The investigation is ongoing, but “Hatun Tash, the victim of a stabbing at Speakers’ Corner…said that the supposed ‘home of free speech’ has become unsafe for Christians as a result of an increasingly belligerent Muslim mob.” You can find more news and analysis about the stabbing from Jihad Watch HERE.
The stabbing of Hatun Tash should be understood in light of what happened to teacher Samuel Paty in France when he was said to have shown Muhammad cartoons to his class. Defenders of the “religion of peace” are sending loud messages to Westerners about what will happen if they step out of line in their own countries. Paty’s beheading was a message to those with any idea that the freedom of speech is still alive and well in Western countries. Reinforcing this message is the fact that the reaction to Paty’s beheading consisted in large part of multitudes of Muslims condemning blasphemy against Islam, not the beheading.
Newsweek reported that right after the attack:
Tash collapsed with blood streaming down her face. She later stood up, still with a very bloodied face, and proceeded to preach before she was treated at the scene and then transferred to a central London hospital for further treatment for her wounds.
The brave Hatun Tash, who is a former Muslim from Turkey, has stated:
In my early days, Speakers’ Corner was a much calmer place. Now it is not and I am regularly attacked by a Muslim mob.
Jihad in the West — both stealth and violent — is escalating. Nowhere is it safe to tell the truth about Islam without some form of punishment: marginalization for telling the truth or even physical attack, depending on the severity of your “crime” of blasphemy. It’s becoming more threatening to discuss Islam out in an open forum with honesty, as at Speakers Corner. This is what Western “progressives” and cowards have imported into Western society in the name of “tolerance,” so that now, even Christians such as Hatun Tash who have migrated from Muslim countries for safety are under threat for criticizing the “religion of peace.”
London’s Speakers’ Corner is Not Safe for Christians, Says Charlie Hebdo Stabbing Victim Hatun Tash,” by Kurt Zindulka, Breitbart, July 29, 2021:
Hatun Tash, the victim of a stabbing at Speakers’ Corner on Sunday, said that the supposed “home of free speech” has become unsafe for Christians as a result of an increasingly belligerent “Muslim mob”.
Tash, an Evangelical street preacher who migrated from Turkey to the United Kingdom after converting from Islam to Christianity, said that she is a frequent target in Speakers’ Corner for her critiques of the Muslim religion.
“In my early days, Speakers’ Corner was a much calmer place. Now it is not and I am regularly attacked by a Muslim mob,” Ms Tash told The Times.
“We don’t live in Pakistan, we don’t live in Saudi Arabia. I am Christian and by default, I believe that Muhammad is a false prophet. I should be allowed to say that in the UK.”
Tash specifically blamed the London police for her attack on Sunday, in which a hooded man stabbed and slashed at her while she was wearing a t-shirt featuring images from Charlie Hebdo, the French magazine which was the victim of a 2015 Islamist terror attack after it published caricatures of Mohammed.
“Police inaction has led to what happened to me yesterday… It is heartbreaking that we live in a society where police do not want to arrest a Muslim for fear of being called Islamophobic,” she said.
“My attacker was not even afraid of the police as he did it right in front of them,” Tash added in an interview with The Sun, adding that she believed her attacker’s “intention was clearly to kill me”.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
Britainistan.
mortimer says
Muslims want Speakers’ Corner to become MUSLIM DAWAH-GANDA CORNER or SHARIA LAW CORNER. No blasphemers allowed by order of the ayatollahs.
Shmuel Ben Dovid says
Hatum should write the the Queen and demand a) that the Royal Parks be cleaned up of Islamic garbage like prayer mats etc. 2) That the Queen interveene and get the Metropolitan Police to do their job and protect the speakers and 3) arrest those ijnactive police officers for effectively pevertting the course of Justice. I would not be at all suprised if the police themselves instigated and assisted in the whoe debacle.
Raja says
Shmuel Ben Dovid,
With all respects to you, it is not Hatun’s business to clean the Islamic garbage in Britain. She can only discuss/speak for the gospel. Period. Let other professional take over the job of cleaning UK, if they have a spine.
Sadly, across Europe most everyone, from judges to govt employees are guided by Leftists agendas. There is nothing like empathy, commonsense, kindness left in the govt machinery. If the Leftists and their doctrines are thrown into the Atlantic, half of their problems would be solved!
Shmuel Ben Dovid says
Oh I see…… you want someone else to do the work……. perhaps you are part of the problem and not any sort of solution. When I wrote some years back to Her Majesty on an unrelated issue she was very helpful and seemed to concur my problem needed sorting which it subsequently was and all within a few weeks. I respectfully believe she would be suitably furious to hear of Hatun’s plight directly from Hatun. ………just saying!
gravenimage says
Shmuel–with all respect–your idea that the London police are stabbing people to make Muslims look bad makes no sense. I have been disgusted by their inaction, but that is still very different from claiming that they are actually the ones trying to murder people in the streets.
As for the Queen, she has sadly been largely silent about the threat of Islam–I doubt that she is going to change now. The impication that she has simply never heard about Jihad terror before now is not borne out.
