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| Before today, Lowles was suggesting that they 'deserved it'. |
labelling anybody who criticises Islam as a racist or fascist, HnH director Nick Lowles today offered a message of 'solidarity' with the journalists killed at French magazine 'Charlie Hebdo'.
It is reported that the journalists were at an editorial meeting for a special edition due to be called 'Sharia Hebdo', something which before today Lowles would have called them Nazis for.
Lowles 'solidarity' overlooks his comments in 2012, when he attacked the pubishers of Charlie Hebdo as 'counter-jihadists' & 'Muslim haters' and complained of their publication of cartoons. His conversion to the cause of free speech has come rather late for the dead journalists. In case he forgets what he wrote, he said:
"The so-called 'Counter-Jihadists' (real definition ‘Muslim haters’) know full well that an incendiary video, poster, cartoon or burning will create a reaction from extremists across the world. ...... last week there was the Innocence of Muslims video. This week we have a French satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo, publishing obscene cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. Next week we will have Pam Geller's outrageous "savage" posters.... These Muslim haters...."
He then goes on to say that people like those at Charlie Hebdo are 'asking for it' -
"These Muslim haters know that any stupid stunt is going to cause a reaction, and probably a violent one at that.... The Muslim haters know that the images of Islamists attacking buildings and murdering people only reinforce the view of some that Islam is a violent and intolerant religion...."
We don't normally link to Hope not Hate, but the article can be found here - read it quick before they edit it.
And so today's statement comes as something of a shocking volte-face for Lowles when he now states
We wonder what it will take for Lowles and his motley crew of apologists for radical Islam to grasp that the beliefs of the fundamentalists are directly opposed to the basic liberties we all enjoy in the West, and that labelling people who point this out as 'fascist' and 'racist' is not only counter-productive, but lends a spurious support to the radicals who use Lowles words to justify their continued radicalisation of western congregations.
Meanwhile, on Twitter, Lowles is desperately denying that he said what he clearly did -
Which can be compared with the quote from his article above. Lowles and the truth remain strangers. We feel obliged to repeat his own words - does it sound like he's 'clearly talking about the people behind the Innocence of Muslims film' to you? No, us neither:
"The so-called 'Counter-Jihadists' (real definition ‘Muslim haters’) know full well that an incendiary video, poster, cartoon or burning will create a reaction from extremists across the world. ...... Last week there was the Innocence of Muslims video. This week we have a French satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo, publishing obscene cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. Next week we will have Pam Geller's outrageous "savage" posters.... These Muslim haters...."
