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Shahid Malik is Member of Parliament for Dewsbury and serves as Minister for International Development in Gordon Brown's government. He is the first British-born Muslim to be made a Minister in any British Government. In June 2007, on becoming Prime Minister Gordon Brown made the historic decision to appoint Mr Malik as the Minister for International Development. It was a very rapid rise to Ministerial level given that Mr Malik had only been elected as the Member of Parliament for Dewsbury at the 2005 General Election. Dewsbury is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
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His constituency of Dewsbury is viewed as one of the most challenging in the UK. In 2005 the BNP recorded its highest vote in the country in Dewsbury and two months later his constituency was home to the lead suicide bomber on the 7th July, Mohammed Saddique Khan.
Early career On leaving school Shahid worked with the East Lancashire Training and Enterprise Council, working on business development - a career which eventually took him to the job of chief executive of Haringey Regeneration Agency in north London. Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England, bounded to the west by the Irish Sea. ...
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Shahid was little known in Labour circles until he was elected to the Labour Party's National Executive Committee (NEC) (the first non-white person to hold that position) at his first attempt in 2000. Prominent left winger, Mark Seddon, then editor of Tribune, was defeated in the same election, and it claimed by Shahid's supporters that this motivated numerous Tribune diary stories targeting Shahid[citation needed]. The National Executive Committee or NEC is the chief administrative body of the UK Labour Party. ...
Mark Seddon (born 1962) is the New York-based United Nations correspondent for Al Jazeera English and formerly a British journalist and activist in the Labour Party. ...
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Burnley Riots Shahid shot to national prominence in June 2001 during the riots in his hometown, Burnley in Lancashire. His father, Rafique (former Mayor), was Deputy Mayor of the town at the time. Whilst trying to calm the crowds of British Asian youths who had been confronting the police in anger over BNP demonstrations in the town, Malik was beaten by the police, handcuffed and arrested. The event was caught on television cameras and images of Shahid, his face covered in blood, were broadcast nationally. Mr Malik was later offered an apology by Lancashire Police and praised by the Chief Constable for his peace-keeping role during the disturbances. June 2001 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December June 1 - Royal Family of Nepal massacred. ...
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The British National Party (BNP) is a white nationalist political party in the United Kingdom. ...
Standing for Parliament Shahid had hoped to be selected in Burnley where Peter Pike had indicated he was standing down. However, the National Executive Committee decided that this Constituency Labour Party should have an all-women shortlist [1]. Shahid, however, responded to the decision by writing an article in The Guardian reafirrming his support for the policy of all-women shortlists. He stood for selection in Brent East after Labour lost the 2003 by-election but was controversially left off the shortlist, despite winning more nominations and votes than other candidates - indeed Shahid had more votes than the sum of the votes of two male candidates (Robert Evans and Raj Jethwa) who went on to be shortlisted. Insults were traded that the selection had been 'stitched-up' for Evans, the by-election candidate; however, Yasmin Qureshi went on to win the Brent East selection but then failed to regain the once safe Labour seat at the general election in May 2005. Peter Leslie Pike (born 26 June 1937) is a politician in the United Kingdom. ...
A Constituency Labour Party (CLP) is an organisation of members of the British Labour Party who live in a particular parliamentary constituency in England, Scotland and Wales. ...
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On 30th November 2006, the New Statesman 'revealed' that Labour peer, Lord Ahmed of Rotherham, campaigned for the Tories during the Dewsbury election in 2005. Ahmed is said to have backed Sayeeda Warsi, vice-chair of the Conservative Party, a personal friend. According to the New Statesman's report, Warsi "welcomed Lord Ahmed's support".
Palestine, Lebanon and the War in Iraq Shahid served as an international election monitor of for the Palestinian Presidential elections in 2005 and Parliamentary elections in January 2006.
He has also written articles on the Holocaust and been a supporter of the UK’s Holocaust Memorial Day – remembering the Nazi genocide. He has also given talks across the UK alongside one of the world’s best known Holocaust survivors, Eva Schloss, the step-sister of famous war diarist Anne Frank.
Shahid was an open critic of the government's war in Iraq. Despite this the London Evening Standard suggested that Shahid had overstated his opposition to the war in Iraq in an attempt to be selected in Brent East. He complained to the Press Complaints Commission over these newspaper reports which were subsequently retracted acknowledging Shahid had on numerous occasions expressed opposition previously, including on national news and at the Labour party Annual conference.
In August 2006, as a Parliamentary private secretary, he was the most senior British Parliamentarian to sign an open letter to Tony Blair criticising the UK's foreign policy following the invasion of Lebanon.
