Conversation with Iqbal Sacranie

After the meeting at 1 Millbank yesterday, by chance I met Iqbal Sacranie, Secretary-General of the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) on Westminster Underground station. We greeted each other cordially and had a cordial conversation as we travelled, he to Sloane Square and I to Paddington.

The MCB is having to deal with the fall-out from the terrible earthquake in Pakistan and Kashmir. Very many of the Muslim families in the UK originate from Pakistan, and of those, quite a proportion have their family links in the devastated area of Kashmir.

I told him about the William Temple Foundation meeting I had just attended. We agreed that there was much that our communities can contribute to UK society, given half a chance.

Nothing hugely significant, but another strengthening of the bonds of friendship - a key element in “religious capital”.

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