MEND has issued various action alerts over the years quite often to good effect, for example the correction we ascertained from The Sun newspaper for its infamous ‘1 in 5 British Muslims support Jihadis’. Have a browse through previous alerts below, some may still be relevant today.
Councils are undergoing local elections, with polling day on the 5th May. The importance of voting in local council elections is that Muslim communities will have a say in who represents their concerns locally. For instance, where communities are concerned about growing Islamophobia, voting for...
The Israel Arms Trade (Prohibition) Bill is currently in its second reading in the House of Commons. The purpose of the bill is to prohibit the sales of arms to Israel and the purchase of arms for Israel. It further seeks to make associated provisions about an inquiry in relation to Israel into the...
Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP, the Leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats, has submitted a motion in the Scottish Parliament calling on all local councils in Scotland to adopt the APPG definition of Islamophobia and accompanying guidelines. The definition states: “Islamophobia is rooted in racism and...
The Government is currently running a consultation on its plans to ban conversion therapies. This will include targeting talking conversion therapy with a new criminal offence, thereby criminalising faith-based support for individuals struggling with their sexuality or gender identity.
In recent days, there has been a great deal of concern about changes to citizenship stripping powers planned in the Nationality and Borders Bill that is currently before Parliament. However, it is important to remember that many of the powers to strip someone of their citizenship are already in...
Next week, MPs will vote on the Policing, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill. The Bill represents numerous harmful reforms, which, if passed, carry the power to curtail free expression, stifle dissent, and criminalise marginalised groups (especially Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller communities) through...
According to media reports, Sir Keir Starmer, leader of the Labour Party, recently withdrew from his scheduled attendance at a Ramadan Tent Project Open Iftar event. This was following concerns that one of the organisers retweeted a tweet supporting boycotts against Israeli dates grown on...
Al-Nu’man ibn Bashir reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “The believers in their affection, mercy, and compassion for each other is that of a body. When any limb aches, the whole body reacts with sleeplessness and fever.” (Sahih al-Bukhari 5665, and Sahih...
Around one million Uyghur Muslims are being held in “re-education camps” in Xinjiang, China. There are daily reports of beatings, solitary confinement, sexual abuse, forced labour, torture, starvation, brainwashing, and forced sterilisation. On 22nd March Parliament will be voting on an...
On Tuesday 19th January, the Government narrowly won a vote in Parliament to defeat changes to the Trade Bill that would have outlawed trade deals with countries that the High Court rules are committing genocide, such as China against the Uyghur population. The Government defeated this change...
Assalamo Alaykum, MEND is writing for your assistance on an urgent and very serious consequence of the Coronavirus Outbreak relating to possible forced cremation of deceased Muslims. The emergency Coronavirus Bill 2019-21 (as its currently drafted) will allow designated local authorities to...
On Thursday 31st October, Lord Malcolm Pearson went on national television (Sky News) to make a number of unsubstantiated, derogatory, and Islamophobic claims including: “Muslim birth rate is going up 10 times faster than ours”; “In 12 years-time, 11 local authorities, including Birmingham,...
The latest reports indicate that 50 people have already been confirmed dead in acts of far-right terrorism in Christchurch, New Zealand. These atrocities are a stark reminder of the global consequences of far-right Islamophobia and hatred which leave innocent individuals vulnerable to such...
In an article in the Telegraph this week, Boris Johnson described women who wear the Burka as looking like “letter boxes” and “bank robbers” and stated that he would ask Muslim women from his constituency to “remove it” so that he could “talk to [them] properly”. MEND is deeply...
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”. If you receive this letter, please try to limit the amount of handling of the letter to preserve evidence and...
On 24th January 2018, the Government announced that Sara Khan (co-founder of Inspire) will be the new Commissioner for Countering Extremism, prompting over 100 mainstream Muslim community organisations and leaders to sign an open letter objecting to the appointment. Before the question even arises...
Following MEND’s action alert a few days ago, hundreds of Muslim parents have complained to Ofsted and so have teaching Unions about Amanda Spielman’s comments on questioning young Muslim girls about wearing Hijab. We are now asking you to kindly and urgently contact your MP and request they...
