According to my electronic copy of today’s Times, a gentleman named Reza Pankhurst has been lecturing at the London School of Economics. Aside from the irony of a gentleman named Pankhurst espousing religious views which could be seen as diametrically opposed to those of his eminent Mancunian namesake Mrs Emmeline, one is struck with a little discombobulation and confusion.
One part of my mind tells me this is lunacy; a reputable academic institution should not allow itself to be used for spreading the primitive superstitions of religious extremists, but another part of my mind says that a western European university is perhaps the best place for a fundamentalist nut; it is, after all, in these great cathedrals of academia that such a gentleman might find his ideas challenged with academic rigour, by young people who are minded to view that which they are told in a critical fashion.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle6988753.ece
I’m curious as to the views of the panel.
One part of my mind tells me this is lunacy; a reputable academic institution should not allow itself to be used for spreading the primitive superstitions of religious extremists, but another part of my mind says that a western European university is perhaps the best place for a fundamentalist nut; it is, after all, in these great cathedrals of academia that such a gentleman might find his ideas challenged with academic rigour, by young people who are minded to view that which they are told in a critical fashion.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle6988753.ece
I’m curious as to the views of the panel.
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