Statistics released by the Home Office today, Tuesday 27th of March, continue to depict the worrying nature of the PREVENT duty as casting an unnecessarily wide net which is devoid of meaningful detail and which results in unacceptable numbers of unwarranted referrals. In other words, due to the...
Channel 4’s Dispatches programme launched an attack on MEND on Monday as a consequence of our credible and sustained engagement in the public sphere. Please watch the video above where our CEO rebuts the claims made in the programme and shows how it had a biased agenda. The first thing to note is...
The University of Exeter has come under significant criticism as racist messages propagated on WhatsApp by a group of its Law students have come to light. The messages were sent to a private students’ WhatsApp group called the “Dodgy Blokes Soc”, the members of which are part of the Bracton...
The racist System Resistance Network has taken responsibility for Nazi graffiti that was spotted in Cardiff a few weeks ago on the 16th of March 2018. On the controversial media site Gab, the far-right network posted images of the vandalism accompanied by the message: “Our propaganda at your...
In preparation for an episode of Dispatches that John Ware has directed, today he wrote an article in the Times labelling MEND a “Divisive Muslim lobby group” that must “clean up its act”. While many of his accusations remain non-specific and vague (no doubt he intends to save the best...
A recent article in the Brighton & Hove Independent has reported a young Muslim student’s campaign to lobby the Government to introduce interest-free university loans and is being backed by Hove MP, Mr Peter Kyle. Ms Thasnima Haque, who is currently studying at Sussex Downs College for her...
An elderly disabled man has been left shaken after Islamophobic vandals sprayed “Kill Muslims” on his front door, The Bury Times reports. The victim, Mr Syed Ali, who lives alone and lost his mobility in 2001 after an operation. He left to go to the shops at around 3 pm on Saturday (18th of...
MEND in collaboration with University of Exeter organised an Islamophobia conference titled: Roots, consequences and solutions on 21st of March 2018. The conference explained the reasons behind the rise of Islamophobia and the means to tackle it. Also the conference touched upon gendered...
A recent article in The Times by Mr Dominic Kennedy sought to attack and defame the work of Islamophobia Awareness Month and its critical importance in tackling the rising problem of anti-Muslim rhetoric, discrimination and violence. In the article, Mr Kennedy mentions Mr Jeremy Corbyn and other...
A report by Warwick University has found that four NHS mental health trusts (of 54) are being used as Prevent surveillance to screen all patients of radicalisation and states that there is “evidence to suggest that the mentally ill are being inappropriately stigmatised as terrorism risks”. The...
