Tell MAMA

Tell MAMA (Measuring Anti-Muslim Attacks)

Founder	Fiyaz Mughal
Type	Project
Legal status	Part of Faith Matters CIC
Purpose	To ensure that anti-Muslim incidents and attacks in the UK are mapped, measured and recorded, and support provided for victims.
Location	United Kingdom
Services	Anti-Muslim hate monitor and victim support service
Director	Iman Atta
Parent organization	Faith Matters CIC
Website	tellmamauk.org
Mission statement To ensure that anti-Muslim incidents and attacks in the UK are mapped, measured and recorded, and support provided for victims.

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. The reception of the group by British Muslims is highly mixed, due to the relationship between Tell MAMA and the Jewish CST group (perceived negatively due to its support of Zionism).

Tell MAMA was launched^[1] 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.^[2] Faith Matters was 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.^[3] The organisation's statistics have been the subject of debate,^[4] but were referenced by Theresa May when speaking at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors on 23 March 2015.^[5]

The project was set up with government backing, and received start up funding from the Department for Communities and Local Government between 2012 and 2013.^[6] In November 2012, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg announced a further £214,000 annual funding for Tell MAMA up to October 2013.^[7][8][9] Tell MAMA was funded for an initial period of 2 years and was funded on the basis of being self-sustaining after two years.^[10] Tell MAMA covers a range of issues and cases,^[11][12] and also works with mosques across the country.

Tell MAMA has had significant press coverage on its work to monitor anti-Muslim hate after the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris in 2015.^[12] It also reported on the rise of school-based anti-Muslim hate incidents that took place after the Paris murders,^[13] as well as on continuing anti-Muslim hate incidents on both Facebook and Twitter.^[14] 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.^[11]

The BBC programme Inside Out highlighted the work of Tell MAMA through a programme entitled "Behind the Veil".^[15] It publicised the discovery that there was a 70% rise in Islamophobic hate crimes reported to the Metropolitan Police Service in the year July 2014 – July 2015, when compared to the same period the year before.^[16]