Cameron congratulates Muslims

British Prime Minister David Cameron has congratulated Muslims in the United Kingdom and elsewhere on Holy Eid-ul-Fitr. He sent his Eid message on Thursday, wishing a happy and peaceful Eid-ul-Fitr for Muslims in Britain and around the world. In the Eid greetings, Prime Minister David Cameron said that in 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,” Cameron said in a video message. “We’ve seen community spirit with inventive ways of breaking the fast with people of all faiths and none: from the Scotts’ open-air iftar in Birmingham to the iftar on the Thames in London – from events in synagogues and churches to community centres, homes and even tents,” he  stated. Mentioning many iftars have been held to commemorate the Srebrenica genocide 20 years after 8,000 men and boys were massacred, he said, Britain is home to the largest commemorations outside Bosnia. “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,” he opined. “But we think about what life is like right now for people across the world for those in Syria and Iraq – families just like ours – suffering at the hands of ISIL.” Commemorating the victims of ISIS and other militant groups attacks, Cameron said, “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.” The British PM added: “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 world we must build together.” according to a news agency.