Friday, July 27, 2012

Unity Day USA, September 11, 2012

You are cordially invited to join us at the
VIII Annual Unity Day
on Tuesday, September 11, 2012 at 11:30 am
at Unity of Dallas, 6525 Forest Lane, Dallas, TX 75230


On this Unity Day USA, we, the people of the United States of America of every faith, race and ethnicity, will gather to express our commitment to co-existence, safety, prosperity and the well being of our nation.

As Americans we uphold, protect, defend and celebrate the values enshrined in our constitution. All our faiths reinforce the creed of "One Nation under God, with liberty and justice for all”.

Your presence is a valuable expression of unity. Along with our elected officials, civic, religious and business leaders, you help fulfill our common values and aspirations. Your presence fortifies our commitment to a pluralistic America. Please confirm to confirmattendance@gmail.com.

If you wish to list your organization as a participating organization in the event, please share the name of your organization and the web address at UnityDayUSA@gmail.com.

It is our duty to honor and cherish individuals who have dedicated their lives to dismantle artificial barriers among Americans. On this day, we appreciate and celebrate their contributions towards building a cohesive America, where no one has to live in apprehension, discomfort or fear of the other.

Kindly consider financially supporting this event, and click the following link and do the needful - http://americatogetherfoundation.com/donate/.

For further information, please feel free to contact me.


God Bless America.



Mike Ghouse
Founder of Unity Day USA
(214) 325-1916/ Talk or Text
2665 Villa Creek Dr, Suite 206, Dallas, Texas 75234 (972) 243-7040


8th Annual Unity Day USA


We are pleased to invite you to participate in the:

8TH ANNUAL UNITY DAY USA

Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas - The America Together Foundation and the Foundation for Pluralism and several faith based organizations invite you to the 8th annual Unity Day USA, a 9/11 Memorial event to be held on Tuesday, September 11, 2012

WHAT: On this Unity Day USA, we, the people of the United States of America of every faith, race, ethnicity, culture and background will gather to express our commitment to co-existence, Unity, safety, prosperity and well being of our nation by coming together.   

WHEN 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM - Tuesday, September 11, 2012 (Sack lunch)

WHERE:  Unity Church, 6525 Forest Lane, Dallas, TX 75230

WHO:  Mayors, Fire and Police and Education Chiefs, Civic Leaders, public servants, you and your friends.

YOUR ROLE:  Is to attend the event as well as invite your friends to join us at the event by confirming to Confirmattendance@gmail.com . Your presence is an expression of unity with our elected officials, Mayors, fire and police chiefs, civic and business leaders, along with leaders representing every faith and native traditions with the public.  It’s a symbolic Unity.

HONORING:  It is our duty to honor and cherish individuals who have dismantled the barriers between them and others. We appreciate and recognize their commitment to build a cohesive and pluralistic America, where no one has to live in apprehension, discomfort or fear of the other.

YOUR ORGANIZATION:  If you wish to be listed as a participating organization in the event, please share the Name of your organization and the web address.  At the peak we have had 90 Organizations participate and we hope to cooperate with 100 organizations this time.

DONATIONS:  If you wish to support an event like this, please click the following link and do the needful. http://americatogetherfoundation.com/donate/

“This is an annual event for Americans to come together and look to each other as American and nothing but American. We will rededicate our pledge to the safety and security of our nation”. As Americans we uphold, protect, defend and celebrate the values enshrined in our constitution. All our faiths reinforce the creed of "One Nation under God, with liberty and justice for all." 

God Bless America;




Mike Ghouse
Founder and Chair of Unity Day USA,
(214) 325-1916/ Talk or Text
email:
Mike@AmericaTogetherFoundation.com  

Friday, July 13, 2012

9/11 MEMORIAL, you are invited


9/11 UNITY DAY USA
Tuesday, September 11, 2012 - 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
Unity of Dallas, 6525 Forest Lane, Dallas, TX 75230

We are pleased to invite you to the 8th Annual Unity Day USA; a purposeful event to come together as Americans and rededicate our pledge of one nation under God with liberty and justice for all. Over the years, Unity Day USA has become a symbol of unity among Americans.

On this Unity Day, we the people of the United States of America of every faith, race, ethnicity, culture and background will gather to express our commitment to co-existence, unity, prosperity and well being of our nation. 

Click on picture to see enlarged version - Unity day represented by religious and civic leadership

Our civic leaders including Mayors, Council members, State representatives, Senators, Congresspersons and other officials will honor us with their presence. Each Mayor at the event will give a one minute talk to share his/her thoughts about co-existence and promoting social cohesion in their respective cities. Additionally, our men and women in uniform including police and fire chiefs will be honored for their outstanding service to our nation.

