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Raja Mohammed Ansar Khan (Mohammed Ansar). A window into an exceptional life of public service.
This list is not exhaustive: much of the work was never recorded online. It is a window into the exceptional life and public service of a man known as the Suffering Servant.
All that you see listed was achieved while living with a profound spinal disability since childhood; a degenerative spinal condition that resulted from physical abuse he suffered as a young boy, not clinically identified until an MRI scan in January 2025.
What this meant in real terms: every motion, every action, every footstep, every mile walked, was twice as hard for him as for an able-bodied person.
Origins, lineage and heritage
- 6 Apr 1974
Born in Shrodells Hospital, Watford, next to the football ground; grew up on the Holywell estate, first living in flats on a council estate before moving to a house with a garden in 1984
- From 2024
Known publicly as the Star of Jacob, the Hebrew Moshiach with a global mandate;
In talks with the Prime Minister’s office and UK government about the resettlement of his people, the Bani Israel (exiled Tribes of Israel) and return to their ancestral homeland and his family to Jerusalem
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Full title: Raja Mohammed Ansar Khan (Mohammed Ansar, “Mo” Ansar in the media): hereditary lineage rooted in the ancient Royal Household of Azad Kashmir (Mirpur) and the House of Judah
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Grandfather Haji Raja Bostan Khan and his grandfather’s brothers fought Nazism in the Second World War; his grandfather survived settling in Coventry as a war hero
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After decades of public service, rose to prominence on the global media stage becoming the UK’s leading Muslim public figure between 2012 – 2014; thereafter subjected to a coordinated political smear campaign leaving his exemplary public service record disfigured
Education
- 1979 – 1985
Holywell Junior School, Watford. Headteacher: David J Porter
- 1985 – 1993
Watford Grammar School for Boys: A-levels, GCSEs; 6th Form Prefect; established 6th Form Union; played cricket, rugby, hockey, tennis; played for the WBGS hockey and rugby teams
- 1985 – 1993
At Watford Grammar School for Boys: Scout troop leader 1st Watford Central (Countess of Clarendon's Own) Scout Group. Pack leader for Eagles and led his troop to a top-ten finish in the Green Beret Challenge.
- 1993 – 1996
Southampton Institute of Higher Education: LLB Law (Hons) to Diploma
Read law at University of Southampton
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Professional training: Media Training (BBC); Chairmanship and Governance (Hampshire County Council); Career Development Programme for Senior Managers (Lloyds), Field Induction Trainer (Lloyds), Sales Management (Lloyds), SPIN (Lloyds), Mentoring and Coaching (Lloyds), Diversity and Cross-Cultural Awareness (Lloyds), Risk Management and Compliance (Lloyds); LEAN (Spectrum)
Career and professional life
- 1989
Youth worker, Watford Borough Council, for five years: the PlayBus; Harwoods and Harebreaks adventure playgrounds; outreach and after-school programmes; WASP; young people’s events and trips; disability and education work
- 1990
Furniture Salesman, CRS Limited (Co-operative Retail Services); won employee of the month three times in a row
- Jul 1997 – Jan 2008
Senior Financial Planning Manager, LloydsTSB Bank plc: financial planning for high-net-worth clients; top 1% national sales performance; doubled business each year over five consecutive years, with £40m under management (a cumulative increase of over 500% in five years); led and mentored sales teams locally and nationally
- Jan 1999 – Jan 2006
Diversity & Marketing Specialist (HR secondment), LloydsTSB: won the Race for Opportunity Gold Award for the national race and diversity strategy, making Lloyds the UK’s number one in equality and diversity; national diversity champion and mentor through the GEM network; represented the bank with FTSE 100 companies
- Apr 2008 – Apr 2009
Director, Ansar Consulting: strategy, organisational change, HR, policy, diversity and employment law advice for local authorities, companies and charities; senior leadership training
- Apr 2009 onwards
Broadcast Journalist, Political Adviser and Strategist (freelance): strategic communications with broadcasters and senior political leaders; speechwriting and briefings; documentaries, interviews, debates, lecturing; special adviser to a senior minister on the Prime Minister’s Policy Unit; cross-party advisory work on sensitive communications briefs and political strategies
- Jun – Oct 2013
Group Diversity Manager (Head of Diversity), Spectrum Housing Group, one of the UK’s leading social housing providers: a new diversity framework; established women, BME, disability and LGBT networks; worked with board members and senior executives
