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1 month ago | 
aol.co.uk | Fiyaz Mughal
“If the British public knew about the scale of cases coming into the courts around Islamist extremism, maybe then they would realise the risk that we all face”. This is a comment I made to a few friends recently. As a British Muslim, I have long questioned why some within parts of my community have sought to downplay the cancerous extremism that has taken hold of the minds of some young Muslims.
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1 month ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Fiyaz Mughal
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2 months ago | 
counselling-directory.org.uk | Fiyaz Mughal
Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) It often starts with a single thought. A flicker of fear that seems to come from nowhere, sending a jolt through your body. For some, it might be the fear of harming someone, despite knowing they never would. For others, it could be a gnawing doubt - Did I lock the door? Did I turn off the stove? The harder you try to push the thought away, the louder it returns, looping endlessly like a song stuck in your mind.
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Mar 4, 2025 | 
yahoo.com | Fiyaz Mughal
Sir Keir Starmer was keen to stress Britain’s history of freedom of speech in his meeting with Donald Trump at the Oval Office last week. “We’ve had free speech for a very long time in the United Kingdom and it will last for a very long time,” the Prime Minister said proudly. He was commenting in response to a comment from the US Vice President JD Vance about “infringements on free speech” in the UK.
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Mar 4, 2025 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Fiyaz Mughal
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Feb 19, 2025 | 
thetimes.com | Fiyaz Mughal
Last year Britain witnessed an alarming surge in anti-Muslim hatred. The horrific Southport murders, a volatile general election period and the Israel-Hamas war combined to fuel a spike in hostility. More than 6,000 anti-Muslim hate cases were reported to Tell Mama in 2024, the highest number since the project was founded in 2011. These include troubling stories of people being threatened and harassed just because they were Muslims.
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Feb 13, 2025 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Fiyaz Mughal |Charles Hymas
The term “Islamist extremism” was not mentioned for the first hour and a half of a key meeting of Home Office officials discussing Yvette Cooper’s counter-extremism review, a senior Muslim figure has claimed. Fiyaz Mughal, founder of Tell Mama, a project that records anti-Muslim incidents in the UK, described how he had been invited to a luxury country hotel in West Sussex to hear the findings of a review of extremism ordered by the Home Secretary.
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Feb 13, 2025 | 
thejc.com | Fiyaz Mughal
A few days ago, a group of Muslim and Jewish religious leaders came together to sign the Drumlanrig Accord, intended to reconcile the two communities after a period of severe friction. Following the signing ceremony, the agreement - named for Drumlanrig Castle in Scotland where faith representatives met to discuss the issue - was presented to the King at Buckingham Palace, who praised the initiative. The signatories to the Drumlanrig Accord were varied.
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Aug 19, 2024 | 
thejc.com | Fiyaz Mughal
The recent far right demonstrations should worry us all. The speed, scale and organisation and the level of violence and hate they showed in their targeting of asylum seekers and mosques was deeply concerning. About a week ago, I was asked by LBC to provide a comment on the riots.
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Jul 13, 2024 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Fiyaz Mughal
Credit: Jane Barlow As someone who worked on countering anti-Muslim hate for more than a decade and who set up a national project to monitor this hatred, I am experienced in dealing with these issues. The work of nationally monitoring anti-Muslim hate is now being led by a determined British female leader of Palestinian heritage.
