Yeah, it’s a total mystery. Hatun Tash has debated Muslims at Speakers’ Corner for years, and has stood up strongly for the freedom of speech, enraging those who would force Sharia blasphemy laws on the rest of us. Why she was attacked was perfectly clear to anyone who doesn’t prefer to be blind. What is not a mystery is that this willful ignorance will likely be the death of Britain as a free society.
“You can be stabbed for criticising Islam?,” by Brendan O’Neill, Spiked, July 26, 2021:
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 – as this horrific assault on a woman who was merely expressing her beliefs – has been the silence about it. There has been a trickle of press interest, but no big media splashes, no hashtag solidarity, no politicians expressing concerns that Britain seems to have become a country in which you criticise Islam at your peril. What is going on here?
Ms Tash is a former Muslim who is now a Christian and a prominent critic of Islam. Her religious view is that Muslims should be encouraged to convert to the Christian faith in order to save themselves. No doubt many Muslims find this an offensive idea, which they are perfectly at liberty to do. Tash is a regular of Speakers’ Corner. She engages in heated debates with Islamic preachers and others. Yesterday she was wearing a Charlie Hebdo t-shirt and making her usual comments about Islam, when a man in a black hood lunged towards her with great force, slashing at her face and her arm. Her face was covered in blood. The video, which has been widely shared online, is a difficult watch.
As the Met Police have said, we do not yet know the motive of the attacker. But one can make a reasonable guess that Tash was assaulted for her beliefs. Indeed, this isn’t the first time she has been attacked. Last year, she was punched in the face after displaying a cartoon of Muhammad at Speakers’ Corner. She was advised by police not to return to Speakers’ Corner – traditionally the one place in the UK where you can express pretty much any belief you like – for her own safety. Tash is living proof that being an ex-Muslim can be a risky business in our supposedly secular, free nation….
Fitna says
Well the UK cops/govt are telegraphing the message to Muslims that if you attack and kill us, we will back down and self-censor. They’re showing that terrorism works…so of course you’ll get more and more until the UK is an Islamic state.
There is no limit to Muslims taking offense but there is a finitude of freedom a nation has. Since they don’t want to fight back, they don’t want to make themselves ‘uncomfortable’ so the path for Muslims is very clear and easy. The creation of a fascist totalitarian state is inevitable all thanks to the elites and police.
The native Britons will become dhimmis, their daughters will be turned into sex-slaves and sold into the Muslim slave markets. The only hope the UK has is that the people rise up and overthrow their fake democracy and work to remove Islam and Muslims from their country.
The last resort is civil war and I think that’s the most likely outcome-because the UK govt has closed off every other avenue for changing this disastrous course they’re on. But it’s not just them, the same pattern is going on in every western nation with a large Muslim population. We’ll all in a fight for survival, except the US where the Muslim population is very small.
gravenimage says
Fitna, people need to speak out. The idea that there is nothing between silence and civil war is mistaken.
Eleanor says
GI, it is very difficult to speak out about this in the UK. People are absolutely scared witless of being called racist or islamophobic. Look what has happened to Tommy Robinson over the past few years – who would want to put themselves through his experiences? What he has gone through would be terrifying to most people; the same with Katie Hopkins.
gravenimage says
I do realize this, Eleanor, and don’t wish to make light of it. But it is still easier to speak out than it is to mount a civil war.
Fitna says
GI, Indeed I’ve mentioned that in a past post here, what is needed is that we need a massive movement against Islam. If tens of thousands preferably up to a million people show up, the politicians will realize they’re on the wrong track and Muslims might think twice.
As Eleanor rightly pointed out, the problem is that when individuals stick their necks out to expose Islam, the UK state comes down on them like a ton of bricks and that’s on top of all the death threats they get from Muslims.
Thanks to the traitorous elites, by appeasing Muslims, they’ve just emboldened them. Instead of denouncing Muslim gang-rapists for instance and giving out harsh sentences and deportations, they got off with light punishments and it was swept under the rug.
But if you dare expose this wretched craven behavior as Tommy Robinson did, then they’ll use the full force of the law to destroy you. What he suffered through was horrendous, they wanted to make an example out of him, he nearly died in jail and it was probably intentional.
So the UK elites are painting themselves into a corner with their asinine and treacherous policies. Now it falls to the people to demand change and if it doesn’t come then regime change is required and civil war is their last resort.
What the traitors don’t understand is that they’re not going to get away with it. In any war people make a choice and that choice will later come to haunt them, esp. if they chose to be on the wrong side, which is what they did.
