Tuesday 18 December 2012

Legacy of the Torch Dinner in Eton

http://www.london2012.com/venue/eton-dorney/

This dinner was organised by ISB in a very nice location of Eton Dorney rowing club, an British Olympic ground owned by Eton College. The dinner was nice but not enough, all I was thinking about was a burger and chips afterwards. There were many famous celebrities speaking about the need to support ISB like Kristiane Backer, Naeem Raza, Ajmal Masroor, Julie Siddique and Dilwar Hussein.

There were number of British Athelets who took part in London Olympics 2012, won medals and represented the muslim community and played a positive role for Great Britain and showed diversity at work and all proud to be British, which was very nice for me to witness the work of ISB.

Met many younsters men and women from various part of the British Community from Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Of course England. Networking was at work and cards were exchanged. My highlight was meeting Kristiane Backer, an MTV presenter who shared her experiences about Islamic experiences and talked about her book "from MTV to Mecca", which has been read and appreciate by ArchBishop of Canterbury. Julie Siddique did a fantastic job on organising the event and leading ISB and giving it a new image, well done Julie. Dilawar Hussein what a nice man, an academic and well respected.
The book written by Katie Piper "Beautiful" was given out free, to highlight the victims of acid attack victims and Katie's work and involement with ISB was appreciated. It was a wonderful evening for me.

 

No comments:

Post a Comment