The London university attended by the Islamic State murderer Mohamed Emwazi has hosted the highest number of extremist or intolerant speakers over the past three years, a report claims.
The University of Westminster, where the terrorist known as “Jihadi John” gained a computer programming degree, offered a platform to radical speakers on 25 occasions between 2012 and 2014.
They included Shohana Khan and Adnan Khan, representatives from the hardline group Hizb ut-Tahrir, which promotes a caliphate ruled by Sharia. The government has threatened to ban it and it is on the National Union of Students’ “no-platform” list.
A Palestinian scholar who is alleged to have called homosexuality a “criminal act” spoke four times in four months, while other speakers promoting Islamist views were also given a platform. Uthman Lateef, a British preacher who has said, “We don’t accept homosexuality . . . we hate it because Allah hates it”, spoke in 2012. [The Times (£)] Read more
