Chairman of Labour-Muslim Forum pleads Muslims to STAY AWAY from counter protests - 'You will become a part of it!'

Chaos ensued as the counter-demonstrators marched through the streets and interrupted a live Sky News broadcast with the message “Free Palestine and F**k the media.”

With the UK has been tipped for further chaos with protests this evening, Chairman of Labour-Muslim forum Khalid Mahmood begged Muslims to not react.

Speaking to GB News he said: "As far as I'm concerned, there's a huge amount of disinformation that's going round on the Internet and we shouldn't stick anything by that. But we all have responsibility ourselves.

"As the Labour-Muslim forums said, please do not attend any of these demonstrations or whatever happens in those areas because you will then become a part of it. So our advice is very clear.

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"If something is happening, please do not attend, because if you attend, then you'll be contributing to all this violence. And please do not do that."

Mahmood added: "When you've got young people on any side and people who have pent-up anger, then you're looking for issues that are not controllable by any form of leadership that you have.

"Therefore, what you must do is ensure that that position doesn't arise in the first place. Once people get together, the whole issue gets out of hand.

"People egg each other on in these situations and this is where it ends up in violence. That's what we want to stop.

"That's why we don't want people coming out in the first instance. Once you get people out of the street, there is a strong possibility that there will be some sort of violence."

Unrest has spread, with rioters targeting mosques and smashing windows of hotels housing asylum-seekers from Africa and the Middle East, chanting "get them out."

Messages online said immigration centres and law firms aiding migrants would be targeted today, prompting counter-protesters to also vow to demonstrate.

Speaking after an emergency meeting with ministers and police chiefs on Tuesday, Starmer said police would be in place to cope with any further disorder.

"Our first duty is to ensure our communities are safe," he told broadcasters.

"They will be safe. We are doing everything we can to ensure that where a police response is needed, it is in place, where support is needed for particular places, that is in place."

He said the fact that protests were being held in multiple locations made it difficult, but he had received the assurance he needed that police could cope with any disorder.