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Pope Leo Calls Out "Orwellian" Censorship as the UK & Australia Attack Free Speech
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Based Pope Leo is at it again, giving the metaphorical middle finger to a lot of these government leaders that are trying to throw you right to jail right away for all of your hate speech. The uk, Australia, Canada, Iran, it is all out of control all over the world. And the punishments that these government leaders are coming up with for the crime of speaking your mind are getting crazier by the day. But if we're serious about fighting for human dignity and it has to be rooted in our ability to freely speak our mind. Breaking all of it down today, featuring some of the greatest bikini memes you'll ever see in your life here on the Isabel Brown Show. All eyes this week have been on Iran as tens of thousands of people are being slaughtered by their own government for the crime of, of speaking their mind. And the more we are recentering ourselves on what it means to revive the west, to rebuild the American dream and to fight for legitimate human rights. I think it's really important that we zoom back in today on the importance of free speech as the baseline for human liberty, for human dignity and human rights around the world. But it is a wild week around the world for free speech. So we're covering all of it today here on the Isabel Brown Show. Just a couple of days ago, super based Pope Leo, who we love, I will not tolerate any Pope Leo slander around here because he has been absolutely fantastic, made international news the last couple of days by having a public address to diplomats visiting the Vatican from all over Europe. And he specifically addressed government leaders from European countries calling for an end to Orwellian anti free speech laws. That's a really interesting word that was used by the Pope. Someone has been doing his homework in reading animal farm in 1984 and all of the Amazing George Orwell literature out there as a warning to the west of what happens when the government becomes too powerful and tries to institute groupthink, tries to censor you, tries to silence you and change society from the inside out as a result. Here is what the Pope had to say on January 9th to European leaders from all over the continent.
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It is painful to see how, especially in the west, the space for genuine freedom of expression is rapidly shrinking. At the same time, a new Orwellian style language is developing, which in an attempt to be increasingly inclusive, ends up excluding those who do not conform to the ideologies that are fueling it.
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Oh, could not have said that better myself. I love this Pope. In an attempt to be more inclusive, ironically, all of your speech policing has actually become wildly exclusive to Those who are in dissent with the people policing speech. Oh, fire flames coming out of the Vatican in Rome this week. And this was part of a much larger address about all kinds of issues related to Catholic social teaching. Pope Leo talked about abortion. He talked about the danger of surrogacy in basically diminishing human value to be a commodity that we buy and sell in a marketplace which is completely antithetical to what we believe in as Christians. But I thought it was really interesting that when addressing European leaders, he was so specific to address Orwellian anti free speech laws, which is the perfect description of what's happening in the UK and all over the European Union, but also all over the world. We're seeing a lot of these same proposals over the last few years here in the United States. Australia has been a horrible perpetrator against freedom of speech. Canada is joining forces with the UK this week to try to ban X, perhaps the most important free speech platform on the Internet. But from a religious perspective, from a Christian perspective, the Church is once again reinvesting in the importance of freedom of expression as a baseline for human dignity and human rights. The Telegraph wrote a really interesting piece about this, zooming in on what the Pope is saying. Their headline was extremely telling. Pope Leo Free speech is under attack in the West. Pontiff claims democracies are becoming increasingly authoritarian by clamping down on freedom of conscience. I rarely will ever give credit to the Telegraph for anything because they spew the most blatant state sponsored propaganda I've really ever seen in Western society. But freedom of conscience is a powerful way to phrase that because there's no mistake as to why Pope Leo is invoking George Orwell and talking about a lot of these laws. He calls it Orwellian style language. It's because the state in the uk, in the eu, in Canada, in Australia, in so many of these Western countries is trying not only to shape what you say, but as we know from George Orwell, to shape what you think, what you believe, to shape your very conscience, the inner voice in your own head that tells you you should or shouldn't fight for something, that tells you you should or shouldn't speak up for something. It's the group think concept that's becoming so very dangerous in our society that not only is blatantly censoring people from an external policy perspective, from our elected officials, from the government, from these platforms that we use every day, but, but also is encouraging self censorship has changed our culture to the point that people do not feel the internal freedom to fight back when our human dignity is being degraded upon by our government officials. They talk specifically in this piece from the Telegraph about Pope Francis, which I also found really fascinating. People had their issues with Pope Francis, don't get me wrong, I disagreed with him on a whole host of things, but on this. This was particularly interesting. In his final address to the diplomatic corps last year, Pope Francis, addressing this exact same group, claimed that cancel culture had been used to abolish traditions and shut down