European Muslim Network

The next meeting of European Muslim Network will take place from the 29th November to 2nd December 2007 in the city of Lissabon, Portugal.

The European Muslim Network will be holding a public conference in Copenhagen on Friday, 8th June under the motto

The next meeting of european muslim network will take place from the 8.th to 10.th June 2007 in the city of Copenhagen, Denmark. Details will be published in due time.

How should Muslims respond?

Friday 8th December from 7 to 10 pm

• Victoria Brittain, Journalist and co-author with Moazzam Begg of his book Enemy Combatant
• Gwen Griffith Dickson, Director of Lokahi Foundation.
• Fouad Imrraine, Collectif des Musulmans de France (France)
• Lee Jasper (Chair), Senior Advisor to the Mayor of London on Race and Policing
• Redmond O’Neil, Director of Transport and Public Affairs, Greater London Authority Mayor’s Office.
• Arzu Merali, Head of Research Section, Islamic Human Rights Commission
• Tariq Ramadan, President of the European Muslim Network, senior research fellow St Antony’s College (Oxford) and at the Lokahi Foundation (London).

Present efforts to challenge the gross misrepresentations of Muslims and Islam in the media and across the political spectrum are not working. As media scare stories increase in both number and ferocity, fuelled by the calculated pronouncements of politicians and intelligence services, the gap between Muslim and non-Muslim citizens in Europe escalating to dangerous levels. It is now essential that European Muslims become politically engaged in the societies they live in.