Will Southport’s suffering never end? First, the Merseyside town was rocked by the barbarism of a frenzied knife attack that left three girls dead and others critically injured. Then it was beset by unrest. Just hours after yesterday’s vigil for the slain girls, thugs clashed with cops. They set a police van on fire and threw bricks at a mosque. It was a grim orgy of destruction that insulted the quiet dignity the good people of Southport have shown since evil visited their town on Monday.
Double standards have crept into the discussion of Southport’s disorder
Everyone of good conscience will condemn yesterday’s riotous events. Thirty-nine officers were injured, eight seriously. As to the disorder at a mosque: that was an act of bristling bigotry, plain and simple. There is no evidence the knifeman is a Muslim. Even if he was, violent agitation at a mosque would be a mad, intolerable response. Febrile protests at places of worship are always wrong.
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