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I say, exclaims the very black overweight immigration officer at Jombo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, flashing very white teeth at me, you are born in Tanzania; so you speak Kiswahili, then? Vizoori sana, I say, hoping my love and grasp for the language still shines. But she resorts to English, disappointing me. So you […]
Sindh, Pakistan Food Crisis – An Urgent Appeal: I have just returned from a tour of flood affected areas in Pakistan. Although Punjab holds much promise with very good wheat and cotton harvests this year insha’Allah, Sindh Province is in acute food crises with many families going with one meal a day only, if that. […]
This message is for readers of my blogs who, perhaps, may feel I complain too much about hardships in my travel pursuits. I consider myself luckiest bloody person on earth in my role with CAI as she attempts to make a positive difference to worldwide poor, destitute and downtrodden humanity; I would not trade this […]
Sirsi, in Uttar Pradesh, India is about 160 miles east of New Delhi, which takes a whopping 7 hours drive to reach in one of the most bizarre traffic conditions in terms of bewilderment. Comfort Aid International has had the good fortune of building a fine boys orphanage, complete renovation of a rundown school and […]
Draught In Northern Kenya – An Appeal For Food: CAI has received troubling reports of deaths from starvation of poor farmers in Northern Kenya. We will partner with Bilal Muslim Mission Kenya (BMMK) to distribute food grains to these hapless people and US$10,000 has been allocated to this noble cause. I will be in Kenya […]
It is my birthday today, the Georgian one. I like my lunar birthday better, on Shabaan 5th; birthday of my 4th great Imam Sajjad (A). I sit at my desk and ponder over remarkable 54 years that have passed by; try and humor excited 10 year old Maaha Zainab’s futile attempts to keep a baked […]
Muslims in Sri Lanka number about 2 million, 10%, concentrated mostly in the east of this exotic island. There was a time when Muslims dominated business and commerce, especially in Jaffna, but war by LTTE saw atrocities against them. Scores of Muslims were gathered in mosques and grenades thrown at them; those that survived had […]
I watch a crow on a branch of a massive tree intently, who stares back indifferent. Because my Kingfisher flight from Chennai, India to Colombo in Sri Lank has been delayed three times already and soured my disposition, I pick up a pebble and hurl it towards where she perches, missing wildly. The crow simply […]
Here we go again, another squirming dictator with dire cramps and julaabs, in Libya this time. If it were not for the bloodshed there, his rantings on TV this morning in a womanly voice would have been comical. You know, I had not heard Ghaddafy speak before and with the press terming him a ‘strongman’ […]
Draught In Northern Kenya – An Appeal For Food: CAI has received troubling reports of deaths from starvation of poor farmers in Northern Kenya. We will partner with Bilal Muslim Mission Kenya (BMMK) to distribute food grains to these hapless people and US$10,000 has been allocated to this noble cause. I will be in Kenya […]
