Hans Teeuwen intervenes in the riot about Arjen Lubach, who does not dare to make jokes about Islam, but does saw the SGP at the ankles. Does the comedian also find him cowardly? “Few comments.”
Arjen Lubach is accused of cowardice because he says he doesn’t dare to make jokes about Islam, but then takes the SGP. Then you really have no courage at all, criticasters such as Lale Gül and Wierd Duk think. At the same time, Hans Teeuwen is praised because he is much less a leaf. What does he think?
In the breach
Hans jumps in a movie In the breach for Arjen. “I have to make a few comments about it, because let’s be honest: most comedians, by far the most comedians, don’t even dare to say that they don’t dare to make jokes. Even they don’t dare to say that.”
He continues: “People are not so fast. I don’t know physically. I am not at all. I am not in my pants man in violence. We really need Marco Kroon for that. But against all those people calling that Arjen Lubach is so cowardly: ask yourself how brave you are yourself.
Risk
Many criticasters themselves are also afraid to open their mouths, says Hans. “How much risk are you willing to walk? Do you dare to open your mouth when people are talking at the coffee machine or at work or at a family facility or at a party? Are you the one who dares to go against the current?”
He continues: “Or do you prefer to shut up and you go out of the way? A little looking out before you waves your finger and call someone cowardly. If we want to defend freedom – and we want that, we don’t want the influence of Islam to limit our freedom – then we will all have to be a bit braver.”
Hamas flag
Hans states that we all have to open our mouths. “It is already more dangerous to walk around with an Israeli flag than with a Hamas flag. We are already that far.”
“Listen, we are not going to solve the problems by calling one famous Dutchman cowardly and giving the other a thumb up. No, the Dutch people are not that important and something is not true because a Dutch person says it, so come on people, all are a bit brave!”
Fragment
Earlier Hans Arjen did take grazing: