“Immigrants Are The Real Danger," Says The Most Violent Community In The European Capital of Femicide

The same cretins that call for the expulsion of asylum seekers preside over a region where 98% of women have experienced abuse and where women are twice as likely to be murdered in their own homes as anywhere else on either island, or Western Europe at large. 

While masked mobs burn migrant families out of their homes and chant about “protecting local communities”, the communities they claim to defend have become the most dangerous place in Europe to be a woman, or any sexual minority. 

The statistics are not just bad; they are a continental scandal. Northern Ireland’s femicide rate is the second highest in the whole continent of Europe. Since 2020 alone, 28 adult women have been violently killed in the region. All but one were killed by a man. Almost all the perpetrators were white, and the overwhelming majority form the communities most avidly stirring the violence. 

A comprehensive study by Ulster University found that a staggering 98% of women in Northern Ireland have experienced at least one form of violence or abuse in their lifetime. Half of those surveyed experienced that abuse before the age of 11. A full 7 out of 10 had experienced violence or abuse in the previous 12 months alone.

The police recorded 31,558 domestic abuse incidents in the 12 months to March 2026 – an increase of 6.1% on the previous year. Sexual offences recorded the largest percentage increase, up 16.0%. Four out of five victims of sexual offences in Northern Ireland are female, and half of all 16-year-old girls in the region will have been sent unwanted sexual imagery. In 2025 alone, 4,360 sexual crimes were reported to the police, most involving women or children.

This is the crisis that society in the north, or any part of the island has failed to confront. Yet when a brutal attack occurs, provided it is alleged to have been committed by an individual from a minority background, the same communities that are the most violent towards their own women and families suddenly project an image of orderly, law-abiding victimhood taking up arms to “protect” what they themselves destroy. The bonfires that burn effigies of Black refugees, republicans and flags are built in neighbourhoods where 98% of women live in fear of their own. 

As Victim Support NI’s chief executive Janice Bunting put it, Northern Ireland’s complicated past means “a lot of cross-generational trauma and a history of violence against a heightened religious and patriarchal background”. The same political vacuum that has allowed loyalist paramilitaries to organise racist pogroms has also left a strategy to end violence against women and girls underfunded and delayed for decades, if not directly covering up crimes. 

When anti-immigrant rioters claim to be defending their communities, ask them: which communities? The communities where women cannot exist at home safely? The communities where 28 mothers, daughters and sisters have been murdered in their own homes in just five years? The communities where domestic abuse calls spike, in addition to during July, every Christmas and New Year, reaching 1,407 calls over the 2025-2026 Christmas period alone?

All that needs to be looked at in this is the partnering protests in Dublin supporting the rioters in the north were on the same time as the vote on removing the use of therapy notes from rape cases in the south. They disrupted the protests of women supporting the exclusion of therapy notes, and I have heard some women on the way home were verbally abused by them. 

Sure, the perpetrator of the crime that led to the current riots was a Black man from Sudan and his victim a man, but that does not change the fact that the common denominator here is men and those being punished for it are women and families, many of whom happen to be from immigrant backgrounds.

The real danger is not the asylum seeker, the immigrant, the black or brown person, by virtue of their skin colour, status or background. The real danger is behind closed doors, in the homes of the men who now claim to be protecting their streets. The North of Ireland is the European capital of femicide. It has no moral authority to lecture anyone about safety or violence, it has no justification for what is being done to communities across the north, and I hope the fools supporting them down here see them calling to use this as an excuse to attack Catholic areas as well. 

This does not mean that violence should be ignored when the perpetrator is not white and Irish, and there is no one saying that, but where is this reaction in the overwhelming majority of cases where the victim is a woman and the perpetrators white men? What happens in those situations is the victims are blamed. 

I wish justice for the man who is laying in hospital clinging to life, I wish justice for the dozens of women who lost theirs, I wish justice for all who carry the scars of the legacy of violence in the north, but all attacks and all perpetrators should be held to account equally.