After a lady was brutally attacked at Hyde Park’s Speaker’s Nook, reviews in regards to the incident centered on what she wore, begging the query whether or not free speech is not sacred to individuals who run London and the UK.
A graphic video making rounds on social media exhibits a person, reportedly wearing a black gown with a hood, punching and stabbing a lady on Sunday afternoon, then being chased away by police. He someway evaded the authorities and disappeared, leaving the knife behind.
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Stories in regards to the incident spoke of a 39-year-old girl, who suffered “a minor slash damage to her head” that was described as not life-threatening after remedy at an area hospital. The papers revealed no figuring out details about the attacker and dutifully quoted the Metropolitan Police urging Londoners to come back forth with proof.
“I might ask folks to not speculate on the motive for the assault till now we have established the complete information,” the police spokesperson concluded.
That didn’t cease the media from stating that the lady wore a “Charlie Hebdo prime,” and reminding the general public that the satirical French journal was focused by “Islamic extremists” in January 2015 over its cowl depicting the Prophet Muhammad. The implication is evident: the lady wore a provocative shirt that offended Muslims someway, and due to this fact had the stabbing coming.
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The story solely will get extra troubling when a few of the lacking particulars are crammed in. Even a cursory look on the video and stills from the incident exhibits the lady sporting a prime printed with a Charlie Hebdo cowl – however not the one depicting the Muslim prophet. As an alternative, it confirmed a gay kiss between a CH cartoonist and a Muslim preacher, captioned “Love stronger than hate.”
Whereas the authorities didn’t title the sufferer, bloggers and activists recognized her as Hatun Tash, 39, who fled Turkey after renouncing Islam for Christianity. She now preaches in Hyde Park on behalf of Defend Christ Critique Islam Ministries.
Not the primary time Hatun Tash has been bodily attacked for criticising Islam. This time she was repeatedly stabbed. https://t.co/D37FcxbBL1
— Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) July 26, 2021
In international locations practising Sharia Regulation – resembling Saudi Arabia – apostasy from Islam is a criminal offense punishable by loss of life. Turkey is nominally secular nonetheless. So is the UK. Which is why the British authorities should be alarmed by this assault, however they don’t appear to be.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan, who as soon as infamously stated terrorist assaults had been “half and parcel of dwelling in a giant metropolis,” didn’t even acknowledge the incident. As an alternative, he demanded that police examine a speech by an “anti-vaxxer” former nurse.
If a lady is stabbed in Hyde park and @SadiqKhan doesn’t point out it, did it even occur? https://t.co/As79GwPXBU
— Laurence Fox ✌???✌? (@LozzaFox) July 26, 2021
In line with one blogger, Tash has been a fixture at Audio system Nook, dealing with “intimidation, threats, sexual assaults and bodily assaults” lately. In October 2020, she was apparently assaulted and knocked unconscious. On one other event, the blogger stated she was detained by police and held for 20 hours with out a proof.
Specializing in Tash’s alternative of clothes comes perniciously near blaming her for “upsetting” the assault someway. Her prime, or her phrases for that matter, might have been offensive to some Muslims, however they weren’t in violation of the legislation.
One would anticipate the British public to indicate some solidarity with a lady attacked by a knife-wielding man, in broad daylight, for talking at a spot devoted to free speech. There have been no requires curfew on males this time, nonetheless.
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Worse but, violence is more and more changing into the norm at Audio system Nook. It has reportedly seen a number of clashes in current months, between Shia and Sunni Muslims. Certainly, in one of many movies that captured the assault on Tash, the audio system within the foreground will be heard discussing Islamic theology.
There’s nothing improper with that as such, as long as everybody understands that the legal guidelines, customs and traditions of Audio system Nook, London and the UK take priority over these they introduced with them from overseas. In any other case what’s subsequent, practising suttee in Kensington Gardens within the title of variety and inclusion?
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