Middlesex SU to defy Islamist ban

The students' union of Middlesex Uni is going to defy orders from the university's Vice Chancellor who has tried to ban a meeting involving the controversial group Hizb ut-Tahrir.

The group has been proscribed by the prime minister, banned by the NUS and described everywhere as extremist for its alleged support of terrorism. I think that the SU has done the right thing by not bowing in to administrative pressure to cancel debates of this sort. I'm not convinced that there is a justification in banning Hizb al-Tahrir but not banning other groups (like American students groups) who openly supported the illegal act of war on Iraq. The failure to correct this dichotomy is key to the reasons for not trusting a single word we are told by the government on these issues.

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September 20, 2005 | Filed Under 'Terror', UK 

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