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Published on: 2/1/2002
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Dr Anthony McRoy, an Irish evangelical researcher, whose recent PhD on British Muslims (Rushdie's Legacy: The Emergence of a Radical British Muslim Identity) analyses the tensions in higher education, writes of "both institutional and overt Islamophobia" in the NUS, and, increasingly, among the heads of universities.
He cites the 1998 report Extremism and Intolerance on Campus, by the then Committee for Vice Chancellors and Principals (now Universities UK).
The raison d'ĂȘtre for the report was an alleged increase in anti-semitism from Muslim sources reported by the NUS.
No Muslim organisation was consulted during the CVCP's investigations, a state of affairs confirmed by the NUS and described by Fosis as insulting.
"This gave the impression that not just the CVCP, but also the NUS itself had conspired to produce a report that British Muslims saw as blatantly Islamophobic with draconian consequences for British Muslim students," says McRoy.