Police are investigating an incident outside Folkestone Mosque in Foord Road South, Folkestone at 9.10 pm on Thursday 23 May.
A small rock was thrown at the front door of the building while worshippers were inside. There was no damage caused. A small rock was thrown at the front door of the building while worshippers were inside. There was no damage caused.
It was then reported to police that just after the incident four young girls also walked past and made racist comments.
A footballer who encouraged people to riot and “bomb and gas every mosque in England” following the terrorist beheading of Drummer Lee Rigby could be prosecuted.
Shaun Tuck is being investigated by police following his vile rant on Twitter which saw him calling for Muslim children to be beheaded in apparent revenge for the street killing of the 25-year-old soldier.
A former soldier with a hatred of Muslims stuffed tissue into a bottle of beer and attempted to light it at a mosque, a court heard.
John Parkin, 27, of Towyn Way West, Towyn, Conwy, pleaded guilty at a special court to threatening to burn down a mosque at Rhyl and religiously aggravated disorderly behaviour on Saturday. Magistrates at Llandudno committed him in custody for sentencing by a Mold Crown Court judge.
An EDL activist who threatened to burn down a mosque in retaliation for the brutal killing of soldier Lee Rigby has been told he could be sent to jail.
Adam Rogers took to Facebook following Wednesday’s killing and called on his fellow EDL members to meet him at Hastings mosque. Brighton Magistrates’ Court heard that the 28-year-old posted “inflammatory” remarks on the social networking site in the hours following the drummer’s death including “the mosque needs burning down”.
Petrol bombs were thrown inside a Grimsby mosque tonight – in front of police officers who were guarding it.
The police, fire service and two ambulances attended the building, on the junction of Weelsby Road and Legsby Avenue, at about 10pm. Two people were arrested on suspicion of arson at the scene. The building was being protected by the police because of another incident there earlier this week.
Three people have been charged with various hate crimes related offences in Medway since Wednesday 22nd May – the day a soldier was murdered in Woolwich in south east London.
Young Muslims in Wales say they fear a backlash after the barbaric killing of Drummer Lee Rigby in London. Charity Faith Matters said it is looking at claims a young woman was spat at in an incident in the Cardiff area and said it was dealing with a significant rise in the number of anti-Muslim incidents in Britain as a result of the attack in Woolwich.
Meanwhile, hateful messages have been posted on social media websites. The Welsh Defence League’s Facebook page boasted a picture of the aftermath of the shocking murder with the message: “Still believe Islam is the religion of peace? How many more have to die to disprove the lie?” It comes after bacon was left outside a Cardiff mosque the day after Drummer Rigby was hacked to death.
Other incidents across the UK have seen a mosque in Kent attacked, while in Essex a man walked into a temple brandishing a knife and a burning bottle was hurled at an Islamic centre in Bletchley. Young Muslims in Wales have now told how they fear a rising tide of hostility will engulf them following 25-year-old Drumer Rigby’s murder.
The English Defence League marched through Newcastle today. The local paper, the Evening Chronicle, reported that around 1,500 EDL members participated in the protest, with up to 1,000 joining the counter-demonstration by Newcastle Unites. (See also ITV News and Sky Tyne and Wear reports.)
Chanting their usual slogans of “I’m English till I die” and “Whose streets? Our streets”, the EDL threw firecrackers, bottles and cans, attacked photographers and clashed with police.
A community leader has spoken of his fears after a mosque was targeted in a racist attack.
Majid Yasin, imam and director of the Bournemouth Islamic Centre and Central Mosque, said the words “Muslim scum” were daubed in red on the walls of the building in St Stephen’s Road on Thursday night. Dorset Police have confirmed that they are investigating the incident.
Mr Yasin said he fears the attack on the mosque was carried out in retribution after the murder of serving soldier Lee Rigby in Woolwich earlier this week, an act allegedly committed by two British-born men who have converted to Islam.
The daughter of a man killed on his way home from a mosque says she believes his death was racially-motivated. Mohammed Saleem, 75, was stabbed after leaving the Green Lane Mosque in Small Heath, Birmingham, on 29 April.
His daughter, Shazia Khan, said police were not listening to her family and her brother was threatened, apparently by the English Defence League, prior to their father’s death. West Midlands Police said it would work “tirelessly to find the killer” of Mr Saleem.