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"But the hypocrisy and the anti-Islamic credentials of the new confederates are all too glaring to hide. In a series of tweets that exposed lhypocrisie in the Paris march, ‘World leaders who suppress freedom of speech, rally for freedom of speech,’ caught some of the leaders with their pants down. On another level, it could as well have been the international rogue’s gallery. Indeed, for some of the leaders to be seen in a march for freedom of expression or indeed in any march for any kind of freedom, the grotesqueness can be cut with knife.
Here it is unedited series of tweets:
“Solidarity rallies are taking place in France today in support of free speech after the murder of 12 members of Charlie Hebdo editorial staff on January 7.
Daniel Wickham tweeted an impressive list of world leaders attending the rally in Paris to support free speech, while suppressing free speech in their own countries.
We have compiled Daniel’s tweets below for posterity. So here are some of the staunch defenders of the free press attending the solidarity rally in Paris today…
- Daniel Wickham
2) Prime Minister of Davutoglu of Turkey
- Daniel Wickham
3) Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel, whose forced killed 7 journalists in Gaza last yr
- Daniel Wickham
4) Foreign Minister Shoukry of Egypt, which as well as AJ staff has detained journalist
- Daniel Wickham
5) Foreign Minister Lavrov of Russia, which last year jailed a journalist for “insulting a government servant”
6) Foreign Minister Lamamra of Algeria
- Daniel Wickham
7) The Foreign Minister of the UAE, which in 2013 held a journo incommunicado for a month on suspicion of MB links
- Daniel Wickham
8) Prime Minister Jomaa of Tunisia, which recently jailed blogger Yassine Ayan for 3 years for “defaming the army”
- Daniel Wickham
9) The PMs of Georgia and Bulgaria, both of whom have a record of attacking & beating journos
- Daniel Wickham
10) The Attorney General of the US, where police in Ferguson have recently detained and assaulted WashPost reporters
- Daniel Wickham
11) Prime Minister Samaras of Greece, where riot police beat & injured two journalists at a protest in June last year
- Daniel Wickham
12) Sec-Gen of NATO, who are yet to be held to account for deliberately bombing and killing 16 Serbian journos in ‘99
- Daniel Wickham
13) President Keita of Mali, where journalists are expelled for covering human rights abuses
- Daniel Wickham
14) The Foreign Minister of Bahrain, 2nd biggest jailer of journos in the world per capita (they also torture them)
- Daniel Wickham
15) Sheikh Mohamed Ben Hamad Ben Khalifa Al Thani of Qatar, which jailed a man for 15 ys for writing the Jasmine poem
- Daniel Wickham
16) Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, who had several journalists jailed for insulting him in 2013.
- Daniel Wickham
17) Prime Minister Cerar of Slovenia, which sentenced a blogger to six months in prison for “defamation” in 2013
- Daniel Wickham
18) Prime Minister Enda Kenny of Ireland, where “blasphemy” is considered a criminal offense
- Daniel Wickham
20) PM Cameron of the UK, where authorities destroyed documents obtained by The Guardian and threatened prosecution
- Daniel Wickham
21) Saudi ambassador to France.
- Daniel Wickham
And they create the agenda and those gullible execute it for them.
We condemn both those who insult divine sanctities and we condemn those who allow themselves to twist the religion in the name of protecting it.
They hide behind freedom of expression, which is the right of every individual to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. And they reckon that the attack on Charlie Hebdo was an attack on the freedom of expression. It was not. It was an attack against irresponsible journalism by the worst ambassadors the religion could have."
Source: Daily Trust
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