Posted on 06/20/2026 4:22:44 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
LONDON (AP) — Counterterrorism detectives in Scotland were investigating after five people were injured in attacks in Edinburgh that appeared to target Muslims, police said Saturday.
Police Scotland said that a 36-year-old man was arrested late Friday after officers received multiple reports of attacks in the west and north of the city.
The force said that five men — two of them age 22, and others ages 24, 27 and 39 — sustained a range of injuries and three needed hospital treatment. None of the injuries is considered life-threatening.
The charity Muslim Engagement and Development said that several of those injured are Muslim. The Scottish Association of Mosques said that two of the injured men were attacked after attending prayers at their local mosque.
U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer said that the suspect “appears to be motivated by anti-Muslim hatred.”
“I will not tolerate this — he will face the full force of the law,” Starmer said in a post on X.
Video posted on social media appeared to show a shirtless man carrying a long weapon roaming a street and battering a restaurant door in the Scottish capital. Another video seemed to show the same man on the ground shouting about “protecting the country” while being held by a police officer.
U.K. Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said that she was “horrified by news of the attack in Edinburgh.
“There is no place for hatred and violence against Muslims,” she said. “I know it is not who we are as a country.”
The Muslim Council of Britain said in a statement that the Muslim community is “rightly nervous and worried.” It said that the violence was “a direct consequence of political rhetoric that demonizes entire communities.”
Police Scotland Assistant Chief Constable Catriona Paton said that it was a “shocking” incident...
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If moose limbs attacked 5 brits....the brits would be arrested.
and muslims targeting over 250,000 girls is nothing
Qweer Starmer wants any Brit who quotes that report arrested.
If only 2 of the attacked were muslims, how can they label it an attack on muslims? It was a brawl. Nothing more.
Eventually, the police will find themselves as targets when they attempt to arrest people for defending themselves and their loved ones. Anarchy gets the attention of the political class when it’s aimed at them, and I think that time will be soon at hand.
and muslims targeting over 250,000 girls is nothing“
But tweeting about it is.
“THE SCOTTISH ASSOCIATION OF MOSQUES” SAYS IT ALL
Britain better get ready for another St Brice’s day massacre. It won’t be Danes. It will be them killing moslms or moslems killing them.
But then the British have no weapons to defend themselves with as their own government confiscated all the REGISTERED ONES in the British Isles.
OH NOES someone targeted the precious muslims, that gets a response from Starmer, but girls getting raped and beheaded by Muslims, NOT A PEEP
People are starting to get fed up with these mussie migrants that the government seems to want them.
It all changes when an MP’s little darling gets the full Haji treatment.
William Wallace would not be pleased.
“250,000 girls”
The count of girls diminishes the horror. Each and every one was held captive and raped 10-100 times.
Maybe we should send spare Tren and MS 13 to Scotland to clean up the Haji problem. Fight fire with fire.
His own government and and police certainly won't protect the country's most vulnerable citizens, it's young children, from these violent, foreign rapists. So who's left to do so.
The Scot had finally reached his breaking point. Completely understandable.
And they don't call in the counter-terrorism squad.
I can see the face of Hitler in that graphic!!!
Innthe last graphic of UK, do you see der fuhrer?
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