بريطانيا: استنكار تعرض مقابر المسلمين للتخريب

خبر من مصادر إنجليزية.

أعرب المجتمع الإسلامي بمدينة "مانشيستر أولدهام" البريطانية عن استنكاره البالغ لتعرض قبور المسلمين بمقبرة "شاديرتون" العامة للاعتداءات، التي وصفها الأمن بأنها "اعتداءات ذات دوافع عنصرية.

وقد أكدت الجهات الأمنية أنها جريمة متعمدة مدبَّرة، تسبَّب الجاني بارتكابها في تجديد أحزان المسلمين من أقارب المدفونين.

وللحيلولة دون تَكرار هذه الجريمة طالب المسلمون بوضع كاميرات مراقبة وتشديد الإجراءات الأمنية؛ المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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The Muslim community in Manchester’s Oldham city have vented anger over the desecration of several Muslim graves in Chadderton Cemetery, in the assault identified by police as “racially-motivated” attack.

“This has upset the community. It doesn’t matter who is buried here, Muslim or not,” Abdul Chaudhary Wahad, a volunteer at Al-Madina Mosque in Oldham, told Manchester Evening News on Monday, August 18.

“This cemetery is for everyone in Oldham.”

The heinous attack that happened over the weekend has left about 10 Muslim graves vandalized in Chadderton Cemetery on Middleton Road.

According to Oldham police, headstones were uprooted, trampled on flowers and kicked over memorials.

Large floral tributes of two graves were smashed, trampled on and flowers scattered across the floor. Also four wooden grave markers and headstones were uprooted, the police added.

Calling it a racial attack, Sgt Jon Martin from Greater Manchester Police, told BBC: “The culprits have singled out the resting places of those who have lost their lives, purely because of their religion.”

This was a “deliberate, calculating and cruel act of desecrating the memories of Muslims who are buried at the cemetery”.

Condemning the racial attack, Oldham Muslims have called for installing cameras to deter any future assaults.

“Everyone is angry. It looks like people have been trampling on graves. It could just be kids playing around, but it could have been more targeted,” said Abdul Waheed, 38, whose father is buried at the cemetery.

“Even one security camera would give us reassurance.”