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Kiran Opal and Steve Shives Talk About Islamophobia and Free Speech

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Channel: Steve Shives · 2016 · Entertainment

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Ex-Muslim, feminist, social justice activist, and all around cool person Kiran Opal joins me for a talk about how Muslims and Islam are perceived in the west, and what some of the internet's loudest self-proclaimed champions of free speech don't seem to understand about that concept.

Kiran Opal on Twitter
https://twitter.com/KiranOpal 

**** Maryam's talk at Goldsmiths Uni that was interrupted by a few students from its “Islamic Society” (this talk was not at Warwick Uni but at Goldsmiths).

Goldsmiths ISOC fails to intimidate and silence dissenters
http://freethoughtblogs.com/maryamnamazie/2015/12/01/goldsmith-isoc/ …

**** One of the articles I was referring to that highlights some of the issues of atheist ‘community leaders’ and their rhetoric.
The Weaponization of Atheism
http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/04/09/the-weaponization-of-atheism …

**** Campus open-carry laws and their silencing effect on ‘free speech’.

The Armed Campus in the Anxiety Age
http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/03/campus-carry-anxiety-age/472920/ …

University of Texas at Austin to allow students to carry handguns on campus
http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/18/politics/university-of-texas-austin-students-guns-classrooms/ …

Texas Campus Carry Law Putting Damper On Academic Debate
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-campus-carry-law-putting-damper-academic-debate-n525096 …

UT Architecture Dean Cites Campus Carry as a Reason for Departure
https://www.texastribune.org/2016/02/25/ut-architecture-dean-cites-campus-carry-reason-dep/ …

UH faculty suggest steering clear of some topics if students armed
http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/education/campus-chronicles/article/UH-faculty-may-drop-topics-from-curriculum-as-6849002.php …

Don’t teach “sensitive topics” or anger students, Houston professors are warned after “campus carry” gun law passed
http://www.salon.com/2016/02/23/dont_teach_sensitive_topics_or_anger_students_university_of_houston_warns_after_campus_carry_gun_law_is_passed …

**** Pervez Hoodbhoy - Pakistani physicist, academic, speaking at Secular Conference London 2014
Nuclear Physicist Pervez Hoodbhoy: “Has the Islamic State ever been a Historical Reality?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyCdNIWiYzk …

**** How some governments in the West are responding to the BDS movement.

Canada:
The BDS motion and Canada's relationship with Israel
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/the-bds-motion-and-canada-s-relationship-with-israel-1.3488151 …

Listen Up, Canada: You Can't Advocate Free Speech and Criminalize Dissent at the Same Time
read more: http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.658496 …
(from 2015 - the anti-free speech view has now also been taken up by the "Liberal Party" of Canada)

UK:
Greatest Threat to Free Speech in the West: Criminalizing Activism Against Israeli Occupation
https://theintercept.com/2016/02/16/greatest-threat-to-free-speech-in-the-west-criminalizing-activism-against-israeli-occupation/ …

BDS movement: Thousands email UK government to condemn ban on Israeli trade boycott
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/bds-movement-thousands-email-uk-government-condemn-ban-israeli-trade-boycott-1544636 …

France:
France's criminalisation of Israel boycotts sparks free-speech debate
http://www.france24.com/en/20160120-france-boycott-israel-bds-law-free-speech-antisemitism …

**** Kiran Opal’s report on the Secular Conference in London 2014
*Link coming soon*

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