Race, Faith and Community in Contemporary Britain Essays on Black, African, and African Caribbean Muslims in the UK PROUDLY MUSLIM & BLACK REPORT 2022
Black British Muslims play an important role in British society but are poorly represented in public discourse, policy, and indeed across a range of sectors. To overcome structural disadvantages and racism in society and in Muslim communities, we aim to create a platform for interventions in discourse and representation as well as in power relations. Our effort is collaborative and aimed at exploring the diversity, contributions, heritage, as well as the history of Black British Muslims. Our objective in this report is to create a platform to review and consider the current state of race and power relations, while creating networks and partnerships. In short, bringing Black British Muslim voices to the forefront is to work towards inclusion and belonging in British society and importantly, in British Muslim communities.
Black British Muslims play an important role in British society but are poorly represented in public discourse, policy, and indeed across a range of sectors. To overcome structural disadvantages and racism in society and in Muslim communities, we aim to create a platform for interventions in discourse and representation as well as in power relations. Our effort is collaborative and aimed at exploring the diversity, contributions, heritage, as well as the history of Black British Muslims. Our objective in this report is to create a platform to review and consider the current state of race and power relations, while creating networks and partnerships.
In short, bringing Black British Muslim voices to the forefront is to work towards inclusion and belonging in British society and importantly, in British Muslim communities.
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sensitive to cultural differences without flattening faith as one all encompassing category as
Joliffe and Haque (2017) highlighted in their report. This was previously understood but has
been somewhat abandoned by authorities post-2010, thus missing out on previously by the
successful Black Muslim-led projects launched back in 2006 with the STREET project lead by
Dr Abdul Haqq Baker and the lesser-known but overwhelmingly successful SIRAAT project
which worked with over 300 Black Muslims in prison between 2006 and 2011 helping them to
better understand Islam, and their rehabilitation from an erroneous Islamic ideology.
Conclusion
This essay has explored how faith communities have a number of resources to draw on as well
as a support system for prisoners as they transition back into society. Cultural understandings
involving not just race but faith can play crucial roles in rehabilitating Black Muslim prisoners.
One of the many things which we must learn in this period of efforts to embolden racial justice
in our society is that cultural competence and history are more than just significant elements
in the puzzle. Cultural competence in engaging a diverse community of Muslims in the prison
service in the UK is critical to ensuring their needs are catered for and are better prepared for
life after prison.
The impact of the
Immigration Policy and the
Hostile Environment on
Black Muslims
ABU HAJIRAH
Abu Hajirah works in the criminal justice system for the
Ministry of Justice and has done for over 25 years.
by Bilikisu Savage
Son of a teacher and a prominent family in Guyana, he
is a revert to Islam who has studied Islam in a number of
countries including Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the UK under
a number of Islamic scholars.
He is one of the directors of a Mosque and Islamic cultural
centre in South London which has led the fight against
Islamic extremism from the early Nineties, whilst supporting
the community to find solace in practicing Islam un the UK.
During this time he has been involved in many projects that support Muslims from providing
aid and spiritual support to refugees and those in need in Bosnia, Somalia, Iraq, Gambia ,
Yemen, Palestine and many localities.
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