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Distribution of anti-Muslim leaflets in Co Antrim criticised

Leaflets criticising Muslims and the "insanity of mass immigration" were left on car windscreens in Lisburn yesterday (Pic: Google Maps)
Leaflets criticising Muslims and the "insanity of mass immigration" were left on car windscreens in Lisburn yesterday (Pic: Google Maps)

Far right organisation, Ulster Awake, has been criticised for distributing anti-Muslim and anti-immigration leaflets in Co Antrim yesterday.  

Dozens of leaflets criticising Muslims and the "insanity of mass immigration" were left on car windscreens in Lisburn yesterday.

The material claimed that immigration was being used as a weapon to "destroy the nation states of Europe".

Lisburn city’s Deputy Mayor Stephen Martin condemned the action in “the strongest possible terms”.

"Everyone is entitled to express their point of view but when a group pretends to defend us all by spreading outright lies intended to divide communities, it needs condemned in the strongest possible terms," Mr Martin said.

"These sorts of groups are only interested in whipping up unnecessary fear to further their own agenda," he said.