The attacker seriously injured one man and wounded two others in what the Scotland Yard is treating as "a terrorist incident".
One Twitter user posted a video showing police restraining the alleged attacker, while an onlooker could be heard shouting, "You ain't no Muslim bruv."
Knife attacker slashes man in London metro after screaming 'this is for Syria'
Shocking scenes at Leytonstone Station pic.twitter.com/QwsynQjZHA
— Yusuf Patel MBE (@YusufJPatel) December 5, 2015
Within minutes of posting the video, people on Twitter began to use the hashtag #YouAintNoMuslimBruv to condemn the attack.
https://twitter.com/suh_alien/status/673310934195167233
https://twitter.com/mk1969/status/673427737420406784
#YouAintNoMuslimBruv Why being Muslim does not mean I am a Terrorist! https://t.co/lZDOXzLQxi pic.twitter.com/yveFLQw2Q1
— Renu Bisht (@renubisht94) December 6, 2015
#YouAintNoMuslimBruv is just perfect - real, inclusive, undermines terrorist cause
— Chris Lowndes 🇺🇦🕊️ (@chrislowndes) December 6, 2015
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Many suggested #YouAintNoMuslimBruv represented real London:
Some poets get snotty about textspeak etc: #YouAintNoMuslimBruv seems to me to say a lot in the voice of ordinary London, the one I knew.
— Ian Duhig FRSL (@ianduhig) December 6, 2015
Such a London thing to say: #YouAintNoMuslimBruv
— LENG LU 🇯🇲🇯🇲 (@lucreatesx) December 6, 2015
#YouAintNoMuslimBruv hashtag is one of the reasons, I love London.
— Raffa Rants (@RaffaRants) December 6, 2015
Listen to the #VoiceOfLondon, #Leytonstone on looker tells terror attack knifeman: #YouAintNoMuslimBruv pic.twitter.com/008kuDMf2l #solidarity
— B Bold (@SE15Fellow) December 6, 2015
https://twitter.com/AlanLewis05/status/673291273151844353
Commuter defends young Muslim girl from attack on London tube
https://twitter.com/harper_matthew/status/673284151630516224
https://twitter.com/SpeakSarahSpeak/status/673295600012644352
https://twitter.com/tariqyx/status/673457552487809024
https://twitter.com/itsalexhedges/status/673459975461670912
This is why Britain is the place to live - beautifully intelligent people with beautifully trained police #YouAintNoMuslimBruv
— ~ (@xnooxrax) December 6, 2015
#YouAintNoMuslimBruv lol you don't see American Twitter making these hashtags
— - (@hadandoa) December 6, 2015
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