"Very poor white people” are being convinced that “very poor, hard-working brown or Black people” are responsible for the “problems caused by billionaire white men”, Allison Morris, Crime Correspondent at the Belfast Telegraph, says in the wake of the riots that spread through the capital of Northern Ireland overnight.
🚨🇬🇧 A man in Bolton allegedly tried to burn down the home of a local Imam while his young family were inside.
Not shouted abuse. Not a nasty tweet. Not “concerns about immigration.” A man in a motorbike helmet tried to set fire to a Muslim family’s home with children inside.
And this is exactly why Tommy Robinson’s rhetoric is so dangerous.
When you tell angry crowds that Britain’s towns are being taken over by “Pakistani Muslims,” “race gangs,” and hostile minorities; when you take a murder with no Muslim connection and deliberately drag Muslims into it; when you tell people they are under attack in their own country - you are not “just asking questions.”
You are painting a target on innocent people.
Tommy Robinson does not need to personally hand someone a petrol can for his rhetoric to matter. This is how incitement works in the real world. You create the enemy. You repeat the lie. You tell people they are victims of a conspiracy. Then some coward in a helmet decides an Imam’s family home is a legitimate target.
That is not patriotism.
That is fascist politics: collective punishment, racial paranoia, religious hatred, and violence against innocent families for the supposed crimes of people they have never met.
If this Bolton attack is confirmed, it should be treated with the full seriousness it deserves: an alleged attempt to burn a Muslim family alive in their own home.
And every politician, pundit and “free speech” grifter who has spent years demonising Muslims should be asked one simple question:
How many more homes have to burn before you admit what your words are doing?
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Whatever crap it is that you’re selling, I aint’t buying.
My white skin is an accident of birth. My worldview is the product of life experience and learning.
The man who saved my life, after crashing a car in Northern Mexico and breaking my neck in 1992, was Hispanic.
The neurosurgeon who put me back together again in hospital in San Diego was Jewish.
A black guy once backed me up in a brawl in a nightclub in Edinburgh and prevented me from being stabbed.
I have learned more about the human condition from the words of Malcolm X than I ever have from those of Shakespeare.
You can take your racism and fucking ram it.
Completely unacceptable violence took place. Thugs chanting rule Britannia.
No one’s against a new immigration system, senseless what’s took place.
A fascist agenda is at hand. Yaxley Lennon in Russia with an accused child rapist whilst calling for riots in UK. Cmon.