At 1.30am on Tuesday 16 June, two white supremacists approached the home of a Blackburn Muslim family, torched their car and filmed it. The attack was — at least — the third Islamophobic arson attack in June 2026. According to local firefighters, the family escaped was “seconds away from fatality”. White racists committed at least one other arson attack in the town in May. Apart from local press, UK mainstream media all but ignored the attacks. So did the government.
A few days later, a white-supremacist thug knifed five people in Edinburgh, screaming Islamophobic hate as he was arrested. That attack did just register with the UK media and politicians — but only barely. The contrast with the non-stop coverage and knee-jerk reactions to the knife attack on two Jewish men and an almost-unmentioned Muslim could hardly be starker.
Islamophobic violence — Escalating and accelerating
The arson attack was caught on the security camera of a nearby house:
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The Muslim Social Justice Initiative (MSJI) said that already commonplace race-attacks on Muslims and Muslim property are “escalating with terrifying speed” but treated with disinterest by the political class:
Racist attacks on Muslims, our mosques, our homes and our everyday existence have long been commonplace in the UK. Now they are escalating with terrifying speed. This violence is sustained by a political culture that teaches wider society Muslims are disposable. The lack of urgency around anti-Muslim racism, whether local or global, is what is allowing it to continue. Muslim communities need protection and solidarity now.
Despite the clear evidence and the rapid escalation in Islamophobic attacks, the Starmer government has announced no new security measures or funding. This is another stark contrast with Golders Green. The government and its media allies are only interested in one narrative — and the fact that Muslims are the primary victims of hate and terrorism in the UK isn’t it.
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