(European Conservative) Muslim activist Mohammed Hijab has lost his defamation case against the conservative Spectator magazine and the author Douglas Murray.
Influencer Hijab (real name, Mohammed Hegab) traveled to Leicester in the English East Midlands during sectarian conflict there in 2022, where he was filmed calling Hindus “weak cowardly people.” Furthermore, the presiding judge said that Hijab’s subsequent attempts to cover up his actions in the city that day were an “untenable … denial of vigilantism.”
On September 24th, 2022, the Spectator and Murray described Mohammed Hijab as a street agitator. When Hijab responded with a libel action saying this damaged his reputation and resulted in lost earnings, a judge confirmed the statements to be “substantially true” and dismissed Hijab’s legal challenge outright.
