Homophobic attack committed by Muslims in Birmingham: LGBT journal censors ethnicity of four attackers

On Sunday August 15, Rob and Patrick – a gay couple from Birmingham, England – were violently attacked by a group of four men at around 4am as they returned from a night out in the city’s gay quarter. On their way home, they passed an SUV with four men inside. Being friendly, Rob and Patrick tried to strike up a conversation and exchange pleasantries. This did not please the men. The four men responded with homophobic insults before beating up Patrick, who tried to videotape the scene, and then Rob, who had made his way to catch them before the police arrived. The young man’s wounds required 22 stitches. The incident, which was widely reported in the British press, was made public by the LGBT magazine Têtu in France.

However, while the magazine took the time to report on the attack in its entirety, it seems to have preferred to omit one important detail that was nevertheless picked up by British newspapers: the identity and origin of the attackers.As so often in such cases, it was LGBT activist and universalist Mehdi Aïfa who pointed out Têtu’s well-considered ignorance. “Têtu, as usual, while all the English press and police are reporting this, knowingly fails to mention that these four homophobic attackers are described as being from the Middle East,” he wrote on Twitter, before posting the photo and names of three of the attackers: Sohail Khan, Mosin Mahmood and Ishaaq Ayaz. In his tweet, Mehdi Aïfa also reminds us that this is common for Têtu, citing at least four similar cases. As the saying goes, God laughs at the people who lament the consequences whose perpetrators they protect. Rob and Patrick can undoubtedly laugh heartily about this.

https://www.valeursactuelles.com/societe/agression-homophobe-tetu-censure-origine-homophobie/