Mohammad Naseem, Pakistani-English activist (b. 1924)
Mohammad Naseem, (Urdu: محمد نسیم; 6 September 1924 – 22 April 2014), was a British Muslim leader and political activist. Nassem worked as a GP before later becoming chairman of the Birmingham Mosque Trust (Birmingham Central Mosque), one of the largest and most prominent Islamic places of worship in the United Kingdom.
Born in Amritsar in British India in September 1924, Naseem was educated mainly in Pakistan and then in England, where he trained to become and worked as a GP for many years and also specialised in the medical procedure of circumcision, particularly for the British Muslim community.
He was executive member of, and home affairs spokesman for, the Islamic Party of Britain.Naseem was the main practitioner of male circumcision in the region and was based in Aston, Birmingham.
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