From Stuff.

Student arrested over damage to mosques

15 July 2005

An 18-year-old student has been arrested in connection with damage to mosques in Auckland last weekend, police said today.

He was due to appear in Manukau District Court this afternoon on seven charges of intentional damage.

The New Zealand Muslim Association mosque in Ponsonby had several windows damaged in one attack, Inspector Scott Webb of Auckland police northern communications centre said.

Windows were smashed at the Al Faroq Cultural Centre in Otahuhu, south Auckland.

Vandalisation at the Mt Roskill Mosque in Sandringham and the South Auckland Mosque and Otahuhu had also been reported.

The attacks happened two days after four bombs exploded in London, killing more than 50 people.

Whilst no-one at FDB questions the wanton barbarity and twisted motives of the extremists who carried out the London attacks, we being the tolerant and level-headed folk that we are understand that a miniscule (yet dangerous) fringe group of terrorists do not represent the majority of law abiding Muslims.

Responding to the London atrocity by carrying out acts of violence against a group of people who have openly condemned those responsible is not only an irrational act, it is a downright detrimental one to the community as a whole.

New Zealand does not thank this person(s) for giving their country the notoriety of being the first to suffer major a backlash against their Islamic community in the wake of the London attacks.

Though a suppression order is currently active on the name of the person arrested we urge you all to watch this space.

Seriously

Watch this space.