Update: 10 arrested so far in UK soldier’s killing

As concerns about rising Islamophobia in Britain grew amid anti-Muslim protests and attacks targeting mosques, authorities made a 10th arrest in last week’s knifing death of a British soldier.

Armed police arrested a 50-year-old man on
a street in the town of Welling in southeastern England.

The man’s connection to the case was unclear, but like the other nine suspects, he was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder. Three of those arrested are still in custody, including the two men who allegedly hacked to death British soldier Lee
Rigby. Two were released without charge, and five were released on bail.
Police haven’t said how anyone they’ve arrested could be tied to killing, and they’ve been tight-lipped about the attackers’ identities and their motives. But a video recording of one of the suspected attackers claiming the soldier’s death was revenge for the deaths of Muslims worldwide has fueled long-simmering tensions.

And the series of arrests after the British soldier’s slaying have done nothing to quell surging anti- Muslim sentiment in some sectors of the United Kingdom.

A mosque was set ablaze Sunday in Grimsby, a town on England’s east coast. Officers arrested two men there on suspicion of arson, according to Humberside county police. No one was injured in the fire. The English Defence League demonstrated in the town’s center the morning before the fire. On Monday, hundreds of EDL supporters marched near the central London office of Prime Minister David Cameron.

Enraged by the murder of Rigby in the southeast London neighborhood of Woolwich on Wednesday, the EDL has called for marches around the UK.

In a demonstration in Newcastle on Saturday, angry supporters cried out for Muslims to leave the country. EDL demonstrators threw objects at counter demonstrators, and police stepped in to keep the raucous men from going after their opponents.

The EDL claims Islamic law is poised to overthrow British society and calls for Britons to act aggressively to pre-empt it.

Source: CNN