One suspect from last week's brutal killing of a British soldier in Woolwich was released from a hospital Tuesday and has been put into police custody, CNN reported.
The man has been identified as Michael Adebowale, a 22-year-old man who was one of 10 suspected of being connected to the slaying of British soldier Lee Rigby, who was killed in the middle of a busy street in South East London.
After Adebowale was injured in the scuffle at the scene of the attack, he was taken to a nearby hospital for wound treatment. While there, he was still under the watchful eye of British police.
Rigby was killed by a man named Michael Adebolajo, who murdered the soldier using a meat cleaver and a large kitchen knife, and was videotaped with blood covering his hands saying, "the only reason we killed this man is because Muslims are dying daily."
Following this attack, British radical nationalist groups have erupted into a flurry of fury, sparking Islamophobic attacks and widespread anti-Muslim rhetoric.
According to The Independent, the number of reported attacks has increased to 193 in the past six days, including 10 assaults on mosques.
Compare that to last year's total of 642 anti-Muslim attacks.
Participants in an English Defense League demonstration were seen on video saluting in Nazi style, raising their right arms at an angle, hands flat and straight. 13 were arrested at the rally, and glass bottles were thrown helter skelter.
Far right groups have bombed a handful of mosques as well-on Tuesday, in the Lincolnshire town of Grimsby, two former soldiers Stuart Harness, 33, and Gavin Humphries, 37, were arrested for setting off a gas bomb at a mosque.
According to Fiyaz Mughal, a coordinator of Tell Mama hotline that logs Islamophoic incidents, English culture is deeply ingrained with hatred and racism against Muslims.
"These things are cumulative and I do not see an end to this cycle of violence," Mughal told The Guardian. "There is an underlying Islamophobia in our society and the horrendous events in Woolwich have brought this to the fore and inflamed the situation."
