the school. In a just world, this teacher would receive formal apologies from David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson, and the entire British media establishment, for turning a blind eye to jihad plotting and Sharia-justified sexual victimization of British girls while stigmatizing […]
UK: Government’s ‘Islamophobia’ advisor calls for Muhammad images to be as unacceptable as ‘the n-word’
Qari Asim is calling for restrictions on the freedom of speech while claiming not to be calling for restrictions on the freedom of speech. Many Leftists in Britain and elsewhere will be fooled. But as Adrian Hilton explains: “Patent nonsense: the latter is derogatory, settled racism; the former is contested theology. Islam is not uniform: […]
UK: Muslims protest Muhammad cartoon shown in class, school apologizes and suspends teacher
Here we have what I have predicted and warned about so very many times: a full capitulation to Sharia so as to avoid being called “Islamophobic.” Robert Jenrick is right that all this is unacceptable: violent intimidation outside the school, capitulation on the issue of the freedom of speech rather than defending it, explaining its […]