Services disrupted at Gdansk mosque after hooligans smash windows

Religious classes were cancelled at a Gdansk mosque on Saturday, after two young hooligans smashed ten windows in the building on Friday night. The attack also affected regular Sunday worship. "Instead of the 40 people who usually come, only around a dozen showed up on Sunday," said Halina Szabanowicz, a member of the Gdansk Muslim community. Many Muslims are reported to be fearful of people who associate Islam with the terrorist attacks on the US. "People think that Islam is a religion of knives and guns," said one. Following the incident on Friday, police placed a guard on the mosque. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 33) T.J.