MANY families from Thurrock’s Muslim community attended a night of celebration in Chafford Hundred tonight to mark the launch of a new association.
Asian comic Jeff Mirza and Islam Channel TV presenter Abdurahman Jafar attended the Eid party at Chafford Hundred Community Centre.
The driving force behind the project is Chafford mum Nilopher Qureshi who moved the area six years ago and feels the Muslim community need to do more to integrate with the borough’s other residents.
“There is a strong and supportive Muslim community in Chafford and beyond throughout Thurrock but a lot of us think that we need to do more to show people who and what we are and what we represent,” said Nilopher.
“We are not all terrorists, we are not a threat, we are a part of the whole community and hopefully as the association grows and integrates with other community associations we will help dispel fears and encourage friendships.”
Also in attendance were Thurrock's hate crime liasion oficer PC Tess Wisby, Thurrock Gazette editor Neil Speight and his family and Chafford Lib Dem politician Earnshaw Palmer.
Thurrock Gazette
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That leftwing philanderer, he would attended a night of celebration of the Muslim community, he hates everything indigenous, you only have to reed his rag to see how bias he is toward Labour.
ReplyDeleteHe attended a nepalese night in chadwell some weeks ago I believe, wonder if he attended a remembrance services.
Rarely do I feel the need to respond to the ridiculous comments and allegations perpetrated by this website but on a subject particularly close to my heart I would like to state that in the past 24 months I have attended Remembrance services at Lochnagar Crater on the Somme;, a service in nearby Albert; I have attended five Last Post services at the Menin Gate and visited innumerable cemetaries in France and Belgium. For the record I have not missed a Sunday remembrance service for the past 18 years!
ReplyDeleteHaving risen to the provocation, I should also add that I attended the Muslim evening in Chafford in a bid to open dialogue and understanding. You might be surprised to learn that the purpose of the evening was to inform local muslims about how to integrate themselves with local communities and not be insular and inward looking.
It was my fifth visit to a community group in the day, having earlier attended the Chadwell St Mary RBL service at Orsett, the Salvation Army craft fair in Grays, Bulphan in Bloom's planting day and AGM and, briefly, the Diwali celebration at the Thameside Theatre. All round an interesting and informative day - oh, and I did fit in a football match too!
The shame of it all was I didn't have any time left for philandering! Sorry to disappoint you there but I'm sure you won't let fact stand in the way of your fiction.
Neil Speight
PS: Anyone visiting the Gazette website at www.thurrockgazette.co.uk might enjoy the Remembrance video I put together, featuring many of the Flanders cemeteries I have visited.
"Sorry to disappoint you there but I'm sure you won't let fact stand in the way of your fiction"
ReplyDeleteNeil I think your the fiction fascist here,even though you liberals say, Its not fascism when you say it, with your aggressive arrogant belittling attitude because you don't agree with something.
As for fiction what about the fiction in the gazette about the BNP your always writing, knuckle dragging fascist morons you still preach, do you really believe ordinary people still believe that propaganda crap anymore, even searchlight and UAF don't really believe the nazi fascist bull anymore.
I think you have been fibbing so much you've started to believe your own fictitious stories.
I have to agree with Richard Tilbury here, best mates with Andrew MacKinlay, it don't take a genius to work out how Labour bias you and your paper is.
You can't honestly believe your attitude is democratic and unbiased, your always pushing multiculturalism but ostracising anyone not agreeing with your undemocratic liberal views.
Always thought democracy was having the right to disagree with each other without vilification. Do we not have human rights because we vote BNP.
I believe you have the democratic right to hate your own kind, Identity and culture, but we have the democratic right to want to preserve it.
As for your not having any time left for philandering, no doubt you'll make time next time.