Britain?s first Muslim MP, Mohammad Sawar was elected in which city in 1997?
"Kiran Sonia Sawar Kiran Sonia Sawar is a Scottish actress best known for her role in the one-off drama ""Murdered by My Father"". In 2017, Sawar appeared in ""Crocodile"", an episode of the fourth season of anthology series ""Black Mirror"". Sawar is of Pakistani descent and grew up in Pollokshields, Glasgow. She attended the University of St Andrews where she received a degree in Marine and Environmental Biology. After graduating, she trained in acting at the Oxford School of Drama, where she left in 2012. Sawar made her acting debut in theatre before landing her first television role in 2015."
"have stated that Javid could become the next Chancellor of the Exchequer. Notable British Pakistanis in the House of Lords include Minister for Faith and Communities and former Chairman of the Conservative Party Sayeeda Warsi, Nazir Ahmed, and Lord Tariq Ahmad of Wimbledon. Mohammad Sarwar from Labour was the first Muslim member of the British parliament, being elected for Glasgow in 1997 and serving till 2010. In 2013, Sarwar quit British politics and returned to Pakistan, where he joined the government and briefly served as the Governor of Punjab. Other politicians in Pakistan known to have held dual British citizenship"
"Bashir Maan Bashir Maan CBE (born October 1926) is a Pakistani-Scottish politician, businessman, judge, community worker and writer. In 1970 he became the first Muslim to be elected to a representative office in the United Kingdom, serving as a Labour Party councillor for the Kingston ward of the City of Glasgow Corporation. Bashir Maan was born in Maan village, near Qila Didar Singh, Gujranwala District, British India (now modern day Pakistan). He completed his high school studies at DB High High School, Qila Didar Singh. He was an undergraduate and worked as a clerk at Lahore. As a student, between"
"of his family are the subjects of a photographic portrait included in the series 'A Scottish Family Portrait' by Verena Jaekel, commissioned for the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. in Edinburgh until 31 October 2012. Bashir Maan Bashir Maan Bashir Maan CBE (born October 1926) is a Pakistani-Scottish politician, businessman, judge, community worker and writer. In 1970 he became the first Muslim to be elected to a representative office in the United Kingdom, serving as a Labour Party councillor for the Kingston ward of the City of Glasgow Corporation. Bashir Maan was born in Maan village, near Qila Didar Singh, Gujranwala"
"Dadabhai Naoroji in 1892. He was quickly followed by fellow Parsis Mancherjee Bhownagree and Shapurji Saklatvala during the late 19th/early 20th centuries. No other British Asian MP was elected until Keith Vaz was elected to the House of Commons in 1987. He was followed by others such as Piara Khabra, Niranjan Deva, Parmjit Dhanda, Mohammad Sarwar (the first British Muslim MP), Khalid Mahmood and Parmjit Singh Gill. The first British-born Muslims to be elected to Parliament were Shahid Malik and Sadiq Khan in 2005, both of Asian descent. At the United Kingdom general election, 2010, Rushanara Ali, was elected as"
"the conflict that it had with his religious beliefs. In 1968 Bashir Maan was appointed the first Asian and Muslim Justice of the Peace (in Scotland) for the City of Glasgow. In 1970, he was the first Muslim to be elected to a public office in the United Kingdom, serving as a Labour Party councillor for the Kingston ward of the City of Glasgow Corporation. His political career in Glasgow went on to span 33 years. In February 1974 he ran as the Labour candidate for Parliament at East Fife. During this time he also held several judicial appointments such"
"first three female Muslim MPs. Birmingham Ladywood (UK Parliament constituency) Birmingham, Ladywood is a constituency of part of the city of Birmingham, represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Shabana Mahmood of the Labour Party. Clare Short, elected as a Labour MP from the 1983 general election onwards, resigned the Labour whip on 20 October 2006 and wished it to be known that she would continue to sit in the Commons as an Independent Labour MP and a true ""Social Democrat"". Birmingham Ladywood is an area of Birmingham City Centre along with the areas"
"'living rent'; a quota system for ethnic minority officers in the Metropolitan Police; increased home building; and a campaign for a London Living Wage. Commentators raised Khan's Muslim religion as a potential barrier to election, after a poll (not mentioning Khan by name) suggested that 31% of Londoners would be 'uncomfortable' with a Muslim mayor. Khan, who was London's first Muslim MP, argued that the election of a Muslim could encourage London to become recognised as a more cosmopolitan city. While Khan had stated that he would serve a full term as MP for Tooting if he were to become"
