MR JUSTICE JOHNSON
Approved Judgment
Hegab v Spectator
That’s my question, because when I was online on Twitter or
on social media, I’m seeing them getting brave. Seeing these
people here getting brave. How comes today it was like pin
drop silence? How come today didn’t see them. How comes
today when it’s not one person or two people walking the
street, yeah, when it’s one or two Muslims walking in the
street, when it’s a vulnerable adult, when it’s someone running
home yeah, how comes now, yeah, how comes you’re not here
now?
[Man responds: “tell you why, tell you why, because they fear
us when they’re near us”]
Hold on, brother, let me tell you why it is, yeah, because deep
down, yeah, they know we got the truth, bruv. Deep down. Let
me tell you something, let me tell you something, all due
respect, actually no due respect, yeah if they believe in
reincarnation, yeah, what a humiliation and pathetic thing for
them to be reincarnated into some pathetic weak cowardly
people like that. I’d rather be an animal; I’d rather be
reincarnated as a grasshopper bruv. That’s the truth. So how
comes now in Leicester, yeah, the Hindutva are coming out,
yeah, and you’re trying to act like gangsters. You’re trying to
act like gangsters. Come on man, you’re not about that life.
Don’t ever, I’m saying this, I’m saying this directly to all the
so-called Hindutva wannabe gangsters. Don’t ever come out
like that again, do you understand?
[Man responds: “no chance”]
Are they gonna come out like that again?
[Man responds: “never”]
Are they gonna come out like that again? Because if they do
come out, are we gonna be here? Yes or no?
[Man responds: “yes”]
[Man shouts “Takbir”. The crowd respond “Allahu Akbar”.
This is then repeated twice].”
32.
On 19 September 2022, the claimant uploaded a video of this speech to his YouTube
channel. It bore the title “Muslim response to Fascist Hindutva Thugs in Leicester.”
The article
33.
The article was published in three forms: in print, on a website and on an app. All
three versions are substantially the same. The website version was first published on
21 September 2022. The print version was published on 24 September 2022. The
headline is “Leicester and the downside with diversity”. The website and app versions
have a large photograph showing two police vans, a police car and a large number of