"People were approaching us, hugging us. It allowed us to show the local community and world at large that terrorists have nothing to do with Islam."
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| File photo: Imam Zishan Ahmad |
Source/Credit: ABC 57 / CNN
By Gisela Crespo (CNN) | May 23, 2017
The AMYA members held banners that read "Love for all, hatred for none."
Imams and Muslim youth from around the UK drove to Manchester, England on Tuesday in a display of solidarity after the city's deadly terror attack.
Zishan Ahmad, an imam at London's Baitul Futuh Mosque, made the 8-hour round trip to pay tribute to the victims at a vigil outside Manchester City Hall.
He joined about 50 members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association -- and hundreds of others who attended the solemn event.
For Ahmad, seeing a city being shaken up by tragedy is all too familiar.
"I as a Londoner experienced the same thing this great city of Manchester is experiencing," Ahmad said, referring to the attack near UK's Parliament in March that left four dead.
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