Dr. Todd Landman, Pro-Vice Chancellor of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Univ. of Nottingham, discusses Amb. Ahmed visit to Nottingham in context of Orlando tragedy.

“Last month The University of Nottingham welcomed Professor Akbar Ahmed, former High Commissioner of Pakistan to the UK and now the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at American University in Washington DC as part of a three-day event to build trust between the Muslim and non Muslim communities of Nottingham. His speech was frank about the non-Muslim community vilifying all Muslims and grouping them together as a homogenous radical and terrorist force. He was equally frank in urging the Muslim leaders present at his lecture and those whom they represent to be stronger in their condemnation of all violence being committed in Islam’s name.”

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