Clearly, as always, Islam has brainwashed it's future "leaders"...
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Qatar: Future Muslim leaders seek fresh path
'No better time' for change, say activists at this past weekend's youth
conference in Doha, Qatar.
By Caryle Murphy | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
from the January 20, 2009 edition
DOHA, Qatar - The question put to the young Muslims gathered here from
around the world went to the heart of today's perceived clash between Islam
and the West: "Do Muslims and non-Muslims share equal responsibility in
taking steps to reduce Muslim extremism?"
The answer, delivered instantly through wireless voting pads, was crystal
clear: Seventy-five percent replied "Yes."
The verdict is worth heeding because of where it happened: At a conference
of 300 progressive Muslim activists from 75 countries.
The "Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow Conference," was meant to be a catalyst for
social change in the Islamic world by inspiring the activists and giving
them opportunities to network.
"We're living in challenging times, and the plot for Muslims has been
written by others," said Daisy Khan, of the New York-based American Society
for Muslim Advancement, which worked with the Cordoba Initiative and the
United Nations Alliance of Civilizations to organize the event. "The time
has come for Muslims to write their own plot, and to define themselves
around the core values they believe in: pluralism, freedom, justice,
creativity, and intellectual development."
Participants included a Saudi businesswoman, a New York filmmaker, an Indian
teacher, an Italian imam, a Dutch lawyer, an Egyptian writer, and Osama
Saeed Butta, who informed his peers in a fine Scottish brogue that he will
be running for a seat in Britain's Parliament come the next election.
While some activists hold more conservative views than others, all are
committed to pluralism as an Islamic value, Ms. Khan said.
Some were in a hurry to exert their influence. "I came because I wanted to
know why it's 'Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow' and not 'Today,'" said Maha
al-Khalifa, a student from Qatar.
The discussion sessions, which included the instant polling, tackled some of
the thorniest questions facing Muslim intellectuals today, including: "Is
there a crisis of religious authority in Islam?" Eighty-six percent said
"Yes." And "are there Islamic values that are in conflict with Western
values?" Sixty-one percent said "Yes."
Panelist Madiha Younas, of Pakistan's International Islamic University, said
she often encounters anxiety over clashing values. "Our people are worried
about what will happen if our youth will start to live like the West."
She added, to general approval from the floor, that "it's not an Islamic
value to have absolute freedom. Islam puts boundaries on you."
Saudi-born attorney and Harvard University graduate Malik Dahlan led the
conversation to a more theoretical level, stating: "It's freedom that is the
absolute value in Islam.... It is freedom not to submit [to God's will] that
gives value to submission itself."
In smaller discussion groups, participants covered such topics as why Europe
has more Islamist radicalism than the United States, Islam's position on
homosexuality, and the meaning of secularism.
When discussing who has responsibility for fighting Muslim extremism, the
panelists steered clear of the polarization this subject normally provokes.
Instead, they argued that both extremist interpretations of Islam and
foreign policies of Western countries contribute to the radicalization of
Muslim youth.
In fact, the impact of US policies in the Middle East was evident at the
conference, where many participants were deeply upset, at times in tears,
over the civilian death toll from Israel's three-week military siege of
Gaza.
"I get a sense of helplessness with this latest crisis," said conference
attendee Shaukat Warraich, director of London-based Right Start Foundation
International, a community development nonprofit.
ASMA's Khan said that after 9/11, Americans wanted to know why Muslims'
denunciations of the terrorist attacks were so muted. Although hundreds of
Islamic religious leaders did condemn the attacks, they were not heard
clearly because Islam has no central leadership, like Roman Catholicism's
Vatican.
Khan, then an architectural designer, gave up her career to promote a new
generation of Muslim leadership, holding the first conference in New York in
2004 with 125 participants from North America. The second conference, held
in Copenhagen in 2006, included Europeans. Doha, the third one, was global.
Participants had to be between 20 and 45 years old, committed to pluralism,
and involved in some type of community advancement work, Khan said.
At its conclusion, the conference issued "An Open Letter to the World
Leaders of Today From the Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow." Noting that "with
Barack Obama as the new US president, there is no better time for ...
positive change," the letter demanded that leaders start implementing
policies that promote development and human rights rather than war.
For now, the Muslim leaders who will receive copies of the Open Letter do
not know much about Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow (MLT), as the project is
known. The conference drew little international or regional media attention.
But organizers said they are committed to building a global network of
progressive activists in the Muslim world, an effort they say will take
time.
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