The recently published podcast series, The Trojan Horse Affair, has come to generate interest. The eight-part series revisits and investigates the infamous hoax letter, which purported an ‘Islamist’ plot to take over schools in Birmingham, causing widespread panic and Islamophobia. The podcast...
On February 9th 2022, MEND held an in-person event with Herriot Watt University Muslim Society (HWUMS) at the Herriot Watt University in Edinburgh. The purpose of the event was to give attendees deeper insight into Islamophobia and to explore their thoughts on the topic. The MEND regional manager...
MEND condemns Robert Jenrick MP’s amendment to the Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Bill which will severely curtail the ability of public sector pension scheme members to make ethical choices regarding the investment of their pension fund. The new amendment will empower the Secretary...
30 Scottish organisations have signed an open letter calling on all local councils in Scotland to urgently adopt the APPG definition of Islamophobia and accompanying guidelines put forward by the Coalition Against Islamophobia. The APPG definition of Islamophobia states: “Islamophobia is rooted...
Fresh allegations of Islamophobia have been levelled at the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS). According to media reports, Muslim officers were mocked when attending a local Mosque and a new “health and safety” rule was brought in requiring Muslim Officers to put their names on a board if they...
Imam Qari Asim MBE, who was appointed in July 2019 as an independent adviser “to provide expert advice on a definition of Islamophobia to the government”, says that ministers have failed to respond to his requests to start work on formulating a definition. Having rejected the definition of...
MEND condemns the ban on the hijab and subsequent targeted violence against Muslim students in India’s Karnataka state. Both the central government of India and its Karnataka state are governed by the Hindutva-nationalist BJP party. Many schools across the state have banned the hijab in classes...
The European Islamophobia Report 2020 reaffirmed the large extent of Islamophobia in Europe and provided policymakers with the underlying realities of its prevalence in Europe. It concluded that there was no real improvement to Islamophobia in Europe and had “worsened, if not reached a tipping...
Philip Normal, a Labour councillor and the former Mayor of Lambeth, South London, has resigned after the resurfacing of a series of racist and Islamophobic tweets that he sent between 2011 and 2015. In addition to multiple derogatory tweets about Arabs, black and transgender people, he tweeted in...
In the latest case of Conservative Party Islamophobia, former Government Minister Nus Ghani MP claimed that she was dismissed from her role in Government due to her Muslimness. Ms Ghani is merely the latest in a growing list of Muslim Conservative Party members who have spoken up about the...
