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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Jon Ungoed-Thomas

Survivors of UK terror attacks warn: ‘Don’t equate Muslims with extremists’

Rebecca Rigby wearing a soldier's medals and holding a poppy wreath standing with her arm round a young boy
Rebecca Rigby, widow of murdered soldier Lee Rigby, with their son Jack at an Armistice Day service in London in 2015. Photograph: Ben Cawthra/Rex/Shutterstock

More than 50 survivors of terrorist attacks, including the Manchester Arena bombing and the London Bridge attacks, have signed an open letter warning politicians to stop conflating British Muslims with extremism.

The signatories include Rebecca Rigby, the widow of soldier Lee Rigby who was murdered in south-east London in 2013, and Paul Price, who lost his partner, Elaine McIver, in the Manchester Arena attack in 2017. They caution against comments which play “into the hands of terrorists”.

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