Following a complaint to the press regulation body IPSO, the Mail on Sunday has finally apologised for their inflammatory headline and article on “Muslim gang slashes tyres of immigration-raid van”. This article is one of a large number of occurrences, in which the usage of terms such as Islam or Muslims have been increasingly utilised …
JAN Trust in Press CTV
Read here about what Sajda Mughal stated about the rise in Islamophobia in the wake of the 7/7 attacks.
Islamophobia must be tackled, says Sajda Mughal
Sajda has appeared in The Independent to emphasise that action must be taken against the rise in Islamophobia in society. Read more about her plea here.
JAN Trust on ITV News
Sajda has appeared on ITV News to emphasise that action must be taken against the rise in Islamophobia in society. Read more about her plea here.
Sajda Mughal interviewed for The Telegraph
“Some children defend the bombers – then I tell them my story” Sajda Mughal has been interviewed for The Telegraph as the only known Muslim survivor of 7/7. Read the feature here.
CEO Sajda Mughal featured in Cosmopolitan
Sajda has been interviewed for Cosmopolitan for her 7/7 experience and the rising hostility against Muslims since the attack. Read more here.
Online Hate and the See It Report It initiative
The recent tragic burning alive of 26 year old Jordanian pilot Muath al-Kasesbeh sent shockwaves around the globe. The video, released by ISIS on the 3rd of February 2015, depicts one of the terrorist group’s most barbaric and heinous crimes yet and is a further example of the group’s warped ideology. Our thoughts are with Muath’s …
ITV Exposure: Forced To Marry – an exercise in Islamophobia
Early last month, ITV aired an episode called ‘Forced to Marry’ as part of their TV series called ‘Exposure’. The episode followed two undercover reporters as they approached 56 masjid (mosques) in the UK asking whether they would agree to perform the marriage of a 14 year old girl. The majority, 67% (38), refused and …
Rise in Anti-Muslim hate crime
Whilst the Woolwich attacks were devastatingly shocking and many of us responded with huge amounts of sympathy for the victim and his family, others chose to respond to it with what was described as a tenfold increase of Islamophobic attacks on Muslims. In response to the attack, many members from the English Defence League took …
How to spot Islamophobia in the media
Alan Judd, a journalist from The Telegraph recently wrote an article entitled ‘How to spot a terrorist living in your neighbourhood’. The article attempts to educate readers on how to identify potential extremists by being aware of their social interactions and changes in behaviour. While the article suggests that certain attributes are often portrayed by potential …