Monday, 28 February 2011
Wednesday, 23 February 2011
Sufi Shaikh Kabir - the true reality of Islam? (He ought to be advising President Obama)
To learn more about this amazing man I went here - http://www.unesco.org.uk/uploads/Biographies_GMR2011_UK%20Input.pdf
The site gives this as his biography;
Kabir Shaikh was, between 2002 and July 2009, the Director of Education for
UNRWA/ UNESCO (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine
Refugees), providing education to half a million Palestinian refugee children
based in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Gaza and the West Bank, and had a staff of
over 22,000.
For over 38 years he worked in the UK on Education, holding various posts
including: Director of Education for Bournemouth, LEA; Chief Inspector for
Education in London; and Chair of the Association for Science Education’s
National Working Party on Science for a Multicultural Society. Kabir has served
on several national committees in various capacities such as Chair of the
Partnership Board for Leicester City Education; Member of the Advisory Forum to
the Royal Naval School of Educational Training and Technology; Chair of the
Local Education Authorities for the Provision of Science Services; Vice President
of the Commonwealth Association of Science, Technology and Mathematics
Education. His work has involved the Commonwealth Secretariat, UNESCO,
Development Education and the British Council. He is a Fellow of the Royal
Society of Chemistry.
In 2003 Kabir was awarded a CBE for services to Education in England
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His site is here -
Tuesday, 22 February 2011
Saturday, 19 February 2011
So, you thought you knew the depth of American politicians' ignorance? - Arizona Bans Karma - Seriously!
Since the dark days of the attacks on America by radical, Islamic terrorists on September 11th 2001, there has been a growing intolerance here for non-Judeo-Christian religions. This has, unfortunately, been mostly aimed at the American-Muslim community in a misguided attempt to combat radical Islam.
Unfortunately, there are numerous people in America who can't seem to make a distinction between an Islamic terrorist and an Islamic moderate practicing their religion freely as allowed under the American Constitution. But I digress. One of the targets of the this fear of anything Islamic has come in the form of a wide-spread paranoia of Sharia law.
In brief, Sharia law is law based on the Islamic holy book, the Qur'an (koran). The Islamophobia is so rampant in America these days that states have taken to banning Sharia law in a preemptive move to prevent such law from taking root. This is occurring despite no movement to impose or establish Sharia law in America. The silliness of it all is that such moves by these states are a waste of time since the American Constitution supersedes any other form of law within America!!
But the politicians of Arizona didn't stop there. They wanted to make sure
SOURCE: James Ure's excellent Buddhist Blog