- Jun 2014 – 2015
Operations Director, RJA Trading Ltd: established a fresh-produce retail business, with responsibility for P&L, marketing, regulation and staff
- Apr 2015 – Jun 2016
Interim Chief Executive, Al Salam, a regional charity: executive leadership, organisational development, fundraising and PR
- 2017 – 2018
Sales Director, Kinex (telecoms B2B), Southampton: record-breaking sales and marketing
- Mar 2017
Sales Executive, Varissa.com, a Hampshire car brokerage: record-breaking sales
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Chairman, Hampshire Independent Equalities Forum, the UK’s largest cross-strand diversity forum: strategic work with the private sector, statutory agencies and voluntary organisations; keynote speeches and media; the forum’s public face
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Visiting Professor and Lecturer, University of Winchester: lecturing on the PGCE and BA (Hons) courses; special adviser to the Director on communications, planning and strategy
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Research Fellow, University of Winchester, attached to the Centre for Peace and Reconciliation under Dr Mark Owen
Broadcasting and media
- Since Mar 2009
On X (@MoAnsar): 166,400 posts and 20,900 followers
- 2010 – 2025
A media footprint of 82 listed entries across TV, radio, print and stage
- 2011 – 2014
UK news interviews: BBC, BBC World, Channel 4, Channel 5, Sky
- 2011 – 2014
International: CNN, ITN, Reuters, Al Jazeera, RT, RTL, France 24, TEN News (Australia)
- Nov 2011 – 2015
BBC Asian Network, weekly slots, including with Nihal (2012 - 2014)
Weekly across BBC national radio: Jason Mohammad, Vanessa Feltz, the Asian Network, and Radio 4’s Any Questions with David Dimbleby
- 2012
By 2012, as part of the “Twitteratti” commanded a global Klout score ranked second internationally, behind only President Barack Obama.
Instrumental on social media, giving voice to many social movements of global significance.
- Apr 2012
BBC One, The Big Questions, appearing opposite Tommy Robinson
- Sep 2012
BBC One, Sunday Morning Live, broadcast from Belfast: arming the police, free speech, Muslim protests and marriage
- Nov 2012
LBC with James Whale: the new Archbishop of Canterbury; then his own peace plan for Palestine
- Dec 2012 – Mar 2013
BBC Radio 4, ‘Any Questions’ from Bradford, 1 Mar 2013
- Dec 2012
BBC WM with Adrian Goldberg
- 2013
BBC Radio 4 Sunday, on Sunni–Shia sectarianism; Radio 4 with William Crawley and Sheikh Mohammad Al Hili
- 2013
Channel 4 News on the Woolwich verdict, with Peter Neumann and Baroness Neville-Jones; Channel 4 Ramadan Reflections
- 2013
BBC Radio 4 Today with Sir Peter Fahy, on British jihadis in Syria
- 2013 – 2021
RT (Russia Today): a regular guest once or twice a week for several years before the Russia–Ukraine conflict, with videos reaching views into the tens of millions; covering counter-terrorism, global politics, UK politics, war, peace, Islamophobia and human rights – the full works
- 2013 – 2016
A YouTube archive of 42 broadcast appearances, the most watched being Newsnight, a call to an Islamophobic Twitter troll, TREWS with Russell Brand, and the Douglas Murray debate
- 2013 – 2014
Television: Newsnight, The One Show, Daybreak
- 2013
Public conversation with Russell Brand on spirituality, revolution and prejudice
- Jan – Mar 2013
LBC with Nick Ferrari: the hijab school case; Abu Qatada
- Jan 2013
BBC Radio 4, Beyond Belief, on anti-Semitism in Europe with Ernie Rea and Ed Kessler
- Feb 2013
Press TV: his long form one-on-one interview with Tariq Ramadan
- May 2013
BBC One, The Big Questions, with Salma Yaqoob, Matthew Goodwin, Ajmal Masroor and Julie Siddiqi
- May 2013
Spoke out after the Woolwich killing of drummer Lee Rigby. He was first on the scene to report it to global media audiences, calling for peace and calm, no ratcheting up of tensions, and for this crime not to be exploited to divide communities in the UK and worldwide. He reported on location after the event, covering all global outlets; this led to death threats and to becoming the subject of the first terror video by ‘Jihadi John’ Emwazi; placed under police protection
LBC Drive after Woolwich; LBC with Andrew Gilligan; ITV Daybreak on far-right threats and on grooming
Publicly condemned the Woolwich killing and called for peace and unity between communities
- Jun 2013
Head-to-head with Douglas Murray, BBC Radio Wales
- Sep 2013
LBC Friday Night Roundtable with Ian Collins
- Oct 2013
Subject of the BBC One documentary "Quitting the English Defence League: When Tommy Met Mo"
BBC 5 Live, in studio, on his 18 months with the former leader of the EDL
- Oct 2013
BBC Two, The Daily Politics
- Oct 2013
Channel 4 News with Jon Snow and Nadhim Zahawi: do the Tories represent ethnic minorities?
