 Tobi Yong has started a free speech union and when I heard that I thought great, one thing we need to fight for in the UK is freedom of speech but sadly it has turned from his free speech union into a free speech union because he has already failed the crucial test. I link to an interview with Tobi Yong below and to perfectly clear and coherent he was throughout until he was asked about Tommy Robinson and then the stuttering and the stumbling began. But before I get on to that let me address another point that he got, well not necessarily got wrong but didn't explain properly so I will. He talked about incitement to violence and this being the only restriction on freedom of speech and I agree with that and the Forbidden Manifesto also agrees with that. But what does it mean to incite violence? It doesn't mean that a person, if a person reacts with violence to a stated fact so if I say Muslims are overwhelming the vast majority in these notorious rape gangs that's a statement of fact. If someone responds with violence against Muslims because of that fact that is not my fault it's not because I stated a fact they are responsible for that. To incite violence I would have to incite violence so if I went online and said right folks this is it we've all got to go out and beat up Muslims, kill Muslims, attack them wherever you see them that is inciting violence. Stating a fact that a particular crime is overwhelmingly carried out by Muslims that's not inciting violence so let's make that part clear. But getting back to the question on Tommy Robinson. My perception of this, my opinion on this and I draw this from years of experience it's very familiar to me how he reacted when he was asked about Tommy Robinson. What he did was avoid admitting that he is afraid to criticize Islam because that would be pretty embarrassing for a free speech activist to admit in an interview he's giving about being a free speech activist. He can't turn around and say no no we're not touching Islam I'm terrified of that. He can't say that so what he does instead is disguise his fear as a virtue signal and I'm not trying to insult him I'm just very familiar with this. The virtue signal works like this the equivocation of sex and race with religion it is completely and utterly false it is a false comparison sex and race are nothing like religion. Now let me explain he made the point that we won't accept criticism of a person because they happen to be a woman I fully agree we won't accept criticism of a person because of the colour of their skin I fully agree. Then he did that virtue signal thing and threw in religion we won't pick on people because of their religion as if religion is the same as sex and race and this is clever trickery and it's common but it's utter nonsense. A person being a woman for example doesn't come with a guidebook from God you're simply female a female human you were born a female human being black for example say doesn't come with a set of beliefs that determine who you are and determine how you're supposed to behave in this world and this set of beliefs comes from the creator of the universe no less that doesn't apply to race black just means you were born with black skin woman just means you were born female it has nothing to do with what you believe or how you see the world. Religion is a set of beliefs it is a guidance it is in Islam's case a scripture the Quran the hadiths the Quran portrayed as and believed to be the final direct word of God himself the hadiths the words and actions of God's representative Muhammad very very powerful stuff if you know what those beliefs are and you choose to sign up to them you are responsible for that so let me give you an example if you were to ask an atheist should a woman be stoned to death for committing adultery and that atheist said of course people would be horrified people shouldn't be what no stoning under any circumstances but you can believe in it you can say yes stoning is fine because my religion says so and then everyone backs off if you agree with stoning whether it comes from your religion or just from your own mind you are equally responsible for that and that's a belief you hold and I will criticize you for holding that belief just as I would criticize you for holding the belief that people who won't conform should be sent to gulags I criticize that I criticize people who think women should be stoned to death it's the same thing it's a belief that is held by an individual and they can and should be condemned for holding that belief I do hope that that's clear but religion itself the idea of freedom of speech has always been to criticize the powerful and going right back to the Middle Ages the Spanish Inquisition the torture of people who refused to believe this is where it all the enlightenment our entire history of fighting for the liberty to speak and to criticize authority was founded and largely based in the right to criticize religious authority the right to criticize religion is absolutely fundamental and that is the right that Toby Young has said he won't defend so much for freedom of speech if you actually do care about freedom of speech there's a political party just the one you can join no more of this politically correct charade that pretends to be about free speech and then turns its back on the very people who are dis in who are unpersoned unpersoned that's what we are you know people have been pointing out to Toby Young that he gets slots on television he does so he's not really struggling with his own freedom of speech I've been kicked off social media I'm a leader of a perfectly legal fully registered political party who is denied basic services because of what I because I criticize religion I've never criticized race or sex I have criticized religion and I have been cut off because of it we've been shut down by all the major online services PayPal Twitter etc I am really having my speech curtailed I'm described as effectively a paramilitary leader in a Scottish newspaper with no right to reply I've read articles called Who Is Amory Waters by journalists who've never spoken to me I've had newspaper articles say that I am I myself have admitted that I'm far right when I do absolutely the opposite there's nothing far right about me but I have no right of reply because I have no platform that Toby Young is being is having your free speech removed I and Tommy Robinson and the issue of Islam is exactly what we need free speech for at this juncture in our history you are turning your back on the area of of discussion that most needs to be discussed and you are turning your back on the people who most suffer from a lack of freedom of speech your free speech union therefore is a joke I'm sorry to say