For a short while the mainstream media, most notably the BBC and SKY, made a great noise about an incident that is alleged to have occurred at a mosque in Cricklewood North London. This incident, which is one that I cannot either condone or approve of, allegedly involved a group of teenagers driving a car at a group of Muslims outside the al-Hussaini Islamic centre following an claimed altercation between the teenagers and the Muslims. One man suffered leg injuries after what press reports said was a deliberate attack on this group of Muslims.

If the stories published by the BBC and SKY are correct then this is indeed a wanton act of unnecessary violence. If the mainstream narrative is correct then this incident could also be symptomatic of rising tensions on the streets of the United Kingdom, tensions brought to the UK by Islam. This incident might even be a candidate for this blog’s ‘I told you this would happen’ feature, where I point out how frustration by the average citizen or subject at the problems brought by Islam and a failure on the part of Government and police to control Islam and its followers, can and does break out into destructive vigilantism. For the record, as I have stated I these ‘I told you this would happen’ pieces, I worry about vigilantism as this form of ‘justice’ has the unfortunate habit of rolling together both the guilty and the innocent and is also a sign of massive societal breakdown.

However, despite disapproving of vigilantism, it’s probably correct to examine what we know so far about the Cricklewood incident. There are some questions that need to be asked about how this incident started and whether or not the claims made about the incident can be verified.

The first question to ask is why so much subsequent silence on this issue on the part of the two great and powerful media organs the BBC and SKY? I’ve just done a search on SKY UK and there has been no update on this story since the 19^th September. This strikes me as odd as normally these outlets really love a ‘poor oppressed Muslim’ story that they can run and virtue signal with. The incident occurred in the late hours of Tuesday the 18^th September yet apart from a ‘hero Muslim saves child’ human interest piece, there has been nothing more. There’s been no reports of police ‘reassurance patrols’ put into Muslim areas and neither have there been any meaningful updates by these outlets on the progress of the investigation. Like I said this is odd, normally both the BBC and SKY like to enthusiastically shroud-wave over alleged anti-Muslim incidents like this.

The police also seem to be keeping relatively low key over this and don’t seem to be pushing the national media to help with the investigation which would be a logical thing to do if you was trying to track down an unknown criminal. There have, at the time of writing (09:00 Friday 21^st Sept), been no arrests which is to me surprising as DVLA should by now have supplied the Met with the necessary vehicle keeper details. There is of course the possibility that this vehicle is a gangland ‘pool car’ which is one shared by a number of different members, which would make it more difficult to trace occupants, but it seems odd that no suspects have yet been identified or arrested and charged. The police are also not shouting about this incident despite ‘hate crime’ being a focus of the Met and senior officers declaring this incident a ‘hate crime’. The Met Police never seem to miss an opportunity to pander to Islam and its followers why not on this occasion?

There are also questions to ask about the incident itself. It’s important to bear in mind that we only have one side of the narrative being used by both the police and the media, there doesn’t seem to be any corroborating evidence at this point in time to verify what the Muslims of the al-Hussaini Islamic Centre are telling us. We only have the word of the Muslims attending the Islamic Centre that the incident occurred in the manner that we have been told. We, via the police and the media, have been told that volunteer guards at the mosque politely approached some teenagers in a car in the mosque car park who the Muslim witnesses claim were ‘acting anti-socially’ and an altercation broke out in which ‘anti Islamic slurs’ were spoken by the teens at which point the car sped off and returned and drove at the group of Muslims.

But what if this narrative is not the whole truth? An alternative scenario could be this: You have a group of teenagers sitting in a car in a quiet but admittedly private car park. They might be listening to music or even having a bit of weed as many teenagers do when out with their friends. The Muslims come over to the vehicle all mob handed and come on all aggressive and possibly violent, a row breaks out and the teenagers in fear and anger shout about ‘fucking Pakis’ ‘dirty Muslims’or something similar. The teenagers drive off, and return to shout some abuse at the Muslims or even to swerve the car in order to scare the increasingly aggressive Muslims and the inexperienced driver loses control or one of more of the Muslims by chance gets in the way. An alternative is that the teenage driver gets a bit of the red mist over the aggressive Muslims and decides to kick back using the vehicle.

It could be that although the driver of the vehicle may have behaved reprehensibly in using their vehicle as a weapon, the ultimate spark for this incident may not have come from the teenagers themselves, but from the Muslims and their aggressive behaviour? Like I said we only have the word of one party to this incident, the Muslims who were present and no verifying evidence to the start of the confrontation as far as I can see from anybody else. An inkling that not all may be sound with the narrative of the Muslim witnesses comes from a section of the report on this incident from The Sun newspaper. They have stated that prior to the incident it could indeed have been the Muslims who threw the first punch or at least this is what I’m picking up from reading between the lines in this section of The Sun’s report.

A security guard at the Al-Hussaini Islamic centre, who asked not to be named, said: “There was 1,500 people on the street. It was chaotic.

“If the cars weren’t parked on both sides there could have been at least 15 people dead. It was mayhem… but everyone came together and helped people out.

“Police tried to say it wasn’t a terror attack – but as you can see it’s definitely a terror attack. Look at the CCTV.”

Hassan Naddi, head of security for the Hussaini Foundation claimed the group shouted “dirty Muslims” before the rampage.

The car was then reportedly damaged by some people outside the centre before it was driven into a number of individuals at speed and raced away.

First of all look at the hyperbolic description of the incident by the unnamed security guard. He’s virtually screaming that this is a terror attack. It’s almost as if he wants this to be a terror attack so that it can be politically exploited. It appears to me that he is trying to distance himself from the idea that it could have been his own people that started the row that led to this incident. The Sun’s rendition of the story definitely gives the impression to me that the Muslims approached these teenagers in an aggressive manner, the occupants of the car responded with a bit of verbal abuse which was then followed by the Muslims in the car park starting to trash the car. This then led to the driver possibly getting the red mist and doing something stupid. The idea that this is incident is the equivalent to the sort of vehicular terror attacks that we’ve seen coming from Muslims is pretty ludicrous. It is more likely that this incident was caused by both the Muslims becoming unnecessarily aggressive and there being an equally unnecessarily aggressive response. It makes me wonder why, if the Muslims were not having any luck politely asking the teenagers to leave, the mosque didn’t just call the police? After all as we all know, the police seem to be able to drop everything and anything in order to rush to the aid of Muslims, so why were they not brought in earlier on this occasion? Maybe the police are just going through the ‘hate crime’ motions here and the media are being silent either because there are no credible updates this story or the media have information that this was not the organised anti Muslim terror attack that some may wish to claim that it might be.

This incident does not strike me as being in any way similar to the large numbers of organised and pre planned vehicular attacks that have been carried out across the world by the followers of Islam, despite the efforts of the Sun’s unnamed security guard source trying to claim that it is. The relatively low key way that the Met Police and the mainstream media are treating this incident and this story could indicate that what happened is less than what has been claimed. It may not be terrorism, it may instead be a row, started by the Muslims that got out of hand. Of course we will get to hear the whole story if the teenagers are apprehended and brought before the courts, but in the meantime it is not wrong to ask who is lying and who would benefit from such lies about both the initial start of this incident and its violent aftermath? Someone’s lying in connection to this incident and I’ll leave it up to you the reader to work out whom.