The Mend volunteers were present at the inspirational Ramadan Tent Project Open Iftar, held on the grounds of ST Chads Cathedral, the first roman catholic cathedral built in England after the reformation. The location was on the lawns of the Cathedral, overlooking Birmingham’s central business...
Mend Researcher Dr Antonio Perra presented a paper to a session of the Midlands TUC and Stand up to Racsim regional conference in Birmingham. The session was titled Prevent, Trojan Horse and the fight against Islamophobia. The other speaker during the session was Professor John Holmwood, author...
MEND organised a creative training on 15th of April 2018 for talented individuals on how to take movie-like shots and create short films using just ones own mobile phone. The purpose of the training is to harness the local talents and enable participants to come with innovative ideas to visually...
Islamophobia is on the rise, mosques are being vandalised, sisters are spat on and Katie Hopkins continues to tweet against Muslims and Islam. To tackle that, MEND Bristol organised a community event; Islamophobia: A Living Reality on 5th of May 2018. At the event, MEND regional manger Sahar...
Recently the UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance issued a dire warning against the UK Government on the impact of its overtly hostile immigration policy on civil rights and human rights. In light of the strong criticism,...
A dentist from Slough has been suspended from the profession for four months by the General Dental Council after writing online it was “time these sewers of towns were cleansed” in reference to Muslims. Ronald Gordon Pate, a dentist since 1981 who worked at the Langley Dental Clinic and Implant...
On the 4th June 2018, the Home Secretary, Sajid Javid, set out the UK’s updated Counter-Terror strategy: “CONTEST: the United Kingdom’s Strategy for Countering Terrorism”. The report outlines changes to be made to the UK’s current counter-extremism strategy, CONTEST in an effort to...
The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) is attempting, yet again, to take action against the rampant Islamophobia in the Conservative Party, calling for an independent inquiry and a full audit into the racism and bigotry of its party members. On 30 May 2018, MCB sent a letter to Brandon...
Less than two months after the original “Punish a Muslim Day” at the beginning of April, households in Rotherham have received letters calling for “Punish a Muslim Day Part 2”. The letter follows similar structure to its predecessor and attempts to justify its call for terrorist abuse...
Far-right supporters of Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, better known by his pseudonym Tommy Robinson, have been quick to attack the UK’s Criminal Justice System for arresting and now jailing the divisive activist, claiming that it was an outright attack on freedom of speech, seemingly forgetting that...
