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You Simply Cannot Tackle Anti-Muslim Hatred Whilst Being Homophobic
“Islamophobia is awful and you know my sister was abused at a street corner.” “I saw a young sister have something thrown at her from a passing car.” “I was spat at on the tram and no-one helped me.”...
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For Years Press Sources Made Anjem Choudhary the ‘Go To’ Person To Raise...
Today, 49 year-old Anjem Choudhary was convicted at London’s Old Bailey court of using online lectures and messages to encourage support for the banned group, Daesh or Islamic State, which controls...
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Post Trump, We Refuse to be Second Class Citizens in the West
Saudi Arabia….Bahrain…..just some of the countries where human rights and the rule of law do not seem to go hand in hand. We can highlight others such as Burma where the Rohingya minorities rights are...
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A Step by Step View of the Paris Attacks Last Year. We Remember
The attacks in Paris on November 13, 2015 by gunmen and suicide bombers left 130 dead and hundreds wounded. It began at 21:20 local time (20:20 GMT) with an explosion outside the Stade de France...
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Stop Arabic From Becoming the Language of Fear
By Hannah Leach @ehlleach ehlleach.wixsite.com/musings It must be said we live in the midst of turbulent times. As forced displacement figures reach all time highs, a distinctly anti-immigrant wave of...
View ArticleTrump Has Brought Jews & Muslims Together in the US. In the UK We Must be Bold
For years, we have been stating that antisemitism, wherever it is found, must be challenged. It extends beyond Muslim communities, though sadly, we also saw it rear its head prominently during the Gaza...
View ArticleLegislating for What Women Wear Is Ludicrous. Let’s Stick to Core Issues – UKIP
We are saddened to see that the Leader of UKIP, Paul Nuttall has said that UKIP will attempt to ban the niqab or the full face veil as part of its general election manifesto. Citing integration and...
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Comments by Members of Public on Bacon on Car Handle Should Raise a Smile
Yesterday we highlighted the following case which we reported on where a member of the public who happened to be Muslim, came to find that someone had put a piece of bacon on his car handle. The...
View ArticleSocial Media Companies Misjudged the Mood of the Home Affairs Select Committee
The recent Home Affairs Select Committee (HASC) report is a damning indictment of the way that social media companies, in particular, Google, You Tube and Twitter, have in some circumstances, wilfully...
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Extremism is a Cancer That We Must All Confront
22 people have lost their lives after the terrible suicide attack in the early hours of the morning in Manchester. Last night, emergency services, the police and communities came together to try and...
View ArticleFinsbury Park attack: Statement from the Anti-Muslim Hatred Working Group
We the Independent Members of the Cross Government Working Group on Anti-Muslim Hatred, send our prayers and thoughts to the victims of the Finsbury Park terrorist attack. We thank the emergency...
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Tell MAMA Security Bulletin for Mosques
We launch our first security bulletin for mosques in the United Kingdom. We highlight simple steps that mosques can take for their security and where we have documented that since May 2013, over 100...
View ArticleThe BBC Should Not Be Promoting ‘Fake News’ About Muslims and Jews
The BBC reported yesterday on German Muslim schoolgirls who were racially abused by locals on a trip to visit Holocaust memorials in Lublin in Eastern Poland. The Board of Deputies of British Jews...
View ArticleHaving a Beard and Layers of Clothing Brings Out The Worst Fears in Some
This video is circulating of a visibly Muslim male who was walking along a busy Camden High street which leads to Regent’s Park mosque. The video was taken between 12 – 1:30 pm yesterday and just prior...
View ArticleSrebrenica Massacre 22 years Ago to the Day is a Reminder to Challenge Hate
Over two decades ago to the day, over 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men were massacred in Srebrenica by Bosnian Serb forces. Serb forces attempted to cover up the massacre which was highlighted by aerial...
View ArticleThe Al Haram Al Sharif Tensions Must Not Spill into the UK
We understand the deep impacts that Jerusalem and the Al Haram Al Sharif have on British Muslim communities in the UK. We also acknowledge the thousands of years of Jewish history that are connected to...
View ArticleHijabs in School Uniforms – The Altay Case
Yesterday, the Times highlighted a campaign that is being run to stop the Hijab from being part of the primary school uniform. The article cites a comment from former Labour Parliamentary candidate...
