Picture this... a lavish Central London venue with awesome city views, 500+ city professionals from different walks of life and some of the leading members of the Conservative party shadow cabinet including the party leader David Cameron. Yes, I'm talking about the Conservative Muslim Forum Eid party held at the prestigious Altitude 360 in Central London yesterday to mark celebrations of Eid-ul-Adha. The chief guest, Rt Hon. David Cameron MP was in attendance with Baroness Sayeeda Warsi (a day after confronting extremists in Luton), Party chairman Eric Pickles MP and Shadow Justice secretary Dominic Grieve MP. The event was organised by the Lord Sheikh's Conservative Muslim Forum, a group set up to encourage British Muslims to participate in British politics by joining the Conservative party. It also hosts regular events in the House of Lords and has various sub-committees such as CMF Youth, Women and Health. Further information about the forum can be found at http://www.conservativemuslimforum.com.
In his speech, David Cameron highlighted the role CMF has played in attracting many young British Muslims to the Party who saw it as a white, middle-class, elitist party. He was also delighted to see Muslims and non-Muslims from different walks of life making it to the top of their professions and hailed their enormous contribution to British society. He used examples of British Muslims like boxer Amir Khan and Baroness Warsi as role-models for young British Muslims and as people they can look up to for inspiration. In the end, he wished everyone Eid Mubarak.
Umaronline.com brings you exclusive video coverage of the full speech. Apologies in advance for the shaky camera and bad lighting.
Incidentally, this is also the 100th post on umaronline.com. At this point, I would like to thank all of you for your help and support. For more independent journalism and commentary, keep reading umaronline.com.
DAVID CAMERON SPEECH @ CMF EID PARTY
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Great job Umar. Given the opportunity, I would like to thank you on behalf of the community, as you have been serving us with freshly baked news from the oven. As this is your 100th post, I (or shall i say "WE") would like to congratulate you for your great effort! :)
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