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VIDEO: BMSD Director of Media Tehmina Kazi and Dr Usama Hasan speak on Islamic reform at the AHS Convention

BMSD signs NSS open letter to Education Secretary: Government must respect children’s rights and abolish collective worship requirement – 17.06.2016

Posted: Fri, 17 Jun 2016 10:49 Thirty campaigners, including academics, MPs, peers, faith groups and educators, have called on the Government to abolish the law requiring Christian worship in English schools, following criticism of the practice from the UN. The signatories to the letter, organised by the National Secular Society, include Ted Cantle, who warned…

External blog post: Tehmina Kazi reading and Muslim LGBT activism at University of Leicester – 29.06.2016

Posted by Alberto Fernández Carbajal in Queering Islam on June 29, 2016 As the final event of the Queering Islam events series for 2015-2016, Tehmina Kazi, the Director of British Muslims for Secular Democracy, visited us at the University of Leicester to do a reading of her story ‘The Tulip Asylum’, a story about homosexuality…

BMSD Director of Media Tehmina Kazi gives presentation on Islam and citizenship education at Benenden School – 15.06.2016

This was a presentation given to a group of local Religious Education teachers, from different schools. The Director of Media discussed a number of pioneering projects in this area, and the importance of teaching philosophy and critical thinking skills to students was repeatedly emphasised. The Director of Media recommended some progressive texts for the creation…

BMSD Director of Media Tehmina Kazi appears in Ramadan Bites video on compassion for New Horizons – 12.06.2016

BMSD Director of Media Tehmina Kazi addresses Scottish Secular Society event on sectarianism in Glasgow – 13.06.2016

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