J.K. Rowling made a huge correction to this 'Daily Mail' headline
BY SAM HAYSOM
Just after midnight on Monday morning, a man drove a van into a crowd of Muslim worshippers outside Finsbury Park Mosque in London.
Ten people are injured and one man is dead, the BBC reports, and counter-terrorism officers are in attendance.
For awhile after the attack happened, though, some news headlines weren't mentioning the word "terrorism". This didn't go unnoticed.
As a white British man I am a little uncomfortable with the reporting of #FinsburyPark This is a targeted attack. It IS Terrorism— Just me (@baldandzbeardy) June 19, 2017
Soon, J.K. Rowling waded in.
Victim blaming in the usual newspapers is disgusting. #FinsburyPark mosque won an award for combating extremism. islingtongazette.co.uk/news/finsbury-…
She had some particularly choice words for the headline being run on the Mail Online's article (it's worth noting the piece has now been updated to describe the situation as a "terror attack").
Rowling has now turned her attention to former UKIP leader Nigel Farage...
...And she's praised the Imam who reportedly tried to protect the suspect from harm at the hands of the crowd.
The extraordinary decency and courage of this act has brought me to tears this morning. I hope this imam gets the recognition he deserves. twitter.com/MetroUK/status…
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