Stand Up to Racism is calling for a unity protest in Croydon against racist attacks, and to demonstrate that refugees & migrants are welcome here. On Friday 31 March, a 17 year old Kurdish refugee, Reker Ahmed, was subject to a violent attack by up to 30 attackers. This attack has caused...
In a new strategy to tackle and support the high number of victims of hate crime, Kirklees Council, Police and other agencies have launched a new app to help make it easier for victims and witnesses of hate crime to come forward. The Examiner reports that a joint initiative between Stop Hate UK...
Groups in Croydon have decorated their neighbourhood in anti-racist graffiti in response to the attack on teenager Reker Ahmed last week. Slogans on the streets around the bus stop where Ahmed was attacked proclaim “Refugees Welcome”, “No 2 Racism”, “Refugee Defense League” and...
On March 16th, an audience of over 470 distinguished guests filled out the Porchester Hall in Bayswater and were treated to a special evening with James Caan as hosted by mend. The evening commenced with Industry professionals and business men/women being given an insight into the valuable work...
On Tuesday last week, buy-to-let tycoon from Kent, Fergus Wilson 69, was exposed for banning South Asian tenants from his properties because they allegedly make carpets “smell of curry,” and has since stated that he will not apologize for the comments. Wilson told Sky news that “There has...
The High Court has ordered Stand for Peace to pay £140,000 in damages to the founder of the Islam Channel after it wrongfully labelled him a “convicted terrorist”. In a landmark ruling, Sir David Eady of the High Court of Justice Queen’s Bench Division, awarded Mohamed Ali Harrath the...
BBC News reports that seven people have been charged following the horrific and appalling attack on a teenage asylum seeker in Croydon last Friday. Reker Ahmed, a 17-year-old Kurdish-Iranian refugee, was left with a fractured spine, fractured skull and bleeding on the brain after the assault, which...
The Daily Mirror and local news site Kent Live both report on the court case of a man who abused a Muslim taxi driver and refused to get in his taxi as the driver was Muslim. Richard Nolan, 43, shouted at the driver “f****** c*** Muslim” and told him “go back to your own country, […]
The Huffington Post reports on the publication of the European Islamophobia Report 2016, revealing how Islamophobia is thriving and inspiring acts of violence targeted at Muslims across the continent. The report, compiled by 31 scholars and academics across 27 countries, details how anti-Muslim...
The Independent reports on comments made by Baroness Sayeeda Warsi calling for all those who fight for foreign forces to be prosecuted, including Britons who volunteer for the Israel Defence Forces. The UK’s first Muslim cabinet minister, who resigned her post in 2014 after the UK government’s...
