By enhancing Muslim engagement in the General Elections and raising awareness and expectations about policy issues that impact on British Muslims. Our manifesto has been developed to encourage British Muslim participation in the 2019 General Elections. We have produced this election league table...
Back in June, during a TV debate, the now Chancellor Mr Sajid Javid made the headlines by asking the contenders for the Conservative Party leadership to commit to an independent investigation into Islamophobia in the party if elected. While there was no oral agreement from his opponents, each...
Over recent years, several organisations, including Muslim Engagement and Development (MEND), the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), and Hope Not Hate, have repeatedly called for an inquiry into the prevalence of Islamophobia within the Conservative Party. These calls have largely either been ignored...
The first leaders’ election debate, between Conservatives’ Boris Johnson and Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn, was watched by 6.7 million viewers; more than 10% of the British population and a third of the British TV audience. With less than a month until the General Election, the debate provided the...
MEND Islamophobia exhibition was displayed at Swansea Waterfront Museum as part of hate crime week organised by Swansea City Council and victim support. The exhibition explores the history of Muslims in Britain by looking at how Muslims migrated and how they contributed and are still contributing...
Islamophobia is a unique form of Gendered Violence. 60% of MEND Islamophobia Response Unit (IRU) hate crime reports come from Muslim women. The number rises to 80% when just looking at physical assaults. Usually, these attacks on individuals have ripple effects within the family and wider...
On Thursday 7th November, the Riz Test team brought their workshop to Manchester Museum as part of Islamophobia Awareness Month. Under a glorious T-Rex, the founders of the test spoke about the academic theory behind it, some real life examples and, introduced high school students who had done...
United We Rose On a cold, Saturday morning in November the Leicester Mend team kicked off Islamophobia Awareness Month with a heartwarming gesture to the local community, ‘United we Rose’. Three hundred roses were distributed along with messages paraphrased from prophetic sayings and...
Cadbury College: Islamophobia Causes and Cures On the 11th November, as part of IAM, MEND delivered its ‘Causes and Cures of Islamophobia’ to an audience at Cadbury College Birmingham. The presentation was delivered to Islamic Society students and the Deputy Safeguarding Lead. Here is...
Wednesday 6th November 2019 was the hugely successful launch of Birmingham’s MEND Islamophobia Awareness Month (IAM). With many guests attending, a range of speakers emphasised the importance of recognising Islamophobia in our society and MEND’s contribution to tackling this. The evening began...
