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Muslims Declare is a new organisation that was born out of a friendship between a small but eclectic group of Muslims who are concerned that world leaders are putting communities at risk by failing to act swiftly on climate change.

Muslims Declare is a new organisation that was born out of a friendship between a small but eclectic group of Muslims who are concerned that world leaders are putting communities at risk by failing to act swiftly on climate change. We also believe that our faith can be a positive force for change. For too long, mainstream environmental discourse has put too much responsibility on the shoulders of individuals and their lifestyle choices, rather than on the leaders who can make the structural changes to create the conditions for a healthier and more sustainable world for all. Over the years, the founding members of Muslims Declare have worked on initiatives and held conversations with environmental activists all over the world. Muslims Declare represents the convergence of all these experiences. In this session, the team will reflect on the journey that led us to the foundation of “Muslims Declare” and the role that faith plays in our activism. Finally, we will outline our plans for a travelling exhibition of letters to world leaders that will tour around the UK in the run up to COP27 in Egypt this year. We welcome everyone to participate in our initiatives (see links below).

Presenters

• Mothiur Rahman’s exploration of spirituality led him back to Islam through connecting with the sufi teacher Sheikh Kabir Helminiski and his book "Holistic Islam" (::https://sufism.org/product/holistic-islam::). He brought his re-connection with Islam through sufism into his activism with XR and, through some of the connections made there, to joining with others to co-found Muslims Declare. In his other work he has set up his own legal consultancy called New Economy Law (www.neweconomylaw.org/) supporting communities and community ecological rights, and is a legal tutor with the University of Law and is designing and teaching its LLM module on environmental law.

Muslims Declare - Call for Submissions for the travelling exhibition PRESS RELEASE - Green Letters to Imams - Mobilising Muslims to Demand Leaders Action on Climate Change - Google Docs

Books:

Gade, A. M. (2019). Muslim environmentalism: Religious and social foundations. Columbia University Press.Khalid, F. (2019). Signs on the Earth: Islam, modernity and the climate crisis. Kube Publishing Ltd.Nasr, S. H. (1996). Religion and the Order of Nature. Oxford University Press.

Articles:

Koehrsen, J. (2021). Muslims and climate change: How Islam, Muslim organizations, and religious leaders influence climate change perceptions and mitigation activities. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 12(3), e702. ::https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.702::

Websites: Al-Mizan: A Covenant for the Earth | UNEP - UN Environment Programme

• Brandan Keegan is a Maths teacher based in Leicester, in England. Originally from South Africa, he is interested in finding ways to address the climate crisis through policy and systemic change. He is a founding member of Muslims Declare.

• Alessandra Palange is a founding member of Muslims Declare. She has recently completed her PhD thesis on Islamic e-learning and activism at Institute of Education (UCL) and is passionate about researching activism in different cultural and spiritual settings and implementing campaigns that are inclusive and participatory. Alessandra tutors undergraduate and postgraduate students at the Social Research Institute (UCL) and also works as an engagement coordinator for Zero Hour, the campaign for the Climate and Ecological Emergency (CEE) Bill in the UK. Her work at Zero Hour focuses on reaching out to people that are underrepresented in the environmental movement.

• Naseef Ahammed is one of the four co-founders of Muslims Declare and sustainability entrepreneur based in Leeds. He is the founder of Reshift Ltd, a start-up that enables businesses to transition towards a Zero Carbon future.

• Aasiya Bora is a co-founder of Muslims Declare. She is a teacher, campaigner and mum of two. Aasiya was the teenager rattling the Greenpeace charity tin on her street and neighbours would open their doors to look askance and sceptically at her. She read Gerald Durrell’s My Family and other Animals in the library and had to stuff her fist in her mouth for fear her laughter at its hilarious prose would disturb other library users. But the message implicit in the title has stayed with Aasiya to this day. She is a local campaigner for the Green Party and always spouting climate related excerpts to the students she runs into.  Her favourite quotation is by Dostoevsky: ‘Love the animals, God has given them rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. don’t trouble them, don’t harass them, don’t deprive them of their happiness, don’t work against God’s intent.’ Though always trying to be green in a personal capacity, it was the climate action movements of recent years that alerted Aasiya to the whole issue of climate justice, an awareness which she is now thankful to have.

Co-convener:

• Jim Garrison, President, Ubiquity University

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