David
Cameron’s Message for Eid 2015
16 July 2015
This Ramadan, we’ve seen the very
best of British Muslim values. We’ve seen unprecedented charity – zakat – with
thousands upon thousands of pounds raised for the needy. We’ve seen community
spirit, with inventive ways of breaking the fast with people of all faiths and
none, from the Scouts’ open-air iftar in Birmingham, to the iftar on the Thames
in London, from events in synagogues and churches, to community centres, homes,
even tents.
Many iftars have been held to
commemorate the Srebrenica genocide, 20 years after 8,000 men and boys were
massacred. Britain is home to the largest commemorations outside Bosnia. The
Srebrenica Memorial Day initiative was launched by this government, and on this
anniversary we’ve pledged to continue teaching the lessons of that atrocity,
far into the future.
After some of the longest days of
the year, and some of the hottest days we’ve had for a long time, Ramadan this
year hasn’t been easy. But we think about what life is like right now for
people across the world, for those in Syria and Iraq – families like ours –
suffering at the hands of ISIL and Assad. We think of all the victims of
terrorism during this time, of the families attacked in their homes in Kobane,
the worshippers killed as they prayed in Kuwait, and the holidaymakers in
Tunisia murdered on the beach, and I know that mosques across Britain have
dedicated Friday sermons to remembering the victims. This terrorism is not just
an assault on those victims. It’s not just an assault on Islam, whose good name
it perverts. It’s an assault on us all, on our way of life, and we must defeat
it.
So as families and friends come
together this Eid, to share food and presents, to think of others, to mark the
end of Ramadan, let’s think about the better Britain and the better world we must
build together.
Once again, let me wish you a
happy and peaceful Eid. Eid Mubarak. |
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