Britain’s young Muslims feel stereotyped by society and controlled by their communities — this can’t go on For the past eighteen months, I have been speaking to young British Muslims about their deepest fears and secrets Two separate, new surveys make grim reading for British Muslims. The Labour Muslim Network (LMN), has discovered that a third of…
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BMSD was set up 13 years ago to promote active democratic engagement and secularist principles. Secularism- often misunderstood or misrepresented- is not atheism. It is the separation of state and faith in order to guarantee every citizen equal rights. The constitutions of post-colonial Pakistan, India, Tunisia were based on secular rights and responsibilities. Post-Apartheid South…
At a time of the global crisis of Covid 19 and the pandemic that is sweeping the world, BMSD, is grateful to NHS staff at all levels- first responders, health carers, doctors nurses, cleaners and to all the others working tirelessly in providing essential services. Covid 19 infects humans of every race, religion, ethnicity, gender and class.…
This project aims to amplify the voices of minority Muslims, such as LGBT+ Muslims, Black Muslims and minority sects such as Ahmadiyya Muslims.
Who am I? Mona Al Ghussein August 2019 Who am I? I am a Palestinian Muslim born in Kuwait, raised in France and England and consider Britain my home. There is some irony in that of course as it was the British in the infamous Balfour declaration that voided half of my ancestral home in…