Maajid's Blunt Message For Julian Assange

22 October 2016, 16:24 | Updated: 22 October 2016, 17:00

Maajid Nawaz has a very important message for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange

Talking on his LBC show Maajid lambasted Assange for his singular obsession with transparency, which has lead to deaths and helped Donald Trump's bid to be president.

“Not all leaks are equal, Mr Assange. In certain countries people are killed for things for far less than that because of your leaks.”

“You leaked information about counter extremist Muslims who are working in Afghanistan who are working with coalition forces against the Taliban and it directly led to their deaths because their names were released as collaborators and the Taliban hunted them down.”

“Back then nobody cared because if some poor brown Muslim guy in Afghanistan who was attempting to fight the Taliban and nobody cared that the consequences of your privileged first world Australian, male life didn't have to think about causing the deaths of those vulnerable people in Afghanistan who are attempting to fight the Taliban.”

“I’ve always despised what you've done since day one because I have seen the consequences of your actions against people like me and people like Iram at the top of this show brave Muslim voices who work within our communities to challenge extremism and you put them all at risk with your leaks and that's what you've just done again because Donald Trump isn't the most savoury of characters isn't the nicest of people and yet you here you are again with your uncurated leaks effectively supporting Donald Trump's campaign.”

 

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