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The Khanqah Cup
On Sunday13th March 2011, the Khanqah 5-a-side football tournament took place at the Powerleague Soccerdome Trafford, Manchester and proved to be a highly successful event.
The organisers of the tournament were Khanqah Burnage Mosque. Their goal was to build community cohesion by bringing together members from various segments of Manchester’s society. The tournament allowed people to drop their divisive tags and break barriers in order to embrace the principles of humanity – through the international language of football.
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IMSA- INTER MOSQUE SPORTS ASSOCIATION TABLE TENNIS TOURNAMENT
The 2nd annual INTER MOSQUE SPORTS ASSOCIATION TABLE TENNIS TOURNAMENT took place at the Armitage Centre on Saturday 26th February. There was a great turnout with over 32 masjids being represented with over 64 players competing against each other. Our Khanqah Mosque had put forward 2 representatives who took part and one of the them went through to win in the doubles tournament! It was an amazing event and also had the ex Lord Mayor Afzal Khan presenting the medals and trophies.
FORCED MARRIAGES
On 5th March a ladies Meeting took place at the mosque regarding a somewhat controversial topic ‘Forced Marriages’. There was a very good local turnout and Councillor Yasmin Dar also gave an inspirational talk . The talk tackled issues with young girls getting forced into marriages and the taboo of talking openly about this. There was a special guest, Sameem Ali who was forced to marry aged 13. She gave a horrifying account of her experiences and talked openly of her ordeal. It was a truly an inspirational speech, she said “I want to inspire women to have a voice, whatever they are going through, it was many years before I raised my voice.”
The meeting proved to be very successful and informative and everybody went home with a greater knowledge of the topic.