It never used to be, what changed, I wonder?
Akter had come to the UK from Bangladesh, where Masum was also from. She had been living above a shop in Oldham but was staying in Bradford on the day she was killed.
Ah!
Muhammad Shehzad said crime had worsened significantly since he came to the UK in 2003.
You don't say?
He blamed Rishi Sunak for driving down living standards to the point where people felt the need to turn to crime.
“If you give a good chance to work, crime goes down,” said Shehzad. “There needs to be more investment in this country, my home.”
What difference do living standards make to the typical Muslim mysogynistic crime of passion?
Naz Shah, the Labour MP for Bradford West, said the city had been traumatised by what was a rare attack on an ordinary day.
Yes, Reader, this Naz Shah.
“People are very clear this is a very isolated incident and Bradford isn’t like this,” she said, adding that the fear was not that people would be killed in a random attack on the street but that women were being murdered by men.
Muslim men, Naz. Your voters,
“I went to speak to literally hundreds of women in the Chaand Raat events, prior to Eid, where everybody gets their mehndi done. We had a conversation and all of them were saying: ‘When is this going to stop, men killing women?’ It wasn’t about Bradford, it was generally women really, really angry that, again, a woman has been murdered. They were saying: ‘Naz you need to talk more about it. This has got to stop.’
Women at segregated events urging another woman to do something about it? It's a nonsense, and it's what has turned Bradford into what it is today.