Teachers could get protection against blasphemy claims under new laws
The report has been influenced by recent blasphemy cases, which has seen some teachers forced into hiding
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What a teacher in hiding can tell us about our failure to tackle intolerance
A class about free speech was cynically exploited by activists to incite fury in a local community
The Guardian - UK ·
OPINION - Theocratic mobs who chill free speech are the opposite of British pluralism
Three years ago, in one of the most egregious educational scandals of recent times, a religious studies teacher at Batley Grammar School in west Yorkshire was vilified, inundated with death threats and driven into hiding — where he and his family still languish — as a punishment for doing his…
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