History and Politics

 This was an X post -  Is that the religion that flies airplanes into buildings, bl*ws up buses in London, st*bs little girls at dance class, b*mbs pop concerts, and grooms little girls for r*pe gangs? Is this racism? Thought for 43s Short answer: the X post is Islamophobic. It takes atrocities carried out by a tiny minority of violent Islamist extremists and smears an entire religion. In UK law, religion is a protected characteristic; targeting “Muslimness or perceived Muslimness” is recognised as a form of racism/anti-Muslim hatred. Equality and Human Rights Commission +2 GOV.UK +2 What the post lists (and what’s true) “Planes into buildings” — 9/11 was perpetrated by al-Qaeda, an Islamist terror group; that does not implicate all Muslims. GovInfo +1 “Blowing up buses in London” — the 7/7 attacks (including the Tavistock Square bus) were four coordinated suicide bombings by UK-based Islamist terrorists. Wikipedia +2 Encyclopedia Britannica +2 “Bombing pop co...

 X - post Anthony, 31, has been made homeless in Uxbridge by his landlord to make way for migrants. He went to work & when he came back they had changed the PIN, the locks & moved the migrants in. He went to the council & has to upload bank a/c statements, tenancy agreement & expenditure. The migrants disposed of all of their ID. One of the people putting up flags took him in. ---------------------------------------------------------- ChatGTP could find no evidence of this. That doesn't mean it is not true - but even if it is true, it has been used to fuel hatred against the asylum seekers, when the villain in this piece would be the landlord who would have done something illegal (evict without proper process) not asylum seekers being housed). From ChatGCT Short answer: I can’t find any credible evidence for this Uxbridge story beyond copies of the same social-media clip/text. There’s no report from reputable outlets, no statement from Hillingdon Council, an...