Get used to it, Ricky. The British intelligentsia has sold you out. The British intelligentsia has betrayed Britain as a free society for fear of being called “racist.” If you speak out against this too much now, you’ll be targeted as an “Islamophobe” and your career will be ruined. Fall into line behind the others, there’s a good lad.
“Ricky Gervais appears to react to Prophet Muhammad cartoon row: ‘It’s 2021 for f***’s sake,’” by Roisin O’Connor, Independent, March 27, 2021:
Ricky Gervais has apparently chimed in on the row over a school teacher who showed his class a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad.
Batley Grammy [sic] School in West Yorkshire became the subject of protests after children were shown the cartoon, with parents complaining that the image was taken from the French satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo.
The teacher in question has been suspended and has since apologised, while the school also offered an “unequivocal” apology.
The incident has prompted a row between protestors accusing the teacher of Islamophobia and those who claim the incident is a case of free speech and “censorship” in the classroom.
Gervais appeared to share his view on Friday (26 March), tweeting: “Blasphemy? F***ing Blasphemy? It’s 2021 for f***s sake. What next? People being punished for insulting unicorns?”
The comedian has been a vocal campaigner for free speech for years, telling Fox News in an interview last year that people being offended was “the lesser of two evils”.
Crowds of people, many wearing masks, were seen outside the gates of the school on Friday morning, with police also at the scene.
Demonstrators – about 30 men and teenagers – said they had gathered outside the school for a second day running “to show the country Islamophobia won’t be tolerated”, saying that the image is “so offensive” to them….
gravenimage says
Ricky Gervais on Muhammad cartoon controversy: ‘Blasphemy? F***ing Blasphemy? It’s 2021 for f***s sake.’
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Bravo Ricky Gervais!
Wellington says
Seconded.
jim says
one more for +1 a Brit with kahunas at last
Westman says
No religion has done a better job of sustaining ignorance than Islam – Flying horse, the sun setting in the mire, flat earth, jinns (genies), and Jannah “virgins” who only wait to please the un-extinguishable lust of martyrs.
Just try writing some dialog that might occur between said “virgins” without laughing…
mortimer says
Rick Gervais is walking on thin ice.
Your congratulations to Rick may be short-lived when the Leftards go after him.
I predict he is soon to be cancelled as they just cancelled Sharon Osborne for sticking up for her good friend Piers Morgan who was also cancelled for sticking up for the Royal Family from slander.
Sharon Osborne Exiting The Talk with a Payout Up to $10 Million Dollars
https://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/120410401.html
Anyone with slightly conservative values will be cancelled by these fanatical neo-Stalinists.
Gervais doesn’t understand that Muslims are a PROTECTED VICTIM GROUP and they may never be criticized according to the Left.
Doesn’t Gervais know??? … even when Muslims commit mass murders … it is the fault of white male conservatives.
If a tree falls in the forest and no one sees it, obviously, a gun-toting, Bible-loving American conservative is guilty.
gravenimage says
Mortimer, if enough people speak the truth it will be impossible to cancel them all.
And he is speaking up for this teacher who has had to go intyo hiding and for freedom of speech. I am glad to see it.
You wouldn’t really prefer that eveyone abandon this teacher, would you?
Çc says
Valid point. All this dirt is being sustained with the support of non-islamic people only. If all of us or most of us would stand against it, it would have impact.
gravenimage says
Thank you, Çc.
And are you new here? If so, welcome!
mortimer says
Dear GI, the wokesters are taking us all down one by one. That is my point.
They took down the POTUS! Do you think they can’t take down anyone else. They are just getting warmed up.
Speaking out is EXACTLY what they will deplatform.
gravenimage says
Mortimer, this hasn’t silenced Robert Spencer–he still courageously speaks out. If enough of us are brave, we will prevail in saving freedom of speech. If all of us shut up, we are already lost.
Eleanor says
Of course he knows mortimer, that’s why he says it. Good for him.
mortimer says
Does he know that Big Tech can take him down in seconds? That is my point.
EVERYONE knows that if you criticize Islam, you will be killed.
