The London Daily News

There is anger on the streets of Brixton today after armed police raided a Nation of Islam mosque.

Yesterday around 11.15am armed officers forced their way into the organisation’s UK headquarters on intelligence that the building was being used as a cannabis factory, according to the religious group.

The Metropolitan Police have apologised "unreservedly" for "mistakenly" breaking down the door to the mosque and searching it for drugs - none where found.

However, the mosque's leader Minister Hilary Mohammad was not in a forgiving mood as he rounded on the police officer decided to raid the building "because he felt like it." A rally protesting the raid is being held outside Brixton police station tonight.

Lee Jasper, a former Senior Director of Policing for London condemned the police operation, calling it a "disaster for community relations".

The NOI also say police claimed that they were unaware that the Hinton road building was a mosque even thought there is a large sign on the outside of the property.

Jasper added:

"This policing operation is an outrageous attack on the NOI and smacks of either gross incompetence or a return to a policing style that politically targets black organisations reminiscent of the 1980’s."

The suited, bow tied US based group's leader Minister Louis Farrakhan is currently banned from the UK.

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