Calls for action after arson attack on mosque

  Jun 4, 2020 9:37 am Ibrar Younas 1286
Political and religious leaders joined forces this week to condemn a petrol bomb attack on a Turkish mosque in Limassol.

Calls for action after arson attack on mosque

By KEREM HASAN / Chief Reporter 

Petrol bombs were thrown at the Köprülü Hacı İbrahim Ağa Mosque in the Cami Cedid neighbourhood of Limassol last Sunday night, with graffiti scrawled on the perimeter wall saying: ‘Immigrants, Islam not Welcome’.

President Mustafa Akıncı called for the “perpetrators to be caught,” He said the Greek Cypriot leadership should take speedy action to investigate. “Tolerance cannot be shown to such actions. Respect must be shown to whatever religious affiliation a structure belongs to,” he said. 

Speaking to Cyprus Today, the Turkish Cypriot head of the bi-communal Technical Committee on heritage, Ali Tuncay, said he “condemned” the “attempted arson attack and Islamophobic and xenophobic writing on the mosque”.

“The mosque was used by Arabian residents. An imam used to go to the mosque for Friday prayers once a week from the North, prior to the Covid-19 lockdown and closure of the checkpoints.”

 

More detailes on Cyprus Today's 6th June issue.



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