When you think of the United Kingdom , what comes to mind? The royal family? Tea? Bad teeth? According to Netflix and Instagram, there’s not much difference between the modern-day U.K. and the Shire in Lord of the Rings. But with violence exploding across the country, it’s becoming less like the Shire and more like a woke, multicultural version of Helm’s Deep.
In the last few weeks, race riots have taken hold of cities throughout the nation, with Brits witnessing the worst public disorder in recent memory. And while it seems so far away, we must understand that this is coming to a city near you unless we are willing to stand up and speak the truth about immigration despite the ever-looming threat of being called “racist.”
These riots began after news of yet another deadly stabbing attack went viral. Three little girls — 6-year-old Bebe King, 7-year-old Elsie Dot Stancombe, and 9-year-old Alice Dasilva Aguiar — were brutally killed at a Taylor Swift-themed children’s dance workshop on July 29, while eight more children and two adults were injured.
Media and police initially withheld the name of the attacker, and in this void of information, misinformation spread like wildfire. Despite the police later identifying the suspect as 17-year-old Axel Muganwa Rudakubana, a second-generation Rwandan immigrant, false claims had already taken root, sparking anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant protests that spiraled into riots across the country.
Here’s the uncomfortable truth you won’t hear: This explosion of violence isn’t one-sided, and it didn’t come out of nowhere.
If you rely on the BBC for your British news, far-right violence is being fueled by far-right misinformation, end of story. If you listen to British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, this is nothing but “far-right thuggery.”
They’re half-right and half-very wrong.
While far-right attacks motivated by bigotry are disgusting and deserve condemnation, we must also zoom out to understand the full picture. With police busy cracking down on far-right riots, they’re totally missing when it comes to “counterdemonstrators,” otherwise known as gangs of armed and masked Muslim men waving Palestinian flags and chanting “Allahu Akbar” while attacking people based on race.
One of the main complaints of the protesters-turned-rioters is that Britain is engaging in “two-tier policing.” They might have a point.
This attack was incorrectly used to justify deplorable violence. But it’s also important to understand that it is one of many attacks across many days, months, and years, forming a pattern of violence linked with open immigration policies that are being ignored or downplayed.
Last month, a British army officer was stabbed 12 times in an attack that sparked memories of Fusilier Lee Rigby, who was stabbed to death by two Islamic terrorists in 2013. The police initially describe the apparently Nigerian-born attacker as a “local.”
Days ago, a Kurdish migrant was charged with attempted murder after pushing a postman onto the tracks of a London subway.
And in March, four Syrian and Kuwaiti “refugees” were charged after the gang rape of a 13-year-old girl in Newcastle. One of the attackers, guilty of multiple sexual assaults, received a suspended sentence and 180 hours of community service.
In today’s U.K., you’ll spend more time in prison for racist tweets than for raping a child. And politicians are surprised people are upset?
This was allowed to happen because they let British culture be slowly hijacked from within under the banner of tolerance and abandoned the act of protest to people who want to choose violence.
And make no mistake: This inevitable tipping point is coming to the United States soon if we follow the U.K.’s lead and fail to stand up, say what is true, and protect Western values.
Yes, far-right riots targeting minorities are wrong, but they shouldn’t be the face of the opposition to open immigration and its bloody consequences.
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For decades, the mainstream position in the U.K. when it comes to the obvious outcomes of immigration has been one of awkward liberal silence, a squishy refusal to speak the truth because we might be tarred and feathered as a racist, and a worship of blind multiculturalism under leaders who are unwilling to admit all cultures are not equal.
But instead of admitting their own failures, or addressing the consequences of their weakness, politicians in the U.K. would much rather blame the usual suspects: the far Right, misinformation, and Elon Musk. Sound familiar?
Ian Haworth is a columnist, speaker, and podcast host. You can find him on Substack and follow him on X at @ighaworth .
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