University clears don of being anti-Islam but then cancels his course anyway after students launched ‘vicious and militant’ campaign

Sep 12, 2021 by

by Jake Ryan, Mail on Sunday:

A professor has hit out at cancel culture after his lectures were axed following a ‘vicious, militant’ campaign by students who branded him Islamophobic.

University chiefs rejected complaints that human rights expert Steven Greer had expressed ‘bigoted views’ after a five-month investigation – but have still pulled his module from their syllabus.

He accused senior academics of ‘capitulating’ to the threats of students who had called for the module at Bristol University’s law school to be scrapped over his ‘reported use of discriminatory remarks and Islamophobic comments’.

An online petition which was launched by members of the university’s Islamic Society, Brisoc, attracted 3,700 signatures.

Meanwhile, Prof Greer said he had to flee the family home amid fears for his safety following the campaign against him.

Critics claimed a lecture slide that mentioned the 2015 terror attack on the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo, a magazine that had published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, was ‘Islamophobic rhetoric’.

Prof Greer also highlighted the inferior treatment of women and non-Muslims in Islamic nations, and the harsh penalties handed out under sharia law.

But he believes he largely came under attack because he supports the Government’s Prevent programme to stop radicalisation, which critics have branded anti-Islamic.

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