A British police commissioner suggested he was willing to arrest Elon Musk, who is a U.S. citizen, for highlighting the extreme acts of violence and riots committed by Muslim gangs in England in online posts on his platform X.
“We will throw the full force of the law at people,” British Met Police Commissioner Mark Rowley said during a recent interview. “And whether you’re in this country committing crimes on the streets or committing crimes from further afield online, we will come after you.”
Rowley’s remarks come amid ongoing protests and riots in the United Kingdom in response to the killing of three young girls during a mass-stabbing attack that left several more injured.
A reporter asked Rowley about “high profile figures” who were allegedly “whipping up the hatred” that he was claiming was happening online.
“I’m even thinking of the likes of Elon Musk getting involved,” the reporter said. “What are you considering when it comes to dealing with people who are whipping up this kind of behavior from behind a keyboard and maybe in a different country?”
“Being a keyboard warrior does not make you safe from the law,” Rowley responded.
“You can be guilty of offenses of, of incitement, of stirring up racial hatred. There are numerous terrorist offenses regarding the sort of publishing of material. All of those offenses are in play if people are provoking hatred and violence on the streets, and we will come after those individuals, just as we will physically confront on the streets the thugs and the yobs who are taking, who are causing the problems for communities.”
Right-wing protesters responded to the mass-stabbing incident by expressing outrage over rates of Muslim immigration to the United Kingdom, and the suspected terrorists who have entered the country.
Large Muslim gangs responded to the protests by marching around with weapons, rioting, and attacking people.
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Rowley grabbed a journalist’s microphone this week and threw it on the ground after he was asked if he was going to end his obvious two-tiered policing system in which police were seemingly only holding right-wing protesters accountable for their actions and not the Islamic extremists.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, an activist and a former Muslim who is now Christian, highlighted the actions of the “Muslim Defence League” in a post on X, saying that it’s “a group of loosely organized young Muslim men have been parading around their towns armed with weapons in response to what they perceive as a threat to Muslim communities. They have largely been goaded on by the rhetoric of senior politicians such as Sir Keir Starmer.”
She noted that there has been no press conference to talk about the threat of “‘far-right’ Muslim gangs – young men walking around their towns with machetes and pipes. In fact, videos have emerged of police in Stoke encouraging Muslim men to discard their knifes at the mosque.”
“In organizing an amnesty for this group, in these terms, the police essentially treat Muslims as a separate community over whom legitimate authority lies in the Mosque, not the state. They might be accused of policing along sectarian lines,” she added. “This has culminated in a sense, amongst Britons, that there is a two-tiered application of policing. That minority ‘communities’ are treated with kid gloves in comparison to native Britons. The moniker ‘Two-Tier Keir’ has latched itself onto the man who has only been Prime Minister for a month.”
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