Loyalists in Northern Ireland plan to burn a replica of a mosque as part of a bonfire on Friday night.
The cardboard model of a Muslim place of worship was seen on top of a loyalist bonfire pyre in Moygashel, County Tyrone, today, as police said a 56-year-old man had been arrested.
Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn described the bonfire display as a ‘sickening and cowardly act of intimidation’, carried out by the same group which received backlash last year after they burnt an effigy of a migrant boat.
In Ireland, Moygashel bonfire—topped with a mosque—was lit 24 hours early to prevent the Irish police from removing the mosque. The Irish don't mess around. pic.twitter.com/oFmLsIFyje
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