GSIC President Calls for Support

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 05:43:18 GMT

Friday, November 28, 2008

The president of The Gambia Supreme Islamic Council (GSIC), Imam Alhagie Momodou Lamin Touray, has appealed to the Muslim Ummah to support his council to enable them to execute the duties effectively.

Imam Touray made his comments in an interview with this reporter at his residence in Gunjur, Kombo South. According to Imam Touray, the GSIC has a wide range of activities to carry out but was quick to add that they can only do this if given the necessary support from Muslims in one way or other. “We need the support all Gambians either in the form of financial or moral support. Financial constraints some times do hinder our operations and if people can donate the council it will be well appreciated,” he said.This, he believes, will address some of the challenges the council is currently facing.

Imam Touray however thanked the government, institutions and a few organisations that have been supportive to the council. He encouraged them to continue the momentum by spending their money in the quest for Janna (heaven).

Author: Alieu Jabang

Kuwaiti Emir congratulates President Jammeh

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:25:01 GMT

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

President Yahya Jammeh, over the weekend, received a congratulatory message from the Emir of the state of

Kuwait

, Sabah, Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, in honour of the just ended Holy Month of Ramadan. The message reads:

Your Excellency, Assalamou Alaikum Wa Rahamtullahi Wa Barakatuhu. On the advent of the blessed month of Ramadan, it gives me great pleasure to address to you my sincere wishes and prayers for the Almighty Allah to grant us many more returns, with blessings and happiness for the Islamic Ummah.

I implore the Almighty to continue to grant Your Excellency, your friendly country and kind people, health, wellbeing, and continued progress and prosperity. Highest consideration.

Author: DO

The Role and Contribution of Islam in Promoting the Culture of Peace in a Globalized World

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 10:15:26 GMT

Monday, April 07, 2008

(Part 2)

Third, the dilemma of an Ummah living in a global village tightly framed in confused, uncertain and paranoid postmodern epistemology and interacting as a mere object with a might that is often militant and aggressive but worse still a might that enjoys eloquence abilities that always turn the victim to look like the criminal and the criminal to look like the victim

Fourth, and the worst factor that makes the theme difficult is the state of Muslim internal crisis of the loss of adab (discipline) amongst themselves a situation that has already produced a chronic state of psychological emotionalism, intellectual literalism and social over reactionism generated through ages of injustices inflicted upon the Muslim populace both externally and internally mostly by the Muslim governments themselves.

In our crises, the blame should be first laid on the Muslims themselves. There has always been a form of Islamic Machiavellian politics led by Muslim totalitarian governments who to rest in power would create tribal and religious tensions and indoctrinate their peoples into a high degree of emotionalism. Such high degree of emotionalism has further been exploited by the enemies of Islam through provocative attitudes seen, for example, in Salman Rushdi’s Satanic Verses and the caricaturing of our Prophet (pbuh) to purposely consolidate in the public sub-conscience the wrong messages about Islam and its contribution to the world peace and prosperity.

In short, in this global village, where a sneeze in one corner is directly felt in the other, engulfed in rejection of spiritualities with a zeal to materialistic attraction, confused by the paradigm of quantum uncertainty, ruled by the law of the might, and threatened with the possibility of a nuclear conflict, what is the role of Islam and Muslims in spreading peace and making the world a better place to live in?

This paper tests the hypothesis that Islam is peace and that Islam and its followers have contributed in the past and present in promoting the culture of peace and that they can play a better peace role in the 21stcentury. It attempts to falsify the theory of Islamic intolerance, an image wrongly channeled to the world sub-conscience by a cunning minority through a brutal media in order to perpetuate hatred against Islam. The paper gives some theoretical as well as practical examples of the Islamic peaceful approach and suggests mechanisms for future contribution to the world peace in a globalized world.

Author: By Dr Omar Jah Jr. Head of the Humanities Department, University of the Gambia

Source: Friday 4th April 2008 Issue

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