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Urgent action needed to tackle Islamophobia
Sabby Dahlu is Secretary of One Society Many Cultures. The recent report Islamophobia and anti-Muslim Hate Crime: UK case studies, published by the European Muslim Research Centre based at the...
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Daily Mail: Never mind the data, here comes the Muslim convert fear
For the Daily Mail, it turns out, when you cannot scare people with the facts, well, you can just scare them anyway. The nation’s biggest selling mid-market newspaper has suggested that an annual rate...
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Daily Star’s EDL endorsement a worrying departure for mainstream media
By Nick Lowles of HOPE not hate This week’s decision by the Daily Star newspaper to effectively endorse the English Defence League is a worrying departure for Britain’s mainstream media. Of course some...
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If the EDL find a British Geert Wilders, the political scene could change
Nearly a month after what appears to have been a Daily Star scoop, The Independent reports that the English Defence League does indeed intend to become a legitimate political party. This development...
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Too many on the Left are continuing to promote Islamist extremists
This October will see the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street, when a coalition of local left-wing and anti-fascist groups prevented Oswald Mosley’s blackshirts from marching through the...
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Islamophobia and homophobia unashamedly rife amongst the Republicans
. Some slanderous and discriminative views have emerged from Republican supporters this week, including praising the Boy Scouts of America’s decision to ban gays and insisting that a member of...
View ArticleTrump and Fox attack Islam again – this time over NYC’s ‘Ground Zero Mosque’
Fox News has re-launched one of its many anger-fuelled campaigns, this one being their outrage at the existence of the Park51 Muslim Community Center in Manhattan. Fox broadcast a ‘discussion piece’ on...
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Anti-Muslim incidents and the Woolwich attack: an initial appraisal
By Fiyaz Mughal, founder and director of Faith Matters Following the horrifying murder of Lee Rigby on May 22, there came a response. Just as after the July 7 bombings, the recent events in Woolwich...
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Breitbart contributor: “Time for Americans to start slaughtering Muslims in...
TweetA contributor to right-wing Breitbart website has called on Twitter for Americans to “start slaughtering Muslims in the streets”. A writer for the American-based conservative website, which...
View ArticleCameron Euro allies back anti-Muslim marches
With friends like these who needs enemies? Angela Merkel meets with David Cameron today to discuss a range of global issues, from Ebola to Ukraine. Yet the one which will be most talked about is...
View ArticleIs UKIP a racist party? These 15 comments would suggest so
After one of his councillors was filmed saying she had a ‘problem with people with negroid features’, UKIP leader Nigel Farage stated today that: “I haven’t seen the film but she is alleged, and she...
View ArticleAny sympathy with the Charlie Hebdo attack is worrying, but Muslims are...
The recent BBC survey of British Muslims addresses multiple issues related to the Muslim community in the UK. The spotlight in the British media, however, has been on opinions about Islamist...
View ArticleYouGov poll: 63 per cent of people think no party can control immigration
‘Benefit tourism’ is still the main concern of the British public when it comes to immigration, according to a Times/YouGov poll on public attitudes. 56 per cent of respondents named this as the main...
View ArticleClickbait Evening Standard story undermines efforts to stop anti-Muslim bigotry
Reporting on the 70 per cent rise in hate crimes against Muslims this year, the London Evening Standard’s website led with a video of an attack on a Muslim girl. The story begins: “Shocking images of...
View ArticleComment: anti-Muslim hatred is a self-fulfilling prophecy
Anti-Muslim hatred leads people directly into the hands of IS recruiters and aggravates the very issue of radicalisation that we are trying to avert. The more people act out of fear and cause Muslims...
View ArticleHow to stop anti-Muslim hatred: report, challenge and educate
A recent report by Tell MAMA UK explores the offline and online impacts of anti-Muslim hatred. As a result of the discrimination, victims suffer from depression, emotional stress, anxiety and fear....
View ArticleComment: Anti-Muslim hate affects us all
Two days ago, Tell MAMA launched our latest report entitled, ‘We fear for our lives – offline and online experiences of anti-Muslim hostility’. This report tried to link the impacts of online and...
View ArticleComment: We need to stop defining Muslims only by their religion
Part of our failure to prevent radicalisation stems from the lack of political or civic engagement among our target audience, those vulnerable to radicalisation and those showing signs of sympathy or...
View ArticleComment: If the government is serious about Muslim integration it needs to...
The government’s latest round of counter-extremism policy included some tough talk on integration. It seems that we never have enough policy or legislation to deal with the task at hand. Concerns...
View ArticleComment: The hypocrisy of boycotting Israel
Last week over 300 British university academics decided to boycott Israel over ‘commitment to Palestinian rights’. The writers vowed to maintain the boycott ‘until Israel complies with international...
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