** 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 Network of Sikh Organisations, alongside other controversial Sikh and Hindu organisations, published a joint open letter to the Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, endorsing her usage of the largely discredited and contentious phrase “Pakistani grooming gangs”. A central theme of the...
Recently, the British government has announced plans to play a more active role in regulating Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) curricula taught in schools, particularly relating to one hot-button issue: LGBTQ content. Specifically, Prime Minister Sunak announced that by the summer, schools...
In what appears to be becoming a yearly occurrence during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, Israeli police violently raided Al-Aqsa Mosque for two consecutive nights and attacked worshippers observing night prayers. Distressing videos circulating on social media show heavily armed Israeli police...
Recently, the Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, announced her intentions to crack down on Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE). In doing so, Ms Braverman rehashed the largely discredited and contentious phrase “Pakistani grooming gangs”. Over recent decades, several high-profile cases have...
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is set to announce a new controversial asylum bill which has been described as “nauseating” and “unworkable”. The new bill, set to be launched by the prime minister and home secretary, will ban migrants entering the UK via small boats from claiming...
Whilst we welcome this review, we note with concern the conspicuous absence of any mention of Islamophobia within it. While MEND applauds the attention given to other forms of discrimination, including misogyny and homophobia, it is alarming that bigotry targeted exclusively at Muslims, simply by...
A rise in Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians in occupied territories has escalated to alerting levels to a point where the UN has mentioned settler attacks are at an all-time high since 2006. In certain cases, Palestinians are in fear for their own lives after recent settler attacks on the...
MEND (Muslim Engagement and Development), came together with Stand Up to Racism and other community organisations and MSPs Foysol Choudhury and Daniel Johnson to mark UN’s International Day to Combat Islamophobia. International Day to Combat Islamophobia was established by the United Nations in...
It has been revealed as of late that, over the last decade, the upper house of the British Parliament, the House of Lords, has become a hub for the Islamophobia Industry. Those tuned into the Islamophobic statements that have echoed from Britain’s corridors of power in recent years may not greet...
MEND is an organisation that has fought extremism in all its guises since its inception. Unfounded attacks like those of Suella Braverman have resulted in death threats to our staff and volunteers and are totally unwarranted. Any insinuation of extremism will be challenged robustly via the courts...
