Soldiers of Odin UK seek new recruits for its street patrols

March 3, 2016 Article

A far-right chapter of the anti-Islam group Soldiers of Odin has called for volunteers to join its street patrols. The Facebook page Soldiers of Odin UK South Division wants to extend patrols this weekend. Cities earmarked for patrols include Bristol, Plymouth and South London. Online posts promote community and loyalty. The group denies holding racist

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Rotherham – Shocking Pictures Emerge of British Asian Attacked in Racial Incident

March 3, 2016 Article

Pictures showing the injuries to an Asian man have emerged after he was attacked a few days ago at a BP garage on Herringthorpe Valley Road in Rotherham. In the attack, the Asian man was said to have lost part of his finger as he was repeatedly punched in the early hours of Saturday morning

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Merseyside Police investigate unprovoked racist assault on Muslim woman

March 1, 2016 Article

Merseyside Police reached out to Tell MAMA following a violent and unprovoked assault on a Muslim woman in the Everton area of Merseyside. The 38-year-old, who wears the hijab and is of Arab descent, had passed a children’s play area on route to a supermarket at around 8pm on February 11. She noticed two white

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The Mushin Ahmed trial: when anti-Muslim hate turns to murder

February 29, 2016 Article

Dale Jones, 30, of East Bawtry Road in Rotherham, gave no reaction when found guilty of murdering Mushin Ahmed, 81. A lack of reaction matched only by his lack of remorse. Judge Mr Justice Males said Jones was a ‘racist thug’ who cared little for the suffering he caused. Jones had refused to see Mr

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Obsession by Anti-Muslim Bigots Shows the Vindictive Nature of Them

December 31, 2015 Article

Well, as we move into 2016, it has been another year where my colleagues and I have been at the front-line of working with faith communities in the United Kingdom and where we have also stood firm against anti-Muslim bigotry. We have also continuously made the case that bigotry from some small sections of Muslim Read More

You Cannot Pick & Choose on Issues of Equality; Appeasing Such Groups is Just As Bad

October 25, 2015 Article

Through the work that we do in Tell MAMA, it is clear we have been blessed with many people who are committed to tackling anti-Muslim hatred. Many of these people do the work selflessly and with commitment to tackling prejudice, bigotry and hatred. We honour and value them. On the rare occasions where there are Read More

Islamophobic Abuse Ignored By Bystanders, Prompting Claims We’re Missing ‘A Sense Of Common Humanity’

October 19, 2015 Article

“We are racist, we are racist and we love it.” That’s the chanting Hira had to listen to a she travelled alone on a train. The group of men had already asked if she had a “bomb under her scarf”, made comments about eating bacon and had alcohol poured on her. But most shockingly of Read More

Boris Johnson launches app to report hate crime more easily

October 19, 2015 Article

Boris Johnson has launched a new phone app to make it easier for Londoners to report hate crimes, writes Jack Mendel. The Mayor of London’s Office for Policing And Crime (MOPAC) launched the new app – ‘Self Evident’ – on Thursday, during National Hate Crime Awareness week. It seeks to to enable a greater confidence in the reporting of Read More

The Maintainers of Segregated Mindsets – Meet The New Breed of Isolationists

October 4, 2015 Article

There are those who think that calling individuals ‘House Muslims’ who are in the public domain and who work on issues affecting Muslim communities, a perfectly normal and acceptable statement. There are those who believe that by Muslims trying to give people the best opportunities through equality, they automatically become Muslims who serve the ‘white Read More

Britain First Facebook Posts Awash With Bigotry Towards Aaqil Ahmed, BBC Head

August 16, 2015 Article

The Head of Religion and Ethics in the BBC, Aaqil Ahmed, recently posted this blog on why he made the decision to hold ‘Songs of Praise’ from a small community built church in the ‘Jungle’, a piece of land where refugees desperately try and maintain a meagre pitiful existence in Calais. Aaqil Ahmed provides some

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