McLamb Ali, 51, died at the scene. Van was met by a crowd of Islamic worshipers. (Photo: PA)

Today, five years have passed since far-right militants drove a van into worshipers outside a mosque in north London.

After a nightly prayer in Ramadan, a terrorist attack on a mosque and community center at a Muslim welfare center in Finsbury Park killed McLamb Ali, 51, and injured 12 people in 2017.

Ali’s daughter, Luzina Aktar, was one of the mourners who gathered at Finsbury Park Mosque this afternoon to celebrate her life.

He remembered his father as “one of the kindest people I have ever met.”

Through tears, Mr Aktar told the crowd: “It was tragically taken from us five years ago.

“Our dad was first and foremost one of the nicest people you’ve ever met. He always has a smile on his face and jokes and jokes with others. It was a joke.

He was a loving husband, a loving father, a loving grandfather, and they all adored.

McLamb Ali

Ali died of multiple injuries (Photo: PA)

Flowers left on the site of Finsbury Park

Flowers left at the site of Finsbury Park (Photo: PA)

“His death left a black hole, but by remembering his smile and his laugh, we fill that hole with more love for each other as he wishes.”

“As a Muslim woman,” Ms. Akhtar said, “Islamophobic behavior still exists and will soon be eliminated, so talk to anyone.”

For more than 20 years, his father has always been praying in the same place.

The night of the attack, when 48-year-old radical Darren Osborn clashed with him and other fans, Ali crashed into a bus stop near his home.

Witnesses said the driver struggled on the ground and was beaten until the imam of the local mosque, Muhammad Mahmood, calmed the crowd and asked the police to hand him over.

At the time, viewers remembered Osborn yelling, “I want to kill all the Muslims.”

It was later revealed in his court that Osborne had wanted to assassinate Labor leaders, including Jeremy Corbyn.

In addition, today’s commemorative ceremony was attended by Toufik Katoshim, Managing Director of the Islamic Welfare Institute, who paid tribute to Mr. Ali and called for “eradicating the root of Islamophobia.”

“This incident tried to divide us, but it really brought us together, as you can see, five years later we are still together,” he said.

“British Islam still believes that Islam is incompatible with Europe. We need to tell them that Islam is part of this community, it is not a foreign religion that will go somewhere else.

“If we don’t work together to overcome Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, nothing will change.”

Originally from Cardiff, Osborne was convicted of terrorism-related murder and sentenced to life in prison in February 2018.

He fell in love with Muslims a few weeks before the attack after seeing three girls on a BBC program based on the testimony of Rochedale gang victims.

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