The event in Manchester, from which the document listed below under articles was produced, stemmed from an earlier event held in Brussels in June 2006. There, fifty Muslims from local branches of the British Labour Party and from other socialist parties around Europe hotly debated controversial and difficult subjects like extremism, integration and discrimination with honesty, passion and integrity. Some of the women present at that meeting said that they wanted the voices of women to be heard more in the debate, and, as a consequence, we ran an event called ‘British Muslim Women: Influencing the European Debate' in Manchester on 11 November 2006.
Hosted by women MEPs and addressed by key Muslim women and cabinet minister Rt Hon Hazel Blears MP, it brought together women from all over the North West and Yorkshire and the Humber regions. Together, they considered the issues that had come out of the Brussels meeting and developed themes of particular relevance to both Muslims and the wider community. We are enormously grateful to all of them for the insight and perception with which they did this - I know that everyone who attended that day came way from it having both learned and contributed in some way.
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