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The Muslim Council of Wales fears inter-racial tensions are escalating in the wake of the slaying of a British serviceman after bacon was left in the entrance to a Welsh mosque.

Secretary of the Council Saleem Kidwai said the food, offensive to muslims on religious grounds, was left at the Shah Jalal mosque, in Cathays, Cardiff, on Wednesday night following the attack in Woolwich.

Mr Kidwai also pointed to an attack on a mosque in Kent and 100 English Defence League supporters gathering at the scene of the Woolwich murder as evidence of rising hostility.

He said: “They left pig meat at the door - bacon and all these things.”

Mr Kidwai said the killing by two men understood to be British-born Islamic converts was “horrific” and “barbaric” and had nothing to do with the Muslim faith.

Meanwhile anti-terror police investigating the murder have searched a property 150 miles away in Lincolnshire, believed to be the home of the father of one of the killers.

While the two self-confessed killers, one of whom has been identified as Michael Adebolajo, 28, were under armed guard in different London hospitals, detectives swooped on an address in Saxilby.

There were also reports of addresses in the London area being searched by police.

Mr Kidwai added: “We as a community must work together to fight the forces of hatred which are evolving now as was demonstrated last night with the attacks on the mosques.

“There are extremists on both sides and they always try to manipulate these incidents to develop hatred among communities.”

One of the killers told cub leader Ms Loyau-Kennett, of Helston in Cornwall, the victim was a “British soldier” and spoke of “bombs dropping and blindly killing” women and children in Muslim countries.

Afterwards London Mayor Boris Johnson said it was wrong to link the murder with British foreign policy or the actions of Britain’s armed forces overseas.

Mr Johnson said: “The fault lies wholly and exclusively in the warped and deluded mindset of the people who did it.”

But Mr Kidwai said it was “naive” to suggest British interventions overseas had not heightened inter-ethnic tensions at home.

He added: “It would be naive to think foreign policy has no part to play in it.

“But on the other hand the way to deal with it is not to become a psychopath and start killing people left, right and centre, but to go through the democratic process.”

Terrorism expert professor Paul Moorcraft, from Cardiff, said the general consensus was that the men were “self-starters” or “lone wolves” influenced by reading Jihadist or Islamic fundamentalist material on the internet.

While extremists acting under orders from overseas are easier for the security services to track it’s more difficult to keep tabs on these type of terrorists, he said.

Adebolajo was reportedly raised as a Christian, but became radicalised as a schoolboy after attending meetings of the now banned group Al Muhajiroun.

Members of his family including his sister and father Anthony Adebolajo are being quizzed by police.

Professor Moorcraft, 65, who as a journalist covered the activities of Jihadists in Soviet occupied Afghanistan in the 1980s and in Bosnia a decade or so later, said: “When people are operating under external direction in Pakistan you can monitor visits and cash flows, but when somebody out of the blue comes from a suburb of London and suddenly decides to do this it’s extremely difficult to stop.”

Though steps were taken in London to put military bases on a heightened state of alert in the hours after the attack the threat was not deemed as serious in Wales.

Here the threat level was rated as “substantial” rather than “heightened”.

Army spokesman Gavin O’Connor said: “Nothing has changed in terms of the threat level in Wales. It was substantial and remains substantial.

“There would have been a heightened awareness, but not a change in the threat level (in the hours after the attack in Wales).”

A police spokesman said: "South Wales Police is investigating an incident at the Shah Jalal Mosque on Crwys Road, Roath, at around 10.30pm on Wednesday, May 22.

"Enquiries are on-going and officers are carrying out extra patrols and reassurance visits."