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Who Allowed ISIS To Flourish And Who Is Benefiting From Their Murderous Onslaught?
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Monday, September 8, 2014
The first woman Sughra Ahmed appointed president of the Islamic Society of Britain, Sughra Ahmed,
THE first woman to be appointed president of the Islamic Society of Britain, Sughra Ahmed, will give the next Ferguson Lecture at Bishop’s Stortford College.
She will give an insight into Islam, Christianity and British Muslims.
The Ferguson Lectures are a programme to provide opportunities for people to meet, discuss and ponder on a wide range of contemporary topics, named after an eminent former pupil Professor John Ferguson to commemorate his outstanding contribution to education.
Sughra, pictured, is programmes manager at the Woolf Institute in the Centre for Policy and Public Education at Cambridge, where she has responsibility for the design and delivery of research and training on issues such as faith, belief, integration and cohesion.
Previously, she worked as research fellow in the Policy Research Centre where she explored the migratory and settlement experiences of first generation Muslim women and men in the UK, and worked with a number of organisations to consider the issues young people face whilst growing up in the UK and the impact of this on wider British communities. She has published a number of papers and key reports – Seen and Not Heard: Voices of Young British Muslims (2009) andBritish by Dissent (2014).
Sughra is a trustee of the Inter Faith Network UK, the president of Islamic Society of Britain and an advisor to FaithxChange. She has a BA (Hons) in English language and literature and an MA in Islamic studies. She is also a qualified chaplain and holds a diploma in Islamic jurisprudence.
Active in interfaith work both locally and nationally working with organisations to help build stronger and more effective relationships across faith and beliefs, Sughra regularly contributes to debates in the media and is a contributor to Radio 2’s Pause for Thought. She was recently awarded the Noor Inayat Khan Memorial Award, for Muslim Woman of the Year at the British Muslim Awards.
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UK Muslim women boxers enter the ring, fearless fighters
I have come to an amateur boxing club based in Sandy's community centre in Craigmillar to smack a battered punchbag with British student boxing champion Saira Tabasum. Next week Tabasum will take a starring role in No Guts, No Heart, No Glory, a play developed by former UK female boxing champion Ambreen Sadiq and theatre company Common Wealth. Via monologues set in a ring, the site-specific show tells the stories of teenage Muslim women from Bradford: young, fearless women who obliterate convention by boxing.
"Someone said why don't you do a play about FGM or honour killings, but in a way we actually are," says No Guts' director and producer Evie Manning. "We're tackling the issue before it happens. It's about having the confidence to follow your dream."
The play focuses on those who have challenged their premeditated futures, its writers crafting characters far removed from the submissive stereotypes of Muslim women found in mainstream culture. "There's a massive invisibility of Muslim women in the media. So this play gives them a wider platform for their voice."
Unlike Common Wealth's last run at the fringe – Our Glass House, created from testimonies of real-life domestic abuse cases – this aims to glorify rather than lament: "We're kind of celebrating," says Manning. "We don't really linger on oppression for very long. It gets a mention but we didn't want to do the typical Asian storylines where you have someone struggling against the hijab – we're not interested in that. We just want to show five very confident women onstage and we don't need to show all the bullshit that goes with that."
As I stand at a 45-degree angle with my fists raised, the smell of stale sweat wafting through the air with every swipe of the glove, I grit my teeth. "You don't have hate for the other person," Tabasum assures me, quashing my preconception about the bravado of boxing in one blow. "You see people hugging it out after a fight. In minutes you can be finished and thanking someone for the experience."
After its week in Edinburgh the show will transfer to Huggy's boxing gym in Bradford and Moss Side fire station boxing gym in Manchester. Inspiring, but without the weight of worthiness, it is well worth leaving the pleasantries of the theatre for.
Rebiya Kadeer Uyghur, Chinese national businesswoman
| Rebiya Kadeer | |
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| Born | 15 November 1946 |
| Residence | Virginia,[1] United States |
| Nationality | Chinese |
| Ethnicity | Uyghur |
| Occupation | Political activist |
| Known for | President of the World Uyghur Congress |
| Religion | Sunni Islam |
| Rebiya Kadeer | |||
| Chinese name | |||
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| Traditional Chinese | 熱比婭·卡德爾 | ||
| Simplified Chinese | 热比娅·卡德尔 | ||
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| Uyghur name | |||
| Uyghur |
رابىيە قادىر
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Rebiya Kadeer (Uyghur: رابىيە قادىر; Chinese: 热比娅·卡德尔; born 15 November 1946) is an ethnic Uyghur, Chinese national businesswoman and activist. Born in China's Xinjiang region[vague], Kadeer became a millionaire in the 1980s through her real estate holdings and ownership of a multinationalconglomerate. Kadeer held various positions in China's parliament and other political institutions before being arrested in 1999 for sending confidentialinternal reference reports to her husband, who worked in the United States as a pro-Xinjiang independence broadcaster. After she was discharged to the United States in 2005 on compassionate release, Kadeer claimed various leadership titles from overseas Uyghur separatist organizations such as theWorld Uyghur Congress. Kadeer speaks Uyghur and Mandarin Chinese
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