IS: Bernama news 14 July 95

[Faruq abd ul-Rafi]

NB: The following items were previously included with other stories under
the "MY" topic.

* ..BERNAMA NEWS SERVICE FOR MALAYSIAN STUDENTS
* .. (Friday, July 14, 1995)
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7. EUROPEANS KEEN ON LEARNING OF ISLAM'S SUCCESS
10.BE OPEN-MINDED ABOUT MODERN MEDICINE

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* 7. EUROPEANS KEEN ON LEARNING OF ISLAM'S SUCCESS
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* KUALA LUMPUR: The Council of European Union plans to send
representatives to a seminar to be organised by the Institute of
Islamic Understanding, Malaysia (IKIM), next March.
* IKIM director general Datuk Ismail Ibrahim said the European
countries were interested to learn how Islam played a role in
maintaining peace and harmony among the races while at the same
time encouraged development in this country.
* He added that this was important as many Muslims live in
Europe and the governments of these European countries would like
to learn from the Malaysian experience.
* Speaking during the institute's third third anniversary
celebration, he said the seminar would be held in March next
year.
* Ismail also said social problems such as money politics and
graft had reached a level which warranted serious attention. -NST
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* 10. BE OPEN-MINDED ABOUT MODERN MEDICINE
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* KUALA LUMPUR: Muslims should keep an open mind in accepting
approaches towards modern medicine and healing and not to expect
a cure without undergoing proper treatment.
* This point was reiterated at the ongoing Third International
Convention of the Islamic Medical Association of North America
(IMA) here.
* "We want to discard the thinking that Muslim medical
treatment lingers only on prayers or verses from hadiths," said
Dr Lokman Saim, the president of the Islamic Medical Association
of Malaysia.
* "The main objective of this convention is to promote better
understanding, appreciation and propagation of medical treatment
in Islam," he said.
* "Here, we gather findings by Muslim doctors through the
Islamic perspective," Dr Lokman said.
* He said in modern medical practice, an abortion for example,
could be carried out without any hesitation but it is wrong from
the Islamic point of view.
* "Abortion however will be allowed if the pregnancy is found
to do harm to the mothers' life or the foetus is not
well-formed," he explained.
* Attended by 400 Muslim doctors from the North America and
other Muslim countries besides local doctors, the convention also
emphasises on clinical applications and medical research from
Islamic perceptions.
* It also updates general and specialist physicians on a broad
range of medical scientific topics including the emerging trends
in diagnosis.
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--Bernama