The British city of Leicester saw communal tensions after an India Pakistan match. But these Hindu and Muslim residents responded with a message of unity.
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00:00We together call upon the inciters of hatred to leave our city alone.
00:08Our message to anyone that shows disharmony between us is clear.
00:14We will not let you succeed.
00:30All of them are massacres, all of them are massacres.
00:50We will not let you succeed, we will not let you succeed, we will not let you succeed.
01:17Our two faiths have lived harmoniously in this wonderful city for over half a century.
01:39We arrived in this city together.
01:42We faced the same challenges together.
01:45We fought off racist haters together and collectively made this city a beacon of diversity
01:53and community cohesion.
01:56That is why today we are saddened and heartbroken to see the eruption of tension and violence,
02:03physical attacks on innocent individuals and unwarranted damage to property are not part
02:09of a decent society and indeed not part of our faiths.
02:16What we have seen is not what we are about.
02:21We together call upon the immediate cessation of propagation and violence, both in thought
02:28and behaviour.
02:31We together call upon the inciters of hatred to leave our city alone.
02:37We are a strong family.
02:38We will work together to resolve whatever concern may arise.
02:43We do not need to call upon the assistance from outside of our city.
02:48Leicester has no place for foreign extremist ideology that causes division.
02:55Our message to anyone that shows disharmony between us is clear.
03:01We will not let you succeed.
03:05We ask all to respect the sanctity of religious places, both mosques and mandirs alike, whether
03:12provocation with loud music, flag bearing or derogatory chants, or physical attacks
03:18against the fabric of worship.
03:21This is not acceptable nor upheld by our faiths.
03:27But as with all families, we will be having honest and uncomfortable conversations in
03:32addressing the issues, but we are confident that our faith in God and indeed faith in
03:39each other, we will come out of this even stronger.
03:44We are one family.