I told you this would happen – Edinburgh edition.

There’s been a terrible machete attack in Edinburgh (see addendum) and it was one that was sadly all too predictable.

Apparently a Scottish man has gone apeshit at Muslims coming out of a Mosque in Edinburgh and used a big knife to attack some random Muslims. Sky News said that five people, four in their twenties and one in their late thirties were attacked. Their injuries were described by Sky as ‘not life threatening’. A man has been arrested for the offence.

This is both an attack that I condemn and one that I have sadly predicted might happen.

In the majority of the articles in my ‘I told you this would happen’ strand I have looked at public reactions, sometimes violent ones, to crimes or acts of terrorism carried out by Muslims. In these articles I have taken the view that a lot of these attacks aimed at Muslims, most often innocent ones, may well have been prevented had not government’s across the West failed so dismally to decisively and in a timely manner, act politically and legally, in response to some of the problems that Islam and its followers have brought to the West.

Whilst the prime mover in this vicious attack in Edinburgh are the internal motivations of the alleged attacker, who while being pinned down by police shouted about how he carried out the attack because of the danger posed by Muslims to the daughters of British families, there is another quieter co-defendant. That co-defendant is the multitude of Western and specifically British politicians who did not act, when asked politely by the citizens of their nations, to deal to their satisfaction with the problems that Islam and some Muslims have brought to the West.

The political classes didn’t listen when complaints were made to them about the Islam majority rape gangs that are not just a problem for Britain. Neither did they listen when confronted with evidence of mass sex attacks such as we saw in Cologne in Germany a few years back and they certainly didn’t listen to either the majority population nor the cries of liberal Muslims about the dangers posed by Islamic religious extremism. The West’s political classes did not appear to be much bothered by the rise of Islamic Religious Political Sectarianism and it’s likely handmaiden, vote rigging, despite being warned that this a particular danger and warned by those more educated and informed than me. There was also an absence of both concern and action when the citizens of the West are murdered, wounded or sent into hiding for life because they’ve crossed those Muslims who should never have been allowed to cross our borders in the first place. The political classes of many nations have closed their ears and their eyes to the public’s reasonable (as in man on the Clapham Omnibus reasonable) complaints about certain aspects of Islam and the behaviour of some of its adherents.

Instead of listening to the people’s of their nations and acting on what were clearly well evidenced problems being created by Islam and some of its followers, governments across the West did the total opposite. They threw away hard won rights to free speech and policed and administered their nations in a distinctly two tier manner and in a manner that many saw or perceived as a manner that benefited Islam and Muslims. The complaints of Muslims, whether justified or unjustified, were listened to by governments and acted upon with an alacrity and intensity that was not mirrored in the way that the complaints of non-Muslims were handled.

Even the way that the British political classes have acted in response to the Edinburgh attack is strong evidence of a two tier viewpoint in politics when it comes to Islam. Whilst in other cases where there has been an attack by a minority or more usually an act of Islamic terrorism we are told to ‘shut up and don’t speculate lest it endanger any future trial’. However in the Edinburgh case both the British Prime Minister and the Home Secretary have come out and spoken in detail about this case, the alleged perpetrator’s motivations and more. Whatever happened to treating everyone equally and having equality under the law? What happened to the Contempt of Court Acts or have we’ve come to a situation where the political classes and the political classes alone can comment publicly on cases such as we have seen in Edinburgh whilst everyone else must keep quiet?

The result of the sort of two tier governance that we’ve seen across the West in recent decades is that there has been a massive falling away in people’s confidence in the State and its organs. Too many people now do not trust the State to treat them equally with others and now expect the State to behave advantageously towards Muslims and Islam. There are damned good reasons why, for example, in Britain the public’s support for their police is down to a new low of 54% and I believe that one of those reasons was the kid glove handling of the various pro-Hamas demonstrators who’ve taken over the centres of too many of Britain’s towns and cities.

The drop in public confidence in the State and its organs in the West is both societally and civilizationally dangerous. It creates the conditions for vigilantism, a breakdown in the Rule of Law and for broader disorder and conflict. It creates individuals and mobs who take it into their heads to do the job of policing the downsides of mass Muslim immigration into the West that they see the political classes as failing to do. People have lost confidence that the State will treat them in the same way as the State treats others of different groups and this causes ‘self protection’ groups and networks to be set up or even random nutcases going apeshit on random Muslims. None of this is good.

Did I want to see what has happened in Edinburgh and which might become a more widespread feature of British life? Of course I damned well didn’t. This is because not only can I condemn the actual attack but I also grieve about it as a sign of national breakdown. I may not like this, I may not condone it, I can and do condemn it and I would strongly counsel others not to go down this man’s path, but sadly I have predicted it.

It was only a matter of time before one of more violent nutcases decided to make up law and take it into their own hands. Confidence in the Authorities is now very low in the population over certain issues and that diminishing public confidence spells an awful lot of trouble.

I didn’t want to see happen what happened in Edinburgh but I did sadly predict that one day the problems in our societies, problems that the political classes have exacerbated to a significant degree, would get so bad we’d see lone wolf attacks against Muslims. We should never have got here, we should have had putative problems surrounding migration and Islam sorted out by those who are supposed to act in our interests before we got to the depths of the problems we have today, but they were not and here we are.

Neither social media nor Tommy Robinson, nor Elon Musk nor Rupert Lowe MP nor the relatively insignificant in Britain at least, political far right are to blame for creating the conditions that helped to propel a nutcase to go mad at Muslims in Edinburgh. That’s on the man who allegedly carried out the attack. However, it’s the political classes that have created the environment for such nutcases to arise, created the conditions where a nutter thinks he’s justified in going apeshit with a knife as well as the conditions for vigilantism to emerge.

What’s infinitely sad to me is that this incident and other incidents where the public have taken the law into their own hands regarding Islam and its more troubling followers, could all have been avoided. It could have been avoided by the political classes of Western nations not opening up nations borders excessively, by not pandering to one culture/faith at the seeming exclusion of all else and by acting decisively, fairly and without bias when the public came to the political classes with justifiable complaints.

I told you this would happen and it grieves me to yet again be correct.

I pray for the swift recovery of those who were injured.

Let’s have a political solution to the West’s problems before everything gets too out of hand. It’s the solution I pray for.

Addendum

Video of the arrest of the man who allegedly carried out the Edinburgh attack.