Two Muslim Victims Of Knife Rampage Had ‘Just Arrived In Edinburgh’

ByMF Jones

Two of the victim injured in a suspected anti-Muslim knife rampage in Edinburgh on Friday had only recently arrived in Scotland.

The two men had been at Broomhouse mosque just before they were attacked.

CCTV footage showed the topless 36-year-old suspect driving around erratically before abandoning his car and lunging at a random black man and delivery rider, while smoking and wielding two large knives.

He allegedly also threw an axe through the window of a taxi, which just about missed the driver as he managed to move his car forward an inch as the weapon was thrown.

As he was being arrested, the man yelled: ‘I’m protecting the country from these f’n Muslim b***ards raping our young daughters, raping our kids. Enough is enough.”

Five men – two aged 22, and others aged 24, 27 and 39 – were injured, but thankfully none of those injuries are life-threatening.

Daniel Gilius, Scotland Regional Manager of Muslim Engagement & Development (MEND) told Metro: ‘Several of the injured are well known to the community, one of whom has family roots across the city.

‘During my time in the community yesterday, I heard about the taxi driver who was attacked resulting in an axe being launched through the rear passenger window.

‘The man who was driving the car was just seconds from severe injury and it was only because he was able to move his car a few inches forward at the time of the attack that the axe did not cause serious harm.

‘Two of the younger victims are known to have only arrived in the city a couple of weeks ago, they had recently attended the mosque prior to the attack.’

Gilius also hit out at right-wing trolls who called the suspect as a ‘hero’ on social media.

He said: ‘These hateful and vile comments on our social media posts are, sadly, no surprise. Despite these brutal attacks targeting innocent people, the far-right have no sympathy or compassion.

‘Comments which incite hate and even celebrate violence are becoming part of daily life. Social media platforms continue to prioritise profits over safety and many users have become numb to even the most hateful posts.

‘Islamophobia is nothing new, but one of the most alarming trends in recent months and years is voices whom we would usually expect to call our far-right extremism are fading into silence – or are toning down their words.’

Advocacy groups and police are treating the rampage as a targeted, Islamophobic attack, which seems fairly obvious at this point, even if the attacker can’t have been sure that every one of his targets were Muslim. Mental health issues, I suppose?

The man’s name and photo are yet to be made public. More as it comes in…

For the time Tommy Robinson was hawking ‘patriotic’ clothing made in Bangladesh, click HERE. Proper patriot.

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