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July 24, 2011

AP: Muslims say extra security to be placed at Britain's mosques after Norway attacks

by Paisley Dodds and Angela Charlton
The Associated Press

LONDON (AP) -- Some British mosques are boosting security after Norway's horrific massacre was traced to a man who fears Muslims are taking over Europe - an attack that exposed a failure to root out Islamophobia that has bled into the European mainstream.

European government leaders may even be feeding fears of Islam through measures such as bans on face veils on the streets, aimed at appeasing a non-Muslim majority wary about the continent's rising Muslim population.

 

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