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British Pakistani: Labour: Rupa Huq [8] Ealing Central and Acton: 2015: Serving British Bangladeshi: Labour: Naz Shah [citation needed] Bradford West: 2015: Serving British Pakistani: SNP: Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh [citation needed] Ochil and South Perthshire: 2015: 2017: Defeated British Pakistani/White British/Other White Labour: Tulip Siddiq ...
"British Arabs" is used as an ethnic designation by the National Association of British Arabs. [8] It is also employed by academics, [9] and in the media. [10] Unlike Black British or Asian British, the term "British Arab" was not one of those employed in government ethnicity categorisations used in the 2001 UK Census and for national statistics. [11]
In 2001, Muhammad Anwar of Warwick University wrote a paper titled "The participation of ethnic minorities in British politics" that was published in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (2001) that in part examined the representation of ethnic minorities at national levels of the British political system. [1]
Joel Hayward – New Zealand-born British scholar of early Islamic history, especially the biography of Muhammad; Dilwar Hussain – research fellow at The Islamic Foundation in Leicester; co-authored the 2004 book British Muslims Between Assimilation and Segregation; is on the Home Office's committee tackling radicalisation and extremism [12]
The ideas in The Muslim Manifesto: A Strategy for Survival [2] launched the Muslim Parliament. Authored primarily by Kalim Siddiqui, the Manifesto declared: "It is a matter of deep regret that the Government, all political parties and the mass media in Britain are now engaged in a relentless campaign to reduce Muslim citizens of this country to the status of a disparaged and oppressed minority.
Islamophobia as a topic of specific analysis "first entered the British political space" following the publication of Islamophobia: A Challenge for us all by the Runnymede Trust on behalf of the Commission on British Muslims and Islamophobia, published in 1997 to coincide with the election of Tony Blair's New Labour government (1997–2010). [5]
During the British rule in Mandatory Palestine, there was civil, political and armed struggle between Palestinian Arabs and the Jewish Yishuv, beginning from the violent spillover of the Franco-Syrian War in 1920 and until the onset of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
Organisations and collectives concerning British Palestinians specifically include the British Palestinian Committee (BPC), [6] [7] the Association of the Palestinian Community in the UK (APC–UK), the Palestine Community Foundation (PCF), [8] [9] and the Palestinian Forum in Britain (PFB). [10] There is also the Scottish Palestinian Society ...