The imam who reached out to rioters
Today in Focus
The Guardian
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🗓️ 7 August 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. |
| 0:09.0 | Today, after seven days of violent unrest, one imam on crossing police lines to meet the people |
| 0:16.4 | picketing his mosque. |
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| 0:59.0 | It's been a horrifying week in the UK. After the senseless killings of three little girls at a Taylor Swift dance class in Southport last week, |
| 1:07.0 | violence erupted across England and over the Irish Sea in Belfast. |
| 1:12.0 | Guardian reporters have been out on the streets watching the chaos unfold. |
| 1:16.3 | I'm on the ground in Rotterham outside the holiday inn where there's an ongoing rioter. |
| 1:22.4 | We sit there at the border. where there's an ongoing riot. |
| 1:23.0 | We sit at the bottom corner here. |
| 1:27.0 | In Rotherum and Tamworth, |
| 1:29.0 | hotel's housing asylum seekers were set alight. In Burnley Muslim graves were desecrated. In Sunderland the Citizens Advice Bureau was tor. In Middlesbrough, a marauding mob smashed people's windows and |
| 1:46.8 | courts. |
| 1:47.8 | And they were shouting some quite vile stuff as well. They were anti-Muslim slurs and anti-immigrant slurs. I mean it was it was horrible. |
| 1:59.7 | In Plymouth police officers were injured during violent protests. |
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