BMSD Director Tehmina Kazi addresses the Council of Christian-Muslim Relations in High Wycombe – 04.02.2015
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BMSD Director Tehmina Kazi wins Manchester University Union debate on the Human Rights Act, arguing that we need to retain it
This House Would Repeal The Human Rights Act 29th January 2015 @ 5:00 pm / 6:30 pm The Human Rights Act (1998) entrenches the UK’s relationship with the European Convention of Human Rights. Supporters of the HRA and the ECHR argue that they protect basic human rights and civil liberties, and prevent successive governments from…
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British Council USA Bridging Voices: Year 1 Projects
Bridging Voices: Year 1 Projects British Muslims for Secular Democracy – Muslims for Progressive Values – Danish Institute: Let’s Talk (and Walking the Walk) In 2014, Let’s Talk (and Walking the Walk) screened the documentary “Ijtihad: Nine Muslims with Progressive Values”, directed by Nancy Graham Holm of the Danish School of Media, in Washington, DC…
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BBC Democracy Day: Islam And Democracy – 20.01.2015
In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, democratic change and Islam have become increasingly important subjects for debate. To mark the BBC’s Democracy Day, this live debate – held in the BBC’s Radio Theatre in London – features guests including Professor Tariq Ramadan, Heba Raouf Ezzat from Cairo University and Kuwaiti artist and poet Shurooq…
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BMSD Director Tehmina Kazi on BBC Woman’s Hour: Freedom of Expression and the Ban of the Burqa in France
BBC Woman's Hour: Freedom of Expression and the Ban of the Burqa in France
Book Review: Women Against Fundamentalism: Stories of Dissent and Solidarity
Public Spirit Posted on 09/01/2015 at 4:25 pm. Tehmina Kazi Women Against Fundamentalism was formed in 1989 in the wake of the Rushdie Affair with the aim of challenging fundamentalist trends in all religions. Though it has now, after twenty-five years, ceased activities, the organization published an edited collection recounting the stories and experiences of…
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Dismantling Nine Mistaken Assumptions about the Paris atrocities
Left Foot Forward 8 January, 2015 Tehmina Kazi of British Muslims for Secular Democracy looks at nine mistaken assumptions doing the rounds about the murders that took place at the offices of Charlie Hebdo yesterday. False Assumption One ‘Charlie Hebdo magazine was needlessly provocative’ Manufacturers of outrage and assorted agitators do not need any kind…
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Prophet Mohammed cartoons: the roots of Muslim fury
Murders in France over cartoons of Mohammed conjure up images of Europe in centuries past when people were put to death for blasphemy The Telegraph By John Bingham, Religious Affairs Editor 8:36PM GMT 07 Jan 2015 It is 400 years since the prospect of people being put to death for blasphemy or heresy was a fact of…
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