The Tell MAMA project will hold a free event on October 15 to discuss how communities and police forces can respond to anti-Muslim hate crimes. This discussion coincides with National Hate Crime Week, which runs between October 10 and 17. So why do we need this awareness week? Many British Muslims consider anti-Muslim abuse too
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Continue ReadingOver the last two months, the refugee crisis taking place with waves of refugees from Syria, has also shaped the anti-Muslim rhetoric that is being reported in. Just as Charlie Hebdo, the Rotherham grooming scandal and IS have changed the lexicon of anti-Muslim hate, so has the refugee crisis, as some people see women in
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Another day, another anti-Muslim incident that simply shocks. After many years of listening to victims, logging their cases, advocating for them and empathising with them, the cases that are the most shocking are the ones involving young children. This is the text of what we received in today. This cannot be acceptable in any society
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This response was received today from a Muslim woman and mother and who was harassed and racially and religiously abused for over 4 years in the Midlands. The abuse and the anti-Muslim hate placed enormous pressures on the family and on the family and brought the family to the edge of desperation. Today after our
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Continue ReadingDo media outlets and leftists care more about Islamophobia than antisemitism? Brendan O’Neill made the case in a recent Spectator column; yet the article is a rather lazy and divisive argument. There is a fundamental problem with O’Neill’s point that media outlets ignored the larger increase in antisemitic hate crime in London. He ignored the
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Continue ReadingThis is the abuse that has been directed at the British Muslim Youth – a Rotherham based, national organisation which works on empowering young British Muslims. The founder of the organisation, Muhbeen Hussain, has been vocal in his campaigning against child sexual exploitation and against racism and prejudice. Yet, the British Muslim Youth continue to
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This report was received into Tell MAMA yesterday afternoon. The names and location regarding the incident have been changed. “My name is Shaida Rizvi and I am 16 years old and currently have entered college. I had started practising Islam when I was 15 and had started wearing the Niqab by choice. This started in December 2014
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For the second time in a few months, a Muslim graveyard in Odense, Denmark, has been attacked. The Muslim cemetery in Odense had 50 gravestones that were vandalised and the gravestones had, it seemed, been specifically targeted. The Korslokke grave-site has both Muslim and Christian grave-sites and the Muslim gravestones seemed to have been shattered
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Continue ReadingWe have received a report from a member of the public that a brick was thrown through the front door of a proposed mosque in Woodford Green in the London Borough of Redbridge. A new mosque and community centre was recently approved by the local authority and local newspaper reports have suggested that a proposal
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Continue ReadingEarlier today we highlighted the sad death of Mushin Ahmed, a senior citizen, who passed away from his injuries after going to the mosque for Fajr prayers. Clearly a devout man, who would have thought his family would now be mourning his death. We received the following tweet, shown above, from an account that stated,
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