– By Harry T. Hergash 
– April 21, 2014 – Stabroek News – In the Diaspora
Harry Hergash, a graduate of the University of Guyana, taught at the Annandale Government Secondary from 1964 to 1969. He immigrated to Canada in 1974.
EDITOR’s NOTE: Indian-Guyanese, the descendants of Indian immigrants, now comprise about 39.8% of the population of Guyana as reported in the 2012 Census; This is down from 43.4% in the 2002 Census; 48.6% in the 1991 Census and 51.9% in the 1980 Census. (see 2012 Census note at the end of this article}.
The everyday speech of the majority of this segment of the population, especially those living in rural communities, is peppered with words of Indic origin. Most of these words relate to items of food, kitchen utensils, terminology identifying family members and other relatives, names and terminology associated with religious holidays and worship, and names of vegetables and plants. Continue reading
World – The slaughter of Muslims in New Zealand a cause for reflection – By Mohamed Hamaludin
World – The slaughter of Muslims in New Zealand a cause for reflection
A worshiper in a mosque where hundreds are praying welcomes an obvious newcomer not by asking who he is but with the greeting, “Hello, brother,” just before he is shot and killed.
Eighteen years earlier, Muslims fly passenger jets into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, killing more than 3,000 Americans.
Who is the true Muslim?
That question came into sharp relief again last Friday with the massacre of 50 Muslims in two New Zealand mosques by a “white nationalist.” It should not be difficult to answer. There are 1.8 billion Muslims, second only to the 2.3 billion Christians. It should be ridiculous to believe that all of them are terrorists but, essentially, that is how some people see them. Those people embrace the fantasy that Muslims plan to Islamicize Western civilization by violence and mass migration masquerading as a refugee crisis. Continue reading →
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