The Daily Mail has sparked a fierce backlash after publishing a list of towns it considers to be ‘no-go areas for white people’.
The piece noted several locations including Bradford, Blackburn and Dewsbury; Didsbury, Cardiff, Edinburgh and more as places where families live under “Taliban-like rules” and women “can’t leave the home without permission.”
Unsurprisingly, people on social media were quick to rubbish such reports, as well as admonish the Mail for publishing such an inflammatory article, with several people labelling it as “outright racism.”
Ash Sarkar pointed out that there aren’t any Muslim no-go areas in the UK, “only places that The Daily Mail aren’t confident that it’s readership would feel uncomfortable in”, to which one person responded that the only time he has been attacked is with offerings of baked goods during religious festivals.
Alan Ferrier responded in a similar ilk, while Daniela Nadj made a more serious point about the normalisation of the far right in the UK.
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