Nor do I. But you have to allow public expressions of a lack of faith also, and people who want a more secular system should be allowed to call for it. I can respect someone’s right to hold a belief but in any sane system I should be allowed to disagree, including to the point of offending them if I have to, to prove that their esoteric laws on blasphemy don’t apply to non-believers.
Ignoring the one nation under god rubbish, the US gets secularity pretty right. The UK is stuck in the middle ages with an established church, and bishops in the upper house of government. Something which desperately needs changing.
If anything, the universities in these cases are guilty of islamophobia, so scared are they of causing offence to the vocal minority. They’ve completely surrendered the middle ground and are actively stifling debate - which I would think should be anathema to a university.
