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  • Petition: Keep the Public Sector Equality Duty | 18 Apr 2013

    • Andy Greeg, one of our trustees has started the petition “The British Government: Keep the Public Sector Equality Duty” and needs your help to get it off the ground. Will you take 30 seconds to sign it right now? Here’s why it’s important: If you are affected disproportionately by stop and search policies, school exclusions,…

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  • Sadia Khan | 7 Jan 2013

    • Sadia Khan, Bindman’s human rights lawyer, winning an excellence award.   Tweet

  • Mo Farah | 26 Aug 2012

    • And the patron saint of this country on Saturday night became a skinny man called Mohamed who was born in Mogadishu, a devout Muslim who last weekend said the best moment of his life was not winning a gold medal but seeing his daughter, Rihanna, and pregnant wife, Tania, walk on to the track to…

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  • Cassandra Balchin | 14 Jul 2012

    • (24 May 1962 – 12 July 2012) All of us at bmsd are deeply saddened by ‘the sudden and untimely death’ of Cassandra Balchin, our friend and colleague. Below is the text of the address delivered by Dr. Ghayasuddin Siddiqui at her memorial. We are gathered here today to remember Cassandra Balchin. Her sudden and…

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  • Engendering justice? | 14 May 2013

    • As anti-rape protests in India reverberate globally and FEMEN gain high-profile coverage, Tehmina Kazi calls for a more inclusive feminism. It was a bitterly cold night in New Delhi, 16th December 2012. A 23-year-old woman and her male friend were travelling on the bus, just like any other day. What followed would send shock waves…

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  • What the Boston Bombings Can Teach Muslims | 7 May 2013

    • For the most part, commentary on the Boston Marathon bombings has been saturated with the usual mixture of glib statements (“Whoever did this is not a Muslim.”), hyper defensiveness (“It’s all a conspiracy, don’t you know!”) or a disturbingly ignorant approach which chews up civil liberties and spits them out (“Ban the hijab!”). Eight-year-old Martin…

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  • The squash star who had to pretend to be a boy | 20 Mar 2013

    • Maria Toorpakai Wazir is a star squash player with a promising international career. Born in Waziristan, a highly conservative region of Pakistan, she had to disguise herself as a boy when she took up the sport – and later received ominous threats for playing in shorts. “I am a warrior, I was born a warrior,…

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  • Inter- Faith Relations with Marjorie Crombie | 19 Mar 2013

    • It’s lonely at the top so the saying goes, but as those working at the charity British Muslims for Secular Democracy know too well, it can be quite lonely- sometime even dangerous- in the middle too.



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