Mark Rowley

Sir Mark Rowley is a British police officer who served as Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service (2022–2024), the most senior policing role in the United Kingdom. Before that, he was Assistant Commissioner for Specialist Operations and led the national counter-terrorism policing network in the UK. During "Islamophobia Awareness Month" (November 2024), Rowley posted a thread on X listing UK terrorist attacks carried out in the name of Islam — including the 7/7 bombings (52 killed), the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby (2013), the Manchester Arena bombing (22 killed), and the Westminster Bridge attack — to provide context for the framing of "Islamophobia." The thread received 1,900 likes and 567 reposts. His position as the UK's top counter-terrorism officer gives his counter-narrative on Islamophobia framing significant weight.