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IslamismJuly 31 2025, 9:33 am

UK Government’s New Partner to Tackle Anti-Muslim Hate Has Islamist Ties

A British anti-Mus­lim hate ini­tia­tive marks the UK government’s lat­est effort to address what it calls record lev­els of anti-Mus­lim inci­dents. On 21 July 2025, GOV.UK announced the British Mus­lim Trust (BMT), led by Akeela Ahmed MBE, as the lead part­ner for its new Com­bat­ting Hate Against Mus­lims Fund, tasked with improv­ing report­ing and sup­port­ing vic­tims. The arti­cle begins:

The Com­bat­ting Hate Against Mus­lims Fund was estab­lished this year to tack­le the record lev­els of anti-Mus­lim hate. British Mus­lim Trust will receive fund­ing as part of a new gov­ern­ment dri­ve against record lev­els of anti-Mus­lim hate. Fund­ing will boost vic­tim sup­port and strength­en hate crime report­ing nation­wide. The Trust unites decades of exper­tise from Aziz Foun­da­tion and Ran­deree Char­i­ta­ble Trust. The British Mus­lim Trust (BMT) has been select­ed as the recip­i­ent of the government’s new Com­bat­ting Hate Against Mus­lims Fund, a key ini­tia­tive to address the rise in anti-Mus­lim hatred across Eng­land. The fund was estab­lished this year to respond to the evolv­ing nature of reli­gious intol­er­ance and tar­get­ed hate inci­dents faced by Mus­lim com­mu­ni­ties, which are at the high­est lev­el on record.

Read more: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/british-muslim-trust-appointed-as-new-partner-to-monitor-and-tackle-anti-muslim-hatred

Key Points

  • The UK gov­ern­ment has estab­lished the Com­bat­ting Hate Against Mus­lims Fund to address record lev­els of anti-Mus­lim hate inci­dents across England.
  • The British Mus­lim Trust (BMT) has been appoint­ed as the main part­ner for this fund and will receive gov­ern­ment funding.
  • BMT’s role will include sup­port­ing vic­tims and improv­ing hate crime report­ing nation­wide, har­ness­ing the exper­tise of the Aziz Foun­da­tion and Ran­deree Char­i­ta­ble Trust.
  • The gov­ern­ment empha­sizes that anti-Mus­lim hate inci­dents are at their high­est lev­el on record and aims for the part­ner­ship to inform future pol­i­cy and enhance vic­tim support.

The Aziz Foundation: A Scholarship Organization for the GMB in Britain?

The Aziz Foun­da­tion (AF), named as one of the expert con­trib­u­tors of the new body, is a grant-mak­ing body and schol­ar­ship orga­ni­za­tion based in Lon­don that sup­ports indi­vid­u­als and orga­ni­za­tions with schol­ar­ships and finan­cial endow­ments. It was found­ed by mul­ti-mil­lion­aire prop­er­ty investor Asif Haroon Aziz. Sev­er­al indi­vid­u­als in the Foun­da­tion’s for­mer lead­er­ship were close­ly tied to the Euro­pean Glob­al Mus­lim Broth­er­hood (GMB) net­work, includ­ing the Euro­pean Net­work Against Racism and the Mus­lim Coun­cil of Britain (MCB). Shenaz Bunglawala, a for­mer Aziz Foun­da­tion Assis­tant Direc­tor, has also been in charge of the research depart­ment of Mus­lim Engage­ment and Devel­op­ment (MEND), a char­i­ty with close ties to the GMB in Britain. For­mer AF lead­er­ship also includ­ed fig­ures such as Tim­o­thy Win­ter (aka. Sheikh Abdal-Hakim Murad), who has par­tic­i­pat­ed in con­fer­ences aim­ing to “revive” the Inter­na­tion­al Islam­ic Fed­er­a­tion of Stu­dent Orga­ni­za­tions (IIFSO), a his­toric Mus­lim Broth­er­hood-linked student/youth body—suggesting orga­ni­za­tion­al and ide­o­log­i­cal over­lap with Euro­pean and transna­tion­al Islamist net­works. The Aziz Foun­da­tion has also pro­vid­ed fund­ing for the All-Par­ty Par­lia­men­tary Group on British Mus­lims (APPGBM), which col­lab­o­rates close­ly with the MCB. The Foun­da­tion con­tributed to a 2023 report on Mus­lim civ­il soci­ety pre­sent­ed to the British Par­lia­ment that was dom­i­nat­ed by GMB voices.

The Foun­da­tion sup­ports ini­tia­tives propos­ing a con­test­ed def­i­n­i­tion of Islam­o­pho­bia. While the Foun­da­tion por­trays its work as defend­ing against Islam­o­pho­bia and advanc­ing British Mus­lim par­tic­i­pa­tion, exter­nal report­ing high­lights con­cerns whether Aziz Foun­da­tion-sup­port­ed cam­paigns on Islam­o­pho­bia def­i­n­i­tion risk con­flat­ing legit­i­mate crit­i­cism of Islamist groups with gen­uine anti-Mus­lim big­otry, poten­tial­ly nar­row­ing the accept­able bounds of pub­lic debate. This mix of civ­il soci­ety engage­ment, reli­gious phil­an­thropy, and ide­o­log­i­cal align­ment with GMB-linked groups places the Aziz Foundation—and its partners—at the cen­ter of debates over Islam­o­pho­bia, Islamist influ­ence, and the polit­i­cal mobi­liza­tion of British Muslims.

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Dis­claimer:

The Glob­al Influ­ence Oper­a­tions Report (GIOR) employs AI through­out the post­ing process, includ­ing gen­er­at­ing sum­maries of news items, the intro­duc­tion, key points, and often the “con­text” sec­tion. We rec­om­mend ver­i­fy­ing all infor­ma­tion before use. Addi­tion­al­ly, images are AI-gen­er­at­ed and intend­ed sole­ly for illus­tra­tive pur­pos­es. While they rep­re­sent the events or indi­vid­u­als dis­cussed, they should not be inter­pret­ed as real-world photography.

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