Mosques around Greater Manchester are being urged to step up security amid fears of anti-Islamic hate crime following the deadly terror attack in London.
Mohammed Shafiq, chief executive of the Manchester-based Ramadhan Foundation, has written to 1,500 mosques and Islamic centres and warned them to be vigilant.
His warning comes a day after the outrage in Westminster in which the British-born attacker was shot dead.
The so-called Islamic State has claimed the attacker, who was known to MI5, was a ‘soldier of Islamic State’.
Mr Shafiq, who has previously suffered death threats for his stand against terrorism, paid tribute to PC Keith Palmer who died during the attack but warned fellow Muslims about vigilante attacks.
Greater Manchester Police is also reviewing security.
