Jihad at Speaker’s Corner
Muslim Stabs Christian Evangelist at London’s Speakers’ Corner, by Robert Spencer, PJ Media:
On Sunday at the famed Speakers’ Corner in London’s Hyde Park, Hatun Tash, a convert from Islam to Christianity who frequently engages in debates with Muslims, was stabbed above her right eye and on her hand by a Muslim who objected to her preaching, as well as, apparently, her Charlie Hebdo t-shirt. Hatun Tash was there because Speakers’ Corner has over the past century and a half gained a reputation as a place where anyone can say anything, aside from calling for criminal behavior, and freedom of speech is respected and protected. But in today’s Britain, where mass migration, largely of Muslims from North Africa, continues at a greater rate than ever with virtually nothing being done to stop it, those days appear to be drawing to a close.
Britain’s Royal Parks website still says it: “Speakers’ Corner is a traditional site for public speeches and debates since the mid 1800’s when protests and demonstrations took place in Hyde Park….Anyone can turn up unannounced to speak on any subject, as long as the police consider their speeches lawful.”
Nowadays, however, Speakers’ Corner has come to be dominated by Muslim preachers who try to convert people to Islam, which is fair enough, and physically intimidate those who challenge them, which isn’t. Longtime London resident and Jihad Watch correspondent Joshua Winston observes: “Speakers’ Corner in 2000 hosted a variety of speakers. Everything from gay rights to vegans through to New World Order people.” However, “the past couple of years has seen the variety of topics and speakers diminish. In the last year, Islam has begun to dominate Speakers’ Corner. I would estimate that the speakers and attendees there are about 80% Muslim, 10% Christian, with the remaining 10% spread across a variety of other denominations and political activists.”
Read also:
How Speakers’ Corner became a warzone by Paddy Hannan, spiked
Silenced at Speakers’ Corner by Noel Yaxley, The Critic
Noting Islamic motivation for attack is ‘intolerant,’ London cops warn by Jules Gomes, Church Militant
Christian evangelist stabbed in London recovers from injuries, from Evangelical Focus
Speakers’ Corner: Woman attacked with knife, from BBC News [according to the BBC, police are “keeping an open mind” about the motive for the stabbing…]
More analysis:
You can be stabbed for criticising Islam? by Brendan O’Neill, spiked:
When are we going to talk about Hatun Tash? She’s the ex-Muslim and Christian evangelist who was allegedly slashed with a knife in broad daylight in Speakers’ Corner in Hyde Park yesterday. And almost as shocking as the incident itself…has been the silence about it.
Speakers’ Corner stabbing: ‘Freedom of speech is already in danger’ from Christian Concern
No faith wants a blasphemy law – except Muslims, by Dr Campbell Campbell-Jack, The Conservative Woman
An attack on British Democracy, by David Collier: “Speakers Corner is embedded in the very history of the freedoms that we all enjoy. A hard-fought-for pillar of our precious British democracy…On Sunday, 25th July 2021 – exactly 155 years to the day after the Reform League protestors were battling in Hyde Park for the right to be given a voice, this piece of British democracy was attacked.”
Earlier posts about Hatun Tash:
Sharia law, enforced by British police by Dr Campbell Campbell-Jack, The Conservative Woman
Speakers’ Corner becoming ‘Sharia Corner’ by Tim Dieppe, Christian Concern
Sharia law at Speakers’ Corner as Christian critic of Muslims is removed by police by Tim Dieppe, The Conservative Woman (the woman in question being Hatun Tash)
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