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University Hate Speech Report: A Whitewash

February 19, 2011 08:09

After it was revealed that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab - who tried to blow up a plane on Christmas Day 2009 - had been President of Islamic Society at UCL, Universities UK - under pressure from the government - set up an Inquiry into Extremism on Campus. It was clear from the start that it was going to be a whitewash:

http://www.thejc.com/blogpost/campus-extremism-university-heads-are-taki...

And so it hs proved. The members of the Inquiry - headed by Professor Malcolm Grant of UCL - very quickly changed its focus from "extremism" to "guaranteeing free speech" - a laughable inversion of what the Inquiry was supposed to be about.

Its Report has just been published:

http://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/Publications/Documents/FreedomOfSpeechOn...

There is no list of hate speakers and events which have caused offence. And the recommendations are a fudge. For example there is no mention of compulsory filming by university authorities of hate speech meetings.

http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/29079/hate-war-campus-be-stamped-out

The universities have proved themselves abjectly incapable of setting their own house in order. The time is long overdue for David Willetts - the Universities Minister - to step in.

February 19, 2011 08:09

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