Official reports dismissed the far-right’s role in the 2001 northern England riots
Evidence
Despite various official reports into the disturbances, the role of the far-right including the BnP was largely dismissed as being irrelevant to the tensions that emerged. However the BnP were actively campaigning in all of these areas at the time of the respective disturbances, and the BNP leader, Nick Griffin, had been addressing a meeting of supporters in Bradford the night before the Bradford disturbances, incidentally the worst disturbances of their kind in recent British history. — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 521
Categorization
- SEED: The gap between official dismissal and BNP’s documented presence the night before offers an angle on how institutional narratives erase far-right causation of ethnic violence.
- XREF: connects to: Post-2001 riot reports characterized British Muslims as self-segregating colonists — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia: Still a Challenge for Us…, 438