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180:. During this time he also held several judicial appointments such as Magistrate, Police Judge, District Court Judge and Bailie of the City of Glasgow. He retired from politics in 2003 after completing his four-year term as Convenor of the Strathclyde Joint Police Board. He allowed his Labour Party membership to lapse in 2004 when it became clear that the public had been misled by those behind the Iraq war.
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114:(22 October 1926 – 20 December 2019) was a Pakistani-Scottish politician, businessman, judge, community worker and writer. In 1970 he became the first Muslim to be elected to a representative office in the United Kingdom, serving as a Labour Party councillor for the Kingston ward of the City of Glasgow Corporation.
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Pakistani organisations, including Founding Chair of the Scottish Pakistani Association and President of the Standing Conference of Pakistani Organisations in the UK and Eire (SCOPO). In 1977, the then Home Secretary appointed him a
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Bashir Maan spearheaded the campaign by the
Council of Glasgow Imams to encourage Muslims not to vote for candidates in Scotland's 2012 local government elections. "Every voter will have to make sure the person they are voting for is not in favour of same-sex marriage. It is up to them who to vote
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2014 - Bediuzaman Said Nursi
Lifetime Achievement Award at the Scottish Muslim Achievement Awards. 2013 - Civic Lifetime Achievement Award at the Ethnic Minority Impact Awards, CEMVO Scotland. 2013 - Scottish Family Values Award by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 2008 - Award of
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in March 1953 at the age of 26. Beginning as a student and door to door salesman, in 1967 he went on to open one of the first shops in
Glasgow to sell alcohol at heavily discounted prices. He subsequently sold this side of his business concerns due to the conflict that it had with his religious
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Bashir Maan was asked to resign as
President of the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations in 2006 after deploring the teaching of gay sex education in schools. "These politicians, through certain elements of sex education in schools, are motivating young, innocent children to indulge in
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Bashir Maan has played a major role in encouraging the Muslim community's confidence and integration in
Scotland especially Glasgow and supporting mutual understanding and respect between communities. In 1966 he became involved in planning and development for what is now the grand
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premature sex that is resulting in teenage pregnancies. As if that were not enough, gay sex education is being added to the sex curriculum in schools. This will encourage experiments with homosexuality among young children and add to the growing creed of homosexuality."
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Bashir Maan had four children, five grandchildren and twelve great-grandchildren. He and most of his family are the subjects of a photographic portrait included in the series 'A Scottish Family
Portrait' by Verena Jaekel, commissioned for the
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