** 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,...
MEND strongly condemns the ongoing refusal by the Labour Party leadership to call for an immediate ceasefire in the beleaguered Gaza Strip, highlighted by a Commons amendment Labour will table today. Reportedly, Labour leader Keir Starmer’s amendment will express his party’s concern over the...
The Observer has reported that the Government is proposing new legislation that defines extremism as “the promotion or advancement of any ideology which aims to overturn or undermine the UK’s system of Parliamentary democracy, its institutions and its values”. This is a blatant attack on...
MEND strongly condemns former Downing Street Chief of Staff Nick Timothy’s hate-filled, Islamophobic tirade published in The Telegraph on October 29th. In his article, Mr Timothy attempts to fallaciously frame the recent wave of Palestine solidarity protests as the work of rogue Islamists. Photos...
On 31st October 2023 Sir Keir Starmer gave a speech at Chatham House in which he reiterated his refusal to call for a ceasefire. He talked about the “Men, women, children, babies murdered, mutilated and tortured by the terrorists of Hamas” and called for the hostages held by Hamas to be...
A massive survey conducted by Muslim Census and distributed by MEND shows that Labour has suffered a significant collapse in the Muslim vote over its stance toward Israel’s war crimes in Gaza. From among a huge sample of 30,000 Muslims spread across 575 Parliamentary constituencies, 66% expressed...
Today, the Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill, or anti-BDS Bill as it unofficial known, returned to the House of Commons for third reading after the report stage. The bill, which was met with much controversy over the summer, will prevent local authorities, universities, and...
The Israeli state has started and is planning to escalate a genocide, pogrom and ethnic cleansing in Gaza. Western governments, politicians and media who are supporting Israel now with words, propaganda or weapons and logistics are and will be complicit in this genocide. Asking one million people...
In recent times, discussions surrounding Islamophobia and its definition have gained traction, notably with the release of the Civitas report titled ‘Islamophobia Revisited’ and Policy Exchange’s report titled ‘The Symbolic Power of the Veil’. These reports have alleged that the...
On the first day of the new academic year in France, dozens of French schoolgirls were singled out by their teachers and sent home. These girls had two things in common: they were all Muslim and they chose to rebel against France’s new ban on the Abaya by wearing the traditional piece of...
Following a recent string of Qur’an burning incidents across the Scandinavian region under the banner of free expression, followed by numerous governments across Europe, including our very own UK Government, refusing to label such incidents as hate crimes, it is worth assessing the burning of...
