প্যাট্রিক কন্ডেল: আমাদের লোক – ৪১

নরওয়ের মর্মান্তিক ঘটনার পরিপ্রেক্ষিতে প্যাট কন্ডেলের প্রতিক্রিয়া। বরাবরের চেয়ে আরও বেশি স্পষ্ট ও দৃঢ়তর। 

অডিও ভার্শন এখানে (১.৩ মেগাবাইট)। 

ভিডিও ট্র্যান্সক্রিপ্ট প্রায় পুরোটাই তুলে দিচ্ছি:

The Norwegian murderer has shown himself to be as much an enemy of humanity as any jihadist. Indeed, he is a jihadist by any other name.

He claims there's a war going on, and there certainly is - a war between civilised people and violent barbarians like him.

... violence will never prevail because it will never win the hearts and minds of the people...

Violence is not the answer. It's never the answer. And we will never progress as a species until we drag ourselves out of this swamp of violence. And that's why anyone who uses

or who advocates violence for any political reason is my enemy. No exceptions.

I couldn't help noticing, however, in the aftermath of this atrocity, a rather unhealthy eagerness in some quarters to apportion blame by association, as if all critics of Islam are somehow complicit in this man's insanity. Well, that's very unfortunate, but given that the rules have now clearly been changed in this regard, I'll be very interested to see how many hate-preaching imams are blamed for the next Islamic atrocity.

No one who criticises Islam or multiculturalism is in any way responsible for this lunatic's actions. And the criticisms are all still entirely valid. 

Islam is still a totalitarian ideology that actively threatens our freedom, political correctness is still, yes, cultural marxism, and multiculturalism is still a lie.

And, all over Europe, de facto blasphemy laws are still being used to prosecute people who criticise Islam, and only Islam. These horrific murders have not changed any of that. And the only thing that will change it, and the only way to get the overwhelming public support needed for change, is not through violence, but by defending freedom of speech, no matter what, and by telling the truth. That's all we need.

Peace. And a little honesty would be nice as well.