** 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,...
Delegates at the National Union of Teachers (NUT) – a section of the National Education Unit – conference have condemned Ms Amanda Spielman, Ofsted Chief Inspector, for pursuing a “draconian” and “Islamophobic” agenda against British Muslim children which may lead to ramifications...
A new study conducted by sociologists Martin Myers and Kalwant Bhopal found that Muslim families in Britain are increasingly educating their children at home due to racist bullying and marginalisation. The study was conducted against the backdrop of the Trojan Horse affair, and explored...
In response to the horrific letter calling for hate crimes to be committed against Muslims – MEND advises all British Muslims, as well as all British citizens, to not allow the letter to foster an atmosphere of fear and to not be afraid in continuing with daily activities. The previous month...
Mr Tommy Robinson, the ex-leader of the English Defence League (EDL), has been permanently banned from Twitter after breaching the company’s rules governing “hateful conduct”. Twitter’s policy on hateful conduct states: “You may not promote violence against or directly attack or threaten...
The Independent reports that Bob Blackman, the Conservative MP for Harrow East, shared a story with the headline: “Muslim Somali sex gang say raping white British children ‘part of their culture’.” Mr Blackman has come under strong criticism for sharing the article, which he took from...
Statistics released by the Home Office today, Tuesday 27th of March, continue to depict the worrying nature of the PREVENT duty as casting an unnecessarily wide net which is devoid of meaningful detail and which results in unacceptable numbers of unwarranted referrals. In other words, due to the...
Channel 4’s Dispatches programme launched an attack on MEND on Monday as a consequence of our credible and sustained engagement in the public sphere. Please watch the video above where our CEO rebuts the claims made in the programme and shows how it had a biased agenda. The first thing to note is...
The University of Exeter has come under significant criticism as racist messages propagated on WhatsApp by a group of its Law students have come to light. The messages were sent to a private students’ WhatsApp group called the “Dodgy Blokes Soc”, the members of which are part of the Bracton...
The racist System Resistance Network has taken responsibility for Nazi graffiti that was spotted in Cardiff a few weeks ago on the 16th of March 2018. On the controversial media site Gab, the far-right network posted images of the vandalism accompanied by the message: “Our propaganda at your...
A recent article in the Brighton & Hove Independent has reported a young Muslim student’s campaign to lobby the Government to introduce interest-free university loans and is being backed by Hove MP, Mr Peter Kyle. Ms Thasnima Haque, who is currently studying at Sussex Downs College for her...
