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Tuesday, May 01, 2012

LMU Students Fight Back Against Fuckwittery



On 13th April I wrote the following:
"Congratulations to London Metropolitan University (one of this country's "older" bastions of learning, founded in 2002) for demonstrating some supreme fuckwittery.

Professor Malcolm Gillies, its vice chancellor, has told a conference that the university is considering banning the sale of alcohol from some parts of the campus.


For why?


Seemingly, according to the Prof, a "high percentage" of students consider drinking "immoral".


Really?


Has he actually asked them?


Students find drinking immoral?


Is it compulsory for students to drink?


No, I thought not!


On planet does the Prof live?


Ah, wait a minute, I see.


It seems that 20% of the students are Muslim, and the Prof is using the excuse of "cultural sensitivity" to promote his own personal belief (as stated in his speech) that he "
was not a great fan of alcohol on campus".

It seems a pretty lousy tactic to use other people's religious beliefs as an excuse to promote your own prejudices, given that the students attend the university of their own free will and are not forced to drink.
"
My compliments to the Muslim students of LMU who are fighting back against this nonsense.

They quite rightly have pointed out that using other people's alleged religious beliefs, as an excuse to ban something, will only stoke up trouble. The students said that the prospective alcohol ban was “ill-advised and misleading”, demonising them and exacerbating “Islamophobia” at the university and in wider society.

As expected, the proposals have created an atmosphere of ill-feeling amongst students.

In an open letter, students have demanded a retraction and an apology for his comments:
There has never been a demand for an alcohol ban on campus from Muslim or non-Muslim students. 

The Muslim population at London Met stands at approximately 20 per cent, so assuming all Muslims at the campus were in favour of the ban, this could not be imposed as it would go against the fundamental principal of democracy.”
They go on to say:

We find your argument to ban alcohol on religious grounds baseless, divisive and irresponsible and we are concerned about the welfare of the students. 

Such an unreasonable proposal which clearly many non-Muslims view as an attack by Muslims against their way of life, is absolutely of no benefit to the Muslim students and the wider Muslim community at all. 

In fact it demonises them even more and it will be used as baseless evidence to show how Britain is becoming a ‘shariastate', particularly by far right groups such as the EDL who have already capitalised upon this and added it to their campaign against minority groups."
It is suspected that cultural issues were being used as an excuse to justify a potentially unpopular decision not to renew the bar’s lease.
Unsurprisingly, LMU now appears to be backing down:
"London Met has no plans to implement a ‘blanket ban’ on alcohol across its campuses, rather it is about the very practical realities of a student life that may involve going to class in the morning and needing a place to work later in the day."
The observant will note that the above statement (after the bit about no "blanket ban"), is meaningless nonsense wrt the issue at hand; clearly LMU is very rattled by the furore, and wants to extricate itself from its self imposed mess.

Nanny plays a dangerous game when she tries to use others' alleged beliefs as an excuse for imposing her own prejudices!

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5 comments:

  1. Tonk.1:00 PM

    Good!
    I stated at the time that, all too often, people get offended on behalf of others that aren't actually offended at all.

    I am also slightly surprised that the highly educated students still believe,somewhat nievely, that we still live in a democracy in this once great country.

    I really think that, the day our government at that time, upgraded all the politechnics and colleges to universities, was the day the government did a diservice to education in this country and did it, just for political reasons.

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    1. I think the students who wrote the letter, and stuck up for those who do drink, are a credit to the university!:)

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    2. Tonk.6:12 PM

      Ken,
      Agreed.....It appears the students have better judgement and a better sense of fair play than the LMU management.

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  2. Nice article, thanks for the information.

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  3. Lord of Atlantis11:05 AM

    Ken:"....using other people's alleged religious beliefs, as an excuse to ban something, will only stoke up trouble. The students said that the prospective alcohol ban was “ill-advised and misleading”, demonising them and exacerbating “Islamophobia” at the university and in wider society."

    I couldn't agree more! Isn't what those of us with half a brain cell have been saying for years? It's the political correctness gestapo who cause most trouble and ill-feelings: ironically, far from preventing racism and other evils, it is largely their dictats which provoke and cause such sentiments to flourish!

    "I think the students who wrote the letter, and stuck up for those who do drink, are a credit to the university!"

    Well said! You are spot on, as usual!

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