Background
Mogra was born in 1965 in Malawi into a family of Gujarati Indian origin and emigrated to the United Kingdom at the age of 18 to study and settle.
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Ibrahim Mogra
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He was educated at Darul Uloom Bury, Holcombe, Greater Manchester. First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Azhar University, Cairo. And the School of Oriental and African Studies, London.
Career
In 2000, he contributed to British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 2"s Faith in The Nation examination of the afterlife amongst the main religious faiths. He has been a panelist on The Big Questions, a faith and ethics television programme broadcast live on British Broadcasting Corporation One. Asked to choose a favourite film for The Clerics" Choice in The Daily Telegraph, Mogra picked The Message, "you see through the eyes of the camera, as the Messenger would have seen it".
He has worked closely with Abu Eesa Niamatullah, Strategic Director of the 1st Ethical Charitable Trust.
On 7 April 2013, Mogra took part in an interview on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4, condemning the men at the centre of the Rochdale sex trafficking scandal. However he also cautioned that the paedophile scandal should be seen purely as criminal behaviour, warning that using labels of race and religion could "drive the problem deeper underground".
