In August 2024, three children were brutally murdered by Axel Rudakubana, a 17-year-old male of Rwandan descent, in Southport, England. Given the countless jihadist atrocities that have been committed on British soil over the past 20 years, before the attacker could be identified, many people concluded that this was the latest case of Islamic terrorism. Armed with this understandable (though as yet unproven) assumption, these aggrieved Britons promptly took to the streets to express their anger. Regrettably, these protests would soon spiral into mindless violence – including attacks on mosques and asylum centres, which we at the Alliance of Former Muslims fiercely condemn.
