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General feedback on the
Ramadhan Foundation
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Salaamu Alaikum
We have just
read your press release on Channel 4's Dispatches, our personal
thanks to you and the Ramadhan Foundation. with good wishes,
Dr. Ahmed
Al-Dubayan, Director General Islamic Cultural Centre (Regents Park
Mosque, London)
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Dear Mr Shafiq
I felt great
sympathy with your quote on the BBC website:
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let's come together, let's hold hands, let's support each other and
only together can it be defeated - because the terrorists want to divide
us."
I have for
some time been trying to find a way of 'holding hands' within our
local community (South Wales) but
cannot find a way of making contact with local Muslims via an
inter-faith group or some such. I wonder if you are able to point me
in the right direction please?
Thank you for
your time.
Penny Weedon, Wales
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Assalamalikum
Thank
you for all your work, it is very good
If
there is in anyway I can assist your work do let me know.
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Dear Mr Shafiq,
I have just watched a great interview you conducted on BBC News 24
this afternoon (Sunday July 1st). May I say that I have never in the
past been inspired to contact anyone regarding anything relating to
politics, religion, race or any similar issues.
But now I find myself writing to you. I was indeed inspired to see
your interview this afternoon, speaking about the events in the UK
over the last 48 hours. Forgive me, I am not a particularly religious
man, but I do live my life by a strict (self imposed) code, where I
always put others first. Race, religion, politics etc have no
bearing, I just love human beings, and I love my life and everyone
has that right. My question to you is what can I do to help the
situation? I feel terrible that the Muslim community should be a
target of hatred by some (very small) minority of ignorant white
(national front) type males, just as much as people in the UK could
be the targets of a (very small) minority of extremists from a
peaceful community. I feel that there is a real lack of understanding
between communities in the UK, and this includes all
faiths and nationalities. I say “enough is enough”. I
would like to find a way to open up some discussion, to engage some
understanding between communities, and hopefully with a view to have
fun and enjoy being human beings along the way. I send you best
wishes and please don’t stop the excellent work you are doing.
Kind regards,
Mr Richard Jacques
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I
have just watched you on BBC news 24 and just wanted to say (as a
white British Buddhist man) how much I appreciate what you
are trying so hard to achieve.
After
listening to you and having taken a quick look through your website
for the first time your message of tolerance and understanding
is exactly the message we have all been waiting to hear. These are
truly British values and I really do wish both you and the Ramadan
Foundation all the very best.
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Dear Sir,
In the case of the British teacher, I feel that Ms. Gibbons
committed, if anything, a cultural faux pas. The information that I
read was that she allowed her "students" to choose the name
of the teddy bear. If the students had learned Muslim values,
according to Muslim tradition, they would have known not to name the
bear after the Prophet Muhammad. And if Ms Gibbons was aware of the
cultural inappropriateness, I'm sure she would have suggested a more
appropriate choice of name. I see this as a failing on the part of
the parents/culture, not the teacher. She made a mistake in the
cultural arena. We, in the USA would be more
sympathetic to cultural differences, and CERTAINLY not ask for the
death penalty for such an infraction.
PS. As there are several spellings of the name Muhammad, depending on
religion and culture, I beg your patience and tolerance if I have
misspelled the name. It was not intentional.
Most
Respectfully and Sincerely,
Miss P Taylor
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Richard from Liverpool
writes on http://rickwrites.blogspot.com
And we've saved our final few words for one of
Britain's best respected and most widely recognised moderate Muslims,
Mohammed
Shafiq, who even as we type is actively seeking to
elicit some semblance of common sense from the powers that be in
Sudan.
Kudos, to you, young Mr Shafiq.
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Congratulations on your foundation's
comments regarding Gillian
Gibbons. It is a heartening response that helps combat the negative
stereotypes of Islam that fill our airwaves and news media.
I fervently hope that many other Muslim
organizations, mosques and
religious leaders will follow your lead.
Michael Breen PhD
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Dear Mohammed
Thank you for
your support of Mrs Gibbons
Mike Bell
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I just wanted to thank you
for speaking some words of wisdom on this subject.
Rowena Morgan
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I am a white
Englishman living in Shropshire. I
applaud you for your feelings on the Teacher
who was involved in calling a teddy bear Mohammed well done
for speaking up.
I believe in living harmoniously with any religion, I believe however
there are people hijacking your religion for their beliefs which seem
to me very evil. I do hope you speak up more about these subjects
because personally it creates more respect for the majority of Muslim
people in general who are law abiding citizens
Well done once again and good luck
Andy Cooke
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