While brave bystanders ran to help a stabbing victim, online hate-mongers used the tragedy to spark a race-based pogrom. We cannot let a violent minority destroy Belfast's peace.

As social media fuels racist hysteria and business closures following a brutal Belfast stabbing, we must reject targeted division and unite to protect our fragile peace.

People who know nothing of my city and have probably never been here are using what’s happening to their own advantage, writes Amanda Ferguson in Belfast