Tristan Tate

This is all documented.

And at the time, we were under some form of arrest.

I'm not anymore, but we were under some form of judicial control.

And if you commit any crime while on judicial control, you immediately get sent back to prison.

Organizing a protest with eight or more people is technically an infraction of the law.

So I knew when I went there, I was gonna be thrown in prison for doing this protest.

But I almost was playing chicken with the Romanian authorities because I thought we are in the most Christian country in the world.

I know every Romania, every Romanian respects Jesus Christ.

I'm going to go and start a protest and I dare them to throw me in jail for it.

So I started a protest outside the embassy of France.

And although I understand people were barking down telephones, wondering what they could do about me and my actions, no action was taken.

I started the protest anyway, alongside my Muslim brother.

who was absolutely appalled at what the French did.

So yeah, I think we need to have some more, more backbone, some more balls, take some action, you know, and not, not stand for the open degradation of our faith, wherever it comes from.

You know, I was – I wrote that on a whim.

I think I put that in about a year and a half, two years ago when I decided to – at the time, there was this legal case against me that went nowhere, by the way.

The legal case got thrown out.

So I was in jail, imprisoned, house arrest for no reason.

And I feel like I understood –

that the people doing this to me were not necessarily my persecutors.