Fears of a backlash against Muslims are rising tonight in the wake of the car bomb plot.
It came as a Pakistani-born Scotsman’s newsagents was ram-raided and fire-bombed in Glasgow.
Racial incidents rose in the days after the July 7 bombings and there was a similar backlash after the September 11 attack.
Tonight a prominent Muslim leader spoke of his fears of a “rising hostility” towards the Asian community.
Osama Saeed, the Muslim Association of Britain’s Scottish spokesman, made the warning as police launched an investigation into the attack on a newsagent’s in the early hours of the morning.
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