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Van Mows Down Pedestrians Near London Mosque
Topic Started: Jun 18 2017, 08:17 PM (247 Views)
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Breaking 911: Van Mows Down Pedestrians Near London Mosque, Massive Police Response

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Several people were injured after a van reportedly plowed into pedestrians in the Harringay neighborhood of London.

The incident happened near a prominent Mosque as witnesses claim the driver intentionally struck the victims—a male driver was taken into police custody.

There was a massive police response and multiple ambulances were on scene.

There was no immediate word on an exact number of victims.

Al Qaeda operatives including the “shoebomber” Richard Reid and Zacarias Moussaoui attended the Finsbury Park mosque. In 2002, The Guardian reported that weapons training had taken place inside the building.

The mosque rose to notoriety when Abu Hamza al-Masri became Imam of the Mosque due to his extremist ideologies and views on terrorism.
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(The Guardian) The Muslim Association of Britain “unreservedly condemns this evil terror attack” and has called on the police to increase security in mosques. In a statement, it said: “We call on politicians to treat this major incident no less than a terrorist attack. We call on the government to do more to tackle this hateful evil ideology which has spread over these past years and resulted in an increase of Islamophobic attacks and division of our society, as well as spreading of hate.”

Dr Omer El-Hamdoon, the association’s president, said: “Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims of this evil attack. I call on all Muslims to be extra vigilant following these hateful Islamophobic attacks, and to be cautious.”
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(The Guardian) Corbyn to attend prayers at Finsbury Park mosque
--Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who is also the MP for the area, said he will be attending prayers at the Finsbury Park mosque later today. In a statement he said: I am shocked by this horrific and cruel attack in Finsbury Park, which is being treated as an act of terror.

I offer my condolences to the family and friends of the man who has died, and our thoughts are with the people who have been injured, their family and friends.

As the local MP, I have met with Muslim community leaders at the Muslim Welfare House alongside Islington council leader Richard Watts, the council’s chief executive Lesley Seary and the Metropolitan police.

Richard and I will attend prayers at Finsbury Park mosque later today.

I appeal for people and the media to remain calm and respectful of those affected.

In the meantime, I call on everyone to stand together against those who seek to divide us.
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(The Guardian) The suspected attack came during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, when several worshippers had gathered in Finsbury Park area which is home to two mosques.

Among Britain’s Muslim communities there have been fears that they are targeted for Islamophobic hate crimes and that the authorities do not take such incidents seriously enough.

A spike in hate crimes was reported after the London Bridge attack, just over a fortnight ago. Security officials and senior police officers are in private, acutely aware of the need to protect Muslim communities from any “backlash”.

Extremists on the far right and those following an extremist Islamist ideology want to drive a wedge between British Muslims and other communities.
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--The appalling attack on Muslims in #FinsburyPark is an attack on us all and the culture and values of our country. (Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury - 19 June 2017)
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(The Guardian) An imam guarded the van driver who mowed down Muslim worshippers until the police arrived, telling a crowd: “Do not touch him,” PA reports.

The suspected terrorist was wrestled to the ground by passersby after he had careered, reportedly smiling, through a crowd of pedestrians, including a man in a wheelchair.

Witness Hussain Ali, 28, said that, while being restrained, the man was protected by the people he is thought to have been targeting. He said: “The leader of the mosque said: ‘You do not touch him’. He was sitting and holding him like that, people kept holding him.

“All the police and helicopters came after around eight minutes.”

Ali described the horrifying scene unfolding outside the Islamic centre in north London early on Monday morning. “All I heard was a banging, then I turned and saw all the shouting and running. I saw people taking a man from underneath the van, he was black, bleeding, he was not dead, he was alive.

“There was a man in a wheelchair, a man underneath the van, it was hell. People who were inside saw the attacker was smiling, he was waving, he was happy. It was panic, people were shouting, screaming, some saying it was an accident.

“It was panic, it was horror.”

Following the carnage, the valour of an imam called Mohammed Mahmoud was also hailed by the religious community.

Toufik Kacimi, the chief executive of the Muslim Welfare House, said his “bravery and courage helped calm the immediate situation after the incident and prevented further injuries and potential loss of life”.
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(The Guardian) Corbyn: 'we all have to reach out to feel their pain and stress'

Corbyn said he was contacted by Downing Street in the early hours of the morning but has yet to talk to the prime minister about the attack.

