Here We Go Again

A judge has just named the perpetrator of Monday's horrific mass stabbing at a children's dance studio. To absolutely nobody's surprise, he isn't called John Smith.

Southport mass stabbing suspect Axel Rudakubana - yet another killer inflicted on us by 25 years of mass immigration.

On Monday eleven children and two adults were stabbed by a knife-wielding maniac in Southport, a seaside town in Merseyside. So far, three of the children have sadly died of their injuries and five more are still in critical condition. The perpetrator is 17 years old, so at first his name couldn’t be released for legal reasons.

Understandably this led to a lot of speculation about who had launched this vile attack, and why. A rumour started to spread online that the perpetrator was a Syrian asylum seeker, leading to a riot outside a local mosque. Meanwhile, some less than usually compliant journalists had found out who he actually was and, without breaching the ban on revealing his name, reported that he was the Cardiff-born son of immigrants from Rwanda. Finally, earlier today, a judge ruled that as he’ll be 18 next Wednesday anyway, his right to anonymity isn’t in the public interest. So now we know that the disgusting individual who murdered three girls aged six, seven and nine is Axel Muganwa Rudakubana.

What we don’t know yet is why he did it. Police say it wasn’t terror-related, and while I think it was a bit premature to be saying this within hours of the attack they’re probably right. Speculation that this is another islamist attack is probably - not certainly, of course - wrong, because Rwanda’s muslim population, at 2%, is actually significantly lower than our own. Most Rwandans are christians.

Rudakubana obviously had some motive for his vile actions, though. It certainly wasn’t a random attack; local businessman Jonathan Hayes, who was stabbed in the leg when he tried to intervene, works next to the dance studio the brutal attacker targeted and told journalists that “you wouldn’t know it was there.” Then there’s the fact Rudakubana was caught by a doorbell camera acting erratically outside his home five miles from the scene of his rampage, and travelled by taxi directly from there to his target. For whatever reason, he selected that dance class and planned an attack on it.

I don’t actually care why he did it; I only regret that the proper penalty for his crime is no longer available in Britain. However, the whole question of his motives is already being pushed out of the media as the narrative swings to the largely imaginary threat of the “far right”.

Sir Keir Starmer issued a statement today, vowing “the most robust response” to the unrest that broke out in Southport and other towns after Monday’s atrocity. He called the rioting a “coordinated” action by the far right and promised tough police action. Meanwhile Gavin Stephens, the chairman of the National Police Chiefs Council, said police are “working together to make sure our communities are fully supported”. It’s worth noting that there were no such promises of crackdowns after the rioting in Leeds on 18 July, which involved Roma gypsies and the local Asian community, or the (barely reported) violence between rival Bangladeshi mobs in London the same night. Meanwhile, when an Asian crowd gathered outside Rochdale police station on 24 July, baying “Allahu akbar!” in protest at the arrest of two thugs who assaulted police at Manchester Airport, there was no official condemnation at all. Only the spectre of the “far right” - which, in Britain, is a tiny faction with no political influence whatsoever - rouses the establishment from its lethargy.

Withholding Information Lets Misinformation Spread

The mob that attacked the mosque in Southgate last night were in the wrong. The mosque and its congregation played no part in Monday’s outbreak of subhuman barbarism, and should not have been subjected to what they were put through. But, at the same time, the government and police need to realise that this country is fast turning into a powderkeg. I’ve already discussed the strange tendency for police to not release descriptions of suspects from certain “communities”, and I’m far from the first person to notice this. It is rank hypocrisy for the government to complain about “misinformation” surrounding the Southgate atrocity when official sources were refusing to release any information on the suspect. People want to know who is perpetrating these attacks, and if the government and police won’t tell us, the natural response is to search online - where speculation, rumour and, yes, misinformation are rife. Unless we’re quickly and accurately told who is responsible people will seek their own answers, and sometimes the answers they find will be wrong. With emotions fired by something as atrocious as Rudakubana’s crime, these errors can be dangerous. There is no excuse for not moving quickly to end speculation by simply telling us who was responsible.

This wouldn’t even require changing the law that protects the identities of criminals who happen to be under 18. All that needed to be said on Monday was “A suspect, who is a second-generation immigrant from Rwanda, is in custody and police are not looking for anyone else at this time.” That would have been plenty. By making the suspect’s origins clear it would have both ended speculation that an asylum seeker or illegal immigrant was involved, and damped down any suspicion that the killer’s identity was being hidden for political reasons.

But is it relevant that Rudakubana has Rwandan roots? Yes, I think it is - because if his parents had stayed in Rwanda, and not been allowed into this country, the atrocity would never have happened. And why should his parents have been allowed into Britain? They weren’t refugees fleeing the 1994 Rwanda genocide; they came here in 2002. They don’t seem to have any particular skills we need; the killer’s mother, Laetitia Muzayire, doesn’t work, while his father, Alphonse Rudakubana, is the sole proprietor of a heavily indebted online retail company and seems to spend all his time travelling between karate competitions. What have they contributed to this country that could possibly begin to outweigh what their son did?

Immigration Policy Must Put OUR Safety First

Immigration to this country is out of control, and its social consequences are rapidly becoming dire. Why do people assume, whenever a new slaughter of the innocent occurs, that an immigrant was involved? Simple - because, disproportionately often, that turns out to be the case. The horrifying crime in Southport took another recent high-profile stabbing off the front page, the unprovoked attack on Lieutenant Colonel Mark Teeton outside his home in Gillingham last Tuesday. “A Rochester man” has been arrested for that crime, except he’s not “a Rochester man” at all, is he? His name’s Anthony Esan and he’s an immigrant from Nigeria. Yesterday, Kurdish illegal immigrant Brwa Shorsh was convicted of attempted murder for throwing a 61-year-old man off the platform at Oxford Circus Underground station in February. Asked if he understood that what he did was dangerous, Shorsh told the court - through a taxpayer-funded interpreter, of course - that “disrespecting me is dangerous” and said he wished he’d pushed his victim harder. In April Moroccan asylum seeker Ahmed Alid was convicted of murder for last October’s fatal stabbing of 70-year-old Terence Carney in a random, unprovoked attack on a Hartlepool street; Alid told police the murder was a protest against Israel, and he wanted a machinegun so he could kill more people.

The British government’s first responsibility is to protect the British people. By allowing murderous foreigners to immigrate to this country, it is failing in that responsibility. Yes, I know it’s impossible to guarantee that an immigrant or their descendants will not suddenly run amok and splash acid on women, stab children at a dance class or explode on a bus, but there is a simple way to minimise that risk: Restrict immigration to people from cultures similar to our own. How many Canadian suicide bombers have we had? How many German immigrants have beaten their daughter to death to preserve the family’s “honour”? How many people from Australia, New Zealand or the USA come to Britain and rape twelve-year-olds in the back room of a kebab shop?

And before anyone starts, I also know that most crimes in this country are committed by indigenous Britons. Well, so what? That’s exactly what you’d expect, seeing as we still make up more than four-fifths of the population. The argument that foreign criminals don’t matter because there are home-grown criminals too is just absurd. I once came home on leave from Afghanistan to discover that, during my six-week absence, flour moths had invaded my larder and started eating my supply of muesli, tacos and flour. Did I say “Oh well then” and bring in a bunch of cockroaches to keep them company? No. I removed all the food they hadn’t got at from the kitchen, then killed them all with a big can of poisonous gas.

For the British people, this country is the only home we have. Our government, which we give enormous power and even more enormous sums of money in the expectation that it will use them to protect us, should not be forcing us to share our home with people from violent cultures that do not share our values. Believing this does not make me “far right”. It makes me sane.