Report an anti-black incident

If you have suffered considerable distress due to a racist incident in the UK please see:

The Trauma Therapy service at The Monitoring Group: http://www.tmg-uk.org/projects/trauma-therapy-project/
Free therapy at Black Minds Matter UK: https://www.blackmindsmatteruk.com/

If you have faced anti-black racism in a local Muslim setting please use the below template letter to email/send to the organisation where it occurred:

To whom this may concern,

I am writing to report a racist incident that occurred on [date] at [name location].

[Briefly describe incident]

[Briefly describe how you were made to feel]

Given that this occurred in a Muslim context, I would like to bring your awareness to a forgotten sunnah in our religion: that of racial equity. The prophet [pbuh] said in his last sermon that:

“All mankind is from Adam and Eve, an Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; also a white has no superiority over a black nor a black has any superiority over a white – except by piety and good action”

The incident that occurred at [name location] is unacceptable in our religion and in light of this I am asking that you investigate and change the policy within [name organisation] so this incident does not occur again.

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If the incident took place in a secular setting please write to your MP using the below template letter:

To whom this may concern,

I am writing to report a racist incident that occurred on [date] at [name location in MP’s constituency].

[Briefly describe incident]

[Briefly describe how you were made to feel]

This is unacceptable and repeat incidents should be met with firm ramifications within your constituency. I am appalled that this incident occurred and I urge you to investigate and adopt appropriate measures to ensure that such an incident does not happen again.

If you would still like advice please email contact@blackmuslimforum.org and we will endeavour to help you as best we can.

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You may wish to report an anti-black incident to us. Please use subject [incident] to contact@blackmuslimforum.org . This will be used for data collection purposes and as evidence for future campaign work. In such cases your name will be anonymous to protect your identity and only the comment will be visible to the public.