Stop outrage farming, man. It’s perfectly obvious what the lad is saying. We don’t yet know if this happened because he was a muslim or if his religion is entirely inconsequential.
Now is not the time for responding as a society. It needs to be about supporting a community that has experienced something truly awful. However at some point we need to look at this whole thing like grown ups. All the ‘country’s gone to the dogs’ or #tommywasright rhetoric just pushes us further away from having an adult conversation as a country about immigration. We never get to acknowledge that immigration is a very real necessity for an ageing population, as well as being a moral obligation given this country’s (recent and distant) past. We also turn a blind eye to the way we treat migrants once they arrive here (hostile environment etc). On the flip side a proper conversation needs to be had about integration that doesn’t treat it with kid gloves. And the left needs to stop lionising absolute arseholes like that lawyer, while they ignore his many terrible views, simply because they happen to agree on one issue.