Isaac Butterfield's controversial joke on the Christchurch massacre | Mufti Abu Layth

right i wanted to say there was a clip let me cover this clip this australian comedian i don't know if you guys have seen this um it was to do with g'day ladies and gentlemen the batsman here i made a horrible joke and this is my response to what everyone is saying right now i woke up this morning and i walked downstairs patted my pooches and went to make a coffee and that's when i read i made a very big mistake in reading my dms ladies and gentlemen i spent the first part of the morning learning that i'm appalling i'm a racist

dog i'm an insensitive distasteful human being someone said let's bash this dog let's find him let's stab him i'm abhorrent i'm shameful disgusting islamophobic i'm a low-life mangy dog you wouldn't do that joke in lucemba would you no here's another reason that white slavery needs to be reintroduced i hope you die of cancer i'm going to rape you i want to rape your mother you piece of [ __ ] you putra dog you insensitive prick you brain dead wanker someone said this is why god burns australia with fire someone said may god destroy you and that was it oh wait no it wasn't i hope your daughter gets raped jesus christ what have i done this time ladies and gentlemen it would appear

that your old butts man is in a little bit of hot water and a lot of people would argue rightfully so you see particularly muslim people are very very upset at an insensitive joke that i made in my recent comedy special anti-hero it's a joke that i was telling probably 12 months prior to that being taped key word there is it is a joke it is not real it is make believe i don't really feel like that but that is what comedy is it is people going on a stage and telling people jokes now i know the stand up you you may be used to is just little jokes about the train and the tram no that is not the stand up i enjoy i

enjoy the jim jeffries of the world the jimmy cars of the world the frankie boyles of the world the ricky gervais of the world was the joke rude horrible mean offensive yes and that is the point it was a joke that i made about the horrific christchurch massacre that unfortunately happened in new zealand in 2019 when the darkest days in that town's history and from someone who's been there they've had a lot of dark history and it's really affected that particular area of new zealand and for those of you wondering what the joke was this was it this was posted by several muslim instagram pages and twitter pages

this australian extremists stormed this building this mosque this room where people were saying their prayers and going about their business and for me the saddest thing about that it wasn't the 52 people who were killed it wasn't the countless others who had their lives changed forever because their family members were taken from them it was the hundreds of people that night who couldn't make it home from nightclubs in christchurch because all the cabbies were dead

so people there was this huge hoo-ha about this comedian now to be honest i don't know who this comedian was i saw you know muslim twitter and all these kind of things blowing up and i thought okay what's this people sent it to me i had a watch i watched his clip that that i've just played there and to be honest with you look i okay these are my thoughts here i feel i feel that humor is sacred okay so you you can comment you can crack jokes i feel about

anything anything i literally do feel that people that people humor has a sacrosanct right to it that people cannot make you censor humor yes i may hate that joke you have the right to hate it i may hate it uh there may be some jokes i totally don't find funny but it doesn't allow me to say because i'm offended you can't say it i do advocate for the primacy of freedom of speech because you see you see this is a very

slippery slope trying to censor speech because if you censor jokes then tomorrow oh you can't critique this oh no that's you know that's forbidden that's forbidden that offends me this offense everything you say will offend somebody you know it's not oh there's a great likelihood that everything you say will offend somebody in the world you may just have a different outlook on life i could say i like apples and i was gonna speak about uh i was gonna also i'll bring up this uh very briefly um

this indian matchmaking and i don't know if you remember in this was the character aparna [Laughter] and she you see there's a prime example just to bring her in there that you know the person could say anything and she just hated it he's like oh i love humor she's like oh i hate humor he's like oh i like going to dubai oh i hate dubai [Laughter] it's like you see they could you could say anything oh i like apples oh i hate apples

you know somebody out there will probably hate what you said and they've offend you've offended them you know you could be like you know i love that woman and somebody somebody out there who's gay is like oh that's disgusting how could a man love a woman it could be i mean you could offend anybody with so there could be people out there that have got whatever we have to always allow people to express themselves even if we don't like it let it be you know and to be honest with you the

the freedom of speech that was expressed by those comments that he read out is so despicable some of it this goes to show you know and i i have to say this this whole thing oh may this is why australia is punished i mean you talk about bloody collective guilt you just hahaha this is why australia has bush fires i mean people die in those bushfires hahahaha this is so it's okay for you you know this is the irony it's okay for you to make to say that i hope you get cancer and die wha why okay fair enough you've said it out of

anger but i would like to rape you i mean okay that was a a bit of ingenuity there bloody hell talk about the hateful muslim fulfilling his own fantasy it's like gay rape and he's so this i i would like to what is it your daughter getting raped i mean what the hell is wrong with people his mother getting i mean

and why and how is that okay to be said and what he's saying not okay to be said so i i wanted to say that that look as muslims we do honor freedom of speech we honor that because the kalimatu the oneness of allah when expressed by the prophet was done on the grounds of freedom of speech with the right to offend so the prophet when he preached though he knew that this speech of his will offend

the quran will offend the mushrikeen the pagans but it was done on the on the premise that people have the right to speak their minds with the right to offend if that will offend it's not an outright it wasn't people can judge intentions it wasn't meant to be insulting it's not meant to like jokes are not meant to be insulting they're meant to be funny so but they can offend so that's uh and i do i'm a keen advocate for that that we can't censor jokes even about the most horrible of things

i feel that we have to still joke should always be allowed to be said um