** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** Rights group Muslim Engagement & Development (MEND) have launched a new report The Great Debunk: Challenging Islamophobic Conspiracy Theories, which examines how false narratives about Muslims once limited to the far-right fringes have entered mainstream political,...
Reform UK has more than 2,300 councillors. ITV has now shown the country what some of them really think of the people they were elected to serve. They called minority communities “parasites” and “animals” who have “infested” their neighbourhoods. In Solihull, a councillor said Muslims...
MI5 says “anti-Muslim grievance is tipping into terrorist intent.” Of course, Muslims in places like Greenock, Leeds and Peacehaven already know what that looks like. In Greenock, a teenager posed as a convert to win the imam’s trust, then set out to burn the mosque when it would...
The government’s own figures show the spikes were predictable, and preventable MEND statement, 8 October 2026 For the third year in a row, anti-Muslim hate crime in England and Wales has reached a new high. Police recorded 3,866 religious hate crimes against Muslims in 2023/24, 4,479 in...
Dear Mr Speaker, Re: An event described as “the Danger of Islam” held on the parliamentary estate I write as Chief Executive of MEND, an independent organisation working to tackle Islamophobia and to strengthen the civic participation of British Muslim communities. Our attention has...
MEND has added its name to the joint statement calling on the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) to reopen the case of the Birmingham 4 – Naweed Ali, Khobaib Hussain, Mohibur Rahman and Tahir Aziz. The four men were convicted in 2017 and sentenced to life imprisonment after a...
A woman attacked with a glass bottle, a young man stabbed and a far-right mob attack on an innocent by-stander; these a just some the Islamophobic hate incidents which have taken place across Glasgow in recent weeks. On Wednesday 22nd July, a woman was attacked by a group of racist thugs who tore...
Re: Distribution of the film “Citizen Vigilante” to UK users on X (formerly Twitter) and the adequacy of the platform’s illegal-content systems and risk assessment under the Online Safety Act 2023 Dear Sirs, I write as Chief Executive of MEND (Muslim Engagement and Development), a national...
Keir Starmer’s resignation paves the way for the seventh prime minister in a decade. Another change of leader must not allow for the same substance to remain. We see in it an opportunity to move the country toward a better future, but only if the next leader breaks with the failures of the...
Four people were attacked and hospitalised across West Edinburgh and Leith last night. Several are Muslims. Our prayers are with them – may Allah grant them healing and protection. This did not come from nowhere. From footage circulated online, it shows the man arrested shouting...
12th June 2026 Dear Sirs Formal complaint: UK-registered charities funding illegal Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory – request for a statutory inquiry I am writing on behalf of Muslim Engagement and Development (MEND) to express our grave concern regarding reports that...
