London imam seriously injured in Islamophobic attack

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London imam seriously injured in Islamophobic attack

One of the imams of the London’s Central Mosque is in serious condition in hospital following a brutal attack by a white man of Irish origin, the Muslim News has exclusively learnt.

A police spokesman told The Muslim News that a 40-year old man had been arrested and charged with grievous bodily harm and assault. The spokesman said that he was not charged with a racially aggravated offence, but the Director General of the mosque, Dr Ahmad Al-Dubayan, had no doubts that the attack was religiously motivated in the current atmosphere of growing hostility against Muslims.

“This was an Islamophobic attack,” Dr Al-Dubayan told The Muslim News. He accused the media of creating “an atmosphere of Islamophobia” that led to this and other attacks on mosques.

Visit for more details on the attack: 
http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/index/press.php?pr=246

see also http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23408149-details/Imam+seriously+injured+in+bloody+attack+at+Regent’s+Park+mosque/article.do

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