Self-censorship threatens 'democratic way of life'

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Three-quarters of people are holding back in expressing their personal opinion in public due to fear of harassment, according to a new report.

Speaking ahead of its publication tomorrow, the government's independent adviser on social cohesion and resilience Dame Sara Khan has told Sunday Morning with Trevor Philips it "poses a threat to our democratic way of life."

The former counter-extremism commissioner talks about a case at Batley Grammar School in West Yorkshire, where a teacher was forced into hiding and received death threats after showing a class a picture of the prophet Muhammed.

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