Lion heart says
?? even if the toilet of any Muslim house is broken , Muslims will blame it on America ??
william says
Mortimer. I believe both Morgan and Osborne walked off their respective shows. They were not ‘cancelled’ However at $10million a go, I would be happy to get cancelled at that price. Osborne whose main claim to ‘fame; is being married to a worn out rock star, is quite old so she can live very comfortably on $10 mill. for the remainder of her life!
mortimer says
Who’s next to be cancelled?
william says
Hear hear
Manuele Lui says
BRAVO RICKY BRAVO TICKY BRAO
tim gallagher says
Well said, Ricky Gervais. Talking about unicorns in relation to this outdated Muslim blasphemy bullshit is a good line. The Muslim hordes will, no doubt, now come after Gervais. But what he is saying about this blasphemy crap and the Muhamamd cartoon is what I think about every aspect of Islam, this way out of date ideology. How about marrying off very young girls, how about honour killings, FGM and killing gays and murdering non-believers in islam. Everything about islam is backward rubbish and none of it belongs in 2021. So I’d say, “All this fucking primitive crap that makes up Islam. It’s 2021 for fuck’s sake.” Islam should have gone ages ago. It should have gone the way of the dodo.
Wellington says
Seconded, tim gallagher, with the “qualifier” that I would infinitely prefer the dodo still around than Islam. Besides, the dodo made more sense.
gravenimage says
Yes–the problem with the dodo was that it had no natural enemies and so would walk right up to hunters.
Sounds more like the clueless victims of Islam than the Jihadists threatening them.
Wellington says
Tons of clueless human dodos out there, gravenimage. Huge amounts. Joe Biden is one of them—even when he was in his “prime.”
tim gallagher says
gravenimage, I didn’t know that about the dodo, the poor, gullible creature. I was going to write dinosaurs instead of the dodo. The Tyrannosuarus Rex, ferocious critter, would resemble Islam. One day Islam will go the way of the old Aztec religious ideology. That might be a better way to put it. Wellington, the dodo sounds like a nice creature. As someone who, in general, tends to like animals, mainly cats and dogs but other animals as well, more than I like most human beings, I much prefer the poor dodo to Islam. And,as you say, it made more sense than Islam, but almost everything does.
gravenimage says
Oh, that’s OK, Tim. I wasn’t trying to give you a hard time–and I knew what you meant.
tim gallagher says
gravenimage, that was interesting information about the dodo and how it became extinct. The only thing that I knew about the dodo was the saying, such and such is as “dead as a dodo”. You’re right about the parallel between the dodo and all those gullible people who get around believing that Islam isn’t out to get them.
mortimer says
Reply to TG:
Islam is allegedly ‘ETERNAL, COMPLETE and PERFECT’ so your challenge to Islam is water off a duck’s back.
TG is a ‘blasphemer’. The Left wants to stop you from saying all the things you typed above.
gravenimage says
It is important that we stand for our own values–especially in our own lands.
tim gallagher says
I agree with you, gravenimage, about standing up for our values and they are the polar opposite to the backward, barbaric crap that Islam is composed of. mortimer, you are right. I am definitely, without the slightest doubt, a totally blasphemous person when it comes to islam, mortimer.I suppose most of us who comment here at Jihad Watch are. I suspect that all Christians should be and I am a Christian, which I believe is the opposite of Islam. My reaction to Islam is that it is a terribly primitive and downright evil ideology, which trashes almost all basic human rights. All of Islam’s ideas about the ways that human being should interact are wrong and barbaric. That is my constant reaction to Islam and its view of life. I have heard that Islam has this view that it is the perfect and unalterable and final revelation from god. I imagine a lot of past, and now extinct, ideologies felt the same way about their evil bullshit, such as the Aztec religion’s followers. I truly hope that that happens to Islam one day, because if Islam does prevail, with all its primitive, horrendous garbage, life on earth will be hell for everybody. I imagine that it is true that many Muslims would think that any criticism of Islam is like “water off a duck’s back”, but, if enough people do wake up, like, say, those wise Hungarians, our countries will slam the door on Muslims, and that is what I would love to see happen one day.
john smith says
I also like the dodo parallel Tim, I will be using that one in future.
tim gallagher says
Yes, John, it is a very good parallel. The people in our societies who (unbelievably after the almost 40,000 Muslim terrorist attacks since the 9/11 attacks – such slow learners!!) can’t see the danger that islam presents are, like the dodo, unable to do the things that need to be done to defend themselves from the Muslim enemy.
gregbeetham says
I hate to say this but natural selection would state that those who possess the attributes to survive will survive; those that don’t have the necessary attributes to overcome threats to survival will perish.
