#TellMama

[tellmamauk]

Measuring Anti-Muslim Attacks

Introduction

For many years now the Muslim communities in the UK have suffered anti-Muslim incidents and expressed a need for a nationally coordinated means of reporting such incidents. The MAMA Project will provide a means for such incidents to be reported, recorded and analysed, working to ensure this data is accurate and reliable and the victims and witnesses affected receive support. This project also works with police forces across England, Wales and Scotland in order to ensure access to justice for victims through the prosecution of perpetrators.

We are an independent, non-governmental organisation which works on tackling anti-Muslim hatred and therefore our work is not influenced or wholly shaped by Government. However, we work with Central Government to raise the issues of anti-Muslim hatred at a policy level and our work helps to shape and inform policy makers, whilst ensuring that an insight is brought into this area of work through the systematic recording and reporting of anti-Muslim hate incidents and crimes.

What is TellMAMA?

Measuring Anti-Muslim Attacks (MAMA) is a secure and reliable service that allows people from across England to report any form of Anti-Muslim abuse. We have created a unique portal where you may address your concerns and record any incident that you experience as a result of your Muslim faith or someone perceiving you to be Muslim. By using our ‘Submit a Report‘ section, you can describe the details of the abuse you suffered, whether verbal or physical, and then add in the location of the attack so that we can effectively map incidents across England. We can also refer you for support through partner agencies if you have been a victim of an Anti-Muslim incident.

What is an anti-Muslim incident?

TELL MAMA classifies an anti-Muslim incident as any malicious act aimed at Muslims, their material property or Islamic organisations and where there is evidence that the act has anti-Muslim motivation or content, or that the victim was targeted because of their Muslim identity. This also includes incidents where the victim was perceived to be a Muslim.

Reporting an incident to us is incredibly easy. You can do so via the Telephone, Email, SMS, Facebook or Twitter. Once we have your information secured, one of our trained case workers will call you to discuss the issue further and ensure we have all the details we require to record the incident accurately and offer you our support. However, it should be noted that we reserve the right to make an informed judgement on whether cases are anti-Muslim prejudiced in their nature or not and wholly based on the evidence presented to us. It should also be acknowledged that some of the material that we receive which the victim may perceive as being anti-Muslim in nature, may not be reflected in the evidence presented to us and we will write back to the victim explaining the course of action taken and why we believe that it cannot be classified as such.

We also will, from time to time, ensure that we challenge anti-Muslim narratives where we see them and where there are blogs, statements or newspaper articles which promote them. This does not take away from the fact that where members of Muslim communities promote prejudice themselves, we will also challenge those narratives and any behaviours related to them. This is an important part of the work in countering prejudice, intolerance and bigotry.

How will it benefit you?

If Anti-Muslim hate incidents are ever to be stopped, it is essential that you report any crime committed against you or that you have witnessed take place on another person. By reporting attacks, you can help us create a rich picture of where more needs to be done to tackle Anti-Muslim hate incidents and crimes throughout the UK and this allows us to map the areas of the country in which Anti-Muslim incidents are most frequent. This will enable local police forces and social support services to target their resources most efficiently and effectively to ensure the community benefits from better safety and security. We will work together with communities to try to put an end to faith-based hate crime and provide the space for Muslims to speak freely and openly about anti-Muslim hate crime and gain the support they may need.

What is it that you record?

TELL MAMA is not a project based on protecting any religion from scrutiny and debate. More information on this is provided in the ‘Frequently Asked Questions‘ section in this site where we lay out what the basis of our work is. However, there has been a lot of confusion over the years around the terms Islamophobia and anti-Muslim prejudice. We focus on and use the term anti-Muslim prejudice and we also acknowledge the work of the Runnymede Trust on Islamophobia and which was ground-breaking in 1997. The National Commission on Islamophobia outlined specific contextual meanings to the term and also highlighted, for the first time, tangible social phenomena related to Islamophobia.

We within TELL MAMA want to outline our clear position of what anti-Muslim prejudice is. Essentially, understanding this position starts to flesh out the basis of what we are measuring and assisting victims on. Anti-Muslim prejudice is defined as a dread, fear, dislike and hatred of Muslims, and also can include the practice of discrimination against Muslims by excluding them from the economic, social and public life of the nation. Anti-Muslim prejudice is therefore a driver which can fuel practices of exclusion and discrimination.

