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Hello everyone. Thank you for being here.

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I have to apologize first[br]for my very bad English.

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I think it's as good as most of you.

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I have no slides to show you.

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The only one I want[br]to show you is this one,

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because I'm going to tell you[br]what happened to my colleagues,

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and what still will happen[br]if we do nothing,

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if we just stand waiting,

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and if we don't realize[br]that we are all threatened,

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not only us, but our values,[br]our model of society.

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Let me introduce myself,[br]my name is Zineb El Rhazoui.

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I was born in Morocco,[br]to a Moroccan father and French mother.

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I grew up in Morocco in a Muslim culture,

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and I started struggling for freedom

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in 2009.

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I had a lot of problems[br]with the Moroccan regime.

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Because you know, in Morocco,[br]Islam is the religion of state.

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I had to leave Morocco after that,

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and anyway, long story short,[br]I joined Charlie Hebdo in 2011,

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and I started working with this team

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in a very jokey atmosphere,

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but defending very strong values,[br]and very simple values.

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You know, yesterday,[br]we were here for the rehearsal,

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and I was talking with Inna Shevchenko[br]from Femen, she will speak later,

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and she was telling me something,

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she was telling me, "Zineb, do you realize[br]that in that very beautiful place,

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2000 years ago, people were speaking[br]about most interesting things,

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then we will speak about tonight?"

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Because tonight, actually I want just[br]to deliver a message which is very basic.

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My message is that people[br]who make funny cartoons

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like this one,

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or who write jokes

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about power, about religion, about money,[br]about politics, about you, about me,

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they must not be killed.

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(Applause)

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Last January, I wasn't there

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when the Kouachi brothers came[br]and executed eight of my colleagues,

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and four other people in Charlie Hebdo.

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I joined France the day after,

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and today, just like[br]some of the survivors,

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I live under police protection,

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I have a very heavy[br]protocol of protection.

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It means that when I go buy bread,[br]I have bodyguards with me.

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When I am in a cafe, when I leave it,

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I find one of my bodyguards[br]standing next to the door.

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When I go to the supermarket[br]I have bodyguards with me,

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when I go reporting,[br]I have bodyguards with me.

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I live in the heart of Paris,[br]I live in this beautiful city of Paris,

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where normally people like me[br]shouldn't be protected.

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You know bodyguards normally work[br]with very important people,

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with officials, with political people,

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not with simple journalists[br]like me who write or draw.

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But you know, I'm asking myself

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why very often people who have[br]fatwas on their head like I have,

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I have to tell you first[br]about those fatwas.

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The threat started the 18th of January,

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when we issued what the media called[br]the survivors' issue,

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Luz, my colleague,[br]made this beautiful drawing,

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when you have someone who is supposed[br]to be the prophet Muhammad crying,

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and delivering a message of forgiveness,[br]and saying, "Je suis Charlie",

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of course, because it has to be funny.

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Some people, people from ISIS state,[br]the fundamentalists,

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found that was a provocation.

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And you know, their friends were just[br]killing my colleagues one week before,

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but they found this is a provocation!

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So we started receiving[br]threats from ISIS state,

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telling me, "You escaped by miracle[br]our glorious attack in Paris

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where your brothers in atheism,

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the journalists of Charlie Hebdo[br]have been killed,

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but believe us, we will not close our eyes

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before we will separate[br]your head from your body."

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In the same moment, a video[br]on YouTube was published

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by a group calling itself[br]the Anonymous Islamic Youth,

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promising to me that I am[br]condemned to death soon,

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they didn't say when but it is soon,

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and a few weeks later,

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there were two hashtags[br]on Twitter in Arabic,

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the first hashtag saying,

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"The duty to kill Zineb El Rhazoui[br]to avenge the prophet",

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and the second one saying,

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"Locate Zineb El Rhazoui to kill her".

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So there were serious attempts[br]to try to locate me in Paris,

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They also gave[br]the whole religious justification,

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why it became an obligation[br]for every single Muslim to kill me.

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They gave several methods[br]how to execute me.

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So if you don't have a bullet or a bomb,

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just isolate me somewhere,[br]break my head with big stones,

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cut my head or burn me,[br]or at least burn my house.

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So I am wondering why am I threatened?

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And also why very often[br]people who have contracts on their heads

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are usually issued[br]from the Muslim culture.

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That was the case for Salman Rushdie,[br]he was born in a Muslim family,

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Taslima Nasreen, Kamel Daoud,[br]the Algerian writer,

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Nawal El Saadawi, the Egyptian[br]feminist and writer,

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Raif Badawi who is still[br]jailed now in Saudi Arabia,

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Cheikh Ould Mâkhaitir,[br]the Mauritanian blogger

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who is condemned to death.

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All those people have[br]a contract on their head

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or are condemned to death[br]because they criticized religion.

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So I will tell you I think why.

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Because I think people like us

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are the living contradiction[br]to this smokescreen

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that the fundamentalists[br]want to put in our heads.

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If you have the same speech[br]as I have about Islam,

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I grew up in this religion,

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I studied it 16 years[br]in the Moroccan school,

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I speak Arabic, I was[br]teaching Arabic in Egypt,

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so I know what I criticize.

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But if you as Greek people, if Westerners,[br]European people say the same as me,

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they tell them,[br]"Oh, you are an Islamophobe."

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It means you are a racist,[br]so shut your mouth.

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But when people like us have this speech,[br]they cannot tell we are racist.

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They may say we are the home Arab,[br]or self hating Arab,

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I don't know but it not very serious.

