Six years on: problem-solving moonsighting and “practicalism”
It’s now almost six years since my study unpicking an issue in Muslim communities and working with key stakeholders to produce a strategy for unifying Crescent moonsighting in the UK (see summary diagram below). Since then, the UK’s moonsighting process has got slicker, and there are more regular “sighters” covering a greater breadth of the […]
How the MCB can uplift the fate of British Muslims
The Muslim Council of Britain is the UK’s longest-running body that seeks to represent British Muslims in public discourses. It’s always had huge potential to be a force for good, but for decades its leaders have struggled to make the mark. However, the newly elected leader, Zara Mohammed, represents an opportunity to break from the past and not only reinvent how and what the MCB works on but with it British Muslim renewal. Read on for more.