Later in 2006, he visited the bombed areas of Lebanon and expressed his disgust at Israeli targeting of civilian areas. On his return to the UK he raised the issue in Parliament where he asked the Foreign Secretary: "Is my right hon. Friend aware that, according to the Mines Advisory Group and a cross-party group that was in Lebanon last month, some 32.7 million sq m of land are infected and contaminated by cluster munitions? According to the Mines Advisory Group, if the Israelis were to give it grid references for the 1.2 million bombs that were let loose in the last three days of action, instead of three children dying a day, as is the case, the number would, it hopes, be much less. Will he use his good offices to ensure that we put sufficient pressure on the Israeli Government to move forward on this important issue?"
In October 2007, Shahid revealed that on two separate occasions when visiting the USA where he was invited discuss anti-terrorism by the Department of Homeland Security he was detained by the very same department at the airport on suspicion of carrying explosive devices.[2]
Constituency M.P. Shahid is regarded as having the toughest constituency in the country - having both the highest BNP vote in the UK and at the same time being home to the lead suicide bomber on the 7th July, Mohammed Siddique Khan. He has been an outspoken critic of extremism and terrorism as well as the right-wing BNP. He is respected for being fair and honest on tough issues, being at the forefront in encouraging Muslims to integrate into British society and to go beyond condemning extremism and confronting them. He also opposed a Muslim teacher a Dewsbury primary school who claimed she was being discriminated against because she was not allowed to wear a niqab while teaching young children. She subsequently lost her case at an employment tribunal. He has also called for the swift removal of failed asylum seekers in order to ease community tension in his constituency. Please wikify (format) this article or section as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ...
When elected in May 2005 Shahid Malik set himself a target to open the doors of democracy for his constituents. At the last count, October 2007, Shahid announced that some 2,250 people from Dewsbury and Mirfield had been guests of the MP at Westminster. The overwhelming majority were school students.
Significant National and International roles prior to becoming an MP Shahid has had a number of significant national roles prior to being involved in politics. These roles include:
National Chair of the Urban Forum: Elected annually via 450+ member organisations - a renowned national regeneration policy network made up of residents and community organisations , with the aim of pushing power to local people in deprived neighbourhoods.
Commissioner to the Northern Ireland Equality Commission: Appointed by then Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Mo Mowlam as the only Great British Commissioner (1999-2002) to the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland, which was born out of the 'Good Friday Peace Agreement' – dealing with equalities issues between Catholics & Protestants, Unionists & Nationalists, and discrimination by race, gender, disability, sexuality, age.
Commissioner for Racial Equality, Great Britain: Law enforcement agency under the Race Relations act 1976 working to eliminate racial discrimination across Great Britain.
Vice-Chair of United Nations body, UNESCO UK: Working to engage UK civic society in UNESCO's work in contributing to world peace, security, justice and human rights, by promoting collaboration between nations on educational, scientific, cultural and communications projects.
Government Adviser on Community Cohesion and Neighbourhood Renewal
Parliamentary Jobs Shahid was elected as the Member of Parliament for Dewsbury in May 2005 and became the only newly elected Labour MP to be placed on the powerful Home Affairs Select Committee.
In December 2005 he won the prestigious House Magazine 'Best Maiden Speech of the Parliament' award which is regarded as the Parliamentary Oscars. The award is made once every four years and Shahid beat off over 100 other new MPs.
In January 2006 he became the Parliamentary ' Pool Champion ' – with the title came £1500 which he donated to local charities and causes in his constituency.
In February 2006 he was runner-up in the 'Channel Four News Rising Star Awards'.
In the Government reshuffle in May 2006 Shahid was promoted to the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Schools Minister. [3].
In June 29th 2007 Shahid was appointed a minister in the Department for International Development, making him Britain's first Muslim Minister.
London bombings Since the London bombings of 7 July 2005, Malik has played a prominent role as one of the public faces of Muslim leadership in the UK. He has spoken in criticism of some of the responses to the bombings, and some of the suggestions of what needs to be done. He was invited to join a national working group of key Muslim leaders seeking answers to the bombings. He has called not just for internal reform within Muslim communities, but also for the rest of society to help tackle poverty and isolation of minority groups. is the 188th day of the year (189th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Problems With US Airport Security Shahid Malik protested on 28 October 2007 at having been detained and searched for explosives at a Washington airport on his way home from a meeting with the US Department of Homeland Security. This was the second occasion that this Member of Parliament had been detained and searched, having received the same treatment at JFK airport during a visit to the USA in November 2006. Mr Malik commented as follows: "The abusive attitude I endured last November I forgot about and I forgave, but I really do believe that British ministers and parliamentarians should be afforded the same respect and dignity at USA airports that we would bestow upon our colleagues in the Senate and Congress." [4]. A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a parliament. ...
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