David posted last Friday about fears and fear. News has come in this afternoon that a Pakistani man – Kamal Raza Butt – was killed on Sunday in Nottingham. The crime – for which six youths are now in custody – was clearly not (in strict legal terms) directly related to the bombings (since there is no insinuation that Kamal Butt was in any way involved), but it is being investigated by police as a racially-aggravated incident, and in that sense it indirectly is connected. Inayat Bunglawala, a spokesman for the Muslim Council of Britain, talks of a growing backlash and cites a series of incidents were mosques have been attacked. It is highly likely that organised political groups are behind some of this, in which case it is also imperative that they are identified and made to desist.
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“It is highly likely that organised political groups are behind some of this”
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Well what I am suggesting is that right wing extremists (fascists, neo-fascists) will be involved, not necessarily in this case, since we simply don’t know, but in fomenting violence against muslims. I am suggesting that, unfortunately, the police will need to divert some of their resources to dealing with this menace. Britain may be a tolerant society, but there are some pretty nasty pieces of work knocking around here and there – and not all the nasty pieces of work are Islamic extremists – and they naturally try to take advantage of situations like this.
I’d venture that the violence is spontaneous rather than organised. The BNP has become almost nauseatingly keen to point out that attacks on muslims are wrong – not that I disagree, but coming from the BNP it’s hard to swallow. A quick look at the Stormfront message boards suggests neither approval nor disapproval of attacks.
But apart from that I have about the same amount of information as you to form a judgement, so you may well be right that the attacks are organised.