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Germany: Dresden mosque blasts overshadows events marking 10th Islamic conference 

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The 10th anniversary of the German Islamic Conference was overshadowed when two bomb explosions rocked a mosque based in Dresden with police revealing that the motive of the attack appeared to be xenophobia and nationalism.
No one has yet been reported injured or dead in the twin explosion which rocked the mosque based in eastern Germany which has become a hotspot for far-right protests and hate crimes following a major influx of migrants and refugees.
When the explosions occurred, police said the imam, his wife and two sons who were in the Fatih Camii mosque escaped unhurt and they also recovered the remains of homemade explosives at the scene of the crime.
“Although no one has so far claimed responsibility, we must assume that there was a xenophobic motive,” Dresden police chief Horst Kretschmar said.
German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said the mosque attack was “all the more scandalous” because it happened on the eve of the 10th annual meeting of the German Islam Conference.
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