But if his intention was to divide the city of Manchester, he failed, according to Ian. “This city is a community,” Ian told BBC Newsnight outside of a blood bank. They want us to turn on our neighbors and it will never happen. Not here.”In echoes of Ian’s sentiment, thousands of Mancunians stood together at a Manchester Town Hall vigil on Tuesday. “It was incredibly emotional ... for us especially as Muslim citizens,” Muhammad Khursheed, an imam of a Manchester mosque told Reuters news agency.

Source: Huffington Post May 24, 2017 16:07 UTC