"Muslim mosques in Britain. Others include Al Masjid ul Husseini in Northolt, Ealing, Imam Khoei Islamic Centre in Queens Park, Brent & Islamic Centre of England, Maida Vale. The single largest group of Muslims in England and Wales are of Pakistani descent. Pakistanis from Mirpur District were one of the first South Asian Muslim communities to permanently settle in the United Kingdom, arriving in Birmingham and Bradford in the late 1930s. Immigration from Mirpur grew from the late 1950s, accompanied by immigration from other parts of Pakistan especially from Punjab which included cities like Sialkot, Jhelum, Gujar Khan and Gujrat"
"Guardian"" stated that ""The treasury minister is highly regarded on the right and would be the Tories' first Muslim leader."" Salma Yaqoob is the former leader of the left-wing Respect Party. Sayeeda Warsi, who was the first Muslim to serve in a British cabinet, was appointed by David Cameron in 2010 as a minister without portfolio. She was made a senior minister of state in 2012. In August 2014 she resigned over the government's approach to the 2014 Israel-Gaza conflict. Muslim political parties in Britain have included the People's Justice Party (UK), a Pakistani and Kashmiri party that won city"
"poll as the sexiest Labour MP. Just two months after Malik was elected to the House of Commons it was revealed that the leader of the 7 July 2005 London bombings, Mohammad Sidique Khan, came from his Dewsbury constituency. Malik described the bombings as ""the most profound challenge yet faced by the British Muslim community"". He said: ""Condemnation is not enough and British Muslims must, and I believe are prepared to, confront the voices of evil head on."" Later Malik confronted the issue in an article for ""The Times"" newspaper. He wrote: ""Yes, foreign policy causes anger among many British"
"Shahid Malik Shahid Rafique Malik (; born 24 November 1967) is a British Labour Party politician, a Chairman in the Technology, Media and Telecom Sector, a Visiting Professor and Chair and Adviser to a number of non-profit organisations. His Parliamentary career commenced when he became the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dewsbury in 2005. The BNP also polled their highest number of votes in the country in Dewsbury, receiving over 5,000 votes. In 2007 he became Britain's first Muslim Minister as International Development Minister, and subsequently served as a Justice Minister, Home Office Minister and most recently as Minister for"
"more dependent on votes from British Pakistanis than the Conservative Party. British Pakistani support for Labour has reportedly fallen in recent times because of party's decision to take part in the Iraq War, although 60 per cent of Pakistani voters voted Labour in the 2010 general election. High-profile British Pakistani politicians within the Labour Party include Shahid Malik and Lord Nazir Ahmed, who became the first Muslim life peer in 1998. Sadiq Khan became the first Muslim cabinet minister in June 2009, after being invited to accept the post by former Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Anas Sarwar served as an"
"Islam in the UK, because of candidate Luftur Rahman's connections with Islamic Forum Europe. The latter, along with local business interests which had supported the petition and referendum to have a mayor, prominently backed Rahman's campaign. Labour's former London Mayor, Ken Livingstone, also campaigned in support of Rahman, in breach of Labour Party rules. The first election took place on Thursday 21 October 2010, with a 25.6 per cent turn out. The new mayor officially took office on Monday 25 October 2010. In April 2015, this election was declared void by an election court. After the 2014 election was declared"
"Muslim"". He has expressed the view that ""too often the people who are 'representing' the Islamic faith aren't representative, they're angry men with beards. And that is not what Islam is about."" Khan married Saadiya Ahmed, a fellow solicitor, in 1994. They have two daughters, both raised in the Islamic faith. Sadiq Khan Sadiq Aman Khan (; born 8 October 1970) is a British politician serving as Mayor of London since 2016. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tooting from 2005 to 2016. A member of the Labour Party in London, he is on the party's soft left"
"is now a partner of solicitors Mellor & Jackson in Oldham. Khan was first elected a Councillor in 2000 being re-elected in 2004, 2007 and 2011, representing Cheetham Ward and also served as Executive Member for Children's Services. Khan was the youngest, first British Pakistani and Muslim, Lord Mayor of Manchester for 2005–2006. He has also served as Assistant Secretary-General of the Muslim Council of Britain and is currently its North West representative. From 2000 to 2004, Khan was a member of the Department of Trade and Industry's Ethnic Minority Business Forum, advising the then Secretary of State, Patricia Hewitt."
