{"id":383017,"date":"2018-10-30T22:25:30","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T21:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-islamic-center-targeted-by-kkk-group\/"},"modified":"2018-10-30T22:25:30","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T21:25:30","slug":"presstv-islamic-center-targeted-by-kkk-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-islamic-center-targeted-by-kkk-group\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Islamic center targeted by KKK group"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>UK police have launched a hate crime investigation after a group dressed in Ku Klux Klan outfits posed a threat outside an Islamic center in Newtownards, Northern Ireland.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are treating this as a hate crime,&#8221; Northern Ireland Police Inspector Richard Murray from the Police Service of Northern Ireland said in a statement on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>A picture published on social media showed the group of nine people dressed in Klan outfits, who were also carrying crucifixes and had fists risen, in Newtownards&#8217; Greenwell Street close to the Bangladesh Islamic Centre on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>British media reported that earlier there had been graffiti written on the wall of the centre and a pig&#8217;s head was left on the centre\u2019s doorstep.<\/p>\n<p>The group then went to a pub where they posed for pictures with Sharon Mellor, who was there.<\/p>\n<p>Mellor is a far-right extremist linked to Tony Martin, leader of the UK-based fascist political party National Front, the Belfast&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/10\/30\/578565\/KKK-UK-Northern-Ireland-Rightwing-Extremism-Newtownards\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK police have launched a hate crime investigation after a group dressed in Ku Klux Klan outfits posed a threat outside an Islamic center in Newtownards, Northern Ireland. &#8220;We are treating this as a hate crime,&#8221; Northern Ireland Police Inspector Richard Murray from the Police Service of Northern Ireland said in a statement on Tuesday. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-383017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}