Leaders from various faith communities will share a few words of wisdom from their respective scriptures, beliefs or oral traditions. Unity Day USA is about re-affirming our faith in the goodness in humanity, and the longing for harmony and co-existence. The traditions include but are not limited to American Native, Atheist, Baha’i, Buddhist, Christian, Earth-traditions, Hindu, Muslim, Jain, Jewish, Pagan, Sikh, Wicca and Zoroastrians;  it is an all inclusive event.

The idea for Unity Day USA was first conceived  on Tuesday, September 11, 2001 and took its current form on Sunday, September 11, 2005. It is an initiative to come together to stand up for the safety, security and cohesiveness of America.

It is an experience to feel a sense of unity with fellow Americans that will bring a feeling of coming home to where we drop all of our identities and to be united together as an American family.

As Americans we uphold, protect, defend and celebrate the values enshrined in our constitution. Our faiths reinforce the idea of one nation with liberty and justice for all.

1. Please mark your calendar for Tuesday, September 11, 2012 between 11:30 AM and 1:30 PM, and send a confirmation of your intent to attend with your names and address to: confirmattendance@gmail.com

2. For details, including pictures from the last seven years, please visit http://www.unitydayusa.com/

3. If you wish your civic, political or religious organization and place of worship to be listed as participating organization, please send the name and URL of your organizations to:unitydayusa@gmail.com, it will be listed on our website. We have had 90 organizations participate in our previous events.

4. For details please visit www.Unitydayusa.com 


Mike Ghouse
Founder and Chair of the event, initiated and established in 2005.
(214) 325-1916   
America Together Foundation
Foundation for Pluralism

Unity Day Comments, add yours


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Greetings of Peace: Salaam, Shalom, God Bless, Namaste, Sat Sri Akaal, Jai Jinendra, Alla Abho, Hamazor Hama Ashobed, Jai Swami Narayan, Yali Madad and every way I can greet you.

Unity Day USA is about coming together as Americans and expressing our innate desire to rededicate our pledge; one nation under god with liberty and justice for all.

Unity Day USA is about coming together as Americans to appreciate, respect and honor the God given uniqueness to each one of the 297,018,658 of us.

Unity Day USA is born to express that each one of the 297,018,658 of us, are part of the mosaic that America is, each one of us needs to remain connected with the other to make us one nation under God.

Unity Day USA is born out of the great tragedy and enormous suffering that Tuesday, September 11, 2001 brought to all of us, and it is from this day forward, that we, the Muslims of America pledge to continue to foster healing and unity.

We are blessed in this endeavor with the support from people of all faiths. On this Unity Day USA, the People of every faith, race, ethnicity, culture, and every background has accepted our invitation to join us in sharing the power of prayer for peace, healing, unity and security of our country.

Our faith is deed based, and as with all silent majorities, we follow our faith and strive to be the best we can. For the overwhelming silent majority of Muslims, Islam is about doing good things for mankind. Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) once explained, if you plant and nurture a tree, it will give fruit to all; that is charity. He told his associates to consider this as a good deed; doing things that will benefit the mankind. Indeed, this is the same message, every messenger of God in every faith has reiterated.

American Muslim Forum is also born to represent the silent majority of Muslims, Every one is invited to become a member and participate in doing good things for the community at large. Insha Allah, as an organization, every good we do, we will do it for America and for every American. The information is available in the tab "about us" on this website and will soon be on the website www.AmericanMuslimForum.com

As Americans we uphold, protect, defend and celebrate the values enshrined in our constitution. Our faith reinforces the creed of "One Nation under God, with liberty and justice for all."

God bless the USA

Mike Ghouse www.FoundationforPluralism.com | email: MikeGhouse@aol.com

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Dear Friends:

America, has been a land of immigrants ever since the founding of the Republic. Though European in the beginning, in the last few decades, it has welcomed all, irrespective of color, ethnicity or religion, with the words inscribed on the Statue of Liberty:

"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door."

As Muslims, Islam enjoins us to be just and truthful, in thought, words and deeds; as well as be respectful of other religions while practicing the tenets of Islam. As Americans we cherish the constitution and the bill of rights. America is our home and our children’s future.

Democratic norms are embedded in Islamic heritage. Prophet Mohammad did not designate a successor. It was not an oversight. He willed us to choose according to our best lights. Historically rulers have bent the religion to suite the powerful. The only way for a peaceful religion to flourish is in a democratic setting, without coercion.

