{"id":7188,"date":"2024-07-19T15:51:38","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T14:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=7188"},"modified":"2024-07-19T15:51:41","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T14:51:41","slug":"leeds-riots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2024\/07\/19\/leeds-riots\/","title":{"rendered":"Leeds Riots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There&#8217;s an online dimension to this: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 Many are claiming that the newly elected Leeds Green Party councillor Mothin Ali participated in the riots there tonight <br><br>However, this video and other videos show that these claims are false; Ali was trying to prevent the disorder and stop bins from being pushed into fires <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DSN6ViYKyF\">https:\/\/t.co\/DSN6ViYKyF<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/v35c1lFiSq\">pic.twitter.com\/v35c1lFiSq<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Politics UK (@PolitlcsUK) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PolitlcsUK\/status\/1814097599915291127?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 19, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Last time I checked members of the Romanian community protesting (violently &amp; unlawfully) about some children being taken into care in Leeds has nothing to do with the politics of the subcontinent<br>Not Muslims Nigel<br>But a lie is a lie <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AanLi7lV05\">pic.twitter.com\/AanLi7lV05<\/a><\/p>&mdash; nazir afzal (@nazirafzal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nazirafzal\/status\/1814071663295598984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 18, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Cllr Ali was trying to defuse the situation last night. Acting as a human shield at times. This image proves nothing, not that it stops the racist comments. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YHD3Z2xERx\">https:\/\/t.co\/YHD3Z2xERx<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Adil Ray OBE (@adilray) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/adilray\/status\/1814271946269319561?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 19, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This sequence of events has been picked up with a variety of perspectives\/&#8217;commentators&#8217; online <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/article\/2024\/jul\/18\/police-car-turned-over-and-vehicles-set-alight-in-disorder-in-leeds\">Guardian, Police car turned over and vehicles set alight in disorder in Leeds, 19 Jul 2024<br><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Harehills Green party councillor Mothin Ali was at the scene from about 5pm attempting to defuse the situation.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an online dimension to this: This sequence of events has been picked up with a variety of perspectives\/&#8217;commentators&#8217; online Guardian, Police car turned over and vehicles set alight in disorder in Leeds, 19 Jul 2024 &#8220;Harehills Green party councillor Mothin Ali was at the scene from about 5pm attempting to defuse the situation.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[340,413,449,216],"tags":[685,271],"class_list":["post-7188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islamophobia","category-anti-muslim-hate","category-anti-muslim-prejudice","category-british-muslims","tag-anti-muslim-prejudice","tag-british-muslims"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7189,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7188\/revisions\/7189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}