The Pink Triangle Trust (PTT) has roundly condemned the University of Warwick’s Student Union for banning one of its patrons from addressing the University’s Atheists, Secularists and Humanists Society. The address was to have taken place next month.
The patron Maryam Namazie, who writes for The Guardian, is an Iranian-born human rights activist, broadcaster and secularist. She is the spokesperson for One Law for All (the campaign against Sharia law in Britain) and the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain.
PTT Secretary George Broadhead, said; “This action by the Student Union is a gross infringement of free speech. Maryam Namazie has always opposed violence but, like the French publication Charlie Hebdo whose staff were murdered by Islamists, she claims the right to criticise religion, including Islam. She condemns Islamic theocracies like her native Iran and Saudi Arabia where punishments under Sharia Law include public beheadings, amputations and floggings.
“The student union seems incapable of differentiating between criticising religion or a far-right political movement on the one hand and attacking and inciting hate against people on the other.”
The PTT’s patrons include former MEP Lord Michael Cashman, Nigerian Humanist Activist, Leo Igwe and Commissioning Editor of Gscene Magazine, James Ledward.
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