Nick Cohen Nick Cohen

Tell Mama and the battle for the future of British Islam

Unless we’re to have a religious underclass, we need activist groups like this one

issue 07 March 2015

Tell Mama is Britain’s most prominent opponent of anti-Muslim prejudice. It monitors everything from criminal assaults to everyday abuse. The far right loathes it, and the Conservative press sells the grotesque pretence that the group exaggerates prejudice to divert attention from the horror of Islamist violence.

But attacks from the right only wound.

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