debates on issues like abortion. Here's what he said just a few months before his death. It represents a form of genuine ideological colonization that. That attempts, in accordance with carefully planned agendas, to uproot the traditions, history and religious bonds of peoples. A carefully planned agenda to uproot the traditions, history and religion of the west, which, point blank, verbatim, is exactly what people across Western civilization are experiencing right now before our very eyes. We're gonna go through a couple of examples of what that has looked like this week, one in the UK and one in Australia. But I think it's important that we keep talking about this and we keep zooming in on this issue, not just when it affects our freedom of speech in America, but across Western civilization. Because without the baseline foundation of the most basic human rights, the rights to life, which we'll talk a whole lot about next week with the March for life coming to D.C. the rights to liberty, which circulates largely around our liberty to speak freely, to make up our own mind, to challenge those in power, and the rights to our pursuit of happiness. The west does not exist without these rights. These are the things that we must constantly pick up the torch to fight for every single day. The things that are always, never more than one generation away from extinction. And if we don't dedicate our lives to these causes, will disappear instantaneously, which we were on the brink of very, very, very dangerously here in America by the grace of God last November, did not go full blown into insanity. And the complete eradication of free speech that I was warning about so, so loudly under a potential Kamala Harris presidency. But sadly, other countries across the west have not fared out as well as we have. So if we are serious about reviving Western civilization, if we are serious about a true renaissance of human rights, of human flourishing, of human dignity, it has to be based in our freedom to express our innermost beliefs, our freedom to fight back, and to borrow this phrase from Pope Francis, the late Pope Francis, our freedom to fight back against the carefully planned agenda, to uproot the traditions History and religious bonds of people. One of these agendas very clearly unfolding throughout the west this week is the desperate, pathetic attempt by the United Kingdom to ban X across the UK under the guise of safety or protecting women and children or. Or public decency at large. You guys heard me mention this a couple of days ago when we were talking specifically about Iran. But Keir Starmer, the PM of the uk, is under extreme international backlash this week because they have announced a huge investigation into X as a platform based on the AI capabilities of X. And they claim that their new push to ban X in the uk, which now Australia and Canada have joined the fight around, was about basically bikini pictures, that this was about decency. And these AI platforms, like GROK specifically, are so bad for public society, they're so bad for an enlightened culture, they're so bad for women and girls because you can allegedly prompt GROK to create non consensual explicit sexual images. Of course, Elon Musk came out this week and said, I'm not aware of a single nude photo that has ever been generated by grok, if that exists. We would of course take ownership of that and take leadership to make sure that that wasn't happening on our platform. But memeing somebody in a bikini is not the same as creating a nude or non consensual sexual image of a child especially, but of women and girls at large. What Keir Starmer really seems to be mad about this week is that Brits are using X to carte blanche, criticize the UK government, as they should, because do we need a refresher of how bad the UK has gotten over the past few years? I mean, for Lord's sake, we're talking about elected officials that will literally cover their eyes, cover their ears, cover their mouth, like the monkey memes about grooming gangs, raping teenage girls in broad daylight, and then just getting let out of prison because it's a cultural difference that we're not quite ready to combat with mass migration. And we really don't want to admit that we messed up with mass migration coming into the uk. So when people criticize us and promote hate speech on social media, we're going to lock them up in prison instead, not the violent criminals that are destroying UK culture right before our very eyes. Nobody needs a refresher on how bad the last few years have gotten. And, and of course, platforms like X or Twitter, whatever you want to call it. It's hard for me to call it X. I will always be a dead neighbor when it comes to Twitter because it's such a good name. It's just too hard to let go. I'm sorry. I know I'm such a horrible transphobic bigot, not affirming X's new identity. When it comes to Twitter, it's probably the most effective way that people can criticize the people in power. You instantaneously can put a thought out there and into the world. It's easy to retweet people. The virality opportunities are so, so, so, so huge. And it doesn't have the same censorship problems that other social media platforms and digital publishing platforms have had over the past few years, thanks to Elon Musk purchasing the platform a few years ago. So in response to Keir Starmer saying, yeah, we have a really big problem with Grok creating basically bikini memes of people, interestingly only zooming in on Grok, refusing to admit that Google, Gemini or OpenAI's, ChatGPT or any other AI platform can also make these images, he came out and announced this week that it actually wasn't really about any of this because X isn't breaking the law. But we're gonna continue investigating X with a very fine toothed comb in an extreme microscope. Because really what we want to do is shut down criticism, is to be tyrants, to shut down any sort of dissident against the government and gaslight people into thinking this is about public safety. Don't take my word for it. Listen to Keir Starmer himself admit this on the floor of Parliament this week.
