Muslim Activists Censor Speech at UK University

[From article]
Two events last week crystallized the grave danger facing freedom of speech in the United Kingdom.
Warwick U. Students’ Union Censors Speaker against Radical Islam, Then Caves
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Warwick University and its students’ union have been criticized before for creating a campus atmosphere hostile to free speech. Spiked gave the students’ union a red (worst) rating and the university itself a yellow rating in its Free Speech University Rankings. What’s new here isn’t the effort to suppress speech, but the positive outcome.
The moral? Firm and outspoken support for free speech is an effective tool against politically correct speech suppression.
“Passion for Freedom” Show Not So Passionate, Censors Anti-ISIS Artwork
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The show opted to drop the piece, which remained listed in the program and online. The move was condemned by the Index on Censorship, but major celebrities did not speak out about it as they did over the Warwick University Student Union ban. Perhaps they did not know about it.
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The threat of radical Islam is not shrinking, but growing. As it grows, decisions about whether to speak out about, expose, and confront it have become more widespread and urgent. Unfortunately, the counter-pressures not to do so – be they fear of physical violence, ideological disdain, and intimidation (political correctness) or the more mundane one of cost – often overwhelm the impulse to speak out.
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Freedom will survive only if people are willing to make these sacrifices.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/09/free_speech_loses_to_islamists_at_uk_universities.html

September 29, 2015
Free speech loses to Islamists at UK universities
By Johanna Markind