Youth Project
"Community empowerment is the process of enabling people to shape and choose the services they use on a personal basis, so that they can influence the way those services are delivered. It is often used in the same context as community engagement, which refers to the practical techniques of involving local people in local decisions and especially reaching out to those who feel distanced from public decisions"
The above is quoted from the local governments' website when dealing with young people who disengaged and disfranchised. On the same breath it also talks about the community of British Muslims and fighting extremism.
The message is clearly erroneous and sends the wrong signal altogether. First who is the British Muslim Community that everybody is talking about? and secondly how can we possibly allow the phrase*fighting extremism* along side the phrase of community engagement and cohesion. The two contradict themselves and send a very powerful massage to our youngsters that they are different and ought to be treated differently.
It is imperative in our view that Central government when dealing with issues of faith that racial and ethnic background of people are equally taken on board,; a Bosnian Muslim is not the same as an Pakistani Muslim or indeed a Moroccan Muslim. The three share the same faith but nothing else. They have different historical backgrounds; they come from different cultural backgrounds and geographically their country of origins or their parents' country of origin. All this gives them different perspectives on the country of residence's political agenda and in no way can it be summoned as all negative and hostile.
Our project with very little funding yet huge amount f good will and commitment has been working very hard with our local youth from both the migrant and refuge Arabic-speaking communities. We do not talk about faith but indeed try to engage them positively in their local communities and all that it encompasses
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"Community empowerment is the process of enabling people to shape and choose the services they use on a personal basis, so that they can influence the way those services are delivered. It is often used in the same context as community engagement, which refers to the practical techniques of involving local people in local decisions and especially reaching out to those who feel distanced from public decisions"
The above is quoted from the local governments' website when dealing with young people who disengaged and disfranchised. On the same breath it also talks about the community of British Muslims and fighting extremism.
The message is clearly erroneous and sends the wrong signal altogether. First who is the British Muslim Community that everybody is talking about? and secondly how can we possibly allow the phrase*fighting extremism* along side the phrase of community engagement and cohesion. The two contradict themselves and send a very powerful massage to our youngsters that they are different and ought to be treated differently.
It is imperative in our view that Central government when dealing with issues of faith that racial and ethnic background of people are equally taken on board,; a Bosnian Muslim is not the same as an Pakistani Muslim or indeed a Moroccan Muslim. The three share the same faith but nothing else. They have different historical backgrounds; they come from different cultural backgrounds and geographically their country of origins or their parents' country of origin. All this gives them different perspectives on the country of residence's political agenda and in no way can it be summoned as all negative and hostile.
Our project with very little funding yet huge amount f good will and commitment has been working very hard with our local youth from both the migrant and refuge Arabic-speaking communities. We do not talk about faith but indeed try to engage them positively in their local communities and all that it encompasses
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