After a Sudanese national apparently attempted to brutally behead a man in Belfast, Ireland, The New York Times on June 10 claimed the real concern was “anti-immigrant sentiment,” not how the U.K.’s open border policies enabled the attack.
Video from the attack, which went viral on social media, shows the migrant attacking a native U.K. citizen named Steven Ogilvy in an apparent attempted beheading. The New York Times (NYT) article does not describe the attack until four paragraphs in, and does not use the word “beheading” once. The article also buries information about the suspect, including the fact that he was a Sudanese who may have fraudulently claimed refugee status, in the eleventh paragraph.
The NYT decided this story was less about why the perpetrator of this brutal attack was in Northern Ireland, and more about the response of the “far-right,” a group in which the outlet places Elon Musk, who infamously has children with multiple women and supports transhumanism. To the New York Times, the story is that some people took notice of violent crime by criminal aliens. It’s the classic “Republicans pounce” trope that blames the people who notice the negative effects of leftist policies rather than blaming the policies.
According to the NYT, “far-right” figures “spread misinformation and speculation about the attacker online.” Unsurprisingly, the outlet does not elaborate what this misinformation entails.
A Sudanese migrant was able to enter the United Kingdom, claim asylum, and stay in the country long enough to allegedly attempt to behead a native-born citizen. “The right” doesn’t need to invent this story. The facts speak for themselves.
The NYT also used plenty of euphemistic language to describe the attack. Instead of describing it as an attempted beheading, the outlet stated: “the attacker moves his hands near the neck of the victim.”
A local resident who witnessed the attack described her experience quite differently, saying she had “never seen anything like it.” The woman told BBC News NI that she was “shaking in the street” while calling police, and that she is now afraid to walk to the store alone. Her reaction is understandable for someone who witnessed a gruesome murder attempt — which is not merely some sort of nondescript hand motion.
Rather than show concern for the victims and bystanders of such violent crimes, the Times focuses more on the worries of immigrants: “Immigrant communities in Northern Ireland said they were living in fear.” Never mind the fear of native citizens who don’t recognize their own country anymore and are banned from noticing that it’s not the native-born who are most likely to commit these kinds of barbaric crimes.
The Times alleged”rising xenophobic anger” in Britain due to a rash of similar recent attacks, including the murder of 18-year-old Henry Nowak by a Sikh man. Body camera footage of Nowak’s final moments shows him being handcuffed after police found him bleeding on the ground. His “crime”? His murderer had accused him of racism.
Rising anger in the United Kingdom doesn’t exist in a vacuum. The country has seen mass third-world migration in recent years, with serious negative consequences for native citizens. Most migrants to the United Kingdom are from countries such as Afghanistan, Sudan, and Somalia — all societies that hold values incompatible with Western civilization.
Gangs of Pakistani Muslims groomed and raped English girls for decades. In response, the Times went after Musk for “vitriolic” posts criticizing the British government’s role in enabling these grooming gangs. The British ruling class was reluctant to take action against these gangs that were terrorizing citizens under their noses for years. But Musk is the real problem.
Some protestors attacked police and started fires after the attack on Ogilvy. In 2020, however, the NYT strongly supported the Black Lives Matter (BLM) riots across the West in 2020, which damaged thousands of buildings and caused several deaths. The outlet called the protestors in Belfast “far-right radicals,” but called BLM protestors “peaceful protestors with ‘room for rage.'”
Other NYT articles also focused more on the right-wing response than the vicious attack: “The cycle of violence and right-wing agitation in Britain has become all too frightening and frequent,” is how Chief U.K. Correspondent Michael Shear begins an article. The majority of the outlet’s coverage highlights the angry citizen response to the violence their government has unleashed on their streets while downplaying the migration crisis.
The New York Times is far from the only outlet to make this story about the protests rather than the attack. The Washington Post said there was a “new wave of anti-immigrant violence” hitting the United Kingdom, and the CNN called the riots “fiery.” No “mostly peaceful” caveat to be found.
