A mosque in Birkenhead has spoken out after a hooded figure attached a Union Jack flag to its gates last week.

Wirral Deen Mosque has insisted that the community would not allow it to be used against them.

The British flag was attached to the railings outside the mosque in the early hours of Saturday morning - with CCTV capturing the hooded figure in the act.

Imam Ibrahim Syed, 44, from Birkenhead, chose not to see the act as an insult - and has now put a flag in the mosque window.

He told the ECHO on Thursday: "We think he thought with the recent trend it would have been offensive to people who are Muslim but that's not how we see it at all.

"We decided we needed to claim our narrative of being British and being Muslim and our claim as much as anybody's to the Union Jack.

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