UK : A teenager stabbed near a mosque in Birmingham

A 14-year-old teenager was stabbed in the neck and head around 1 am on Saturday near a mosque in Birmingham, BBC reports. The boy, who was member of the congregation at the place of worship, was taken to the hospital in a critical condition.

According to the Guardian, the police in West Milands, a metropolitan county in western central England, said they arrested a 29-year-old man on Saturday morning on suspicion of attempted murder and is held under custody. The police insisted that the motive behind the attack is unclear and should not be treated as a terrorist incident.

On the other hand, Amad Shah, general secretary of the Hussainia Mosque in front of which the attack took place told the BBC that «the board of trustees emphasizes that whatever the motive behind this attack, it should not be sensationalized and neither used as a justification to spread hatred or incite violence».

On the 18th of June, a man was killed and 10 others were injured when a 48-year-old man in a van drove over pedestrians near a mosque in Finsbury Park in London. The man was later arrested and convicted for attempted murder linked to terrorism.