A 34-year-old man has been arrested in connection with an Islamophobic incident at a Bristol mosque during which an unidentified gang left bacon sandwiches outside the building and yelled Islamophobic slurs at worshipers.<\/p>\n
The city\u2019s mayor, George Ferguson, has condemned the attack, which occurred early Sunday afternoon during prayer time.<\/p>\n
Ferguson wrote on Twitter that he was \u201cdisgusted\u201d<\/em> by the \u201ccowardly attack.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n The small group responsible for the incident is also said to have displayed a sign with the message \u201cNo mosques,\u201d<\/em> according to local eyewitnesses. Police have said that two men and a woman were involved.<\/p>\n Anti-immigration group Bristol United Patriots posted a picture of the bacon sandwiches scattered by the mosque\u2019s entrance to Facebook, leading Twitter users to speculate over the group\u2019s connection to the attack. The group said in a comment responding to questions from ITV West Country that it would release a statement \u201cin due course.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Abdul Malik, the mosque\u2019s chair has praised the neighborhood\u2019s show of unity and support in response to the attack.<\/p>\n \u201cWe stand with Totterdown\u2019s local community and neighborhood in unity at this time, this type of incident is very rare in our wonderful city and we do not feel that this is anything more than a group of opportunists who found a spot to take a photo which indeed reflects their character and offensive cause,\u201d<\/em> he said in a statement.<\/p>\n @TellMamaUK<\/a> The Bristol United patriots seem to know lot about the incident, took time to pic. the scene too.<\/p>\n \u2013 Dr. Tom Greenmantle (@DrGreenmantle) January 18, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n I’m disgusted by cowardly attack on members of Jamia #Mosque<\/a> today & stand with you to show #Bristol<\/a> does not tolerate such vile behaviour.<\/p>\n \u2013 George Ferguson (@GeorgeFergusonx) January 17, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n Supporters left flowers and cards outside the mosque\u2019s entrance on Monday after news of the attack was circulated on social media.<\/p>\n Kevan Rowlands, chief inspector of the Avon and Somerset police, said: “Behavior of this kind is totally unacceptable. Our communities have the right to live and worship peacefully without fear of being targeted for their race or religion.<\/em><\/p>\n “We take all hate crime incidents extremely seriously and we are working closely with the mosque to ensure the offenders are held to account for their abhorrent actions.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Via RT<\/a>.\u00a0This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A 34-year-old man has been arrested in connection with an Islamophobic incident at a Bristol mosque during which an unidentified gang left bacon sandwiches outside the building and yelled Islamophobic slurs at worshipers. The city\u2019s mayor, George Ferguson, has condemned the attack, which occurred early Sunday afternoon during prayer time. Ferguson wrote on Twitter that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":217127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-217126","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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