Thursday, 14 May 2009

Moving along...

Congratulations to Allan Ssesange for being elected as the next Ethnic Minority Students' Officer (09/10). I will be meeting Allan after the exams to discuss his plans for Black History Month and for the year. If you would like Allan to consider any ideas you have then please leave a comment.

Thank you.

Also, if you have exams then all the best! They certainly are doing well in keeping us busy! Don't forget to visit the guildofstudents website to see how you can beat exam stress.

‘Islamic Law – Barbaric or Misunderstood’ event

I organised an event on Wednesday 25th March, the ‘Islamic Law – Barbaric or Misunderstood’ event was held at University Centre.

The event considered the term Shariah (and its partner-term 'extremism') and considered some key questions: do we really know what Shariah stands for or what role it has to play? Is it a system of barbaric harsh punishments that suppresses people and oppresses women? Or is Shariah far from that and rather a solution to social breakdown?

The event included discussions about ‘Terrorism (Crossing the Limits)’, whether religion does more harm than good and whether multiculturalism has failed. Based on his recent work, Hamza Andreas Tzortzis contrasted the ability of liberal and Islamic models in solving social proble

To watch the event in full (2 hours), please click here to access the film - the extended Q and A starts at 0:53:21