BMSD stands in solidarity with Muslims in China who are suffering horrendous human rights abuses at the hands of Chinese authorities. The Chinese government has been ruthless and totalitarian in its endeavour to crackdown on its Uighur Muslim minority. Since 2017, there has been a cultural genocide taking place in the Xinjiang province where Uighur…
BMSD remembers the 1995 genocide in Srebrenica where over 8,000 people were massacred and over 30,000 people were displaced on this day 25 years ago. Authorities in both Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina must ensure that those responsible for war crimes are punished and that justice is given to both the survivors and relatives of victims from…
Weekly News Bulletin: Saturday 27 – Sunday 5 July 2020 Below is a weekly round up of all relevant new stories across the past week which included stories relating to Covid-19, BAME people, LGBT people, women, the far right and hate crime. Coronavirus and BAME‘Don’t call me BAME’: Why some people are rejecting the term Ensuring…
What we need to learn from Reading – and what we’ve ignored from past acts of terror Here’s a rather different way to start your day. Once a group of people with an interest in raising the aspirations of young British Muslims went early one morning to a north London house where a project called…
“Coronavirus conspiracy theorists have spread baseless rumors online -- frequently targeting minorities -- since the beginning of the pandemic. In England the latest wave of vitriol criticizes Muslims, blaming them for spreading Covid-19.” http://ow.ly/s9Fs30r3fWv
BMSD stands in solidarity with Muslims in China who are suffering horrendous human rights abuses at the hands of Chinese authorities. The Chinese government has been ruthless and totalitarian in its endeavour to crackdown on its Uighur Muslim minority. http://ow.ly/Hu7z30r0xyz
BMSDemocracy was founded in 2006 by Nasreen Rehman and Yasmin Alibhai-Brown.
We bring together a diverse group of Muslim democrats from a variety of ethnic and social backgrounds. We want to challenge perceptions, ideas and current thinking about British Muslims as a collective and the issues that affect the wider British society.
BMSDemocracy advocates and supports secularism, tolerance, equal and civil rights for all, in both general British and specifically Muslim contexts. Secularism is the separation of state and faith. Britain- with its established church and state funded faith schools- is not yet a secular state.
We promote inclusion and encourage the secular Muslim voice. We stand against all forms of racism and discriminations, radicalisation and terrorisms. We uphold human rights and aim to empower and engage diverse British Muslims so they can fully participate in democratic processes within the nation, local areas, mosques and families. We promote universal principles such as the right to vote, freedom of thought and expression, personal autonomy and dissent.
