Call for tolerance from writer-artist critics of Islam and their protestors

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When the Banksy mural in Clacton-on-Sea highlighting racism was scrubbed away on the orders of the local council because they thought it was racist, it sparked off some mild amusement at the irony of the local authority’s actions. For Anshuman (known as Anshu) Mondal, Reader in English at Brunel University London, the incident—a comment on the defection of the local Tory MP, Douglas Carswell to the right-wing political party, UKIP (he then won the seat in the Clacton by-election earlier this month)— is one of many examples highlighting the politics of giving and taking offence. The author of a new book, Islam and Controversy: The Politics of Free Speech After Rushdie, Mondal is clear that multicultural society has exposed confusions within liberal understandings of free speech.

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