Sajda Mughal

Sajda Mughal, OBE is best known as being a survivor of the 7 July 2005 London Bombings. She is the director of the JAN Trust, a charity which provides support to vulnerable and marginalised women through empowerment and raising awareness of issues relating to extremism, violence and women’s rights.[1][2][3][4]

Mughal is a contributor to various new outlets, including The Independent,[5] The Times,[6] HuffPost,[2] OpenDemocracy,[7] Metro.[8]

She has appeared on several television programmes, including Lorraine,[9][10] Victoria Derbyshire,[11] and Channel 5.[12]

She is married and has two daughters.[13]

7 July 2005

Mughal is a survivor of the terrorist attack that took place on 7 July 2005, which took place in London.[13] She was 22 at the time, and was working as the head of recruitment at an investment bank.[13] She is the only Muslim survivor of the attack.[14]  

In 2007, following the attack Mughal quit her job and was appointed as the director of the JAN Trust, where she focused on counter-terrorism.[15]

Views

As well as working with JAN Trust, Mughal has campaigned towards raising awareness of Islamophobia[16] and its effects on British Muslims, particularly women.[4]

She has spoken out against the UK government’s Prevent strategy, which she has described as not successfully achieving its purpose of protecting and safeguarding communities.[5]

Mughal has also criticised government cuts to mental health services, citing her own struggles in obtaining support for her recovery process following the 7/7 attacks.[17]

Awards and achievements

In 2013 Mughal won the Community Champion Award from the Hope not Hate campaign.[13]

Mughal was named Ultimate Humanitarian by the Cosmopolitan Ultimate Women Awards in 2015.[18]

She was named by the Evening Standard as one of London’s Top 1000 Most Influential Londoners as a Campaigner in 2014,[19] and subsequently in 2015 for an award in the same category.[20]

She was nominated for the category of Social and Humanitarian in the Asian Women of Achievement Awards in 2014.[4][21]

In 2013 she was awarded with the International World of Difference Award in recognition of efforts to advance women’s empowerment.[22]

She was awarded an OBE in 2015 for services to Community Cohesion and Interfaith Dialogue.[23]

References
  1. Kilner, Lara (2016-07-07). "I survived the 7/7 bombings and now I fight extremists". mirror. Retrieved 2019-02-15.
  2. "Sajda Mughal OBE". HuffPost UK. Retrieved 2019-02-15.
  3. Richard Kerbaj, Jon Ungoed-Thomas and (2018-07-08). "7/7 survivor Sajda Mughal: Prevent anti‑terror plan is 'failing'". The Sunday Times. ISSN 0956-1382. Retrieved 2019-02-15.
  4. Peacock, Louisa (2014-07-04). "Muslim 7/7 bomb survivor: Islamophobic Britain makes me fear for my children". ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2019-02-15.
  5. "'I survived the 7/7 bombings and worked with Prevent – here's why our approach to counter-terrorism is all wrong'". The Independent. 2018-08-15. Retrieved 2019-02-15.
  6. Mughal, Sajda (2018-07-08). "Sajda Mughal: The Home Office doesn't like critical friends like me". The Sunday Times. ISSN 0956-1382. Retrieved 2019-02-15.
  7. "Forced marriage in the UK: hidden from view". openDemocracy. Retrieved 2019-02-15.
  8. OBE, Sajda Mughal (2018-08-21). "A terrorist tried to kill me but I do not want the death penalty for extremists". Metro. Retrieved 2019-02-15.
  9. "7/7 survivor: 'We can't let terror defeat us'". www.itv.com. Retrieved 2019-02-15.
  10. "Martine and Sajda survived 7/7 bombings". www.itv.com. Retrieved 2019-02-15.
  11. "CEO Sajda Mughal appears on Victoria Derbyshire". JAN Trust. 2018-03-20. Retrieved 2019-02-15.
  12. "Sajda Mughal appears on Channel 5 News". JAN Trust. 2017-03-24. Retrieved 2019-02-15.
  13. Jones, Ros Wynne (2013-02-23). "'Kids still tell me they understand why bombers did it': Only Muslim 7/7 bomb survivor on tackling extremism". mirror. Retrieved 2019-02-15.
  14. "7/7 London bombings: King\'s Cross attack changed the life of only Muslim survivor Sajda Mughal". International Business Times UK. 2015-07-07. Retrieved 2019-02-15.
  15. Conner, Megan (2015-06-21). "Life after 7 July attacks: survivors tell their stories". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 2019-02-15.
  16. "7/7 anniversary: Islamophobia and the London bombings, one decade on". RT International. Retrieved 2019-02-15.
  17. "'I'm a survivor of the 7/7 attack – and this is how mental health cuts have damaged my recovery'". The Independent. 2018-11-22. Retrieved 2019-02-15.
  18. Thurley, As told to Harriet (2015-07-07). "How being a Muslim girl on a bombed tube on 7/7 has changed my life forever". Cosmopolitan. Retrieved 2019-02-15.
  19. "The 1000: London's most influential people 2014 - Campaigners". Evening Standard. 2014-10-16. Retrieved 2019-02-15.
  20. "The Progress 1000: London's most influential people 2015 - Campaigners". Evening Standard. 2015-09-16. Retrieved 2019-02-15.
  21. "The Asian Women of Achievement Awards 2014 presented". Jagranjosh.com. 2014-06-06. Retrieved 2019-02-15.
  22. "TIAW World of Difference Awards - The International Alliance for Women". www.tiaw.org. Retrieved 2019-02-15.
  23. Staff, Guardian (2014-12-30). "New year honours 2015: the full list". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-02-15.

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