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To: James Calladine who wrote (591)	11/25/2001 2:20:07 PM
From: Sultan	Respond to of 2926

Another facet.. Worth a read.. specially for those who always get their daily dose of TV re. suppressed muslim women, savage muslim radicals etc. etc. Gari Khan is renowned among his neighbors for his moving recitations of the Koran. Regularly, hundreds of fellow Muslims gather to marvel at his performances. Khan, 35, is known for something else, too: His prowess as a beekeeper. Six years ago, he and his wife, Shamin, 28, got loans and technical assistance from the Aga Khan Rural Support Program to raise honeybees. This year, the Khans' Hunza Honey company repaid its loans and raked in $5,000 in revenues. "Our lives have been turned around," says Shamin. "Before, we were traditional people growing our crops. Now we are thinking like business people." That's an impressive achievement when you consider where the Khans live: in the mountain village of Aliabad, in Pakistan's rugged Northern Area. In this part of the world, people are lucky to scrape together $100 a year. Remote doesn't begin to describe the Khans' hometown, a dot in the Hunza District, one of the most inhospitable and beautiful landscapes on earth, 16 bumpy hours by road from the capital of Islamabad. Until recently, the town boasted few real businesses, infrastructure such as electricity was nonexistent, and its schools were rudimentary. In fact, Aliabad and its neighboring villages were as poor as present-day Afghanistan, just 60 kilometers north. businessweek.com

To: James Calladine who wrote (591)	11/25/2001 8:50:27 PM
From: HG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2926

<<<But you will never really know much until you decide to walk the talk, and not just talk the talk.>>> You may have a point there... I personally sometimes feel I am living in a high rise building, and have a great view of the crossroads down below. I can see religious cars on a collision course, I can see what the drivers are doing wrong. I can see that if they don't change course they will surely collide, based on the speed of the cars i can see how nasty or how benign the collision will be, but being so high up in the highrise, i have no way of preventing the collision. Do i have to be on the collision course to experience the conviction ? Well....I would rather people come to my apartment and be truely free to accept and admire all religions, and take the best from each religion to create their own personal set of values and beliefs... You could be right about us not walking the talk and therefore never knowing how it feels to be in one of those cars. Or maybe it is the other way round and people need to break the religious chains that bind you ? Well.....i believe there is no right or wrong. Because our lives are like a blank canvas, following religion is as right or wrong as not following it. Underlying reasons for existancce of religions is hope. Hope of a better world. A better life <or afterlife>. Hope for our successive generations. Hope and dreams. And it may not be necessary to be rigid about the the means of achieving those dreams. One can achieve the same goals thru many ways. Its like the Chinese eat Chinese Food and Indians eat Indian Food and British and Americans eat Hamburgers. Can one food be 'right-er' than the other ? The foods are all expected to keep us alive and healthy, and are prepared according to the local availability of the ingrediants and the flavour, spices, aroma may be based on climatic vagarities of the region. Receipe's handed down the generations may be fattening and we may need to trim down the sugar or oil in the recipe's due to changes in our living conditions. But as long as the particular kind of food keeps us healthy and alive, its ok to eat whatever we like. Its also ok not to like a particular kind of food, but that does not make the food 'bad'. More like it does not suit our tastes. As long as we do good in this life, its ok, whatever our religious beliefs, we're all on the same course...... JMHO - of course !