View ArticleAnti-Muslim Hatred, Terrorism, Media Sources, Far Right Networks & Spike Points
The recent Independent article highlighted the sharp rise in mosque attacks that have been seen across the country and which Tell MAMA has been systematically documenting for over 5 years now. Attacks...
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Golders Green Hippodrome Furore Shows Bigotry is Not Far From Any Community
The furore around the Golders Green Hippodrome building which was purchased by a Shia group called the ‘Centre for Islamic Enlightening’ has sadly caused some strains between local communities in North...
View ArticleHow Could Bob Blackman MP Host an Anti-Muslim Extremist in Parliament?
Serious questions have to be asked! In today’s world, due diligence around people, organisations and what they have previously said, are the norm, to ensure that extremists have no platform or...
View ArticleFar-Right Polish March Organised by Antisemitic & Anti-Muslim Group Draws in...
Tens of thousands of Poles marched in Warsaw today in a City that historically was ravaged by the brutal onslaught and the occupation by the Nazis during the Second World War. A city that still bears...
View ArticleJayda Fransen Shares Platform & Friendship with Firebrand Antisemitic Former...
We reported on the recent far-right demonstration in Warsaw, which was organised by the National Radical Camp which has its roots in Nazi ideology and which openly promotes antisemitism, anti-migrant...
View ArticleTell MAMA Comments on IPSO Ruling on Trevor Kavanagh Article About “The...
Trevor Kavanagh recently drafted an opinion piece in the Sun where the article ended with the following statement, “What will we do about the Muslim Problem then?” IPSO has dismissed complaints made by...
View ArticleA statement on our work and social media
Anti-Muslim hatred, anti-Muslim racism, or as it is broadly known more widely as Islamophobia, manifests in the everyday lives of Muslims in the UK. This harms the mobility of Muslims in public areas –...
View ArticleWe Urge Politicians to Rethink the Invitation to Trump
We have not taken a position on the invitation to Trump before, though recent events have brought to the forefront, how much anger there is within communities here in the UK, because of Trump’s...
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How Anti-Muslim Bigotry Percolates into Other Migrant Communities
Robert Olinski is the co-founder of the Willow Tree Hypnosis practice and also is a practising therapist within it. Olinski works from what it seems, are rooms within Central London, all of which might...
View ArticleNo Twitter – After the Darren Osborne Terrorist Attack, It is not business as...
Terrorist Darren Osborne has been found guilty of the murder and attempted murder of people outside the Muslim Welfare House in Finsbury Park in June 2017. Sentencing Osborne to a minimum term of 43...
View ArticleTell MAMA statement on the Paul Moore guilty verdict
Tell MAMA welcomes the guilty verdict delivered today in Nottingham Crown Court after Paul Moore, 21, attempted to kill a Muslim mother in Leicester and run over a 12-year-old Somali girl shortly...
View ArticleJackie Walker, if People Attending the Anti-Semitism Rally Are Anti-Muslim,...
The Jewish Chronicle has written an article highlighting Jackie Walker’s comments in a 20 minute Facebook speech in which she attacked those attending the Enough is Enough rally and stated that: “To...
View ArticleAntisemitism is Racism – Let’s Call It What It Is
We understand that members of key organisations representing Jewish communities are meeting with the leader of the opposition, the Rt Hon. Jeremy Corbyn MP. We truly hope that the concerns of these...
View ArticleAnti-Muslim Hatred Does Exist – We Are the Evidence
Islamophobia has once again become part of the social debate and with comments that it does not exist. Tell MAMA looks at how anti-Muslim hatred, racism, bigotry, and discrimination impacts on people,...
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We called for an inquiry by the Conservatives into Anti-Muslim Prejudice in...
At Tell MAMA we have always stood against anti-Muslim hatred, Islamophobia, and racism in all its forms. A recent article suggested that our role is “to expose anti-Muslim bigotry in the Tory Party”...
View ArticleWe Back the Call for a Regulator to Oversight Social Media Companies
Following the call from Danny Stone in the Times Newspaper, Tell MAMA supports the call for the establishment of an independent regulator who will provide probity and oversight over social media...
View ArticleA ‘Root and Branch Review’ Within the Conservatives Needs to be Undertaken...
