PHOTO: BMSD Chair at the Civic Education Conference in Tunis.
BMSD Chair, Dr Nasreen Rehman at the Civic Education Conference, May 2016 in Tunis.
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BMSD to host Prevent Symposium on 23.05.2016, alongside the University of East London and Middlesex University
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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BMSD Director of Media Tehmina Kazi speaks on Islam and LGBT issues at the University of Leicester – 27.04.2016
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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BMSD receives praise from Essex Humanists in their April 2016 newsletter – 25.04.2016
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BMSD Chair Nasreen Rehman’s statement on the murder of Asad Shah – 08.04.2016
We lament the murder of Asad Shah, who was killed in Glasgow because of his faith. Nobody has the right to adjudicate on how individuals and groups interpret their faiths. Vigilantism is against the basic principles of Islam and the rule of law. Furthermore, no citizen has the right to take the law into his…
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Why Charlie Hebdo was right to address the Brussels attacks – 08.04.2016
by Tehmina Kazi, in Quillette magazine Once again, satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo has received significant opprobrium – much of it unjustified — for its recent editorial on the Brussels attacks. Posing the question “How did we end up here?” the editorial was a paean to secularism. It bemoaned the average French citizen’s inability to…
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