- 2014
BBC Radio Wales on the veil, and with Vicky Beeching on social media, politics and religion
- Feb 2014
Channel 5, The Big British Immigration Row: live debate (against Batten)
Channel 5 live: challenged UKIP’s Gerard Batten over the party’s work with far-right racists, with Katie Hopkins on the panel and Anne Diamond and Nick Ferrari presenting
- Jan – Mar 2014
BBC 5 Live with David Aaronovitch and Nicky Campbell; BBC London with Vanessa Feltz on the 20,000-strong petition to remove Maajid Nawaz as political candidate
BBC Newsnight, chaired by Jeremy Paxman, including Mehdi Hasan: took an opponent apart live on air leading to his removal as a political candidate
- Apr 2014
Sky News, Murnaghan: the Trojan Horse school plot, McCarthyism and "stealth Christianisation"
- 2015 – 2016
RT, among many: PREVENT; the counter-extremism strategy; the Quran manuscript; the Syrian refugee crisis; Shaker Aamer; the Paris attacks; debating Baroness Butler-Sloss’s Commission on Religion and Belief report; the Katie Hopkins rematch; Brexit; the Sadiq Khan win; Nice and Normandy; the Calais Jungle with Jon Gaunt; the Berlin attack
- 2016
Islam Channel, The Report: the Snoopers’ Charter; Justin Welby’s comments; Brussels; with Moazzam Begg on anti-Muslim smears; the Extremism Bill and the Queen’s Speech; live on Orlando
- 2017 – 2021
RT, among many: the London Bridge and Finsbury Park attacks; Amnesty’s report on counter-terror laws; the Palestinian hunger strike; the Missing Muslims report; Jihadi Jack; the Windrush scandal; the Tory Islamophobia report (2021)
- May 2019
The first journalist to call out the Sri Lankan authorities live on air over the Easter bombings
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Journalist and broadcaster across multiple outlets around the world
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A contracted BBC contributor with a payroll number, regularly in the BBC’s buildings; appeared on BBC Two’s Moments in Time, with talk of becoming a regular on The One Show
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Regular gigs: BBC Asian Network, BBC South, BBC Radio Wales, Radio 2, Radio 4, BBC TV, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, Sky, CNN, Al Jazeera, Reuters, ITN, ABC (Australia), and more; much of it never posted online
Writing and publications
- 2006 – 2015
28 published essays, including "The attack on multiculturalism" and "The cabal of broadcasting bias" (2011); "Poppy Fascism" and "Britain’s Dirty Secret: Indentured Servitude" (2011); "The Ethnic Cleansing of Our Streets" (2012); "Advertising Islamophobia Hits London Railways" and "Islam, Science and Evolution" (2012); "Our Complicity In War-Rape", "The Golden Age of Security" and "The Demise of the British Liberal Democracy" (2013); "Liberté, Charlie Hebdo and Islamic Reform", "Is It Time To Take The War To ISIS?", "Immigration Street, Poverty Porn and The New Far Right", "The Netanyahu Speech: A War Criminal’s Plea" and "Palestinian Fair Trade: The Fight For Survival" (2015)
- Apr 2006
Began writing publicly: joined Blogger and founded the blog "Ansar’s on a Postcard" ("Mohammed Ansar on politics, society and religion"; tagline "Hurling truth against falsehood"), opening with "The Truth About Islam" and "The Image of Islam" (15–16 April 2006)
- Dec 2012
New Statesman Christmas issue: discussion with Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner and Giles Fraser. Double-page long form interview by Robin Ince
- Dec 2012 – 2014
Further Huffington Post UK pieces, including on Islamophobic advertising on London’s railways
