Speakers’ Corner in 2000 hosted a variety of speakers. Everything from gay rights to vegans through to New World Order people.
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.
What I have witnessed in my 18 years of attending Speakers’ Corner is the rise of intimidation tactics accompany the increase in the number of Muslim speakers. The Muslims seek to intimidate other speakers, and they appear to want to claim the place, or settle the piece of land as their own. They lay their prayer mats down on the grass and they leave them there all day, essentially blocking parts of the park off to other people. They have loud calls to prayer. All of it against park laws.
There are some notorious Muslim figures who attend Speakers’ Corner regularly. Muhammad Hijab is one of them, together with Ali Dawah, who provoked a violent incident at Tommy Robinson’s peaceful Day For Freedom event in London at Whitehall. Muhammad is a trainee teacher at Harris Academy, and he is currently on suspension because of his volatile and violent behaviour at Speakers’ Corner and elsewhere.
The wife of the governor of Harris Academy, which is a chain of schools and academies, has been worried about Muhammad’s behavior for a long time. Muhammad is due to qualify as a teacher next year, but an abundance of people are writing to the academy, complete with YouTube footage, and this appears to be having a positive effect, insofar as he is under suspension with a view to being fired.
Another regular at Speakers’ Corner is Muhammad Tahwid, who is a teacher also. He is very sensitive about being filmed, and there is a video doing the rounds where he is ridiculed by an atheist on YouTube. The title is Radical Muslim Gets Owned By British Man. Muhammad was so infuriated by the video that he tried to have YouTube remove it.
Then there is a violent Muslim — Abdul Hamid — who has been arrested and charged with violence. At present he is awaiting a court date and trial. Speakers’ Corner has become a hotbed of radicalization. A large number of Muslims who speak at and attend Speakers’ Corner are on police watch lists and are under surveillance.
Ricardo McFarlane, aka Abdul Hakim, has reappeared for the past month or two. Abdul is an associate of Anjem Choudary, and he has just been released from prison. There is also another individual, black, small and wearing a green beanie hat. He shows his face, but I haven’t yet discovered his name, although I know he is a known associate of Anjem Choudary. Other attendees of Speakers’ Corner are members of the ISIS-supporting radical group, Al-Muhajiroun and Muslims For UK.
These two are regulars of known radical, prescribed Muslim groups. The police say that there are others also in this network. Muhammad Hijab is of concern to the authorities because of his involvement with contacts in Saudi Arabia. He appears to be their ringleader. When Tommy Robinson arrived at Speakers’ Corner, Muhammad was the one who formed the battle formation around him.
Speakers’ Corner today is a place where Muslims are seeking to demonstrate their force and power, whether it be through prayer mats or calls to prayer. It is a show of dominance and power. Ali Dawah is written off as a fool, as was Anjem Choudary in his day. We have already seen the impact that Ali has on young and vulnerable and impressionable minds. Tommy Robinson had to personally locate a young mentally disturbed teen who had been radicalized by Ali when the cops failed to do so.
There is also an older Muslim called Omar, who attacked a policeman with a stick. He has been arrested and is waiting to go to trial in court. Another man called Abdul Amid has been banned and told to stay away from Speakers’ Corner. Convictions are now starting to happen, and the police will issue banning orders. Muslims are using Speakers’ Corner as a power base. They turn up with 7 digital cameras and tripods. They are turning it into a big money industry via YouTube. There are so many dawah channels that they are connected to which go around the world.
There is one PC, a Steve Barnes, who understands what is going on in Speakers’ Corner, and he knows how to calm people down. Round of applause to this man.
There is a moronic and ludicrous white ginger convert called Darren Myatt – Hamza Myatt. The Muslims push him forward because he is white. This in some way legitimates Islam in the UK.
Then there is Sa Ra, a man who lives with death threats. He is a black man, an atheist who speaks out against Muslims. Muslims have long been accused of loathing black people, and they seem to respond to black people worse than they do to whites who challenge them. Sa Ra was debating Muslims, the religion of peace, and suddenly he got death threats and an ozman warning. An ozman warning is advice given to a member of the public that there is a credible threat to their life and that they should avoid a certain area – Speakers’ Corner. But he has started to come back and interact with the people there.
I myself have had loads of physical violence heaped upon me. I’ve been chased out of the park. I’ve been smacked in the face by an Algerian. I’ve witnessed people being pushed off of ladders and punched and kicked, all because their opinion differed from the teachings of Islam.
My thoughts for the future are that the cops will monitor and contain the situation at Speakers’ Corner, or that mass arrests will be made. With the cops monitoring these jihadists, we have seen London Bridge jihad attackers and Lee Rigby – all of the jihadists radicalized by Anjem Choudary. It’s my opinion that these people should be locked up, not monitored to see who they are engaging with.
The fallout from these radical interactions is massive.
Wellington says
Have Islam in your midst? Well then, you will have fear, intimidation, self-righteousness ad nauseam, significant amounts of moronic statements, self-pity, deflection, prevarication, projection, outright deceit, deception in more than one form and overall obnoxiousness.
Just for starters, mind you. More rot will follow, including bodily injury, tyranny of the mind and genitals, and, be assured, death in many cases.
Wonderful religion is Islam. Only haters and bigots would aver otherwise.
jihad3tracker says
HELLO AGAIN — I have mentioned this several times here on JW, but your comment reminded me of it again: “THE TERRIFYING BRILLIANCE OF ISLAM”.
