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In September 2005, after the [[7 July 2005 London bombings|London bombings]], Khan sat on the [[Home Office]]'s Tackling Extremism and Radicalisation Working Group.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sara Khan|url=http://www.ascl.org.uk/resources/sara-khan.html|website=ASCL (Association of School and College Leaders)}}</ref> Following this she sat on the Department for Education’s Due Diligence and Counter-Extremism Expert Reference group headed by Lord Nash.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sara Khan, Director and Founder, Inspire|url=http://www.moderngov.com/contributors/trainers/sara-khan/|website=Understanding ModernGov}}</ref> Between 2015/2016, Khan gave evidence on the issue of radicalisation to the European Parliament's Committee on Culture and Education.<ref>https://polcms.secure.europarl.europa.eu/cmsdata/upload/2de90e72-5481-4fe8-8bd8-9f2e24b498da/Sara%20Khan%20Intervention.pdf</ref> She has also given evidence to the [[Home Affairs Select Committee]]'s enquiry on countering extremism <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/home-affairs-committee/news-parliament-2015/151113-countering-extremism-evidence/|title=Bethnal Green Academy, Inspire and Cage questioned on countering extremism - News from Parliament|work=parliament.uk|accessdate=26 March 2017}}</ref> and to the [[Joint Committee on Human Rights]] which comprises both Houses of the [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|British Parliament]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/joint-select/human-rights-committee/news-parliament-2015/counter-extremism-bill-evidence-15-161/|title=Prevent strategy and the Counter Extremism Bill examined - News from Parliament|work=parliament.uk|accessdate=26 March 2017}}</ref>
In September 2005, after the [[7 July 2005 London bombings|London bombings]], Khan sat on the [[Home Office]]'s Tackling Extremism and Radicalisation Working Group.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sara Khan|url=http://www.ascl.org.uk/resources/sara-khan.html|website=ASCL (Association of School and College Leaders)}}</ref> Following this she sat on the Department for Education’s Due Diligence and Counter-Extremism Expert Reference group headed by Lord Nash.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sara Khan, Director and Founder, Inspire|url=http://www.moderngov.com/contributors/trainers/sara-khan/|website=Understanding ModernGov}}</ref> Between 2015/2016, Khan gave evidence on the issue of radicalisation to the European Parliament's Committee on Culture and Education.<ref>https://polcms.secure.europarl.europa.eu/cmsdata/upload/2de90e72-5481-4fe8-8bd8-9f2e24b498da/Sara%20Khan%20Intervention.pdf</ref> She has also given evidence to the [[Home Affairs Select Committee]]'s enquiry on countering extremism <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/home-affairs-committee/news-parliament-2015/151113-countering-extremism-evidence/|title=Bethnal Green Academy, Inspire and Cage questioned on countering extremism - News from Parliament|work=parliament.uk|accessdate=26 March 2017}}</ref> and to the [[Joint Committee on Human Rights]] which comprises both Houses of the [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|British Parliament]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/joint-select/human-rights-committee/news-parliament-2015/counter-extremism-bill-evidence-15-161/|title=Prevent strategy and the Counter Extremism Bill examined - News from Parliament|work=parliament.uk|accessdate=26 March 2017}}</ref>


