جنوب إفريقيا: الحزب الإسلامي يدفع بمرشح في الانتخابات البرلمانية

خبر من مصادر إنجليزية.

دفع "الحزب الإسلامي" الإفريقي - الذي نشأ عام 1994 في "جنوب إفريقيا" - برئيسه "امتياز سليمان" لخوض الانتخابات البرلمانية.

و"امتياز سليمان" ناشط حقوقي وسياسي أتى ضمن قائمة أكثر 500 مسلم تأثيرًا في العالم عام 2009، وهو معروف بتأسيسه وإدارته لجمعية "هدايا المتبرعين" للأعمال الإنسانية.

ودعا الحزب المسلمين إلى المشاركة بفعالية في الانتخابات، والعمل على التغيير وتحسين الأوضاع، وذلك في ظل المشاركة الأولى للمسلمين في تاريخ الانتخابات بمرشح يمثل حزبًا إسلاميًّا؛ المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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South African Muslim in Ballot Paper

For the first time in their history, South Africa Muslims heading to poll stations will find the name of a Muslim leader on the ballot paper, competing at the top of the country’s first Islamic party.

“We went to different towns. People attacked you. They shot you down. They booed you. You said wrong things. On DVD it sometimes looks stupid, but it’s all a learning process,” Dr Imtiaz Sooliman, the founder, director and chairman of Gift of the Givers humanitarian organization told Cii Radio on Tuesday, May 6.

Known as a renowned humanitarian activist who is lauded for the work done through the much-lauded Gift of the Givers, Sooliman joined politics as the head of the country’s African Muslim Party (AMP).

The party, formed only two months before 1994 vote, has gone through many challenges to participate actively in the then newly born democracy.

The new beginning was not an easy for all parties.

“People who selected (office bearers) insisted that I had to be the leader. I was very unhappy about that. Anyway, we did as best as we could. I was totally inexperienced, didn’t know how to debate at that time, how to discuss, how to fight (politically),” Sooliman told Cii listeners.

“We all knew that if something was not done, the country could have gone up in flames like it’s happened in so many countries around the world,” the founder and chief executive officer of the Gift of the Givers said of the 1989-1994 transition phase.