• IT was a pleasure to join so many others in a community get-together on Saturday inspired by Jo Cox and hosted by the Muslim Education House in Finsbury Park. We returned home with such a warm feeling of friendship and optimism.

It was therefore a great shock to wake up two days later to find that our Muslim friends had suffered a terrible attack, leaving one dead and nine others injured.

And so we returned to the Muslim Education Centre, this time delivering a message of hope and solidarity from Islington Pensioners Forum. We saw for ourselves that we were part of a constant flow of friendship from neighbours of all ages and faiths delivering messages and floral tributes.

Saturday’s community get-together had triumphed over hatred and division. Let us continue to build on this.

ANNETTE THOMAS AND PAM ZINKIN
Islington Pensioners Forum