Interfaith Scotland is a Scottish charity specialising in promoting and facilitating constructive engagement between differing faith and belief communities across Scotland through dialogue, educational activities, civic engagement and the promotion of religious equality. Interfaith Scotland was...
MEND Yorkshire initiated an open letter that was signed by over 40 Yorkshire-based faith groups and community organisations which called upon the Yorkshire County Cricket Club (YCCC) and the Yorkshire Cricket Board (YCB) to initiate investigations into institutional racism within the club....
MEND Birmingham Working Group launched their MEND report Midlands show on the 12th September asking the question ‘Is Islamophobia prevalent in the West Midlands?’. The show explored the Trojan horse Affair, Islamophobic hate crimes within the West Midlands and the causes of it before...
Newham is a densely populated borough in the East End of London which includes some established neighbourhoods like Forest Gate, Plaistow, Manor Park, East Ham and Canning Town. More than four out of ten people in the borough are aged 25 or under and two thirds are from minority ethnic backgrounds...
The global Covid-19 pandemic has completely changed our day to day lives, particularly since the lockdown has taken force. This has been no different at MEND, where once monthly evening meetings would be taking place for different working groups across the UK, this new reality has meant all those...
Reports of right-wing figures being offered senior jobs within the British TV industry has sparked criticism concerning the growing oligarchy of the right-wing over UK media and its subsequent threat to media diversity and independence. It has been recently announced that Andrew Neil, chairman of...
The Henry Jackson Society (HJS) has always been guided by a neoconservative Islamophobic agenda. It should come as no surprise then that when claims by HJS were challenged through legal proceedings by a Muslim organisation, HJS was forced to apologise and retract their baseless commentary. The...
On Thursday 1st October the MEND Yorkshire team welcomed Naz Shah, MP for Bradford West, on to our series MEND Report Yorkshire. During this session, which was hosted by our volunteer Amina, Naz Shah shared her thoughts on being a Muslim woman of colour in politics and some of the experiences this...
At the end of September the MEND Sheffield Working Group welcomed Dr Jo Britton, Senior Lecturer in Applied Sociology at the University of Sheffield, to their regional webinar series MEND Report Yorkshire. This webinar, which was organised and hosted by our Sheffield volunteer, Amina, aimed to...
An inspiring, emotional and thought-provoking chat with Zaynab Hussein, a victim of a horrendous Islamophobic hate crime in 2017. The interview gave us a thoughtful insight into what happens to a victim of hate crime and the impact it has on their whole life. This is her first full interview...