Written about 8 years ago, a longish 20 minute read, worth that span of undistracted time. It can be found at one of these comprehensive resources: www [dot] citizenwarrior [dot] com / www [dot] inquiryintoislam [dot] com.
And, as I also add: THE TIME + ENERGY + DEDICATION of patriot counter-jihadists who create and maintain truth resources like those two deserve thanks from us. Please send appreciation to them, along with emails for clueless family, friends, pastors+rabbis+priests, senators, congresspersons, city council members.
Yes, slogs through the taqiyyist swamp seem useless — but some of them could prevent a huge slaughter. Robert and Pamela risk their lives every day toward that, so let us contribute as well.
J D S says
Very well said Wellington….
“In the last year Islam has begun to dominate Speakers Corner”
I think Islam has much more “FORCED, ALLOWED” domination than just the Speakers Corner and who’s fault is that? The government and the people of course and most of all FEAR and not the kind of FEAR that one would suspect.
somehistory says
Sounds like the “Corner” is a small example of what they wish to do worldwide.
If they can push people around to the point that those pushed don’t return, the moslims win the spot.
If they can use violence and get away with it, they win. If they commit crimes and are allowed to remain free and unchallenged, they win.
Linda says
So you can’t even speak at Speakers’ Corner without the threat of violence because you aren’t Muslim. This is like watching a train wreck in slow motion. Every day there’s another incident to erode Western freedoms.
Expat88 says
I remember visiting Speakers Corner for the first time in 1972 and it was lots of fun especially to see some of the weirdos who were standing on their soapbox spouting off crazy ideas. I went back to see the same places in the 90s and don’t remember Muslims speaking. There is a long history of people being able to speak freely in that park. I have an ancestor who recounted in his diary speaking publicly at Speakers Corner when he was doing missionary work in England in 1850. It is sad to think that the purpose is now gone because Muslims cannot understand tolerance for others’ ideas. They only know aggression and anger. This shows great insecurities about their own religion to have to resort to bad behavior when debating others.
HugoHackenbush says
“They lay their prayer mats down on the grass and they leave them there all day, essentially blocking parts of the park off to other people. They have loud calls to prayer. All of it against park laws.”
Hellloooo, where is the rule of law? Law that applies to EVERYone equally?
tedh754 says
Where’s the SAS when you need them?
infidel says
SECULARISM FOR MUSLIMS and EQUAL OPP for FEMINAZZIS is OXYMORON.. Both misuse the privileges and use it as a stomping weapon.
Susan B says
infidel – How dare you equate leftest Nazis as feminist when leftest are both male and female. Just because you hate women you attack and try to label leftest as only female????
Islam hates both freedom and women so you have proven that you approve of half of Islamic doctrine. BS is BS.
Linda says
Infidel is just saying that there is a faction of the feminist movement that is like the Nazis. Infidel doesn’t necessarily hate all women or think all leftists are females.
gravenimage says
Wait–you think that equal opportunities for women is a bad thing?
Have I got a religion for you…
Jonathan Nicholas says
Very soon there will be enclaves & Partition in every country, where they can run their affairs, countries within countries requiring passport entry. Walled areas, ringed with barbed wire, just like Gaza. Every country will have its own Gaza, or many of them. France & Sweden will be first, not in years, but a few months from now. Then the rockets will follow, the tunnels, the violent border protests. Gaza is a model for what’s coming to the rest of us. And no one will stop it.
Terra Nova says
” Great” Britain”can not sink lower than it is now in a hell hole. Hyde Parks corner was for everybody, and you are right, they block everything with their mats, because they are the superiors. You are about to go Swedens way, but I don’t feel sorry for you ate all, when bad comes to worse, your government will run away with their families to Barbados or some nice place and leave you to do the bloody fighting. and when everything will settle in a few decades, they will come back and will try to pick up their power and money again.
They should be brought to court for treason.
Brother Charles says
Muslims are going to take over Speakers Corner , SO let them do it ,Then just sit back and watch them fight each other to be , ” king of the castle ” which in muslims terms is what they do to better themselves , Each tries to be better than the others , Thats why there is infighting ,Its a pakistani class thing .
gravenimage says
Why should we cede our freedoms, values, and institutions to Muslims?
penelope says
why not abolish Speakers Corner since it has turned in to a muslim corner. muslims are pushy sob’s and expect you to believe all their crap by creating fear. this is also pure bs.
why are they not arrested and deported???
Linda says
Excellent points.
Yokel says
why are they not arrested and deported???
Because …
“Community Cohesion”
gravenimage says
Another demand that we give in to Muslims. No thanks.
Bas Barraclough says
JOSHUA WINSTON, you expect the Police TO WHAT? “..the cops will monitor and contain the situation at Speakers’ Corner, or that mass arrests will be made. ?
For a reporter you are either singularly un-receptive to what the rest of the British think, experience OR expect; [Or extracting the MIKE!]
MFritz says
Speaker’s Corner will cease to exist in a couple of years. They’ll most likely build a mosque on top of it.
gravenimage says
Speakers’ Corner over the years
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That aggressive, supremacist Muslims are taking over something that was the very example of the range of free speech in the West is just disgusting. Thank you Joshua Winston for covering this.