America: Martin Luther King Honored

Friday, March 30, 2007

Martin Luther King Honored

HONORING MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. &

ROSA PARKS
9TH ANNUAL THANKSGIVING CELEBRATIONS

Mike Ghouse

Our Mission at the Foundation for Pluralism is to encourage

individuals to develop an open mind and an open heart towards their fellow beings, and make efforts to respect and value the uniqueness of each individual, their distinctive cultures, and their belief systems – while acknowledging our Unity in the Spirit.

We seek ways to bridge any barriers based on religious, racial, nationalistic, linguistic, cultural, social or any other affiliation – through recognition of our Oneness and connection through universal human values of love, peace and joy. Thank you for joining with us in this Thanksgiving Celebration –
as we take time to express gratitude for one another, for our cultures,for our country, and for the world we help create together. (Full report:

http://www.foundationforpluralism.com/TG2005_REPORT.asp )

Tribute to Rev. Martin Luther King & Hon. Rosa

First and foremost, we would like to honor two guiding lights of the Civil Rightsmovement in America, Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., and Ms. Rosa Parks -who taught us to view one another, not through a lens of color, but of character …and most of all, through a lens of Love. And now, we would like to invite:
· Anne Marie Weiss Armush, President of DFW International
· Cheryl Smith, Editor of the Dallas Weekly … and
· Rev. Perry Crenshaw, pastor of Warren United Methodist Church.
· Ester Davis of Ester Davis show on PAX television.

Anne Marie: founder of DFW International Community Alliance, network of all our ethnic peoples and organizatinos Peacemaker of the Year 2003..... I must add Einstein’s words here “ peace cannot be kept by force, it can only be achieved by understanding”…

She is author of many a great books, including Middle Eastern cooking, a commentator on Goodmorning America, PBS, CBS 11, NBC 5, KNON radio and has been on my radio show several times.
She is one of the best promoter of cultural diversity..

Rev.Perry N. Crenshaw is a native of Fort Worth, Texas and currently resides in Cedar Hill, Texas. He has been the Sr. Pastor of Warren United Methodist Church for the past seven years.

Currently, Pastor Crenshaw is an Ordained Elder in the North Texas Conference of The United Methodist Church. He also serves as the Chief Financial Officer of the African American Pastors Coalition, and is a featured contributor in the anthology of sermons entitled, “Solutions: Sermonic Answers to Life’s Situations”.

Pastor Crenshaw has a passion for serving God and His people.

Cheryl Smith is an editor of Dallas weekly newspaper, a very popular ethnic news paper…

Ester Davis is a shining example of a person who knows how to make the difference, she is a speaker, and host of Ester Davis TV show….

Cheryl Smith Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rosa Parks …

Anne Marie’s Tribute on What Civil Rights means to the American Conscience [?Mike, is this corre

ct for Anne Marie’s focus?]

Mike reads the Plaque, and presents it to Pastor Perry Crenshaw … and Ester

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Committment

Personally, I am committed to promoting goodwill amongst people, I believe knowledge leads to understanding, and understanding to acceptance and appreciation of a different point of view.

If we can learn to accept and respect the God given uniqueness of each one of the 7 billion of us, then conflicts fade and solutions emerge.

Ray Bradbury "Until one is committed, there is hesitancy... Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.… Whatever you can do or dream that you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now."

and this "If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down."

Dr. Abdul Hamid Abusulayman "There is a clear distinction between doubts and problems. Doubts provoke obstruction, frustration and discouragement, where as problems inspire motivation, action and diligence

Mike Ghouse " Whatever you do in life, do it wholeheartedly, there is joy in it for every one around including ourselves"

Taking a principled stand

Please be aware that I will do my best to take a principled stand on Justice. Which simply means no matter who, what or where there is injustice, I will speak out.

Most of our policies are based on short sightedness, What is our gain? Who can we please and how can we remain in our power positions? Be it our President, Congressman, Senator or a public officer, I will speak out.

When it comes to other nations, if they are non-inclusive and mistreat any segment of their population, I will speak out.

I will defend the goodness of every religion, religion is the reason we have relative peace in the world, without which it will be chaotic. For the crimes of mankind, let's find the culprit and laser bark at him, and not his family, his race, his ethnicity or his religion.

I am a moderate Republican, and my first loyalty is to democracy before the blinding loyalty to my party.

Obama is the right man in our history for our nation at this time and I have supported him all the way, the more I know about him, the more I feel he is the right man for the job.

My thought process is similar to Obama's. In fact he has used the same words in his speeches that I wrote on my blog a week ahead of him.

ISRAEL & PALESTINE

Thank God, I have no barriers between me and another human being.

Time permitting I want to see all points of view with an open mind, ultimately it is me or you, who is going to feel right or wrong about things and the pangs I will endure for realizing that I believed in the wrong thing.

No Imam, Rabbi, Pundit or Pastor is responsible for my actions and finding the truth is my own responsibility. Watching a Hamas movie does not make me a Hamas supporter or a Zionist movie would make me a Zionist supporter. We need to raise about such petty pegs.

My loyalty is to justice; and not to Israel or Palestine, which means support is based on issues and items and not wholesale blind support or un-support.

We do not have peace in Middleeast because of our loyalties to entities and not Justice. Every one wants peace, but they are not going about the right way.

Speaker and Writer

Mike Ghouse is a Speaker, Thinker, Writer and a Moderator.

He is a frequent guest on talk radio and local television network discussing Pluralism, interfaith, Islam, India, Multiculturism, Terrorism, Peace, Politics and Civic issues. He co-chairs the center for interfaith inquiry of the Memnosyne Foundation and presides the Foundation for Pluralism. He is the president of World Muslim Congress a think tank with a simple theme: Good for Muslims and good for the world and vice-Versa.

His comments, news analysis and columns can be found on the Web sites and Blogs listed at his personal web site www.MikeGhouse.net . He has authored over 600 articles on Pluralism, interfaith, Islam, India and peace.

His life mission is to open people’s hearts and minds towards fellow beings by mitigating conflicts and nurturing goodwill. He is a peace maker and an educator with two Master degrees and working on his doctorate in Psychology. He has two books on the horizon ; Basic Islam- everything you want to know about Islam and Pluralism, a text book on Pluralism 101.

Mike is a Neighborhood Commissioner at the City of Carrollton, and a Board Member of Dallas Peace Center. He is an Ambassador for Peace for the Universal Peace Federation and a member of the International leadership council. He has initiated the annual events like the Annual Thanksgiving Celebrations in its 12th year, Unity Day USA in its 5th year, Holocaust and Genocides, event just finished its 2nd Annual event. Mike Ghouse Cricket Gold cup and several other initiatives were taken. He was Past President of Indian Creek HOA and North Texas Cricket Association and has been a member of several Boards.

Mike is a Dallasite for three decades and Carrollton is his home town.

For a full still to be updated bio: http://www.mikeghouse.net/ProfileMikeGhouse.asp

Friday, March 30, 2007

Martin Luther King Honored

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