This month a letter was posted to the mosque in the South Yorkshire town, saying: "Next time it will be a bomb, you Muslim scum.” The letter was signed with the number 1488, believed to be used by neo-Nazi groups.

Ch Supt Rob Odell, of South Yorkshire police, said the town’s mosques had been offered security advice.

Sabir Hussain, secretary of the mosque, described the bomb threat as "appalling and very frightening”. He told the BBC the Muslim community had felt "under siege”.

He said community cohesion was "very low” in the town following far-right marches. "There is never a day goes by when we don’t get abuse. At first we thought the letter might be a prank with somebody messing about, but when we looked at the code and checked it on the internet then that made us think this is very, very serious and not just an ordinary prank.”

Source: The Guardian