FEMALE students were banned from speaking during a seminar run by an Islamic society at a leading university.

They were also forced to walk through a “sisters only” entrance to attend the event at Queen Mary University of London, and were segregated from men by being seated at the back of the lecture theatre.

Men were able to ask questions by raising their hands but female students had to write down their queries for Ustadh Abu Abdillah, the speaker of the event, which was hosted by the Queen Mary Islamic Society, and pass them to the front.

One Queen Mary student, a devout Muslim who attended last month’s seminar, titled Deception of the Dunya (world) and which centred on living morally, said she found the