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Lost in Translation
Civitas, 5 June
It has recently been announced that Sir Iqbal Sacranie is to step down as head of the Muslim Council of Britain in favour of his deputy, Dr Muhammed Abdul Bari.
A BBC news profile of Dr Bari informs us that he is chairman of the East London Mosque, as well as a specialist teacher in London’s Tower Hamlet for something the web-site terms ‘behaviour support’ and for which, it further reports, Dr Bari received an MBE in
According to this profile of him, at last year’s general election, Dr Bari, in his capacity as chairman of the London Mosque, helped to secure a healthy turnout of the Muslim vote in London’s East End by informing its attendees they had a duty to vote.
It would be tempting, although doubtless mistaken, to think that part of Dr Bair’s remit as a teacher of ‘behaviour support’ involved this call to active citizenship.
To think this of what falls under Dr Bari’s remit as a teacher of ‘behaviour support’, would doubtless be mist
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Muslim leader assesses Leeds mood
By Dominic Casciani |
Friday is the Muslim day of reflection. For senior members of the Muslim Council of Britain, it would also be a day of listening as they sped around Leeds.
The organisation's leader Sir Iqbal Sacranie was here to see for himself the aftermath of the week's events. His assessment will be going to Downing Street next week when he will personally tell the prime minister what is going on in Leeds.
But would he be able to find out what had gone on? More to the point, is he in a position to know what the younger generations think?
We have to share the responsibility for dealing with this so that the scourge of evil is eradicated Sir Iqbal Sacranie |
In Beeston, the scene of much of the police's investigation into bombers Shehzad Tanweer, Mohammad Sidique Khan and Hasib Hussein, Sir Iqbal was due to meet commu
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18th Apr
Sir Iqbal Sacranie on Islamophobia Multiculturalism and Extremism
Dr. Mozammel Haque
Media Advisor
Islamic Cultural Centre, London
Since British Prime Minister, David Cameron&#;s Speech at Munich, there have been lots of debates, discussions and deliberations on the subject, whether multiculturalism has failed or not. New Statesman&#;s Senior Editor (Politics), Mehdi Hassan, disputed the claim that multiculturalism has failed in his write-up, &#;In defence of multiculturalism&#; in New Statesman, dated 31st March inom have shown before what the scholars and academicians think about the situation of Multiculturalism and their responses to the British Prime Minister&#;s speech. Their scholarly observations and comments are of great value and importance. But inom was interested to know the feeling of the common people of this country. Sir Iqbal Sacranie, the former Secretary General of the Muslim Counci