The stabbing at London Central Mosque on Thursday is the latest in a series of attacks on Muslim places of worship in Britain.
Islamophobic incidents have risen in the UK since 2017, when rights monitor Tell Mama recorded a jump in anti-Muslim attacks after the Manchester Arena bombing.
Numbers have continued to rise and in 2019, the group reported Islamophobic incidents had soared by almost 600 per cent.
Recent cases of attacks targeting Muslim places of worship:
London mosque painted with Islamophobic slogans, 2020
Islamophobic slogans were daubed on a building near a south London mosque in January this year. London mayor Sadiq Khan said: “Let me be clear: all prejudice is cowardly and criminals will face the full force of the law.”
Birmingham mosque attacks, 2019
In March last year, five mosques in Birmingham were vandalised with sledgehammers in a series of attacks. A 34-year-old Iranian man later admitted to causing religiously motivated criminal damage.
Finsbury Park attack, 2017
Darren Osborne, from Cardiff in Wales, was sentenced to life imprisonment for terrorism-related murder after driving a van into pedestrians near Finsbury Park Mosque, killing one man and injuring at least nine people.
Suspected arson attack in Oldham, Manchester, 2017
The door of the Jamia Qasmia Zahidia Islamic Centre in Oldham, Greater Manchester, was set alight and badly damaged in May 2017. An imam at the mosque said the incident was an arson attack in revenge for the Manchester bombing.
Grove Lane Islamic Cultural Centre stabbing, 2017
Two men were arrested after a stabbing attack outside the Islamic Cultural Centre in Alrincham, Greater Manchester. The victim, Nasser Kurdy, was a surgeon who treated victims of the Arena bombing.
Arson attack in Grimsby, 2013
Two former soldiers were jailed for throwing petrol bombs at a mosque in Grimsby, four days after the murder of Lee Rigby in 2013. Sentencing the two soldiers and an accomplice, Judge Mark Bury said: “This was a crime of violence where a particular religious group was deliberately targeted in an act of retribution.”
