UK Navy’s rescue of Manchester bomber sparks further refugee hate
The right-wing camp in Britain is using the news that the Royal Navy rescued Salman Abedi, the man who killed 23 people in a bombing in Manchester last year, as a pretext to spread more hate about refugees arriving in Europe.
Tabloid British newspapers on Tuesday covered the story of Abedi’s evacuation from Libya during a conflict in the country in 2014, saying it was a right policy to ban refugees altogether as Abadi reciprocated the mercy of the Royal Navy with a brutal attack on innocent concert goers in Manchester in May 2017.
“Sickening act of betrayal”, read a headline on the front page of the Daily Mail on Tuesday while elaborating how Abedi was rescued along 200 other British nationals by the HMS Enterprise when the airport in the Libyan capital of Tripoli was shut due to fighting between rival militia after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi.
“Rescued by the Royal Navy in Libya, Salman Abedi thanked Britain by bombing our kids,” read a sentence written on a composite picture of Abedi, a snake and the HMS Enterprise with rescued refugees onboard on the Twitter page of Leave.EU, one of two major groups that campaigned for Britain’s exit from the European Union.
“How many more of these filthy, despicable snakes has the government ferried into Britain?!” the group wrote in a tweet while lashing out at liberal asylum policies in Europe and in Britain.
However, there was no mention in the reports and commentaries that it was Britain and France who spearheaded a brutal bombing campaign of NATO against Gaddafi’s Libya, and pushed the wealthy North African country into destruction and chaos for years to come. Even former US President Barack Obama once criticized then British Prime Minister David Cameron for allowing Libya to spiral into chaotic “s*** show”.
Many say Britain’s role in the Libya conflict may have triggered a sense of revenge in Abedi, forcing him to launch the attack on concert goers. Abeid’s parents were granted asylum in Britain in the 1990s but they are now living in Tripoli.
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