Speaking at the scene he said: This was a van driven into a crowd of people attending a man who was already injured. They were coming home from night time prayers in the mosque. As I see it this is a terror on the streets ... in the communities.

Downing Street have been in touch with us and I was speaking to the mayor of London Sadiq Khan as well, we had a long conversation at about 4 o’clock this morning while I was in Muslim Welfare House so we were making sure that the response was efficient and coordinated and also to give reassure to the community.

I haven’t spoken to her [Theresa May] directly, but our offices have been in touch and she has expressed her condolences for the death and also concerns about what happened last night.


Asked if the prime minister should attend the scene, Corbyn said: “It is not up to me what the prime minister does. I’m the local MP. And I’m obviously here as you would expect any constituency MP to be present. These are people who I have represented for more than 35 years. I know many of them extremely well. And I feel their pain today and I feel their stress today. We have to all reach out and feel their pain and their stress.”

He added: “I’ve met both last night and this morning people who were just frightened, were just frightened that something like this could happen again. We obviously need efficient and effective policing we obviously need an attitude in our society of support for each other. The only way to deal with kind of issue is communities coming together.

“This is a very multi-faith community - Christians, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, all live around here. This is a microcosm of a community working together. An attack on a mosque, an attack on a synagogue, an attack on a church, is actually an attack on all of us. We have to protect each other’s faith each other’s way of life. That’s what makes us a strong society and community.”


Asked if the police could do more to protect the area, Corbyn said: “I’m not complaining at all about the local police. They in fact have worked very well together with both the mosques in Finsbury Park to make sure they have the support they need.”
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(The Guardian) The communities secretary, Sajid Javid, has been at the scene to express the government’s solidarity with the Muslim community.

Speaking to BBC News, he said: “I’m here to reassure first the local Muslim community and Muslims across Britain that we will always, as a government, take a zero-tolerance approach to hate crime … clearly, what we’ve seen and what we know already this is a hate crime attack.”

Javid added: “The Muslim community has our full support in every way, but I also want to learn from the community here what more we can do to reassure them at this very difficult time.”

The speed of Javid’s visit to the scene is in marked contrast to the government’s response to the Grenfell Tower fire last week, when the prime minister was criticised for failing to meet residents.

Javid added: “There is a meeting that the prime minister is chairing right now of the emergency Cobra committee to see what other response we can have that can help.”
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(The Guardian) More Christian leaders have offered prayers and support for Finsbury Park’s Muslim community.

Adrian Newman, the bishop of Stepney, said: “An attack on any faith is an attack on us all. As a church, we stand together with Finsbury Park mosque, in the wake of this morning’s appalling news. It sadly comes after a weekend, in memory of Jo Cox MP, that celebrated all that brings us together, and I know that the mosque, hand in hand with other local faith and community groups, was at the heart of events in the Finsbury Park area.”

Local churches would be available to help the mosque, he added. “We will not be cowed by those who seek to terrorise our communities.”

Cardinal Vincent Nichols, the Catholic archbishop of Westminster, said he was “appalled at the deliberate attack on people leaving their late-night prayers, as the end of their day of fasting, at the mosque in Finsbury Park. I have assured the leadership of the mosque and the Muslim Welfare Centre of our prayers and support.

“Violence breeds violence. Hatred breeds hatred. Every one of us must repudiate hatred and violence from our words and actions. We must all be builders of understanding, compassion and peace, day by day, in our homes, our work and our communities. That is the only way.”
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(The Guardian) White supremacists have celebrated the attack, according to the US extremist monitoring group Site. One declared it as “hope for the British,” Site reported.

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--White Supremacists Celebrate Car Ramming Pedestrians Near #London Mosque in #FinsburyPark, Claim There May be... (SITE FRFL, 19 June 2017)

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(The Guardian) There is significant anger and mistrust of the media among some members of Finsbury Park’s Muslim community.

Many people are reluctant to provide their names when speaking to reporters, and will refuse to speak to certain outlets. Ali Habib, 23, a student union organiser who lives in the area, said that lingering negative media reporting about Finsbury Park mosque, after its association with Abu Hamza, had created a sense of threat. He said: “Two years ago they threw petrol bombs at Finsbury Park mosque when people were praying. When that happened, we thought it was just an incident that would never happen again.”

In the aftermath of last night’s attack, he added: “In the first instance as soon as it was reported, the Daily Mail came here talking about Abu Hamza: they were calling it a revenge attack.” On social media he saw it referred to as having a troubled past, he said. “It’s not the same mosque.”

