Islam And The West, the new book from Virtue Ethics Foundation co-founder, Ali Azam, is out now and available on Amazon. Muslims in the West are being perceived as ‘others’ and a barrier to modernity. The effects of this in recent years have...
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There are so many pressing issues in the UK today – racism, homophobia, xenophobia, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, misogyny, knife and gun crimes. Even more significantly, there seems to be a lack of concern about others, due to...
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At the Virtue Ethics Foundation, we believe both the purpose of character education itself, and the purpose behind advocating character education need to be appropriately conceived and clearly identified. We take a philosophical position that we...
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The divide and schisms in the political spheres have all become but a source of fragmenting humanity. There is the left and the right; liberalism and conservatism; modernism and postmodernism; individualism and collectivism...
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The second half of the 20th century, by most accounts, is remembered as a period of hope in which profound lessons were learned with a deep sense of humility. This drove real human progression, particularly in the endeavours of the...
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In a previous blog, we discussed what ‘character education’ is – a nurturing process that aims to support and develop young people’s good human traits, such as: respect empathy honesty gratitude courage forgiveness patience compassion and...
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Reading, writing and arithmetic – all vitally important skills for our children to master and taught consciously and subconsciously from a very early age. However, the teaching of qualities such as compassion, courage, fairness, and respect...
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The World Muslim Communities Council, WMCC, hosted over 250 delegates from non-Muslim countries at its first International Youth Forum last year, on December 2019. The theme of the forum was based on “Building Future Leaders: Commitment...
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Representatives of various faith groups, including Muslim, Jewish, Christian and Hindu, have written an open letter to the Home Secretary, Priti Patel, calling for the government to reconsider its plan start evicting thousands of refused asylum...
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