About Mohammad Naseem
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 left Pakistan and settled in Birmingham in 1951. 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. He was reprimanded by the General Medical Council for circumcising a baby boy without the parents’ consent. There was great confusion at the time and many of those involved had a design for an Islamic institution but disorganisation created a lack of funds and resources to complete the grand and innovative project. They have invented this perception of a threat. It was also found that he had failed to make an adequate clinical record of the procedure and failed to provide appropriate information about aftercare. In the 1970s, Naseem became involved in the establishment of a major mosque and Islamic centre in Birmingham and supported a project that had begun in the late 1950s but only got underway in the 1960s.
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