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The terror that dares not speak its name: Fear and silence in the UK

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Mar 28, 2024
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Protesters gathered outside Batley Grammar School in March 2021

There’s a blasphemy law in the UK and the rest of the West. No Parliament voted for it. No court enforces it. There is no presumption of innocence, and no possible appeal against conviction – even when the sentence is death.

We have known ever since Iran ordered the execution of Salman Rushdi…

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