Boycott of Secular Hall
A local “progressive” political group has decided not to use Secular Hall as it believes that the Society had been “displaying gratuitously Islamophobic material” when it publicised a talk on Sunday 1st February 2025 “No Hijab Day: The Lived Experience of Female Ex-Muslims”. An edited response from the Society’s chairman and a member from a Muslim background appear below. We are very sorry that *** decided to not use the Secular Hall. We note that whilst you have chosen to move to a venue which serves alcohol, groups of local Muslim women continue to book the Secular Hall. They wear Hajibs and Niqabs and probably engage in the occasional prayer on our premises. The Secular Society will continue to support a woman's right to choose, and it will no doubt continue to offend the sensibilities of the religious, especially those who have misogyny at the core of their theology. On a worldwide scale, the number of women being forced to wear Niqabs, Hijabs etc dwarfs the number of th...