The Daily Mail Called A Te**orist A "White Van Driver"

Ajouté : 2026-05-05

[00:00:00]One attack, two headlines. One paper calls it terrorism, another calls him a white van driver. Same event, completely different framing. On June 19th, 2017, Darren Osborne drove a van into Muslim worshipers leaving late-night Ramadan prayers near Finsbury Park Mosque in London. One man, Makram Ali, was killed. Eleven others were injured. Osborne pleaded guilty to terrorism-related murder and is serving 43 years. But look at the headlines. The Guardian reported a terror attack on a mosque naming Muslim victims and identifying Osborne as a far-right extremist from the start. The Daily Mail's original headline: "White van driver injures at least 10 people after plowing into crowd outside London's Finsbury Park Mosque where hate cleric Abu Hamza once preached." The victims, Muslim worshipers, are erased. The attacker gets a neutral label. The mosque, the victim, is smeared by association with a preacher gone for over a decade. J.K. Rowling summed it up. The Mail has misspelled terrorist as white van driver. The Mail quietly changed the headline after backlash. No front-page correction. No apology. This isn't an isolated incident. In 2026, the Center for Media Monitoring found that 70% of UK media articles about Muslims were negative. The Daily Mail ranked among the worst for bias. The Guardian among the best. Same facts, different language every time. Words are bias, and bias shapes society. Save this, share it, and follow.