It’s another day in the clown show of modern governance. Over the weekend, five guys were injured in Edinburgh—including two who were struck while walking out of a mosque—resulting in a suspect getting hit with five counts of attempted murder "aggravated by reason of having a terrorist connection." Yet, south of the border, the mainstream media barely batted an eye. It’s a classic case of selective hearing from our elite institutions, who love to lecture the public about tolerance while completely ignoring actual domestic security threats when it doesn't fit the weekly narrative cycle.

Meanwhile, the actual data is grim. According to the British Muslim Trust, the government’s very own official partner for monitoring Islamophobia, 56% of Muslims reported experiencing religious prejudice over the last year. Tell Mama logged a whopping 6,313 anti-Muslim hate cases in 2024, and official numbers show religious hate crimes reached record highs in England and Wales, with Muslims being the targets of 45% of them. Things have gotten so wild that the Muslim Council of Britain is actively telling mosques to run lockdown drills. Imagine having to do active shooter drills at a house of worship because the state can't manage basic law and order.

Instead of dealing with this, politicians are busy doing what they do best: running their mouths and passing the buck. Centrist politicians across Europe are currently sweating bullets because nearly a quarter of voters are backing far-right parties. Their brilliant solution? The European Islamophobia Report notes that these centrist elites are simply adopting exclusionary, "securitized" rhetoric targeting Muslim communities to save their own political careers. Over in the US, the president openly declared, "I think Islam hates us." It’s the ultimate political grift—using divisive rhetoric for electoral clout while actual citizens deal with the real-world fallout, like the horrific San Diego shooting last month where two white supremacists killed three people at a mosque.

Then you have the absolute peak bureaucracy of the state's security funding. If a school or a mosque wants to apply for government funding to upgrade their security, the current rules say they have to prove they’ve already been the target of a hate crime. You literally cannot make this up. The government is essentially telling vulnerable communities, "Hey, get attacked first, and then we'll talk about giving you some security cash." This administrative genius leaves unprotected, high-risk sites completely in the lurch while bureaucrats pat themselves on the back for a job well done.