Tell MAMA UK
| Tell MAMA (Measuring Anti-Muslim Attacks) | |
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| Mission statement | "to ensure that anti-Muslim incidents and attacks in the UK are mapped, measured and recorded, and support provided for victims." |
| Commercial? | No |
| Type of project | Anti-Muslim hate monitor |
| Location | UK |
| Founder | Fiyaz Mughal |
| Established | 21 February 2012 |
| Funding | Public |
| Website | tellmamauk |
Tell MAMA (Measuring Anti-Muslim Attacks) is a national project which records and measures anti-Muslim incidents in the United Kingdom. It is modelled on the Jewish Community Security Trust (CST) and like the CST it also provides support for victims, working closely with organisations such as Victim Support.
Tell MAMA was launched on 21 February 2012 by Eric Pickles MP, Secretary of State for the Department for Communities and Local Government and is co-ordinated by the interfaith organisation Faith Matters. Both groups were founded by social entrepreneur Fiyaz Mughal OBE, a former adviser to the Leader of the Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg, on Interfaith and Preventing Radicalisation and Extremism. The organisation's statistics have been the subject of debate, but were referenced by the Rt Hon Theresa May MP when speaking at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors on the 23rd of March 2015.
The project was set up with UK Government backing. In November 2012, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg announced a further £214,000 annual funding for Tell MAMA up to October 2013. Tell MAMA was funded for an initial period of 2 years and was funded on the basis of being self-sustaining after two years. Tell MAMA covers a range of issues and cases, and also works with mosques across the country. Journalist Andrew Gilligan wrote about the organisation's data collection in 2013, though the allegations have been disputed by Tell MAMA. Tell MAMA received start up funding from the Department for Communities and Local Government between 2012 and 2013.
Tell MAMA has had significant press coverage on its work to monitor anti-Muslim hate after the Charlie Hebdo murders in Paris in 2015. It also recently reported on the rise of school-based anti-Muslim hate incidents that took place after the Paris murders, as well as on continuing anti-Muslim hate incidents on both Facebook and Twitter. Tell MAMA has additionally worked on some high-profile cases involving alleged anti-Muslim discrimination – for example at the Savoy Hotel, where the female worker in question who alleged the anti-Muslim discrimination was represented by Tell MAMA.
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