{"id":212266,"date":"2025-01-10T12:33:37","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T12:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/10\/yousaf-accuses-musk-of-inflaming-racial-tensions\/"},"modified":"2025-01-10T12:33:37","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T12:33:37","slug":"yousaf-accuses-musk-of-inflaming-racial-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/10\/yousaf-accuses-musk-of-inflaming-racial-tensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Yousaf accuses Musk of inflaming racial tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former First Minister Humza Yousaf has been involved in a long-running online spat with Elon Musk.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n
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Humza Yousaf, Scotland’s former first minister, has accused X owner Elon Musk of trying to inflame racial tensions after he posted about the murder of a Glasgow schoolboy.<\/p>\n

Musk shared a post about the racist killing of Kriss Donald in Pollokshields in 2004 by a gang of Scottish Asian youths, saying it was the first time he had heard of the case. <\/p>\n

Yousaf told BBC Scotland News that the billionaire tech entrepreneur had amplified the murder because he “seems to highlight cases that involve only people of colour or Muslims”. <\/p>\n

Musk has previously dismissed accusations of discrimination from the former SNP leader, with each accusing the other of racism in a long-running row.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Elon Musk has accused Humza Yousaf of racism <\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Yousaf said: “Elon Musk’s motivation for highlighting such cases is not compassion for the victims, but only to propagate far right-conspiracy.”<\/p>\n

He also repeated accusations that Musk was sympathetic to white supremacists. <\/p>\n

Asked if he believed the X owner and Trump ally was trying to stoke racial tension, the SNP MSP said “of course” he was.<\/p>\n

Yousaf, who stepped down as first minister last year, called the murder of Kriss Donald “one of the most horrific race killings” in Scotland during his lifetime.<\/p>\n

He added: “Those heinous, evil killers, I hope they rot in prison quite frankly.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

‘Full force of the law’<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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In his initial online response<\/a> to Musk, Yousaf pointed to the role of then-Glasgow Central MP Mohammed Sarwar.<\/p>\n

A Scottish-Pakistani and father of current Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar, he was integral in seeing the perpetrators brought to justice.<\/p>\n

Yousaf told BBC Scotland News he wanted to remind Musk it was Sarwar who travelled to Pakistan, “rattled a few cages and managed to get them brought back home to face the full force of the law”.<\/p>\n

He said Musk’s opponents could either ignore him, or confront him and promote a “much more hopeful ideology where communities can exist in cohesion”.<\/p>\n

Yousaf said he believed the billionaire businessman had “no interest” in a conversation about their differences.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Kriss Donald was abducted and tortured before being killed in a racially motivated attack<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Kriss, 15, was repeatedly stabbed and set on fire after being abducted by a gang led by Imran Shahid.<\/p>\n

Trial judge Lord Uist said Kriss had been targeted at random because he was white, describing the murder as “an abomination” which had “rightly shocked and appalled the public”.<\/p>\n

The murder followed an assault on Shahid at a nightclub the previous evening. Kriss was not involved in the attack.<\/p>\n

Daanish Zahid was jailed for murder in December 2004 while Zahid Mohammed, 20, was sentenced to five years for assault and abduction.<\/p>\n

The three remaining suspects – Shahid, his brother Zeeshan Shahid and Mohammed Faisal Mushtaq \u2013 fled to Pakistan after the killing.<\/p>\n

Mohammed Sarwar played a key role in ensuring the three suspects were extradited back to Scotland to face punishment.<\/p>\n

Shahid, his brother Zeeshan Shahid and Mushtaq were found guilty of murder and jailed for life in November 2006.<\/p>\n

The case was the first conviction for a racially-motivated murder in Scotland.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Yousaf’s comments come after repeated interventions by Musk in UK politics. <\/p>\n

The X owner \u2013 who has been appointed as an efficiency tsar in Donald Trump’s incoming US administration \u2013 has attacked Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour government<\/a>, as well as criticising former prime minister Gordon Brown<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The world’s richest man has backed Nigel Farage’s Reform party. However, he subsequently called for Farage to be replaced<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, First Minister John Swinney urged MSPs to back his government’s budget to thwart “forces of anti-politics”. <\/p>\n

He said if parliamentarians fail to do so it would play “right into the hands of Elon Musk and other populists”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n


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