"Parliament (MP) until 2001, while it also gained the support of several rebel Labour MPs, among them Katy Clark, Jeremy Corbyn, Tam Dalyell, Alice Mahon, and George Galloway. The StWC had also attracted significant support from within Britain's Muslim community, and the Muslim Association of Britain (MAB) officially affiliated itself with the coalition. The movement politicised a large number of young British Muslims, among them Salma Yaqoob, who became the head of the StWC branch in Birmingham. Galloway later revealed that, about a year before the UK and US launched the Iraq War, he had broached the subject of leaving"
"in 2001 were: Most large cities have one area that is majority Muslim even if the rest of the city has a fairly small Muslims population; see, for example, Harehills in Leeds. In addition, it is possible to find small areas that are almost entirely Muslim: for example, Savile Town in Dewsbury. In September 2009, the ONS published information showing that Mohammed (or variations of it) was the third most popular boys' name in England and Wales. Some 38% of England's Muslims live in London, where 1,012,823 identified as Muslim in 2011, representing 12.4% of London's population of 8,173,941. The"
"to Michael Woodford in 2013, Clive Stafford Smith in 2014 and Simon Danczuk in 2015. Ali Miraj Mohammad Ali Miraj (born October 1974) is a British former Conservative Party parliamentary candidate, chartered accountant, and part-time DJ from London. Miraj became a councillor in Ruislip Manor in Hillingdon in 1998 aged 23, when he was working as a part-time DJ. He was a councillor until 2002. In 2001 after the September 11 attacks, Miraj spoke at the 2001 Conservative Party conference in favour of military action in Afghanistan, saying ""As a British Muslim I find the [11 September] attacks even more"
"woman to enter the House of Lords; she swore the oath of office in her own faith. Anwar Choudhury became the British High Commissioner for Bangladesh in 2004, the first non-white British person to be appointed in a senior diplomatic post. Lutfur Rahman is the first directly elected mayor of Tower Hamlets, who was later removed from office for breaching electoral rules. Enam Ali became the first Muslim and the first representative of the British curry industry to be granted Freedom of the City of London in recognition of his contribution to the Indian hospitality industry. Dr. Muhammad Abdul Bari"
"and 1980s, including the Bradford Youth Movement in 1977, the Bangladeshi Youth Movement following the murder of Altab Ali in 1978, and the Newham Youth Movement following the murder of Akhtar Ali Baig in 1980. According to the 2011 Census, 2.7 million Muslims live in England and Wales, where they form 5.0% of the population. The settlements with large number of Muslims are Bradford, Luton, Blackburn, Birmingham, London and Dewsbury. There are also high numbers in High Wycombe, Slough, Leicester, Derby, Manchester and the mill towns of Northern England. The local authorities with a Muslim population greater than 10 percent"
"to become mayor of a major Western capital. International press sources often focused on his religious identity, with many right-wing American media outlets reacting with horror at his election. The far right party Britain First issued a press statement declaring Khan a Muslim ""occupier"" engaged in entryism and threatened to target where he ""lives, works and prays"" with direct action protest. Khan was officially sworn in as Mayor in a multi-faith ceremony held in Southwark Cathedral the following day. His first act as mayor was his appearance at a Holocaust memorial ceremony in a rugby stadium in North London, although"
"Pakistani children whom he taught. Mohammed Ajeeb Mohammed Ajeeb CBE is a former Lord Mayor of Bradford, and was the first Asian (Pakistani) Lord Mayor in the United Kingdom. Mohammed Ajeeb was born in Mirpur, Azad Kashmir in 1938. Ajeeb attended Dadyal High School and then studied at a local college in the district and went on to study at Karachi University. Ajeeb moved to Britain in 1957, and settled in Nottingham, working first in a soap factory, and then in public transport. He was also a housing officer with the District Community Relations Committee. In 1973 he was appointed"
"Ali is a Muslim and a Liverpool Football Club fan. Nasim Ali Nasim ""Nash"" Ali, OBE (; born 7 February 1969) is a British Labour Party politician, councillor for Regent's Park, former Cabinet Member for Young People in Camden Council and former Mayor of Camden. In May 2003, at the age of 34, after being elected Mayor of Camden he became UK's youngest mayor as well as the first Bangladeshi and first Muslim mayor. Ali was born in Islam Pur, Shaporan, Sylhet District, Sylhet Division, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) and came to the United Kingdom at the age of seven."
