Today in my role as Deputy Mayor of Calderdale, I had the great honour of joining the Mayor and a host of other civic leaders to the Madni Mosque in Halifax to celebrate the first ever Civic Service by any Mayor in West Yorkshire, as far as we know, to take place in a Mosque.
It was a surprisingly moving affair especially when the Vicar of Halifax and a lady from the Interfaith Council, as well as the Imam, addressed the gathered throng.
A perfect counterfoil to those who would spread poison throughout our society by emphasising what unites us all as as human beings rather than what differentiates us.
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