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Grok and X are disgusting and they're shameful. And frankly, the decision to then turn this into a pro premium service is horrific. And we're absolutely determined to take action here. We've made it clear that X has to act. But if not, Ofcom has our full backing and will introduce and are introducing legislation. Mr. Speaker, to update the House. I have been informed this morning that X is acting to ensure full compliance with UK law. If so, that is, we'll welcome. But we're not going to back down. They must act. We will take the necessary measures. We will strengthen existing laws and prepare for legislation if it needs to go further. And Ofcom will continue its independent investigation.
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So, yeah, we know that X is following the law. They're taking all steps necessary to continue following the law in the uk. But because you guys keep memeing me in a bikini, which might be my favorite meme template of the last few years, it's so good, so good, by the way, memeing me in a bikini And I'm so personally offended by that. Me, as the Prime Minister, will be ruling with an iron fist. We will take all steps necessary to force a ban of X if necessary. Because this isn't really about public safety. It's not really about protecting women and girls. It's not really about obscenity or pornography or any of the things that, by the way, they're not taking any action on outside of the conversation related to social media. If they were serious about obscenity, they would be banning pride parades with nude men waving their penises in front of children all over the UK every single year. It's disgusting. But you're not taking any action on that. If they were really serious about non consensual sexual activity and objectification of women, maybe they would be taking action against grooming gangs in the UK and the rape of children that we are just brushing aside as normal culturally in places like Afghanistan that is being imported intentionally through mass migration to the uk. So literally you just heard the Prime Minister say, it's not really about any of that. I'm just offended that you all hate me and you all think that I am a Norwellian tyrant that is hell bent on shutting down criticism against me. So I'm just gonna ban the Internet, basically. It's insane. And it's gotten so bad actually that they don't even need to ban these platforms in the UK to cause self censorship and to reshape society. I want to keep coming back to this way that Pope Francis articulated this before he died because it is so powerful. This is the carefully planned agenda to uproot the traditions, history and religion of the West. Our friend Ava Vlaardinger Brook, who is from the Netherlands, she's absolutely amazing. I have loved following Ava over the years and remains one of the most powerful voices across Europe as to this intentional, carefully planned agenda to destroy the West. Posted on X this morning that she had a visa that was approved to travel into the UK this week that has now been canceled because she was outspoken on X against Keir Starmer. You literally can't make this up. Just a few days ago she posted Keir Starmer wants to crack down on X under the pretense of women's safety, while he is the one allowing the ongoing rape and killing of British girls by migrant rape gangs. Evil, despicable man. Totally fair game criticism against one of the most controversial policies of one of the most controversial prime ministers in British history. That was posted January 9th. This morning, Ava posts a screenshot of an email she received from the government of the UK saying, holy, I've been banned from traveling to the uk. They revoked my eta. That's the new visa that's required for people to go into the UK. Here's what this says. Dear Ava Lottie Louise Vlaardinger, Brooklyn, your UK ETA has been canceled from 13 January 2026. This means you cannot travel to the UK without a visa. And then they tell her why. This is because, and I quote, your presence in the UK is not considered to be conducive to the public good. You cannot appeal this decision. Receives this email three days after criticizing the Prime Minister of the uk. This is what happens when good people sit down and are silent and allow our most basic human rights, like freedom of expression, to be stripped away under the guise of public safety. It is an insane time that we are watching free speech be eviscerated. I won't even say erased, but intentionally attacked and eviscerated in the UK and across Europe to a level we have never before seen. And that is reaching even scarier heights now and inspiring around the world and even more direct attack against free speech in places like Australia. I mentioned that this week Australia and Canada joined forces with the UK about this potential ban of X, and we'll be really curious to see how that continues to unfold. But it's also come to my attention that Australia just this week has introduced what might be the most extreme law about hate speech in the history of Western civilization. When I was warning, and when all of us with podcasts were warning last year about what might theoretically potentially happen with the dawn of a Kamala Harris presidency, this was like the nth degree craziest example that we could have possibly