From The Muslim News:

Britain’s university lecturers and academics have voted unanimously [at a meeting of the University and College Union] to reject Government plans to join a “witch hunt” against Muslim students…The UCU…called on its 120,000 members to “resist attempts by Government to engage colleges and universities in activities which amount to increased surveillance of Muslim or other minority students and to the use of members of staff for such witch-hunts.”

Security? Who me worry, say they? You security cops are on your own:“Congress resolves to oppose the ethnic profiling of students and staff for the purposes of immigration control or security purposes…challenge incursions of the security and immigration services onto…campuses and…refuse to cooperate with attempts to “transform education into an extension of the security services”…

UCU General Secretary, Sally Hunt, said…, “Lecturers want to teach students, if they wanted to police them they would have joined the force”…

Recall that the government recently issued new guidelines for universities, declaring “violent extremism in the name of Islam is a real, credible and sustained threat to the UK.” (No joke, witness the latest round of attempted terrorist attacks in London and Scotland.) The authorities are asking university staff “to log suspicious behaviour by Muslim students and societies,” and they want “to vet all non-EU postgraduates applying to study a range of potentially sensitive subjects” (say, nuclear engineering technology). Meanwhile, former Prime Minister Tony Blair warns that Britain is in danger of losing the battle against Islamic terrorists unless mainstream society pulls together and joins in confronting the threat.UK academics seem to think they’re above that sort of thing—for now. But they’ll be the first to scream bloody murder when jihadists threaten their lives.