Mr Haque’s murderers were racists — so why won’t anyone admit it?

31 July 2010

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Rod Liddle attacks the dangerous liberals who refuse to accept that young black males often come from a culture that celebrates violence, misogyny and racism

There’s loads of similar videos on there you can download, if the Park Lane Riders stuff isn’t enough, the Brixton versus Peckham Posse The Truth video, courtesy of a conduit called ‘Listen2DaStreetz’ — maybe you’re already familiar with their work. You can see the video of Ekram Haque dying, too, and his three-year-old granddaughter running over to his body, asking him if he’s OK. But that’s from CCTV footage, the camera on the side of the mosque — not mobile phone happy-slappy stuff. The perpetrators had run away too quickly to get that footage. The cctv film is horrible, but I’d urge you to watch it, to be angry, to be furious, to be angry and furious on behalf of Marian and her dead grandfather. And on behalf of everyone else living in Tooting — or Peckham, or New Cross, or Tower Hamlets, or Harlesden, or Tottenham — who has to put up with this risk every day of every week, to be angry at the cretinous liberals who tell you it isn’t happening.

Here’s a few points about the killers of Ekram Haque which will not remotely surprise you. In fact, you have probably already guessed all of them.

1) At least one of them was out on bail for a similar assault.

2) A few moments — 20 seconds in fact — before they killed Ekram Haque, they had attacked another Asian man.

3) They invariably chose Asian men — usually elderly or middle-aged Asian men — as their targets. They are cowards, they never choose people who can fight back.

4) No mention of racism was recorded in the court proceedings against them. This, on the face of it, is odd — but only, I suppose, if you live on another planet.

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mike carroll

August 5th, 2010 7:26am Report this comment

Excellent piece from Rod. I take it we wont be naming a street, school or airport after poor Mr Haque then? God rest his soul.

Bob goblet

August 16th, 2010 1:25pm Report this comment

Life seems to have no value, it is taken from people like Mr Haque like stealing sweets from a pick n mix. It's done for fun and because they can. If a life is taken by someone black or White in such a premeditated way they should never be let out. The killers of James Bulger cost the tax payers hundreds of thousands of plans for new identities and now one is back in prison for child porn? Anyone who attacks someone like Mr Haque or James Bulger alike deserves to left in prison and never be able to eligible for release. Animals like that don't deserve human rights, victims deserve human rights not monsters who attack the innocent and defenceless people.

Stephanie Tohill

August 16th, 2010 5:44pm Report this comment

"Here’s the thing. If poor Mr Haque had been black and his attackers white, they’d be cutting the turf for the commemorative community centre right now and David Cameron would be making anguished and impassioned speeches to the press, perhaps concluding by singing a verse of ‘Ebony and Ivory’."

As my brother's (black) friend in Birmingham was murdered, cut up and dumped by his two (white) housemates into bin bags and it was not reported as a racist murder I am not sure this is accurate. Likewise the young (black) girl hacked to death in Catford by an older (white, East european to boot) was not said to be a victim of a racist attack. I think this is your own personal greivance mentality coming to the fore.

Nor am I sure how 'multi-culturalism' feeds this as I am not sure how one of the things you mention (be it single-parent families, mysogynistic/homophobic music and and male braggadacio) is encouraged by anyone, anywhere in our society.

I think the one point on which we can agree is how woeful these sentences were. A complete embarrassment to the judicial system. I wonder how the families (both offender and victim) are dealing with this.

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