In response to “Punish a Muslim Day” on the 3rd of April 2018, MEND in Cardiff organised an open mic picnic for the local community. The event took place at Grange Gardens that were vandalised, couple of weeks before with Nazi slogans. The purpose of the event is to eradicate any...
A number of leaflets have been pushed through letterboxes on the lower Ravenhill Road area of Belfast which calls for people to “resist Islamisation”. The leaflet claims to be from a group called “Generation Sparta”, a white supremacist group. Mr Máirtín Ó Muilleoir, Sinn Féin MLA,...
Mr Maurice Bradley, Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) East Derry Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA), has been heavily criticised for retweeting a post that described Mr Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, as “the enemy within”. The tweet originated from an account which is claimed to regularly...
On the 23rd of March 2018, the Central London Working Group ran a fundraiser for IRU – Islamophobia Response Unit, after Friday prayers at the Canary Wharf Prayer Room. Canary Wharf is one of the main financial centers in the UK, home to a number of major banks and professional services,...
Yesterday, the 3rd of April 2018, was supposed to be a terrifying day in which hate crimes would be inflicted on British Muslims. However, it became a day of beautiful community solidarity against Islamophobia. In a vile letter sent to various addresses last month a game was set out in which a...
Delegates at the National Union of Teachers (NUT) – a section of the National Education Unit – conference have condemned Ms Amanda Spielman, Ofsted Chief Inspector, for pursuing a “draconian” and “Islamophobic” agenda against British Muslim children which may lead to ramifications...
A new study conducted by sociologists Martin Myers and Kalwant Bhopal found that Muslim families in Britain are increasingly educating their children at home due to racist bullying and marginalisation. The study was conducted against the backdrop of the Trojan Horse affair, and explored...
In response to the horrific letter calling for hate crimes to be committed against Muslims – MEND advises all British Muslims, as well as all British citizens, to not allow the letter to foster an atmosphere of fear and to not be afraid in continuing with daily activities. The previous month...
Mr Tommy Robinson, the ex-leader of the English Defence League (EDL), has been permanently banned from Twitter after breaching the company’s rules governing “hateful conduct”. Twitter’s policy on hateful conduct states: “You may not promote violence against or directly attack or threaten...
MEND attended a meeting with Sir Alun Micheal, the Police Crime Commissioner for South Wales , organised by Muslim Council of Wales (MCW) on 28th of March 2018, in response to the appalling letter “Punish a Muslim Day”. According to the PCC, there was no evidence that this letter was...
