By COLlive reporter
Rabbi Herschel Gluck, a Chabad chossid and interfaith activist, was one of the clergies who came to the Finsbury Park Mosque, less than 24 hours after a terror attack rocked the local Muslim community.
“It was a very diverse group there, and we said that the Muslim community has the right to feel an integral part of British society and should have the same protection and the same care as any other community,” he told the media.
Gluck, President of the North East London Shomrim neighborhood watch and Chair of the Muslim-Jewish Forum, said he went to the site of the attack in order to show solidary.
In a rousing speech outside the mosque, Gluck argued that the attach didn’t only hard the 12 people who were physically hurt in the attack, but that it tained the vast majority of the Muslim population in Britain who seek no harm to others.
“The vast majority of the Jewish community has shown tremendous sympathy for the Muslim community,” Gluck said. “We have come forward very clearly and unashamedly to show support, and the Muslim community recognizes and appreciates this.”
Gluck later joined a meeting with British Prime Minister Theresa May and Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick which he described as a “very positive, very realistic” discussion inside the mosque.
A similar statement was made by Rabbi Mendy Korer, Director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Islington who said Jews were “saddened by the news” of the attack and “stands together with our Muslim brothers and sisters.”
“Islington is made up of different nationalities and faiths,” he was quoted as saying. We have got to know so many wonderful people that do so much to keep the fabric of our community together. Let’s not allow this atrocity to break us apart. We live together, we celebrate together and we mourn together.”
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Powerful speech by our President Rabbi Herschel Gluck OBE at the vigil outside #FinsburyPark Mosque This evening. #WeStandTogether pic.twitter.com/hHicjq7n04
— Shomrim N.E. London (@Shomrim) June 19, 2017
I am so happy to see this rabbis kindness. Unfortunately, I too often see the hate towards Muslims on this site and many other Frum forums. And people try to justify it, but it’s hate. It is embarrassing. We, like Muslims are a religious minority, and many of our goals and values are the same. And all of the mourners should be comforted