Anti-Muslim prejudice whilst being targeted against the followers of Islam, (Muslims), can also sometimes include opinions on Islam such as that it has no common values with other cultures, is inferior to the ‘West,’ and is a violent political ideology rather than a religion. Anti-Muslim prejudice in this context can therefore promote a social stigma towards Muslims and Islam, namely by creating a sense of fear and dread about them.

Anti-Muslim prejudice can therefore be based on indiscriminate negative attitudes or emotions directed at Muslims and in some instances, to Islam. The Runnymede Trust lists negative attitudes to Islam through the 1997 report entitled, ‘Islamophobia, a Challenge For Us All.’ We must add though that the primary focus of our work is on anti-Muslim prejudice and each victim who reports to TELL MAMA, will have their case reviewed on a case by case basis since each incident is unique. In some of these cases, hate and prejudice is targeted at the victim, who happens to be Muslim as well as to Islam. The conflation of the religion with the rights of the individual has therefore developed a complex and quite confusing situation in this area of work especially when there are two competing social terms of Islamophobia and anti-Muslim prejudice. As suggested before, for the purposes of our work, we focus on the anti-Muslim prejudice elements.

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[historysisco]

On This Day in History: January 25, 1938: Jazz and Blues singer Jamesetta Hawkins is born in Los Angeles, California. Never heard of Jamesetta Hawkins? I'm sorry, Ms. Hawkins was better known as Etta James (January 25, 1938 – January 20, 2012.) #EttaJames #JamesettaHawkins #MusicHistory #Jazz #JazzHistory #Blues #BluesHistory #AtLast #TellMama #IdRatherGoBlind #TheWallflower #SomethingsGotAHoldOnMe #OnThisDayinHistory #ThisDayinHistory #HistoryToday #TodayinHistory #History #Historia #Histoire #HistorySisco

[thefabraja]

A faint blush below the horizon, as the first kiss from the Sun wakes the Earth from its slumber. #MeetaAhluwalia #prettymorning #picofyesterday #pasttravel #tbthursday #belmont #trinidad #mascamp #crapphone #idophotographyforme #love #morninglight #light #loveandlight #likeforlikes #love #mascamp #mascamps #trinidadandtobago #picoftheday #tellmama (at Belmont, Saint George, Trinidad And Tobago) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_CvgZpJH9B/?igshid=1tkxngumhouel

[superjaysons]

Opinion: An exodus of British Muslims is happening right under our noses

Opinion: An exodus of British Muslims is happening right under our noses

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British Muslims– many who have lived here for generations – are packing up their belongings, parting ways with their loved ones, established careers and the country they were born in to move to somewhere safer. In recent years, the rates of hate crimes against religious minorities in the UK has rocketed, and for some, it has just become too dangerous to stay. There is an exodus happening…

[maisondufrene]

ON THIS DATE (51 YEARS AGO) August 21, 1968 - Etta James: Tell Mama is released. # ALL THINGS MUSIC PLUS+ 4.5/5 # Allmusic 4.5/5 stars Tell Mama is a studio album by Etta James, released on August 21, 1968. It reached #82 on the Billboard 200 Top LP's chart, #21 on the Billboard Top R&B LP's chart, and features two Top 40 hits - "Security" (R&B Singles - #11; Billboard Hot 100 - #35) and "Tell Mama" (R&B Singles - #10; Billboard Hot 100 - #23). Tell Mama was recorded at the FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, upon the encouragement of Leonard Chess, who successfully convinced James to record the album there. Allmusic reviewer, Bill Dahl praised the album's production, called its sessions, "skin-tight." At Muscle Shoals, producers were able to mix her voice in order for it sounds stronger on previously-distorted high notes. Besides a cover version of Redding's composition, other cover versions included Jimmy Hughes's "Don't Lose Your Good Thing" and a pair of copyrights by Don Covay. It also featured the title track's B-side, "I'd Rather Go Blind," which was originally not a hit, however, it later became one of James's signature songs. In the 1990s, Tell Mama was remastered and re-released on MCA/Chess. The album was remastered by Erick Labson at Universal Mastering Studios-West in North Hollywood, California. A compilation version of the album was later released and included ten additional bonus tracks, including cover versions of David Houston's, "Almost Persuaded" and Sonny & Cher's "I Got You, Babe." REVIEW Bill Dahl, allmusic Leonard Chess dispatched Etta James to Muscle Shoals in 1967, and the move paid off with one of her best and most soul-searing Cadet albums. Produced by Rick Hall, the resultant album boasted a relentlessly driving title cut, the moving soul ballad "I'd Rather Go Blind," and sizzling covers of Otis Redding's "Security" and Jimmy Hughes' "Don't Lose Your Good Thing," and a pair of fine Don Covay copyrights. The skin-tight session aces at Fame Studios really did themselves proud behind Miss Peaches. #ettajames #tellmama https://www.instagram.com/p/B1cM0vbJoNz/?igshid=1ghnjglxr3ot1

