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: Shia Muslims have long depicted Mohammed in art, and shouldn’t be subject to a myopic Sunni school of sharia.”
Of course there are restrictions on the freedom of speech. There is no freedom to call for violence or criminal acts. There are also societal parameters that make for other common-sense restrictions, such as the taboo on using racial slurs such as the one to which he refers here in the adolescent way that it has come to be commonly referred to. That is worlds away, however, from submitting to violent intimidation and accepting Sharia blasphemy laws, and the Sunni view of them at that, as Hilton points out, by refraining from drawing Muhammad or thinking it somehow wrong to do so. Asim’s call here, if accepted, as it likely will be in shattered, staggering, dhimmi Britain, will hasten the demise of the freedom of speech, and of Britain as a free society.
“UK: Govt Islamophobia Advisor Says Images of Muhammad Should Be as Unacceptable as the N-Word,” by Jack Hadfield, National File, March 26, 2021 (thanks to Ken):
Batley Grammar School in Yorkshire in the north of England faced protests this week from Muslim parents, after one teacher dared to show images of Muhammad during class. The school, which was about to break up for the Easter holidays, had had to switch to remote-learning as a result of the protests. The headteacher “unequivocally apologised” for the actions of the teacher in question, and suspended him, despite the fact that he had received a number of serious death threats from angry Muslims.
However, rather than criticising the actions of the protestors for attacking the free speech of the teacher, Imam Qari Asim MBE, chair of the Mosques and Imams National Advisory Board (MINAB), and the Government’s adviser on Islamophobia, called for a “change in social attitudes” as a result of the protests, and suggested that sharing images of Muhammad should be as socially unacceptable as saying the n-word:
I guess when we talk of a potential curb or limitation on free speech, I think that sets alarm bells ringing, leaving some people [wrongly] thinking that Muslims are asking for restrictions on free speech. But I think what we should try and emphasise is that there’s already a phenomenon in place in that actually there are boundaries to free speech. Like, for instance, people cannot use the ‘n-word’ – and quite rightly so – because this is derogatory and causes deep pain and hurt. I’m not in favour of restriction and curbing or free speech, but I think we already have boundaries based on social norms.
Asim, despite his relations to the government, also is a trustee for the hardcore leftist organisation, Hope not Hate, who regularly engage in attacks on anyone on the right of politics, describing organisations such as Turning Point as being “extreme.”
Adrian Hilton, a lecturer in political theology, described the proposals from Asim as “patent nonsense,” highlighting that sects of Islam have different interpretations of the depictions of Muhammad. “Shia Muslims have long depicted Muhammad in art, and shouldn’t be subject to a myopic Sunni school of Sharia,” Hilton argued….
https://twitter.com/Adrian_Hilton/status/1375576890140991495
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
I agree with the imam that “sharing images of Muhammad should be as socially unacceptable as saying the n-word.” Both showing pictures of the Prophet (pbuh) and mention/use of the word “nigger” should be socially unacceptable to the same degree: zero.
Angus Adair says
Muhammad was not a prophet and we are not interested in what his minions find to be ” socially unacceptable”
PRCS says
We have to be interested in their demands in order to effectively counter them.
Frank-Con says
Their demands is for us to all die. STAND IN THE EVIL DAY, don’t coward to them.
gravenimage says
True, PRCS.
mortimer says
Angus Adair makes 2 good points. Moreover, 80% of the world’s people do not think Mohammed was a prophet and they do not think he deserves any respect.
gravenimage says
It is not just about their being non-Muslim, of course.
For instance, I am not Buddhist, but I have a great deal of respect for the figure of Gautama Buddha. The vicious “perfect man” of Islam–a warlord, pedophile, slaver, rapist, and mass murderer–not so much.
mortimer says
Mark Spahn gives no reason for banning images of a man who is considered by 80% of the world to be a FALSE prophet. We have images of all the other FALSE prophets.
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
That’s right. I give no reason for banning images of the Christian heresiarch Muhammad. Create as many cartoons, holographic images, and animatronic puppets of him as you please.
mortimer says
Mr. Spahn, your meaning is perfectly obscure. The issue is whether anyone respects Mohammed. Most modern Muslims cannot defend the behaviors of Mohammed and most Muslims today do not want to be like Mohammed.
