A hugely important event for the advancement of religious freedom and belief took place at Lambeth Palace hosted by the Most Revd Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury. The meeting was between British faith leaders and the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and UK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt. MINAB Chairman Imam Qari Asim, MBE and […]
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office hosted a Big Iftar event, inviting faith and political leaders. The Foreign Secretary RT Hon Jeremy Hunt, and the Minister of State for the COmmonwealth and the UN, Lord Tariq Ahmad, co hosted the Iftar at the FCO celebrating diversity of faith; praying for peace. Imam Qari Asim, Chair of […]
The Mosques & Imams National Advisory Board has asked mosques to urge their congregations to fully participate in the European Elections and not let Brexit fatigue or apathy get in the way of exercising their democratic right. Chair of MINAB, Imam Qari Asim, said: The EU referendum has shown that our society is more fractured […]
Assalamu Alaikum/Peace be upon you, As we enter into the holy month of Ramadan, on behalf of MINAB’s staff and trustees, we wish you a Ramadan kareem. During this Ramadan let us get closer to our Creator, Allah (SWT), through good words and actions. This is a time to refocus our life on remembering […]
On Sunday the 21st of April, during the Easter weekend, a horrific series of coordinated were aimed at Sri Lankan hotels and churches filled with worshippers during Easter Sunday. These disgraceful attacks claimed the lives of more than 290 innocent holiday goers and worshippers and left hundreds more injured. The broader […]
On Wednesday March 20th, four mosques and an all girls private Muslim school were vandalised in the early hours of the morning. It has not been confirmed yet but it is believed that the attacks are linked. Police were called at 2:32AM to an incident of a man smashing windows with a hammer. The motive […]
Our thoughts and prayers are with the 50 people who have been killed, and dozens more who have been injured, after a gunmen opened fire at mosques in New Zealand during Friday prayers. The attack has been described as the worst such act of violent terror to have been committed on the shores of New […]
Imam Qari Asim MBE, Chairman of MINAB has released a statement below in light of the recent decision by the Home Secretary Sajid Javid to strip Shamima Begum, the bride who ran away in 2014 to Daesh, of her British citizenship. “Shamima Begum made a dangerous and damaging decision to join Daesh’s now failing state; […]
In Baghdad there exists two neighbourhoods that sit on opposite sides of the river Tigris, connected by the Aa’mah bridge over the river Tigris. These two neighbourhoods both have holy sites for Shias and Sunnis. In the Shia majority Kazmiah there lies two graves of Musa al-Kadhim and his grandson, Muhammad al-Jawad ibn Ali al-Ridha. And in Azamiyyah lies […]
This Sunday 27 January we marked Holocaust Memorial Day, an opportunity to remember those targeted under Nazi persecution, including six million Jews, and those who affected by genocides which followed the Holocaust in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur. This year we also mark the 25th anniversary of the Genocide in Rwanda and the 40th anniversary of the end of […]