A recent article in The Times by Mr Dominic Kennedy sought to attack and defame the work of Islamophobia Awareness Month and its critical importance in tackling the rising problem of anti-Muslim rhetoric, discrimination and violence. In the article, Mr Kennedy mentions Mr Jeremy Corbyn and other...
A report by Warwick University has found that four NHS mental health trusts (of 54) are being used as Prevent surveillance to screen all patients of radicalisation and states that there is “evidence to suggest that the mentally ill are being inappropriately stigmatised as terrorism risks”. The...
A report has found that British Muslims place greater importance on national identity being central to personal identity compared to the general population. Ipsos MORI has released a 75-page report which conducted a review of research and opinion polls on British Muslims conducted since...
A new report by the NUS has found that 1 in 3 Muslim students are worried about experiencing Islamophobic abuse on campus. Female students who wear religious garments were found to be especially worried about being targeted. The report is based on the Muslim Students’ Survey launched in 2017 in...
MEND was invited by Ethnic Minorities & Youth Support Team (EYST) to speak at their conference on the 20th of March. MEND regional manger Sahar Al-Faifi, spoke at the event about the triple discrimination against faith, colour and gender and highlighted the institutional Islamophobia to which...
The Henry Jackson Society (HJS) has released a new report, attempting to discredit Islamophobia Awareness Month (iAM) and MEND’s part in iAM, titled: ‘Profiting From Prejudice: How MEND’s ‘iAM’ Campaign Legitimised Extremism’. The report catalogues events that took place during iAM 2017...
Islamophobia exhibitions were held during democracy week between the 14th and the 16th of March 2018, at Cardiff and Vale College (CAVC) at both Cardiff and Barry Island campuses. The exhibition highlighted the root causes of Islamophobia, the tools to tackle it and illustrated British Muslim...
Mr Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, spoke out about the Islamophobic abuse he has received in an effort to raise awareness of the problem urging social media firms to do more to tackle it. The revelations were part of his keynote speech at the South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas. One...
Facebook has banned Britain First’s page and the pages of Mr Paul Golding and Ms Jayda Fransen stating that whilst Facebook supported “all ideas and political speech” Britain First had “repeatedly broken [it’s] Community Standards”. The social media platform in a statement said:...
A teenager passed away on Wednesday, on the 14th of March 2016, after being left in a coma from an assault by a gang of ten women in Nottingham in late February. Ms Mariam Moustafa Abdel Salam, who was a student at Central College in Beeston, was reportedly walking alone when she became the...
