By enhancing Muslim engagement in the General Elections and raising awareness and expectations about policy issues that impact on British Muslims. Our manifesto has been developed to encourage British Muslim participation in the 2019 General Elections. We have produced this election league table...
The first leaders’ election debate, between Conservatives’ Boris Johnson and Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn, was watched by 6.7 million viewers; more than 10% of the British population and a third of the British TV audience. With less than a month until the General Election, the debate provided the...
With a general election less than a month away, British Muslims need to make sure that their voices are heard. The potential of the Muslim vote is significant, with geographical concentrations of Muslim populations in specific areas providing their votes an enhanced ability to influence various...
We are living in an age where politicians have described Muslim women as “bank robbers” and “letterboxes”, and where Islamophobic hate crime rose by over 40% in London alone in the year up to January 2018. In this climate of hostility towards Muslim communities, it is...
With various political parties facing accusations of racial and religious impropriety, and of being detached from the lived experiences of the UK’s minority communities, the importance of a diverse party membership cannot be stressed enough. It is important that the UK’s religious and...
The Government’s recent proposals to introduce ID requirements at polling stations, has led to fears that the scheme will lead to voter suppression and disproportionately disenfranchise already marginalised minority groups. Under the “electoral integrity” bill proposals, as stated in...
As the potential of a general election becomes exponentially more viable with every passing day, possible candidates are mobilising their teams, testing their PR strategies, and raising their public image an effort to seem ‘vote-able’. Inevitably, this occasionally includes unsavoury political...
Mosques across the UK are not only just places of worship and spirituality but are also a hub for social interaction for Muslims from all walks of life. For this reason mosques are incredibly important institutions in conveying the vision of MEND, which is to encourage British Muslims to be...
The Guardian reports that the proposed ban on unstunned halal meat in Lancashire schools has been placed on hold after Lancashire Council of Mosques sought a judicial review of the county council’s decision. In November, councillors from Lancashire County Council voted in favour of a policy to...
Sky News reports on the story of a London imam who has sent thousands of people cards at Christmas explaining the significance of Jesus (Eesa in Arabic) to Muslims. Dr Mohammed Fahim has sent cards all around the world over the past ten years, including to MPs, the Pope and Queen in order to...
