An Eye for an Eye
6th February 2024
Britain now has the highest level of recorded acid attacks in the world, at 710, rising 45% from 2021-2022. Despite desperate attempts by multiculturalism apologists to link this to crimes in Victorian times, honour-based acid attacks are not a native English pastime. Ninety percent of acid attacks occur in low-income countries in Asia and Africa—where Britain has sourced most of its record influx of immigrants after Brexit. The imported practice has gained salience since Afghan asylum seeker Abdul Ezedi doused a mother and her two children with a corrosive substance in Clapham, South London. These crimes are themselves a solvent for cultural cohesion and faith in politics and the rule of law—but our political class insists on turning a blind eye to them. They would rather weaponise it as a wedge issue for their existing political ambitions.