Islamic speaker Hamza Tzortzis has courted controversy in the past
Leicester University in central England has voiced concern after photographs emerged showing hand-written signs directing male and female students to sit in separate sections at a public
talk on the existence of God organised by the university’s Islamic Society, British newspaper The Telegraph has reported.
The meeting was addressed by Hamza Tzortzis, an Islamic speaker who tours university campuses, who was at the centre of controversy over segregation at University College London (UCL) last month.
UCL announced that it was banning his organisation, the Islamic Education & Research Academy (IERA), from its campus after a debate he was addressing descended into farce over the issue of segregation.
The latest row erupted after photographs were published on the internet showing sheets of A4 paper attached to a door reading “brothers” and “sisters” with arrows pointing in opposite directions at the entrance to the event in Leicester.
According to The Telegraph, a separate notice on the website of the University of Leicester Islamic Society (ULISoc), makes clear that while its meetings are open to the public it has a policy of “segregated seating for brothers and sisters at all co-attended events”.
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