8th Annual Holocaust and Genocides commemoration

8^TH Annual public event to be held in Dallas on Sunday 1/25 and Washington DC on Tuesday 1/27 – It is a community bridge builder.
 

The purpose of this event is education, information and activism. We hope to learn and acknowledge our failings and make a personal commitment to do our individual share of expressing, “Never again”.
Our mission is to create awareness of the inhumanity within each one of us and hope to find the solutions.

The civic leaders, and leaders from the Atheist, Baha’i, Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Islam, Jain, Jewish, Native Americans, Pagan, Sikh, Wicca, Zoroastrian and other traditions will come together and share their wisdom and their internal commitment to building a cohesive America, where no American has to live in apprehension or fear of the other. We have to do our share of creating the kingdom of heaven right here on the earth.

The Holocaust event has been commemorated by the Jewish community since 1953 for the loss of 6 million Jews during the Holocaust, known as Yom HaShoah in Synagogues around the world.  Now, we have been sharing that information along with the various Genocides and Massacres around the world with public at large.

We at America Together Foundation are committed to spreading the knowledge of Holocaust and Genocides through interfaith and public events for the last seven years.

For full details Please visit www.HolocaustandGenocides.com

TIME out for me.

TIME OUT

For the next ten days, I will drop most of the things and focus on completing this book. I won't be responding much on yahoogroups,  facebook, twitter, linked in and other social media unless it is critical. Here is my speech on immigration reforms to an 8000 audience in down town Dallas. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrjU0KULv-Y

Thank you
mike
Mike Ghouse
(214) 325-1916 text/talk
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Mike Ghouse is a speaker, thinker and a writer on pluralism, politics, peace, Islam, Israel, India, interfaith, cohesive work place. He is committed to building a Cohesive America and offers pluralistic solutions on issues of the day at www.TheGhousediary.com. Mike believes in Standing up for others and a book with the same title is coming up, and the process of making the film "Flames of Passion" has begun. Mike has a strong presence on national and local TV, Radio and Print Media. He is a frequent guest on Sean Hannity show on Fox TV, and a commentator on national radio networks, contributes weekly to the Texas Faith Column at Dallas Morning News; fortnightly at Huffington post; regularly at Oped News and several other periodicals across the world. His personal site www.MikeGhouse.net indexes all his work through many links.

LGBT - Same Sex marriage declared unconstitutional by Supreme Court of India - Unwise decision.

INDIA'S SUPREME COURT'S DECISION TO BAN SAME SEX MARRIAGE  IS NOT WISE
URL - http://theghousediary.blogspot.com/2013/12/lgbt-same-sex-marriage-declared.html

The Supreme Court's decision is not wise and needs to be challenged.  We need to find out how much Hindu, Muslim and Christian leaders’ belligerence influenced the Judges and how much the constitutional values of freedom of individuals played in to their hands.  This is not good for India or any society in the long term. Injustice to one is injustice to all; prejudice to one will end up in prejudice to all eventually. 

Civil society has the responsibility to protect the society at large from crimes that materially affected by robbing, stealing, lying, rape, incest, child abuse, abuse of women, murders, or breaking contracts of marriage or business and not fulfilling the social and legal contracts, so there is a punishment prescribed for all such violations.
 
Full article will appear in a newspaper shortly. 

 

Thank you
mike
Mike Ghouse
(214) 325-1916 text/talk
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Mike Ghouse is a speaker, thinker and a writer on pluralism, politics, peace, Islam, Israel, India, interfaith, and cohesion at work place. He is committed to building a Cohesive America and offers pluralistic solutions on issues of the day at www.TheGhousediary.com. He believes in Standing up for others and a book with the same title is coming up. Mike has a strong presence on national and local TV, Radio and Print Media. He is a frequent guest on Sean Hannity show on Fox TV, and a commentator on national radio networks, he contributes weekly to the Texas Faith Column at Dallas Morning News; fortnightly at Huffington post; and several other periodicals across the world. His personal site www.MikeGhouse.net indexes all his work through many links.
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Pluralism Speaker Mike Ghouse - standing up for others

Mike Ghouse is a speaker, thinker and a writer on pluralism, politics, peace, Islam, Israel, India, interfaith, and cohesion at work place. He is committed to building a Cohesive America and offers pluralistic solutions on issues of the day at www.TheGhousediary.com. He believes in Standing up for others and has done that throughout his life as an activist. Mike has a presence on national and local TV, Radio and Print Media. He is a frequent guest on Sean Hannity show on Fox TV, and a commentator on national radio networks, he contributes weekly to the Texas Faith Column at Dallas Morning News; fortnightly at Huffington post; and several other periodicals across the world. His personal site www.MikeGhouse.net indexes his work through many links.

