LONDON: Extra security will be put up at mosques around the UK in the wake of the deadly attacks in Norway, British Muslim leaders said on Sunday. Mohammed Shafiq, the leader of Ramazan Foundation, one of Britain's largest Muslim groups, said mosques are being extra vigilant as it emerges that the suspect blamed for the Norway attacks opposed Muslim immigration to Europe.

Shafiq said he was talking to other European Muslim leaders about the need to increase security and to British police about extra protection.

“People are afraid that we will be the next target,” Safiq said in a telephone interview during a large gathering of scholars and leaders in northern city of Birmingham. “As a result, we've told people to be extra vigilant and there will be added security placed at mosques.”A pig's head was recently left at a mosque outside of Oxford, he added.

An online manifesto ranting against Muslim immigration to Europe was written by the 32-year-old Norwegian suspect, Anders Behring Breivik, and Breivik had been working on it for years, said his lawyer, Geir Lippestad.

On Friday, seven people died in a bombing outside government headquarters. Hours later, 86 more died in a shooting spree on a nearby island.—AP