Another in a long list of reasons why my child and wallet will not be going to UT.
I wanted Kinky.
Where is the ACLU today? Think some prayers will be said at a public school (UT)?
This would probably have been in the 50's, so of course, it wasn't this particular Aga Khan.
Nine year-old Ayesha couldn’t make the ceremony because of her trauma.
The Aga Khan is the leader of the Ismailis who are considered heretics by Sunnis and by Shi'ites, especially by Wahhabi Sunnis.
The Aga Khan has fiercely denounced the Islamic Revolution in Iran as fascist and violative of basic human rights.
He has called for complete religious freedom for all Christians, Hindus, Baha'is and other non-Muslim groups living in the Muslim world.
His great-great grandfather is famous for putting an end to Muslim pogroms in India against Hindus.
The Aga Khan is as good a guy as a Muslim can be.
Take it from a native Texan: RICK PERRY IS A DO-NOTHING, EMPTY SUIT, LITTLE PUNK WHO HIGHLY OVERESTIMATES HIMSELF AND WHO IS AN EMBARRASSMENT TO THE STATE OF TEXAS AND TO HIS ALMA MATER; TEXAS A&M.
If he runs for reelection, I’ll vote for a Democrat before I vote for him.
Oh brother!...You Texans must be so proud!....What an idiot!
Governor Good Hair strikes again. What a dufus!
The Shia Ismaili Muslims and their Imam, the Aga Khan, actually have condemned extremist interpretations of Islam such as the Wahhabis and the Taliban. In an interview given right after 9-11, the Aga Khan said that the Taliban of Afghanistan actually “condemn themselves” by forcing religion on people when the Quran says “there is no compulsion in religion”.
In a speech made at the Institute of Ismaili Studies in 2003, the Aga Khan condemned extremism with the following words:
“The revelation granted to the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) opened new horizons and released new energies of mind and spirit. It became the binding force that held the Muslims together despite the far-flung lands in which they lived, the diverse languages and dialects they spoke, and the multitude of traditions – scientific, artistic, religious and cultural – which went into the making of a distinctive ethos. This message is still potent in the Muslim world today, although it is sometimes clouded, distorted and deformed by political interests and by struggles for power over the minds and hearts of people. There are attempts at transforming what are meant to be fluid, progressive, open-ended, intellectually informed, and spiritually inspired traditions of thought, into hardened, monolithic, absolutist and obscurantist positions. Yet there are many across the length and breadth of the Muslim world today who care for their history and heritage, who are keenly sensitive to the radically altered conditions of the modern world. They are convinced that the idea that there is some inherent, permanent division between their heritage and the world of today is a profoundly mistaken idea; and that the choice it suggests between an Islamic identity on the one hand and on the other hand, full participation in the global order of today is a false choice indeed.”
It is indeed a time for action! It is a time for all Americans to finally take notice of a prominent Muslim leader like the Aga Khan, the 49th hereditary descendant of the Prophet Muhammad, who tirelessly works to promote Islam as a thinking, spiritual faith of compassion, humanity and intellect. It is indeed time to seize the unique opportunity to dialogue with this brand of Islam, is it not?
Didn’t actress Rita Hayworth marry this Khan’s father or similar relative?