00:00 Eventually down the road, people are going to make mistakes.
00:06 That's community, community space.
00:10 Alif himself is a sensitive worker in this field.
00:14 When we got the offer from the organizers,
00:20 we were really surprised.
00:23 We were all thinking, "Are we really going to perform here?"
00:28 Even though we knew of local artists who have performed there,
00:33 we still didn't know what kind of place this was.
00:39 But after the organizers there,
00:42 who are Malaysians,
00:45 they said, "No, this is a community hall."
00:49 Alif was convinced when he saw it.
00:52 We actually went to their show.
00:55 We had a tour there, one in Sheffield.
00:57 Before we got to London, we insisted on going to see this place.
01:03 So we went there.
01:04 When we got there,
01:06 there were a lot of Muslim and non-Muslim families.
01:11 They turned the place into a task force.
01:13 They played with the kids,
01:16 played a playground.
01:17 We were like, "Oh, okay."
01:20 This is how people are there.
01:24 I don't want to go into more detail.
01:27 I don't want to disturb the sensitivity of other religious people.
01:35 But Alhamdulillah, when the issue came up,
01:38 I understood the Malaysians' concern.
01:41 The sensitivity of Malaysians.
01:44 The best thing is that I didn't have to answer.
01:46 It was the people themselves who answered in the comment section.
01:52 Sometimes, people don't know.
01:56 They just assume.
01:59 But when I didn't say anything,
02:03 because other people were there,
02:06 the commenters answered what was going on.
02:09 Even though we are not the best Muslims,
02:15 or the most perfect Muslims,
02:16 we definitely know what our boundaries are.
02:20 And of course, we respect other people's places of prayer.
02:27 But it's no longer a place of prayer.
02:33 It's a place of faith.
02:36 A religious space.
02:37 When we arrived,
02:39 it was a place of community play.
02:44 We were like, "What is this?"
02:46 We were like, "This is a community hall."
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