{"id":590,"date":"2006-03-23T23:34:32","date_gmt":"2006-03-23T22:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2006\/03\/23\/phobewatch_free_speech_march_leader_back-tracks"},"modified":"2025-10-10T21:51:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T20:51:02","slug":"phobewatch_free_speech_march_leader_back-tracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2006\/03\/23\/phobewatch_free_speech_march_leader_back-tracks","title":{"rendered":"PhobeWatch: Free Speech march leader back-tracks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Sullivan at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.islamophobia-watch.com\/islamophobia-watch\/2006\/3\/23\/no-danish-cartoons-please-appeal-from-protest-organiser.html\">Islamophobia Watch<\/a> notes that the organiser of the upcoming &quot;March for Free Expression&quot; <a href=\"http:\/\/marchforfreeexpression.blogspot.com\/2006\/03\/muslims-are-welcome-no-danish-cartoons.html\">has backtracked<\/a> on his earlier enthusiasm for his followers to bring placards bearing copies of the Danish cartoons &#8211; and has removed the adverts for T-shirts with anti-Islam slogans from the site also.  It&#39;s noted that some of his followers are a bit miffed:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&quot;This is surely what the march is about. By restricting the free speech of the protestors you will play into the hands of Islamophobia Watch&#8230;&quot; . &quot;I&#39;m hugely disappointed by this. You&#39;ve done exactly what the censors want. I&#39;m really not sure I&#39;ll bother coming along now, to be honest, and I&#39;m guessing plenty of other people who have supported this campaign feel the same. I donated money to this campaign in good faith, and right now this feels like a betrayal of that faith. Will you be reimbursing people?&quot; &#8230; &quot;I am incredibly disappointed by this \u2013 it is nothing but dhimmitude.&quot; &#8230; &quot;What a bunch of wimps. You have obviously caved in to the Islamic pressure groups and the Mayor of Londinistan. Another victory for Sharia law and another defeat for Liberty.&quot;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sullivan predicts an appearance for the organiser, Peter Ridson, on <em>Dhimmi Watch<\/em>.  Personally, I&#39;m wondering what made him change his mind.  (<strong>Update 25th March:<\/strong> the appearance on Dhimmi Watch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jihadwatch.org\/dhimmiwatch\/archives\/010720.php\">has happened<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Sullivan at Islamophobia Watch notes that the organiser of the upcoming &quot;March for Free Expression&quot; has backtracked on his earlier enthusiasm for his followers to bring placards bearing copies of the Danish cartoons&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-danish_cartoons"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-9w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42525,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions\/42525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}