These Muslim women praying on their prayer beads. The actual beads, no different than The Rosary, can be simple or complex and quite colorful and even beautiful. A status symbol to many in a social situation. (click here) Five time a day. Five. A lot of praying.
But, to many, prayer and religion belong as a government function. That is where 'good judgement' is clouded by political reality. It's unfortunate, but, when religion and politics mix it is a very volitile mixture.
In the article below there is resentment regarding what seems like an exclusion of Muslim faith in the AU (African Union). I am not quite understanding this anger either because there is absolutely no more profound a Muslim leader than Libya's Muammar al-Gaddafi and he is a member of the AU.
So, what's next then? Suicide bombers prepared through prayer to carry out atrocities in the name of Islam?
COMOG expresses concern
Calls it a “protocol faux-pas”
Atiku Iddrisu Posted: Monday, July 09, 2007
The Coalition of Muslim Organizations, Ghana (COMOG) is angered over the exclusion of Muslim prayers at an AU breakfast prayer session, which was attended by African Heads of State during the 9th AU Summit in Accra on Monday July 2, 2007.
In a statement issued in Accra last Thursday, Alhaji Baba Alhassan, COMOG General Secretary described the development as a protocol faux-pas and asked the appropriate authorities to render an unqualified apology to the Ghanaian Muslim community “which had borne the brunt of this embarrassment”.
COMOG said only Christian prayers were offered at the ceremony and believed “it is very serious that protocol bungled at a function involving African leaders, a good number of whom are Muslims”.
The statement said the diversity of Ghana as a nation must be seen to be upheld and respected in all our national activities and endeavors so as not to portray the country as otherwise especially in the midst of other nationals.
“It is the belief of COMOG that fair representation and fair consideration of the interests of religious groups, especially the major ones, will go a long way to strengthen the enviable inter-faith cooperation, peaceful coexistence and harmony in Ghana”, the statement said.
The Coalition of Muslim Organizations, Ghana (COMOG) is angered over the exclusion of Muslim prayers at an AU breakfast prayer session, which was attended by African Heads of State during the 9th AU Summit in Accra on Monday July 2, 2007.
In a statement issued in Accra last Thursday, Alhaji Baba Alhassan, COMOG General Secretary described the development as a protocol faux-pas and asked the appropriate authorities to render an unqualified apology to the Ghanaian Muslim community “which had borne the brunt of this embarrassment”.
COMOG said only Christian prayers were offered at the ceremony and believed “it is very serious that protocol bungled at a function involving African leaders, a good number of whom are Muslims”.
The statement said the diversity of Ghana as a nation must be seen to be upheld and respected in all our national activities and endeavors so as not to portray the country as otherwise especially in the midst of other nationals.
“It is the belief of COMOG that fair representation and fair consideration of the interests of religious groups, especially the major ones, will go a long way to strengthen the enviable inter-faith cooperation, peaceful coexistence and harmony in Ghana”, the statement said.
