Key facts
- A replica mosque was placed on a loyalist bonfire in Moygashel, Northern Ireland.
- Banners on the bonfire included slogans like 'secure our borders' and 'end the threat of radical Islam'.
- Britain's minister for Northern Ireland, Hilary Benn, called the display a 'sickening and cowardly act of intimidation'.
- Police arrested a 56-year-old man on suspicion of displaying threatening material intended to stir up hatred.
- The incident occurred amid recent anti-migrant violence and riots in Belfast.
Police in Northern Ireland arrested a 56-year-old man following the placement of a replica mosque atop a bonfire in Moygashel. The act was widely condemned by politicians and rights groups as a hate crime and incitement to hatred. The bonfire, situated in a predominantly pro-British loyalist area, also featured banners with anti-immigrant and anti-Islam slogans such as 'secure our borders' and 'end the threat of radical Islam.'