Jaajef Bro. Habib,
Thanks for the food for thought. To be quite honests I do not have the
background details of this brother requesting information other than what
is contained in the e-mail and indeed have not read his book.
My objective in forwarding this was that with AIDS becoming a very real
threat to economic development (not to mention the human cost), any
intiitative which is aimed at protecting/educating people about the threat
should be welcomed. I heard a programme on the radio recently where it
was said that in Southern Africa (maybe Zimbabwe?) companies
sometimes hired five times as many people as they needed because of
the effect of the AIDS virus. As Muslims I beleive we should be very
concerned at this, as we should about all human suffering.
I would be interested to hear further from you about what concerns you
have about this brother, as I said, I have no preconcieved ideas or
knowledge of him and am not in a position to either defend or criticise
him, but am open to further information, comment, discussion or guidance
on this.
Yendul ak jaama
Tony
>>> "Habib Ghanim, Sr" <[log in to unmask]> 25/January/2000 05:12am
>>>
Brother Tony Cisse
Your contributions are always valuable . Thanks but this person may not
be what he is .
Did you verify this source? With all due respect this sounds very
suspicious.
This guy seems to be a fake and is distorting a lot of "so called facts " on
the statistics of Aids in
South Africa.
I am very cautious when dealing with such unknown persons whose
real agenda may be to destroy our image
in the pretense of getting information to help some innocent victims.
I doubt if this is genuine - my gut feeling - therefore would not help this
person shoot us in the
feet.
Habib Diab Ghanim
Tony Cisse wrote:
> Jaajef wa G-L,
>
> I wonder if anyone is in a position to assist this brother in his
> research?
>
> Yeenduleen ak jaama
>
> Tony
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Dear Comrades and Friends,
>
> Assalamu Alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh,
> May the peace, mercy and grace of the Transcendent be
> upon you.
>
> One of the issues that I am very keen to explore is the
> question of Aids, Muslims and Islam. I want to look at the
> current pandemic - Southern Africa has two thirds of the
> World's population living with HIV-Aids - and Muslim
> attitudes towards it as the basis of the development of a
> Qur'anic moral theology of compassion. Some of you may be
> familiar with my Qur'an, Liberation and Pluralism (Oxford;
> Oneworld, 1997) where I used the South African crucible of
> oppression to develop a Qur'anic hermeneutic of liberation. I
> want to do a similar piece of work on Aids. Currently I am
> envisaging two outcomes from this research undertaking
>
> a) a small user friendly booklet which will essentially be the
> work of one my research assistants whom I will guide. This
> will be widely distributed throughout the world at minimum
> cost - possibly even free if funding can be secured - to create
> an awareness of Aids and encourage an atmosphere of
> openness about i tand compassion towards those living with
> it.
>
> A second product is a more serious academic one along the
> lines of Qur'an. Liberation and Pluralism that progressive
> muslims and others can use as a tool to deal with their own
> struggle to ret-think Islam and its complexity in a pain-filled
> world.
>
> I am therefore interested in the following areas:
>
> a) Muslims living with HIV-Aids and the responses towards
> them by other Muslims
> b) Muslim writings on Aids
> c) The occurence of Aids in Muslim societies and the
> attitudes of those societies towards it.
> d) Theological discourses on the God of vengeance as
> distinct from the God of compassion.
> e) The notion of Aids as a punishment from God sexual
> 'deviance'
> f) Muslim approaches to sexual otherness and moral
> pluralism
>
> I would really appreciate it very much if you could pass this
> on to others who may be able to supply even the slightest bit
> fo information - direct or indirect - on the subject. It would
> also be valued if you could place this request in other media
> that you have access to.
>
> I will of course gladly acknowledge all assistance received. -
> and ensure that all royalties go to an Aids organization
>
> Your brother in the struggle for a world wherein it is safe to
> be human
>
> farid esack
>
> [log in to unmask]
> __________________
>
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> Subject: [PMN] Aid on Aids
> Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 22:33:37 +0000
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> Dear Comrades and Friends,
>
> Assalamu Alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh,
> May the peace, mercy and grace of the Transcendent be upon you.
>
> One of the issues that I am very keen to explore is the question of
Aids,
> Muslims and Islam. I want to look at the current pandemic - Southern
Africa
> has two thirds of the World's population living with HIV-Aids - and
Muslim
> attitudes towards it as the basis of the development of a Qur'anic moral
> theology of compassion. Some of you may be familiar with my Qur'an,
> Liberation and Pluralism (Oxford; Oneworld, 1997) where I used the
South
> African crucible of oppression to develop a Qur'anic hermeneutic of
> liberation. I want to do a similar piece of work on Aids. Currently I am
> envisaging two outcomes from this research undertaking a) a small
user
> friendly booklet which will essentially be the work of one my research
> assistants whom I will guide. This will be widely distributed throughout
the
> world at minimum cost - possibly even free if funding can be secured -
to
> create an awareness of Aids and encourage an atmosphere of
openness about it
> and compassion towards those living with it. A second product is a
more
> serious academic one along the lines of Qur'an. Liberation and
Pluralism
> that progressive muslims and others can use as a tool to deal with their
own
> struggle to ret-think Islam and its complexity in a pain-filled world.
>
> I am therefore interested in the following areas:
>
> a) Muslims living with HIV-Aids and the responses towards them by
other
> Muslims
> b) Muslim writings on Aids
> c) The occurence of Aids in Muslim societies and the attitudes of those
> societies towards it.
> d) Theological discourses on the God of vengeance as distinct from
the God
> of compassion.
> e) The notion of Aids as a punishment from God sexual 'deviance'
> f) Muslim approaches to sexual otherness and moral pluralism
>
> I would really appreciate it very much if you could pass this on to
others
> who may be able to supply even the slightest bit fo information - direct
or
> indirect - on the subject. It would also be valued if you could place this
> request in other media that you have access to.
>
> I will of course gladly acknowledge all assistance received. - and
ensure
> that all royalties go to an Aids organization
>
> Your brother in the struggle for a world wherein it is safe to be human
>
> farid esack
>
>
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