Debate on Free Speech and Islam

52% compulsory halal, I could go on and on and on and on,

but most important to me and most important to me is the free speech of this.

So let's get this out, shall we?

78% of British Muslims believe

that no publication should publish pictures of Muhammad.

An overwhelming majority. That rises, that rises to 87%.

That's one, that's nine out of every 10

Muslims that are walking the streets today in a country which absolutely abandoned blasphemy laws.

Suspicion is not strong enough a word.

The West should resist Islam in the strongest terms on free speech grounds alone.

So here we are with this cartoon, right,

and it's time. to show that I will not submit I will not

adhere to the religious laws of far off places

now my wife asked me not to show this for fear of repercussions

in my family but I told her that if I did not then I'd already submitted

to Islam so here we are.

Is it not enough that half the team that invited you to this debate

were Muslim women who wanted to hear out your expression and your arguments

is it not enough that I as a Muslim president have invited you

to this chamber to give your arguments is that not enough justification and evidence

for you to believe that we do believe in free speech

I would not become the president of a free speech society if

not for you.

Thank you,

may I may I thank you very much may I finish

excuse me.

It's a long time since I've been in this chamber

and knew the rules of by heart in the House of Commons

and we wonder whether the rule on props is the same in the Oxford Union.

I thank the Honourable gentleman for his point of order.

Excuse me for one second.

One moment. In the absence. Mr Fox, one moment.

The ex-president is also raising a point of order I think.

Just so it's helpful to inform the Ex-Honourable Reverend Adams that at least my four-year-old Thank you.

So right, I just want to wrap this up.

I am going to rule on the point of order.

There is no bar in the forms of the House against the use of props

however I would encourage Mr Fox to make the point and move on.

I was. points of order.

So it is in that spirit that I will not submit,

that I show you this as an Englishman who believes in free speech.

I will not submit.

I will not bow down.

Right.

So, I think which rather proves the point I was trying to make,

that in this envelope

lived your fear and your fear of Islam and what Islam will do to you when you upset its very over-sensitive sky wizard.

And what lived in this room is a healthy and brilliant and

noble British tradition of suspicion of Islam.

I encourage you to pass the motion. Thank you very much.