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Top Social Enterprises
Social enterprises are classed as businesses with a primary focus on improving the world around them. This can be through working to improve conditions in communities and societies, through adopting measures to protect and preserve the environment, or through...
SAFE: Supporting Families Affected by Terrorism
SAFE is a UK enterprise established by Fiyaz Mughal and Micheal Evans as a safe space for families directly affected by terrorism and extremism to share concerns and access support. The need for such a service in the UK was identified due to personal stories and...
Fiyaz Mughal Awarded the Order of the British Empire
Fiyaz Mughal was one of the individuals awarded an Order of the British Empire, or OBE, in the Queen’s birthday honours list in 2009. The decision to present Fiyaz Mughal with this honour was made due to his long-standing commitment to voluntary work, with particular...
Westminster Islamic Student Society Investigated by Inquiry Panel
Westminster University received complaints about the Islamic Students’ Society’s behaviour on campus in 2015, prompting the creation of an investigative panel of four. Panel members included Fiyaz Mughal, former adviser to the politician Nick Clegg on interfaith...
Countering Extremism with SAFE
Extremism, hate crimes, religiously motivated attacks and terrorism are issues that affect people around the world. The advent of the internet and other technologies has resulted in a world where acts such as these are no longer concentrated in a few specific...
Islam / Islamism: What’s the Difference?
Islam and Islamism may seem like interchangeable terms to many people, but knowing and understanding the difference between the two is important. Islam refers to the religion, whereas Islamism is more about the ideology. Many conventional Muslims therefore reject the...
Celebrating the Third No2H8 Crime Awards
The No2H8 Crime Awards, which celebrate prominent individuals and organisations in the UK that go above and beyond in the fight against intolerance, entered their third year in 2018. The awards were founded in 2016 by Fiyaz Mughal OBE, who has dedicated much of his...
Fifty Years On from “Rivers of Blood” Speech
The year 2018 holds the dubious honour of marking the fiftieth anniversary of the speech made by Enoch Powell that later became known as the "Rivers of Blood” speech. The British MP addressed a Birmingham Conservative Party meeting on the 20th of April 1968, causing...
The Work of Fiyaz Mughal OBE
After more than a decade working in the non-profit, voluntary and charitable sectors, Fiyaz Mughal’s achievements and voluntary work were recognised with an OBE. Mughal was awarded his OBE, which stands for Order of the British Empire, in the Queen’s birthday honours...
French Manifesto Denounces Islamic Anti-Semitism
A manifesto has been signed in France by more than 300 dignitaries and celebrities denouncing Islamic anti-Semitism in the country. The protest came about following a series of attacks on members of the Jewish community, including 11 killings. Well-known figures...