The Cultural Enrichment Continues: The Manchester Airport ‘Police Incident’ Sets Off Islamist/Anti-Racism Protests In Rochdale.
Although the protests in Rochdale and Manchester have not escalated to the levels of ‘social unrest’ (that means rioting) seen in Harehills last week, there are certain overtones to the noisy crowds outside Rochdale Police Station that could degenerate in that direction.
Not to be outdone by the recent riots in the Harehills district of Leeds (and the less publicised outbreak of inter-community rioting in Whitechapel, London), this week the cultural enrichment has taken to the streets of Rochdale with a calmer side show in central Manchester, and a proposed ‘anti-racism’ demonstration outside Manchester Airport on Saturday.
Leaving to one side the unacceptable level of violence dished out by the armed police officers at Terminal 2 at Manchester airport at 8.30pm on Tuesday evening, there are some details available about the incident that reflect the attitudes of Pakistani Muslims in Britain towards British law and our accepted rules of behaviour. Rules and codes of conduct that this section of the ethnic minority communities reject.
According to some accounts of what happened at the airport, the situation developed as passengers disembarked from a flight from Pakistan, the mother of the men who were arrested had been involved in some kind of argument with another passenger and this led to police becoming involved. One version of events suggests that police wanted to search the mother, who was wearing traditional Pakistani clothing, she refused saying that it was ‘against her religion’. Then her sons became involved and confronted the police in defence of their mother and their ‘religious and cultural sensitivities’.
If this had been a White working-class young man, returning from an international football match, the incident would not have merited a footnote in a local newspaper. But this involved members of a Pakistani Muslim family and immediately sets eager liberal and left-wing journalist off in full social justice mode.
However the assorted versions of events being reported in the Manchester Evening News and a number of national newspapers offer a number of less than flattering accounts of the conduct of the police.
“The initial clip, which went viral on Wednesday, July 24, saw an armed Greater Manchester Police officer kicking a young man in the face before stamping on his head, despite him seeming compliant as he lay restrained on the ground. More footage has now appeared on social media showing officers using physical force on other men at the airport.”
One video shows police pointing a Taser at a group of three men while another prepares what appears to be a can of pepper spray by shaking it as someone behind the camera shouts, “We have not done nothing, we are just recording.” The clip then ends with the camera moving and shaking; another clip of the same incident shows police moving towards the man filming before grabbing him.
Another news media report stated that; “A woman who had been kneeling over the young man who was kicked in the head is summoned over by someone shouting, “Auntie, auntie, come here”. She returns back to the two men on the floor and is shoved out of the way by police, who then begin shouting at her. She walks away but another cop walks up to her and shoves her hard enough to make her trip, telling her to “stay out the way”.
The footage shows the scene with shoes and luggage scattered across the floor and what appears to be drops of blood splattered on the ground. Police continue handcuffing the men, shouting at people to “shut the f***” up.” The man who had been sat on the bench is then flipped onto his back as an officer grabs what appears to be his face or neck area and kneels over him.
Four men, aged 19, 25, 28 and 31, were arrested in the aftermath on suspicion of affray and assault, and later bailed. Anger over the video led to protests outside Rochdale police station on Wednesday and Thursday nights, with another protest also held in Manchester city centre on Thursday. According to other reports, the injured young Asian man from Rochdale, 19-year-old Muhammed Fahir Amaaz, has been treated for head injuries at a hospital in Oldham.
Although assorted Left-wing and Islamist groups are organising protests over the incident, it comes as no surprise that the Labour MP for Rochdale, Paul Waugh. is calling for calm and is saying that the family at the centre of the incident have no “political agenda”.
Not only that, but the Asian Muslim/Pakistani communities in Rochdale and certain districts of Manchester have jumped straight into major victimhood mode. This was not just an outbreak of violence at Manchester airport, with excessive police over-reaction, the protestors in central Rochdale are claiming ‘police racism’ and are even evoking parallels with the police killing of George Floyd in the USA.
Not surprisingly, the Black Lives Matter agitators have surfaced in both Rochdale and central Manchester, and although the central characters in the Manchester airport fracas were Asian, they are being re-cast as ‘Black’. All of which does not explain why some Islamist activists have become involved, and on at least two evenings this week were mustering crowds outside Rochdale Police Station and were threatening all levels of disorder on the streets of Rochdale unless the family of Muhammed Fahir Amaaz received ‘justice’, and ended each speech by bellowing “Alahu Akhbar” through loudhailers.
