{"id":689,"date":"2009-01-07T15:34:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T15:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2009\/01\/07\/institute-of-ideas-event\/"},"modified":"2009-01-07T15:34:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-07T15:34:00","slug":"institute-of-ideas-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2009\/01\/07\/institute-of-ideas-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Institute of Ideas Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Fatwa and Book-Burning to Jihad and Hate Laws: Twenty Years of Free-Speech Wars <br \/>Thursday 12 February 2009, 7-9pm @ Bishopsgate Institute, 230 Bishopsgate, London EC2M 4QH<\/p>\n<p>Two speakers will give lectures exploring the impact of the Rushdie affair on our perceptions of free speech, multiculturalism and Islam:<\/p>\n<p>Kenan Malik, author, From Fatwa to Jihad: the Salman Rushdie affair and its legacy (forthcoming)<\/p>\n<p>Tariq Modood MBE, professor of sociology, Bristol University; director, University Research Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship<\/p>\n<p>Claire Fox will then chair a panel debating the issues and the audience will also have their say in what promises to be a lively discussion.<\/p>\n<p>Respondents include:<\/p>\n<p>Jo Glanville, editor, Index on Censorship<br \/>Stephen Law, Provost, Centre for Inquiry London<br \/>Amol Rajan, reporter at the Independent<br \/>This event is in association with Index on Censorship and Bishopsgate Institute<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.instituteofideas.com\/events\/fatwatojihad.html\">Info + tickets<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Fatwa and Book-Burning to Jihad and Hate Laws: Twenty Years of Free-Speech Wars Thursday 12 February 2009, 7-9pm @ Bishopsgate Institute, 230 Bishopsgate, London EC2M 4QH Two speakers will give lectures exploring the impact of the Rushdie affair on our perceptions of free speech, multiculturalism and Islam: Kenan Malik, author, From Fatwa to Jihad: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}