The Ansar Youth Project (AYP) was new and exciting for the Muslim community," says Aliyah Sumar, 15, against the sound of Muslim young women's laughter as they play table tennis at the project in Harrow, Middlesex. "I decided to come here because members of our community were part of it, and you get to know other Muslims."
The project is the product of an experiment by Mohammed Sadiq Mamdani, co-founder of the Muslim Youth Helpline (MYH), to develop a model of Muslim youth work that could be replicated throughout the UK. It was set up after the London bombings in July 2005, and in response to the subsequent concern that young Muslims were becoming disaffected with mainstream society.
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