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Young Muslims
The Annual Young Muslims Residential is back!
‘A Little Help From My Friends!’
Candover Hall,
Shrewsbury,
Shropshire SY5 7AU
Friday 31st October – Sun 2nd November 2014
Join us for a jam-packed weekend of spirituality, learning, fun and laughter! (For 12-16 year olds).
Swimming, Abseiling, High ropes, Jacobs ladder, Tunnelling, Body sorbing, High-tech laser maze, Buggy building, Buzz, discussions, debates, scenarios, group prayers, reminders, and much, much more!
To book tickets or for more information, click on the image above or go to: www.isb.org.uk
(Membership and sibling discounts available) or email [email protected]
Prices go up 1st October 2014!
A small taster of what to expect: Here
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Bradford
Bradford has been organizing monthly gatherings at local venues. Family, friends, member and non-members have attended and participated. Family/parenting has been a hot topic for discussion both for parents and children. The events have proven successful as we have 30 plus attendees at each event. Childcare is provided allowing young parents to participate.
With Sabbiyah Parvez’s help, we hold girls’ circle regularly. In a welcoming environment, girls feel safe and comfortable discussing issues important to them. TAG (Together Against Grooming) delivered informative sessions and offered safeguarding advice to parents and young people.
Future events
In September we are jointly facilitating a Haj Seminar with Muslim Women’s Council. ISB members will be speaking and sharing their experiences at the event.
‘A walk in the Dales’, a special event women and children to promote health and well-being is also planned.
A seminar by Ahtasham Ali on extremism will be in November.
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Leicester
Hot off the press: ISB Leicester’s ‘Eat’n’Meet’ team have just launched this new campaign to raise funds to support the homeless in Leicester and keep fit and healthy at the same time!
Every Saturday the ISB in partnership with St James the Greater Church serve food to up to 70 homeless and vulnerably housed people in Leicester. ‘Saturday Stop-by’ is a drop in service where we offer a hot nutritious meal, hot and cold refreshments and social & recreational activities.
To help sustain this project we’re encouraging people to take part in our 500 mile charity challenge! This is an opportunity to get fit and active and raise money for a good cause at the same time! You can run, cycle, walk or swim 500 miles over twelve months, (that’s less than 1.5 miles per day!) or you can complete the challenge as a group by sharing out the miles between family and friends!
Once you’ve registered you can download a sponsorship form or go to our Just Giving page and get family, friends and colleagues to sponsor you!
How easy is that?? Come on members, no more excuses about not having enough time to exercise, let’s get fit and healthy together and raise money for a great cause all at the same time!
To register or for more information visit our website: www.isb.org.uk.
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Reflections of a new member
I joined the Islamic Society of Britain following my trip to Living Islam Festival back in July 2014. I was truly inspired by both the quality and amount of work undertaken by all the volunteers.
I have been an ESOL Lecturer for the last 10 years promoting equality and diversity in our communities across Kent. I am also the founder and Head of Medway Arabic School in Chatham, a supplementary school offering Arabic Language tuition from Reception to GCSE Level, Islamic Studies and Quran Recitation.
I am a mother of two who thoroughly reflects on the daily domestic and worldwide news, current political and social affairs as well as History, Religions and of course the Great British Bake off!
I have always strived to give a positive image of Islam in my surroundings engaging with my colleagues, neighbours and the general public. I strongly believe that misconceptions about Islam cannot be eradicated without opening channels of communications between Muslims and other faiths in our society. I believe that ISB could help create a positive image of Islam and I would like to set up the first ISB branch in Kent.”
Mrs Fethia Zrari
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Glasgow
We started with hosting an International Food Bazaar and Café to raise funds for Islam Awareness Week which has become our flagship project and a template for dawah projects in Scotland. Food really is a great way to get diverse people together and share what we love most. Part of the Food Bazaar was the Great Big Bake Off (this will never grow old), judged by Abida Berry and Umran Bollywood (see what I mean) which rounded off a great family day.
We hosted a Question Time with two key politicians from ‘Yes’ and ‘No’ campaigns. The debate was amicable, heated at times but always engaging with both sides presenting strong arguments. Many left having made up their minds and some left even more confused but what is important to remember, and was reflected in the large turnout that day is that Islam teaches us to be socially responsible and politically active for the wellbeing of our society, locally and globally.
Following the news of local girl Aqsa Mahmood leaving her home for Syria, ISB Glasgow organised ‘Leaving Scotland for Syria – Why are some choosing the path to radicalisation’. We brought together an experienced panel of speakers who offered their perspectives and raised various issues. We heard from an esteemed scholar, a youth worker, a human rights lawyer and activist (who happened to be representing the Mahmoods during their difficult time), a police officer in ‘Making Communities Safer’ project and a young Muslim professional women who works in education and the community.
Future events
iSyllabus scholars, Shaykh Ruzwan Mohammad and Shaykh Amer Jamil, with Zubeir Alvi, a qualified teacher and Islamic Education Consultant, have developed the iSyllabus for Schools project for 11-15 year olds,. The Young Muslims ran a successful Year 1 course last year and we are running another Year 1 this year. Our local teachers provide fun, engaging, informative and challenging lessons and are positive role models who have been involved in Muslim youth work.
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Manchester
Family Circle – 13th September 2014
Our monthly Family Circle has been providing an excellent opportunity for people to network. We run it every second Saturday and it provides a mix of scholarly learning, lectures, socialising and children’s activities attracting from 60 to 150 people. At our last family circle on 13 September, our special guest Sufyan Ismail, CEO of MEND (an organisation that promotes political engagement and media involvement) talked about “Islamaphobia – causes and cures”. We also had a crèche and scouts activities for children. At the end, food was served and people enjoyed every bit of it.
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