Comment on Anti-immigration protesters in Belfast set bins and vehicles on fire amid unrest over knife attack
flamingos@feddit.uk 3 days ago
On a residential street draped in loyalist flags near Belfast’s Shankhill road, the masked men approached a house with a boarded-up window and a security camera stationed outside.
As a woman from an ethnic minority background looked down from an upstairs window, some of the men rushed the front door and broke it down. With the air thick with smoke from fireworks, they attacked the downstairs windows with bricks.
As they stormed the property, some claimed to be “liberating” it. Graffiti nearby demanded “local homes for local people”. A woman in the crowd said to her friend: “There’s wee girls inside”.
Christ, this is grim.
I think they even set one of their own homes on fire due to setting a car on fire outside
Also, that bus that was burned was outside the East Belfast Mission, a property owned and run by the Methodist Church in Ireland, and it was likely damaged.
Not a single braincell among them.
mannycalavera@feddit.uk 3 days ago
I know the answer to this but feel I need to ask anyway… What’s the logic here in firebombing a house on a “loyalist flag” laden street with a mother and little girls inside?
In completely unrelated news, the footage this morning on Sky News showed this house then panned back to the main road which was relatively undamaged apart from a burnt out bus. In the background, clearly visible, was this graffiti sprayed on a kebab shop.
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Completely horrific what happened to the knife attack victim and it is right the offender is facing justice, but oh my lord it must be hard for non white people to exist in Northern Ireland. What a sad tragic place.
rmuk@feddit.uk 2 days ago
It’s terrorism. Actual terrorism. It’s causing terror with the aim to terrorise people into surrendering their rights and changing their way of like because they’re terrified by all the terror caused by terrorist’s terrorism.
They cannot use reason because there is no reason. They cannot use hope because they offer nothing to hope for. They can’t use diplomacy to unite because they resent unity. So they use terror, irrational carnal terror to fuel irrational carnal reactions. Like all terrorists.
tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 2 days ago
This exactly. Where in the media are they calling this terrorism? Which it is. It’s a pogrom. Seems you can only be a terorist in the uk if you are not white, a muslim, an environmentalist, an anti-war protester or an old lady holding up a “I support Palestine Action” placard. When neo-nazi terrorists appear it’s called a “disturbance”.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 3 days ago
We r taiking are cuntry back /s