The “Unite the Kingdom” Rally Was an Attack on Muslims

Saturday’s Unite the Kingdom rally was not an exercise in free speech. It was part of a coordinated attack on the Muslim community , deliberately dressed in the language of religious criticism to evade legal accountability.

From the stage, Kellie-Jay Keen called to ” get Islam out of our classrooms, ” “out of every single official office,” and declared “if we want to save this country, we have to remove Islam from every single place of authority. ” Tommy Robinson told the crowd ” this is a war … for 1400 years,” invoked the disgraceful and discredited “rape jihad” trope, and closed by telling tens of thousands: ” we need to get ready to fight people.

These were not theological critiques of Islam. These were public examples of incitement to religious hatred and violence towards Muslims.

Did the Metropolitan Police find nothing said on the stage or at the rally worthy of arrest or warranting further investigation? Had similar threats of violence been directed towards the followers of “Judaism” we would surely have seen action by now.

Equal protection under the law should be enforced for all religious communities.

MEND will make a formal request to the Metropolitan Police for a written account of their legal assessment of the rhetoric used and why this was deemed acceptable.