** 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,...
On June 19 Reform UK President Nigel Farage declared at a speech in Blackpool that “Judeo-Christian values” are at the root of “everything” in Britain. The invocation of “Judeo-Christian values” is not a new move for Farage. Earlier in the year, he oddly claimed that the Gaza solidarity...
What was the connection of Muslims with The Kingdom of Mercia and the reign of Queen Elizabeth 1 and more historical facts all in one place! Rights group Muslim Engagement and Development (MEND) has released a new report showing the ways in which Islam and Muslims have had a deep and profound...
MEND is pleased to announce the release of its new report titled, We Belong Here Too: A History of Muslim Contributions to Britain. The report provides a broad sweep of some key moments in which Muslims played seminal roles in either directly shaping, or indirectly influencing, the history of our...
Anti-Palestinian Racism (APR) is the distinct form of prejudice and persecution Palestinians face on account of their ethnic, racial, and religious identity, as well as their indigeneity to historic Palestine. While APR has long existed, it has become increasingly recognisable in the current...
ourThe high court judge has ruled that a ban on prayer rituals at Michaela Community School in north-west London is lawful and has dismissed arguments against it on all key grounds after a Muslim pupil challenged the school’s prayer ritual policy. Over a two-day hearing, the pupil argued that the...
Amidst Israel’s onslaught against the people of Gaza, media outlets and other organisations have been going to the Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) for apparently neutral commentary on what constitutes antisemitism, particularly in the context of protests against the treatment of the...
The Government’s definition of extremism has been announced by Michael Gove, the Communities Secretary on Thursday 14th March. The new definition is a blatant attack on civil liberties and free speech. It is a highly politicised and undemocratic polemic aimed at trying to exclude and ostracise...
On 21 February 2024, Labour tabled a watered-down amendment to the SNP motion calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. On what was supposed to be SNP’s opposition day, the speaker of the House of Commons, Lindsay Hoyle, broke with convention to allow the Labour amendment, after which the House...
It is reported by GB News that Michael Gove will be appointing Fiyaz Mughal to be the Government’s new anti-Muslim hatred Tzar Fiyaz Mughal is a discredited figure in the Muslim community and beyond. As Founder of the Government funded organisation Tell Mama he previously attacked other Muslim...
MEND calls for ALL MPs to support an unequivocal ceasefire to the fighting in Gaza, an end to the humiliation and arbitrary arrest of Palestinians, a removal of all illegal Israeli settlements. Israel should be held to account for all its violations of international law. No ifs, no buts, CEASEFIRE...
