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===2017 terrorist attack=== {{Main|2017 Finsbury Park mosque van attack}} Shortly after midnight on 19 June 2017, several worshippers leaving the nearby Finsbury Park Mosque were struck by a hired van in a terrorist attack. One person died of multiple injuries and ten were injured. The attack was widely condemned and seen by local Muslim leaders as part of rising [[Islamophobia in the United Kingdom]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Finsbury Park attack: Muslim leaders denounce 'most violent manifestation' of Islamophobia|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/19/muslim-body-condemns-senseless-evil-attack-finsbury-park/|website=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|access-date=19 June 2017|date=19 June 2017|archive-date=19 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170619040320/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/19/muslim-body-condemns-senseless-evil-attack-finsbury-park/|url-status=live}}</ref> Following the attack, Mohammed Kozbar, the chairman of the Finsbury Park mosque, said that the mosque had received multiple death threats.<ref>[https://www.vice.com/en/article/london-mosque-targeted-in-terror-attack-now-receiving-death-threats/ London Mosque Targeted in Terror Attack Now Receiving Death Threats] , Vice News, Hind Hassan, 30 June 2017</ref><ref>[http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/islamophobic-rivers-blood-threats-finsbury-park-mosque-wake-terror-attack-1628499 Islamophobic 'rivers of blood' threats to Finsbury Park Mosque in wake of terror attack] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170630180252/http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/islamophobic-rivers-blood-threats-finsbury-park-mosque-wake-terror-attack-1628499 |date=30 June 2017 }}, International Business Times, Ewan Palmer, 30 June 2017</ref> In February 2018 the perpetrator, Darren Osborne, was sentenced to [[Life imprisonment in England and Wales|life imprisonment with a minimum tariff of 43 years]] with simultaneous terms for murder and attempted murder.<ref>{{cite news|quote=Darren Osborne, 48, was found guilty of murdering Makram Ali, 51, after deliberately ploughing into a crowd of people in Finsbury Park in June|work=[[BBC News]]|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-42920929|title=Finsbury Park attacker Darren Osborne jailed for minimum of 43 years|date=2 February 2018|access-date=2 February 2018|archive-date=3 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180203093556/http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-42920929|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Rawlinson|first=Kevin|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/feb/02/finsbury-park-attack-darren-osborne-jailed|title=Darren Osborne jailed for life for Finsbury Park attack|work=The Guardian|date=2 February 2018|access-date=2 February 2018|archive-date=2 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180202130337/https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/feb/02/finsbury-park-attack-darren-osborne-jailed|url-status=live}}</ref>
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