Humza Yousaf, Scotland’s former first minister, has accused X proprietor Elon Musk of looking to inflame racial tensions after he posted in regards to the homicide of a Glasgow schoolboy.
Musk shared a publish in regards to the racist killing of Kriss Donald in Pollokshields in 2004 through a gang of Scottish Asian youths, pronouncing it was once the primary time he had heard of the case.
Yousaf informed BBC Scotland Information that the billionaire tech entrepreneur had amplified the homicide as a result of he “turns out to focus on circumstances that contain simplest other folks of color or Muslims”.
Musk has in the past pushed aside accusations of discrimination from the previous SNP chief, with each and every accusing the opposite of racism in a long-running row.
Getty PhotographsYousaf stated: “Elon Musk’s motivation for highlighting such circumstances isn’t compassion for the sufferers, however simplest to propagate a ways right-conspiracy.”
He additionally repeated accusations that Musk was once sympathetic to white supremacists.
Requested if he believed the X proprietor and Trump best friend was once looking to stoke racial pressure, the SNP MSP stated “after all” he was once.
Yousaf, who stepped down as first minister remaining 12 months, known as the homicide of Kriss Donald “probably the most horrific race killings” in Scotland throughout his lifetime.
He added: “The ones heinous, evil killers, I’m hoping they rot in jail relatively frankly.”
‘Complete drive of the legislation’
In his preliminary on-line reaction to Musk, Yousaf pointed to the position of then-Glasgow Central MP Mohammed Sarwar.
A Scottish-Pakistani and father of present Scottish Labour chief Anas Sarwar, he was once integral in seeing the perpetrators dropped at justice.
Yousaf informed BBC Scotland Information he sought after to remind Musk it was once Sarwar who travelled to Pakistan, “rattled a couple of cages and controlled to get them introduced again house to stand the entire drive of the legislation”.
He stated Musk’s fighters may just both forget about him, or confront him and advertise a “a lot more hopeful ideology the place communities can exist in concord”.
Yousaf stated he believed the billionaire businessman had “no hobby” in a dialog about their variations.
Kriss, 15, was once again and again stabbed and set on hearth after being kidnapped through a gang led through Imran Shahid.
Trial pass judgement on Lord Uist stated Kriss have been focused at random as a result of he was once white, describing the homicide as “an abomination” which had “rightly surprised and appalled the general public”.
The homicide adopted an attack on Shahid at a nightclub the former night time. Kriss was once now not concerned within the assault.
Daanish Zahid was once jailed for homicide in December 2004 whilst Zahid Mohammed, 20, was once sentenced to 5 years for attack and abduction.
The 3 ultimate suspects – Shahid, his brother Zeeshan Shahid and Mohammed Faisal Mushtaq – fled to Pakistan after the killing.
Mohammed Sarwar performed a key position in making sure the 3 suspects had been extradited again to Scotland to stand punishment.
Shahid, his brother Zeeshan Shahid and Mushtaq had been discovered accountable of homicide and jailed for lifestyles in November 2006.
The case was once the primary conviction for a racially-motivated homicide in Scotland.
‘Populists’ row
Yousaf’s feedback come after repeated interventions through Musk in UK politics.
The X proprietor – who has been appointed as an potency tsar in Donald Trump’s incoming US management – has attacked Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour govt, in addition to criticising former top minister Gordon Brown.
The sector’s richest guy has sponsored Nigel Farage’s Reform birthday party. Then again, he due to this fact known as for Farage to get replaced.
Previous this week, First Minister John Swinney advised MSPs to again his govt’s price range to thwart “forces of anti-politics”.
He stated if parliamentarians fail to take action it might play “correct into the palms of Elon Musk and different populists”.
