JAN Trust CEO Sajda Mughal OBE, spoke to My London about her traumatic experience of surviving the 7/7 London bombings and what has changed — and what hasn’t changed — on counterterrorism, seventeen years on. Read more here or below. In the wake of the devastating terrorist attack 17 years ago that claimed 52 …
With the horrifying loss of another politician to extremism, Sajda Mughal OBE reflects on the Government’s refusal to truly listen to grassroots organisations and attempts to further divides in society. Read more here or below. What will it take to prove the dangers of suppressing the expert voices of grassroots organisations? As the country recovers from …
Arab News has published a piece on Sajda Mughal OBE’s interview with Metro, focusing on her serious “[dismay] at the government’s controversial Prevent strategy, which outlines the approach for countering radicalization and extremism.”. Read more here or below. Sajda Mughal OBE called for an overhaul of the British government’s controversial counter-terrorism strategy. (@sajdamughal) British …
Sajda Mughal OBE spoke exclusively to Metro about her personal trauma as a survivor of the 7/7 London Bombings on the 16th anniversary, and the need for a complete overhaul of the Prevent Strategy. Read more here or below. A 7/7 survivor has told how she remembers the attack ‘as if it was yesterday’ as she spoke on …
“Those in power have still not figured out how to work with communities without furthering discrimination and mistrust” JAN Trust CEO and 7/7 survivor Sajda Mughal OBE has written for iNews about her reflections on that tragic day in July, sixteen years on, and where the UK is now. Read the full piece here or …
Issued by 7/7 Survivor Sajda Mughal OBE Sixteen years ago, on that fateful day in July, I narrowly escaped death. If I had not been running late and had got on at my usual carriage, I would not have been so lucky. As we remember those whose lives were violently taken from them, I …
Many people know about the discriminatory effects of the Prevent strategy, but there are also important human rights implications. Whilst the Prevent duty is widely criticised for its Islamophobic effects, a problem that is not discussed to the same extent, even though it is certainly worth the attention, is the effect it may have on …
The apparent relevance of the Manchester Arena bomber having been ‘suspected’ of praying shows the dangers of Islamophobia including all aspects of Muslim life. The public inquiry into the Manchester Arena bombing, in which twenty-two people were killed, was established to learn about what happened and how to prevent similar attacks from occurring in the …
There has been much press attention on the long-awaited Sewell report by the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities. Whilst it may be an official report, we should take its suggestions that the UK is a multicultural green and pleasant land with a grain of salt. By now, countless articles have been published on the …
Our CEO Sajda spoke with Kait Borsley on Times Radio in an intimate conversation about her experience on the 7th July 2005. She spoke about the pioneering Web Guardians™ she developed then and how the government needs to do more as we have faced numerous attacks even with the Prevent strategy in place.
