Remnants from a replica of a mosque, placed on a bonfire was burning Friday morning (July 10) in a town near Belfast after being set alight on Thursday (July 9).
It was set alight before police had a chance to remove what they described as a “hate display” that was condemned by politicians across the region.
Bonfires are lit across the British region in mainly Protestant “loyalist” neighbourhoods on the eve of July 12 commemorations of William of Orange’s victory over the Roman Catholic King James at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.
The replica mosque on a tall structure of wooden pallets, erected a month after anti-migrant violence swept Belfast, was due to be set alight in front of large crowds on Friday but was lit a day early as police were preparing to remove it, organisers said on Facebook.
The group responsible, the Mogyashel Bonfire Association, said it was aware their display might “shock offend or outrage others” and blamed “uncontrolled illegal mass immigration”, according to CNN.
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