“The move is in response to an ongoing wave of **Muslim instigated ** knife crime across London and elsewhere in Britain.”
There, fixed.
Wonder how the press forgot that part?
In London the dominant demographic of youth knife crime, both victims and perpetrators, is young black Afro-Caribbean rather than Muslim, with many (but by no means all) cases related to drug turf wars. Outside London the demographic is a lot more mixed, with quite a few middle class white-on-white also.
There are plenty of problems in the UK which are not particularly Muslim-related, and this is one of them.