now presents his thought leadership on various social, political and community topics as well as parenting services through his personal blog DrAbdulBari . Awards and recognition In the 2003 New Year Honours, Abdul Bari was appointed a member of the Order of the British Empire. In 2005, he was made a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. In July 2008, he was made an honorary fellow of Queen Mary University of London. The London Evening Standard listed him as one of London's 1,000 most influential people in 2009. He was also recognised for outstanding achievement in Islamic affairs and community relations by British Bangladeshi Who's Who. In 2013, he was included in the British Bangladeshi Power 100. The University of East London granted him an honorary doctorate in education in November 2012 "for his work as Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain from 2006 to 2010 and for his contribution to the cultural life of east London". In the 11th Muslim Awards Ceremony of The Muslim News in March 2013, he received the Iman wa Amal (Faith and Action) Special Award. Abdul Bari was appointed deputy lieutenant of the Greater London Lieutenancy in July 2016. Views Abdul Bari has appeared in the British media to speak about Muslims in Britain, integration, and efforts to control the rise of fundamentalism among and against Muslims since the 11 September 2001 and 7 July 2005 attacks. In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, he linked the rise of Islamophobia to elements of the media and to some politicians. "Some police officers and sections of the media are demonising Muslims, treating them as if they're all terrorists — and that encourages other people to do the same", he said. He contrasted the one-dimensional portrayal of the Muslim population with the treatment of Catholics in Britain in the 20th century: "We shouldn't say Muslim terrorists; it stigmatises the whole community. We never called the IRA Catholic terrorists." He argued that the British government's response to violent extremism had created tensions both within the Muslim population and between it and the rest of society, and warned of the consequences of poisoning people's minds against an entire community, as happened in Nazi Germany in the 1930s. Abdul Bari often writes about family and parenting, as well as social, political, and global issues, in The Huffington Post and Al Jazeera English. On parenting, he urges