23 March 2015

Activist claims Trinity speech on apostasy and Islam cancelled

A political activist due to give a speech in Trinity college on apostasy and the rise of Islam has claimed the event has been cancelled after the college tried to attach conditions to it.

Maryam Namazie was due to give a speech at the Society for International Affairs on Monday, March 23rd.

In a blog posted on Friday, Ms Namazie claimed the society feared the event could be one-sided and that it had taken advice from college security on imposing certain conditions.

“I’ve just been informed...that college security (why security?) has claimed that the event would show the college is ‘one-sided’ and would be ‘antagonising’ to ‘Muslim students’; they threatened to cancel my talk,” the blog post read. [THE IRISH TIMES] Read more