Moreover, the high-profile role of the solicitor, and self-styled ‘human rights lawyer’ who is representing Muhammed Fahir Amaaz, a Mr. Akhmed Yakoob, requires some closer examination. According to some less liberal media sources, Akhmed Yakoob was reported for investigation to the
Solicitors Regulation Authority over previous false claims he promoted about racism towards a young Asian teacher.
Also entering the fray is none other than noted anti-racist campaigner and human rights lawyer from Glasgow, Mr Aamer Anwar; “Aamer Anwar, human rights lawyer, told BBC Newsnight he was disappointed that leading politicians, including Mr Burnham, had asked people to consider the context to the incident. He said there was “no justification” for a police officer trained to take “split second decisions” to act in this way, adding the context was “irrelevant”.
The Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, a major figure in the Labour Party plans for regional leadership, is desperately trying to avoid being seen as taking sides in the developing problem. On the one hand, Burnham has to be seen to support Greater Manchester Police, but on the other he needs to be seen as standing against ‘racism’ or racial prejudice displayed by the police.
Andy Burnham is acutely aware that the Labour Party has lost a lot of support from the Asian Muslim communities of the North-West, as characterised by the election of George Galloway in the Rochdale by-election in May, the loss of many local councillors to Muslim ‘independents’ in the local elections, the loss of control of Oldham council to Muslim ‘independents’ and the loses inflicted on the Labour Party in the North-West by Muslim ‘independent’ candidates in the General Election.
The last thing that the Mayor of Greater Manchester or the new Labour government needs are further breaks between the Asian Muslim voters of Greater Manchester and Lancashire and the Labour Party. Hurried press interviews by Mayor Andy Burnham with the mainstream media were held as part of damage control.
On Wednesday night, crowds gathered outside Rochdale police station in protest, and videos from Thursday night showed a handful of demonstrators throwing eggs at the building. Roads and tram lines were blocked in Manchester city centre during a Stand Up To Racism demonstration that started outside Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham’s office on Thursday. Speaking at a press conference on Friday, Mr. Burnham said he had met about 40 community partners in Rochdale.
He said: “What people here don’t want – and I heard this very clearly in the room this morning – is politicians without possession of the facts exploiting the situation for their own political agenda with zero regard for the effect on the ground in communities in Greater Manchester.
“I want to finish by repeating the call for calm, particularly over the coming weekend. Things are now moving forward, the right steps are being taken and people’s voices are being heard. “It is in everyone’s interests that from here we proceed with things in a measured and a peaceful way.”
As referenced above in this article the Labour MP for Rochdale Paul Waugh is part of Andy Burnham’s team of politicians and community leaders working to defuse a potentially damaging series of events.
Paul Waugh told reporters that the family were not politically active, “They wanted me to issue an appeal for calm among all sorts of different communities in Rochdale. “We’ve had a history of unfortunate division in our town and we do not want to go back to those days.” He said the family were “acutely aware” there were “extremists of all sides who are keen to hijack this incident for their own ends”.
The Mayor’s office is quickly gathering together as many allies within the ethnic minority communities as it can and is desperately calling for people not to support a planned protest at Manchester airport on Saturday 27th of July.
“Many of you may have seen the call for protest tomorrow, Saturday 27th July, at Manchester Airport. We are the Greater Manchester Council of Mosques urge our community not to attend this event.
“The origins of this protest are unclear, and we are concerned about potential negative repercussions which may provoke further hostility and Islamophobia.”
It is a fact that the gradual disintegration of multicultural Britain will not happen all at once, it will slowly increase in frequency and intensity. Contrary to what the former Conservative Minister Michael Gove stated in March 2024, “The United Kingdom is a success story – a multi-national, multi-ethnic, multi-faith democracy. It is stronger because of its diversity.”
What took place in Harehills, Leeds and in Whitechapel, and with the events in Rochdale and Manchester as further indicators, ‘diversity’ is not our strength and the politically uncommitted White British population needs to take a long, hard look at what is starting to happen in the major, multi-racial urban centres, and to start listening to what British Movement has been predicting since 1968.
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UPDATE
New CCTV footage has emerged showing the alleged assault of three police officers at Manchester Airport before a man was kicked in the head. It appears to show Fahir punching a female police officer in the face, breaking her nose.
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