Authored article in Huffington Post (regular contributor) challenging French government and ties to JC Decaux, to reverse discriminatory Islamophobic bans of advertising of ‘The Quran Project’ on London’s railway billboard and advertising property
- 2013
Paper, "Islamophobia and the Muslim Civil Rights Crisis", sent to every school in Hampshire
- Jan 2013
ABC Religion & Ethics: "Islamophobia and the Muslim civil rights crisis"
- Mar 2013
Article on war rape, published in Huffington Post; led to the arrival of Angelina Jolie and political engagement in the UK on the issue
- Oct 2013
The Guardian: account of 18 months working with the leader of the English Defence League
- Aug 2014
Huffington Post UK: "Self-interest, Sycophancy and Strategic Failure"
- Mar 2015
Moved his writing to his own site, moansar.com; Medium articles thereafter
- 2016 – 2025
39 essays on Medium (medium.com/@moansar), including: "Jo Cox: Public Servant, Rest In Peace"; "Vote Remain: Why Immigration Is Not The Issue"; "An Open Letter to the Labour PLP"; "Save Watford’s Last Remaining Adventure Playgrounds" (2016); "France, Islamophobia and the Muslim Question"; "Geert Wilders"; "The Far Right Exploit the Berlin Terror Attacks: TV debate, Mo Ansar vs Alternative für Deutschland" (2016); "The American Dream Ends: Trump’s Muslim Ban"; "Assange on Trump and the Muslim Ban"; "The UK Turns Its Back on Child Refugees"; "Terror in London: The Westminster Attack"; "Grenfell Tower: Only a Public Inquiry Will Do"; "Gay Refugees, Islam and the West, and the Clash of Civilisations" (2017); "Human Rights: Rights for Humans?"; "Imran Khan, Pakistan’s New Commander-in-Chief"; "Why the Burka Ban Is Merely the Thin End of the Wedge" (2018); "Nigel Farage cannot escape the horrors of the past"; "Media Freedom: How Some Voices Are Freer Than Others"; "Guardian Has Fallen" (2019); "The New Covid Strain Game" (2020); "Long Live The King: Not Yet A Great Britain" (2022); "Five Signs You May Have PTSD"; "The Russell Brand Smear Campaign Begins!" (2023); "A History Lesson For All Mankind" and "Breaking The Cross" (2025)
- May 2016
On Medium, his two-part account of the smear campaign against him: "Part 1: Smear campaigns, Labour and Mr Jones" and "Part 2. A Nest of Vipers: BBC cover-ups over anti-Muslim corruption"
- Feb 2024
Correspondence with the then Foreign Secretary, Lord David Cameron
- Jul 2025
Open letter to King Charles III
- Sep 2025
Medium: "Breaking the Cross"
- Sep 2026
Memorandum to the Minister for Women and Equalities proposing a new section 21A of the Equality Act 2010
- Sep 2026
Policy brief: "The Democratisation of Statutory Enforcement: Multi-System Risk Analysis"
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Wrote speeches for members of the House of Lords on war rape, published in Huffington Post
Public speaking, lectures and teaching
- c.2009
After-dinner speech for the Hampshire Indian Society: "Islamophobia in India"
- 2009 – 2015
Adjudicating on community matters, organising conferences, community development and strategic partnerships
- 2010 – 2011
"Question Time"-style panel event at Portchester, Hampshire
- Nov 2010
Speaker, Equality & Diversity Conference, Rose Bowl, Southampton
- 2011 – 2016
Khutbahs and local talks across Southampton and Hampshire; further university and Islamic Society lectures
- Sep 2011
Café Church, Petersfield: grassroots interfaith dialogue
- Oct 2011
University of Southampton: Islam, activism, family values and the heart
- Mar 2012
Panellist, Cambridge Science Festival: can religion and science coexist?