A few weeks ago Brandon Lewis rightly stated that action needed to be taken to root out all forms of bigotry, including anti-Muslim bigotry or Islamophobia. The Chairman laid out his steps to ensure...
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Twitter Seeks to Address ‘Dehumanizing Speech’
Tell MAMA has repeatedly challenged Twitter on dehumanising, racist, and Islamophobic hate speech on its platform and a new blog, written by Del Harvey, Twitter’s VP for Trust and Safety, may indicate...
View ArticleTo UK Political Parties: We need the politics of Hope and Not Hate
We have diligently followed the social and political discourse in the UK for over 6 years since the inception and implementation of Tell MAMA. Over that period, apart from helping individuals, we have...
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A Times Investigation Confirms What We Said: Russian Interference Involves...
A Times investigation today has highlighted what we within Tell MAMA had previously raised about Russian interference in the destabilisation of social cohesion after the Westminster terror attack. We...
View ArticleHome Secretary Needs to Be More Measured in His Messages – Grooming
The Home Secretary’s statement (below), which highlighted ‘sick Asian paedophiles’, is something that should have been measured and not made on Twitter in a flippant manner. This also goes for a tweet...
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Pitiful Response from RyanAir Staff Shows That Staff Need Training in Dealing...
A video circulating showing an elderly man abusing a black woman on a RyanAir flight has caused a social media backlash and rightly so. The video shows the individual calling the woman an “ugly black...
View ArticleRe-admittance of Cllr Jeff Potts to the Conservatives Is Troubling
Solihull Councillor Jeff Potts, has been re-admitted to the Conservative Party. Cllr Potts who sat on a religious education committee retweeted a number of highly inflammatory and anti-Muslim tweets...
View ArticleOngoing Situation in the Middle East is No Excuse for Antisemitism
We know from the work of the Community Security Trust, that when there are times of conflict in the Middle East that antisemitic discourse and incidents increase. Time and time again, this has been...
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A statement on the ‘No2h8’ crowdfunding campaign
Faith Matters launched a crowdfunding campaign this month in the hope raising money for a poster campaign to raise awareness about hate crime, its impacts, and to report it. The function was to...
View ArticleCountering hatred requires precise vocabulary says Mohammed Amin
Except when using mathematical symbols and equations, we all think in words. When our words are badly defined, our thinking becomes woolly and often illogical. That is why philosophers and lawyers...
View ArticleVideo of Racist Bullying in Huddersfield is not Shocking. It Happened to Me Too
I was deeply disturbed by viral footage of a young Syrian refugee being beaten and humiliated at a school in Huddersfield. However, the attack, described by the media as racially motivated, did not...
View ArticleCountering Anti-Muslim Bigotry is Human Rights Work
In all of the ongoing debates about ‘definitions’ of ‘Islamophobia’ or ‘anti-Muslim hatred’, there is one simple term that has been lost: the defence of human rights. Muslims, just like any other...
View ArticleSocioeconomic deprivation will only fuel our social divides
A new political settlement is being forged by Donald Trump and Brexit. It is something to send ripples of deep unease and discomfort amongst those who recognised liberalism as flawed but ultimately a...
View ArticleTrump’s America is a show of brazen male racism
We have all seen it now. A native American, a former Vietnam veteran encircled and jeered at by a group of MAGA-donning boys from a Catholic school. It’s an ugly encapsulation of Donald Trump’s...
View ArticleStatement: why we must continue standing together against anti-Muslim hate...
On the fourth anniversary of the white supremacist terror attacks in Christchurch, New Zealand, which claimed the lives of 51 Muslims and on the first International Day to Combat Islamophobia, Tell...
View ArticleMore Politicians Need to Speak Up & Counter Anti-Muslim Hate
We have just launched the most detailed study of anti-Muslim hatred in the country. It covers a decade of work supporting Muslims who have been targeted by anti-Muslim hate and with over 16,000 cases...
View ArticleWorld HIjab Day & Online Anti-Muslim Sentiment
‘World Hijab Day’ 2025 has just passed and was on Saturday the 1st of February. The hashtag was #HijabisUnsilenced. Correspondingly, we have seen anti-Muslim sentiment on some social media platforms,...
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