Engaging our youth in Islamic Activities
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Key Questions to Consider: Understanding our youth. Why are they needed? How can they contribute? Why should they contribute? Is there enough coordination between those already working for Islam in various ways?
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Engaging our youth in Islamic Activities
- 1. Engaging our youth in Islamic activities Key Questions to Consider
- 2. Key Questions to Consider • Understanding our youth. • Why are they needed? • How can they contribute? • Why should they contribute? • Is there enough coordination between those already working for Islam in various ways?
- 3. Understanding our youth • Not everyone can fit into one size or description: • Generational distance • Faith background • Born in Muslim countries or Canada • Once lived in Bangladesh • Dual/Triple Nationality • Only visited Muslim countries on holiday
- 4. Why are they needed? • Fresh blood = fresh ideas. New thinking needed to counter the huge and unprecedented challenges
- 5. How can they contribute? • Some good initiatives • Youth activities of different Islamic organisations and institutions. • Educational sessions organised by Islamic organisations/Sheikhs • Environmental Awareness • Supporting Human rights awareness work • Some ideas • Charity work in Muslim countries - micro-credit, free clinics in rural areas, educational or infrastructural - electricity/water/environmental sectors • Professional/students exchange programme • Networking
- 6. Why should they contribute? • Incentive and WIFM factor • Inferiority/Superiority Complex • Affiliation to a strong nation versus roots in a weaker one • Ideological affinity to one country over another • Identity Issues • Varied opinions on identify and affinity • Not seeing Islam as anything special. • Don’t have knowledge of Islamic issues • Cultural heritage • Religious element • Too hard to learn all the history • Moral/Mutual obligation
- 7. More thought in engaging them with back-home issues • In a global world you often need a global effort to solve local problems in Islamic countries and local problems. • Countering the de-islamisation work, Christian missionary work, secularisation process • Help with humanitarian issues • environmental disaster • energy shortage • water crisis • unplanned urbanisation • price of resources • Can the Diaspora community be kept united above the political division reflected in BD? Are the younger generation likely to avoid the usual political positioning? • Is there some form of organisation or institution needed to coordinate the Diaspora? • What can we learn from other diasporas - the Young Turks, Malays, Chinese, Iranians, Indian s etc? How they are contributing to or shaping their own countries?
- 8. Is there enough coordinationbetween those alreadyworkingfor Islam in various ways? • There are many already working in various ways. Greater co- ordination might be useful so that synergy can be achieved in serving the same issues. • A survey could be conducted on those who are already involved to understand their motivations, and on those who don’t have any interest at all. We can learn what drives whom and seek coordination where common purpose/motivation exists
- 9. CantheYouthcommunitybekeptunitedabovethe politicaldivisionreflectedinbroadercommunity?Arethe youngergenerationlikelytoavoidtheusualpolitical positioning? • There are great benefits if the Youth can shed it’s political affiliations and work together • There is a risk that even the younger generation among the Diaspora who never had any political involvement in BD are playing out the same politics in the West • There is a need to build a broader platform.
- 10. Is there some form of organisation or institution needed to coordinate the Youth? • Ad hoc work can only go so far • Organisations or groups turn people away • A half-way house may be the best approach • However it needs a few committed people to make it work
- 11. Whatcanwe learnfromotherYouth-the Young Turks,Malays,Chinese,Iranians,Indiansetc?How theyarecontributingtoorshapingtheirown countries/Ideology/culturalheritage? • There are other examples where diasporas have organised themselves and greatly influenced events in their root countries (e.g Iran, Turkey) • More research and networking needs to be done with other Diaspora communities to learn from them and share best practice
Editor's Notes
- Diaspora : the body of Jews (or Jewish communities) outside Palestine or modern Israel the dispersion of the Jews outside Israel; from the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem in 587-86 BC when they were exiled to Babylonia up to the present time the dispersion or spreading of something that was originally localized (as a people or language or culture) Diaspora is the movement of indigenous peoples, or a population of a common (ethnicity-wise) people to a place other than the homeland or home/settledregion. Diaspora can be voluntary or forced, and usually the movement is to a place far from the home region. In the US, most people are familiar with Native American diaspora (displacement of American Indians out of their territories, and later, to reservations), and African tribal diaspora, when slaves were forcefully moved from their homeland to Europe and the US as a result of slavery.
- The Young Turks were a coalition of various groups favouring reformation of the administration of the Ottoman Empire. The movement was against the monarchy of Ottoman Sultan and favoured a re-installation of the short-lived Kanûn-ı Esâsî constitution. They established the second constitutional era in 1908 with what would become known as the Young Turk Revolution. The term Young Turks referred to the members of the Ottoman society who were progressive, modernist and opposed to the status quo. The movement built a rich tradition of dissent that shaped the intellectual, political and artistic life of the late Ottoman period generally transcendent to the decline and dissolution periods. Many Young Turks were not only active in the political arena, but were also artists, administrators, or scientists. The term "Young Turks" has subsequently come to signify any groups or individuals inside an organisation who are progressive and seek prominence and power.