ANGRY MOB

Daily Mail readers are becoming increasingly angry, and increasingly their anger is being directed at Muslims. Littlejohn has already wished for the small group of Muslims protesting against the soldiers in Iraq to 'be sent home' (even though they are UK citizens, and therefore already at home) and better still be sent somewhere with: 'orange jumpsuits, armed guards, razor-wire and large dogs'.

Littlejohn's article was basically inciting hatred against Muslims - 'The Royal Anglians would have been forgiven had they fixed bayonets and charged' - and this incitement is fully supported and encouraged by the Daily Mail. Today, for example, the Mail have an article on a Christian minister being beaten by 3 Asian men:

The article states that the police are searching for 3 Asian men in relation to the assault, but they do not state that they are searching for Asian Muslims, nor does the preacher state that the attackers claimed to be Muslim; it is just assumed that they are Muslim. They may well be Muslim, they may well have taken offence at the comments made by the Christian preacher - and as an atheist I find anyone bothering to debate which version of the fairy story they believe in absolutely mad in a supposed age of reason - but this is only a suspicion or assumption.

However, the article clearly links the the attack to Muslims (the headline is: Minister beaten after clashing with Muslims on his TV show) and the reader comments show how the backlash against Muslims is beginning:

Mike doesn't realise that the 'everyday occurance of muslim this, muslim that' represents the attempt at the Daily Mail to incite racial tension.

'Truthseeker' is representative of a creeping minority of Mail readers who seem to think that taking to the streets in a violent act of insurrection is the only way to improve things. Keep an eye out for it in the comments, including commentators waiting to 'bring on the summer of rage'.