Berlin, Jan 8, IRNA -- Berlin has become again the scene of another arson attack on a mosque, the seventh of its kind since June 2010, the daily Der Tagesspiegel reported Saturday. A mosque in Berlin's middle-class neighborhood of Wilmersdorf was targeted in the firebombing overnight.
Unknown assailants tried to set the entrance door of the mosque on fire, however a passerby noticed the fire and contacted police who managed to extinguish the flames with a fire extinguisher.
The perpetrators of the crime did leave a message at the site, however police refused to release specifics of the note. The exact damage of the blaze is still being investigated, according to the report.
Last month, the Iranian Islamic Culture Center was subject to bombing, triggering a strongcondemnation by Berlin's Mayor Klaus Wowereit.
The German capital which has a sizeable Muslim community, has repeatedly witnessed a series of arson attacks against mosques in recent months. The Sehitlik Mosque, Berlin biggest mosque, has been firebombed four times last year.
German Muslim leaders have time and again voiced strong concern over the ongoing bombings against mosques, calling for stepped up security measures.
The center-right government of Chancellor Angela Merkel has tried to downplay the new wave of anti-Muslim hate crimes, an escalaltion of Islamophobia in Germany.
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