Stay up to date with notifications from The IndependentNotifications can be managed in browser preferences.Jump to contentThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged inAllNewsSportCultureLifestylePolice have arrested a man following a "series of incidents" around Edinburgh in which five people were injured (PA)A 36-year-old man has been charged following an incident in Edinburgh on Friday where five people were injured, with four requiring hospital treatment. The attacks, which reportedly began near the Broomhouse Mosque, involved a man appearing to roam streets with a large weapon and battering a pizzeria door, with CCTV showing him swerving a car onto Leith Walk. Prime Minister Keir Starmer stated the suspect appears to be motivated by "anti-Muslim hatred," a sentiment echoed by Muslim groups like MEND, who urged police to treat it as "Islamophobic, far-right terror." The incident is now being investigated by counter-terror police, with Muslim organisations and politicians, including Humza Yousaf, calling for concerted action against Islamophobia, which they argue has been mainstreamed. Concerns have been raised by groups such as the British Muslim Trust about the normalisation of prejudice creating conditions for violence, urging that anti-Muslim hostility must be confronted before such acts become normalised. In fullMuslim groups hit out at ‘poisonous far-right narrative’ for ‘shocking’ Edinburgh attacksThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in
Man charged in Edinburgh attack amid fears of rising anti-Muslim hatred
Stay up to date with notifications from The IndependentNotifications can be managed in browser preferences.Jump to contentThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged inAllNewsSportCultureLifestylePolice have arrested a man following a "series of incidents" around Edinburgh in which five people were injured (PA)A 36-year-old man has been charged following an incident in Edinburgh on Friday where five people were injured, with four requiring hospital treatment. The attacks, which reportedly began near the Broomhouse Mosque, involved a man appearing to roam streets with a large weapon and battering a pizzeria door, with CCTV showing him swerving a car onto Leith Walk. Prime Minister Keir Starmer stated the suspect appears to be motivated by "anti-Muslim hatred," a sentiment echoed by Muslim groups like MEND, who urged police to treat it as "Islamophobic, far-right terror." The incident is now being investigated by counter-terror police, with Muslim organisations and politicians, including Humza Yousaf, calling for concerted action against Islamophobia, which they argue has been mainstreamed. Concerns have been raised by groups such as the British Muslim Trust about the normalisation of prejudice creating conditions for violence, urging that anti-Muslim hostility must be confronted before such acts become normalised. In fullMuslim groups hit out at ‘poisonous far-right narrative’ for ‘shocking’ Edinburgh attacksThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in
