{"id":202521,"date":"2025-06-21T12:29:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T12:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/202521\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T12:29:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T12:29:09","slug":"belfast-islamic-centre-viable-device-used-in-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/202521\/","title":{"rendered":"Belfast Islamic Centre: Viable device used in attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alliance assembly member Paula Bradshaw said: &#8220;This is just the latest example of an attack motivated by hate which does not reflect the diversity of south Belfast in 2025,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This attack was again designed to cause fear among people inside the centre, who were at prayer at the time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sinn F\u00e9in&#8217;s Deirdre Hargey condemned what she called a &#8220;sinister&#8221; attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;No one should ever feel unsafe in their place of worship, and my thoughts are with everyone affected,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Acts like these, fuelled by hate, spread fear and division, and target people who have come to our communities to build a life and call this place home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Green Party councillor \u00c1ine Groogan said it was &#8220;another reminder of the very real danger faced by our Islamic community&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The recent rise in racist hate and violence on our streets is a shameful stain on our society,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We must all take responsibility for actively challenging racism, misinformation, and bigotry wherever it appears before someone is seriously hurt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said the detained man remains in custody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alliance assembly member Paula Bradshaw said: &#8220;This is just the latest example of an attack motivated by hate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-202521","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-northern-ireland","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114721361987326613","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}