How identity politics is whipping up hatred and violence in our communities.
There are two disturbing things about the Muslim-Hindu clashes in Leicester. The first is the violence itself. Gangs of men have clashed across the city. Hundreds of Muslim and Hindu youths in balaclavas and Covid masks – those plague-era face-coverings still have their uses, it seems – have confronted each other on normally quiet suburban streets. Glass bottles have been thrown, a knife was allegedly wielded (one man was arrested on suspicion of possessing a ‘bladed article’). It really blew up on Saturday night into Sunday morning, as the rest of the country was preparing for the queen’s funeral. You couldn’t have asked for a better, more depressing snapshot of fragmented Britain: a display of solemn unity in Westminster, violent religious streetfighting in Leicester.
Mohammed Hijab and Ali Dawah are the open thugs with Khawarij mentality. They openly call for dèath and blood against Jews, in the streets of UK, and the police do nothing. This is really strange!
— Zahack Tanvir – محمد تانفير (@zahacktanvir) September 19, 2022
