{"id":682474,"date":"2026-07-09T14:50:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T14:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/682474\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T14:50:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T14:50:17","slug":"man-arrested-after-replica-of-mosque-placed-on-top-of-loyalist-bonfire-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/682474\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested after replica of mosque placed on top of loyalist bonfire \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Police arrested a man after a replica of a mosque was placed on top of a loyalist bonfire in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/tyrone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/tyrone\/\">Co Tyrone<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The model was visible on top of the pyre in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/northern-ireland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/northern-ireland\/\">Moygashel<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Signs saying \u201cSecure our borders\u201d and \u201cEnd the threat of radical Islam\u201d have also been placed on the bonfire, which is made up of pallets and is due to be set alight on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/police-service-of-northern-ireland-psni\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/police-service-of-northern-ireland-psni\/\">PSNI<\/a> said a 56-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of contravention of Article 9 of the Public Order (NI) Order 1987. He remains in custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The same bonfire site has attracted controversy in previous years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Last year, there was condemnation after effigies of migrants in a boat were burned on the Moygashel fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Amnesty International condemned the placing of the mosque replica on the pyre. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cThis vile display is a blatant attempt to stir up anti-Muslim hatred and intimidate local families,\u201d said Patrick Corrigan, Amnesty International\u2019s Northern Ireland director.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cThe placing of an effigy of a mosque on top of a bonfire amounts to incitement to hatred directed at real people who live, work and raise families in Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cIt is a crime under Northern Ireland law to distribute materials that are intended or likely to stir up racial or religious hatred or arouse fear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Eleventh night bonfires will be lit across Northern Ireland on Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings in advance of the Orange Order\u2019s July 12th parades on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">While most of the bonfires pass off without incident, several have become the focus of contention due to the placing of flags, effigies and election posters on the structures before they are ignited.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Last month in Moygashel, police removed a banner from a children\u2019s playpark, saying it was being treated as a hate crime. \u2013 PA <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police arrested a man after a replica of a mosque was placed on top of a loyalist bonfire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":682475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,1647,13180,158460,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-682474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-northern-ireland","tag-police-service-of-northern-ireland-psni","tag-tyrone","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}