Speaking at a the Minhaj-ul-Quran Mosque in Forest Gate, East London, Sir Ian Blair appealed to worshippers: "I need you". "We have got nearly 1m Muslims in London, 1.6 in the UK," he said. "We've only got 300 Muslim police officers in London - that's not good enough. I need your mothers, fathers, sons and daughters." "We must seize this moment, this weekend, next week. "We have to seize a moment in which the Muslim community in Britain changes from your position of shock and disbelief into active engagement in counter-terrorism."
Furthermore, the issue regarding to the involvement of the young Muslims was thoroughly discussed that the young British Muslims have to be taught a balanced view of their faith by all the mosques and Imams throughout the country. As a result, the extreme elements, which still exist in the community, shall not get any chance to 'hijack' the young immature Muslims and make terrorist out of them.
The active youth cell of MQI, the Muslim Youth League (MYL) will play an active role in eradicating extremism from the streets of UK, the Youth Development Co-ordinator Shaykh Ramzan Qadri said in the meeting with the Muslim youth and MQI's officials. Shaykh Ramzan Qadri holds regular Youth classes across the country to educate youngsters about their faith. The Muslim Youth League of Minhaj-ul-Quran will play a key role in spreading the moderate and balanced view of Islam. This is one of the methods, which MQI will adopt in assisting the British Government in the fight against extremism.
This was one of the first ever events in Minhaj-ul-Quran's history that it was broadcasted Live on the British and International TV channels such as Sky news, BBC News 24, ITV news and also CNN. However, the pictures were shown all day on all the national TV channels of Sir Ian Blairs visit to MQI centre. The official people from MQI who gave interviews were. Shahid Mursaleen gave TV interview to BBC News 24, which was telecasted LIVE on BBC News 24, in which Minhaj-ul-Quran was refered to as one of the first organisations to condemn these attacks in London. Minhaj-ul-Quran London President Mr Basharat Aziz gave a lengthy interview to Channel 4 and ITV and The Times Newspaper. Shaykh Ramzan Qadri also gave interviews to various papers.