Blaming the Muslims

 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?

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+2GOV.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+2Encyclopedia Britannica+2

  • “Bombing pop concerts” — the 2017 Manchester Arena suicide bombing was carried out by Salman Abedi, motivated by extremist Islamist ideology. AP News+1

  • “Stabbing little girls at dance class” — false when framed as a Muslim act. The 2024 Southport murders were committed by Axel Rudakubana; the inquiry has not identified a religious motive, and viral claims blaming “a Muslim asylum seeker” were misinformation. The Guardian

  • “Grooms little girls for rape gangs” — UK government evidence does not support the claim that group-based child sexual exploitation is uniquely or predominantly a “Muslim” problem. Earlier Home Office analysis and the 2025 national audit both reject that stereotype. University College London+1

Comparable atrocities in the UK & USA by non-Muslim / often self-identified Christian or far-right extremists

United Kingdom

  • 1999 London nail-bombings — neo-Nazi David Copeland targeted Black, Bangladeshi and LGBT communities; 3 murdered, 140 injured. Wikipedia

  • Finsbury Park mosque attack (2017) — Darren Osborne drove a van into Muslim worshippers; convicted of terrorist murder. Courts and Tribunals Judiciary+2Reuters+2

  • Birmingham pub bombings (1974) — Provisional IRA attack killed 21; part of a conflict entwined with sectarian (Catholic/Protestant) identities as well as politics. Wikipedia+1

  • Jo Cox MP murder (2016) — far-right terrorist Thomas Mair; life sentence. The Guardian+1

United States

  • Charleston church massacre (2015) — white-supremacist terrorist Dylann Roof murdered 9 Black worshippers during Bible study in an historic AME church. Wikipedia

  • Olympic Park & abortion-clinic bombings (1996–98) — Eric Rudolph, linked by investigators to extremist “Christian Identity”/Army of God networks, bombed the Atlanta Olympics and health clinics. Department of Justice+1

  • Planned Parenthood shooting (2015) — Robert Dear killed three; authorities cited anti-abortion, Christian-extremist motives. Department of Justice+2Wikipedia+2

  • Assassination of Dr George Tiller (2009) — abortion provider shot in church by Scott Roeder, a self-described born-again Christian anti-abortion extremist. The Guardian+1

  • Broader context — the KKK and related white-supremacist currents have long justified terror with distorted Christian rhetoric. Southern Poverty Law Center+1

Bottom line

Violent extremism appears across ideologies and communities. Citing crimes by Islamist terrorists to condemn all Muslims is a textbook example of anti-Muslim racism. The record shows that the UK and US have also suffered deadly attacks by people invoking Christian or far-right beliefs. Condemn the perpetrators—don’t scapegoat entire faiths or ethnicities.

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