Mosques given £66m in emergency security funds after Southport disorder

Mosques given £66m in emergency security funds after Southport disorder

Mosques handed £66m after Southport disorder

Mosques and hotels housing asylum seekers were subsequently targeted as violent disorder swept across towns and cities in the summer of 2024.

UK Home Office gives mosques $88m in emergency security funding after Southport riots

LONDON: The UK Home Office provided mosques and Muslim community sites with a record £66 million ($87.3 million) in emergency security funding following the 2024 Southport riots, new figures have revealed, amid growing concerns over anti-Muslim hostility in the UK. The money accounted for almost all of the £69 million distributed to places of worship under an emergency scheme introduced as violent disorder spread across Britain following the kil…