[strawbebyjam]

i’m googjto fail another course ic ant stop crying

[plssingalong]

Passch, "I'd Rather Go Blind", 2017. From the serial of collages Square. #passch #collage #collages #art #square #ettajames #tellmama #idrathergoblind #papercollages

[dannythedog]

Cuddle Bug - Jake Kiszka x Reader

Synopsis: A small blurb about how Jake is sick and feeling cuddly

Warnings: none

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Thank you test pilots @greta-van-yeet and @gretavanhoney

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Loud noises of retching pulled you from your slumber. Lazily opening your eyes, you reached over to Jake, only to find semi warm sheets beside you. The noises sounded again making you pull yourself from the comforts of your blankets and pad your way to the en suite bathroom.

There you found Jake, shirtless and holding his hair back while he hunched over the toilet. Your stomach dropped in pity for the sweet man. You grabbed his hair from his hand and began rubbing his back, skin damp from sweat and body shaking. "I'm sorry," he glanced up at you, bags dark and heavy under his eyes. "I was trying to be quiet."

"Baby, don't apologize. Why didn't you tell me you weren't feeling good? I could've helped you," you said with a small frown, helping him to his feet when he grasped your hand. Jake was always very independent, but you knew even the most independent people needed help sometimes. All you ever wanted to do was dote on Jake.

"I didn't want to bother you. You looked so cute sleeping." You gave him a little grin and laid him down, tucking the covers around him. "Jake, I'm here for you. Coming to me will never ever bother me. I want to take care of you," you leaned down and pecked his nose, earning a small blush that dusted his cheeks. "Now, let me play nurse and fix you up."

You rushed to the kitchen to grab some tea with honey, a cool wet cloth, and some crackers. He surely wouldn't have an appetite after throwing up, but he needed to get at least a little something. You grabbed a throw blanket off the couch just in case he got a fever that needed to be broken and made your way back to your shared bedroom. Jake was still tucked in, eyes drooping heavily, clearly fighting off sleep.

You carefully sat on the mattress next to him and handed over his tea. He smiled in gratitude as he took a sip, a little groan of relief escaped him as the liquid soothed his scratchy throat. You admired Jake as he drank. He was sweaty, hair stuck to his forehead, and he had a gray tint to his skin. If you complimented him you knew he would argue that he felt gross therefore he looked gross, but his beauty never failed to take your breath away.

Jake had set the cup on his chest, closing his eyes momentarily. You took this time to swipe the washcloth against his forehead, ridding him of some of the perspiration that gathered. His entire body relaxed at your touch, making you feel giddy from the effect. Jake pried his eyes open once more to gaze up at you, battling his sleep for some unknown reason.

"Honey, get some rest. Don't fight it off," you spoke softly, setting the supplies on the nightstand. He shook his head groggily, shakily reaching his hands towards you. "I didn't wanna sleep until we could cuddle. I need you."

Your heart melted at his words. He looked so sleepy and sensitive and just utterly adorable. How could you say no to him? You crawled under the blankets and laid on your back, grabbing his wrist to pull him to you. Typically he insisted that you cuddled up to him because 'that's how it's supposed to be', but he easily snuggled into your side with his head resting on your chest. He let out a content sigh as you stroked his hair, gently getting small knots out with your fingers.

"I love you," he mumbled, squeezing you a little tighter. Your returned the gesture and placed a kiss to his hairline. "I love you, too, Jakey. Now get some sleep. I'll have you back to your normal self in no time."

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[stevie-baby]

hii! i was wondering if you could recommend any gvf blogs? my dash is severely lacking in gvf content. thanks!!

