** 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,...
The National reports on how Anas Sarwar, Labour MSP, has called for the Government to work quickly towards adopting a legal definition for “Islamophobia”. Mr Sarwar made national headlines early this year, 2018, when he spoke out about the racist and Islamophobic abuse he faced by other Labour...
Last night, MPs, Peers, NGOs, and community leaders celebrated the launch of MEND’s report, “More than Words: Approaching a definition of Islamophobia” at a Parliamentary event. The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for British Muslims recently launched an inquiry into a working definition...
The news that UKIP has welcomed “alt-right” activists into the party is hardly surprising, but it is still a concerning reminder of how far its leaders are willing to go to retain some form of appeal in society and, with it, some political power. Paul Joseph Watson, Mark Meechan and Carl...
The Egyptian national team was eliminated from the world cup following two defeats in the first two games of the opening rounds, but Mo Salah, the 26-year old from Nagrig and current Liverpool striker, is a man whose success extends well beyond the football pitch. During an interview for the BBC...
Scotland is often hailed as being a forerunner in tackling racism and religious hate crimes, and the new report by the Crown Office & Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS), Scotland’s Prosecution Service, which lays out figures for hate crime incidents recorded in Scotland in 2017-18 greatly...
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...
