Fiyaz Mughal OBE, Director of Faith Matters requests the pleasure of your company at our TELL MAMA Fundraising Dinner January 24th, 7.30pm for 8pm. Central London Hotel Guest speakers include Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, Mishal Husain (BBC), Baroness Warsi, Mehdi Hasan and Simon Hughes MP (TBC) £120 per ticket, includes a bespoke three course […]
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Faith Matters launched the MUSAWAAT (Equality) project at the Avari Hotel in Lahore. The aim of this project is to protect and promote equality in Pakistan and imbed a sense of shared values leading to the protection of minority faiths. The Musawaat project will support grassroots level interfaith dialogue and understanding between Christian and Muslim […]
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Published in the Huffington Post, (30/10/12) The invitation I received two months ago was to an interfaith conference between Muslim and Jews in Paris run by the European Jewish Congress and the aims of the session were to discuss issues of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. The conference was therefore based on a seemingly pretty straightforward set […]
Continue ReadingYouth Champions Forum Faith Matters Youth Forum is organising a series of conferences in three UK cities (London, Birmingham and Derby) in partnership with local partners on the theme of inclusion of young people in building community cohesion ‘ Youth CoCo’ . This project is supported by the European Commission. Each conference is organised and […]
Continue Readingby Dr Matthew Feldman, on behalf of Faith Matters Click to View This paper provides an overview of anti-Muslim ‘cultural racism’, which has arisen fervently this century – particularly amongst far-right activists and movements. Feldman attempts to map the way in which the far-right has converged upon anti-Muslim prejudice as a strategy for populist mobilization. […]
Continue ReadingThe TELL MAMA project which is co-ordinated by Faith Matters, has been highlighted by Press TV in a 20 minute documentary which was aired in September 2012. The documentary interviews young visible Muslim women who describe their experiences of anti-Muslim attacks. The documentary also lists the work of TELL MAMA and the kinds of cases […]
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What Draws People of Faith to Right Wing Organisations & What Effects Does the EDL Have on Interfaith Relations? Key findings of the report include: EDL attempts to recruit among faith communities Christian leaders should publicly stand up to EDL UK government should examine group’s international funding Jewish Defence League should be banned Christian organisations […]
Continue Reading“We deplore the comments made by the Pakistani Railways Minister, Ghulam Ahmed Bilour, who has put a $100,000 bounty on the head of the Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, the individual who put together the low-budget trailer for the ‘Innocence of Muslims’ film. Fueling the flames of anger and counter-reaction, the statement has once again put Pakistan […]
Continue ReadingFaith Matters developed the Role of Righteous Muslims Booklet in order to document the stories of Muslims, driven by their faith and the code of honour (BESA), to protect the lives of persecuted Jews in the Holocaust. The code of honour or BESA was fundamental to Albania and many Albanian Muslims protected fellow Jewish Albanians […]
Continue ReadingDeclaration of European Muslim and Jewish Leaders at Paris, September 5th, 2012, ‘A Zero Tolerance Approach for Religious Bigotry.’ This is the text of the Declaration which was launched in Paris in September 2012: We, Muslim and Jewish leaders of Europe, affirm together that in order to ensure the security and well being of millions […]
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