Freedom is a yearning in all-human souls. The quest of centuries for equality and justice led to the realization, that the only guaranty of individual freedom is to guaranty freedom for all, within a constitutional framework. It culminated in the pluralistic American democracy.

American Muslim Forum celebrates and promotes Muslim participation in the rich fabric of American democracy, a beacon for the world’s downtrodden yearning for freedom and self-government.

Mirza A. Beg
Mab64@yahoo.com

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This day is the true American spirit of acceptance and friendship.

To me as a Jew, this day is also in the spirit of words from our Jewish prayer book: "Our God and God of our Ancestors, we ask your blessings for our country - for its government, for its leaders and advisors, and for all who exercise just and rightful authority. Grant them insights into your Teaching, that they may administer all affairs of state fairly, that peace and security, happiness and prosperity, justice and freedom may forever abide in our midst.

Creator of all flesh, bless all the inhabitants of our country with Your spirit. May citizens of all races and creeds forge a common bond in true harmony, to banish hatred and bigotry, and to safeguard the ideals and free institutions that are the pride and glory of our country.

May this land, under Your providence, be an influence for good throughout the world, uniting all people in peace and freedom - helping them to fulfill the vision of Your prophet: "Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they experience war any more" And let us say: Amen."

Muriel Pinkus

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What Unity Day means to me. As the world seems to spiral further into the abyss of violence and terrorism, the best way to counter this trend is for all people of good will to unite in a common desire to restore peace to the world. This can be done only if we as a people refuse to countenance a resort to violence except only for purposes of self-defense. Most, if not all, people of good will agree with this.

The problems in the past have generally followed from the following. One group can see a threat from another group where no threat exists and each group has elements in it which do not operate from a basis of good will. As to the first problem, this can be corrected only by communication between the groups that will facilitate further understanding and acceptance, coupled within each group a willingness to be tolerant. As to the second, members of each group itself must do what they can to eliminate the unworthy influences in that particular group.
If members of one group take action against members of another group who do not exhibit good will, then that action is often mistaken as action against a group as a whole, leading to the involvement in violence of people who otherwise act in good will. Unity Day means that we must all hear what all beliefs teach in this regard, and I suspect they are much the same. So, let us hear, let us understand, and, most important, let us live what we believe.


Judge Bruce Woody

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Why unity day on sept.11, 2005? Why American Muslims should be initiating the observation of the day?

It goes without saying that this was the day we 'felt unequivocally united' with our beloved country, the United States of America. We felt the impact of it in our hearts and minds. The sudden pain, similar to that of Pearl Harbor, united all Americans. It also signaled the world as we knew it, changed in many aspects very dramatically.

The newly Americanized immigrants from all ethnic backgrounds, had been equally jolted in their hearts and minds. More so with the hearts and minds of Muslim immigrants who had whole heartedly adopted this country as their own. The feeling of belonging became intense, when those who caused the calamity were bearing Muslim names. The evil in their minds had to be exposed and fought against rigorously.

Muslims in particular and ethnic immigrants in general felt the strong need to unite against this evil, which had annihilated thousands of innocent lives. This goes against deep rooted conviction instilled in our hearts by the very tenets of our faith which guides our lives; that killing one human being is like killing the whole of humanity. Specially the Muslim Americans had to rise up against this evil with a strong conviction that we must take initiative to unite with all the people of United States. to stand up solidly behind our president and resolutely do everything to nip the evil in the bud once and for all.

Badruddin Kabani, Carrollton,

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I am very glad that members of the American Muslim community have come together to organize this multi-cultural, interfaith event. The truth is that a lot of people have been asking where are the Muslim voices that speak out against terrorism, and that speak out as Americans. The idea of bringing together people from all faiths and cultures, finding common ground in our humanity, is a wonderful step in that direction. In my college fraternity I had to memorize a poem that has had a continuing influence on my life. I've pasted it at the bottom of this message. I think you'll see why.

Thank you for the invitation to participate.

Mazel tov. Bernie Congregation Beth Torah

The Bridge Builder An old man, going a lone highway, Came, at the evening, cold and gray, To a chasm, vast, and deep, and wide, Through which was flowing a sullen tide. The old man crossed in the twilight dim; The sullen stream had no fears for him; But he turned, when safe on the other side, And built a bridge to span the tide. "Old man," said a fellow pilgrim, near, "You are wasting strength with building here; Your journey will end with the ending day; You never again must pass this way; You have crossed the chasm, deep and wide- Why build you a bridge at the eventide?" The builder lifted his old gray head: "Good friend, in the path I have come," he said, "There followeth after me today, A youth, whose feet must pass this way. This chasm, that has been naught to me, To that fair-haired youth may a pitfall be. He, too, must cross in the twilight dim; Good friend, I am building the bridge for him."

