Thank you!

A BIG THANK YOU to everyone one who sent words of kindness and good wishes for myself and my family. As most of you are aware, my eldest son had been quite ill and due to a serious condition with his, was under treatment at the Royal Brompton, at the same time my mother became quite ill as well. Subsequently, I havent been able to hold my weekly surgeries as regularly as I would have liked to. Anyway, by the Grace of the Almighty my son is improving fantastically and he has returned to studies, though he will have to take things very slowly for quite sometime. Also my mother is improving as well. So once again, thank you all for your kind understanding, now I am back and I remain at your service.

Dawood-Ebrahim Akhoon

Message from Ken Riley (Veteran of D-Day 1944) - Hope not Hate

Sixty-five years isn't a long time ago to me, it often feels like yesterday. I was in a tank division on D-Day 1944. It was a long, long day for us all - and the horrible, lonely sacrifices made that day by men scared yet brave is something I think about every day.These European Elections are personal to me. Some of the lads who went on D-Day and who never came back were barely old enough to vote. If they had made it through the fight against fascism, they would be voting now, voting to stop the BNP for the same reasons they fought in 1944.Sixty-five years ago might seem like a long time - but what made me volunteer then is what has made me volunteer now. Will you join me by volunteering for HOPE not Hate's campaign against the BNP to mark D-Day on Tuesday 2 June?

You can find your nearest event by going to this site and entering your postcode -http://action.hopenothate.org.uk/eventsnearme

It is a source of great pride that the slog and sacrifice of my generation freed Europe from the tyranny of Hitler's Nazis. The sadness brought by the price we paid is overshadowed by the happiness that we made the modern Britain we have today possible. Our nation has so much to be proud of - but the BNP want to drag Britain down. They would drag us back to what I remember Churchill calling "a monstrous tyranny never surpassed in the dark and lamentable catalogue of human crime".I was barely into my twenties on D-Day 1944. We didn't fight then just to allow the Nazis a route back 65 years later. And while I am getting on, I will be back on the streets this Tuesday doing my bit with HOPE not hate.Please take a moment to go online and see if there any events near you. A couple of hours leafleting will mean a lot to me, and will make a real difference.

Click here and enter your postcode to find your nearest
event:http://action.hopenothate.org.uk/eventsnearme

Thank you for taking the time to read my message - and thank you for taking a stand sixty five years on from my D-Day.Yours,Ken RileyNormandy Veteran - Tank DivisionP.S. If there aren't any events near you, can you organise your own? Enter the event details on the site and the HOPE not hate campaign will provide you with the leaflets that you need.
You can do that here:http://action.hopenothate.org.uk/page/m2/4c18c09/618ee844/61c447bc/167f5600/2742727802/VEsC/

STOP THE BNP - USE YOUR VOTE: 4th JUNE 2009

http://www.uaf.org.uk/

Click on the link or images to read what exactly what the BNP stands for!

Goodbye Marjorie

Leaving due for Rev Marjorie Brown of St Thomas Church, Stamford Hill. Marjorie has now moved to St Mary the Virgin (Elsworthy Road), London NW3 3QP. In acknowledging her contributions, Fozel Ali of the NEDA Trust in conjunction with the Aziziye Mosque organised a small leaving/farewell gathering in Aziziye for Marjorie on the 17th December 2008.

A loss for Hackney and a gain for Camden as Marjorie was a true community activist and supportive of all communities and faiths. We will miss you Marjorie.

Hackney's Borough Commander Guest at Tawhid Boys School Sports Day.

I had informed the Hackney Today about this event last year, but it seems that this was not relevant news at that time and as always they had their usual Labour Spin and propaganda to publish. Anyway here is the original submission.

Hackney’s Borough Commander and his officers proved themselves a big success at the Tawhid Boys School Sports Day, which was held on Wednesday the 04th July 2007 at the Spring Hill Playing Fields off Spring Hill Road, E5.

Steve Dann was invited to the Sport’s Day by Councillor Dawood Akhoon of Cazenove Ward, who is a member of the School’s Development Committee and also a member of the IAG (Independent Advisory Group) for the Metropolitan Police. The Borough Commander and his team met students, teachers, parents and other members of the school’s management committee. 120 boys from both the junior and senior school took part in various sports events. Medals and prizes were handed out to the student’s by the Borough Commander.

Chief Superintendent, Steve Dann, said “I was pleased and honoured to be invited to such a fun filled event, the students played hard, but more importantly fairly and really deserved the medals”

Cllr Dawood Akhoon added, “It’s really great to see our Borough Commander taking part in community event’s such as this, everyone at the event had a wonderful day”

Other guest’s who attended the day were, Eusoof Amerat who is a lead IAG member, PC Halil Huseyin who is Hackney’s Borough Faith & Community Liaison Officer. PS Maurice Hutchinson for the Cazenove Safer Neighbourhood Team and PCSO Osman Qureshi,

The event was sponsored and catered for by PC Foods UK Limited of Argall Avenue, London E10.

Heartfelt thanks, you raised over £7,000 for the people of Burma.

Sunday the 18th May 2008. The Burmese Community held a fundraising event at the North London Muslim Community Centre, for the relief efforts in Burma after the devastation of Cyclone Nargis, which has left 75,000 dead and missing and 2.5 million people directly effected.. £7,195.18 was raised for the Ummah Welfare Trust (www.uwt.org) which will be able to provide much needed relief by providing emergency packs and assisting in reconstruction and livelihood recovery. A Heartfelt thanks to all who attended and made the event such a success.

This event once again displayed the true generosity and caring spirit of the people of Hackney. This is what makes me so proud to live in Hackney and be part of this great varied community. Thanks once again and please do not allow the plight of the people of Burma to be forgotten.

Women's Event - Burma Cyclone Appeal - Sunday 18th May NLMCC