Hawzah News Agency (London, UK) – Jeremy Corbyn has broken fast with members of the north London Muslim community to commemorate the Finsbury Park mosque attack.

The Labor leader offered a message of unity as he joined the daughter of victim Makram Ali at a community street iftar meal outside the mosque on Tuesday evening.

The attack took place on June 19, 2017, but Tuesday marked the 17th day of Ramadan and the second anniversary of the attack, according to the lunar calendar observed in Islam.

Mr Ali, 70, was killed when Darren Osborne ploughed a hired van into worshippers gathered outside the Muslim Welfare House shortly after evening Ramadan prayers.

He died at the scene while 12 worshippers were injured.

Mr Corbyn, who lives nearby, told those gathered over the road from the attack on Tuesday evening that targeting a place of worship was an "attack on all of us".

The Labor leader added: "I want our children to grow up in a world of diversity of wonder and of beauty, but if they grow up in a world dominated by discrimination and hate, then their lives will be less exciting, their lives will be less imaginative, and above all the collective problems we face cannot be solved.

"Those that divide our community don't build houses that people need to live in.

"Don't build schools that are children need to learn in. They don't build hospitals that we all need to be cared in.

"They don't solve any of those problems, and a world riven with division will not be able to deal with the huge issue that we all face of climate change and the damage we are doing to our natural world."

He was also joined by Conservative MP Dominic Grieve and Ruzina Akhtar, Mr Ali's daughter, who addressed the gathering.

She said: "Two years on after the tragic loss of my father, it is still most beautiful to continue to see that the community is able to get together to celebrate events like today.

"Communities are only able to stand united because we don't give into these terrorists and racists who set out to divide us.

"We need to continue to show that no matter what the situation we will come out stronger and better than before."

Also present was Abdirahman Ibrahim, 31, who was clipped by the van and tended to Mr Ali and others injured before helping apprehend the driver, Osborne.

He was on crutches for nearly three months following the attack after his knee was damaged and has been left with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, anxiety and hyper vigilance.

Ahead of its start, Finsbury Park station was temporary closed due to a suspicious vehicle in the vicinity, reopening shortly after.

By the end of the evening, at least 2,000 people were expected to join the meal, organized by Muslim Aid, Finsbury Park mosque and the Muslim Welfare House.

Mohammed Kozbar, chairman of Finsbury Park mosque, said he had seen a torrent of Islamophobic incidents over the past few years.

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