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On 7/5/2025 3:00 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
> This video includes an extended video clip of a speech by Daniel Johnson
> criticizing Islam and the Islamists who emphasize the violent rhetoric
> of the Koran and will not allow the religion to modernize.
> 
> Rant: I find YouTube channels made up of uncited video clips from
> elsewhere tiresome. I cannot tell you how important the citation is.
> 
> When was this speech made? It does not say. However, the speaker
> references an opinion piece which I found on line written March 21,
> 2013, so this speech took place perhaps a week later or so.
> 
> It puts what the speaker says into context because this was the height
> of the use of violence to intimidate speakers whose views on Islam are
> unapproved. We're talking about attempted murder here.
> 
> The speaker knew several such people at the time.
> 
> I think we've forgotten how bad this period was in the UK.
> 
> He also discusses an Islamic scholar who was head of a studies program
> forced out and replaced with a far more doctrinaire Islamic scholar who
> teaches the use of violence in Islam.
> 
> It made me laugh when he pointed out the willingness of Christianity to
> change and evolve, what with the Church reversing the doctrine in which
> all Jews were blamed as Christ killers starting in the 12th century
> "within my lifetime". Hahahahaha. If we wait enough centuries, progress!
> 
> The speech by Daniel Johnson is presented in its entirety; the YouTuber
> makes comments at the end.
> 
> Daniel Johnson EVISCERATES Medhi Hasan With The Truth About Islam
> (Muslim Crowd Stunned)
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbQOTpuHMM8
> 
> The article I mentioned was this:
> 
> The Sorry Truth Is That the Virus of Anti-Semitism Has Infected the
> British Muslim Community
> 
> It pains me to have to admit this but anti-Semitism isn't just tolerated
> in some sections of the British Muslim community; it's routine and
> commonplace. Any Muslims reading this article - if they are honest with
> themselves - will know instantly what I am referring to. It's our dirty
> little secret. You could call it the banality of Muslim anti-Semitism.
> 
> By Mehdi Hasan
> Al Jazeera English Presenter
> HUFFPOSt
> 21/03/2013 05:32am GMT
> https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/mehdi-hasan/anti-semitism-british-muslim-community_b_2922013.html

"Modernizing" religion flies in the face of its rationale.  Religion is 
about faith and tradition, not vogue.