Muslim School Attacked, Quran Desecrated in Newcastle
The Bahr Academy in Newcastle was ransacked by on Monday evening – marking the second time it had been targeted in three months.
Imam Abdul Muheet, head of the school, said a ladder had been used to smash a window and that copies of the Quran had been vandalized and "thrown on the floor".
“Neighbors near the school had called to say there were people inside and that windows had been smashed,” he said, the Sun reported.
“We arrived there at 9.20pm to find the individuals still there”.
The imam added: “We had just got tidied up after the last time. We feel angry, afraid and scared now. Anything could happen.”
Muheet arrived at the building at the same time as cops.
“There was paraffin and spirits on the floor, he said, adding, “I saw them in the chapel and heard them talking about 'Muslims' and 'terrorists'.”
“I just think it’s pathetic, but it is disappointing to hear young people saying things like that. But what can you do?”
The incident in Newcastle comes days after five mosques had their windows smashed in Birmingham.
Two men have been arrested in relation to the attacks which came less than a week after a Far Right gunman shot 50 worshippers dead at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Bahr Academy, once the set of popular BBC kids drama Byker Grove, was also targeted in January with thugs spraying the words "Moslem terrorists" and on walls.