Bernie Mayoff, Richardson

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American Muslim forum (amf) is representative of silent Muslim majority that is peace loving, law-abiding and as American as apple pie. Our slogan is bringing communities together

Our mission is to actively participate in all spheres of American life and positively contribute towards peace, prosperity and security of our nation.

Our guiding principal is to uphold, protect and defend values enshrined in our constitution while practicing our religion that reinforces the creed of one nation under god, with liberty and justice for all

Unity day September 11 2005:

May I take this opportunity to first express our heartfelt sympathies for the victims of hurricane Katrina. Our hearts goes out to all the people affected by this natural calamity.

9/11/2001 was another calamity

That struck our nation caused by misguided individual Muslims. These criminals didn't represent Islam and we condemn this and all acts of terrorism conducted by anyone in the name of Islam without equivocations or any reservations.

Nevertheless their despicable and heinous act succeeded in creating distrust of American Muslims in the eyes of our fellow Americans, and thus a sense of us vs. them, a blow to our very welcoming and open society.

American Muslims ever since 9/11 have tried to do their part to dispel this distrust. One common denominator among people of faith, which is true for most Americans, is belief in the power of prayer and reliance on their faith to overcome any number of hurdles in this life. This is the thinking behind organizing unity day by north American Muslims.

We will have as many faith based organizations as possible to participate in interfaith prayers to keep our nation united where liberty and justice for all remains the supreme value for all times to come

God bless America.

Dr. Mohammad Khalid

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

9/11 UNITY DAY USA COMMEMORATION


Invitation to the 8th Annual

9/11 UNITY DAY USA
Tuesday, September 11, 2012 - 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
Unity of Dallas, 6525 Forest Lane, Dallas, TX 75230

We are pleased to invite you to the 8th Annual Unity Day USA; a purposeful event to for Americans to come together. Over the years, Unity Day USA has become a symbol of unity among Americans.

Click on picture to see enlarged version - Unity day represented by religious and civic leadership
On this Unity Day, we the people of the United States of America of every faith, race, ethnicity, culture and background will gather to express our commitment to co-existence, unity, prosperity and well being of our nation. 

Our civic leaders including Mayors, Council members, State representatives, Senators, Congresspersons and other officials will honor us with their presence. Each Mayor at the event will give a one minute talk to share his/her thoughts about co-existence and promoting social cohesion in their respective cities. Additionally, our men and women in uniform including police and fire chiefs will be honored for their outstanding service to our nation.

Leaders from various faith communities will share a few words of wisdom from their respective scriptures, beliefs or oral traditions. Unity Day USA is about re-affirming our faith in the goodness in humanity, and the longing for harmony and co-existence. The traditions include but are not limited to American Native, Atheist, Baha’i, Buddhist, Christian, Earth-traditions, Hindu, Muslim, Jain, Jewish, Pagan, Sikh, Wicca and Zoroastrians;  it is an all inclusive event.

The idea for Unity Day USA was first conceived  on Tuesday, September 11, 2001 and took its current form on Sunday, September 11, 2005. It is an initiative to come together to stand up for the safety, security and cohesiveness of America.

It is an experience to feel a sense of unity with fellow Americans that will bring a feeling of coming home to where we drop all of our identities and to be united together as an American family.

As Americans we uphold, protect, defend and celebrate the values enshrined in our constitution. Our faiths reinforce the idea of one nation with liberty and justice for all.

1. Please mark your calendar for Tuesday, September 11, 2012 between 11:30 AM and 1:30 PM, and send a confirmation of your intent to attend with your names and address to: confirmattendance@gmail.com

2. For details, including pictures from the last seven years, please visit http://www.unitydayusa.com/

3. If you wish your civic, political or religious organization and place of worship to be listed as participating organization, please send the name and URL of your organizations to:unitydayusa@gmail.com, it will be listed on our website. We have had 90 organizations participate in our previous events.

4. For details please visit www.Unitydayusa.com 


Mike Ghouse
Founder and Chair of the event, initiated and established in 2005. 
(214) 325-1916  
America Together Foundation
Foundation for Pluralism
World Muslim Congress