At the Eid Festival, Mayor Khan addressed an audience of thousands at London’s 11th annual Eid al-Fitr celebration in Trafalgar Square after taking office. He called for peace, unity and an embrace of religious freedom and diversity, describing this as one of London’s great strengths.
He pledged zero tolerance of hate crimes, reports of which have risen in the wake of the EU leave vote, and he denounced “criminals who do bad things and use the name of Islam to justify what they do”.