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BRITAIN’s largest Muslim festival promised to display a “magnificent example of unity” this weekend, after a previous event was forced to end early over extreme-right terror threats.
More than 50,000 Muslims from around Britain are set to attend the Jalsa Salana UK convention in Alton, Hampshire, starting today, less than two weeks after UK Ijtima finished early.
Police have since made 13 arrests and are continuing to investigate after they became aware of “a potential serious threat towards the Islamic event” earlier this month at Shrubland Hall near Ipswich, Suffolk.
Jalsa Salana organisers said they have “extensive measures in place” to keep people safe at the convention this weekend, which has been held for around six decades.
Members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community from over 100 countries are expected to attend the event, which will be staffed by nearly 5,000 volunteers.
It comes as a YouGov poll found 77 per cent of Britons believe the country is more divided now than it was five years ago.
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