Is it time for MYNA Miami again?
Its been a long time since there has been any MYNA Miami activity. Aside from the history of myna and the theoretical thoughts about youth work on this blog, I will reactivate this place to start thinking out loud about a new sort of youth activity that needs to take place in Miami.
I like the nature of the blog as a place to think out loud. Transparency is good. The ability for others who may stumble upon it and add there comments can be a resource for improvement.
SO...
NEED:
Alternative Activities for youth in Sunday school who already know the suras being taught by the quran teacher and the lessons being covered in the general Islamic studies class.
These youth are forced to come to sunday school by the parents. They already know the material, so they get bored. When they are bored they find other things to occupy their time. If left on their own, Those other things may: 1- not give them any benefit or learning opportunity; 2- be a distraction for the other students who need to be in the class; 3-get them into needless trouble
what to do?
posted by Asad Siddiqui @ 10:27 AM
2 comments
2 Comments:
Your blog is great and thorough in its coverage. Well done! And we will make sure Islamic Horizons does include MYNA at ISNA convention in its convention coverage. (I noticed the complaint.) In fact, can you identify someone to write a report that will assist the editor?
We are planning to have a History Gallery at the ISNA convention. We have found few significant photos so far. So, I need to talk to Fawad and/or whoever else did the research for this blog. The more you can help with significant photos and documents and even artifacts, the more we can project MYNA in the History Gallery.
So, please send me some contact information.
Iqbal Unus
Interim Secretary General, ISNA
Somehow, while searching for something, I stumbled upon this interesting blog. This blog describes the happenings around 2003-2004 and events in its' immediately preceding years. I am quite amused reading it, but I also empathize with the anguish expressed by Asad Siddiqui at his bewilderment in understanding why ISNA would act in a certain way towards MYNA. It took me a few decades earlier when I must have been Asad's age at the time. To understand what has happened to MYNA, one would have to know the ideological and historical background of ISNA, MSA, and go even further in depth of the mindset of the people who run these organizations. When you do that, you will find out that one would have to know the middle-eastern culture, the tribal mindset of the rulers, and the yearning for control and micro-management on part of the parent organizations. The children born, or growing up, in the US have a different mindset and culture. The two cannot mesh. In a nutshell that is what you are experiencing.
I have one piece of unsolicited advice to offer: Please do not loose the innocence of your youth, purity of faith and belief, sincerity of your intentions to be good and do good, and your love for fellow human beings, by the ugliness and high-handedness you notice in all this. This is a control game. They are not interested in your ideas, your observations, and your experience in MYNA. They are only interested in the organization being run by yes-men, fully compliant individuals, who will not give a hint of asserting themselves as thinking, breathing, and independently thinking persons.
Good luck and good wishes.
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