There is still some time left for the UK to resolve this fairly peacefully by getting tough on Islam, but not much. If people don’t organize and rise up, then either Britain will become an Islamic state or there will be war. I think the latter is more likely because the native Brits might seem docile today but they’ve fought wars before and I don’t think they’ll give up their country that easily when push comes to shove.
gravenimage says
I do know this, Fitna–but if good people do not speak out now, it is only going to become more difficult.
gregbeetham says
A huge problem if the lack of coverage by the media of the many obscenities committed by Muslims thus the population at large aren’t aware of the true nature of Islam.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
“See no evil…”
Walter Sieruk says
They are in religious denial about the violent ,bloody and deadly essence of Islam.
In other words, they have intentionally put their Islamic blinders on.
Francis says
The attack was on the twitter feed of the Conservative Home website. I haven’t seen it mentioned on the BBC. The Metropolitan (ie London) Police stated that the Anti-Terror Squad is involved.
gravenimage says
The BBC did cover the story–but do not say who the victim was:
“Speakers’ Corner: Woman attacked with knife”
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-57965251
Walter Sieruk says
That Muslim stabbing that man was obviously motivated by the cruel ,ruthless , violent bloody religion of Islam.
So don’t even try to give that balderdash statement “I’m not sure of why he did it.” line or even that vague sentence about that Muslim being motivated in violence by Islam , which is that that “It it sure seems like it.” It doesn’t just “seem like it” it most certainly is the reason for that vicious stabbing
Eleanor says
Walter, you may have easily missed it, but Hatun Tash is a woman, a tiny little woman, and a very brave woman. I would not have the courage to do what she does. She will be back, perhaps only with volunteer security after this. The police know exactly why she was attacked, as they were sitting in their police vehicle not too far away, as there is always potential trouble at Speaker’s Corner. The public who know her also know why she was attacked. What amazes me though, is the fact that it is always a muslim terror attack when the knife strikes around the face and neck area, as in this case. I think her arm injury will have been a defensive one. She is probably very lucky in this instance to have survived as the perpetrator had serious intent.
gravenimage says
She’s amazingly brave.
Fitna says
She did a great job at defending herself, given how quickly the Muslim scumbag reacted. Chances are it was just instinct since you don’t have time to process what is happening.
If he’s caught I wouldn’t be surprised if the rotten UK judiciary releases him on a technicality in a week and be allowed back to try another attempt on her life.
After 9/11 I honestly didn’t imagine that western nations would surrender to Islam and yet here we are. It’s not the people though, they want Islam to be defeated, it’s the traitors in power who broke their oath to protect citizens and are actually throwing us to the Muslims wolves, to save their own scrawny necks.
gravenimage says
I know–I never would have believed that so much of the west would kowtow to Islam, either.
gregbeetham says
I think there has to be more to it than cowardice or wokeness, it probably depends who owns the media and who donates to political parties, and who needs the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar etc. status quo to remain as it is, and we on the other hand are expendable.
Ban Islam.
Infidel says
So Brendan O’Neill, Spiked is surprised that muslims will stab you if you dare criticize islam? Welcome to reality, Brendan! While you’re at it, water is wet, grass is green, ice melts if you leave it in a glass when it’s warm, and Leonardo da Vinci is a different person from Leonardo de Caprio (contrary to what one of my co-workers thinks ?)
tim gallagher says
What an extraordinarily brave woman to get up and criticise islam in such a public place. The courage of people such as her amazes me and I applaud her for it, because obviously the Muslim scum can get to her in such a public place and we all know that there are endless potential murderers among the Muslims, as they show us over and over again. It sounds like the usual lies from the police in saying they don’t know the Muslim’s motive yet. Yeah, right. I often see Brendan O’Neill, who wrote the article above, doing interviews on Sky News TV and hear him doing interviews on radio out here in Australia, and I’m always impressed by him as a truth teller who sees things clearly and doesn’t pull his punches.
Human says
Why No Christian Organization Forcefully Countering the Cops ~?
Whereas in India, these same Evangelicals become More Vociferous against the Vulnerable Hindus~
gravenimage says
How is peaceful preaching threatening vulnerable people?
I notice no criticism of Muslims, who are kidnapping, raping, and murdering Hindus.
Infidel says
It’s not the same evangelicals: it’s different evangelicals. Dunno about UK, but evangelicals in the US are nothing like those preaching in India. If you tell them that you’re not interested, they leave you alone
gravenimage says
Are Christian evangelicals in India kidnapping, raping, and murdering Hindus? Not that I have ever heard of. If they are agressive, I am no fan of that–but it is still very different from what Islam is doing.
