{"id":82946,"date":"2019-03-22T08:05:20","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T03:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=82946"},"modified":"2019-03-22T08:05:40","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T03:05:40","slug":"four-mosques-in-birmingham-attacked-overnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=82946","title":{"rendered":"Four mosques in Birmingham attacked overnight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Birmingham, March 22 (TNS):   Four mosques in the central English city of Birmingham have been attacked overnight, with a man wielding a sledgehammer seen smashing windows at two places of worship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to West Midlands Police, officers were first alerted in the early hours today to reports of a man smashing windows at one of the places of worship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following reports of a similar attack at another mosque in a nearby neighbourhood, officers launched targeted patrols and discovered further damage at two other sites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>British national police chiefs last week announced officers are providing &#8220;reassurance patrols&#8221; around mosques in the immediate aftermath of Friday&#8217;s deadly gun rampage in New Zealand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, anti-racism groups have warned Islamophobia is on the rise in Britain and spurring a spike in far-right activity in the country.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birmingham, March 22 (TNS): Four mosques in the central English city of Birmingham have been attacked overnight, with a man wielding a sledgehammer seen smashing windows at two places of worship. According to West Midlands Police, officers were first alerted in the early hours today to reports of a man smashing windows at one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1447,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-birmingham","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82948,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82946\/revisions\/82948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/82947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}