The definition of a pogrom is a massacre of particular ethnic group.
https://www.oxfordreference.com/disp...10803100333359
In all the reports I have read, (and those that Witton Park has read by his comments at the bottom), the attacks were on everyone they encountered including at least one, easy to identify, Muslim woman.
This is not a religious war, and the worst thing possible would be to try and turn it into one.