Citing the recent anti-Muslim attacks in New Zealand, a Calgary university suddenly cancelled an event by Armin Navabi, an Iranian-Canadian atheist activist who was scheduled to deliver a talk critical of Islam. Hosted as part of a speaker series organized by the Atheist Society of Calgary, it was to be held at Mount Royal University. The Atheist Society of Calgary has since said the cancellation was akin to acceding to the wishes of the New Zealand gunman. “The only way to reform Islam is to abandon Islam,” he wrote in a 2017 tweet. — Armin Navabi (@ArminNavabi) June 3, 2017This is the second time in a month that Navabi has been involved in a controversy about on-campus free speech.

Source: National Post March 21, 2019 23:00 UTC