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Oxford Union Debate Debacle Exposes The Real Limit Of Free Speech In Britain
['Tyler Durden']
ZeroHedge News
Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News,In the heart of the Oxford Union, a supposed bastion of open debate, a single brown paper envelope triggered pure panic.
Against them stood Oxford Union president Arwa Elrayess, a 20-year-old Muslim of Palestinian heritage from Gaza, Rees-Mogg, and others.
"It seems we had found the limit of free speech they had all denied existed.
She told the chamber: "Free speech and debate is not something I do despite being a Muslim, it is something I do because of it."
Free speech that collapses the moment it risks offending one particular religious sensitivity is not free speech at all.