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Why people are calling on 'clean-shaven white men' to condemn London mosque attack

Another tweet from the Daily Mail.

Gianluca Mezzofiore

on June 19, 2017

An incident near Finsbury Park Mosque in London in which a man died and 10 people were injured after a man drove a van into worshippers is being treated as a "terrorist attack," Met Police confirmed.

The first media reports were naturally wary of describing it as a terror incident -- the headline on the first BBC story was "Vehicle hits pedestrians in Finsbury Park" -- as they were waiting for more details to trickle in.

However, one media organisation overreached with a really weird tweet: "Clean-shaven white man arrested by police as at least 10 people are injured."

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It was just a matter of time until people on Twitter weighed in, underlining the perceived double standard The Daily Mail and other tabloids have when reporting about Islamist attacks:

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