Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies
I spent yesterday evening with an amazing group of people. About 20 young men and women, aged between 18 and 29, are taking part in the third annual Young Muslim Leadership Programme. Community workers, teachers, councillors, doctors, students, television producers, the first muslim woman to address the Welsh Conservative COnference, they were all there, and they were all fantastic and very interesting, giving their perspective on what it is to be a young Muslim in Britain today. If someone made a documentary just featuring these people talking, we would overcome a lot of anti-muslim prejudice in this country overnight.
The programme is organised by the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, set up in 1985, and championed by the Prince of Wales. They are moving to a new and impressive building near Magdalen, and it complements the Oxford skyline wonderfully. The Prince of Wales is designing the garden, and it is another example of the quiet work he does to help projects that make a great difference, in subtle ways, to the country. The Centre hosts speeches from world leaders, such as Mandela and Sonia Gandhi, and contributes to a better understanding of the muslim world in Britain.
canvas said on August 12th, 2008 at 7:46 pm:
Ed, I read in the paper today that didn’t declare a donation properly. You must pay more attention to your blog AND your donations! hahaha