The City Circle

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The City Circle is a network body of mainly young Muslim professionals located in England and is a registered charity (Reg. No.1088931). The chairman is Asim Siddiqui, whose father, Dr Ghayasuddin Siddiqui, is leader of the Muslim Parliament. On 7 November 2006, The City Circle, announced that it had appointed Yahya Birt, whose father is Sir John Birt, as its first Director with effect from December 2006. 0n 3 January 2008, it announced the appointment of Dr Usama Hasan, whose father is Shaykh Suhaib Hasan, as its new Director. ^[1]

The City Circle hosts weekly events and seeks to promote practical and progressive solutions to community problems. It runs targeted community based projects and holds fundraising dinners to support and highlight social and welfare causes as well as servicing third party initiatives.

1 Projects
2 British Muslim Identity
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Projects

Current projects of the organization include a Saturday school, careers and mentoring, helping London's homeless and a children's club.^[2] The City Circle Saturday school project model has been successfully used by other supplementary schools around London.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] British Muslim Identity

The City Circle is significant in the development of the British Muslim Identity through its challenging weekly discussion groups. It has also attracted controversy through its policy of not aligning itself to any particular group or ideology. The City Circle claims it has not aligned itself to either the Muslim Council of Britain or the Sufi Muslim Council, as evidenced in 2005 it organised a prominent meeting to discuss the state of Muslim leadership in the UK^[3], where the MCB and its critics debated.

Following the veil controversy the City Circle organised a public meeting with Jack Straw, where Jack Straw defended his comments^[4].