German director Uwe Boll’s new hit movie Citizen Vigilante, in which (spoiler alert!) actor Armie Hammer shoots dead an entire family of Muslim immigrants in retaliation for one of their number’s brutal rape of a native white woman somewhere in continental Europe, has been controversial for many reasons: its violence, its alleged “racism,” and its supposed potential to inspire copycat crimes.
An issue that should be causing far more controversy than the mere fictional vigilante violence depicted on-screen, however, may be the potential for real-life vigilante violence occurring off-screen, performed by Europe’s millions of imported Muslims. All over the continent in recent years, Muslims have been forming their own Citizen Vigilante-like mobs, which they claim are purely for innocent purposes of self-protection. I would suggest this is an issue of rather more valid public concern than a made-up movie in which a made-up white man shoots some made-up Muslims.
Pillars of the Community
The response to Boll’s movie from self-appointed Muslim “community leaders” has focused on calling it Islamophobic or demanding its distribution be suppressed. From some such figures in the United Kingdom, however — home to around 4 million Muslims and counting — the response has been slightly different. Rather than ban the movie, why not use it as an excellent excuse for setting up a giant nationwide Islamic army?
5Pillars is a popular U.K.-based Islamic news site with half a million monthly readers; if it were published in Urdu, not English, it would probably have more. It also has a regular podcast, Muslims Uncensored, which ironically appears to call for Non-Muslims To Be Censored. In its July 2 episode, presenters discussed “the vile new far-right propaganda film Citizen Vigilante,” describing it as “an anti-Muslim snuff film” that encouraged white people to become off-screen anti-Muslim vigilantes themselves, a pattern that was allegedly already playing itself out.
In late June, a semi-naked white man went on the rampage with a large blade in the Scottish city of Edinburgh, swiping at random Mecca-lovers. During his arrest, the attacker, in reference to Great Britain’s ongoing Muslim rape-gang scandal, reportedly shouted, “I’m protecting the country from these f-cking Muslim b-stards raping our young daughters!” Was the shirtless avenger copying Armie Hammer? That’s the basic implication — even though Citizen Vigilante has not yet even been released in the U.K., meaning the man would have been imitating something he couldn’t have seen at the time.
From Pillars to Post
To protect themselves from such supposedly celluloid-influenced crimes, Roshan Salih, the founding editor of 5Pillars, declared that U.K. Muslim “resources do need to be put into confronting the far-Right — in a peaceful way — at street level.” But, to enjoy peace, you must prepare for what sounds alarmingly like war, even if presented as being purely defensive in nature: “We need to have a mass physical training program within the Muslim community, every single mosque providing that training, every single community center, money being poured into physically training Muslims.” Here’s a 5Pillars Facebook summary of Salih’s argument:
And here are some representative responses to the post from members of the general British public:
It’s true. If a white English person wrote this, the police (or “Old Bill,” as they are colloquially known in England) would indeed be at their door “in a flash.”
In 2024, for example, after witnessing online footage of an Islamist slitting the throat of an Australian priest, an Englishman named Jonjo Hooper had visited his local clergyman to ask, “Are we Christians supposed to take a stand?” — by which he meant a rhetorical stand, not a violent one. But the priest, apparently thinking Hooper might be about to go all Citizen Vigilante himself, had seemingly reported his parishioner to the cops.
The cops soon turned up on Hooper’s doorstep, accompanied by a mental health worker, the clear implication being that, if he didn’t stop criticizing Islam, he would end up locked inside a mental home. Hooper accused officers of practicing “Christianophobia,” complaining, “You can’t even have an opinion now without the police turning up; this is a police state.”
If the “dhimmified” two-tier British Police Force does indeed now suffer Christianophobia, however, it simultaneously also suffers from Islamophilia, or love of that imported religion. This can be seen from other events in 2024, when, following extensive England-wide anti-immigrant protests, Muslim vigilantes in the town of Stoke-on-Trent armed themselves with clubs, blades and poles, wandering the streets expecting trouble. They certainly encountered no trouble from one apparently Muslim police liaison officer on the scene, caught on camera announcing via loudspeaker that:
We will work with you guys for the best solution. … If there are any weapons or anything like that [in your possession], then what I would do is discard them at the mosque. Don’t give anybody any reason to have any interaction with the police, so if there’s any weapons, get rid of them, we are not going to arrest anybody. You don’t want us to make arrests or start dispersing people. Is that alright?
Upping the (Vigil)Ante
What would the officer have done if they’d said, “No, it’s not alright” and began chopping up passers-by instead? Probably called in the BBC, who gave glowing write-ups about other similar groups that sprouted in 2024 to guard mosques across the nation, portraying them as selfless victims of white racism, and quoting members saying things like these:
We don’t want war, and we’re not asking for all this to happen. But this country [i.e., Britain] belongs to us as much to them [i.e., the British]. We were born here, our parents were born here. … So I think we’ve got as much right as anybody else to call this country [ours].
Some white British people may say that’s the whole problem: Imported Muslims really do think the country is theirs now. London, home to 1.3 million Muslims, now has a long-term problem with vigilante “Muslim Patrols” and “Muslim Defense Leagues.” Members of the most notorious of these groups were jailed in 2014 for harassing couples holding hands and beating up men drinking alcohol whilst shouting they were there to “enforce sharia law … in Allah’s land” and to “kill the non-believers.” You can find similar vigilante outfits in Uwe Boll’s homeland of Germany these days too; in 2016, a German court ruled such outfits were perfectly legal.
Meanwhile, in 2022, intimidating Muslim bands across Britain blockaded cinemas showing The Lady of Heaven, a movie about the daughter of the Prophet, which vigilantes deemed “blasphemous,” successfully getting it withdrawn from distribution. In its own review, 5Pillars called the picture “pure, unadulterated sectarian filth.” These same people could easily try the same tactic once Citizen Vigilante finally hits U.K. theaters too.
So long as they don’t actually kill anyone, European Islamic vigilante gangs largely seem to be allowed to operate with impunity on the emotively claimed grounds of “self-defense” from harassment by “dangerous” white people — even when it is the Muslims who are doing the harassing. Any white self-defense gangs that form in response are automatically deemed neo-Nazis and demonized, however. Admittedly, some really are neo-Nazis. But, equally, some others are not.
In the northern English town of Rochdale, following the release of notorious regional Pakistani rape-gang leader Shabir Ahmed from prison in early July, a self-protection force was formed by local campaigner Billy Howarth to help Ahmed’s terrified former victims feel safe. Billy will need to try and keep himself safe — from the U.K. police force, who will doubtless view his actions as being “racist,” just like those of Jonjo Hooper before him.
In today’s two-tier, pro-Muslim Europe, the only vigilantism to be allowed from henceforth on must be performed not by Armie Hammer’s unacceptably white Citizen Vigilante, but by a somewhat less Caucasian Dirty Hari. Sticking with the topic of revenge flicks, the U.K. already has a long-term problem with Muslim Taxi Driver(s).
