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GWYNNE DYER: Should we worry about more violence in Ireland?

The violence is being seized by the British and international hard right as evidence of ‘out-of-control immigration’

Last week’s violence in Northern Ireland, not really a ‘protest’ but an organized pogrom, is being seized on by the British and international hard right as further evidence that ‘out-of-control immigration’ is fueling the justifiable anger of the beleaguered (and soon to be replaced) white majority.

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This is a steaming heap of horsefeathers.

It is true that almost all the families who were burned out of their houses in Belfast were non-white immigrants who were legally in the United Kingdom. It was also obviously a pogrom, not a spontaneous outbreak, because the paramilitary members leading the attacks had lists of addresses of the houses to be burned.

But if it was really fears about immigration and the ‘Great Replacement’ that drove the violence, as Fox News, Elon Musk and all the gang claimed, then why did only Protestants (‘Loyalists’, in the local parlance) join the pogrom?

And why in Northern Ireland, which has the lowest rate of immigrants (three in 100) in the UK?

What does religion have to do with........

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