Humza Yousaf blames Tommy Robinson for Islamophobic attack



Tommy Robinson and Humza Yousaf

Tommy Robinson — On 20 June, police arrested a man after he allegedly attacked several individuals in Edinburgh. In the course of being arrested, the man in question claimed he was “protecting the country from these f*cking Muslim b*stards”.

Responding to the attack, former first minister of Scotland Humza Yousaf blamed “Rupert Lowe, Tommy Robinson and their ilk”. Tommy Robinson in turn pointed to the ‘Rape Gang Inquiry Report’ produced by Restore Britain, which contained fabricated figures about the number of white women raped by Muslim men:

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The Edinburgh suspect said the following when being arrested:

I told you time and time again, I’m protecting the country from these f*cking Muslim b*stards raping our young daughters — raping our kids — enough is enough. I have had enough.

In full, Yousaf said:

Muslims, once again, targeted and attacked in the UK, this time in Edinburgh.

None of this is happening in a vacuum.

Rupert Lowe, Tommy Robinson and their ilk have put a target on the backs of Muslims for years. Hardly a surprise people are now acting on their words.

Rupert Lowe is the leader of Restore Britain which produced the ‘Rape Gang Inquiry Report’ that Robinson referenced. The report is notable for the claim that 250,000 white British women were “subjected to repeated rape, gang rape, trafficking, torture, pregnancy, forced Islamic conversion, and lifelong trauma”. As Grace reported for the Canary, however:

That ‘250,000’ figure is a complete and utter fabrication. It links to a May 2019 parliamentary debate in which Malcolm Pearson of UKIP cited the figure without support. This, in turn, obscures the fact that Pearson was referring to his own extrapolation from an October 2018 debate

Grace subsequently reported that the report excluded victims of colour as well as neglecting to cover white perpetrators. This gave rise to the accusation that the report used fraudulent figures and selective accounts to push an Islamophobic narrative.

Tommy Robinson — Further response

Robinson once again cited the report in response to councillor Mohammed Shafiq:

Asmongold — the largest political streamer on Twitch — also commented on the attack:

Asmongold read the entire ‘Rape Gang Inquiry Report’ live on stream to his audience and published it to YouTube, where it currently has close to one million views.

Featured image via the Canary

By Willem Moore





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