Ban Ki-Moon standing up for human rights of GLBT community

Honorable Secretary of the United Nations, Mr. Ban Ki -Moon, I salute you for taking the stand on the human rights of the GLBT community. It is time the leaders of the world take a stand and lead the way for the people.   I firmly stand with you.

Mr. Bank ki-Moon, you stood up against the many, you are the shepherd and not the sheep.  Thank you.

Please watch the video link below, you will salute him too! 

It is inspiring to see those who stand up for others.

Think about this, if you don't stand up for others, why should anyone stand up for you? Standing up for others is the right thing to do, every human goes through a period of invincibility to vulnerability, if we don't stand up for those who are vulnerable, then who will stand up for us when we are vulnerable?

 I was disappointed that many of the 47 members of the Humans rights council walked out in protest, by God they are the members of the human rights commission! It appears like those nations have sent the foxes to guard the hens.  Shame on them!

Don’t they have the ability to differentiate between human rights of Gays and Lesbians and Gays and lesbians? Is this the world we want? Do we not want to stop trampling on the rights of others? Has God signed a deal with you to give you that right? The issues is not about promoting the gay and lesbian life style, it is already there, it is about protecting their rights to be who they are. God has not assigned you to be the moral police.

The idea of alms, charity, taking care of the elderly, weak, sick and the children is a common theme in every religious tradition. Indeed, it is the insurance for every one's well being. I cannot be safe when others around me aren't, and hence it behooves for me to take care of the ones who are vulnerable and target of the hatred from the ignorant few.

I am blessed to have taken a stand for Christians, Jews, Catholics,   Immigrants, Hindus, Falun Dafa, Wicca, Zoroastrians, Muslims, Native Americans, Christians, Baha'i, Wicca, Sikh and other identities of humanity including GLBT community. It is the right thing to do.

At America Together Foundation, we are committed to build a cohesive America, where no American has to live in discomfort, apprehension or fear of the other. We hope to plan on a symposium on the topic sometimes this year, funds permitting. 

TODAY IN THE PRESS:

BAN KI-MOON SAYS: "THE TIME HAS COME" – WATCH THE POWERFUL VIDEO

http://www.allout.org/en/actions/thetimehascome/taf?akid=591.452123.X84o5m&rd=1&t=2&utm_campaign=un_video&utm_content=english&utm_medium=email&utm_source=actionkit

March 21, 2012. It's not every day that a major world figure speaks out forcefully in defense of equality. But earlier this month, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon did just that when he made an incredibly powerful speech at the U.N. in Geneva. But most people didn't even hear about it.

Why? After the speech, the media focused on a handful of delegates who stormed out of meeting in protest. Their story - that gay people should be denied human rights - is the one that dominated the day's news. But with your help, we're going to change that.

Our friends at the U.N. let us REMIX Ban Ki-moon, so we took his speech and created this video. We hope you like it! After you watch, please share with your friends and family, helping this inspiring message reach the audience it deserves.

Here is my note about Standing up for others :http://standingupforothers.blogspot.com/2012/02/standing-up-for-others_05.html

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MikeGhouse is committed to building a Cohesive America and offers pluralistic solutions on issues of the day. He is a professional speaker, thinker and a writer on pluralism, politics, civic affairs, Islam, India, Israel, peace and justice. Mike is a frequent guest on Sean Hannity show on Fox TV, and a commentator on national radio networks, he writes weekly at Dallas Morning News and regularly at Huffington post, The Smirking Chimp and several other periodicals. His daily blog is www.TheGhousediary.com