Vandals Smash Norwich Mosque Windows
“When I heard the glass being smashed I thought we were under attack,” Rashid, who was at the mosque during the attack, told EDP 24.
“It is not nice to feel scared in a place of peace.”
Norwich Ihsan mosque, in Chapelfield East, came under attack on Saturday at about 6:30am.
With 11 panes of mosque glass damaged, hundreds of dollars are needed to replace to glass and leading, according to the mosque board.
The attack, that comes almost a month after Paris attacks, has alarmed Norwich Muslim community who has been living in peace for decades.
According to Rashid, Saturdays' attack was the first of its kind against Ihsan mosque.
“With what has been going on in the world lately I would not be surprised if it was a deliberate attack against us," Rashid said.
Muslims in Europe have been facing an increasing resentment after Paris attacks that left 17 killed, including two Muslims.
The National Observatory Against Islamophobia said over one hundred incidents have been reported to the police since Charlie Hebdo attacks of January 7-9.
The rise in attacks over the last two weeks represents an increase of 110 percent over the whole of January 2014, the organization said.
Mosques in Sweden and Germany were also attacked following the attacks.
Source: OnIslam.net
