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Left: Sky News report police investigating arson at a former Synagogue Right: Synagogue hadn't been used for decades, and was bought by a Muslim group who have put a £235k deposit down So is it now an Islamophobic attack?

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I grew up in Stepney, I don't think that place has been used since the Blooms restaurant closed around the corner in Aldgate East when I was a kid in the 80s and most of our Jewish population aged and headed out of the city.

In all the pictures I've seen of it so far, the board reading 'East London Central Synagogue' is still up, plus it has a Star of David design above the door. No, it hasn't been used as such for years, but does whoever set the fire know that? Visually, it still says 'Synagogue'.

Yup. They're some kind of racist bigot so we're not dealing with one of the great minds of our time here, so if it *looks* like a Synagogue, they probably thought it was. If they were motivated by anti-Muslim sentiment there would be more obviously Islamic buildings to target.