Which is going to be which when natural selection chooses between Muslims or us?
Do we have what it takes?
tim gallagher says
Good point, gregbeetham. Islam’s war to impose Islam on all the people of the world has been going on for 1400 years and they are said to have slaughtered 270 million people in their evil attempt to take over. I don’t know who is winning, but I am sure that huge numbers of people in our western countries have not woken up to islam’s evil nature, so I guess that there has to be a chance that islam might win this long running war and, in my opinion, life would hell on earth if Islam won and we all had live the barbaric Muslim lifestyle. As you say, “Do we have what it takes?” I keep hoping enough people will wake up and we will slam the door on Islam and let all Muslims rot away in their own primitive, backward Muslim countries. That seems a long way off though
gravenimage says
+1
unbeliever1 says
Speaking of Islamic being stuck in a time warp. There is a video on youtube of two hijab-clad sisters performing a hip-hop song and dancing. I’m sure which country they live in, but the comments from their fellow Muslims are not complimentary. These two sisters may have to seek refuge soon.
https://youtu.be/Dcoj7R53hSE
unbeliever1 says
Correction: Speaking of Islam being stuck———-
gravenimage says
Pious Muslims hate all happiness and joy.
tgusa says
Some things never change and they do get worse.
The the nineteenth and early twentieth century temperance movement was an organized effort to limit or outlaw the consumption and production of alcoholic beverages. The new temperance movement is an organized effort to limit or outlaw the consumption and production of anything and everything throughout history.
I suspect that we may be living in a time warp, an alternate reality, and it is really not the 21st century at all.
livingengine says
CAIR and Samuel Paty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wuDb2Z-810
gravenimage says
Thanks for that link.
Christopher Watson Watson says
Thanks for the link. The only words that man used which were not lies were ‘if’ and ‘but’. The French did not murder ‘millions’ and certainly decapitated no-one. The French took Morocco and Algeria because they were attacking French vessels in the Mediterranean. They spent billions of Francs trying to make those 2 countries into successful commercial states. They also took in millions of Algerians who have become a serious security problem.
gravenimage says
Very true, Christopher.
JOEYN says
Wow! I have become a big fan of Ricky Gervais. Keep it up Ricky Gervais.
mortimer says
Gervais is awakening to the threat of Islam to comics like himself. If the comics don’t defend free speech, they know there will be no more jokes.
Michael Copeland says
xpressing their strength in aggressive and menacing crowds,
They threaten and drive our people out of the towns,
From “Here and Round Us”
https://gatesofvienna.net/2021/02/here-and-round-us/
tedh754 says
Satan’s 2nd greatest trick: Convincing the world that Islam is a race.
mortimer says
Note: the teacher dismissed from the Batley Grammar School in West Yorkshire is now TERRIFIED for his life because MUSLIM VIGILANTES will be looking for him.
This is what the UK has brought into its bosom MUSLIM VIGILANTES who will gladly hunt and kill blasphemers.
gravenimage says
Grimly true.
JohnTheRevelator says
Cowardice ultimately leads to your nation’s slavery and death. Muslims learned that all you have to do is pretend to be outraged, scream a lot, make threats, kill some people and the Brits will back down-every single time. But it’s not just the UK to be fair, practically all western nations have decided to self-censor and bow to the demands of Islamic thugs, savages and terrorists.
At least with a celebrity like Gervais inserting himself into this conflict, it will hopefully cast a wider spotlight on this worsening issue. What’s needed is for strong Brits and westerners to stand up for freedom and demand that Muslims are sent back to their Sharia hell-holes instead of forcing Islam on the rest of us.