- Mar 2012
A school assembly and a lecture to Christian teachers in Southampton; a lecture on Islam to 200 privately schooled 18-year-olds
- Jun 2012
Luton Against Islamophobia, with Yvonne Ridley and Lauren Booth, speaking against the EDL; also speaking in Bury Park
- Jun 2012
South East England Faiths Forum Annual Conference, Crawley
- Sep – Oct 2012
Universities of Southampton and Portsmouth;
Two conferences back-to-back, 100 miles apart, one in London
- 2013
The first Muslim to address the EDL, speaking at an EDL rally at great personal risk
- 2013 – 2015
FRIDAY SERMONS & PRAYERS - Khateeb, University of Southampton
- Jan 2013
UCL Debate alongside Rabbi Naftali Brawer (Board of Deputies).
Organised by University College London Union (UCLU) Debating Society in London. SOLD OUT.
"This house believes that religion does more harm than good."
Opposition: Professor Peter Atkins (eminent chemist) and Andrew Copson (CEO of the British Humanist Association)
UCL debate, Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, with Andrew Copson: packed, with no room even on the floor
- Feb 2013
Talk to the University of York Islamic Society: Islam in Britain and the Muslim civil rights crisis
University of York lecture: "Islam in Britain and the Muslim Civil Rights Crisis"
- Aug 2013
Greenbelt Festival (#gb40), Cheltenham Racecourse, Aug 2013, under the theme ‘Life Begins’: sold-out appearances at three venues, including the Jerusalem venue (a dedicated tent hosted at the festival), where he delivered his talk; sessions including Jenin and Jerusalem; his lecture on how Muslims saved global Jewry, caused the Reformation and pioneered Western civilisation. He camped on site and spent the week with the festival-goers
Speaking tour with acclaimed American Christian author and preacher, Brian McLaren
Greenbelt Festival: "What have the Muslims ever done for us?"
- Oct 2013
Lovell Lecture 2013, Winchester Cathedral: "Facing Secularism Together"
Delivered the Lovell Lecture 2013 at Winchester Cathedral, on secularism and religion, to a wonderful and generous reception (invited Apr 2013). The first Muslim in a thousand years formally invited to deliver a ticketed public address from the pulpit of Winchester Cathedral
- Oct 2014
"The Crisis of Knowledge, ISIS and Terrorism": Jumu’ah khutbah given at the University of Southampton
- Jan 2015
Hampshire communities conference, uniting Muslims across Hampshire
- Nov 2015
Led Open Muslim Prayers, University of Southampton Students’ Union Islamic Society
- Nov 2015
Talk in Winchester for Hampshire County Council: "Islam, the West and the Crisis of Knowledge"
- Jan 2016
University lecture to students
- Aug 2016
Somerset County Cricket Club: "Religion, Politics & Music: Why I Never Duck A Bouncer"; Vale Rotary Club, on integration, cricket and life
- Aug 2024
National figure head for Southampton anti-racism rallies (Grosvenor Square; the Bargate)
- 2025
Attended Muslim Conference in Coventry, with Mufti Menk and others
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Regular conference speaker
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Visiting professor and lecturer at the University of Winchester, on the PGCE and BA (Hons) courses, lecturing on Islam, Islamophobia and theology
Equality, community and public service
- Youth, Watford
Volunteered at Jamia Masjid, Watford, giving talks and assisting the imam
- Youth, Watford
Volunteered for the cancer research charity CANDIS, and ran school fayres raising money for good causes
- c.1996 – 2026
Three decades in equality, diversity and inclusion in the South West; built diversity networks across the public and private sectors
- 2010
Chair, Hampshire Independent Equality Forum (HIEF) Steering Group
- 2010
Coordinated the Southampton Flood Relief Campaign for victims of the Pakistan floods
- 2010
Organised and directed the Hampshire-wide flood relief scheme, coordinating aid across schools, community groups and the Women’s Institute
- 2011
Sat on the CPS South West community engagement panel
- Jul 2014
Hampshire fundraiser for Gaza and Syria
- Oct 2014
Recorded a message at a local Hampshire studio urging young Muslims not to go out and join IS
- 2015
Open interfaith iftars every Friday and Saturday of Ramadan, welcoming Quaker friends and Rev Andrew Ashdown
- Dec 2015
Chief executive of a charity serving as an umbrella body for local Muslim groups; encouraged Muslims to join in the cultural side of Christmas and to feed the poor and house the homeless
- Jan 2016
A milestone community event for Hampshire’s Muslim communities, supported by Hampshire Police
- Jun – Jul 2016
Campaigned with Swapcoms to keep Watford’s adventure playgrounds open
- Jun 2026
E-petition proposal for a public register of UK nationals serving in foreign militaries, accepted by the House of Commons petitions office
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Strategist and diversity specialist in the private sector
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Led national initiatives with civil society organisations, government departments and agencies
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Counter-extremism work, including tackling foreign fighters travelling to Syria and Iraq
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A principal architect of the civil equality frameworks that became the Equality Act 2010
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Hampshire County Council: Co-opted Muslim Representative, Standing Advisory Council for Religious Education (SACRE), working with Clive Erricker and Pat Hannam
