{"id":52499,"date":"2015-12-04T16:32:48","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T16:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/l-_times_u_of_london_islamic_students_pull_plug_on_talk_by_atheist_who_viol\/"},"modified":"2015-12-04T16:32:48","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T16:32:48","slug":"l-_times_u_of_london_islamic_students_pull_plug_on_talk_by_atheist_who_viol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52499","title":{"rendered":"(L. Times) U of London Islamic students pull plug on talk by atheist who \u201d\u02dcviolated safe space\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u201csafe space\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n<p>Maryam Namazie claimed that the Islamic society at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she was addressing the institution\u2019s atheist group, tried to stop her talk going ahead by invoking a \u201cno platform policy\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n<p>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 \u201cJesus and Mo\u201d\u009d cartoon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/tto\/education\/article4630671.ece\">Read it all<\/a> (requires subscription).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u201csafe space\u201d\u009d. Maryam Namazie claimed that the Islamic society at Goldsmiths, University of London,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52499\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,42,111,199,168,426,155,151,107,34,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-education","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-islam","category-other-faiths","category-politics-in-general","category-ruraltown-life","category-theology","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}