The way the attack was reported in the immediate aftermath meant “there’s a lot of anger about the media,” Habib said. “The BBC was talking about a fish market and Brexit … a lot of people here feel neglected.

“There were people there I know who didn’t know where their families were, so the media was like a spit in the face.”

Youth from the area, who are usually portrayed negatively in the media, were the ones who had conducted the citizen’s arrest and helped lift the lorry to rescue a man trapped underneath, he pointed out. “Orthodox Jews and Muslims were all together [on the cordon] but we didn’t see the media reporting that last night.” Habib added that within the community “they are waiting to see if the PM’s going to react the way she had in the past”.

Jeremy Corbyn, the local MP, is currently at the site and had a statement out within the hour, Habib noted. But he had also taken an interest in the community before the apparent attack. “He broke fast with the local community five days ago in the Finsbury Park mosque,” he said. The apparent targeting of the Muslim community at the height of Ramadan has shocked the community, he added.

“A lot of the time people are saying Islamophobia isn’t real, but this time it’s actually killed someone and injured others … There are kids who grew up [watching this] on TV and never expected it to happen in their own backyard,” he said.
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(The Guardian) May: attack is 'sickening'
--Theresa May is giving a statement in Downing Street. She says the attack is “every bit as sickening” as the other recent terrorist attacks.

Police declared it a terrorist incident within eight minutes, May says. The 48-year-old suspect attacker was “bravely” detained by members of the public, she adds. “This was an attack on Muslims near their place of worship … And like all acts of terrorism it seeks to drive us apart,” she says.

The attacker is a reminder that extremism and hatred takes many forms.

May pays tribute to the “extraordinary” people of London. She praises the way the public detained the attacker, just as others had tackled the attackers on London Bridge, and the way the community had come together in the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower fire.
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(The Guardian) Three men who say they helped to restrain the suspect in the attack near a north London mosque have praised an imam who urged the crowd not to do him any harm.

After a van ploughed into a group of people in Finsbury Park, members of the public wrestled the suspect to the ground. Then an imam from the Muslim Welfare House urged the crowd to remain calm.

“The imam came from the mosque and he said, ‘Listen we are fasting, this is Ramadan, we are not supposed to do these kinds of things so please step back,’” said Mohammed, one of three men who were sitting outside a nearby coffee shop on Monday morning and said that they had played a part in holding the man down.

“For that reason this guy is still alive today,” the cafe owner, 29, went on. “This is the only reason. If the imam was not there he wouldn’t be here today.”

The imam was named by the Muslim Welfare House as Mohammed Mahmoud. In a statement Toufik Kacimi, the mosque and welfare centre’s chief executive, praised Mahmoud’s bravery which he said “helped calm the immediate situation after the incident and prevented further injuries and potential loss of life”.

Footage on mobile phones at the scene when the man was being held on the ground captures the voice of a man shouting: “No one touch him – no-one! No-one!”

Other witnesses corroborated the cafe owner Mohammed’s account of the incident. Adil Rana, 24, who was outside the mosque when the van drove towards the crowd, said that initially, some people had attacked the suspect. “The driver jumped out and then he was pinned down to the floor and people were punching him and beating him, which was reasonable because of what he’s done,” he said. “And then the imam of the mosque actually came out and said: ‘Don’t hit him, hand him over to the police, pin him down.’”

Hussain Ali, 28, said: “The leader of the mosque said: ‘You do not touch him’. He was sitting and holding him like that, people kept holding him.”
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(The Guardian) Here’s PA’s first take on the prime minister’s statement: Theresa May has vowed that “hatred and evil” of the kind seen in the attack on a north London mosque will never succeed.

The prime minister was speaking following a meeting with security officials and ministers in the government’s Cobra emergency committee in Whitehall. She confirmed that police believe the man who drove a van into worshippers outside Finsbury Park mosque in the early hours of Monday acted alone.

Speaking outside 10 Downing Street, May said the attack had “once again targeted the ordinary and the innocent going about their daily lives – this time, British Muslims as they left a mosque, having broken their fast and prayed together at this sacred time of year”.

She added: “Today we come together, as we have done before, to condemn this act and to state once again that hatred and evil of this kind will never succeed.”

May said that the attack on Muslims was “every bit as insidious and destructive to our values and our way of life” as the recent string of terror attacks apparently motivated by Islamist extremism, adding: “We will stop at nothing to defeat it.”
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