In January 2018, the Prime Minister, [[Theresa May]], announced that Khan had been appointed Lead Commissioner for the Home Office's [[Commission for Countering Extremism]].<ref>{{cite press release |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Sara Khan to lead Commission for Countering Extremism |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/sara-khan-to-lead-commission-for-countering-extremism |publisher=[[Home Office]] |date=24 January 2018 |access-date=25 January 2018}}</ref> Former [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] minister [[Sayeeda Warsi, Baroness Warsi|Baroness Warsi]], [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] MP [[Naz Shah]], the [[Muslim Council of Britain]] and others criticised the appointment on the basis that Khan would not be seen as independent by many in the British Muslim community.<ref name=independent-20180125>{{cite news |last=Khan |first=Shehab |date=25 January 2018 |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/sara-khan-extremism-appointment-government-criticism-a8177006.html |title=Sara Khan: Government's appointment of new anti-extremism chief branded 'alarming' amid widespread criticism |newspaper=The Independent |accessdate=25 January 2018}}</ref><ref name=bbc-20180125>{{cite news |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-42807560 |title=New counter-extremism tsar Sara Khan faces calls to quit |publisher=[[BBC News]] |date=25 January 2018 |accessdate=25 January 2018}}</ref> The Prime Minister's office responded to defend the appointment.<ref name=telegraph-20180125>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/01/25/theresa-may-forced-defend-new-counter-extremism-tzar-former/ |title=Theresa May forced to defend new counter-extremism tzar as former party chairman says she would alienate Muslims |last=Hope |first=Christopher |newspaper=Daily Telegraph |date=25 January 2018 |accessdate=26 January 2018}}</ref> The following day 100 Muslim organisations submitted a petition to the Home Office calling for Khan to be removed from the role.<ref name=times-20180126>{{cite news |url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/anti-extremism-tsar-sara-khan-has-no-credibility-say-muslim-groups-vm9fwp0rp |title=Anti-extremism tsar Sara Khan has no credibility, say Muslim groups |last=Hamilton |first=Fiona |newspaper=The Times |location=London |date=26 January 2018 |accessdate=27 January 2018}}</ref>
In January 2018, the Prime Minister, [[Theresa May]], announced that Khan had been appointed Lead Commissioner for the Home Office's [[Commission for Countering Extremism]].<ref>{{cite press release |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Sara Khan to lead Commission for Countering Extremism |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/sara-khan-to-lead-commission-for-countering-extremism |publisher=[[Home Office]] |date=24 January 2018 |access-date=25 January 2018}}</ref> Former [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] minister [[Sayeeda Warsi, Baroness Warsi|Baroness Warsi]], [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] MP [[Naz Shah]], the [[Muslim Council of Britain]] and others criticised the appointment on the basis that Khan would not be seen as independent by many in the British Muslim community.<ref name=independent-20180125>{{cite news |last=Khan |first=Shehab |date=25 January 2018 |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/sara-khan-extremism-appointment-government-criticism-a8177006.html |title=Sara Khan: Government's appointment of new anti-extremism chief branded 'alarming' amid widespread criticism |newspaper=The Independent |accessdate=25 January 2018}}</ref><ref name=bbc-20180125>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-42807560 |title=New counter-extremism tsar Sara Khan faces calls to quit |publisher=[[BBC News]] |date=25 January 2018 |accessdate=25 January 2018}}</ref> The Prime Minister's office responded to defend the appointment.<ref name=telegraph-20180125>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/01/25/theresa-may-forced-defend-new-counter-extremism-tzar-former/ |title=Theresa May forced to defend new counter-extremism tzar as former party chairman says she would alienate Muslims |last=Hope |first=Christopher |newspaper=Daily Telegraph |date=25 January 2018 |accessdate=26 January 2018}}</ref> The following day 100 Muslim organisations submitted a petition to the Home Office calling for Khan to be removed from the role.<ref name=times-20180126>{{cite news |url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/anti-extremism-tsar-sara-khan-has-no-credibility-say-muslim-groups-vm9fwp0rp |title=Anti-extremism tsar Sara Khan has no credibility, say Muslim groups |last=Hamilton |first=Fiona |newspaper=The Times |location=London |date=26 January 2018 |accessdate=27 January 2018}}</ref>


==Awards and recognition==
==Awards and recognition==

Revision as of 08:01, 21 July 2018

For other people named Sara Khan, see Sara Khan. For the British television personality, see Saira Khan.
Sara Khan
BornJanuary 1980 (age 44)
Bradford, West Yorkshire, England
Alma materUniversity of Manchester
OccupationHuman rights activist
Websitesarakhan.co.uk

Sara Khan (born January 1980)[1] is a British Muslim human rights activist and the CEO of Inspire, an independent non-governmental organisation working to counter extremism and gender inequality. Khan is a contributor to The Guardian and The Independent newspapers, as well as The Huffington Post and has made appearances on British television and radio. She has been interviewed for the BBC's HARDtalk and Desert Island Discs.[2][3]

CEO of Inspire NGO

Khan is the CEO of Inspire, an independent non-governmental organisation working to counter extremism and gender inequality, which she co-founded in 2008.[3][4]

Inspire has delivered a considerable amount of work in the educational sector. Khan partnered with the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) to deliver training to headteachers and senior leaders about safeguarding pupils from extremism.[5] At Inspire, she spearheaded the organisation’s efforts in 2013 to challenge Universities UK’s guidelines which advocated for gender segregation on Britain’s universities.[6] Inspire has produced anti-extremism counter-narrative videos which have been watched thousands of times to help refute ISIS propaganda. One video by Khan condemning Boko Haram’s treatment of women and girls has been viewed over 76,000 times.[7] She penned a letter to young Muslim girls who may be considering to leave the UK to join ISIS after it emerged that three schoolgirls from Bethnal Green had travelled to Syria. The letter went viral and was widely reported in the press.[8]

Inspire became a registered charity in 2017, named Inspire Women.[9]

Khan is the co-author of the 2016 book The Battle for British Islam: Reclaiming Muslim Identity from Extremism.[10]

Government advisory roles

In September 2005, after the London bombings, Khan sat on the Home Office's Tackling Extremism and Radicalisation Working Group.[11] Following this she sat on the Department for Education’s Due Diligence and Counter-Extremism Expert Reference group headed by Lord Nash.[12] Between 2015/2016, Khan gave evidence on the issue of radicalisation to the European Parliament's Committee on Culture and Education.[13] She has also given evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee's enquiry on countering extremism [14] and to the Joint Committee on Human Rights which comprises both Houses of the British Parliament.[15]

