Following is the comment from Uthman Badar's facebook page - a w ell renowned writer, activist & media representative of Hizb-ut-tahrir Australia: 1. It’s important to judge the provocation and reaction together, separately and in context. Together, because one leads, in part at least, to the other. In context, because neither arise in a vacuum. And separately, in the sense that the justification or otherwise of one does not mean the other is likewise; there is world of understanding and explanation beyond the shallow realm of mere justification or condemnation. Those who stifle discussions of context, by charging those who bring these up with being apologists for terrorism, are in fact themselves the apologists because what they seek to hide exposes a much greater, systematic, persistent terror – the terror of states. 2. All this "we stand for free speech" talk, in this context, actually means "we stand for freedom to insult". This is because the
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