Revealed: How Oxford University is ‘home to loud mouthed, Tory-loathing, anti-Israel academics who believe only they should have freedom of expression’

Dec 24, 2017 by Jill

by Guy Adams, Mailonline:

The Reverend Canon Nigel Biggar, Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at Christ Church, Oxford, is a gifted orator who has published eight books during the five decades of his career.

A leading authority on religious ethics and an Anglican priest, he is also a senior adviser to the Vatican.

With a gift for explaining complex moral concepts, he is much in demand as a public lecturer and commentator on current affairs.

Among topics he has recently addressed in newspaper articles have been voluntary euthanasia and assisted suicide (both of which he opposes), military action in Syria (which he supports on moral grounds), Israel‘s treatment of the Palestinians (he has criticised aspects of it) and Scottish independence (he is against).

[…] Having provocative opinions that challenge orthodoxy is what we expect from our great academics and thinkers. Equally, it is an axiom of liberalism that those who disagree should engage in forthright but fair debate.

Sadly, that no longer appears to be the case. For Professor Biggar has become the target of a hysterical social media mob for expressing his views on the British Empire.

In an article for The Times, he wrote that we must ‘not feel guilty about our colonial history’ and rebuked those who believe that ‘apologising for empire is now compulsory’, stressing that such attitudes will not help tackle the problems of the modern world.

Inevitably, he attracted an avalanche of odium on Facebook and Twitter as keyboard trolls called him ‘racist’, ‘bigoted’, a ‘gob*****’ and an ‘idiot’ whose work is ‘ill-informed’ and recalls ‘Hitler and the Nazis’.

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