Infidel says
The issue here ain’t Christian vs muslim missionaries. It is the contrast b/w the way Christian missionaries act at home when confronted by violent jihadists vs how they act abroad when spreading the word. What I was pointing out to Human was that those are 2 completely different groups of people
I actually would have no issues w/ Christian evangelicals engaging in kidnapping, rape or murder if that’s what it took them to confront the muslims. My issue w/ them is that they’ve decided that muslims are their Abrahamic brethren (not talking here about you or anyone here, who’s very aware of what the differences b/w islam and Christianity are: I’m talking about people who actually consider islam an Abrahamic religion, despite the divergence in the stories of Abraham, and look to them for interfaith dialogs), and that others are heathens who need to be converted. And they don’t even do a good job of teaching their own flock about it, which is why you recently had that Christian who converted to islam on learning about Islam and Isa, and went on a suicide bombing attack in Libya
There is less of them in the west, where they don’t even bother to try converting woke, secular people to Christianity, but they wanna go to far off countries and convert people they don’t know the first thing about
There was that case in the Andaman islands a few years ago when one missionary insisted on being led to an island to talk to natives whom even the Indian government had given up talking to and left them alone, and had a ban on anyone going to that island, since they were an anthropological mystery. That guy got some people to break the law and get him there, and then got shot dead by an arrow from one of the natives
I’d have a lot more respect for these people if they targeted India’s muslim population for conversion, instead of people on the fringes of society
gravenimage says
You are right that a lot of Christian missionaries are too scared of Muslims to try to convert them. There are few, though.
Raja says
Infidel,
I agree with Gravenimage that the evangelicals in India are never as bad as jihadis or even islamic proselytes who lie and slander all the time.
There are lots of corrupt Christian preachers both in US and India though.
The Indian authorities and elites are evil to the core to “prosper” with the evangelists, with the exception of some like Yogi, Navin Patnaik etc. Their administration might be just as inept as rest of India.
gravenimage says
UK: Cops say they don’t know motive of Muslim who stabbed Christian evangelist wearing Charlie Hebdo t-shirt
…………….
More willful denial–just grotesque.
And while the police *did* act quickly in scooping up and protecting Ms. Tash, they did nothing whatsoever to pursue the perpetrator, who did this in broad daylight and were obviously witnessed by the cops or they would not have been able to act so fast.
Christopher Watson says
Don’t be fooled. They know exactly who it was. If they have not arrested him there is a reason.
Savvyone says
Police have told Hatun it would be best if she discontinued visiting Speakers Corner. I read, I thought from Katie H., that the police in London employ many Muslims as officers. i have even seen them at Speaker Corner. I often go to that site to observe Hatun and Jay Smith doing their good work that puts them at physical risk.
I wonder how Muslims will react on seeing the 3D copy of Jesus that was made from the markings on the Shroud of Turin?
John says
Islam is the motive. She left and criticized ‘Le cult de Mo.’
PRCS says
“As the Met Police have said, we do not yet know the motive of the attacker.”
I’m fine with that. Indeed, it’s what WE need to hear during the investigative phase of this incident.
And once all the evidence has been documented and we need a conclusion based solely on the truth, the whole truth, and ‘nuttin but the truth
None of the usual excuses or obfuscations, no recognition of the perp’s cultural sensibilities, thank you.
And make it very public.
abu taleb says
“Cops say they don’t know motive of Muslim who stabbed Christian evangelist wearing Charlie Hebdo t-shirt”
Yes, but cops know right away the motive of those who criticize Islamic teaching that allowing pedophilia, robbery, murder, slavery, women beating etc. The motive is Islamophobia, bigotry, racism and hate toward the whole muslim people. Islam is such a wonderful and beautiful religion.
gregbeetham says
The cops and the elite seem to be aloof and smug and revel in their abysmal ignorance and seem continually surprised by unexpected events such as when Muslims behave like Muslims.
Raja says
The West is all screwed up viz a viz islamic terror. The Canadian govt termed the murder or manslaughter as hate related before even starting the investigation. Here in the UK incidence the police cannot see what the WORLD can see, as it has been going on for ages and across the globe.
Ade Fegan says
Columbo they ain’t …
Sometimes I can almost agree with the far left sentiment to “defund the police” !
IanB says
The police DO know the motive but they ain’t sayin’.
Trevor Loughlin says
Her own fault for not being seriously tooled up with a hidden minigun, Personally I never go out without one. Also googles, a stab proof vest and a samurai sword. With rabid Islamic zombies and other nutters you can’t be too careful these days. As for the police they are mostly cowering in their office looking for harmless people to prosecute for thought-crime.
James Lincoln says
Trevor,
So I guess one now has to wear complete body armor when criticizing islam at Speakers’ Corner…
owensgate says
This reminds me of an account I once read, about a primitive tribe in the backwaters of the Amazon, that hadn’t made the connection between fornication and childbirth.
OLD GUY says
Funny how the press and law enforcement can’t recognize a hate crime coming from a muslim/islamic perpetrator. If this perp where a white guy he would have been called a white supremeness committing a hate crime. The motive would have been clear cut.