| Who was it that wanted some positive news? 18:28 - Aug 2 with 872 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/aug/02/anti-racists-mobilise-to
Adam Kelwick, an imam from Liverpool, said he was planning to serve more than 200 burgers, chips and cold drinks to demonstrators attending a far-right protest planned outside a mosque.
“I think it’s a great chance for de-escalation,” he said. “If there’s no threat to our security, we’re literally going to be giving out cold drinks to people who’ve come to protest against our mosque and our religion.”
He said he was trying to combat ignorance which “cements division”.
“I can’t comment on the organisers of these events and their intentions, but what I do know for sure is that there are people among these crowds who are genuinely worried, genuinely concerned,” he said.
“The way they go about it might not be the best way to do it. But the reason that they’re actually there and taking themselves to these events is because they’re scared and a lot of the time that fear is based on false information, it’s based on ignorance. It’s a duty to reach out to these people.”
He said there were concerns about a violent response from the demonstrators, “but as soon as it’s established that there are people who genuinely want to meet with us and genuinely want to talk, we’re going to be there to welcome them in.”
“What we’ve seen so far, they’d be shouting, ‘Who the F is Allah?’,” he said. “So let’s assume that’s a genuine question and we’ll bring them into the mosque and we can talk about it.
“We will have our volunteers going to them, smiling to them, and passing them cold drinks on this hot day.”
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| Who was it that wanted some positive news? on 18:44 - Aug 2 with 792 views | positivity |
the only silver linings are that it can bring communities together, such as the people rebuilding the mosque wall in southport.
quoted as saying (not verbatim) "if they (the racist mob) come back and knock it down again, we'll be back here again the next day to build it back again" |  |
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