** 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,...
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...
An elderly disabled man has been left shaken after Islamophobic vandals sprayed “Kill Muslims” on his front door, The Bury Times reports. The victim, Mr Syed Ali, who lives alone and lost his mobility in 2001 after an operation. He left to go to the shops at around 3 pm on Saturday (18th of...
A recent article in The Times by Mr Dominic Kennedy sought to attack and defame the work of Islamophobia Awareness Month and its critical importance in tackling the rising problem of anti-Muslim rhetoric, discrimination and violence. In the article, Mr Kennedy mentions Mr Jeremy Corbyn and other...
A report by Warwick University has found that four NHS mental health trusts (of 54) are being used as Prevent surveillance to screen all patients of radicalisation and states that there is “evidence to suggest that the mentally ill are being inappropriately stigmatised as terrorism risks”. The...
A report has found that British Muslims place greater importance on national identity being central to personal identity compared to the general population. Ipsos MORI has released a 75-page report which conducted a review of research and opinion polls on British Muslims conducted since...
A new report by the NUS has found that 1 in 3 Muslim students are worried about experiencing Islamophobic abuse on campus. Female students who wear religious garments were found to be especially worried about being targeted. The report is based on the Muslim Students’ Survey launched in 2017 in...
