From daily The Independent in Britain:
Morden mosque fire: two teenage boys arrested on suspicion of arson
A 16-year-old and a 14-year-old have been detained for questioning over the fire at the mosque in south London
Caroline Mortimer
Sunday 27 September 2015 12:53 BST
Two boys have been arrested on suspicion of arson in connection with a huge fire at Britain’s largest mosque in south London on Saturday.
A 16-year-old and a 14-year-old have been held for questioning over the fire at the Baitul Futuh mosque in Morden, a spokeswoman for Scotland Yard has said.
The blaze began at around midday and was tackled by 70 firefighters.
According to the London Fire Brigade, the fire was confined to an administration building and the mosque itself was undamaged.
There were few worshippers in the mosque at the time of the fire but one man was taken to hospital for smoke inhalation.
The fire is believed to have damaged half of the building’s ground floor.
The mosque was built for the Ahmadiyya Muslim community, an Islamic sect founded in India in the late 19th century, and bears the sect’s motto “Love is for all, hatred is for none.”
It is the largest mosque in Western Europe and can house up to 10,000 worshippers.
Local councillor Imran Udding, whose ward includes the mosque, told the Evening Standard: “The really important thing to note is that the blaze took hold really quickly, but the hall where it started was also evacuated very quickly.
“We need to investigate what happened here. The mosque is very popular in the area. It has a very positive impact. It does a lot of community work.”
He said it “could have been a lot worse” if the fire had struck a day earlier when the mosque was full of worshippers celebrating Eid.
Fareed Ahmed, national secretary for external affairs for the Ahmadi Muslim Community UK, said: “It’s a very difficult time. This is a devastating accident to happen to any mosque.”
Ahmadiyya Islam is considered to be a liberal tendency.
Ahmadiyya Muslims sometimes are attacked by ultra orthodox Muslims.
Now in London apparently the violence is by teenagers who read too much corporate media Islamophobic propaganda which lyingly equates all Muslims with terrorists.
RECENTLY the popular BBC religious affairs programme Songs of Praise broadcast from the migrant and refugee camp in Calais. The outpouring of bile this provoked showed how ugly the debate on asylum and immigration has become in recent years, but the change in public mood in the weeks since then shows that progressives can win our arguments on issues relating to the need to welcome refugees and also to stop the scapegoating of both migrants and refugees for the problems facing “austerity Britain”: here.
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