given you about what happens when you start the road to hate speech. And all of these clips that we've been reacting to over the past few years about the ridiculous powerful elites, the World Economic Forum darlings of the world, the President Obamas and Hillary Clinton's of the world, the Kamala Harris of the world, when we have been reacting to their insistence that you lock people up for hate speech. You take away people's right to speak because of hate speech. The gulags are coming from these people because of hate speech. This is exactly to a T what we have been warning about. This new law, introduced as a bill in Australia, has been the scariest possible warning sign that I could give you about what the west will look like if we stop fighting for free speech now. It is the most powerful example perhaps on earth today of the carefully planned agenda to uproot the traditions, history and religion of the West. What is this bill, you may ask? This was introduced just this week in the Australian legislature. It's called the Combating Antisemitism, Hate and extremism bill of 2026. And what this legislation does is that it punishes by law any speech out loud or digital that causes fear, even if no actual harm occurs whatsoever. If your speech causes fear, you will be punished should this become law by the Australian government with up to five years in prison. Five years in prison. Gosh, if you scroll through my X feed as of this morning, I probably would already have a life sentence in sad Australian prison, which doesn't sound like a fun place. Vegemite for the rest of my life, force fed to me in an Australian gulag. Now I'm just going to unsubscribe from that. Wyoming is looking better and better and better with every passing day. But what's really scary about this law is that it actually applies to nearly everything. Not just you standing out on the street corner saying something racist or evil or mean, but every single time you have tweeted every blog post you have ever liked, memes, every time you have texted someone a meme, even scarily quoting scripture online, all covered by this bill that explicitly states it doesn't matter if anyone on the receiving end of your speech actually felt hatred or fear. This is a new level of hate speech law and that actually says it doesn't matter if there is any impact from any of your speech. It doesn't matter if anyone even felt fearful. If your speech could have theoretically caused fear, your speech, like posting a meme on your Twitter feed or texting someone a bible verse that you then screenshot and put on your Instagram story, it allows the government to say you are a danger to society or right to jail. Right to jail right away. Like immediately locked up in the gulag for five years. 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Refresh your routines with comfort that make every day feel like a new year. A huge component of this bill, horrifyingly, is that the Australian government is trying to crack down on Islamophobia. Even though the bill is called the Anti Semitism Bill, the Combating Anti Semitism Hate and Extremism Bill, a massive component of the bill's actual text is trying to make Islamophobia punishable by five years plus in prison with these new hate speech laws. And let's just remind ourselves really, really quickly that it was mere weeks ago. It hasn't even been a month, has it? Maybe exactly a month. It was mere weeks ago that there was a massive jihadist terror attack at Bondi beach and in Australia in which two Islamic jihadists massacred 15 people. And in response, the Australian government isn't trying to crack down on jihadist violence, which, by the way, the Pope also addressed in his speech. Thank you Pope Leo, for addressing jihadist violence. No, instead the Australian government wants to make it illegal to criticize Islamic extremism. You literally cannot make this up. And what's extra horrifying as I started doing more digging into this particular bill, is that they try to give religious protections as ways around the law to protect certain hate speech that causes fear, but not all hate speech that causes fear and ding ding, ding, ding, ding. You guessed it, this law doesn't really apply to you if you are Muslim, if you as an Islamic extremist say death to America, death to the Jews, death to the infidels, let's kill all the Christians. That's not remotely considered scary. I guess in Australian culture, if you are a Sikh Australian, if you are a Muslim Australian, or if you are a Jewish Australian, this hate speech law doesn't apply to you. Basically, there are easy ways to get out of it, but religious protections do not exist for Catholics and other Christians in Australia. So if you post a Bible verse on X or on your Instagram story, that's assuming X or Instagram is even allowed to operate in a society governed by these people in the next five minutes, it probably won't be. But on the Internet, if you put a blog out about. About your favorite Bible verse or about some of the harder teachings related to our Christian faith, because it may have theoretically caused fear for someone else. Right to the Gulag. Five year federal prison sentence in Australia. What? The bill also gives police the power to ban certain groups from Australia without any due process whatsoever, including groups that are not Australian, that