Dear brother Mike,
I sincerely believe what you wrote below and your participation in
Global peace festival on August 9th at Capital Lawn in DC to create a world of
peaceful co-existence deserves nothing less than praise for your unselfish
effort.I have therefore taken the liberty of forwarding copy of my letter and
yours to Mary Ann, Aga Khan's World Center for Pluralism in Canada, and
others.
Wish you all the best, Mike, and hope you would one day be part of Aga
Khan's World Center for Pluralism in Canada, and work for pluralism to
bring peace among people of different religion and
faith.
Hasni Essa
Islam for Pluralism
MikeGhouse@aol.com wrote:
From:
MikeGhouse@aol.com
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:11:39 EDT
Subject: HH
Aga Khan | Global Peace Festival
Mary Ann,
We talked about the resources HH ( His Highness) Aga Khan is
blessed with in terms of the Pluralism Center in Ottawa, and the Aga Khan
development network. I have included a few links in the notes below,
including a few articles I wrote upon his visit to Austin and have copied to
Shawn Bhagat, Mohammad Eboo, Farooq Hemani, Rizwan Sheikh, Hasni Essa, Ester
Davis, Bishop Mark Hernandez and Rev. Howard Self, few of the key leaders of our
communities in Greater Dallas connected with the subject line.
Besides promoting the Architecture, he is into Arts as well, along
with Saudi
Arabian Prince Alwaleed bin Talal. Both are investing heavily into arts with
a commitment to leave a Islamic (Pluralistic) Legacy for generations to
come. HH has also taken up renovating world heritage sites, again
using the model of bringing prosperity to the local economy and preserving the
heritage. We are blessed with the contacts for HH Aga Khan with Shawn
Bhagat, here in Dallas, Gray Hawn with us, and Mohammad Eboo,
president of the Ismaili council of North America and Australia in
Chicago.
HH is an
accomplished man in both spirituality as an Imam and in business as
a successful billionaire. He leads about 20 Million Ismaili
Muslims across the globe. His foundation, the Aga Khan development network is
considered ( http://www.akdn.org/)
one of the NGO's of highest integrity, where every dollar raised in
Partnership walk (held in Dallas and Houston besides other cities), simply goes
to help people help themselves and HH takes care of the administration. He
believes in helping people catch the fish.
I am
searching contacts for Prince Alwaleed in Saudi and working on connecting with
Tony Blair faith foundation in UK and I am blessed with access to the Universal
peace foundation who are doing a gigantic Global peace festival on August 9th at
Capital Lawn in DC. I will be participating in it, please review the details at;
http://gpfusa.org/. All of us are in it to
create a world of peaceful co-existence.
I am
excited with your vision for the Memnosyne Foundation, and
particularly blessed to be one of the participants and a contributor towards the
development of the Memnosyne Center for Interfaith inquiry. And thank God for
bringing us together. I am committed to
serve.
The below
listed links will give an idea of HH Aga Khan and his humanitarian
work.