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So, those people, the fundamentalists,

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in the countries where Islam[br]is the religion of state,

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where they have the power,

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in those countries,[br]if you criticize their religion,

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they just put you in jail or kill you.

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But in Europe, they have[br]no legal tool, to shut your mouth.

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So they accuse you[br]of being Islamophobe then racist.

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So let's study this notion,[br]this concept of Islamophobia.

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Why the hell when a Christian[br]criticizes his religion,

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we say he is an anticlerical.

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We don't say he is a Christianophobe.

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But when a Muslim criticizes[br]his religion, he is an Islamophobe.

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This is a question.

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Second question,

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why are we supposed[br]to consider Muslims as a race?

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And why do we consider that the Muslims

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are condemned to be ruled[br]by their own tradition?

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Aren't they capable of sharing[br]the same universal values as us?

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Why accusing those who criticize Islam[br]of being racist?

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They are just people who say,

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"Okay, we are for equality[br]between men and women,

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and we consider[br]that the whole human being

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should apply this equality.

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Why exclude the Muslims[br]from this equality?

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Why exclude them[br]from the universal values?

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Isn't that exactly racism?

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Isn't racism to say, "We as Westerners[br]want certain values for our society,

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but you know those people,

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we will understand[br]that they are doing it differently

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because you know[br]we don't want to be racist."

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This is exactly racism for me.

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And you know this Islamophobia actually,

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it is an intellectual imposture,

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which was invented, which was created[br]the first time by the Iranian Mullah,

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to shut our mouths,[br]but actually it doesn't really work.

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This word entered this year[br]the French dictionary Larousse.

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It is described as Islamophobia means

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hostility towards Islam and the Muslims.

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So here, there is a confusion

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between criticizing ideas[br]and criticizing people.

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These are two things[br]that are very different.

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And the Council of Europe also,

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adopted recently[br]this definition of Islamophobia,

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as expressing any hostile[br]or negative ideas

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toward Islam or Muslims,

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and this is considered to be racist.

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So if we consider that in countries[br]like France for instance,

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racism is not an opinion,

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racism is forbidden by the low in France.

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So if we consider that Islamophobia,[br]which is the fact to criticize Islam,

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is racism,

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you are obliged by the law[br]to have a positive opinion on Islam.

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Isn't that fascism?

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Let us consider a second notion,

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a second smokescreen

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that the fundamentalists[br]want to put on our minds

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to stop us from criticizing[br]their fundamentalism.

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You know, in the United States[br]for instance,

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I have been there recently,

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they have a new concept[br]called the safe space.

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What does the safe space mean?

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The safe space means[br]that you come to my conference,

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you pay to come to my conference,

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no one obliged you,

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but you don't agree with me, [br]so you want me to shut my mouth,

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because you don't agree with it.

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The safe space is the right[br]not to be offended.

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Okay, so if you don't want to be offended,

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either you don't come,[br]you turn off your television,

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you don't buy Charlie Hebdo,

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or you just pass your way,

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but if you come, listen to me[br]and I am able to listen to you too.

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And actually, this right[br]to not be offended doesn't exist,

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the only right that exists[br]is the right to free speech.

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Freedom of speech is a right that exists.

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(Applause)

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So what I want to say to all of you,

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we must be very aware of the techniques,

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the very complicated techniques

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used by the fundamentalists

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to change the notions,

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to put a poison in certain values[br]that were very simple,

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that are very clear,

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such as democracy, such as secularism,[br]such as freedom of speech,

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such as racism.

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Racism exists in Europe,

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but racism is not the fact[br]to criticize a religion,

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is not the fact to criticize an idea,

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racism is the fact to deprave[br]someone from his rights,

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or the fact to apply general clichés

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to people who are supposed[br]to belong to a community,

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either a religion or a race or color.

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This is racism.

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Racism is not criticizing Islam[br]or any other idea,

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because Islam is an idea,

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and Islam is a power,

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Islam is a political power

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in the country where Islam[br]is the religion of state,

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your life is ruled by Islam.

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For instance, I was born in Morocco,

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I am considered by the law as a Muslim,[br]while I am atheist actually,

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but I am obliged to be considered[br]as a Muslim by the law,

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I am condemned to be ruled by Islam,

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I am condemned to marry a Muslim man[br]even if I love a non Muslim man,

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I can't marry him,[br]it's forbidden by the law.

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I only inherent half[br]of what a man inherits,

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either, even if I pay[br]my coffee the same price,

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so why the hell don't I have the right[br]to criticize this power?

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Isn't that racism?

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Isn't that racism to say

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you were born in a culture[br]so you cannot reach the universal values.

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We all have to be aware of that,

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and we all have now to understand[br]that in this world, here in Europe,

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many events like this one[br]were canceled for security reasons,

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that there are people who speak,[br]who are threatened,

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who have their lives destroyed[br]by those threats,

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who have their lives destroyed[br]by this monster without face

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who can be everywhere,

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and who want us to stop defending

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our universal values of freedom.

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So I think that we must be aware

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that today I am threatened as a person,

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but no matter my person,[br]no matter the people,

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it is a question of values,

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and the more we are,[br]the cheaper will be the price,

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and with Charlie Hebdo we paid[br]a very very expensive price

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for our freedom of speech,

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because we were isolated,

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many people, even in France,

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didn't understand[br]what we were talking about.

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Many people said, "Okay,[br]it's not important to make those jokes,

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we can abandon those jokes,[br]and just not offend the others,

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but actually it's not a question[br]of offending the others,

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it's a question of civilization,

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and the right to blasphemy

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is exactly the boundary[br]between barbarism and civilization,

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and this is why we did it.

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Thank you.

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(Applause)