Aftermath of Woolwich killing

well wishers leave flowers where soldier Lee was mudered

After a brutal murder is allegedly committed by two Muslim men, mosques are attacked, anti-Islam obscenities shouted, and women's headscarves ripped off.

When off-duty soldier Lee Rigby was hacked to death in broad daylight last week in the Woolwich district of London, Britons were very understandably shocked and horrified.

The two suspects, Michael Adebolajo, 28, and Michael Adebowale, 22, are British citizens of Nigerian descent. They are also Muslims.

That last fact has sparked a wave of anti-Muslim sentiment in London and all around Britain. A new YouGov poll shows that the number of Britons who believe "British Muslims pose a serious threat to democracy" jumped to 34 percent after the killing, up from 30 percent in November. The poll also found that nearly two-thirds of people in the U.K. believe that a "clash of civilizations" is coming between British Muslims and white Britons, up 9 percentage points from last year.

How has that attitude affected British Muslims? Here is what they have had to face so far:

The fire-bombing of a mosque 
On Sunday, Diler Gharib, chairman of the Grimsby Islamic Cultural Centre, told the Grimsby Telegraph that he and other worshippers were praying at their mosque in the town of Grimsby when it was fire-bombed:

We had just finished our prayers and were discussing how to thank our neighbours for the support they have shown us over the past few days when we heard a bang and saw fire coming under the door. I grabbed a fire extinguisher and put it out and then two more petrol bombs hit the fire escape and the bin so I had to put those out too. [Grimsby Telegraph]

CCTV footage confirms that three fire-bombs were thrown over the complex's gate, according to The Guardian. The mosque's imam, Ahmad Sabik, referred to it as an attempted murder.

There have been a total of 10 attacks on mosques throughout the country since last week's Woolwich murder, reports The Independent.

Protests in the streets
Around a thousand supporters of the right-wing English Defence League (EDL) marched through London on Monday chanting things like "Muslim killers, off our streets." The crowd gathered outside of British Prime Minister David Cameron's home and, according to Reuters, yelled anti-Islam obscenities.