The newly appointed African mayor of Derry in Northern Ireland has a message for Irish patriots who oppose immigration: You are terrorists, and you must be stopped.
Indeed, socialist Lilian Seenoi-Barr called them terrorists not only last year but also more recently on a radio program in which she denied calling them terrorists.
And now that her original comments from last year have gone viral, leftists are blaming Alex Jones and his Infowars website for publicizing them.
No Opposing Mass Immigration
Installed by her Social Democratic and Labour Party days ago over two real Irish candidates, the Kenyan refugee was a city councillor before the party picked her.
Seenoi-Barr is also programs director for the North West Migrants Forum, which bills itself as the “as the leading anti-racism charity.” Its mission, it says, is to “transform the narratives around black and minoritised communities through tackling prejudice and stereotypes, normalising access to services and promoting respect, fairness, equality and success.”
Thus, anyone who opposes the takeover of Northern Ireland by “migrants” is a de facto racist and terrorist.
“Everyone is living on edge right now and we need to do something about it,” she said in 2023, speaking of Irish patriots who protested against the coming destruction of their country:
We cannot continue ignoring that this is a small minority of far-right [people]. It is an organized terrorist group of people who want to harm immigrants in this country and we have to take action now.
We can’t keep on calling them a small dangerous group of people because it is an organized group of people who are radicalizing young people and encouraging them to go and harm others who are just living peacefully, who want to live a peaceful life in this country.
Note that she called the protesters a “small minority,” but then said that “we can’t keep calling them a small dangerous group of people.”
But forgetting that confused claim, as if calling the protesters terrorists weren’t enough, Seenoi-Barr then denied uttering any such remarks — even as she repeated them in the denial. And, of course, she ducked into the last refuge of all politicians. Her words, she said, were taken “out of context.”
Asked if she stood by her comments, Sennoi-Barr falsely claimed that “I didn’t reference them as terrorists. I think my words were taken out of context.”
Continued Sennoi-Barr:
I said those who were … lying to the community … dividing communities are the ones who are domestic terrorists. If you go to any country, they are labeled terrorists. Why can they not be labeled terrorists in Ireland?
You know, if you go to any country where people are being divided because of politics, the ones who are causing all this trouble are called terrorists. So do we have two different types of terrorists when it comes to people who are not from the Western country. No. I said it because it is a fact.… How is [terrorist] defined in policy? Just define it in policy, and then you will be able to see that was a factual statement that I made. I would not apologize by saying that.
Understandably, the remarks rocketed around social media, with myriad X accounts posting the two interviews.
“This is why imports should not be allowed [to] vote or be in politics,” one user wrote. “The New mayor of Derry saying that Irish patriots are ‘Terrorists’ and that ‘we have to take Action now’ They will agitate against the natives as soon [as] they get the opportunity.”
As for whether the protesters are a “small” group, X videos from across Northern Ireland tell a different story:
It’s Jones’s Fault
That truth aside, because Jones’s Infowars revealed her comments, the leftist media jumped on the chance to attack him. In a report about SDLP leader Colum Eastwood’s attack on “far-right hate mongers,” Derry Now detailed Jones’s legal troubles and his ban from social media. Yet somehow the website omitted that Infowars accurately reported Seenoi-Barr’s remarks.
The website also provided a megaphone for SDLP leader Eastwood.
“The racially motivated attacks on Lilian over the weekend and today have been coordinated by far-right political actors Hell bent on spreading misinformation to fuel their own appalling ideology,” the leftist member of Parliament fumed:
These people don’t care about places like Derry and Strabane, they don’t care about the people who live here and have made a home for their families here. The hate at the heart of their politics could not stand more starkly against the compassion that Lilian has shown for the people of Derry, people across this island and those in need even further afield.
Derry Daily included comments from United Against Racism about the “racist abuse” Seenoi-Barr without citing the actual abuse. Presumably, it was the Infowars report.
“Yet again we see fascist grifters attempting to stir up hatred and division,” a spokesman said.
As well, reporting the truth about her remarks “follows a pattern of racist incitement and incendiary actions all geared towards creating a false narrative around immigration and to create a climate of fear.”
And “fake Irish patriots with strong links to British far right leaders try to drip poison into our communities.”
Here is more video of “fake Irish patriots”:
