The Daily Mail has once again shown itself to be the racist shitrag it truly is. Only last week, right-wing thugs were carrying out race riots across England and the North of Ireland. Then, mere days later and the tabloid added even more fuel to the fire.
Daily Mail: inciting Islamophobia again
After a man stabbed a young girl in Leicester Square, the Daily Mail implied that the Muslim hero who tried to save the young girl being stabbed was in fact the attacker:
Disgusting Daily Mail uses picture of hero Abdullah who stopped the attack in Leicester Square and smears him as ‘knifeman’.
These racist scumbags need to be shutdown. pic.twitter.com/aWzvqYVY6j
— BladeoftheSun (@BladeoftheS) August 13, 2024
You would never guess from this Daily Mail headline that the Muslim guy pictured is actually the hero, and stopped the attacker killing more people.
Do you think this was deliberate? pic.twitter.com/TVILU4oXMi
— Alan MacLeod (@AlanRMacLeod) August 13, 2024
Abdullah, a 29-year-old security guard who works at the TWG Tea shop in Leicester Square tried to stop a man he saw stabbing an 11-year-old girl on Monday 12 August. The stabber, turned out to be 32 year old Ioan Pintaru from Romania. He was in fact a white man.
You have to wonder where are the far-right muppets when white men are stabbing children in the middle of London?
Whilst the headline seems to have now been deleted, the internet doesn’t forget. People on X were not about to let them get away with inciting racial hatred:
The @MailOnline knowing exactly what they’re doing here, stoking heightened racial hate across the country, showing a hero who tackled the knife man, with a suggestion it’s the knife man himself. Playing on race.
Shame on you! https://t.co/zxzhYxDFJM— hana (@hanamorel) August 13, 2024
The Daily Mail use this technique with every headline, if possible.
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Not only on their Front Page but throughout the paper wherever possible.
It certainly causes doubt in the minds of readers
And possibly leads to the reader getting the wrong story stored in their minds. https://t.co/Qf1nLa8kI1— [email protected] (@jjse31) August 13, 2024
The Daily Mail knew exactly what it was doing: clickbait bullshit to appeal to their half-brained readers. Don’t ever want to form an intelligent thought? Read the Daily Mail. But not only is the headline and accompanying picture misleading, it is downright dangerous. In the wake of race riots, they are teeing up a Muslim man to be the target of racism and misguided anger:
Is the Daily Mail trying to get this man killed? Seriously WTF?
Someone please explain why 12 year olds are being prosecuted for acting on misinformation but the English press can continue printing this shite with impunity? https://t.co/WQNf9defY2
— …. (@_F_E_N_N_) August 13, 2024
It’s safe to say the Daily Mail has never been a legitimate news outlet, but a far-right propaganda spinning machine who only has the interests of the ultra-wealthy in mind:
It had to be @DailyMailUK for sure. A soulless publication that’s more a propaganda platform than news media. https://t.co/GfqNhjYyDO
— Richard R. Arina (@raphael223) August 13, 2024
Of course the trash news(?)paper @DailyMailUK is purposely twisting the story. The photo is of the man who saved people being stabbed by a white male. The DM has made it look like he is fact the person who committed the crime. #DailyMailStokingRacism #racistrag https://t.co/o2YTewE7Qv
— Tinicko (@TinaJustB) August 14, 2024
Journalistic integrity
Misinformation and simple lazy journalism were huge factors that led to the recent far-right race riots. A series of tweets with false information in them – claiming the murderer was a Muslim immigrant – went viral. This is despite an official police statement saying he was born in Cardiff.
Channel 3 Now tweeted, wrongly suggesting that the attacker was an asylum seeker who arrived in the UK by boat last year.
This combination was part of the reason for the far-right targeting mosques, asylum housing and Muslim communities.
The Daily Mail didn’t technically print any false information. However, their headline paired with the picture of the hero security guard is as good as the same. People will no doubt read the headline and make their own conclusions:
The fuck is this @MailOnline, have you learned nothing? Truly disgusting behaviour, this is why we’re saying you’re in part to blame for recent unrests. 😡 https://t.co/JcISjreiRu
— Sean ‘DJ Generator’ Hammett 🐦 (@DJGenerator) August 13, 2024
The British media are morally bankrupt cretins, who are sold to the highest bidder. They print/post what they want, with absolutely no consequence. The general public repost it and are now getting banged up for it!
— Darrel Thomas (@dazthomas87) August 14, 2024
Last week, Andrew Pierce – Daily Mail columnist – appeared on Good Morning Britain. He heavily laid into Zarah Sultana for calling out his paper for building the far-right racist culture that led to the riots. He claimed she had no evidence for such a statement, but we’ve all seen the headlines:
On #GMB this morning Daily Mail ‘journalist’ Andrew Pierce refers to “that MP” (Zarah Sultana) making allegations about the Mail contributing to where we are now and having no evidence to sustain that. pic.twitter.com/C7JrHKDLFt
— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) August 6, 2024
#Islamophobia from the Daily Fail. Not long after the editor Andrew Pierce was on TV challenging MP Zarah Sultana on receipts of this very issue.
Shameless. https://t.co/TwPFgrKjOg— Muslimah Revolution (@MuslimahRev) August 13, 2024
My interview on ITV’s Good Morning Britain last week felt like an interrogation, but it shouldn’t really have been that much of a surprise:
The panel itself was a case study in the complicity of politicians and the media in scapegoating minorities. pic.twitter.com/3DnPq03y1e
— Zarah Sultana MP (@zarahsultana) August 12, 2024
Zarah Sultana – the only person on the panel who wasn’t white, unfortunately felt the full force of the lengths the media will go to so they can blame and scapegoat Black and brown people:
How to make bad press to spread more hate against muslims https://t.co/YYod6vZcyl
— danny🇵🇸 (@dannymvybez) August 14, 2024
Meanwhile, Tory Boy Pierce as he calls himself continues to tweet about ‘stopping the boats’. This is a slogan which the far-right picked up and have been using at their riots:
More than 700 illegal migrants arrive in UK in one day in small boats. So when is Labour govt going to smash the criminal gangs? Or, in fact, do anything at all to stem the tide
— Andrew Pierce (@toryboypierce) August 13, 2024
So, the Daily Mail printed its hit job on hero Abdullah for one reason, and one reason only. To incite more hatred against Muslim and other minority communities in the UK. But, the festering cesspit of racism masquerading as a media outlet has absolutely nothing to do with the recent race riots, eh Pierce?
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