Nick Cohen highlights some of the issues that colleagues within Tell MAMA have been grappling with for some time. Apart from being the target of far right campaigns, Tell MAMA has also become the target of groups purporting to tackle Islamophobia, solely because Tell MAMA believes that equality means equality for all. Cohen mentions the following
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Continue ReadingThe 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 ReadingPeople have been discussing whether the English Defence League are really a threat to the security of the United Kingdom, whilst others have taken the position that they are not so bad as ”those Jihadis across the ocean’. Senior commentators have also suggested that the English Defence League are nothing of significance in relation to
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Continue ReadingThis is an infographic that we have put together on racially aggravated harassment offences recorded by the British Transport Police (BTP) in 2014 and 2015. BTP have been pro-active in responding to hate crimes on public transport and we are proud of o...
Continue ReadingThis is an infographic that we have put together on racially aggravated harassment offences recorded by the British Transport Police (BTP) in 2014 and 2015. BTP have been pro-active in responding to hate crimes on public transport and we are proud of o...
Continue ReadingWe are currently in the process of reconstituting our National Advisory Group on Tell MAMA which will consist of experienced hate crime campaigners, programme organisers, key activists and individuals who represent a range of bodies with links to hate crime work. As our work goes from strength to strength, we understand that Muslim women experience
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Continue ReadingThis is a letter received from the Office of the Prime Minister in response to our briefing on anti-Muslim hate which we sent through. The letter is a timely reminder of what binds us all in the United Kingdom. “I am writing on behalf of the Prime Minister to thank you for your recent letter,
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