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Joanne Murphy ★ Writing In International Leadership Association.

When a knife attack in Belfast sparked riots inflamed by outside "influencers," it exposed an emerging leadership challenge: who manages the bad actors profiting from division? Drawing on new place leadership research this post examines what leading a divided community actually demands.

For anyone who has seen (or even glimpsed) the footage of the recent knife attack in Belfast, Northern Ireland (NI) on Monday, there is something truly horror inducing about what happened on that street. It was grotesque — even in the context of a place with a history of unspeakable brutality through 30 years of civil conflict known as “the Troubles.” 

Of course, far more people will now have seen this awful event — thanks to its dissemination on social media by very many people — including Elon Musk. Musk is a billionaire who never encountered a dangerous situation he couldn’t make worse. His voice and many others, largely from outside NI, have been loud in encouraging protests and mass deportations of “migrants.” A lot of these people seemed to have a sketchy understand of where Belfast is, or the constitutional status of NI as part of the United Kingdom, but not part of Great Britain.

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Riots In Belfast, Place Leadership Post Conflict (And Why Elon Musk Can Take A Hike)

Joanne Murphy ★ Writing In International Leadership Association.

When a knife attack in Belfast sparked riots inflamed by outside "influencers," it exposed an emerging leadership challenge: who manages the bad actors profiting from division? Drawing on new place leadership research this post examines what leading a divided community actually demands.

For anyone who has seen (or even glimpsed) the footage of the recent knife attack in Belfast, Northern Ireland (NI) on Monday, there is something truly horror inducing about what happened on that street. It was grotesque — even in the context of a place with a history of unspeakable brutality through 30 years of civil conflict known as “the Troubles.” 

Of course, far more people will now have seen this awful event — thanks to its dissemination on social media by very many people — including Elon Musk. Musk is a billionaire who never encountered a dangerous situation he couldn’t make worse. His voice and many others, largely from outside NI, have been loud in encouraging protests and mass deportations of “migrants.” A lot of these people seemed to have a sketchy understand of where Belfast is, or the constitutional status of NI as part of the United Kingdom, but not part of Great Britain.

Continue @ ILA.
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3 comments:

  1. Caoimhin O'Muraile11:15 PM, June 12, 2026

    Musk is now a trillionair with mugs and an assortment of would be capitalists buying shares in his company's, Space X, floatation. Good chance it could go bust, here's hoping, but should this happen Musk will be well insulated.
    Elon Musk loves creating or exploiting divisions in society. He exploits people's fears magnifying them until absolute panic sets in. The horrific stabbing in Belfast set in motion such panic. Would, if the stabbing had not involved a man from oversees, outside the EU, these riots have taken place? Would the racist violence have been present if the culprit had not been from Somalia? Would Musk and his fellow would be neo-Nazis, Musk did a Nazi salute when Trump was elected, have intervened if the terrible stabbing offence was committed on one Belfast man by another? No, there would have been no milage in such an incident. Elon Musk is a very, very dangerous man, in fact the whole Washington gang are, so nothing should surprise us.

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    1. AM7:11 AM, June 13, 2026

      I like to link Joanne's pieces. She writes clearly and fluently.

      I saw a meme the other day that the North had a huge immigration problem - unionists: which nationalists had been protesting against all their days!!! Thought that funny.

      This Kinnaird Avenue incident reminds me of the circumstances surrounding Ashling Murphy's death. Had Ashling been killed by a white Irish person, like so many other female murder victims, we would not have heard a peep from the racists just as we heard nothing after a child, Tadhg Farrell, and his grand-aunt Mary Holt were murdered by people presumed to be white Irish.
      Immigration is the excuse not the reason. Musk and Co exploited what happened in Belfast. Fanon was great on how the constructs are put together and then used to manipulate public perception.

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  2. Gary Russell (Robertson)6:34 PM, June 14, 2026

    Is it time the Irish & British government’s banned X? These people (Musk/Robinson et al) are inciting violence which leads to the scenes we saw in Belfast and beyond. Doesn’t help when “community leaders” (a far more friendly term than Loyalist paramilitaries) send children out with bricks and petrol bombs to claim “their” country back. So far (outwith social media) the only outrage I’ve read came from Sinn Féin’s Michelle O’Neill otherwise (although to be fair it may be different in Ireland) the usual suspects have done little more than hand wringing and sighing

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