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| Today: 03 September 2010 Time: 02:16 AM |
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| American Muslim activist lauds Kuwaiti womens political engagement |
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| Society 7/2/2008 3:47:00 PM |
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By Nawab Khan (with photo)
BRUSSELS, July 2 (KUNA) -- A leading Muslim woman activist in the United
States has underlined the important political role played by women in the Gulf
countries particularly in Kuwait.
"We believe that the Gulf is very important because it is a prosperous
region of the world and secondly there are some women activism coming out,
specifically from countries like Kuwait," Daisy Khan, Executive Director,
American Society for Muslim Advancement (ASMA) told KUNA in an interview in
Brussels Tuesday.
She noted that Kuwait is at the forefront of promoting a parliamentary
system.
"We believe they are setting certain examples for women political engagement
in the society," said Khan who is currently on a visit to the Belgian capital
to lecture about Muslims in the West.
"I find this important and I can amplify that around the Muslim world to
show that women in the Gulf can be active members in the society," said Khan
who hails from Kashmir but was educated in the US where she has been living
for many years. ASMA, founded in 1997 in New York city, is an Islamic
cultural and educational organization dedicated to fostering an
American-Muslim identity and building bridges between American Muslims and the
American public.
ASMA has launched a programmed called "Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow" aimed at
nurturing a global Muslim leadership that employs Islamic and pluralistic
values to enhance global peace and tolerance.
It is organising its next conference conference in Doha, Qatar in November
in which 300 young Muslim community leaders from around the world will
participate.
"There will be heavy participation from the Gulf and men and women from
Kuwait have been invited," she told KUNA.
The first Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow conference was held in Copenhagen,
Denmark in July 2006, which brought together more than 100 participants from
around the world.
Earlier, Khan spoke on the topic "Women, youth and interfaith diversity: an
American perspective," at an event organised by a Brussels-based think-tank,
European Policy Centre today.
As the wife of a mosque imam, Daisy is now working to dispel some
misconceptions associated with Islam, that it is a violent religion, that
Muslim women are suppressed.
She said that Muslims have to balance faith with modernity and stressed
that there is no conflict in being thorough religions and being an American or
European.
Daisy Khan who was honored as one of the 21 Leaders for the 21st Century
last May called for the application of ethical values which are shared with
all religions.
"Muslim communities in the West are open to critical thinking. What they
are doing will have an impact on how Muslims adjust themselves in the modern
context," she said. (end)
nk.bz.
KUNA 021547 Jul 08NNNN
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مجلس الوزراء
اللجنة العليا للتحضير للاحتفال بالذكرى
الـ(50)
لاستقلال دولة الكويت و الذكرى الـ (20)
لعيد التحرير
اعـــــــــــــــــــلان
فى إطار الاستعدادات و الترتيبات الجارية للإعداد و التحضير للاحتفال
باليوبيل الذهبي للاستقلال و مرور
(20) عاما على تحرير دولة الكويت و انطلاقا من
حرص اللجنة العليا على إشراك كافة قطاعات الدولة فى الاحتفال بهاتين المناسبتين
الوطنيتين
يسر اللجنة الإعلامية المنبثقة عن اللجنة العليا دعوة من يرغب من مؤسسات و
شركات القطاع الخاص و الاتحادات التجارية و الاستثمارية للمشاركة في الأنشطة و
الفعاليات المقرر تنظيمها فى شهر فبراير من العام القادم 2011م
للاستفسار والتنسيق ومزيد من التفاصيل :
1- مكتب مقرر اللجنة الإعلامية:
هاتف: 22462289
فاكس: 22462296
2- البريد الإلكتروني:
kuwait5020@media.gov.kw
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