Didsbury Mosque representatives just have a press statement

[Burney]

It contained about 30 seconds of platitudes of sorrow, including the stock line "this act has nothing to do with our religion" and then about five minutes of moaning about Islamophobia and encouraging Muslims to report all "hate crimes".

You literally couldn't make it up, Jeff.

I'm interested to know whether a muslim man deliberately targeting and killing non-muslims because they are non-muslims constitutes a 'hate crime'. Equally, is it a 'hate crime' for muslim men to deliberately target white, non-muslim girls to rape and traffic? After all, if you're targeting a particular ethnic/religious group for your crime, how can it be anything else?

Alternatively, it could just be that the whole concept of 'hate crime' is a load of meretricious b0llocks, of course.

[Mo Britain less Europe]

I'm interested to know whether a muslim man deliberately targeting and killing non-muslims because they are non-muslims constitutes a 'hate crime'. Equally, is it a 'hate crime' for muslim men to deliberately target white, non-muslim girls to rape and traffic? After all, if you're targeting a particular ethnic/religious group for your crime, how can it be anything else?

Alternatively, it could just be that the whole concept of 'hate crime' is a load of meretricious b0llocks, of course.

Hate crime has been invented exclusively to punish white people for the slave trade,