I am happy to announce that I am the treasurer and will be intimately involved in the candidacy of Brother Tim Kaminski as he runs as the Green Party candidate for the 7th ward seat on the St. Louis Board of Alderman.
Brother Tim has been a political and labor activist in St. Louis since the late 1960’s. He was a former labor-union official with the United Auto Workers, a committed anti-war activist arrested several times for his protests, and a founding member of the Coalition Against Police Crimes And Repression.
I am supporting him because I know him to be a sincere brother with the best interest of the community at heart. Tim is also a devout Muslim brother with a correct understanding of the deen who is very active with in the local Muslim community.
We will work together and work hard to unseat the Democratic Alderwoman Phyllis Young who is a part of the status-quo politics of stagnation that has led to the great decline in St. Louis.
While Tim is running as a Green Party candidate I am not a Green and neither of us fully support the platform of the Green Party. Most importantly I am opposed to state-funded legalized abortion, gay-marriage and the normalization of homosexuality, and other culturally-left positions they take that are away from the fitrah. I am also not much of an environmentalist and I consider much of what is called “Green” to be a racket to make money. Muslims, if we follow the Sunnah and have large families we will consume a lot and need bigger cars and eat meat so I do not see a “green lifestyle” being conducive to the life of the people of the Sunnah.
However, the Party does have some good points, particularly in St. Louis. Locally they have been active on issues of race-relations, police corruption, and neighborhood development. There is also a need to break up the one –party monopoly of political power in St. Louis that has led to a cronyism that would make an Illinois governor blush.
If readers are interested in donating or volunteering with his campaign contact me. Also, as a reminder of who this brother is here is an interview I did with him after he got back from hajj.
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Safiya Outlines // January 4, 2009 at 1:05 am |
Salaam Alaikum,
I have to disagree with your point that a green lifestyle is incompatible with the Sunnah.
It is very much of the Sunnah to not be wasteful with resources and to not overconsume. That includes the overconsumption of food (we shouldn’t overfill our stomachs), owning unecessary possessions or clothing. As for cars, we should help our brothers and sisters and car pool whenever possible.
I know that you think that eco-concious somehow equals effeminate and this is really clouding your judgement.
Umar Lee aka/ Double H // January 4, 2009 at 1:30 am |
wa alaikum salaam,
I do not think my judgment is clouded. A part of the green movement is “zero population growth” and stressing having small families or no children. Car-pooling is good but not a real solution. I believe we need a more urban society where you can walk places and utilize cabs and public transit. Over consumption of food is bad; but as you have more children you will need more food, that is just a fact, and growing young people need to eat.
Safiya Outlines // January 4, 2009 at 9:22 am |
Salaam Alaikum,
I still think the main issue is overconsumption and actual usage of resources. In the West we have very low population growth and birth rates, yet we use vast amounts of the world’s resources. A lot of our agricultural and industrial processes are inefficient, particularly in terms of energy and resource use.
Look at how much water we waste, yet in Islam wasting water during wudu and ghusl is highley disliked.
As for the “Zero population growth” movement, I admit find that rather sinister, there’s a definite hidden agenda with such an ideology.
Khalil Al-Puerto Rikani // January 4, 2009 at 4:33 pm |
Assalamu alaikum wa rahamtullahi wa barakatuh
Akhi, I thought you were anti-third parties. Just after the election you were speaking against third parties. Well I don’t think any one party is ideal but the Greens sure know how to shake up the status quo, and I have to give them props for that. In the end we as Muslim should try to make the society better based on principles from we find in the Quran and Sunnah.
Khalil
George Carty // January 4, 2009 at 6:05 pm |
I am concerned that some enviromentalists want a world where no more energy is used that can be obtained from “renewable” sources such as solar and wind. This is extremely dangerous because we are only able to produce enough food per hectare of land to feed our present planetary population due to synthetic fertilizers produced using the (energy-intensive) Haber process.
In general, it was increased access to energy which enabled the world economy to take off (and for world populations to reach today’s values). In the 18th century (when humans first started using fossil fuels in a significant way), the world’s population was only about a quarter of what it is today. Some radical environmentalists today openly call for mass die-offs!
Which large segment of the earth’s population is most disliked currently (and would thus be the first targets for culling by these accursed Malthusians)?
I personally support a massive expansion of nuclear energy (coupled with synthetic fuel plants to produce liquid fuels for transportation) as a way of replacing fossil fuels, but I am extremely worried that such a plan could cause mass starvation in those Middle Eastern countries (Saudi, Kuwait, minor Gulf states) whose economies are based solely on exporting oil.
By the way – I think that many Middle Eastern countries are criminally wasteful in the way they use oil for desalination of water. Oil should be used only for transportation — desalination should be done using either nuclear or solar power (the latter many be preferred if there is a fear that a nuclear reactor would become a magnet for Zionist bombs).
carolinemalay // January 4, 2009 at 11:26 pm |
Treasurer ,eh. I guess you won’t be having any more “deposit” troubles….
cigar smoking one // April 11, 2009 at 4:13 pm |
I was one of the few in the 7th ward that voted for Tim. I did so not because he was activist, nor because of any other factors except I met him at the bus-stop in the snow. He asked I read the materials and the fact tht he personally asked for a vote impressed me.
He seemed a good man and sincere in his beliefs. One hopes he runs again and perhaps next time wins. He has an uphill fight in the city. All greens and third party folks have an uphill fight in the city of St. Louis