AdamHafejeePatel, BaronPatel of Blackburn (born 7 June 1940) is a British businessman.
The son of Hafejee Ismail and Aman HafejeePatel was educated at The Pioneer High School, Bharuch, in the Indian district Gujarat, and the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce.
Patel is a Honorary Fellow of the Bolton Institute as well as of the University of Central Lancashire.
Patel left his village in Bharuch in Gujarat and came to Britain over four decades ago.
Indeed it''s been a long journey for Patel from a time when there was hardly any political representation for British Muslims to the present when the community is organized politically and has weathered post-9/11 hostility successfully.
Patel, however, admits that there is still ignorance about Muslim culture that sometimes leads to misunderstandings and overt hostility, but the tendency, he points out, is towards amalgamation rather then ghettoisation.
Adam Butler (born March 4, 1982) is an Australian rules footballer.
Adam was drafted from the Murray Bushrangers in 1999 and in 2001 he was delisted before even playing a senior game, having spend the two seasons playing for South Fremantle in the WAFL.
Butler then returned to Victoria, where he spent a year with the Carlton reserves team in the Victorian Football League before switching to Williamstown Football Club for the 2003 and 2004 seasons.
They accept the way we are,' said Patel, who came here recently with a seven-member delegation of British Muslims.
He was raised to the peerage as BaronPatel of Blackburn, of Langho in Lancashire in 2000.
Every community faced some problems,' said Patel, a pioneering figure in inter-racial relations who managed to get a Muslim prayer room set aside in the House of Lords within weeks of becoming the first Asian peer six years ago.