operate outside of Australia. How much do we want to bet in about five minutes, Turning Point USA is going to be banned from Australia and to imprison their citizens for up to 15 years in prison for supporting said groups. So if you went to a Charlie Kirk prayer rally, I guarantee you this is going to be a massive component of this. If you prayed for Charlie Kirk on the streets of Sydney, Australia, the minute that Turning Point USA gets banned from Australia without due process, you could spend 15 years in Australian prison. The Guardian wrote about this bill this week and said that they are extending new hate speech protections to, you guessed it, LGBTQ Australians and religious groups. Clearly, what they're talking about is Islam here. And this is what the Guardian had to say about this. You don't hate the mainstream media enough. The federal government will consider stronger legal protections for religious groups, people with a disability and LGBTQ plus Australians after new hate speech laws have been drafted in the wake of the Bondi beach shootings and these. These laws are passing Parliament. The laws, set to be rushed through after a hasty parliamentary inquiry this week, have prompted calls for wider laws to ban the promotion and incitement of hatred in addition to speech that threatens minority groups. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. When is anyone going to address the fact that it's pretty damn hateful for any federal government of any country to lock you in prison for criticizing government officials for sharing Bible verses? You want to talk about extremism against minority groups? How long until Christianity is considered the source of all evil? And anyone promoting Christianity in the west is just executed because we're seeing that all over the world, our brothers and sisters in the persecuted church are the most persecuted religious organization. Christianity is anywhere on the planet. By the numbers, strictly by the numbers. Islamic persecution that allegedly exists somewhere. Please show me on the map where this is happening. Persecution against Jewish people and anti Semitism, all of these things get 100% of our media attention. But no one wants to address that. It is actually Christianity that is being persecuted more than any other religious group on the face of the planet. And it's becoming increasingly obvious to me that this isn't just happening in Nigeria or Syria or Iran. This is happening in Australia, where they're going to throw you in prison for being hateful, for posting a Bible verse on social media. This is what happens when good people sit down and shut up and keep their head down and do the polite thing and not want to ruffle any feathers. And we watch the carefully planned agenda to uproot the traditions, history and religion of the West. And make no mistake about it, this is coming to the United States of America if we are not intensely vigilant about all of it now, today. I mean, honestly, yesterday, like five months ago. Because if you haven't been paying attention, this is coming to our culture as well. And there are many, many, many people in powerful positions of influence and governance in our country that desperately want to see this happen codified in American law as well. To bring this full circle a little bit with what's happening around the world, I think it's important to give you guys an update on what's happening in Iran. Updated numbers coming out of Iran this morning are suggesting that the lowest possible estimate of the number of civilians that have been killed, executed, massacred violently by their own government simply for speaking out loud in the street, is upwards of 20,000 people in just the span of a couple of days. And most of the experts that have been studying this and some of the early reporting that we're getting out of the country, thanks to connectivity delivered by Starlink, is telling us that 20,000 is actually like the lowest possible number is probably leaps and bounds. More than that, there are a few photos and videos that are making their way out of Iran. And I want to show you this one that's hard to look at. It's really hard to look at. But when you see this image, I want you to realize that this is intimately connected with what we're seeing in the uk, with what we're seeing in Australia, with what we're seeing in Canada, with what we're seeing across the EU and what many want to see happen here in the United States. This is the end result of these hate speech laws. This is the end result of censorship. This is the end result of authoritarianism. They are intimately connected. And if we can't start to put those puzzle pieces together and realize that what we're really fighting for with free speech isn't just the right to make Keir Starmer bikini memes that are amazing, please keep making them, I beg of you. But it's the right to the most basic aspects of human dignity anywhere on the planet. If we lose the ability to speak our minds, this is what will ensue. This came across my feed this morning and again, it's really hard to look at, but I want to show it to you. Tweeted by open source Intel. Dozens of black body bags seen in Iran. And this is just one of countless photos and videos that I'm seeing come across my feed right now of again, most conservative estimates saying that upwards of 20,000 people