About us.

We are the Muslim Social Justice Initiative (MSJI) — a youth-led, grassroots collective of Black and Global Majority Muslims in Manchester.

COLLECTIVE POWER

We exist because the world we live in is designed to erase, exclude, and criminalise us.

Islam and being Muslim have been racialised in the UK, leading to policing, surveillance, state violence, and community harm.

At the same time, many mainstream Muslim spaces fail to meet the needs of the most marginalised among us.

We are building alternative futures.

We are building alternative futures.

Our work

📢 We build spaces of political education, cultural resistance, and community care — spaces that centre joy, healing, and justice.

📢 We centre those most erased by empire and oppression, knowing that liberation must be collective or it is not liberation at all.

📢 We work in solidarity with grassroots movements across the UK and the Global South, because our struggles are shared, and our futures are intertwined.

Since 2023, we’ve built a powerful community and created spaces of resistance that strengthen collective power and solidarity.