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Hate speech and religious conflict: An interfaith perspective.
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Hate speech and religious conflict: An interfaith perspective.
Hate speech and religious conflict: An interfaith perspective.

Hate speech and religious conflict: An interfaith perspective.

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Join us for a panel featuring three key figures in UK faith communties, who will be discussing the rise in religious hate speech directed at and coming from within religious communities. Each of our three speakers will be giving their own unique insight into the current issues affecting their respective faith traditions. This promises to be an enlightening conversation appropriate for everyone. We will be joined by: Lord Parry Mitchell, former Labour peer, who will be talking to us about issues of anti-semitism in UK politics. Dr Salah al-Ansari, Senior Researcher at the London based counter-extremism think-tank Quilliam. Dr al-Ansari was formely Imam at the Central London Mosque and graduated from al-Azhar University in Cairo, widely considered to be one of the foremost schools of Sunni Islam Rev Dr Leah Robinson, a distinguished academic at Edinburgh University who specialises in the study of sectarian violence and Christian peace building in Northern Ireland and Scotland.

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Opens Mon 13th Nov at 7:00 PM (GMT)
40 The Scores, St Andrews KY16 9AS
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