Mohammedans today agree that Mohammed is not a good role model by their behavior. Mohammedans hugely reject an Islamic state (such as ISIS) where EVERYTHING is modeled on the life of Mohammed.
gravenimage says
Mark, there is no indication tha Muhammed–assuming he existed historically in the first place–was *ever* Christian. His tribe was pagan.
william carr says
You are quite wrong, the ‘N’ word is taboo because it denigrates ‘people of colour’ who were cruelly enslaved and often treated with abominable acts during the ‘jim crow’ era. Just one example among many; a ‘black’ man could be lynched for looking at a while woman; which it is interesting
as well, that in Pakistan and India a non Muslim can be lynched for showing interest in a Muslim woman, even when that interest goes two ways! Of course a Muslim male showing interest in a non Muslim woman is completely legitimate in Islam!
As far as the image of Mohammad is concerned, not having images is just a Sunni Muslim custom and causes no insult to Mohammad’s person. Christians are proud of the images of Jesus, which appear in every church and in all kinds of art. As Robert Spencer has ably written
it is questionable whether Moham. did in fact exist. maybe that is the reason
why images of him are prohibited.
william carr says
Reply to Mark Spahn
Bikinis not Burkas says
This is what they don’t want people to know!
The perfect man, NOT, defective DNA.
Muhammad was WHITE!
http://quranx.com/Hadith/Muslim/Reference/Hadith-2340/
Muhammad was a dwarf and fat!
http://sunnah.com/abudawud/42/154
Bikinis not Burkas says
The fat white dwarf Muhammad was himself a racist he hated everyone equally except for Ethiopians whom he absolutely loathed.
https://sunnah.com/bukhari:7142
Muslims are also told to HATE Jews and Christians.
Quran 5:51 &
Quran 3:28
As Muhammad was white,
http://quranx.com/Hadith/Muslim/Reference/Hadith-2340/
I wonder if he said to Ethiopians, “You there Nigger boy, carry my bags”?
Michael Copeland says
He had a bag-carrying slave, called “Ship”. He was made to carry many bags.
gravenimage says
Muhammed had and traded black slaves.
Eur says
when there were no Muslims in our societies these problems did not exist. I want everyone to leave, even those who were born here or those who have converted to Islam. They have a different mentality, they must go and live happily in their theocratic societies.
gravenimage says
Exactly. As Dumbledore’s Army says, Got Muslims? Got Jihad.
sammy says
It should be, and is “socially unacceptable” in the civilised world to be violent towards women, “marry and divorce” pre pubescent children, discriminate against peoples of other religions, advocate and condone violence towards non Muslims, denigrate women to the point of them being likened to “domestic animals” the list goes on, but that does not stop the cult of Islam actively promoting them.
Like many Muslims, you are blind to the dictates of this faith which not only is a direct threat to world peace and security, but is “socially damaging” for all humanity.
Take your blinkers off first, before calling for freedom of conscient to be abolished.
sammy says
*freedom of conscience
gravenimage says
+1
Grace says
The charge ‘racist’ should also be relegated to the dust bin of history. The Allinsky Rule to immediately charge “racist’ to stop any meaningful conversation has done more damage to free thought and conversation than any atom bomb could do.
gravenimage says
Genuine racism *does* still exist, but it is fairly rare these days. And certainly the charge of racism is regularly misused to smear people who are actually criticizing a totalitarian ideology.
Infidel says
The real racism, that’s done by China, that did a blackface routine on state TV, goes unchecked: even while criticizing China, those critics don’t dare call for a cancellation of China, like the BDS does for Israel or the old anti-Apartheid movement did against South Africa in the 80s. Since they know that it would backfire, and it’s Beijing who’d see to their cancellation. Just the same way that no muslim organization (except CAIR, for which they should be lauded!) dares condemn the one real case of ‘islamophobia’ that there is in the world – the Chinese genocide of Uyghurs
jim says
Islamophobia is a certifiable fallacy; a phobia is an Irrational fear.
