By Iona Craig
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City University journalism lecturers Rosie Waterhouse and Paul Anderson’s ‘ideological contradictions expose their conscious ignorance, and some may say, out right hatred for the Islamic way of life and all Muslims’ according to a statement by City University’s Islamic Society (ISoc).

In response to a comment piece written by senior lecturer Rosie Waterhouse published in The Independent, which had already caused some controversy, as well as  a blog post by colleague Paul Anderson the ISoc claims Waterhouse and  Anderson ‘do not want to understand or discuss the Islamic way of life’.

The statement titled: Secularism is not Islamophobia, but Secularists are Islamophobic ends with something of a challenge to the soon to be  new vice-chancellor Professor Paul Curran:

It is time the ISoc stands up, defends itself and fights back against the likes of Ms Waterhouse and Mr Anderson; two confused secularists that promote significantly preposterous views. So where do we go from here? Well, a new vice-chancellor is due to take over in August, indeed it will be a brave vice-chancellor who confronts this issue.