have met this fate in the last 48 hours or so simply because they had the audacity to suggest that freedom of speech is a basic human right, that you should be able to criticize the people in power, that you should be able to speak your mind freely, to express your opinion, to challenge the mainstream narrative, to freely choose your own religion instead of one that was oppressively forced upon your people 50 plus years ago to show your hair in public. This the fate that they met for such an audacious request. There's one young man in particular who I am praying for very fervently today, and I hope that you will join me in doing this. His name is Irfan Sultani. He is an Iranian citizen who joined these protests over the last couple of days and almost instantaneously was singled out by the government as a huge threat to changing the national narrative. He was arrested on Saturday and was almost instantaneously sentenced to death without any access to a lawyer, any right to defend himself. There is no such right under Iranian law. Authorities informed his family that he's going to be executed today and he was allegedly given about 10 minutes to say goodbye to his family, which is a gift, I suppose, compared to other stories that we've seen from young, vibrant, outspoken gen zers targeted by the Iranian regime over the past few years. But they're making an example of this young man and many, many others who are scheduled to be executed today. This is how the Islamic Republic and authoritarian governments crush dissent and crush the spirit of a movement like this. They shut down the Internet, they take away your access to power and clean water and clean food, safe food to eat. They gun down and massacre thousands upon thousands of people in the street at random. And then they start rapid public executions to terrorize society into silence. They are specifically singling out this young man and many other young people who have Never even known a life built upon the most basic human rights, like freedom of expression, that we take for granted. Every single day here in the United States, they pick out this young man, Irfan Sultani, and they're going to publicly execute him for the crime of speaking out loud, the crime of saying humanity deserves better. And he's just one of tens of thousands scheduled to experience the exact same fate. Please pray for him, for the repose of his soul today, and pray for his family as they have to endure the unimaginable watching him be executed today. And I want to leave you with this from the amazing, beautiful, inspirational Elica Laban, who is one of my favorite people to follow on social media over the past few years. Elica's family are Iranian dissidents. She now lives here in the United States and has been one of the premier leading voices about what really happens on the ground in Iran and why we need to continue supporting the people, not the regime, if we're serious about basic human rights. She shared this minute and a half, two minute video on X late last night. And I listened to this and had the exact same reaction that she did. It is, I believe in Arabic, I could be wrong, but I think it's in Arabic. But they have translation over the video as well, so you can listen to it. And it's an audio recording of someone from Iran who's on the ground right now about how bleak the situation is there. I want you to listen to this as the powerful reminder of what happens over several generations when we allow censorship and the silencing of our basic human dignity to happen. She tweeted this last night, tears streaming down my face, listening to this audio out of Iran. They are saying it's a massacre worse than the mind can fathom. That the 12,000 estimate, which is now a 20,000 estimate, is a joke in comparison to the numbers killed. And above all that they need outside help and they need it now. Please be my voice. Be our voice, please. The only help that we could possibly get is from the outside world. Share this everywhere, please. He's begging. You have no idea how bad things have gotten here on the ground. It is indescribable. They are killing teenage girls at their front door indiscriminately just because they're tapping people's phones. They're seizing our satellites, which is the only connection we have to the outside world. And they are massacring people in the streets for the audacity of saying that it should be a basic human right to freely speak Your mind. I've been really struck the last few years and I know this is a really heavy topic, but I think it's a really important one for us to keep zooming in on. Because unlike pretty much any time in human history up to this point point in our lifetime, we have watched for the first time ever in all of humanity, virtually every single society face the same cultural battles and the same existential threats all at exactly the same time. Up until now, without the Internet, we've been largely pretty isolated from one another. We had pretty different cultural problems, people had different types of governance structures. We didn't constantly know everything that was happening all around the world. And that has had its own issues. Certainly that's a different conversation for a different time. But because of our connectivity today, and largely because of our generation universally across the world reckoning with the same