We need to draw a line. Finally put your foot down and say ‘no’ to Muslims. Then sit back and watch how many of these vermin are ready to fight/kill/die for their beliefs. That’s when the real battle against Islam will start. Until then we’re on a slippery slope to Islamification, not just in the UK but in most western nations.
Andrew Blackadder says
So, if I tell a muslim fellow that I believe his religion is very violent and he then turns around and attacks me very violently for saying this, then is he being a good muslim for doing so ?.
I have read the Quran, I have been in 6 islamic Nations, even lived in one, Ive had a muslim girlfriend, who was not so “very” muslim but still called herself one, so, if I disagree with what is written in their big Book then does that automatically make me an evil person, racist,Islamophobic,fascist or a thinking person..
I can tell Christians, if they ask me, that I do not believe in the words in their Bible, they may react by saying they will pray for me, but they most certainly will not attack me….
Big difference there eh?.
These are not trick questions…
nameless coward says
Ricky Gervais is a Labour voter. He voted for Jeremy Corbyn “for f***’s sake”.
politically correct = woke
woke = politically correct
gravenimage says
No one said that Gervais is ideal–just that he stood up for freedom of speech in this case.
OTTER says
Notice that even those who defend the teacher, talk in general terms. Nobody has said:” we have a right to portray Mo as we see him, even make his the object of the most savage satire. “
The most important imperative of our times is to mock and criticise Mohammed, Islam and Muslims. Laugh at Islam or die a civilisational death.
gravenimage says
Yes–Islam should be regularly mocked.
JohnTheRevelator says
I concur Otter/Graven,
Laughing at/mocking Islam/Muslims is a form of taking our power back. It’s saying that we don’t buy the crap you’re selling and we’re not intimidated by your bullying and threats.
Muslims want to see us cowering on our knees, the way some Leftists and politicians already are. It makes their job of conquering us that much easier. So clearly if we want them to lose, we need to fight back in every way possible, including humor.
Mind you I’m not encouraging insults to demean innocent people, but rather as a tactic to oppose tyrants, bullies, thugs and to stand for freedom and our way of life. Such an evil, demented death cult as Islam deserves to be laughed at, until it ceased to exist.
gravenimage says
Agreed, John!
Karen says
Not only is important to stand up for free speech rights to mock and criticize Islam (and all religions) it’s important to spread the word that Mohammad never existed outside of Islamic books, nor his tribe nor the city of Mecca. The Standard Islamic Narrative is a work of fiction, a fable. Islam is the greatest fraud the world has ever seen.
livepeanuts says
If Islam and Moslems are beyong criticism what are they doing here? Why do they need to come to Christian countries?
These people publish very offensive ideas against our Queen, Country and Culture and what should be done to those who don’t practice their evil cult.
WE TOLERATE publications of this cult on our soil. We need to demand the destruction of the evil publications offensive to our Kingdom and our freedom.
Their evil politician/ prophet publishes terrible things should happen to those rejecting the evil beliefs of his cult.
Our reply is only a cartoon of the evil politician.
It is NOT TOLERATED!
Whose country is this?
Whose Law has sovereignty in the UK? A country can have only one LAW and a country is defined by its LAW
These people think they have freedom to preach and teach terrible concepts against us and expect to have no criticism?
These are invaders not immigrants, they bring their law for us to observe. Who in hell do they think they and their “prophet” politician are?
gravenimage says
If Islam and Moslems are beyong criticism what are they doing here? Why do they need to come to Christian countries?
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They are here to conquer us and impose Islamic law.
Dave Coleman says
When I taught high school art, the first Everybody Draw Muhammad Day was proposed. I assigned my class to draw a picture of Muhammad (while allowing an alternative) and everyone did it (in oil pastels as I recall) and they were all posted on a hallway bulletin board. No one said a word about it.
gravenimage says
Wow, Dave! Where were you teaching?
Proud Islamophobe says
I’m glad he said it about islam, however there IS such a thing as blasphemy against G-d, and all the evil that goes on today isn’t excused as acceptable just because of the place in time we’re in. That’s just stupid.