{UAH} “If they give me the atom bomb I’d remove Holland from the earth before they can hold a competition of caricatures”

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"If they give me the atom bomb I'd remove Holland from the earth before they can hold a competition of caricatures"

JUL 11, 2018 11:08 AM BY ROBERT SPENCER55 COMMENTS

At a certain point the West is going to have to decide whether it is going to uphold and defend the freedom of speech or submit to violent intimidation and the imposition of Sharia blasphemy laws. Or perhaps the West has already opted for the latter, given the fact that the defense of the freedom of speech is derided almost universally as "Islamophobia." Perhaps Khadim Hussain Rizvi should be made head of the European Union.

"Give me atom bomb, I'll wipe out Holland: Pakistan's rising Islamist politician Khadim Hussain Rizvi," by Shailaja Neelakantan, Times of India, July 10, 2018:

NEW DELHI: A Pakistani hardline Islamist group leader, Khadim Hussain Rizvi, who has fielded as many as 152 candidates for the upcoming general elections in the country, has said that if he were given "the atom bomb", he would "wipe Holland off the face of this earth" if it allowed a competition of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad.

"If they give me the atom bomb I would remove Holland from the face of the earth before they can hold a competition of caricatures… I will wipe them off the face of this earth," said Tehreek Labbaik Pakistan Ya Rasool Allah (TLP) chief Rizvi, showed a Samaa TV video of his interactions with the media.

The TLP chief said this to reporters at a media interaction organised by the Karachi Press Club last week.

He was referring to an equally hardline – sort of the flip side of the TLP coin – Dutch group's announcement last month. The Freedom Party of Dutch's anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders said in June it will hold a competition of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad, reported news agency Reuters.

TLP is the fundamentalist Islamist group that brought Pakistan's capital Islamabad to a standstill last November to oppose changes in strict blasphemy laws. Why? Its raison d étre is the protection of the blasphemy laws.

Last November, more than 2,000 TLP members and supporters staged a three-week-long sit-in at Faizabad, the intersection of the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad, crippling life in the region.

Their beef? A small change – which the Pakistani government soon called a "clerical error" – to the oath taken by parliamentary candidates. What was altered was that a candidate need just say they "believe" rather than "solemnly swear by" the fact that the Prophet Muhammad is the final prophet.

"No can do," said TLP's Rizvi. The government rolled back the change in the oath – in fact this was done before the TLP agitation – and Rizvi's theatrics even led to the resignation of law minister Zahid Hamid, whom the TLP declared a "blasphemer" for changing the wording. …

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