** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** Rights group Muslim Engagement & Development (MEND) have launched a new report The Great Debunk: Challenging Islamophobic Conspiracy Theories, which examines how false narratives about Muslims once limited to the far-right fringes have entered mainstream political,...
A record number of British Muslims have been recognised by the Queen in the 2019 New Year’s Honours list. Thirty-three Muslims made the list for charitable contributions to their community and for progressive developments in their respective fields. The inclusion of Muslims this year is vital in...
In response to a vacuum within political lexicon, the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on British Muslims has produced one of the most important reports on Islamophobia in recent decades, providing a suggested definition for the term “Islamophobia”, urging the Government to finally adopt...
Since 2001 and the subsequent ‘War on Terror’, a host of self-styled counter-extremism organisations have emerged – perhaps none with more public a profile than Quilliam. Officially founded in 2008, it has since carved a name for itself as aimed at preventing all hues of...
The results from ICM’s new survey, investigating the impact of unconscious bias and structural racism within our society, is a grave addition to the compendium of literature that unequivocally demonstrates that unconscious bias is alive and kicking; having a significant impact on community...
In this article, Andrew Gilligan stated; “Islam Channel broadcast a film last week claiming that the British government’s “Islamophobia . . . treats all Muslims as criminal” and alleging that a student’s home was “raided over a word googled for a worksheet”. The makers of the film,...
Humanity has constantly strived to develop new and more advanced tools to satiate our insatiable appetite to communicate with each other, and with the advent of social media and instantaneous messaging, it seems we are finally at the cusp of achieving this, at our own peril. Social media platforms...
Tariq Ramadan, the Oxford professor facing charges of rape in France, has been granted conditional release after ten months of imprisonment. Following an “impassioned argument for his release”, the Swiss scholar – who was forced to take leave from his position as professor of contemporary...
The 11th of November 2018 marked Remembrance Day commemorating a centenary since the end of the first World War. Tributes have been made over the weekend ranging from ceremonies involving world leaders to community-led procession with 10,000 people showcasing beautiful solidarity across the...
The PREVENT strategy has once again come under scathing criticism, after it was revealed that it had inadvertently led to the flagging of an essay at the University of Reading that was listed as “essential” reading for a module and is widely considered to be a mainstream leftwing political...
We understand that since attending the launch of our Islamophobia Awareness Month in Parliament, the Conservative MP Iain Duncan Smith has issued a statement clarifying he does not support MEND. This does not particularly trouble us since supporting the issue of tackling Islamophobia, and more...
