UK Home Office gives mosques $88m in emergency security funding after Southport riots

LONDON: The UK Home Office provided mosques and Muslim community sites with a record £66 million ($87.3 million) in emergency security funding following the 2024 Southport riots, new figures have revealed, amid growing concerns over anti-Muslim hostility in the UK. The money accounted for almost all of the £69 million distributed to places of worship under an emergency scheme introduced as violent disorder spread across Britain following the killing of three girls at a dance class in Southport,