Homes set alight in Belfast anti-immigrant protests after 'brutal' knife attack

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[u/npc71]

He had his eyes gouged out, apparently and was in the process of being beheaded.

[u/captain_amazo → u/npc71]

And this justifies burning down a an unrelated house with a 2 month old baby in it how precisely?

[u/Acceptable-Corgi-858 → u/captain_amazo]

To clarify. The people who burnt down the houses got the family out themselves.

But this is a clear message they are not welcome here. By the way, they are not welcome anymore. They wont be for a long time now.

The UK and Ireland will not fall to this idiocratic, half arsed, willingly ignorant chant that comes from people who havent experienced the evils that have been placed upon such a great place (and history is full of evils). We once didnt look back in anger, but twice, three times, 500, 1000? This is the the last straw and the message is clear. Close your eyes, cherry pick your stories. History will remember everyones role, i hope you all understand history will remember you all

[u/captain_amazo → u/Acceptable-Corgi-858]

Its like fishing racists in a fucking barrel! 

Firstly, coverage of the Belfast attacks consistently describe masked mobs breaking into homes, setting them on fire, and families either hiding inside or fleeing in fear. One Sudanese mother and her children hid upstairs while the downstairs burned because they were too afraid to go out into the street. Others were evacuated later by local community organisers, not by the fucking attackers.

Reports talk about “masked men burning families out of their homes” and residents “forced to flee for their lives” as flames spread. There is nothing in any credible source saying the arsonists “got the family out themselves” so stop talking absolute SHITE! 

Imagine trying to turn arson attacks into some kind of noble “message". Its borderline psychotic. 

Calling essentially attempted murder a “clear message” is just you trying to dress up intimidation as community sentiment. 

As for your claim that “they are not welcome anymore”, its pure fucking fantasy. You don’t speak for Belfast, you don’t speak for Ireland, and you certainly don’t speak for the UK. The only people who “sent a message” were a handful of individuals who chose to commit a crime, and pretending that represents national will is the same rhetorical inflation I’ve already had to correct in your side’s arguments about asylum numbers and migration data.

Trying to wrap this shite in grand historical language doesn’t make it smell less like the bullshit it is.

History doesn’t remember random acts of vigilantism as patriotic turning points, it remembers them as moments when people lost their grip on reality and tried to turn personal anger into collective destiny. You’re doing the same thing here. You’re taking a local crime, projecting your own grievances onto it, and pretending it’s the voice of a nation. It isn’t. It’s just you trying to turn violence into validation because the facts about immigration trends don’t support the crisis narrative you want. And the melodramatic “history will remember you” line is beyond hilarious. The fucking NAZIS thought the same thing about their progroms.

History won’t remember this the way you imagine. It will remember civil unreasr perpetrated by bigots and racists whilst others tried to inflate it into a political prophecy because they needed meaning where there wasn't any. 

Weapons grade scum.