Does the UK believe in freedom of speech anymore?

From the American Thinker:

Free speech loses to Islamists at UK universities

Two events last week crystallized the grave danger facing freedom of speech in the United Kingdom.

Warwick U. Students’ Union Censors Speaker against Radical Islam, Then Caves

Miryam Namazie is a human rights campaigner, critic of Islamism, and member of the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain. Warwick Atheists, Secularists and Humanists Society (WASH) invited her to speak at Warwick University in Coventry, England on October 28. The university’s students’ union then rescinded the invitation on the stated grounds that Namazie was “highly inflammatory” and could spread hatred and intolerance against Muslims.

WASH’s president objected and began an online petition asking the union to reverse its decision. Prominent people, including Richard Dawkins and physicist Brian Cox, signed the petition. Others, like Salman Rushdie and science writer Ben Goldacre, also criticized the decision. Dawkins complained, “To ban a speaker you happen to disagree with is a contemptible betrayal of everything a university stands for.” Rushdie echoed this observation, commenting, “Protecting students from ideas is idiocy. It is the free play of ideas that universities must protect.” Under the public pressure, the students’ union buckled and reversed course on September 27, offering a “full and unequivocal apology” to Namazie.