Worshippers at Belfast mosque targeted by neo-Nazis feared New Zealand-style attack

Worshippers at a mosque targeted by neo-Nazis are living in fear of a far-right attack resembling the Christchurch massacre, the imam has said.

Banners bearing the SS insignia, swastikas and the Totenkopf (SS Nazi skull) symbol were put on a lamp post outside the Iqraa Mosque in Dunmurry last week.

They were discovered by a woman and her children as they arrived for morning prayers on Wednesday.

Imam Jamaal Iweida (54) said the sinister banners, put up in the dead of night, caused fear of an attack like the 2019 Christchurch shooting in New Zealand, in which 51 people were murdered and 40 injured.

Source: Belfast Telegraph