Monday, 3rd July 2006

'The laissez faire approach to Britishness citizenship and identity can not continue. We need a new civic contract', argued Sadiq Khan MP in a major Fabian speech on being a British Muslim, in association with The City Circle, Q-News and Fosis, the federation of student Islamic Societies.

Speakers: Sadiq Khan, Mohammed Abdul Bari, John Denham, Shahedah Vawda, Humera Khan

Arguing that the success of the BNP in Barking and Dagenham and the appeal of Islamist extremists to young Muslims showed that there were 'mirrors of exclusion and extremism' among poor white and Muslim communities, Khan set out a next decade agenda for equal citizenship across all communities and reflecting on the lessons of the year since the July 7th 2005 terrorist bombs in London.

Sadiq Khan is Labour MP for Tooting. His lecture on Being a British Muslim took place on Monday 3rd July, at a Fabian Society event at Friends House, Euston held in association with The City Circle, Fosis and Q-News. The event included included responses from Mohammed Abdul Bari, the new Secretary-General of the Muslim Council of Britain, John Denham MP, Shahedah Vawda of The City Circle and Humera Khan of An-Nisa

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