Ambiga got it all wrong. University College London
(UCL), the third oldest university and the third best in UK, after Oxford and
Cambridge has banned two muslim speakers, Hamza Tzortzis and Abdul Raheem
Green, because of their views on gender segregation and homosexuality.
Far right groups in the UK, the English Defense
League (EDL) and the British National Party (BNP) are also banned in UK
universities. So to be world class, can local
universities also invite far-right groups such as Perkasa to their own
compounds? Would Ambiga agree that far-right groups like Perkasa allowed
to speak in local universities?
What the local universities should do is to invite
collaborations with top universities, and invite Nobel Laureates for
collaborations and joint research supervisions, to nurture the brightest future
Nobel Laureates. Simply inviting people like Ambiga to talk in local universities
will not turn them into world class institutes.
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