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Sheffield Hallam University orders society to cancel Muslim speaker’s talk
From Yorkshire local paper The Star
A LECTURE by a controversial Muslim speaker has been called off at the last minute by Sheffield Hallam University - the second cancellation in a month. Jalal Ibn Saeed had originally been asked to speak at an event titled The Pursuit of Paradise organised by the Sheffield Hallam Islamic Society but pulled out at short notice.
The society booked another speaker, Murtaza Khan, claimed by opponents to be an anti-Semitic extremist. But university authorities stepped in and told the society to cancel the meeting as the speaker had been changed at a late stage. A spokesman said: “Changing the speaker invalidated the conditions of the booking and therefore event due to take place last night had to be cancelled. The society were advised of this.”
Last month a talk by preacher Assim Al Hakeem was also cancelled at the last minute after pressure from campus authorities and protests from students.
Pressure group Student Rights said the situation was worrying. Spokesman Rupert Sutton said: “The ease with which the Islamic Society at Sheffield Hallam University tried to replace one extremist speaker with another shows the sheer scale of a problem which too many people seek to downplay - as well as demonstrating a worrying lack of judgement by the society committee.”
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