Will the Islamophobia never end?

“Counter-terror police arrest five men at sites across England,” by Vikram Dodd, Guardian, December 30, 2019:

Counter-terrorism police have arrested five men over concerns about a potential Islamist attack plot.

The arrests followed a joint investigation by MI5 and police, who conducted raids on Monday morning at residential addresses in London, Manchester and Peterborough.

The police side of the investigation is being led by Scotland Yard’s counter-terrorism command, with officers conducting searches of addresses in all three cities.

Investigators are understood to have been monitoring the men, aged 19 to 23, before their arrest.

Police said one man, 19, was arrested in Peterborough on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of an act of terrorism. A 21-year-old man in Manchester and two men in north London, aged 22 and 23, were also arrested on suspicion of the same offence.

Another man, 19, was arrested in Peterborough on suspicion of encouraging terrorism.

A number of separate operations targeting suspected jihadist plots in Britain have failed to lead to charges being laid, and there have been claims of flawed intelligence….