Lord, Ladies, Your Excellencies and Honourable guests, We welcome you to the first annual dinner of the TELL MAMA national project. Many of you will know that the project supports victims of anti-Muslim prejudice and also maps, measures and analyses hotspot areas of where such anti-Muslim incidents take place. The reason that this project came […]
Continue ReadingIt’s nearly 2 years to the day since I made that speech about Islamophobia. At the time I talked about the scourge of anti-Muslim hatred. From violence on the streets to vitriol online. And, dare I say it, derogatory comments at the dinner table… When I said that Islamophobia had ‘passed the dinner table test’. […]
Continue ReadingThe recent furore on the ‘Muslim Patrols’ shows the continued fear and trepidation that many feel when Muslims or Islam are used. The recent You Tube postings by a handful of individuals where they harassed passers by outside the East London mosque in Tower Hamlets actually highlighted the stupidity of these two individuals and the […]
Continue ReadingOn Sunday, the 6th of January, 2013, Faith Matters organized its third interfaith training workshop as part of their Project Musawaat (Equality) which aims to promote freedom of religion and belief in Pakistan and is focussed on working with Christian and Muslim communities in the Punjab region. 75 participants from 18 grass-roots level youth based […]
Continue ReadingWe hope that you can join us for what will be, an annual event, not just for Muslim communities, but for all those working against hate crimes in our country. Having launched in March 2012, we believe that no-one in this country should be subjected to hate or humiliation because of their identity or their […]
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