 The reason I want to bring up Charlie Hebdo today is because it's in the news and the reason it's in the news is that Five and a half years after the attack on Charlie Hebdo and I'll remind you that in January of 2015 Islamic terrorists Attacked the offices of Charlie Hebdo to gunman attack the officers in the name of Islam in the name of Defending the honor of the Prophet Muhammad and a slaughtered slaughtered twelve people who were working there on that day Charlie Hebdo is a satirical magazine That has been published kind of on and off since the since the 1970s And had published various cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad had done satirical articles about him But also had done the same thing made fun of Jews made fun of Christians made fun of pretty much everybody, but I don't know if you know, but in Islam making fun of the Prophet drawing the Prophet is sinful and It's a sin. That's potentially punishable by death And these two Islamists took it upon themselves to bring death To the cartoonists and to the publisher of Charlie Hebdo Now I wanted to show you some cartoons Let's see. What was that? All right. This is so this is the cartoon the Charlie Hebdo published in 2011 and In the in the bubble there what you see is Muhammad is saying a hundred lashes if you don't die laughing a Hundred lashes if you don't die laughing For publishing this cartoon 12 people lost their lives sadly Oops. Oh, I have to do here This is the cartoon that the magazine put out a week after The slaughter a week after the terrorist attack and this says and this is horrible This is horrible. We forgive you or you are forgiven To ask pardon. I don't know. I shouldn't speak French These and I'm not I don't have large images of this and I can't these are some of the cartoons They were published in 2005 in Denmark. These are the famous Danish cartoons There were published you see this one in particular The one in the middle with a black turban and a bomb in it was particularly viewed in the city But think about it Muhammad with a bomb is that so weird given all the suicide bombers that have been happening So I just wanted to show those for reason not because you need to see cartoons of Muhammad But because right after Charlie Hebdo happened Millions of people went out to the streets and everybody on Twitter said Yes, we Charlie. I am Charlie in support Charlie Hebdo the magazine and yet I mean New York Times was just we Charlie the many publications in the US was just we Charlie and yet None of these publications had the bars. None of these publications had the audacity the courage really not the dacity courage Just publish the cartoons People were slaughtered about cartoons The nature of those cartoons is news it is their moral responsibility To show those cartoons and not succumb to fear not succumb to the threats of The Islamist by not showing them It is horrific Horrific that nobody who said yes, we Charlie was willing to show the cartoons It means that they're not Charlie. They were not just we Charlie They were cowards They were compromises. They were appeasers And I wanted to show the Charlie the the Muhammad cartoons because yes, we Charlie because I stand with those people Who in my view? This is a battle about free speech. It's not a battle about Islam this is not a battle about Muhammad That's a different battle. There is a battle there, too. This one is about free speech And if you feel fear to publish the cartoons and your government won't defend you for publishing the cartoons That is a violation of free speech the government are protecting it and Unfortunately, the US government has a long history of this Which I've recited in the past, but what the hell let's do it again when Solomon Rushdie published his book and There was a far to against him by the leader of Iraq by a total humanee a Fatwa, you know the gave a prize to somebody anybody who killed him the United States did nothing the United Kingdom where Solomon Rushdie was hiding did nothing. Oh, you say well, Selma Rushdie was an American So it's not the job the American government to do anything. Okay, but what about the threats of their total humanee towards our publishers if they Published the book they would be killed the firebombing of bookstores in New York Agama did nothing indeed George HW the father Bush came out and said You really shouldn't insult Islam. It's not nice. People shouldn't do it. Don't do it. Don't do it in other words appeasement compromise cowardice instead of living up to your responsibility To protect the right of people to insult including the insult Islam there were many examples after that of Self-censorship of people refusing to show because they were afraid and they knew their government would not protect them all over the west including in the United States of America and In 2005 in order to illustrate This self-censorship in order to bring the topic to the forefront Fleming Rose Who was a editor at a Danish? Journal published 12 cartoons and Muhammad now Fleming has become a good friend since then Well a friend anyway, I think he's a good friend I don't see him very often, but but he is a good friend Fleming published those cartoons The response was immediate not immediate. It took a few months, but wowed up in the Muslim world You got demonstrations all over the middle of the world the burning of their tax and embassies the killing of people Threats on Fleming Rose's life threats on the cartoonist life cartoonists were actually attacked and almost killed No American publication agreed to publish the cartoons Yes Fleming wrong was an Ocon at my invitation as I said Fleming became a good friend He's a he's a fan of Ayn Rand. He's no he's not an objectivist, but he's a fan of Ayn Rand He's right out of the shrug. He's just a good guy one of these pro reason probably Moderately on the left on economic issues But just a good guy George Bush Son this time came out I said, oh, we shouldn't really publish these cartoons. Why do we need to offend Muslims? Why should we offend people? This is George Bush the tough George Bush the cowboy in 2012 Charlie Hebdo published some cartoons on Muhammad in the nude The White House and Obama actually said, you know, we shouldn't really offend them Basically, the West has been sending a single signal to Islam That yeah, we agree with you these publications these individuals It's too much Indeed ultimately Fleming goes out to leave his publication in Denmark because they wouldn't fully support him even the publication wouldn't fully support him in defending his decision to publish those cartoons and To continue making an issue of it indeed Over the last 20 years free speech has declined significantly in Europe not in the self-censorship way It's declined in the United States but much more From the perspective much more in Europe because of government's government's imposing hate speech laws government Requiring institutions to take down paintings of Muhammad or not to show oppers that might depict or harm I do not basically massive appeasement across the board from government on down Towards Islam and Towards the worst elements within Islam so over the next few months France is gonna have a show trial they are trying 14 people who were Accused of helping the people who committed the murders in January 2015 The actual shooters were killed then the day after I think by the French authorities Three other people who helped them directly escaped France and made it to ISIS They're probably still in Syria Iraq or they might be and might probably are dead Killed during the struggles over there These 14 or I think three are in absentia the three that any rock is Syria part of ISIS the others are people that it what major helpers But helped in these attacks, but this is gonna opportunity for the French justice system To put the whole issue of Charlie Hebdo the whole issue of free speech on The table these will be the first trials in French history There will be broadcast to the public where video cameras are allowed So these are gonna be two show trials in a sense that the whole French public is gonna be invited to participate And I hope I Hope that they use this opportunity to strengthen the idea of free speech to Strengthen the right of Charlie Hebdo to publish any cartoons of anybody to publish any cartoons That unless you incite for violence to say anything Particularly in France where free speech is under constant attack particularly in Europe where free speech is massively in decline But it'd be good for Americans too As we limit people's speech online Not by the government, but by internet companies that shouldn't be doing it. I Don't think they should be broken up for it They have every right to do it But I think they're wrong in doing it and suddenly they're wrong in not having criteria objective criteria for what they're doing But it is also an important lesson for all of us to learn because the government is not that far Whether it's Trump or the Democrats From coming out and restricting free speech from slowly Chipping away at free speech for example Regulating Facebook and Twitter on what they can and cannot put up on their platforms Would be regulating free speech in America We are there we are close to there. There's talk about hate speech laws We need to pay attention America. I know this is not anybody's top of the anybody's agenda But we need to pay attention. This is a crucial issue. This is an issue of life or death and If we need to be reminded through this trial of what's at stake Then we should be reminded then let's take this opportunity to remind ourselves There's nothing more important to civilization Right now Then the ability to speak that my ability to do the show my ability to shoot it show these cartoons I hope YouTube doesn't take the show down. 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