The fear of Islam which has been murdering its way through history for the last 1400 years (numbers as high as 270 million) is neither irrational or unrealistic but just common sense!
John Forbes says
NO- the images should be shown in every Western paper! If you want to down this road GET Every reference to KAFIR out of the TRILOGY ( KORAN, HADITH & SIRA! ) Every last one!!
simon tapping says
Muslims have been sharing pictures of the Prophet for centuries. It was Muslims who first painted images of Mohammed. There are dozens of medieval portraits of the prophet.
gravenimage says
This is true–but thi only happened in places where there was a long Infidel tradition of picture-amking–chiefly in Indiua, Persia (Iran), and Anatolia (Turkey). This tradition generally died out fairly quickly as Islam took overe.
Halal Bacon says
gee, I thought the proper muhamhead version was raisin-heads, duh…
mortimer says
Reply to HB … yes, excellent observation … it will NOT be allowed to say ******, but it WILL be allowed to slander the same people as ‘RAISIN-HEADS’ because Mohammed is the ‘perfect man’. (sarc/off)
Terry Gain says
Once again we have Muslims trying to impose their values/customs on a host country. I have no problem with Muslims not creating images of that murderer, sex slave-taker, pedophile, misogynist and fabulist, but if I were a Brit I would tell them that they can shove this demand where the sun don’t shine.
Crusades Were Right says
“where the sun don’t shine”
According to Islam, that’s a muddy pool, I believe. lol
Crusades Were Right says
Samuel Paty situation playing out again before our eyes.
Failing to learn from history is a TRAGEDY…
…but failing to learn from current affairs is WILFUL NEGLIGENCE!
Frank-Con says
The Govt’s won’t stand up against these thugs.
Christopher Watson says
No, they won’t. In fact they are giving the moslems everything they want including family courts, the right to wear their hijabs, Mosques in every part of the country and the opportunity to rape as many young English girls as they wish. I used to think that we would one day say ‘That’s enough!’ But as time goes on it seems clear that we will be a minority in our own country
Bikinis not Burkas says
The Brits should invoke Quran 8:12 in reverse!
gravenimage says
Civilized Infidels are not actually Jihadists.
Crusades Were Right says
“Govt Islamophobia Advisor”
Frankly, I prefer the term “Witchfinder General” – it has a more quaint and traditional ring. But I guess we have to keep up with the times. lol
wth009 says
Where I live there is an Iman in a mosque claiming “Jews are decendants of Pigs and Apes and should be eliminated “. I say either they eliminate their Koran, or ship back Islam to their radical cesspools. You CANNOT STAY IN AMERICA! I shouldn’t have to be afraid IN MY OWN COUNTRY!
Bikinis not Burkas says
Biden loves the MURDEROUS IDEOLOGY of ISLAM!
James Lincoln says
For the UK to actually have an official “Govt Islamophobia Advisor” speaks volumes.
On its current trajectory, the UK is finished as a free country…
gravenimage says
+1
mortimer says
Agree. The UK has taken a course into the hurricane of Islamic persecution.
Infidel says
James
There’s a reason I use the term ‘Ummah Kalifate’ instead of ‘United Kingdom’ to describe Britain
andrew mckendrick says
Yes and awarded an M.B.E….stands for Muslims Before Everyone.
Boycott Turkey says
This is stupid why didn’t the police arrest the protestors outside the school over covid they arrested anti lockdown protestors the police are very biased and that headmaster should be sacked not the teacher who drew the cartoon why should muhammed be respected after what he did kill rape steal and kill people he don’t deserve respect the only think that’s affensive as the N word is the Koran scriptures that are racist and advocate the killing of non Muslims if hate speech should be banned then ban The Koran for hate speech christians persecuted and oppressed in Pakistan over fake blasphemy allegations and now they trying to bring it to the UK with angry mobs like in Pakistan who gather to lunch Christians same as that school what next
Malcolm Jackson says
Here is the reason that no UK Police Force will ever enforce UK Law against Islam.
watch this video from January 2009 which shows the massed ranks of London’s Metropolitan Police running from a Muslim mob.
