UK: Thousands of Britons, Muslims and non-Muslims, stand up to far-right and Islamophobic violence

UK: Thousands of Britons, Muslims and non-Muslims, stand up to far-right and Islamophobic violence

ByMuhammad

Roshan Muhammed Salih, editor-in-chief of the news website 5 Pillarsis a British Muslim journalist gripped by anxiety like rarely before.

This deep concern that has invaded him, constantly growing over the course of the explosive days since the terrible knife attack that occurred in Southport on July 29, has fortunately found a source of appeasement recently in the extraordinary popular upsurge that unites Muslims and non-Muslims. A salutary upsurge of mobilization in the face of the infernal spiral of nationalist violence, furiously Islamophobic, that has seized the kingdom of Charles III in a lightning-fast manner.

Let us recall that during this terrible tragedy, hastily and unjustly attributed to a young Muslim, three little girls (Bebe King, 6 years old, Elsie Dot Stancombe, 7 years old, and Alice Dasilva Aguiar, 9 years old) lost their lives in their dance school. Although the authorities confirmed that the suspect Axel Rudakubana, born in Wales to Rwandan parents, was not of Muslim faith, nothing was done… The fallacious and pernicious rumor, according to which the murderer was an “Islamist immigrant”, spread like wildfire, putting in battle order all the ultras, heated to white heat, of Perfidious Albion…

” This was a horrific attack, and shortly after, false information spread online, on anonymous accounts, claiming that the attacker was Muslim. ” , Roshan Muhammed Salih strongly deplored in an interview with the Turkish daily Yeni Safaq. ” This brought out of the woodwork hordes of angry, middle-aged, right-wing white men ready to fight. They gathered around a mosque in Southport, attacked the police, set fire to a van, threw objects at the mosque and chanted Islamophobic slogans. This tragedy that had nothing to do with Muslims was deliberately turned into a Muslim problem.he recounted with horror.

Roshan Muhammed Salih insisted that far-right politicians and popular social media accounts played a key role in spreading this false narrative, leading to Islamophobic violence at its peak in counties including Hartlepool, London, Sunderland, Liverpool, Leeds and Manchester.

He particularly pointed out the highly deleterious influence of Nigel Farage, leader of the far-right Reform UK party, who fanned the flames of hatred by hammering home at every microphone: ” The truth is being hidden from us “.

” In this country, when you are in Parliament, you can say whatever you want without fear of being prosecuted. This is called parliamentary privilege. So politicians can attack Muslims from the gallery of Parliament without facing any consequences. “, sharply criticized Roshan Muhammed Salih, while denouncing the growing scapegoating of Muslims across the Channel, exacerbated by demagogues of the worst kind, who are shamelessly riding the wave of the economic crisis that is raging.

“Muslims no longer feel comfortable in this country,” concluded the editor-in-chief of Five Pillarswith a glimmer of hope in his eyes, however, at the comforting spectacle of the unifying marches of protest against Islamophobia and the rise of the extreme right, in which thousands of his fellow Muslims and non-Muslims close ranks under the same banner, above which Palestinian flags are hoisted.

Nearly 200 people, Muslims and non-Muslims, gathered yesterday, Wednesday 7th August, in Harrow, London. Below, thousands of British citizens, Muslims and non-Muslims, stand as one against the scourge of violent and vengeful Islamophobia.

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Muhammad

Muhammad is a visionary thinker and passionate writer who has been contributing to Understanding Islam for several years.