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-The EDL threatened the organisers of the event and said they are going to run a big march towards that area.
- One of the main people of the council of Tower Hamlets wrote a statement where he said that the EDL is an extremeist group and the Muslim organisers of the event are extreme or as extreme as the EDL. He (Helal 'Abbas) influenced the council to cancel the venue.
- Young Muslim brothers are exchanging emails and are trying to defend the brothers of the event, but we don’t want a clash, if they want to demonstrate, it should be peaceful etc.
- Muslim brothers are not cowards and can defend themselves but we don’t want backlash etc. but if we need to defend ourselves, the brothers are ready to defend themselves.
- More ppl are coming so they’re getting a bigger venue.
- Alhamdulillaah, sometimes we hate something and Allaah jalla wa ’alaa brings khayr out of it. The affairs of the Muslims are good inshaAllaah.
- The EDL want to create problems for muslims. They hate islam and Muslims.
- S. Haytham asked a rhetorical question. I remember he said something like, "If they want an intellectual debate..." I didn't get the rest but I think he was trying to say that the EDL are not serious to have a intellectual debate, rather, they just want to cause fitna.
- If they just want to kick Muslims from Britain, the law won’t allow it and the Muslims won’t allow etc.
- Many people say that EDL are just fascists and want to create violence, threaten Muslims, for the Muslims to be afraid and stop arranging events, that is their aim.
- Rumours that event will be cancelled of the al khair event but it’s still going on.
- It's our civil right to conduct events.
- Anti-Islam people who appose Islam are increasing.
- The duty as Muslims is the main focus role. Cancellation of the event in the hall and re-locating it alhamdulilaah brought the Muslims together. Many Muslim organisations came together.
- Islamic Forum of Europe, LMC, Hizb ut Tahrir, ELM, Islam Channel, even Sufi’s supported the brothers and even Barelvis showed their solidarity of the organisers of the event.
- When Muslims are attacked, we come together but doesn’t mean just when we get attacked, we should come togther. Even though we have different views, we still have more things in common than what disunites us. This was manifested clearly in the event. This shows that Muslims irrespective of the methodology they follow, have allegiance towards Allaah and His messenger, also feel allegiance to Muslims.
- Muslims are allegiance of each other and that was manifested clearly in the recent events.
- We should be united more. Yeh, we have differences, but we as Muslims, we may call each other kaafir but this should be between us. Even if some people refuse to pray behind me (S. Haytham), that is ok because that will never stop. But we should keep this between ourselves. The outsiders, non-Muslims should look towards us as one ummah. Countless ayaat speak of this. The Muslim are brothers of Muslim. The Prophet :saw2: gave the example that the Muslims are one body, all of us know this so why don’t we invest on those ayaat and hadeeth?
^ Didn't watch all of it and that's what I got. So his main message was about unity and how we should stand together and support one another. May Allaah bless and protect Shaykh Haytham, ameen.
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