Last Friday, a nail bomb exploded outside a mosque in the West Midlands town of Tipton. The blast came about an hour after the funeral of army drummer Lee Rigby—the latest in a broad series of attacks on Britain's Muslim community since the soldier's murder in May outside his barracks in Woolwich, London. Britain's Islamophobes haven't just been leaving nail bombs around ex-industrial towns in the Black Country. Since Rigby's murder in late May, aggression toward the Muslim community has included: an Islamophobic social media free-for-all, attempts to pull off hijabs in the street, phoned-in death threats, and various attacks on mosques, ranging from racist graffiti to arson and petrol bombings.
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