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Staffordshire University, in England, has apologized to a student who was questioned by a university official after he was seen reading a terrorism studies textbook in the library, The Guardian reported. Mohammed Umar Farooq, who was enrolled in the university’s terrorism, crime and global security master’s program, said he was asked his views on homosexuality, the Islamic State and Al Qaeda. Farooq said he was so unsettled by the incident that he chose not to continue his program.
Staffordshire’s apology to Farooq came after a three-month investigation. The university said it was responding to a “very broad duty … to have due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism.” A new law imposing a duty on universities to counter extremist ideology went into effect in the United Kingdom this week.
