Hatun Tash is a well-known ex-Muslim turned Christian preacher who regularly debates Islam and the Qur’an at Speakers’ Corner in Hyde Park, London. She has faced threats to her life on multiple occasions for speaking against Islam, and was attacked and stabbed for preaching at Speakers’ Corner, suffering wounds to her face and hand.
Spiked Online (h/t Marvin W) In 2021, Tash was stabbed in the face in broad daylight by a male assailant at Speakers’ Corner in Hyde Park, London. What had she done to provoke this attack? She had attempted to peacefully speak her mind – as hundreds do in Speakers’ Corner every week. The suspect remains at large.
This attempt on Tash’s life fell out of the news cycle with astonishing speed. Remarkably, human-rights organisations, activists and the online outrage machine appeared to sit the whole thing out. Worse still, the Metropolitan Police actually arrested Tash – twice – when she tried to raise concerns about her safety.
Police have repeatedly failed to protect Hatun or make any arrests following her being assaulted and threatened. Instead, she herself has been arrested and detained overnight in a police cell for challenging Islam at Speakers’ Corner. Most recently, Hatun was arrested after her own copy of the Qur’an was stolen from her; she was detained overnight, strip searched and interrogated. Her copy of the Qur’an has not been returned to her, despite police knowing who took it.
As though all this weren’t horrifying enough, it was also reported last week that a different man has pleaded guilty to a separate plot to murder her at Speakers’ Corner. Once again, this news failed to animate the organisations and activists that claim to care about the rights of women and ethnic-minority people. Here we have an ethnic-minority woman who has been mistreated by the police and targeted multiple times by violent men – all because she dared to speak her mind. And yet, the great and the good have responded with silence.
Below are the kinds of things in Islam she speak out against:
She is now being supported by the Christian Legal Centre and counter-terrorism are also investigating the case. Her case raises the question of whether the UK is implementing sharia law through the back door.
If Tash had been speaking in the name of Black Lives Matter, you can be sure the attempts on her life would have instigated a national moral panic. Politicians would have released statements in condemnation. Demonstrations of solidarity would have formed on our streets. Endless media debates about racism would no doubt have followed.
So, why are those who see themselves as on the ‘right side of history’ utterly indifferent to Hatun Tash’s plight? Well, it turns out that Tash is a rather vocal critic of Islam – and this is the very reason she is being targeted by extremist thugs. She is an ex-Muslim who converted to Christianity and became a preacher. She has plenty to say about her former faith, though none of it is especially kind. When the first attempt on her life was made in 2021, Tash was wearing a t-shirt depicting a Charlie Hebdo caricature of the Prophet Muhammad.
Cases like Tash’s are a minefield for those high on identity politics. They give the whole ‘intersectional’ game away. Progressive activists are reluctant to defend this innocent, ethnic-minority woman from male violence and police mistreatment because it would mean siding with someone who has criticised Islam. Silence is by far the safer and easier option.
Charles Martel says
Imagine you have a shop in the street and playing songs on a speaker and while you are at it, an iman from a loudspeaker starts giving Azan. Then a Muslim signals you to stop the music in respect of the Azan and you can’t say no because Islam is dominant and cops will arrest you if you are not killed by a mob first. This is called “respect of Islam” and this happens in every Muslim country. Even teachers who are in classrooms stop teaching when the Azan is happening. You have to hear that piece of crap whether you like it or not.
Daniel Erbstoesser says
Get used to this then it is in your country too just as it is in mine and allover our world. The islam will take over and all politicians in our world welcome this or why are they importing them or why do they let them do things like this and for all why do they support them on their anti israel crap and why do they get rights that we dont have. Answer these questions for yourself and you will know the why are they doing this to us.
Ian Haines says
If you get killed for not joining it, or get persecuted or killed for leaving it, it’s not a religion – it’s a death cult! It should be banned throughout the world!
The Tasmanian Devil says
More proof that Islam is indeed the “religion of peace.”
Actually however, it is the religion of PIECES (of bodies)!
Siddi Nasrani says
I agree with you. ” No Islam, Know Peace, Know Islam, No Peace.”
petervburrows says
She has appeared frequently with Jay Smith on Smith’s PfanderFilm You Tubes. She has also appeared with David Wood and Robert Spencer, and has her own YouTube series at DCCI Ministries. She single-handedly uncovered at least a half a dozen different Korans that were being published in the Mideast, giving a real-world lie to the “one and only” Koran. A great little lady. I love her madly.
Stop de Scourge says
The phoniest most dangerous people I have ever observed or encountered anywhere are followers of Islam. Absolute hypocrites. Educated or just pure vomit these undesirables have to be watched. Muslims most certainly are watching you. Muslim’s sick sinister rotten stinking false doctrines have to be focused on and exposed. Mainstream media get on board. Do your job.
Bugsy278 says
Hatun Tash is, by far, one of the most courageous women in England. To surround herself weekly by men who preach islamic supremacy, all while citing messages from Jesus, is a death sentence. She knows this and willfully places herself in danger. The police don’t want her “stirring the pot”, so she is on the public enemy list. The police and politicians are cowards and keep their mouths shut. They know what they’ve done to England, and don’t want to upset the masses and wind up like France, burnt and broken. They all better grow a pair, and a very LARGE pair, soon or The United Kingdom will be lost to the pages of history, akin to the Holy Roman Empire.
BareNakedIslam says
Unbelievable. Kinda like the parents who complain to school boards about indoctrination of their very young children with sexual and gender queer promotion and get labeled as “domestic terrorists” by the FBI.
Bugsy278 says
Yup. Very much alike. GB and American politics are similar when it comes to smearing and labeling the opposition. It’s a great strategy, if you like playing dirty pool. They make you feel ashamed (or try to), this way you’re embarrassed to be part of the other team.