Debate: From Fatwa and book burning to Jihad and hate laws: Twenty years of 'free speech wars'
Place: Bishopsgate Institute, 230 Bishopsgate, London EC2M 4QH
Date: 12 February 2009
Time: 19:00 - 21:00
Price: £7 (concs £5); advance booking required
In February 1989, five months after the publication of _The Satanic Verses_, Ayotollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against its author Salman Rushdie. It is often seen as a pivotal moment in shaping the landscape of contemporary Western society. So, twenty years on, what is the legacy of the most famous free speech controversy of modern times?
Kenan Malik
Author, _From Fatwa to Jihad: the Salman Rushdie affair and its legacy_ (Atlantic Books, 2009)
In debate with:
Tariq Modood
Professor of Sociology, Bristol University; Director, University Research Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship.
Respondents include:
Stephen Law
Provost, Centre for Inquiry London
Amol Rajan
Reporter at the _The Independent_
Jo Glanville
Editor, _Index on Censorship_
Maleiha Malik
Reader in law, King's College, London
Inayat Bunglawala
Muslim Council of Britain
Chair: Claire Fox
Director, Institute of Ideas
This debate is presented by the Institute of Ideas and the Bishopsgate Institute, in association with _Index on Censorship_.
More information and booking at
http://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/events_details.asp?EventsID=342
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