 425 with the with Alexi so yeah keep contributing I'm gonna we're gonna shift topics now to something a little bit more depressing and serious I think you all know what happened in Paris was it now a couple of weeks ago or 11 days ago when when a French teacher in discussing freedom of speech with his students let me just make sure I get these questions when discussing freedom of speech with the students chose to show the students two cartoons of Muhammad two cartoons of Muhammad that had been published by Charlie Hebdo the French magazine whose whose 11 members of the staff were murdered when you know what was in 2015 January of 2015 and before showing the cartoons he told the students what he was going to do he said that if there were any students who thought they would be offended by the site of Muhammad cartoons they could leave the class or they could turn their head or they could do whatever was necessary not to be offended so he took all the precautions that you would take with against students young young kids and and he showed the cartoons to the students I think a day or two later maybe it was the same day I'm not sure I think it was a day or two later a an Islamist showed up found this teacher and basically beheaded him in power in France beheaded him on Twitter the assailant wrote quote I've executed one of the dogs from hell who dared to put Muhammad down so just horrific just horrific but consistent remember oh my god now we're gonna have to do some we're gonna have to do some currency exchange we've got 150 New Zealand dollars alright somebody's gonna have to take out the calculator and figure that one out it I'll just tell you that YouTube does not use a friendly exchange rate put it that way thank you JDS thank you Jonathan yeah this topic is tough to do when you when you're also trying to raise money so remember that you know this beheading this this horrific motor is not of course the first occurrence that had to do with cartoons and how to do with violence I mean the essential character character of this goes back to someone Rushdie I think it was 1989 who published published a book and as a consequence of that book as a consequence of that book a fatwa was placed on his head he published a book and right now the name of the book of course slips my mind and a photo is placed on his head that is a death warrant was placed on his head by the itula Khomeini of Iran and almost nobody nobody stood up for him almost nobody defended him and he George Bush senior who was president at the time completely defaulted in his responsibility satanic versus thank you the book was called satanic versus because the book dealt with Islam in supposedly an unfriendly way price was placed on his head murderers were sent out to kill him bookstores were attacked the publisher was attacked government around the world did very little to protect protect publishers authors bookstores the wassellians and I'll include in the government didn't do very much to protect it the United States of America so the one wall that government has in cases like this is to protect the rights of the person who speaks to speak to protect him from those who would silence him and government defaulted on that responsibility they defaulted on that responsibility during the Salaman Rushdie case and then again they defaulted on that responsibility over and over again over the years whenever it's the issue of Islam came out the response of the government where there was Bush senior Bush junior Obama or many of the others the response of the government was well you really shouldn't attack Islam you really you really should be should be nice it's really not nice now you have a right speech but you really shouldn't do it please be nice please be nice nobody actually said go to hell you don't like my views don't listen turn the channel read another book use another magazine of course all this came to a head in 2015 when a Danish magazine oh there's Troy Troy's gonna Troy's gonna end this quickly thank you Troy that is 500 Australian dollars somebody again is gonna have to do the math it's getting complicated now it's getting complicated but but we'll get an update from John soon in terms of what this all adds up to but but thanks guys this is truly fantastic so 2015 a Danish magazine published the famous now infamous Danish cartoons riots broke out all over the Middle East Pakistan Bangladesh all over the Middle East embassies were burned people were murdered why because Mohammed had been insulted why because a cartoon of Mohammed had been displayed you can display cartoons of Jesus of Abraham of Elron Hubbard and nobody cares but if you display cartoons of Mohammed that is blasphemy and that is punishable by death by death and so riots broke out and people died people died the cartoonists were threatened the publication was threatened the cartoonists I think in Denmark still live in fear particularly after what happened in 2015 sorry Danish cartoons with 2004 or 5 and then the Charlie Hebdo was in 2015 in 2015 what we got was Charlie Hebdo Islamist walking into the offices after another publication of day of cartoons and what we got was the murder of 11 11 cartoonist and journalists at Charlie Hebdo now we have this murder of this young teacher in Paris and to the credit of my con the French president to the credit of the French government they have not given in they have not folded they have stood up to the barbarians they have said that it's absolutely an issue of free speech the ability to show the cartoons they have not done a George Bush on Obama or even Trump they have gone all out in defense of one's ability in the defense of teachers in the defense of magazines to show these cartoons they're not always this positive I mean Charlie Hebdo suffered significantly from French authorities because it pushed the boundaries of what French authorities considered speech but on this issue right now France is going all out in defense of the teacher and in defense of its tradition of publishing cartoons I'm making fun of religion I'm making fun of religious figures even Islamic religious figures and the responses took he is took he you know whose president is an Islamist took he an ally member that is more aligned with the Islamists the enemies of the West the enemies of civilization took who you run by Ogo on Ogo on now has insulted the French call about Khan crazy and France has withdrawn its embassy from Tokyo I think Tokyo's withdrawn