Here is a thing, and a bad thing at that. Last weekend University College London was the venue for a public debate entitled: “Islam or Atheism: Which Makes More Sense?” The debatees were a godless American scientist and a pious Muslim convert whose outfit, the Islamic Education and Research Academy (or iERA) had organised the debate.
When people arrived at the doors of the large lecture theatre where the debate was to be held, they were then directed either to enter at the Ladies’ or the Gentlemen’s entrances. Inside iERA had arranged for there to be an area for men only, an area for women only and one which was to be “mixed”. Three young male students who attempted to sit in the women-only area