On Monday 22 March 2021, during a year 9 Religious Studies class, the topic of ‘Blasphemy’ was taught by a teacher at Batley Grammar School. Parents have stated that the RS teacher displayed a caricature of Prophet Mohammad ﷺ illustrated by French publication, Charlie Hebdo. The...
On Sunday 21st March, MEND Yorkshire invited Cllr Rob Walker, an independent councillor for Colne Valley on Kirklees Council, to an instalment of their show ‘MEND Report Yorkshire’. MEND Yorkshire Regional Manager interviewed Rob on aspects pertaining to racism, Islamophobia and the...
The 2021 Scottish Parliament Holyrood election will be held on 6 May. At the elections, 129 members of the Scottish Parliament will be elected in what is the sixth election since the parliament was re-established in 1999. In preparation for the elections hustings, election season across Scotland...
MEND Leicester celebrated International Women’s Day 2021 with a new twist! The team decided to change the status quo and reach out to Local Muslim Women that have ‘Shattered the glass ceiling’ in all sectors, including professional, political, and community sector. They organized...
MEND Birmingham has been working on their GOAV plans! This year with the upcoming Police Crime Commissioner (PCC) and West Midlands Mayoral (WMCA) Elections coming up the team has come together with other West Midlands Working Groups including Black Country, to plan and host a series of events and...
From Friday 26th February to Sunday 28th February, we presented our Political Masterclass to MEND volunteers across the UK. Our first session was on ‘The British Political and Electoral System’ and it aimed to explain the different branches of government and their roles and powers. The session...
From Friday 5th March to Sunday 7th March, we presented our Media Masterclass to MEND volunteers across the country. Our first session was on ‘The Media: its influence & reporting’ and introduced the attendees to the different types of media that we have access to. We looked at which UK...
On Thursday 11th March, MEND Oldham hosted their contribution for this year’s International Women’s Day celebrations at MEND. They invited a local speaker, Annesa Mariyam, to come along and present on some amazing women who were around the Prophet ﷺ and how their stories and contributions are...
This week saw the second anniversary of the Christchurch attack in which a gunman motivated by far-right and Islamophobic conspiracies massacred 51 Muslim women, men and children across two different mosques amidst Friday prayers. While this tragic incident may now be in the past, the dangerous and...
On Thursday 4th March, our community team in Yorkshire were invited to support Touchstone with their ‘Islam, Islamophobia and Mental Health’ training. As part of their wider training, MEND’s Yorkshire and Humber Regional Manager delivered the causes and cures of Islamophobia...