issues all at exactly the same time, you're watching the same problems and the same battles be fought all over the world simultaneously. The crackdown on free speech in Australia that largely has to do with radical Islam is very similar to the crackdown on free speech that you're seeing happen in the UK that largely is preventing you from dissenting against radical Islam. That's the exact same thing. Trying to ban X in Canada or silencing people in the EU or impacting how our media is talking about things in Minneapolis, right? I mean, all of these things are so deeply, intimately connected and yet we still treat them as completely isolated from one another or thinking that would never affect me, that doesn't impact my day to day life. I don't have a personal vested interest in this and so I don't feel the need to personally speak out. Ironically, in the era of globalization, when everyone has been telling us that, you know, humanity exists without borders and blah blah, blah, blah, blah, it is the same people screaming that narrative that want you to be blind and emotionally removed from the very real human problems that our brothers and sisters in other countries are facing. It's ironic, right? Because this is a universal human problem right now where we are watching our most basic rights and dignities be stripped away from us all over the world. The question is, do we have the courage to speak up on their behalf when their right to do so is being taken away from them or they fear execution when they do so? And do we have the courage globally, civilizationally, through institutions like the church, to say enough is enough? In a truly enlightened, progressive society, there can be no room for Orwellian anti free speech laws, as noted by The Pope. There can be no room for silencing and censoring dissent against the government. There can be no room for mass execution of humanity, for refusing to bow down to radical authoritarian Islam. Iran, Australia, the uk, Your own backyard here in America, these things are all intimately connected. And so it falls on us. It falls on our generation. It falls on those of us who have, amazingly, by the grace of God, still the institutional capacity to do something about it, to fight for this, to speak up on behalf of those who don't have the ability to do so anymore, which is no longer just Iran. That's the most extreme example of what this looks like, but might be our friends in Sydney or London or Edinburgh. I mean, it's insane what's happening right now. Do you have the courage to be a part of the solution? And are we, as humanity brave enough to say never again? The fight for free speech continues and we're going to be following it very, very closely here on the Isabel Brown Show. But it has to be one of, if not the first thing that we are fighting for day in and day out as we seek to revive the West. So I promise we will be keeping a close eye on all of this moving forward again. Please join me in praying today for all of those in Iran who are losing their lives and have the unbelievable courage and fortitude to continue speaking up against authoritarian Islam and radical Islam in particular. Say a rosary for them today. Pray for the repose of their souls when they're being executed, especially for this beautiful young man, Irfan Sultani. His family is in our prayers today as well. And please keep making incredible Keir Starmer bikini memes because they are making my life such a better place. We had Fat JD Last year. We had Marco doing all the jobs of the universe to start off 2020. But I gotta say, I know it's early. It's Only January. It's January 14th. The Keir Starmer bikini meme will probably go down as the best meme template of 2026. So if you have a favorite one, drop them in the comments of today's episode. We are back tomorrow for more of the Isabelle Brown Show. We'll see you guys then.
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What was it like, Merlin, to be alone with God? Is that who you think I was alone with? Martin, I knew your father.
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I am yet convinced that he was.
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Not of this world. All men know of the great Taliesin. You are my father. That the gods should war for my soul. Princess Garrus, savior of our people. I know what the bull God offered you. I was offered the same. And there is a new pirate work in the world. I've seen it. A God who sacrifices what he loves for us. We are each given only one life.
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Singer. No.
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And we're given another. I learnt of Yazu the Christ. And I have become his follower. He's waiting on a miracle. And I think you can give him one. Trust in Yezu. He is the only hope for men like us. Fate of Britain never rests in the hands of the great light. Great light, Great darkness. Such things mattered to me then. What matters to you now? Mistress of lies. You, nephew. The sword of a high king. How many lives must be lost before you accept the power you were born to wield? So clinging to the promises of a God who has abandoned you. I cannot take up that sword again. You know what you must do. Great life. Forgive me. The time has come to be reborn.
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