Ali, a sharp critic of Islamist violence and of what she sees as Europe's limp response to it,
claims that the
rioters represent mainstream Muslim views.
Unions were linked with
rioters: «Referring to the need to garner support for curbing trade union power, John Hoskyns, head of Mrs Thatcher's policy unit, proposed: «We should try — implicitly and subtly, not very obviously — to link in people's minds the moral similarity between high pay
claims demanded with menaces and other forms of anti-social behaviour, including rioting and looting.»