Since Jan 2009 the cowardly UK Police have followed the example of London’s Common Purpose controlled Metropolitan Police Force, and refuse to confront any Muslim mobs breaking UK Law’
The UK’s Police Forces are actively encouraging the replacement of UK Law with Sharia Law and the conquest of the UK by Islam.
.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFEJn7bmLhU
Boycott Turkey says
Thanks for the link the UK police don’t seem to protect anybody but sharia laws from being broken I really hope drawing muhammed doesnt become a crime it’s a shame there where no counter protestors to support the teacher at the school gates if thousands of people drew muhammed what can they do ?
gravenimage says
Yes–this is shameful. I doubt the police are naturally cowards–I’m sure this is twisted policy imposed on them.
gravenimage says
UK: Government’s ‘Islamophobia’ advisor calls for Muhammad images to be as unacceptable as ‘the n-word’
……………….
Note that almost all Muhammad cartoons criticize the violence of Islam–so he is saying that there shouold be “blasphemy” laws.
Islam is an ideology–and a damned vicious one. It has *nothing* to do with race.
mortimer says
Agree with GI … don’t leave the intrinsic MISOGYNY of Islam … ” I think that women were created for nothing but evil” – Mohammed
gravenimage says
True, Mortimer.
Wellington says
How about Islam’s rank anti-Semitism and assessment of all non-Muslims as the equivalent of human waste being as unacceptable as the “n” word?
gravenimage says
Yep.
mortimer says
Let’s EDUCATE TRUTHPHOBES about THE PERFECT MAN
-Married 6 year old
-Slave owner & dealer
-Rapist
-Beheaded 600 Jews in one day
-13 wives, 11 at one time
-Tortured & killed unbelievers
-Robbed caravans & enslaved people
……………………………….
Muslims want to cover up the truth about the pedophile pirate.
mortimer says
To BRITISH POLITICIANS:
The ‘Islamophobia’ smear is GASLIGHTING … Islamic-style.
Gaslighting is the practice of brainwashing or convincing mentally healthy people that they are going insane or that their understanding of reality is mistaken or false.
Our perception that Mohammed is a false prophet and a dangerous role model for people to copy is based in sound judgement and fact, rather than distorted thinking.
Mohammed was an enslaver and slave owner, a child molester, a polygamist, a career thief, a genocidist and a war lord. He deserves no respect.
Fred van de Bunt says
That islamophobia advisor is a MBE, a member in the Order of the British Empire; an Imam; a director of a global law firm; a trustee of Hope and Hate, Peace Matters and of the think tank British Future; a deputy chairman of the anti-hate Muslim Islamophobia Working Group, chairman of the Muslim National Advisory Board and senior editor of Imamsonline; member of ITV diversity and advisor of Mosaic, that was founded by His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.
https://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/staff/associate-staff/qari-asim/
Just to mention some of his functions in the British elites network, that possess and control the wealth of the UK, which elites rely also very much on strategic alliances with many old Islam colonies, especially the ones that have very rich absolute sharia rulers, like the Saudi’s.
Read how the British ambassador lauds the Saudi’s: life is simple, clean and free in in the totalitarian kingdom of Saudi Arabia, that has sharia law as its constitution. The Saudi’s provide UK jobs, and the Saudi country is beautiful. And the UK helps those Saudi’s to defend themselves against those awful Houthi’s, poor scumbags of course every elite disgusts, so bombing the shit out of those impoverished Houthi street beggars not one British elite cares about, be they from Oxfam, or some Muslim Board:
https://saudigazette.com.sa/article/604893/SAUDI-ARABIA/UK-envoy-Saudi-Arabias-anti-coronavirus-measures-have-granted-us-safety
I guess some tough absolute terrorizing sharia laws would be beneficiary for that British citizen scum too, UK elite members will muse about, if they look in envy at those Saudi’s.
gravenimage says
Just appalling dhimmitude.
Yohannes says
Big tech like Twitter never delete any remarks made by Hijrah’ed Shitlamists by becoming bigot kafirophobes, christophobes, and secularophobe
Basically, Nonislamophobia…
Andrew Blackadder says
So when Negroes in the USA call each nigga then I guess they dont know just how politically incorrect they are being, please let them know they are being seriously offensive to the other niggas.
