By Tehmina Kazi In what appears to be the worst mass shooting in US history, 29-year-old Omar Mateen opened fire in a gay Florida nightclub at 2am on Sunday, killing 50 people and injuring up to 53 others. Orlando sheriff Jerry Demings called the shooting a “domestic terror incident” and the FBI — who already…
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The UK’s Counter-Terrorism Strategy Is Flawed – Is There an Alternative? 31/05/2016 12:04 | Updated 31 May 2016 London saw some of the most exceptional minds congregated on the 23rd of May for a symposium on a crucial part of the Government’s counter-terrorism strategy – Prevent. The event was run by British Muslims for Secular…
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By Tehmina Kazi in Sedaa Unlike other articles on Muslim women’s sartorial trends, this one will not start with a terrible “thinly-veiled” pun, or a picture of a woman with her face covered in black cloth. Shazia Hobbs managed to avoid both these traps in her “Ban the burqa” article, which correctly identified religious fundamentalism…
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BMSD Chair, Dr Nasreen Rehman at the Civic Education Conference, May 2016 in Tunis.
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Democracy, Integration and Freedom in the Age of Prevent: A Conversation Central London location 23rd May 2016 9am – 1pm The government’s Prevent strategy now includes the imposition on public bodies of a statutory duty proactively to support and implement controversial processes of monitoring for signs of radicalisation. The ‘Prevent Duty’, which obliges schools, universities,…
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Tehmina Kazi (Director of British Muslims for Secular Democracy): A Reading and a Talk 27th April 2016 5.30pm-6.30pm Venue: Attenborough Lecture Theatre 3 (Attenborough Basement Seminar Block) Tehmina Kazi is the Director of Media at the organisation British Muslims for Secular Democracy. She will be reading from her story ‘The Tulip Asylum’, exploring homosexuality in…
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