Blair to make Eid a public holiday?

Seeking a hands-on experience on challenges facing the Muslim minority in Britain, Prime Minister Tony Blair has met with a group of young British Muslims to discuss their views on extremism, Britishness and the role of religion.

"We're losing confidence and trust in you," Hayder Khan, a young British Muslim, told Blair during a meeting Thursday at a Leeds community center, The Independent said Friday, November 18.

Bright, entrepreneurial, sports-loving and a university student, Khan said that the British foreign policy and the Iraq war have been a main cause in fueling extremism among the Muslim minority.
"With this foreign policy Muslims feel you are attacking them. We all used to vote Labour but not any more. You need to row back and take us with you."

Blair, on his first visit to Leeds since the July 7 attacks, also discussed with the young British Muslims at a primary school in Chapeltown their views on education and what it meant to be British.

Waseem Naeem, 22, a business studies student at Huddersfield University, agreed with his colleague.
"The Government's foreign policy was a factor in many Muslims turning away from the Government."

He added that the Iraq war was not only opposed by the Muslims, but many non-Muslims also disagreed with the war.

A report released last week by a taskforce of prominent British Muslim leaders set up by the government following the July 7 attacks blamed the British foreign policies and the US-British led occupation of Iraq on fueling extremism among members of the Muslim minority in Britain.
Suggestions
During the meeting with Blair, young Muslims put forward a number of proposals for the government to help give a better knowledge of Islam and improve the image of Muslims in the country.

"Making Eid a public holiday for all would delight the non-Muslims and make them examine what the festival means", an optimistic young woman told Blair.
Her male colleague added that a compulsory course on comparative religion would also have the same effect, according to the daily.

Delighted with the suggestions, Blair promised to attempt to convert some of these thoughts into practice.

Blair, on his part, said that the young Muslim group represented the real voice of the young British Muslims, according to the daily.

Is that optimistic young woman really optimistic or trying to converrt us all to Islam? If Eid was made a public holiday here I don't know any none muslim that would be delighted one bit. Do you know any? I used to like halloween (going trick or treating) but I never examined what it meant and I and many others would never examine what Eid meant. This is just an attempt by muslims to change our society so we are forced to celebrate the beliefs of muslims.

Who would have to go through these 'compulsory courses on comparative religion' and why exactly would making us do something we don't want to do delight us? I don't quite understand how.

Why was Blair delighted with all those suggesstions and why would he want to make us celebrate muslim beliefs? Why is he allowing them to invade and destroy this country with their barbaric beliefs started by a mad paedophile? Blair has either completely lost the plot or he is purposely allowing this country to be invaded which I treason. I think it is both.