Names marked with an asterisk have been changed to protect identities.
When Akmal’s* mosque was vandalised last week in Basildon, a town in the English county of Essex, he felt shaken.
“I was so hurt,” said the 33-year-old electrical engineer, who requested Al Jazeera use a pseudonym. “It was so close to home. My local masjid [mosque]. It felt like a real kick in the teeth.”
The South Essex Islamic Centre in Basildon was defaced shortly before midnight on Thursday. Red crosses were…
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