Trans-Muslim Convert to Islam Openly Assaulted With Public Looking On
We have been working with a trans-Muslim convert to Islam who has also been homeless and who regularly suffers anti-Muslim hate at a street level. Wearing the Niqab, she has consistently documented...
View ArticleSikhs Are Not Forgotten & Should Be in Hate Crime Work
“Bet you don’t have other people reporting to you,” is the usual Twitter commentary that some people say, who do not know about our values. Or the alternative is, “What about Christians and...
View ArticleHow Nazi Ideology is Associated in Minds with Being Against Other Races or...
We received this report from a Muslim female who has had problems with anti-social behaviour from young teenagers in her street. The issue continues to build even though she has reported the incident...
View ArticleGilligan & the Reductionists
Context We received a call at around 5 pm on Friday the 31st of May by Andrew Gilligan, the Telegraph journalist and the Mayor’s cycle ambassador. He asked the Director of TELL MAMA a number of...
View ArticleResponse from the British Jewish Community to Attacks on Mosques Post Woolwich
The Joseph Interfaith Foundation,United in a Vision for Truth Press Release The Jewish community is deeply saddened and concerned by the recent number of bombing and arson attacks on mosques since the...
View ArticleLatest Figures on Islamophobic Hate Crimes from the MET Police
The following results were published today by the Metropolitan Police service and we have listed the Islamophobic crimes with specific percentage increments. Whilst the TELL MAMA project picked up a...
View ArticleThe latest MET Islamophobic hate crime figures to September 2013
The latest hate crime figures from the Metropolitan Police Service once again show a startling set of data. Take for example a 68% increase in Islamophobic hate crime from September 2012 to September...
View ArticleTELL MAMA – An Independent National Campaign
Sadly, given the nature of the work that we do, and given that some in the Twittersphere spend most of their day trying to undermine our work, there are times when we need to make a statement....
View ArticleDecember MET Islamophobia Hate Crime Figures
These are the December 2013 Metropolitan Police Service Islamophobia hate crime reported figures. Compared to December 2012, there has been a 60% plus rise in anti-Muslim recorded hate crimes and this...
View ArticleTimeline Map of Mosque Incidents & Attacks Between 2012-2013
We are in the process of launching a further report which reviews and analyzes the data and reports that we received in 2013. The report also covers the Woolwich period and the backlash against Muslim...
View ArticleMapping of MET/MPS Islamophobia Figures since 2012 – TELL MAMA
As previously noted on this blog, recent Metropolitan Police Service data for the past 12 months reveals a significant, long-term increase in anti-Muslim hate crime in the Greater London area – a...
View ArticleIslamophobic & Anti-Semitic Hate Crimes from MET Data in April 2014
Anti-Semitic crime Islamophobic crime Populations(2011) 12 months to 12 months to 12 months to 12 months to Apr 2014 Apr 2013 Change Apr 2014 Apr 2013 Change Tower Hamlets 5 5 +0.0% 48 23 +108.7%...
View ArticleTeesside / TELL MAMA Publication Out Today. A Summary of Developments by Leah...
Today marks the publication of a report by Teesside University’s Centre for Fascist, Anti-fascist, and Post-Fascist studies, entitled Tell MAMA Reporting 2013/14: Anti-Muslim Overview, Analysis and...
View ArticleNew On-line Journal to be Launched as part of TELL MAMA
Together with our sister organisation, Faith Matters, we are pleased to announce that we are setting up a new journal on inter/multi-faith issues, identity, community, and faith, and we are currently...
View ArticleUnder-Reporting of Anti-Muslim Hate Still an Ongoing Problem
The June MET hate crime figures are out and it seems that June’s figures when compared to May’s, finally show a slight drop in the level of anti-Muslim hate crimes that have been reported into the...
View ArticleNew Co-Chair of TELL MAMA Hits the Ground Running
We are pleased to announce that our new co-chairman, Shahid Malik, will be carrying out a structural review of TELL MAMA to build on the existing foundations of our work. We believe that re-evaluating...
View ArticleBureaucracy & Passing the Buck from Merseyside Police
Very recently, we were informed by a member of the public of an account that we have previously reported in on a number of occasions. In fact, we started reporting the account @davymaccas since 2012...
View ArticleRotherham, Hate, and the Far Right Online
This report looks at the impact of the Rotherham Grooming crisis and the impacts that it has on the rhetoric of far right groups like Britain First on-line. We analysed the lexicon of anti-Muslim hate...
View ArticleFacebook and Twitter Have to Take Responsibility and Pay For Impacts of Their...
We have heard it many times from social media companies such as Facebook and Twitter. “Record and report in material that breaks our terms and conditions,” they have said, as though our role is solely...
View ArticleInfographic Showing the Peaks and Troughs on Anti-Muslim Hate Crimes
We look at the correlation between international and national incidents and spikes in anti-Muslim hate reporting that take place. The infographic entitled news events and anti-Muslim hate crimes in...
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