Prominent scientists have criticised a decision to bar a human rights campaigner from speaking at a university over claims that she could incite hatred on campus. Iranian-born secularist Maryam Namazie, a member of the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain, was invited to speak to the Warwick Atheists, Secularists and Humanists society next month. But the move was blocked by the University of Warwick's Students' Union (SU) amid claims that she is "highly inflammatory and could incite hatred on campus", the society's president said. SU officials said "a number of flags have been raised" about...
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