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(L. Times) U of London Islamic students pull plug on talk by atheist who ”˜violated safe space’
A secular campaigner has told how she was heckled and shouted down by members of a student Islamic society who said that she was violating their “safe space”.
Maryam Namazie claimed that the Islamic society at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she was addressing the institution’s atheist group, tried to stop her talk going ahead by invoking a “no platform policy”.
When that failed, she said that Islamic students disrupted her speech and tried to intimidate her. One switched off the power to her computer as she showed a PowerPoint slide of a “Jesus and Mo” cartoon.
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