On 12th of March 2015 a  Seminar on “Freedom of Speech and Religious Freedom, Human Rights and Interreligious Perspectives” organised in Trinity College Dublin in which the Chief Imam of Al-Mustafa IECC, Shaykh Dr. Muhammad Umar Al-Qadri, delivered a paper on “Freedom of Speech and Responsible Speech: Islamic Perspectives”.

This Seminar was organised by the Irish School of Ecumenics and Centre for Post-Conflict Justice (Trinity College Dublin), Carlow College (Co. Carlow), The Priory Institute (Tallaght) and Dublin City Interfaith Forum.

Other speakers that delivered a paper in the seminar were Prof. Rosemary Byrne (Department of Law, TCD) ,Prof. Ronit Lentin   (Department of Sociology, TCD), Prof. Roja Fazaeli (Department of Near and Middle Eastern Studies, TCD) ,Swami Purnananda   (Spiritual Director of Nivedita Vedanta Society and the Eire Vedanta Society) and Ms. Sinéad Lynch   (Chairperson of the Dublin City Interfaith Forum).

This was an important seminar particularly because of recent events which have sparked a debate on freedom of speech and in particular with regards to Islam.

Please on the following link for the paper the Shaykh delivered in the Seminar:

Freedom of Speech and Religious Freedom, Human Rights and Interreligious Perspectives by Dr. Umar Al-Qadri

Al-Mustafa IECC is a a proud supporter of the March against Racism on 21st March 2015 in Dublin City Centre. This March is organised on the UN Anti Racism Day to highlight the importance of a plural society. The message is very clear on this day. NO to Racism and YES to Diversity !
Shaykh Dr. Muhammad Umar Al-Qadri will be among the speakers in the March. We ask all Muslim brothers and sisters to participate in huge numbers this march.

Shaykh Muhammad Umar Al-Qadri was invited by the Holocaust Education Trust Ireland to attend the memorial service on the 21st of January 2015 in Mansion House.
Shaykh Muhammad Umar Al-Qadri accepted the invitation and said that in the light of the Quran the unlawful killing of an innocent person is equal to the killing of whole mankind. Holocaust denial is tantamount to denying Muslim scripture. Just as Muslims believe in Hadith literature because of the solid reports (mutawatir) confirming events in seventh century Arabia, we are obliged to believe in the Holocaust by virtue of eyewitness accounts, extant documents, and the presence of Auschwitz and other sites.

During the memorial service the Muslims in Paris that during the world war saved hundreds of Jews from the Nazis were acknowledged. Among the attendees of the memorial service were holocaust survivors, President of Ireland Mr. Michael Higgins, State Ministers and other political & religious leaders.