The MINAB Executive Board Election
Administrator on May 14th, 2009
The Mosques and Imams National Advisory Board (MINAB) general council met in Birmingham on 10 May 2009 and elected the executive board consisting of members from British Muslim Forum, Muslim Council of Britain, the Muslim Association of Britain and the Al Khoei Foundation.
The MINAB is a community conceived and community led initiative. It aims to facilitate good governance in mosques and improve the standards of services provided therein through a system of self- regulation.
We are pleased to announce that Imam of Leeds Makkah Masjid was also elected to the Executive Board of the MINAB. He is the only elected member from Yorkshire.
For further details regarding the aims and objectives of MINAB, click on the attached link: http://www.minab.org.uk/
May 17th, 2009 at 11:53 pm
Salaam
Muslim children have been attending state schools for tha last 60 years. They have been suffering from Paki-bashing and bullying. Majority of them have been leaving schools with low grades. They have been leaving schools without learning their cultural and linguistic skiils. The result is that they do not know where they belong. They suffer from Identity crises. Now Muslim youths are victim of terrorism. Thousands of them are being searched in streets and hundreds of them are behind the bar without any trial.
Bilingual Muslim children need state funded Muslim schools with bilingual Muslim teachers as role models during their developmental periods. There is no place for a non-Muslim child or a teacher in a Muslim school.
There are hundreds of state and church schools where Muslim children are in majority. In my opinion, all such schools may be designated as Muslim community schools.
Bilingual Muslim children need to learn and be well versed in standard English to follow the National Curriculum and go for higher studies and research to serve humanity. At the same time, they need to learn and be well versed in Arabic, Urdu and other community languages to keep in touch with their cultural roots and enjoy the beauty of their literature and poetry.
A Muslim is a citizen of this tiny global village. He/she does not want to become notorioulsy monolingul Brit.
Iftikhar Ahmad
London School of Islamics Trust
http://www.londonschoolofislamics.org.uk
May 18th, 2009 at 5:26 pm
MINAB is a good initiative to bring mainstream orgnisations together on one platform.
May 29th, 2009 at 8:36 pm
It was good of you to visit us in NewCastle yesterday.