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Established the first youth SACRE
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Hampshire County Council: co-opted full member of the Children and Young People Select Committee, as faith representative
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Hampshire County Council: Governor Services Review Board
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Directed the South East Employers Equality Forum (SEEFF) and the Southampton Council of Faiths (SCOF)
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Served the mosques of Abu Bakr and Medina in Southampton for a decade
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As a Muslim civil leader, officiated several weddings; the nikah services included counselling for couples; as shariah scholar and jurist issued determinations in family and legal matters
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Established the Southampton Muslim Partnership, and secured core funding for a range of programmes, including the establishment of the first Muslim school in the south of England, and Who Made Your Pants, a leading engagement charity for women from newly settled communities
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A champion for Chrysalis, the transgender charity run by Diane Yaxley
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Muslim Council of Southampton; Muslim Council of Britain, working for years alongside Khurshid with Hampshire’s communities
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Advocacy for BME groups, families and children failed by the state, and NEETs; representation at educational appeal tribunals
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Educational work for Hampshire County Council; revised the RE textbooks for Hampshire’s children (2015)
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Community representative when police raised a far-right plot to firebomb mosques across Dorset and Hampshire
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Parent governor, Knightwood Primary School
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Established "Islaah", a multi-faith chaplaincy at Peter Symonds College
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Prison chaplain, Winchester Prison
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Board member, South East England Faiths Forum
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Hampshire Interfaith Network
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Worked with Roy Perry, Hampshire County Council and the Local Government Association on the Syrian migrant resettlement scheme
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For Hampshire County Council, worked on educational attainment for hard-to-reach groups, specifically BME and Gypsy and Traveller children
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Supported the funding and establishment of Cambridge Central Mosque
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Muslim Council of Britain: Secretary of the Education Committee and of the Senior Leadership Team
Politics, counter-extremism and the far right
- 2012 – 2013
An 18-month campaign to persuade Tommy Robinson to leave the far right; introduced him to Muslim scholars and facilitated his departure from the EDL; suffered a heart attack during filming in March 2013, and carried on
18 months of engagement with the leader of the English Defence League, documented by the BBC
- Oct 2013
Named number one on the Al-Shabaab kill list for speaking out against terror and extremism, and featured as the central figure in the initial Jihadi John broadcast, requiring long-term, high-level police protection
Sky News: his death threat from Al-Shabaab over the Woolwich killing
- 2014
On Radio 4’s World at One, exposed the Department for Education’s use of slush funds to finance Tommy Robinson, leading to Michael Gove’s removal as Education Secretary
BBC Radio 4, The World at One: exposed Michael Gove (leading to his sacking) over the Trojan Horse plot
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For almost a decade, the most prominent and effective Muslim opponent of far-right extremism in the UK, unrivalled in head-to-head debate; led campaigns against the EDL, Pegida, Britain First and UKIP; unseated three UKIP leaders and a UKIP youth leader
Directly responsible for the removal of three leaders of UKIP, their youth leader, Tommy Robinson from the EDL, blocking the entry of leaders of PEGIDA into the UK, removal of Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove, from post, and a force behind the removal of the Cameron-Sunak Conservative government
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Warned Nigel Farage, Paul Nuttall and Steven Woolfe that Tommy Robinson was working with Gerard Batten, years before the referendum
Continues to hold the Sword of Damocles over Farage following his expose of “Dismantling Multiculturalism” – the secret meeting between UKIP, Christian Concern and the Far Right
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Confronted far-right and polarising figures: tackled Donald Trump’s rhetoric, took on Tommy Robinson, took down three consecutive UKIP leaders, and made the broadcast challenges that led to Piers Morgan leaving ITV
