Racist Cowards Riot in Northern Ireland Following Horrific Stabbing
On the night of June 8, a man in his 40s was attacked on Kinnaird Avenue in north Belfast. A 30-year-old Sudanese man straddled him and stabbed him repeatedly in the head, neck, eyes, and back with a kitchen knife. It was savage. The victim survived because bystanders intervened, one of them with a hurling stick, and held the situation until police arrived. Having seen the video, I can attest to the horrific nature of the scene.
The suspect was arrested at the scene. He has been charged with attempted murder. Police have stated there is no evidence of a terrorist motive.
That should have been the story. Cowards inside and outside of Northern Ireland had no intention of that being the last horrific scene that would be seen that day. Egged on by cowards who hide behind online profiles and mass followings, racists decided to use the event to terrorise anyone and everyone they could.
Within hours, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, the convicted fraudster who operates under the name Tommy Robinson, had the shared graphic video of the attack and was calling for street protests, saying there had been “yet another invader attack on our people”.
From across the Atlantic, Elon Musk amplified Robinson’s post to hundreds of millions of followers, adding: “Only by protesting REPEATEDLY and LOUDLY will there be any change!!” Nigel Farage and Rupert Lowe, carrying the thinner veneer of parliamentary respectability, demanded the attacker’s immigration details be made public.
It is worth pausing to note what does not produce a Robinson post, a Musk retweet, or a single masked man on any street. In March 2020, Michael Lenaghan stabbed Inayat Shah 55 times in Ballymena, the very town these same racist cowards would later riot in, as Shah tried to help another stabbing victim. It was me with silence from the cowards hiding behind their social media accounts.
In December 2021, Taylor McIlvenna beat Caoimhe Morgan to death in north Belfast with at least ten blows to the head, then walked out and left her for her family to find the next morning. It was also met with silence from the cowards hiding behind their social media accounts.
Not one of these men was in Belfast. Not one of them will be. But the men in the balaclavas were there, and they knew exactly what they were doing.
By the evening of June 9, hundreds of masked men had gathered at multiple locations across the city, the Newtownards Road, the Crumlin Road, outside the Royal Victoria Hospital. They set buses and cars on fire. They attacked foreign-owned businesses. They kicked in the doors and windows of homes on the Lower Newtownards Road, shouting that they were “getting the foreigners out.” Three police officers were injured. At least four people were arrested. Thirteen reports of criminal damage and five of arson were filed, several treated as hate crimes. Translink suspended all bus and rail services in and out of Belfast, forcing the wider public to deal with the terror brought upon the city by the horde of cowards.
The men doing the kicking did not know the stabbing victim. They did not know the suspect. They knew that someone far away had told them it was time, and that there would be enough of them to feel brave about it.
The riots were not spontaneous rage. Some of what happened on the streets of Belfast on the night of June 9 was organised, targeted, and premeditated. Videos circulating on social media showed groups moving with purpose to specific addresses, not roaming randomly but arriving, as if they already knew where to go. These were not men swept up in a moment. These were cowards who had done their homework, who had identified their targets in advance, and who used a man's near-murder as the window they had been waiting for. We have obtained one such video.
Cowards require a crowd. That is the first rule of coward culture.
The people whose doors got kicked in committed no crime. They were just foreign. They were accessible targets to cowards hiding in a crowd.
We have seen this before. We have seen it many times, because coward culture bred by online mouthpieces always needs a crowd, not one of the participants brave enough to voice their concerns without a mask and a flock of racists at their back.
Robinson and Musk supply the rage and the reach, Nigel Farage supplies the political cover, and then men in balaclavas and masks go door to door through a neighbourhood because individually, without the mob, every single one of them knows exactly what they are. The cowards abroad feed the cowards at home. The cowards at home do the work the cowards abroad would never dare do themselves. Everyone stays comfortable. Everyone stays unaccountable. The people in the community pay the price.
In November 2023, three children were stabbed outside a primary school in Dublin. Far-right networks spread the claim within hours that the attacker was an illegal immigrant. He was a naturalised Irish citizen who had lived in the country for years. By the time that was established, 60 Gardaí had been assaulted, 13 shops looted or damaged, four buses and a tram destroyed, and 34 people arrested. The cowards had already moved on.
In July 2024, three girls were Fballym at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport. False claims flooded social media that the attacker was named “Ali Al-Shakati,” a Muslim asylum seeker newly arrived by boat. Merseyside Police stated the name was fabricated. The attacker was born in Cardiff to Rwandan parents. It didn’t matter. By the time the truth arrived, an estimated 29 anti-immigration riots had broken out across 27 towns and cities in England and Northern Ireland. 1,840 people were arrested. 361 police officers were injured. Farage, asked about his role, said he had merely wondered whether the truth was being withheld. That is what cowardice sounds like in a suit.
In June 2025, two Romanian teenagers in Ballymena were charged with the attempted rape of a schoolgirl. The same infrastructure mobilised. Riots ran for over a week across Northern Ireland. 107 officers injured, 56 arrested. The charges were later dropped for lack of evidence. The cowards did not issue a correction.
In June 2026, 18-year-old Henry Nowak was stabbed to death in Southampton after a night out. His killer falsely claimed Nowak had racially abused him. Police believed the killer over the dying boy. When the bodycam footage was released this month, it was damning, and it was real, and it warranted real anger. The cowards arrived anyway, reframing a genuine police failure as a race war, organising outside Southampton Central Police Station, linking their banners to Belfast within days.
The PSNI’s chief constable Jon Boutcher put it plainly in the aftermath of the Belfast riots: “The challenge we face with today’s online toxic nature is that people are incited by people who are faceless and know nothing about this brilliant, vibrant place. Do not be fooled or duped by people online.”
Faceless. That is the word. Cowards are always faceless, masked on the Newtownards Road, anonymous on Telegram, insulated by distance and wealth and the plausible deniability of a retweet. The stabbing victim on Kinnaird Avenue is in hospital. The cowards who used him are already looking for the next one.
The morning after, a man called Jamie stood in front of what had been his home. He had lived in Belfast for 13 years. The cowards had come in the night and destroyed it. He looked at the cameras and said the only thing there was left to say.
“They’ve done it to one of their own.”