** 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,...
Today, 19 June 2018, marks the one-year anniversary of the horrific Finsbury Park terrorist attack which resulted in the death of Makram Ali, 51, and resulted in serious injuries being afflicted to 12 others, as Darren Osborne, fuelled by Islamophobic-rhetoric, drove a van into a crowd of...
MEND has over the past months tirelessly campaigned for Leicester City Council to take concrete actions in tackling Islamophobia and can report that last Thursday, 14 June 2018, the council has unanimously passed a motion against Islamophobia. The motion was in response to the horrific case of...
A man from South Lincoln, whose name is being currently withheld, has been arrested by Counter Terrorism Policing North East (CTP NE) and Lincolnshire Police, in connection to the “Punish a Muslim Day” letters that surfaced in early March 2018. The letters called for people to carry out...
As the Government struggles to define, investigate and tackle radicalisation, extremism and terrorism, it continues to practise disengagement with grassroot organisations such as the Muslim Council of Britain, yet continues to pursue flawed strategies that marginalise minority communities, and to...
Mrs Maya Ali was made victim to racial and physical abuse as she walked along Doncaster High St at around 4-4:15pm on the 21st of March 2018 when Mr Martin Currie, without any provocation, verbally abused Mrs Ali by calling her a P*** and violently slapped her. Mr Currie has been handed down a...
Muslims and human rights activists have noted a worrying overlap between the “Integrated Communities Strategy Green Paper; Building Stronger, More United Communities” and Sajid Javid’s updated Counter-Terror strategy which was published on Monday. Key Concerns: The integration strategy...
Recently the UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance issued a dire warning against the UK Government on the impact of its overtly hostile immigration policy on civil rights and human rights. In light of the strong criticism,...
A dentist from Slough has been suspended from the profession for four months by the General Dental Council after writing online it was “time these sewers of towns were cleansed” in reference to Muslims. Ronald Gordon Pate, a dentist since 1981 who worked at the Langley Dental Clinic and Implant...
On the 4th June 2018, the Home Secretary, Sajid Javid, set out the UK’s updated Counter-Terror strategy: “CONTEST: the United Kingdom’s Strategy for Countering Terrorism”. The report outlines changes to be made to the UK’s current counter-extremism strategy, CONTEST in an effort to...
The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) is attempting, yet again, to take action against the rampant Islamophobia in the Conservative Party, calling for an independent inquiry and a full audit into the racism and bigotry of its party members. On 30 May 2018, MCB sent a letter to Brandon...
