Mohammed Hijab – Sargon of Akkad Challenged by Muslim on Freedom of Speech

			Now I'll give you a few examples of that freedom of speech. I've heard Sargon of akkad say that he's
a freedom of speech absolutist. And I would say that's a ridiculous position to hold. It simply is a
ridiculous position to hold. The reason why is because if you say, if you're an absolutist, what
absolute indicates that you actually would you endorse something like for example, someone revealing
the secrets and these are the classical examples of a poison gas and you poison gas, putting it on
the internet? Or let's even say, what about child *? Because freedom of speech and freedom
of expression are sometimes interchangeable. What about for instance?
		

			What about for instance? I mean, we just saw a kid walking by now. What if someone in a school
context was racist to a child? And it was bullying a child using freedom of speech is that guys,
most people in society say that's not acceptable.
		

			Try it out. So Jordan Peterson, I wouldn't say I wouldn't evolve over and over in this side of
things that you've got people with, you know, people that you can label as the right wing whether or
not you call it far right. You know, however, that's your choice. But right wing nationalists have
latched on to that.
		

			There's always been a kind of a protectionist and nationalist stance. Yeah, using freedom of speech,
because it's a it's a hot topic, and you always use that to legitimize. Absolutely. And everyone
knows, every democratic civilized
		

			society has certain limits, like for example, libel, plagiarism, copyright, trademarking, all of
these are all embedded in the social infrastructure and, and to be honest with you, they haven't
tackled that. They're talking freedom of speech, freedom of speech, the kind of freedom of speech
Jordan Peterson talks about is the one is a kind of freedom of speech that leads to the pursuit of
truth to kind of finish speech that JJ Snell talks about. But that kind of freedom of speech is
different to the kind of freedom the the absolute freedom of speech, potentially that Sargon of
akkad is all about. The point being is that they use these slogans, these post enlightenment
		

			dogmatic slogans and aren't saying just because the chromatic it's wrong, but these are slogans, in
order to kind of preach to the choir, as it were, in my opinion, the western choir, they have
already accepted the democratic principle that there are no disadvantages or that democratic
democracy or liberalism is an ultimate truth of some sorts, or, you know, the ideal philosophy that
we should be living by.
		

			And they're preaching to that particular quiet.
		

			* yeah. So that's why the point being is what needs to be challenged is the presuppositions. Now
when we have a discussion, and they ask to be frank, we have to look out for example, those guys
I've mentioned those two, because they're quite popular, but also because they're quite critical of
Islam. I started off by saying that their criticism of STEM is valid. For more on what premise on
the premise that they accept philosophical liberalism as a truth. For example,