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Ex-ISOC President & Al Azhar Graduate To Lead MPACUK's Institutional Reform Print E-mail
Friday, 20 July 2007
dir.jpgMPACUK can reveal that a former Islamic Society President will be, insh’Allah, leading MPACUK’s Department of Institutional Reform, to revive some of the many Islamic Institutions which have rejected their roles and responsibilities with respect to Muslims and non-Muslim Communities.

In addition, working alongside the Department Head will be a scholar who has graduated from a British University and the Al-Azhar University in Egypt. He will advise on:

1. Islamic Legitimacy on MPACUK Institutional Reform
2. How to bring about the change which is needed in our institutions to tackle the problems which we are facing.

Special Note: MPACUK will be working with the different schools of thoughts as we aim to help our institutions help our future generations.

The Department of Institution Reform will introduce ground-breaking solutions to revive the Muslim Community of Britain into a community which can tackle the problems of today as encouraged from the Quran and Sunnah.

So far MPACUK has demanded that the Muslim community itself decides who will lead it. It has stated that Mosque Leaders in the main are un-elected, getting the position through personal connections and not merit, and where elections do take place, there is no transparent process where the community can really partake. The Muslim Public Affairs Committee (UK) estimates that less than 5% of Muslims in Britain actually ever vote in any Mosque elections.

MPACUK believes it is every Muslim's right and we the Muslim Community are being denied our rights. It is now time for us to make a stand and demand these rights.

The right of women who are free to come and go as they please without being barred from the Mosques for worship or advice; the right of young men to apply their energies within a safe environment, learning new ways to help change the world and not fall into the hands of the misguided few within the Muslim community. The right of professionals not to be forced away from the mosque but encouraged to take the helm of leadership and give something back to the community they care so much about.

MPACUK believes that no leader of our mosques should be allowed to cling to power without a popular mandate. No man has a birthright to lead the Muslim Community, they have no God-given right to govern, they have no right to hold the keys to our institutions, until and unless the Muslims give them that right.

MPACUK believes this will finally break years of institutional racism and tribalism within the Muslim Institutional system. MPACUK believes it will allow real reform to occur amongst the Muslim community and finally the beginnings of community improvement programmes will take place, from educational centres to outreach programmes, from drugs rehabilitation, from careers advice to media departments to counter Islamaphobia. It will also break the back of terrorist action in Britain as Muslims are taught how to take part to bring about change democratically, effectively and of course, peacefully. MPACUK believes it is the beginning of true reform that will give us as a community the power to control our own destiny and allow men and women we trust to guide us.

For too many years, the Muslim Community has been held back due to the corrupt nature in which some of these men came to power. Men who were never really competent to be Muslim leaders, and have relied on the Muslim communities silence to carry on harming our future development.

In the coming weeks, MPACUK will publish its Reform Agenda in which the MPACUK readership will be allowed to provide feedback for the Department of Institution Reform Manifesto for Change. We would like to make it clear that in this feedback session Muslims AND non-Muslims will be allowed to provide feedback on how Islamic Institutions can help them in their day-to-day lives and how Muslims can tackle the problems which they are facing.

We urge all Muslims to discuss this, whether you agree or disagree, and give us feedback to improve upon our plans for the future. We are here to listen as well as inform.

We also invite Scholars to work alongside us to add their important insights and advice to help us solve our problems.



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