Tell MAMA UK (Monitoring Anti-Muslim Attacks) are publishing engaging new content as part of their social media campaign to bring awareness to the issue of hate in the online gaming community and request your support. They write: This is a phenomenon that particularly impacts young people with diverse identities. By the end of 2016 we […]
Hate crime
Blogger ‘who posted a grossly offensive and antisemitic song on YouTube’ denies hate crime charge
A blogger accused of calling Auschwitz a ‘theme park’ and gas chambers a ‘hoax’ appeared in court today in what is believed to be the first private prosecution in the UK for anti-jewish racism, the Daily Mail reports. Alison Chabloz, 52, is accused of posting a ‘grossly offensive’ video, called ‘Survivors’, online on June 8 […]
More questions than answers: a Searchlight investigation
Thomas Mair has been jailed for the brutal murder of Labour MP Jo Cox. But serious questions about the police approach to a fascist group remain. I write as Nazi assassin Thomas Mair begins a whole-life sentence for the murder of a well loved MP, wife and mother and an advocate for the long-suffering people […]
Racist acid attack – Barking vigil Tuesday 29 November at 5pm
On 15 November, Barking resident Imran Khan was subject to a horrific Islamophobic, racist attack by a large gang of youths while he was delivering a pizza. He was surrounded and subjected to racist abuse. He had acid squirted all over his face and eyes through his car window. Barking & Dagenham Post article here. […]
Faith Matters and TellMama launch First Annual National Hate Crime Awards
Faith Matters and TellMAMA (Measuring Anti-Muslim Attacks) have created and launched the first Annual National Hate Crime Awards (#NHCA 2016). For far too long, people within communities as well as organisations have worked tirelessly to challenge hatred, intolerance and prejudice without any national recognition. We believe that this has to change and this is why […]
National Hate Crime Awareness Week – public meeting in Redbridge
Thursday 13 October, 7.30pm to 9pm, Gloucester Room, Central Library, Clements Road, Ilford IG1 1EA Hate crime – crime driven by prejudices against certain groups in society – has never gone away. The police, the council and voluntary sector groups like us, have been supporting victims of hate crime every day in Redbridge. The reality […]