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A recognised counter-terrorism and counter-extremism practitioner, speaking on the Iran Nuclear Deal, global terror attacks and international affairs
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Worked with Central Government on Prevent and Channel; strategic lead in Southampton
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Gave keynote speeches at security conferences alongside RICU (the Research, Information and Communications Unit) on strategic communications and community engagement, dealing with senior police commanders, and with Alex Marshall of the College of Policing
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Advised Nadhim Zahawi, then the Conservative Prime Minister’s Head of Policy; gave speeches alongside Jeremy Corbyn and senior Labour leaders; gave keynote addresses at The Peoples Assembly, Trade Union Events and demonstrations
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Spearheaded political changes that helped topple the Conservative government; formed the strategic backbone that raised Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party to over 600,000 members, the largest political party in Western Europe
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Twice refused offers of media advancement in exchange for changing his position over Israel or staying silent; refusal to sell out principles
Law and advocacy
- From 2002
Discrimination, harassment and victimisation claims against his employer Lloyds TSB. Record-breaking 36-day Employment Tribunal hearing reached the Royal Courts of Justice three years later; all as a litigant in person, single-handed: every bundle, every cross-examination, every action taken, every submission hand crafted
- 2006
Made English legal history with landmark ruling in Ansar v Lloyds TSB Bank plc [2006] EWCA Civ 1462; [2007] IRLR 211: a reported Court of Appeal authority on judicial bias and recusal, cited extensively today as a foundational case (e.g. Ukwu v Equiniti Ltd, 2016). His closing submission at the Royal Court of Justice extended to 103-pages and laid out all the groundwork and principles for all judicial impropriety cases
He wrote the book on how we hold judges to account
- Oct 2026
Designed a line-by-line Equality Act quantum method and calculator for litigants in person for addressing statutory breaches – to be made available to the general public
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Identified that legal regulators publish no data on disabled people harmed by opposing lawyers, drafting judicial submissions for action
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Recognised by the Court of Appeal as ‘one of the finest advocates they had ever seen’
(Burton, EAT; Leveson, CA)
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Appellate court jurist, shariah scholar and theologian
Sport and coaching
- 1985 – 1993
Played hockey and rugby for Watford Grammar School for Boys
- Jul 2014
Took his under-16 girls to the inaugural Hampshire County Cup finals, and won; defended the title as champions in 2015
- May 2015
His youngest daughter’s Hampshire under-15 debut: five wickets and a hat-trick
- Aug 2015
The Ansar sisters and their team won the Hampshire Ladies League (Hursley Park Ladies); the national under-15 county championship final, Hampshire against Yorkshire
- Aug 2016
Aneeqa and Anisa Ansar, Hampshire’s pace attack, at the ECB National Finals
- Sep 2016
Aneeqa and Anisa in the Inspirational Women’s XI against the Combined Services XI, for Bowling Out Domestic Violence
- 2017
Anisa Ansar introduced the Outstanding Contribution to Women’s Sport award at the Women’s Sport Trust #BeAGameChanger Awards; featured by BBC News and BBC Sport in Women’s Sport Week (June 2017)
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Played tennis for Knightwood Park Tennis Club
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ECB-qualified club cricket coach in Hampshire ("Coach Mo"), running under-13 and under-16 girls’ teams
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In his words: his two girls won the championship with Hampshire, league and cups, every season
Music and creative work
- Late 1990s
Home-producing music in Watford, then Hampshire
- 2016
Songwriter and musician; band "Solomon" (on YouTube)
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Lead vocalist, Solomon. Regular gigs, festivals and performances
Family, faith and resilience
- Jan 2025
Identified in 2025 as having lived with a profound degenerative spinal disability since childhood, the result of abuse he suffered as a boy; every motion twice as hard as for an able-bodied person. Every achievement in this record was made carrying it.
- 2026
Single-handedly navigated a miraculous self-healing protocol, designing new pioneering neurological and pharmacology techniques to recover from a tragic health clinical crisis to stabilise his condition and recover – all meticulously and forensically recorded so that others may be helped
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Post COVID-19, became disabled in 2022/23, bedbound and abandoned by state health providers.
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In 2024/2025, healed his father from end-of-life palliative pathway at UHCW, Coventry (DNR signed) to full recovery and cured his diabetes after taking full charge and control of his welfare.
These are merely some of the adventures and stories, not all of them,
of the life and times of the Star of Jacob, the Hebrew Moshiach, Mo Ansar.