** 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 Independent reports that a man was fined £500 for shouting racist abuse at a woman and accusing her of being responsible for the Manchester Arena terror attack. David Blagburn, 47 from Vicarage Mount, Walney, verbally assaulted Shahina Patel on a train from London to Manchester. Referring to...
Dr Shazad Amin Bow Business Centre 153-159 Bow Road London E3 2SE [email protected] 22nd November 2017 Rt Hon Justine Greening MP Secretary of State for Education House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA Dear Rt Hon Justine Greening MP, I am writing to you on behalf of Muslim Engagement and Development...
Muslim Engagement and Development (MEND) would like to take this opportunity to respond to Amanda Spielman’s recent recommendations regarding the questioning of Muslim girls who wear the hijab in school. The recommendation has emerged in response to concerns that the wearing of a hijab by girls...
Head of Ofsted Amanda Spielman has announced that inspectors will be allowed to question primary school girls who wear a hijab, The Guardian reports. The decision came after concerns that the wearing of a hijab by girls as young as four or five “could be interpreted as sexualisation”. In...
Jayda Fransen, deputy leader of the far-right group Britain First, was arrested in London on Saturday 18 November for comments she made while speaking at a rally in Belfast, Belfast Live reports. 31 year-old Fransen has been arrested and charged by the Police Service of Northern...
On Tuesday 14 November, Baroness Sayeeda Warsi delivered the fifth annual Hacked Off Leveson Lecture, calling for Yvette Cooper MP to implement Section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013. Speaking before a packed room at the University of Westminster, Baroness Warsi talked about the...
The recent Race Disparity Audit revealed rising employment rates across all ethnic groups, with the highest national employment rate since 2004. However, the report also showed that Asians are severely disadvantaged in term of participation in the labour market. Pakistani and Bangladeshi...
The Government’s latest figures on the controversial Prevent and Channel policies have been released, indicating that the expansion of the policies are continuing to have a disproportionate impact on Muslims. A total of 7,631 people were subject to a Prevent referral in 2015-16, with less than 1...
Regional paper Newcastle Chronicle reports that offensive graffiti featuring a swastika and the words “F*** ISLAM” was found on a street in the east of the city. The graffiti was painted white onto a brick wall in Coppice Way in the Sandyford area of Newcastle, and was reported to police on...
On Saturday 4 November, children in an Islamic school based in the Didsbury Mosque in South Manchester were placed on lockdown for several hours after a threatening letter containing a loose white powder was delivered to the mosque. Manchester Evening News reported that the letter also...
