Fiyaz Mughal
Fiyaz Mughal is the Founder and Director of Faith Matters, which works on countering extremism, community integration and monitoring hate crime. He is also the Founder of the national Islamophobia Monitoring Group, Tell MAMA, and was it's Director from 2011-2016.
Background
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Fiyaz Mughal is a former politician who has been actively involved in counter-extremism initiatives since 2005. He was appointed to the Working Group for Communities that was linked to the Extremism Task Force Group set up by Tony Blair following the 7/7 bombings in 2005.
Fiyaz was previously an elected Councillor in Oxford (2002-2004) and Haringey (2006-2010) and Deputy President (2007-2008) of the Liberal Democrats political party in the UK. He is no longer active in any party. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute. He was awarded an OBE in 2009 in recognition of his services to the voluntary sector.[1]
He is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the annual No2H8 Crime Awards.[2]
He has been a vocal critic of some Muslim grassroots organisations. At a Home Affairs Committee meeting on Tuesday 13 December 2016 he attacked both CAGE and MEND, accusing them of attacking TellMAMA because they perceive the organisation as “Jew friendly”. The full committee hearing can be viewed here.
Education
- 1977 - 1983, Cavina School, Primary.
- 1992 - 1995, University College London, BSc Neuroscience.
- 1998 - 2000, London Metropolitan University, MA Education.
- 2002 - 2004, London Metropolitan University, MBA Business.[3]
Career
- 2005 - 2006, Director, Diverse Trust.
- 2005 - 2008 - CEO, Enfield Citizens Advice Bureau.
- 2011 - 2013 - Founding Member, Credemus Associates.
- 2004 - present - Founder and Director, Muslims Against Anti-Semitism.
- 2005 - 2020 - Founder and former Director, Faith Matters.[3]
Affiliations
- Contextualising Islam in Britain II project - participant[4]
- Faith Matters - Founder and former Director.
- Tell MAMA - Founder and former Director.
- Muslims Against Anti-Semitism - Founder and Director.[3]
Publications
- Fiyaz Mughal, In a rabbi I found myself, Jewish News, 29 December 2019.
- Fiyaz Mughal, Labour doesn’t have a few bad apples. It’s systematic rot, Jewish News, 28 November 2019.
- Fiyaz Mughal, Experience of displacement bonds Ugandan Asians and Jews, Jewish News, 16 August 2019.
- Fiyaz Mughal, The Tories’ Islamophobia will not be stopped from within, The Guardian, 7 March 2019.
- Fiyaz Mughal, Communities like Jo Cox’s deserve better than the toxic abuse of truth, The Guardian, 2 September 2018.
- Fiyaz Mughal, Now’s the time to draw a line on Hezbollah flags flying in London, Jewish News, 20 May 2018.
- Fiyaz Mughal, An open letter to Home Secretary Sajid Javid on Hezbollah flags, Jewish News, 4 May 2018.
- Fiyaz Mughal, Muslims and Jews held Mary Hassell to account, Jewish News, 2 May 2018.
- Fiyaz Mughal, Why was Islamist extremism accepted up until the late 2000s?, Jewish News, 3 April 2018.
- Fiyaz Mughal, Chief Rabbi right to call out ‘see no evil hear no evil’ mantra on anti-Semitism, Jewish News, 23 March 218.
- Fiyaz Mughal, Jews and Ugandan Asians felt Amin’s terror during Entebbe, Jewish News, 9 March 2018.
- Fiyaz Mugha], After the Darren Osborne case, social media must eradicate hate material, The Guardian, 2 February 2018.
- Fiyaz Mugha], Hassell’s ‘cab rank rule’ shows how out of touch she is, Jewish News, 24 January 2018.
- Fiyaz Mughal, Jews and Muslims are becoming more polarised by fear and insecurity, Jewish News, 20 December 2017.
- Fiyaz Mughal, Iraqi Jews are speaking up for the protection of their heritage, Jewish News, 7 August 2017.
- Fiyaz Mughal, Can we continue to hide from tough debates on Islamist violence?, Jewish News, 19 June 2017.
- Fiyaz Mughal, We thought Anjem Choudhary was a clown, but he had deadly associations, Jewish News, 12 June 2017.
- Fiyaz Mughal, So what have Jews ever done for us?, Jewish News, 16 April 2017.
- Fiyaz Mughal, I won’t allow extremist bigots on any side stop me fighting hate, Jewish News, 12 March 2017.
- Fiyaz Mughal, Trump’s presidency must not mean Muslims and Jews pitted against each other, Jewish News, 23 January 2017.
- Fiyaz Mughal, Pamela Geller – Deemed ‘Not Conducive to the Public Good’, Jewish News, 18 December 2016.
- Fiyaz Mughal, Post Trump, where are we in the Interfaith world?, Jewish News, 15 November 2016.
- Fiyaz Mughal, Interfaith work is losing relevance in a complex social environment, Jewish News, 20 October 2016.
- Fiyaz Mughal, My organisation has received horrific anti-Muslim abuse. But the Met police don’t seem to care , The Guardian, 29 July 2016.
Notes
- ↑ Chair of the Board of Trustees, Oxford Research Group. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
- ↑ About Us, No2H8 Crime Awards. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Fiyaz Mughal LinkedIn Profile, LinkedIn. Retrieved from Archive.today copy of 13 May 2020 on 13 May 2020.
- ↑ CONTEXTUALISING ISLAM IN BRITAIN Project Leader Professor Yasir Suleiman Director, HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre of Islamic Studies, Cambridge UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE in Association with the UNIVERSITIES OF EXEtER AND WESTMINSTER January 2012.
