58 min
16. Freedom of Expression, Islamophobia & Integration - with Faryal & Kieran What Is Going On?
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- News Commentary
A special episode this week with Jack's two housemates, Faryal and Kieran. After the events at Batley Grammar School, Yorkshire, this week, involving a teacher showing a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad in a Religious Studies class, the trio discuss the boundaries of freedom of expression. Faryal brings her experience as a practising muslim to the debate and Jack highlights the issues currently facing France (where the cartoon originated) and it's particular form of state secularism - Laïcité. Questions are posed as to how welcome muslims feel in their own countries, where they sometimes feel that their right to practice their religion is not being respected; and a debate is had over how far reaching freedom of expression should be.
A special episode this week with Jack's two housemates, Faryal and Kieran. After the events at Batley Grammar School, Yorkshire, this week, involving a teacher showing a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad in a Religious Studies class, the trio discuss the boundaries of freedom of expression. Faryal brings her experience as a practising muslim to the debate and Jack highlights the issues currently facing France (where the cartoon originated) and it's particular form of state secularism - Laïcité. Questions are posed as to how welcome muslims feel in their own countries, where they sometimes feel that their right to practice their religion is not being respected; and a debate is had over how far reaching freedom of expression should be.
58 min