Muhammad was not a prophet, he was just a naughty naughty boy…
Infidel says
On the other hand, say the word ‘Negro’ on air, and one could be cancelled!!
Malcolm Jackson says
Here is the reason that no UK Police Force will ever enforce UK Law against Islam.
watch this video from January 2009 which shows the massed ranks of London’s Metropolitan Police running from a Muslim mob.
Since Jan 2009 the cowardly UK Police have followed the example of London’s Common Purpose controlled Metropolitan Police Force, and refuse to confront any Muslim mobs breaking UK Law’
The UK’s Police Forces are actively encouraging the replacement of UK Law with Sharia Law and the conquest of the UK by Islam.
.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFEJn7bmLhU
1980s "goth" says
The YouTube video shows a ‘Free Palestine’ mob chasing police officers in London.
In January 2009 a similar protest took place in Bristol.
Christopher Watson Watson says
Perhaps Asim ought to change his address to Pakistan or Saudi Arabia. They might actually give a shit.
Montserrat says
By the way, the head of the Islamic Council of Spain was arrested over ties with terrorism. He represented the highest official body of Islam in Spain.
https://www.barrons.com/news/spain-top-muslim-official-offended-by-brief-arrest-01616675107?tesla=y
Sharon Wilders says
well, I must say that both the ‘n’ word and ol’ moe are very disgusting things. But I disagree in not showing pics of ol’ moe. No one knows what he looks like but islamic texts describe not only a very problematic, mentally disabled guy; but one that was probably physically a problem too – some of those physical problems probably caused his mental problems such as the ‘fits’ (that sound like TLE that they did not have medicines for in the 7th century), and adult onset acromegaly.
In today’s world, it is no wonder the followers of that very troubled man (whether he was real or not doesn’t matter – they think he did) do some very bad things. He is their ‘perfect example’, and instead of us drumming it in, a (supposedly) sane world would rather cater to the followers of the sickest ideology that I know of.
gravenimage says
All pious Muslims regard the “Prophet” Muhammed as the “perfect man”–and most of them don’t have physical problems–nor does having physical problems make their sufferers psychotic.
Michael Huggett says
What does Muhammed look like ……. I know what Allah looks like because I saw him in a dream .
tim gallagher says
I agree with many of the comments up above. Islam is a load of rotten, primitive and backward garbage in endless different ways, such as its treatment of women, of homosexuals, its marrying off very young girls to be sexual playthings, its honour killings, and its rotten hate filled attitude towards non-Muslims. Muslims are, very foolishly, let into non-Muslim, civilised countries and then they always want to impose their shitty Muslim way of life on everybody. They are bound to try to take away freedom of speech from the non-Muslim, civilised people because freedom of speech never exists in Muslim countries, because someone might actually point out what an evil scumbag Muhammad was or what barbaric crap islam is. This idea of protecting Muslims, the clear enemy of all of our western values, is beyond stupid. A Muslim advisor on Islamophobia!!! The UK must, indeed, be already far down the road to becoming a barbaric, Islamic hellhole to have such an idiotic position. Keep Muslims out or this is the crap all countries are bound to face. Nothing but trouble, neverending trouble, that is all that islam brings.
Pray Hard says
Just another ignorant moslem crybaby.
Rob R (Brit stuck in Britainistan) says
Um.. dude. See the difference between you and black people is. people actually really like black people.
F.a.br says
The stupid word in question is not an image and the image of Mohamallah does not offend anyone based on their colour, race, music taste, sexual orientation (unless expressed!) etcetera.
The negro’s defamatory reference word some stupid people use because they’re fucked up, somehow and SHIT, I apologise for my French!
I have black friends in diffrent countries/ continets and have never heard they using such word.
In the UK we say black people, some less educated, “person of colour” which is the worse since black is actually not a colour but its absence.
I don’t want to sound too ignorant but can’t help to ask why some black people use the n word between them (I have never heard however understand there are music with it, and a lot of music, apparently) and it is cool and okay however not cool nor okay for a person of other race to do the same (WTF?)?
The negro’s defamatory reference word is not defamatory.