Last night, MPs, Peers, NGOs, and community leaders celebrated the launch of MEND’s report, “More than Words: Approaching a definition of Islamophobia” at a Parliamentary event.
The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for British Muslims recently launched an inquiry into a working definition of Islamophobia. In line with MEND’s submission to this inquiry, MEND released their comprehensive report as an exploration of the roots and causes of Islamophobia, how and why it is fuelled, and its socio-political and personal consequences.
While a full working definition can be found in the report itself, MEND’s definition of Islamophobia can be roughly split into two parts:
The overt part: Islamophobia is a prejudice, aversion, hostility, or hatred towards Muslims.
The “hidden” part that affects all Muslims both as individuals and as collective groups: that is the discrimination that excludes or limits Muslims’ equal exercise of fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural or any other field of public life. [MEND] Read more
