UNITED KINGDOM: REACTIONS OF WORSHIPPERS AT REGENT'S PARK MOSQUE TO LONDON BOMBINGS
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338276
UNITED KINGDOM: REACTIONS OF WORSHIPPERS AT REGENT'S PARK MOSQUE TO LONDON BOMBINGS
- Title: UNITED KINGDOM: REACTIONS OF WORSHIPPERS AT REGENT'S PARK MOSQUE TO LONDON BOMBINGS
- Date: 8th July 2005
- Summary: (BN11) LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM (JULY 8, 2005) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. CLOSE OF LONDON'S REGENT'S PARK MOSQUE MINARET 0.03 2. PAN FROM DOME TO MINARET OF MOSQUE 0.09 3. VARIOUS OF POLICE OFFICERS OUTSIDE MOSQUE 0.22 4. CLOSE OF SIGN PINNED TO MOSQUE FENCE READING 'BAGS MAY BE SEARCHED' 0.26 5. VARIOUS OF WORSHIPPERS ENTERING MOSQUE 0.40 6. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) UNIDENTIFIED WORSHIPPER SAYING: "I suppose they (the Muslim community) have got mixed feelings about it. Probably some feel that this sort of thing happens in Muslim countries all day. People live with the same sort of thing continuously so some people probably feel quite differently about it." 0.58 7. SLV MEDIA AT MOSQUE 0.59 8. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) UNIDENTIFIED WORSHIPPER SAYING: "I had reservations about coming here today in case there should be reprisals but in the same way as Tony Blair says, it shouldn't interfere with our daily routine. I felt it was best to come along and do what I need to do instead of stay at home and hide which again is taking Tony Blair's advice." 1.21 9. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) UNIDENTIFIED WORSHIPPER SAYING: "I think, like all Muslims do, that it was wrong to do this (referring to London attacks). Even if the people who died were not Muslims. Muslims were also killed (in the attacks) and so were Arabs and English people. People from all corners of the world were killed in tube stations and on buses. They all go around together. It's terrible, people woke up in the morning to go to work and they were killed." 1.40 10. PAN OF EXTERIOR OF MOSQUE WITH CALL TO PRAYERS SOUNDING FROM SPEAKER 2.01 11. VARIOUS OF WORSHIPPERS ENTERING MOSQUE FOR FRIDAY PRAYERS 2.15 12. CLOSE OF WORSHIPPERS REMOVING SHOES INSIDE MOSQUE AHEAD OF FRIDAY PRAYERS 2.21 14. PAN OF SHOES ON RACKS/ WORSHIPPERS INSIDE MOSQUE 2.25 15. SLV MAN STANDING AND PRAYING 2.32 16. VARIOUS OF WORSHIPPERS/ (SOUNDBITE) (English) IMAM FOR LONDON'S REGENTS PARK MOSQUE SAYING: "Our thoughts, prayers and condolences go to the victims of yesterday's (July 7) terrible terrorist attack. As citizens and co-workers of this great city, London, we share the concerns and fears of fellow Londoners." 2.56 17. WIDE OF WORSHIPPERS KNEELING AND PRAYING OUTSIDE IN MOSQUE COURT YARD 2.58 18. PULLOUT OF WORSHIPPERS KNEELING THEN STAND IN PRAYER/ PAN ACROSS MOSQUE COURT YARD AND WORSHIPPERS 3.19 19. WIDE OF NEWS CONFERENCE 3.25 20. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) DR AHMED AL-DUBAYAN, DIRECTOR GENERAL OF ISLAMIC CULTURAL CENTRE, SAYING: "(I am) here on behalf of the Islamic cultural centre in the London central mosque (Regent's Park) I would like to express our prayers and our condolences also to the families who also lost some of their members and we condemn by all means actually what happened yesterday. This is really terrible, terrible terrorist attacks that happened yesterday and it is not accepted by the Muslim community. It is not accepted by all means by Islam itself as a faith, as a religion of tolerance and peace." 4.04 21. WIDE OF NEWS CONFERENCE 4.09 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Story Text: London Muslims fear backlash after fatal blasts.
Muslims across Britain prayed on Friday (July 8) for the
victims of the London bombings blamed on radical
Islamists, but many feared an anti-Muslim backlash after a
deluge of abusive messages.
The Muslim Council of Britain, which represents the
country's 1.6 million Muslims, said it had received 30,000
messages of hate via e-mail after the attacks and that its
computers had been jammed.
"I had reservations about coming here today in case
there should be reprisals, but in the same way as Tony
Blair says, it shouldn't interfere with our daily routine.
I felt it was best to come along and do what I need to do
instead of stay at home and hide, which again is taking
Tony Blair's advice," said on worshipper at London's
Regent's Park mosque.
Despite their worries, there was still a high turnout
at the mosque for Friday prayers.
The Imam condemned the London attacks during his
sermon.
"Our thoughts, prayers and condolences go to the
victims of yesterday's (July 7) terrible, terrorist attack.
As citizens and co-workers of this great city, London, we
share the concerns and fears of fellow Londoners," Sheikh
Salah Al-Ansari, the Mosque's Imam.
Faith leaders who met British interior minister Charles
Clarke on Friday called for a calm response to Thursday's
attacks, which killed more than 50 people.
The Islamic Human Rights Commission warned London
Muslims to stay at home because of fears of retaliation.
London police chief Ian Blair said the authorities were in
touch with Muslim leaders and those of other faiths to
protect symbolic buildings.
Prime Minister Tony Blair condemned bombers who "act in
the name of Islam" but said the majority of Muslims, both
in Britain and abroad, were decent people who opposed
terrorism.
Many people in London's Edgware Road -- close to one of
the underground railway stations that was attacked and an
area that is home to a large number of Lebanese, Iraqi and
Egyptian businesses -- feared acts of revenge.
A previously unknown group, "Secret Group of al Qaeda's
Jihad in Europe," claimed responsibility for the London
attacks on a bus and three underground stations.
The group that claimed responsibility for Thursday's
attacks said on a Web site they responded to what it
described as the "massacre carried out by Great Britain in
Iraq and Afghanistan".
Many Muslims regard the U.S.-led 2003 invasion of Iraq,
backed by Britain despite broad public opposition, as a
campaign against their faith. They also accuse the West of
supporting Israel in its dispute with the Palestinians.
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