"(Khateeb of Birmingham Central Mosque), Dr. Mahmudul Hasan (Khateeb of Essex Mosque), Abdur Rahman Madani (Chairman of Global Eid Trust and Chief Imam of Darul Ummah Mosque), Faiz-ul-Aqtab Siddiqi (principal of Hijaz College), Ajmal Masroor (Imam and Liberal Democrats politician) and Pramukh Swami Maharaj (fifth spiritual successor of Hindu Swaminarayan). The earliest date at which South Asians settled in Great Britain is not clear. If the Romany (Gypsies) are included, then the earliest arrivals were in the Middle Ages. DNA surveys have linked Romanies to present-day South Asian populations and the Romany language is a member of the Indo-Aryan language"
"the seat's population is White. It has one of the highest proportions of Sikh residents of any seat outside of London and the metropolitan West Midlands at 10%, with its newly elected member, Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi, becoming Britain's first turbaned Sikh MP in the 2017 general election. From 1945 to 1983 most of the area presently covered by this seat was in the Eton and Slough constituency, whose Labour MP from 1950 to 1964 was veteran politician Fenner Brockway, a radical progressive social democrat, who led in writing on pacifism, prison reform, anti-colonialism and anti-discrimination, was editor of the ""Labour"
"for Uxbridge and South Ruislip at the 2015 general election. The campaign was dominated by the personal battle between Goldsmith and Khan, and their contrasting class and ethnic backgrounds. Through his victory, Khan became the second Labour Party Mayor of London after Livingstone, and the first Muslim mayor of a European Union capital city. The campaign of Goldsmith was marred by accusations of Islamophobia, for which he was condemned at the time by senior Muslim figures within the Conservative Party. In 2018, the Muslim Council of Britain said that the campaign was an example of Tory ""dog whistle anti-Muslim racism"","
"as Abraham)"" and that the message of Islam is one of ""peace and friendship."" Stratford Street Mosque Stratford Street Mosque (officially the Omar Mosque or Masjid-e-Umar) is a mosque in Beeston, Leeds, England. Three people responsible for the 7 July 2005 London bombings (Shehzad Tanweer, Mohammad Sidique Khan and Hasib Hussain) were regulars at Friday prayers at the mosque. Stratford Street mosque is just a few streets away from the Colwyn Road home of Tanweer, who caused the Aldgate explosion.. Mumir Shah, the imam of the mosque, condemned the London bombings at Friday prayers a day after the attacks, telling"
"as embarrassing and showing herself to be on the ""wrong side of history"" on LGBT rights. After being raised to the peerage in 2007, Warsi served as Shadow Minister for Community Cohesion and Social Action. The first female Muslim to attend Cabinet, Lady Warsi came to further prominence when, at her first meeting in Downing Street, she wore a traditional South Asian shalwar kameez. Warsi was the second of five daughters born at Dewsbury, West Riding of Yorkshire in 1971 to Pakistani immigrants from Bewal, Gujar Khan; her ancestors are from southern Pakistan. Her father, Safdar Hussain, is owner of"
"the UK, including: Muslims are playing an increasingly prominent role in political life. Fifteen Muslim MPs were elected in the June 2017 general election, and there are twelve Muslim peers in the House of Lords (there have historically been about fourteen, starting with Lord Stanley, a peer that lived in the 19th century). The vast majority of British Muslims vote for the Labour Party, however there are some high-profile Conservative Muslims, including former Minister for Faith and Communities and former Co-Chairman and the Conservative Party Sayeeda Warsi, described by ""The Guardian"" as a 'rising star' in the Tory party. ""The"
"Sadiq Khan Sadiq Aman Khan (; born 8 October 1970) is a British politician serving as Mayor of London since 2016. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tooting from 2005 to 2016. A member of the Labour Party in London, he is on the party's soft left wing and has been ideologically characterised as a social democrat. Born in Tooting, South London, to a working-class British Pakistani family, Khan earned a law degree from the University of North London. He subsequently worked as a solicitor specialising in human rights, and chaired Liberty for three years. Joining the Labour"
"at which it secured 16 seats. At Respect's campaign launch, Galloway anticipated a ""referendum on new Labour"", and said the election ""will be the last blow that will knock out Tony Blair"". In Tower Hamlets, Respect took eleven new council seats, giving it a total of twelve and making it the borough's official opposition to Labour. In Newham, Respect gained 26% of the vote and returned its three councillors, although was disappointed not to gain further ones. In Birmingham, Respect gained 55% of the vote in the Sparkbrook ward and Yaqoob was elected as the city's first female Muslim councillor."
"1992 and 1997 general elections and thus change in share of vote is based on a notional calculation. Wealden (UK Parliament constituency) Wealden is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Nus Ghani, a Conservative. Ghani was the first Muslim woman to be elected as a Conservative member of Parliament. This seat was created in the third periodic review of constituencies in 1983, from a mixture of the previous Mid and Northern divisions of the county (also known as Lewes and East Grinstead). The seat's history is that of a safe Conservative"