Amanda Spielman, Chief Inspector of Schools at Ofsted, recently announced that schools’ inspectors will be allowed to question primary school pupils who wear hijab, with the reasons given being recorded in schools’ inspection reports. Alongside this, Spielman said that the “hijab could be...
On October 18th, Conservative MP Bob Blackman hosted a parliamentary event entitled ‘Tolerating the Intolerant’. The keynote speaker was Indian far-right activist Tapan Ghosh, well-known for his violent and extreme Islamophobic views. These personalities should never be allowed into Parliament....
In the Times’ article headlined “Christian child forced into Muslim foster care”, published online and in print on 28 August 2017, Andrew Norfolk made a number of misleading and distorted statements providing a biased and inaccurate account of the situation, involving a five-year-old girl...
In an appearance for Sky News on 20 June, notorious Islamophobe Melanie Phillips, incited hatred against Muslims and misquoted Egypt’s president as saying “We cannot anymore have a situation where 1.6 billion Muslims are trying to murder the rest of the world.” She insinuates...
Dear Activist, As salaamu alaykum. We are writing to request your urgent help with our campaign, together with Hacked Off, on press reform. We wrote to you a while back asking you to contact the Culture Secretary, Maria Miller, and your local MP, urging them to reject the rival Royal Charter...
Assalamu Alaikum You will be aware that the man apprehended for the murder of Palmira Silva in Edmonton, north London, on Thursday 4 September, Nicholas Salvador, is reported to be a Muslim convert according to sources quoted by various newspapers. The sources have not been verified or...
British Muslims are used to regular attacks by Islamophobes posing as sub-standard journalists but disgraced Katie Hopkins’ latest outburst has hit a new low and offended thousands of British Muslims. She made vile and false accusations in a tweet against the Prophet Muhammad (saw), a copy...
1. Two Palestinian children were shot dead by Israeli soldiers on 20 May, days before 3 Israeli teenagers were kidnapped and murdered. Hamas denies any involvement in the deaths of the 3 Israeli teenagers yet Israel, which began aerial strikes on Gaza within days of the bodies of the...
Dear Activist, We hope you will have learnt of the appalling article by Richard Littlejohn on his Daily Mail page on Sheikh Haitham al-Haddad and the Muslim Research and Development Foundation. The article repeated an array of Islamophobic tropes expressing virulent anti-Muslim bigotry. The article...
Dear Activist, As-salaamu alaykum, We are writing to request your urgent assistance concerning a consultation opened by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, the Rt. Hon. Maria Miller, on the press industry’s rival royal charter, known as the PressBoF Charter. The press...
We are at a critical moment in the history of Press Regulation as Parliament will, this Monday, 18th March, debate proposals advanced by the Conservatives for a Royal Charter introducing a new system of press regulation. The proposals contained in the Royal Charter do not address what we...
We wrote to you last week regarding the Leveson recommendations, asking that you contact your MP and ask them to support the full implementation of the recommendations. On our part, we are working with one of the leading campaign groups in this area Hacked Off, who are fully supportive of our...
It’s been over a week since the publication of Lord Justice Leveson’s report on press reform and we are still waiting for the Government to fulfil its commitment to take the recommendations forward on a cross-party basis. Labour and the Liberal Democrats have fully supported...
We would like to draw your attention to some recent developments on Palestine-Israel, and in the Occupied Territories, and to urge you to carry out a quick and simple task: On 24th July , EU Foreign Ministers unanimously agreed to an upgrade in EU trade relations with Israel. Despite...
As of this week the General Synod of the Church of England will meet and will, during the course of its sitting, vote on a very important private members’ motion proposed by Dr John Dinnen, Synod member for Hereford. The motion concerns Church volunteers who are sent to vulnerable...
ENGAGE has prepared a number of resources for individuals to make use of to ensure that the loss of 1,400 Palestinian lives during the recent heavy bombardment of Gaza is not forgotten and any crimes committed by Israel fully investigated. Where crimes are proven to have been committed we must...
