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
From:
MikeG...@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.