By IRNA,
Berlin : Authorities have stepped up their investigation of a supected arson attack on a Turkish mosque in a small town in central Germany late Sunday night, news reports said Monday.
The unknown assailants dropped a gasoline-soaked piece of cloth and a fuel canister in the courtyard of the Fatih mosque based in the town of Stadtallendorf.
No one was injured in the attack as the chairman of the Turkish Islamic community managed to extinguish the fire after a woman noticed it.
The arson assault took place two hours after the end of the evening prayer, according to the report.
Mosques across Germany have been repeatedly targeted in Islamophobic attacks in recent years.
Germany’s society is still gripped by Islamophobia despite the peaceful presence of some 3.5 million Muslims of which 2.5 million are Turks.
Faced with daily verbal abuse and racial discrimination, Germany’s Muslim community is also battling with educational problems for their children and a chronic lack of job opportunity.