8th of March marks International Women’s Day. At BMSDemocracy we are proud of the strong female leadership that founded the organisation and continues to lead it. Here is a Women’s Day message from our chair, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Being a Muslim woman is both exciting and challenging as the Muslim world is still pulled towards modernity…
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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown explores the increasingly austere nature of Muslim culture and art on Radio 4. This programme has been selected as Pick of the Day by the Guardian and the Sunday Times this Wednesday. Listen to it from Wednesday 27th February 2019.
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BMSDemocracy is pleased to have attended the APPG British Muslims ‘Islamophobia Defined’ report launch yesterday in parliament. Defining Islamophobia as a racism is an important step towards challenging the institutional barriers and hate crime Muslims face in Britain.
According to news reports, Pakistani Christian Asia Bibi asylum, recently freed after having been on death row for 8 years for blasphemy, has been denied asylum in the UK.