We are expanding in Scotland. It has been a busy week for the working groups in Scotland with webinars, working group meetings, Islamophobia Awareness Month planning and new volunteer inductions. We held our first Edinburgh only volunteer induction on Wednesday 9th September. We had five new...
September started off with our Birmingham Team launching a series of Islamophobia Causes and Cures sessionS for new volunteers. This session explored what Islamophobia is, the causes behind it, and what we can do as individuals and as a community to tackle it. The presentation was very well...
The 27th of August marked the day that judgement was finally handed down to the far-right terrorist who perpetrated the Christchurch terror attack on mosques in New Zealand last year. He was one of a number of far-right terrorists who carried out (or attempted to carry out) terror attacks in 2019,...
From Friday 21st August to Wednesday 26th August 2020, we presented our Politics Masterclass in three bite size sessions to volunteers across Yorkshire and other regions. This made up part of our ongoing efforts to provide training and education opportunities for MEND Working Groups and volunteers....
Following the MSP open letter calling on Scottish political parties to better engage with Muslim communities we waited for contact from the political parties, with MEND and the community. Eventually it came, political parties started to respond to our call for engagement and representation. The...
Numerous statistics, reports, and anecdotal evidence in the past have documented both the covert and overt racism faced by BAME pupils and staff within UK schools. With the issue of systemic racism coming to significant light in the last few months, it becomes more important than ever that the...
From supporting Hitler and Mussolini, to calling non-White British Olympians “plastic Brits”, to likening migrants to rats and other pests, the Daily Mail has a rich and enduring legacy of stoking xenophobic, racist and Islamophobic sentiment. Spouting such overt prejudice over the decades has...
The perception of Muslims currently fuelled by the UK’s mainstream media is overwhelmingly negative. In particular, the identities of Muslim women are all too often portrayed in binary terms as either a victim of culture or a cultural threat. Depicting a Muslim woman, the media often highlights...
This article was first published on Byline Times. The last weeks have witnessed a growing outcry against the State’s use of algorithms to predict the results of students across the country at the detriment of students predominantly from disadvantaged backgrounds. Students that were predicted A*s...
Leicester Lockdown We are one Leicester was the second video our Leicester Team produced to showcase the rich diversity in the city and the work that has been done by the wider community whilst the challenging the erroneous narrative that ethnicity is the cause of the second spike. To view the full...