its ambassador from France this ambassador not the embassy they are riots now in Bangladesh in Morocco in Pakistan all across northern Africa the Muslims just like in 2004 5 is it always at 5 6 anyway in the mid-2000s on the rampage they will be people killed they will be people injured hopefully hopefully fans stands up to this barbarism hopefully stand commits itself to defending its values commits itself to defending free speech and if you really if you really think about if you understand what makes the West the West what makes civilization civilization there is no more important issue than this issue there is no more important issue than free speech if we can't speak if we can't communicate if we can't challenge each other if we can't push each other if you can't reveal or expressed each other new truths new ideas good or bad wrong or true then we cannot anymore find truth if we cannot offend when we cannot offend then we cannot find truth if we cannot offend then we can't really have a conversation the fact is that every new truth offend somebody every new truths offend somebody every new truth is viewed by somebody usually the incumbent the one who holds the incumbent view that you're challenging as offensive wrong no good wow we're still going we reached well over a thousand and we're still going thank you guys this is fantastic this is fantastic all right well over two thousand in terms of money raised today so thank you everybody I mean we can keep going I'm I'm I'm game for ten thousand I'm suddenly game for ten thousand and we should do this on a monthly basis because this is this is good this is good this is a way to make a living so if we value reason if you value thinking if you value discovery of truth if you value science if you value innovation then speech free speech is necessary it's a must then free speech is what allows us to challenge each other to present each other with new ideas to push each other and yes part of the speech is going to be really really dumb stupid wrong maybe even really really really badly wrong but again the only way to success is to allow for the wrong speech not because we value wrong cheese speech because we value the truth and we do not want to give what we do not want to do is give the authorities the power to dictate what is and what isn't acceptable what is and isn't offensive what is and isn't valuable truth remember Galli Galli Leo offended the Catholic Church Uber offends taxi drivers every innovation offends so very little in life is as value bill as our freedom of speech okay let's see what are we gonna do and therefore we need to be on France aside now if we had again a president who had an understanding of what's going on in the world then a real issue right now would be to stand up with France to issue a statement in defense of France and condemning the barbarism of of Islamism that wants to silence all opposition and silence all opposition through the use of a sword remember speech in spite of what the left some people on the left and in spite of what the Islamists tell you speech is not violence offending something is not punching them in the face those are not equivalent things you don't have to listen you can walk away you can't walk away when somebody is punching you I mean you can try to run away but if they're chasing you that is violence violence is unaccepted speech should be defended in in kudos to the French for standing up for free speech I wish we could say the same for this country so many on the left want to give it up so many on the right don't value it and don't see the importance of it and that's what we are as freedom slips away all right we have a lot of super chat questions so what I'm going to do is I am going to take the super chat questions see how long we have and if this time we'll take on the second topic but if there isn't we'll just end with super chat questions and I'll do the other topic about Biden versus Trump we can do that over the weekend before the election I promise let me note that we are at $1,429 the challenge was to go get to a thousand and we've achieved that so we've got we've got another thousand mats so we've raised almost $2,500 of course we can keep going we keep keep going and there's another five bucks and you you know if you want to ask a question I will take super chat questions so keep keep going with the super chat and we'll keep I'll keep copying over the the questions and be ready to I'll be ready to answer them as we move forward I will say this issue with the Islam and the cartoons and the French this is to be watched this is really important to watch it and and to see who stands with them and who stands against them which countries which politicians this is one of the most important issues of our day this issue of hate speech which which the left you know the kind of the the far left would like to get rid of free speech in the United States while we're seeing that battle now manifest itself on the Islamic front but it's the same battle hate speech is hate speech is hate speech and here you know mostly the left is focused on gender and other issues but it's the same issue and you know we need to do whatever we can to to defend to fight on this issue what we need today what I called a new intellectual would be any man or woman who is willing to think meaning any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason by the intellect not by feelings wishes women's or mystic revelations any man or woman who values his life and who does not get want to give in to today's cult of despair cynicism and impotence and does not intend to give up the world to the dark ages and to the role of the collectivist broads all right before we go on reminder please like the show we've got 163 live listeners right now 30 likes that should be at least a hundred I figure at least a hundred of you actually like the show maybe they're like 60 of the Matthews out there who hate it but but at least the people who like it you know I want to see I want to see a thumbs up there you go start liking it I want to see that go to a hundred all it takes is a click of a click of a thing whether you're looking at this and you know the likes matter it's not an issue of my ego it's an issue of the algorithm the more you like something the more the algorithm likes it so you know and if you don't like the show give it a thumbs down let's see your actual views 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