This, today, in a couple of hours (minus ten minutes), at the Oxford Union:
Prof Tariq Ramadan & Maryam Namazie
- Event name: Prof Tariq Ramadan & Maryam Namazie
- Start date: 29/02/2016 20:00
- End date: // :
- Duration: N/A
Description
Head to Head : Islam in Europe Today
Listed in a 2008 report called ‘Victims of Intimidation: Freedom of Speech With Europe’s Muslim Communities’, Namazie has had multiple lectures no-platformed and disrupted. She is spokesperson for the Council of ex-Muslims and for Iranian Solidarity. Her writing specialists in challenging cultural relativism and political Islam
Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies in Oxford, Tariq Ramadan has held positions in Universities across the world; he is also persona non grata in at least six countries including Saudi Arabia and Egypt for his challenges to undemocratic regimes
Namazie and Ramadan Will be debating some of the biggest challenges facing Islam today
I wish I were nearby enough to go.
Myriam is packing heat…as it were, and Ramadan’s back pocket is chock full of spare forked tongues.
Ramadan is so discredited in the francophone world, one wonders why Oxford still hosts the dirtbag.