Hi and sorry for the late response!! A lot of the blogs I follow have been in the fandom for a while and post more than just gvf, but there are a lot of newer gvf blogs that have popped up in the last few months. I'm still checking out all the new blogs but here are some solid people that I follow

@gretavansidecut @silver--storms @satans-helper @karrotkate @jaakey @alwayzthere @dannythedog @juvinadelgreko @annasinthewalls @satingrass-maidensfair @daughter-of-ophelia @tellmama-allaboutit @edgeofgreta @thenewagecrisis

[gustingirl]

Hey I totally forgot to message you a little bit ago to tell you that I LOVED your fic zero o’clock oml it made a bitch cry in her bed on Christmas Eve like how dare you be so amazingly talented and I’ll fight anyone who says otherwise💕💕💕

…also this is @tellmama-allaboutit coming to you live from my ✨main blog✨

OH LORD someone teach me how to receive a compliment cuz i’m crying in my bed while reading this🥺🥺🥺

YOU ARE SO CUTE THANK YOU OMG i love you so much i’ll never forget about this

[condividiamolavita]

Domani giornata no stop 8:45 - 15:30. Quando esco? Stasera. Ovviamente. Con chi? Con il nostro caro (Ro)Berto.

Mi mancava l'ennesimo rebus, come TFR. Sono combattuta: più parliamo e più è palese che siamo uguali, ragioniamo nello stesso modo e abbiamo un po' lo stesso modo di fare. Siamo entrambi arieti (lui ascendente capricorno, io leone). Dall'altra parte ci sono aspetti di lui che non mi piacciono, tipo che ogni volta che si esce insieme poi mi ritrovo a tornare a casa da sola. Non ne faccio un dramma, tanto non c'è un cane in giro però...

Per chi si fosse perso le puntate precedenti, Berto è il mio coinquilino pugliese, per cui ho una cotta (l'ho detto).

#hello it's me

#tellmama #buonanotte pessime idee

[beautifulcinephile]

Meeting Your Idol Picrew!

Rules: Make yourself meeting your idol with these two picrews and tag 10 people. Yeah, these are Timothée Chalamet and I and we look really cute. Tagging: @anditsmywholeheart, @satans-helper, @thestarsaregivenonceonly, @visionsofsweettea, @tellmama-allaboutit, @juvinadelgreko, @edgeofgreta, @la-fourmi, @lightmylovee, @missdennies

[thenewagecrisis]

Thank you @mrd-k3 @tellmama-allaboutit and @pi-kai-sso for tagging me to answer greta questions!!

Kai, I cannot believe you looked into them maybe bc of ME!? SCREAMING. Sorry, but also you’re welcome?? LOL. Full circle that you followed me on this blog and I was like “wait why do I recognize this name” and it turns out you had been following me since early 2017 when I first made the gd blog. thank u for sticking around ❤️🥺

When did you discover GVF?

My sister showed me their music in I think January of 2018 after her boyfriend showed her, and then that March we finally decided to look up the highway tune video and we were like “??? They’re HOT!?” Lol. And then we were like “okay they’re coming here but we do not need to go. We don’t. It’s fine.” but the we went anyway cause we just had to 😂

Who is your favorite member?

Jaaaaake also Danny but Jaaaaaake

What lane have you almost swerved to?

lol josh & sammy have their moments but I call them my friends

Favorite songs?

edge of darkness, flower power, talk on the street, when the curtain falls, mountain of the sun, and my way soon are the jams for me!

Least favorite songs?

hmm I don’t dislike them but always there and the new day aren’t my faves lol I just haven’t listened to them as much and need to.

What was your reaction when “Always There” was released?

It was Very surprising considering it was out of nowhere! It’s a good song! I just haven’t listened to it as much bc I normally click from the fires and anthem separately and I guess never think to click always there I guess. I would love to hear it live though

Favorite Live Performance

Edge of darkness from Lincoln hall in 2017, and you’re the one and flower power acoustic at the z93 studio from 2017.

Favorite Music Video?

my way, soon ❤️

“My Way, Soon” or “Age of Machine”?

my way, soon gets me pumped but I love both a lot!

Are you excited for The Battle At Garden’s Gate?

Hell yeah!! I’m really hoping for more interactive stuff again like they did with the peaceful army March to listen to age of man and stuff. ❤️

I tag @paaalmtreees @satingrass-maidensfair @annasinthewalls @woman-ina-dream 💖

[venomandfaith]

thank you, @pi-kai-sso for tagging me ♥️

rules: post photos of 8/9 people you have a crush on/are attracted to (other people might notice a pattern).

tagging @karrotkate @peaceisouranthem @tellmama-allaboutit