Shmully says
Errrrr you seem to misunderstand my point a) about the police and b) The Queen who is very clued up. I was making the point about the Royal Parks and Hatun shoould contact HM with a personal plea and request. As far as the police are concerned….. I was not suggested they are trying to make Islamists look bad. They (the Islamists) already do that without any help. I was infering the possibility that the police want to shut Hatun up and cease causing waves, They would see her as an perceived embarrasment . Hatun already stated she was advised by the police to stop attending speakers corner. The police failed to record the matter (thus far) as a Terrorist (or Hate) crime and though they were present at the time failed miserably to apprehend the culprit. To me this seems pre-arranged. Cheers. ……… Reminds me Robert Spencer -v- the FBI.
gravenimage says
Shmuel, you said ‘I would not be at all suprised if the police themselves instigated and assisted in the whoe (sic) debacle”–that seems to imply that you believe that they were the ones who stabbed Hatun Tash.
If I misread your meaning, please correct me.
And, again, save for one reference in passing during her Christmas Adress a few years ago, the Queen has ignored Jihad terror altogether. I wish this were not so.
mortimer says
Vigilantism is recommended by Mohammed, Koran and Sharia, and thus vigilantism is NORMATIVE ISLAM, rather than an aberration. British legal authorities need to LEARN about Sharia law’s official rules regarding vigilantism.
-A hadith states: “Whosoever among you sees an act of wrong SHOULD CHANGE IT WITH HIS HANDS. If he is not able to do so, then he should change it with his tongue. If he is not able to do so, then with his heart, and this is the weakest of faith.” (Sahih Muslim, 49)
-The Koran states: “Let there arise from you a group calling to all that is good, enjoining what is right and forbidding what is wrong. It is these who are successful.” (Koran 3:104).
-The Shafi’i Sharia manual ‘Umdat al-Salik says that “an expiation is due to Allah Most High from anyone who kills someone unlawful to kill…” (o5.1). However, “there is no expiation for killing someone who has left Islam” (o5.4). In other words, a Muslim who kills is liable to punishment, but he isn’t liable to punishment if he kills an apostate. And nothing at all is said about state authority.
-Al-Azhar University in Cairo, which has been praised for its moderation, endorses ‘Umdat al-Salik as conforming to the “practice and faith of the orthodox Sunni community.”
-Top Islamic Scholar Ibn Taymiyya approved of vigilantism: it is established by Allah and Mohammed.
From ‘The Sword Of Ikhlaas’ – (Muslims are permitted to kill without permission of an Islamic state = Vigilantism)
“Some deviants say we cannot apply the Hukm of killing unless we have an Islamic State (Khilafah). How ignorant is the one that talks like this. Umayr ibnu Adi (ra) (who was a blind man) said he heard that Asma the daughter of Marwan insulted Muhammad (saw) in the battle of Badr. He said, ‘Oh Allah. I have a vow on my neck: if I return I will go to Medina to kill her. He went to Medina without the permission of Muhammad (saw) and killed her whilst she was suckling her child. He came back and told Muhammad (saw). Muhammad (saw) said to his companions IF YOU WISH TO SEE SOMEONE WHO SUPPORTS ALLAH AND THE MESSENGERS BY THE GHAIB (WITHOUT INFORMING OR ASKING OR TELLING ANYONE) LOOK AT UMAYR IBN ADI. [Ibn Hishaam and Ibn Saads Kitaab Al-Tabaqaat Al-Kabeer]. In other words you need Allah’s (swt) permission which has already been established and that is all you need.”
Shmully says
What is your point? If now is not the time for us all to rise up and push them back then when?
Sadiq Khan made it clear in his full page newspaper article in 2009 that Islam is not suitable for this country. Comparing Sharia Courts to the Jewish Bet Din Sadiq made it clear that Islam is unsophisticated and not compatable with western and UK values. I do not see Sadiq Khan doing much regarding the Royal Parks, Islamic indimidation, madrassas etc etc.
I would not waste a second of my time suing the police but legal advice may be good and a pro-bono lawyer I do not think a Judicial Review would necessarily have legs but I could be wrong there. nor do I think writing to Sadiq Khan wuld get any reply. In my case I had been seriousely let down by HM Customs and excise who failed in their Duty. The Queen took up my case and cut straight through the crap.As a result of HM gracious invovement and interventions the then head of HM Customs Dame Valerie Strachan got involved and the matter resolved within very short time (start to finish about six weeks).
I cannot comment on Charles, Prince of Wales except to say that he is not the monarch, he enjoys the Royal Parks and open spaces and I do not believe for a second that he is pro Islam. Cheers
gravenimage says
I cannot comment on Charles, Prince of Wales except to say that…I do not believe for a second that he is pro Islam
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Alas, Shmuel, this is very much the case:
“Hugh Fitzgerald: Prince Charles and Islam’s ‘Sacred Spirituality’”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/12/hugh-fitzgerald-prince-charles-and-islams-sacred-spirituality
“Prince Charles ‘fascinated by Islamic culture,’ prays in Arabic for peace in the Middle East, ‘inshallah’”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/01/prince-charles-fascinated-by-islamic-culture-prays-in-arabic-for-peace-in-the-middle-east-inshallah
“Prince Charles praises jihadi pirates for scaring off fishermen: ‘fantastic explosion for bigger and better fish’”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/10/prince-charles-praises-jihadi-pirates-for-scaring-off-fishermen-fantastic-explosion-for-bigger-and-better-fish
There is, sadly, much more.
