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To expose HT for the wankers they are should be a duty to anyone, irrespective of their race or religion, concerned enough about anti-semitism, anti-hindu and anti-sikh sentiments, anti-feminism and homophobia. A grand coalition of various societies and departments would be ideal.

In case you are wondering, I would do the same if the BNP, hinutva extremists were given a platform in my department. (extremely NIMBY) especially when it is done by societies which should be promoting a positive image of the members they represent.(In this case UCL Islam Soc).

Will any Muslims be involved in your “awareness campaign” about the HT? Unless you do these studies tend to be weakened by the perception, real or otherwise, of being one-sided.

even if you were raising awareness about Muslim groups, that does not in any way run foul of the impending law. In fact you could slate HuT as much as you want and still be fine (as long as you don’t libel or slander in which case they could sue). Your only worry is to incite murder of Muslims, which I’m sure you won’t be doing

I represent touchy atheists. Insult my lack of God and Darwin will strike you down.

Only Muslims? Every possible religious and interest group has a touchy contingent that is well represented on PP. I’ve seen run ins with touchy Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Rajputs, Tamils, desi Yanks etc. I, of course represent touchy buddhist muslim smokers.

whats wrong with moschino?

On the topic though (sunny’s point). Yes niqab may be different from hijab, but its still not a reason to ban it as a security measure. I wonder how many veiled women have been involved in security threats at the uni, or terrorist/intruders posing as veiled women? If the answer is zero, then why use a measure that infringes religious rights, when employing more security personell would surely do the job. It all sounds silly to me, even hoodies dont always cover the face, or cause a person to be unrecognisable.

Although I still think life would be better without it.

Rohin – shut it :$

Sunny, in a curious way if both the anti-terror and religous hatred laws are passed, there may be circumstances (in Unis) where the freedom of speech of extremist religous organisations and those who would criticise them may be both curtailed.

Pah. You call yourself a fan?! Nelson man, Nelson!

*points at El-Cid and laughs like that kid in Simpsons*

(I used and still wear Moschino )

Bevan – That is truly annoying and frustrating. When the new laws about inciting terrorism etc come in I hope this will be a lot easier.

Two things I wanted to say from ages ago (and not really relevant anymore):

Do I mean public-school-background when I say stuck up? No I don’t. Public school graduates are cool and you know it. I mean the uni itself being stuck up. Like Imperial thinking they are too good for the NUS (they’re not members) and now they are leaving the University of London. They continually bleat on about how they are too good for everyone else.

And chavs come in all colours. Whilst Burberry may be more prevalent amongst white chavs, Moschino rules the roost with Asian chavs. Except they may be referred to as RUDEBOYS. Chavs, rudies…all the same to me. Scum.

Speech went ahead with speaker from Hut.