Edinburgh attack

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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jun/20/counter-terrorism-officers-investigate-after-five-injured-in-violent-incidents-in-edinburgh

Said it before. Will say it again. And will keep saying it. Bad people are bad. There is no ethnic or religious pre-determinant if badness, nor will we somehow magic up some kind of utopian crime free society by blaming people of one skin colour, nationality or religion.
We'll only get one by healing divisions, not creating more.

My sympathies to anyone affected by what's happened in Edinburgh.

No. It's entirely correct to highlight that women very rarely commit this kind of crime.

Are people actually serious when they say they don't understand why there hasn't been much coverage of this? An imam's house in Manchester was set on fire, another mosque was set alight both within the last couple of weeks. There are numerous instances of Muslims being attacked and very little of it makes msm.

Women with badly-controlled mental illness so rarely commit these attacks. It's not about mental illness, it's about having a culture in which men think "violence is the answer, what's the question?"

This particular instance, I can believe that the Bedford rail crash distracts from it. The others? It's almost like MSM thinks brown people don't matter much.

Absolutely horrifying, live nearby, it must be so frightening for Muslim communities, can’t imagine what people must be feeling like at the moment. Ok maybe this was just one nutter acting alone, but who can say when the next attack might come, given all the horrible rhetoric at the moment? How can non-Muslims show support? I donated to CST after the Manchester synagogue attack. Any ideas? I know there’s Tell MAMA, but is there any other charity or way to help protect people, at least offer some solidarity, sympathy, anything, at this time? I know it’s not much, but just to say we don’t all think this way, we do care very much about the terror you are facing.

It was the main headline on Reporting Scotland during the day on Saturday

@Vintique

A year back I'd have immediately suggested Saheliya, a local charity doing fantastic work on the behalf of ethnic minority women in Edinburgh. Close to my heart, but sadly they ceased operating last summer and are in the process of being wound up.

Perhaps this place?

https://www.thewelcoming.org/

Seems on topic, but I will say I have no knowledge of them or any dealings with them, so I'm unsure precisely who they are and how they are funded.

This attack was out and out racist. Stop hijacking it for your own own purpose. The focus should be on those people that this man attacked, and those of the same religion or skin colour who are now extremely vulnerable to racist attacks.

Posting 'yes, but men..,' is tone deaf.

There was also nobody stirring things up on social media-demanding names and ethnicities and saying there’s a coverup. As there was, for example, within minutes of the awful incident at the zoo. The old deranged loner narrative we always see when the attacker is white. Even if he is yelling about protecting his country.

Alina Burns, recently sentenced for attempting to behead a Kurdish man, wasn't a man. But you probably missed that because it's another one that didn't attract a slew of threads on mumsnet or other social media or riots in the street. Funny that, I wonder what the similarities with this attack are.

One exception does not disprove the basic premise.

There’s been loads of attacks in Edinburgh in recent months, often on Asian taxi drivers with kids throwing eggs at their vehicles and even stones off bridges. I’ve seen two reports of racist abuse on buses (one from an adult, one from a kid) in the last 2 days on social media. It’s only going to get worse when schools break up this week and the little neds all have free rein of the city and beyond with their free bus passes.

If you are seriously wondering why these attacks are not being publicised by the media, it is because the victims don't matter, because it doesn't serve the media narrative. It doesn't get clicks and sell papers.
Move along here, nothing to see. If the victims were of a different group there would be a Cobra meeting.

You're surprised, really? I'm not.

It is sad, but plain to see.

I KNOW it’s wrong of me, but I was amused by the linking of racist attacks with a “wasting council tax on free bus passes” complaint!

We really don't matter. Take this thread for example. I haven't seen any other posts about this or other recent attacks (perhaps there are some and I just haven't seen them) but any post about attacks on other groups would have had pages and pages by now. Where is the response from the PM? Does one X post count? There are multiple attacks on Muslims and other brown/ethnic groups, riots in Belfast targeting people of colour, where is the Cobra meeting for our safety?

It's well past time a zero tolerance policy with regard to free youth bus passes was adopted. I've lost count of the number of times they've been running riot on a bus and harassing other passengers. One strike - bus pass gone. They also need to introduce a minimum permissible journey distance, because I'm sick of watching a gaggle of 10-15 of them hold a bus up for an eternity to get on, only to pile off again 1-2 stops later.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8j21zvkd20o

there was a noticeable increase in antisocial behaviour across the city when the free travel for kids came in, particularly gang related.

I don't think it is actually a complaint about cost and wastage, it's a national policy and not LA, so nothing to do with Council Tax in the first place.

I actually believe it's an inherently worthwhile policy, but the issue is it was introduced with no strictures or stipulations and it's being widely abused by feral school-age youth.

The purpose was really to assist young people in further learning or in their first jobs with the cost of travel. A noble cause considering that young people do not usually earn anything close to what their older colleagues do, but they still have the exact same potential travel costs when it comes to actually getting to work.

What has actually happened though, is it's being used by school children who previously walked a 3 or 4 bus stop distance to and from school to completely overwhelm rush-hour buses when they still could easily walk that distance. Not only are they an antisocial nuisance, but they're even more sedentary now thanks to the sheer laziness of busing back and forth on walking-distance routes. Then of course, outside of school hours this has just become an excuse to tour the City free of charge noising up and abusing other passengers.

If you are lucky, you get a driver who doesn't tolerate it and throws the wee shites off, but understandably the majority do absolutely nothing about it, and heaven help any member of the public who dares to stand up to them. It's not just the kids themselves, but you immediately get rounded upon for being an adult antagonising children. The fact the children are themselves entirely the root of the problem, and the transgressors, seems to be lost on many.

There was an impromptu rally in Leith on Sunday after the knife attack apparently targeting Muslims, and/or other migrants & minorities
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jun/21/taxi-uber-rider-targeted-suspected-anti-muslim-attacks-edinburgh-witnesses

He's been named and charged: Lewis Hawkes, charged with "five counts of attempted murder linked to terrorism".

Man charged with terrorism-linked attempted murders in Edinburgh
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2x9j1en29o

I wish we had a PM like you.

That is racism. The different value put on lives.

Islam is a religion, not an ethnicity, but Islamophobia and anti-brown racism overlap in the UK.