Tom Holland who tried to deny the existence of Muhammad appears to be proposing to censor the Koran

TOM HOLLAND

THE CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS LECTURE: DE-RADICALISING MUHAMMAD

Event 138 • Monday 25 May 2015, 1pm • Venue: Tata Tent

What do the Charlie Hebdo murders and the rise of the Islamic State owe to Islam? It would be comforting to insist, as many have done, that they owe nothing at all; but Holland, in the inaugural Christopher Hitchens Lecture, argues that the truth is more complex. The best way to combat jihadism, he proposes, is to recognise the centrality of Muhammad to Islam – and that he comes in many forms. There is the moral leader who swallowed abuse peaceably; and there is the war leader who ordered people who insulted him put to death. How best, then, to de-radicalise the Prophet? Tom Holland is author of In The Shadow of the Sword, Rubicon, Persian Fire, Millennium and the new translation of The Histories by Herodotus. Chaired by Katrin Bennhold of the New York Times.

This event will be palentyped.

Price: £9.00

My final gig at @hayfestival is the inaugural Christopher Hitchens lecture: 'De-radicalising Muhammad'. https://t.co/6Oh3RQNl1S

— Tom Holland (@holland_tom) May 23, 2015

@holland_tom @hayfestival You don't even know what radicalise means and you sure as hell can't de-radicalise a dead man. Talking CRAP.

— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) May 23, 2015

@holland_tom @hayfestival Define "radicalise". Hope your audience are not so shit for brains they let you get away with not defining it.

— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) May 23, 2015

@holland_tom @hayfestival Sounds to me what you suggest has been proposed by @GerardBattenMEP. Let's see you blue pencil the Koran, punk.

— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) May 23, 2015

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/world/2014/02/05/MEP-wants-British-Muslims-to-denounce-parts-of-the-Quran.html

@holland_tom @hayfestival Don't forget to take a Koran into your show with your blue pencil and then post online what you expurgated, OK?

— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) May 23, 2015

If you nuked the #hayfestival Britain would be rid of its libtards.

— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) May 23, 2015

Punk of a libtard historian proposes to "deradicalise Muhammad". @anjemchoudary @MuslimCouncil @Muslim_Patrol https://t.co/ZrH8v5CLgW

— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) May 23, 2015

http://thevoiceofreason-ann.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/tom-hollands-untold-history-of-islam.html