On March 16th, an audience of over 470 distinguished guests filled out the Porchester Hall in Bayswater and were treated to a special evening with James Caan as hosted by mend. The evening commenced with Industry professionals and business men/women being given an insight into the valuable work...
On Tuesday last week, buy-to-let tycoon from Kent, Fergus Wilson 69, was exposed for banning South Asian tenants from his properties because they allegedly make carpets “smell of curry,” and has since stated that he will not apologize for the comments. Wilson told Sky news that “There has...
The High Court has ordered Stand for Peace to pay £140,000 in damages to the founder of the Islam Channel after it wrongfully labelled him a “convicted terrorist”. In a landmark ruling, Sir David Eady of the High Court of Justice Queen’s Bench Division, awarded Mohamed Ali Harrath the...
BBC News reports that seven people have been charged following the horrific and appalling attack on a teenage asylum seeker in Croydon last Friday. Reker Ahmed, a 17-year-old Kurdish-Iranian refugee, was left with a fractured spine, fractured skull and bleeding on the brain after the assault, which...
The Daily Mirror and local news site Kent Live both report on the court case of a man who abused a Muslim taxi driver and refused to get in his taxi as the driver was Muslim. Richard Nolan, 43, shouted at the driver “f****** c*** Muslim” and told him “go back to your own country, […]
The Huffington Post reports on the publication of the European Islamophobia Report 2016, revealing how Islamophobia is thriving and inspiring acts of violence targeted at Muslims across the continent. The report, compiled by 31 scholars and academics across 27 countries, details how anti-Muslim...
The Independent reports on comments made by Baroness Sayeeda Warsi calling for all those who fight for foreign forces to be prosecuted, including Britons who volunteer for the Israel Defence Forces. The UK’s first Muslim cabinet minister, who resigned her post in 2014 after the UK government’s...
Local paper Essex Chronicle reports that police have arrested a second man in connection with the attempted arson of the Al Falah Braintree Islamic Centre earlier this year. The two suspects allegedly set a rubbish bag alight before throwing it onto the mosque’s corrugated roof, causing the...
Local site Brighton and Hove News reports on a police appeal for witnesses following a reported incident of racial abuse at Prince Regent Sports Centre in the city. At 1.30pm on Sunday 19 March a 34-year-old man was preparing to use the sauna at the sports centre in North Road when he was subjected...
mend hosted an awareness raising stall on Saturday 11th February at Longsight Market in Manchester. mend volunteers were joined by Councillor Rabnawaz Akbar, Dean Rodgers from the Manchester Cathedral and the local Police. Members of the public were engaged on the rise of hate crimes and how they...