In January 2018, the Prime Minister, Theresa May, announced that Khan had been appointed Lead Commissioner for the Home Office's Commission for Countering Extremism.[16] Former Conservative minister Baroness Warsi, Labour MP Naz Shah, the Muslim Council of Britain and others criticised the appointment on the basis that Khan would not be seen as independent by many in the British Muslim community.[17][18] The Prime Minister's office responded to defend the appointment.[19] The following day 100 Muslim organisations submitted a petition to the Home Office calling for Khan to be removed from the role.[20]

Awards and recognition

In March 2009, Khan was listed in the Equality and Human Rights Commission Muslim Women’s Power List. In January 2015, and once again in 2016, Khan was recognised as one of Britain’s 500 most influential people, in the Debrett’s War and Peace category as someone who is working towards peace and stability in the United Kingdom.

In March 2015, she was named the 2015 Kraemer Middle East Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence, the Wendy & Emery Reves Center for International Studies and the Program in Comparative Legal Studies and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding at the William & Mary School of Law in Williamsburg, Virginia.[21]

In 2015, Khan was included in BBC Woman's Hour Power list as one of the top ten influencers.[22] In 2016, she won the Social and Humanitarian award at the Asian Women of Achievement Awards for her counter-extremism and women's rights work.[23] In the same year, Marie Claire magazine named her as the receipient of its "groundbreaking activist" award of 2016.[24]

References

  1. ^ "Sara KHAN". Personal Appointments. Companies House. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
  2. ^ "HARDtalk: Sara Khan". HARDtalk. BBC World Service. Retrieved 26 March 2017.
  3. ^ a b "Sara Khan". Desert Island Discs. BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 26 March 2017.
  4. ^ Mulholland, Patrick. "Profile: Sara Khan". Cherwell.
  5. ^ 8, Pixl. "Seminars launched to help protect young people against radicalisation". ascl.org.uk. Retrieved 26 March 2017. {{cite web}}: |last= has numeric name (help)
  6. ^ Khan, Sara (25 November 2013). "Segregating men and women at university events won't lead to equality". The Independent. Retrieved 26 March 2017.
  7. ^ We Will Inspire (23 October 2014). "#MakingAStand Against Boko Haram". Retrieved 26 March 2017 – via YouTube.
  8. ^ Khan, Sara (25 February 2015). "To the girls thinking of joining Isis, this letter will change your mind". The Independent. Retrieved 26 March 2017.
  9. ^ "Inspire Women, registered charity no. 1175506". Charity Commission for England and Wales.
  10. ^ Khan, Sara; McMahon, Tony (2016). The Battle for British Islam. Saqi Books. ISBN 9780863561597.
  11. ^ "Sara Khan". ASCL (Association of School and College Leaders).
  12. ^ "Sara Khan, Director and Founder, Inspire". Understanding ModernGov.
  13. ^ https://polcms.secure.europarl.europa.eu/cmsdata/upload/2de90e72-5481-4fe8-8bd8-9f2e24b498da/Sara%20Khan%20Intervention.pdf
  14. ^ "Bethnal Green Academy, Inspire and Cage questioned on countering extremism - News from Parliament". parliament.uk. Retrieved 26 March 2017.
  15. ^ "Prevent strategy and the Counter Extremism Bill examined - News from Parliament". parliament.uk. Retrieved 26 March 2017.
  16. ^ "Sara Khan to lead Commission for Countering Extremism" (Press release). Home Office. 24 January 2018. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
  17. ^ Khan, Shehab (25 January 2018). "Sara Khan: Government's appointment of new anti-extremism chief branded 'alarming' amid widespread criticism". The Independent. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
  18. ^ "New counter-extremism tsar Sara Khan faces calls to quit". BBC News. 25 January 2018. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
  19. ^ Hope, Christopher (25 January 2018). "Theresa May forced to defend new counter-extremism tzar as former party chairman says she would alienate Muslims". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
  20. ^ Hamilton, Fiona (26 January 2018). "Anti-extremism tsar Sara Khan has no credibility, say Muslim groups". The Times. London. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  21. ^ "British Muslim Human Rights Activist to Speak at W&M". William & Mary Law School.
  22. ^ "Woman's Hour 2015 Power List: Influencer Sara Khan, Sara Khan, The power of Angela Merkel, Dorothy Bohm". Woman's Hour. BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 26 March 2017.
  23. ^ "Asian Women of Achievement Awards 2016 Winners celebrated". New Asian Post. Retrieved 26 March 2017.
  24. ^ "future shapers 2016". Woman & Home. Retrieved 26 March 2017.

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