Walter Sieruk says
Such vicious and violent Muslims as the one who have stabbed the Christian speaker have had proven the proven the propagandists for Islam to be saying false statement when they claim that “Islam is non-violent religion.”
Furthermore,those Muslims who viciously attack Christians for preaching out the Bible which may well contains messages of Information that many many Muslims find offensives , because they can’t stand to hear the truth and likewise can’t give an intelligent refutation of Bible messages spoken by Christians , so they thus resort to the use of violence.
In addition, this is a strong reminder that this is “War of Ideas” is really a religious conflict between the followers of Jesus and the followers of Islam.
Not only does such as bloody incdent “speaker corner ” exposes who the truly violent ones are but also in this “war of ideas” is likewise a reminder the wisdom spoken by the hero in the 1979 movie titled TIME AFTER TIME . For that hero said “The first man to raise his fist is the man who has run out of ideas.”
In conclusion in stands to reason that in this doctrinal conflict of Ideas between Christianity and Islam it’s the followers of Islam who are the ones who have “run of of ideas” This they have proven, many times over , by their violent actions.
Ray Jarman says
+1 Walter,
I agree with everything you espoused but if I may, I would like to add that incident and others like it would not have occurred if the voters in London had not re-elected Sadiq Khan whom they new was a Muslim sympathizer. People in London as in Democrat (miss) led cities in the US have continued to elect people who express their hatred of their nation should not complain when they receive exactly for what they paid.
Rarely says
Walter.
I disagree. It has nothing to do with not being able to “stand the truth” as you suggest. These animals are not interested in refuting anything. They are simply trying to shut down any conversation that does not agree with their narrative. Any criticism of, or any discussion about. islam is not simply allowed.
If one wishes to shut down “freedom of speech” in London where do you go? Well, if you want to catch a bus you would go to a bus stop.
Walter Sieruk says
In spite of all the facts, there is some people who still keep on saying that “Islam is a non-violent religion.” This is a complete falsehood of that claim is seen by this tragic news report as well as observed in many other violent and bloody incidents of Muslim brutal and cruel attacks.
To put this another way , the apologists for Islam who claim that this is a “non-violent religion” are making a claim that is not only false but it’s also total balderdash.
Anna Yelena says
Europeans have lost their continent. They showed more courage in fighting the Nazis than the Muslim invasions. They had a Resistance group in most European Countries against the Nazis knowing if any of them were found out it was death. These Partisans loved their countries and were willing to fight the German invaders. What’s wrong with today’s Europeans I wonder.
R Russell says
Jesus is coming soon
Crusades Were Right says
The UK cops have far more important stuff to do than protecting the life of an “Islamophobe”:
I mean, even as I type, Tommy Robinson or Katie Hopkins might be expressing wrongthink on the internet.
One simply must prioritize, folks! lol
tim gallagher says
Muslims wreck every aspect of decent, civilised societies where they have, so foolishly, been allowed to invade with their disgusting, primitive, barbaric garbage. Islam’s values are antagonistic to all our far better, far more civilised values, with freedom of speech being a central value of our western societies. Speakers’ Corner, no doubt, operated for endless years with people being able to express their opinion, but islam, with its loathsome, and always violent crap, has now destroyed that freedom of speech. Islam destroys everything. That is all it does. We now have Muslim terrorism, Muslim rape gangs, Muslim child marriages, etc, in all our countries. This brave woman is right when she says that the police needed to get tough with these Muslim scum, but I suppose the police are told, in the usual idiotic way, to go easy on Muslims and keep pretending that things are going quite well and Muslims are fine citizens and its all going swimmingly..
gravenimage says
UK: Stabbed Christian preacher says frequent attacks by ‘Muslim mob’ make Speakers’ Corner unsafe for Christians
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The brave Hatun Tash is right. But the UK police don’t care–they have removed *her* from speaking because she has been threatened, as though she were the problem. They have allowed those threatening violence against free speech to win.
peter says
Sadly your conclusions are true!
gravenimage says
Peter, I wish I were wrong.
Sylvia Drummond says
Perhaps Hatun should sue the police for not doing their job. If they are going to do nothing, why are they there? Or sue the head of the metropolitan police, sadiq khan. It must be unlawful that we cannot express our views in our own country without being the victims of mob thuggery by mohammedan vermin. There must be a legal viewpoint on this. Writing to Her Majesty would be futile seeing that Prince Charles is a closet mohammedan and probably agrees with the vermin.
OLD GUY says
The muslim/islamic invasion force in action in the UK. Open borders means you have no country, society or culture as you have allowed your enemy to infiltrate your government and neighborhoods.
unbeliever1 says
Now, this is a man who tells it as he sees it. He doesn’t buy into the narrative of “the far-right being a bigger threat than Islamic terrorists.”
https://youtu.be/VLGNmHT-rjQ