J.K. Rowling made a huge correction to this 'Daily Mail' headline

2025-04-28 07:57:24admin

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 BBCreports, and counter-terrorism officers are in attendance.

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For awhile after the attack happened, though, some news headlines weren't mentioning the word "terrorism". This didn't go unnoticed.

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Soon, J.K. Rowling waded in.

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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").

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Rowling has now turned her attention to former UKIP leader Nigel Farage...

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...And she's praised the Imam who reportedly tried to protect the suspect from harm at the hands of the crowd.

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UPDATE 10:22 a.m. PT: Rowling deleted her tweet about the Daily Mail'scoverage of the attack. She explained in four tweets that after "many rightly pointed out" the issue she recognized that the headline came before the attacker had been charged.

"I was angry at what I saw as victim blaming in their immediate coverage," she went on. "I'm still angry about that, but I fully accept that in the immediate aftermath, it isn't reasonable or responsible for a newspaper to rush to judgement without knowing the facts."