Boys read the messages placed at the entrance of a mosque by neighbors pledging their support after an attack in Uppsala, Sweden, on Friday. The mosque suffered a firebomb attack on Thursday, one of three arson attacks targeting the Muslim community in Sweden since Christmas Day.

STOCKHOLM : Swedes expressing solidarity with Muslims have staged manifestations after a series of recent attacks on mosques.

In the city of Uppsala, where anti-Muslim rhetoric was scrawled onto a mosque wall on Thursday, hundreds of people pasted red paper hearts and messages of support onto the building’s entrance ahead of Friday prayers.

A day before the so-called love bombing, police said a Molotov cocktail was hurled at the mosque without causing a fire.

Earlier this week, a mosque in Eslov in the south suffered partial damage after a blaze that police suspect was arson.

And on Christmas Day, five people were injured when a petrol bomb was thrown through a window of a mosque in the town of Eskilstuna.

Rallies to condemn the attacks were held on Friday in the country’s three major cities — Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmo — under the banner “Don’t touch my mosque.”

Policemen stand outside a mosque in Uppsala on Friday. The mosque suffered a firebomb attack on January 1, one of three arson attacks targeting the muslim community in Sweden since Christmas Day.

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