A subtle but highly malignant form of Islamophobia is circulating around the discussion of the 2024 UK terror riots. When confronted about their crimes, the terrorists blame their actions on misinformation about the person who committed the murder which triggered these racist riots. They were incorrectly told that the murderer was a Muslim asylum seeker.

This is their justification for setting fire to hotels housing asylum seekers, attacking Muslim interests such as shops and mosques, and indiscriminately terrorising the wider Muslim community.

What they are saying with this line of reasoning, is that if the murderer was indeed a Muslim or an asylum seeker, then the rioters would have been perfectly justified to burn down hotels with asylum seekers inside them, and conduct a collective punishment pogrom of the entire 4 million UK Muslim community.

The mainstream media has not called out this reasoning as being a logical fallacy. Through their silence, they are agreeing with the idea of collective punishment of Muslims in the UK being acceptable.

British Values or Brutish Values?

The intellectual decline of the UK has reached the stage where foreigners must now teach the indigenous British population about their own so-called British values such as “the rule of law” (it is contrary to UK law for a mob to attack a community as a collective punishment of the crime of one individual) and “mutual respect, tolerance and understanding of different faiths and beliefs” (don’t be a bigoted racist).