Showing posts with label Dr. A Maijid Katme. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dr. A Maijid Katme. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Baku Conference and Old City

These are just more pictures I've taken at the conference as well as in walks in the Old City. Today we are touring the old city so I'll have more pictures and know what the monuments are that I am taking pictures of.  Maybe some of what I have here I'll shoot again but with local knowledge of their significance and relevance.  It's a grand city for visiting.  Our conference is thought provoking as it deals with mental illness, death, substance abuse and helping those most vulnerable.
We discussed various homes and services being offered around the world. I most enjoyed hearing of the school for pregnant teenagers where the mother and babies attend till completion. There was a remarkable woman doctor in Poland who promised all her young women that if they didn't want to keep the baby she'd adopt them only to never have a single woman take her up on her offer in thousands of such deliveries.
Everyone laughs at me when I say that with 25,000 Canadian women going overseas to buy babies and the unwieldy government heavy beurocracies in Canada that discourage adoption there really needs to be an eBay bidding for unwed mothers. Everyone worries that this would lead to the sale of babies as if that is worth than death.  I'd personally prefer to be bought and sold than killed outright without a choice or voice.
We're moving towards the extinction of the human race while talking about silly fears hundreds if not thousands of years in the future about changing climate.  Man survived ice age but the world epidemic of abortions is another thing entirely.  Where countries have declining birthrates nothing has been found to reverse this.
It's so enjoyable here to listen to the participants discuss the range of services they have and variety of ideas. I remember once being at a medical conference in Vancouver where abortion was discussed and the abortionists shouted down with rage any further discussion. Their bullying tactics, especially one woman, were utterly unprofessional, as she rolled her eyes and flared her nostrils and told a leading physician to shut up.  I was frightened myself that day.
It's so tragic too hearing of all the doctors, nurses, and psychologists who have been persecuted in their countries for being pro life.  The smear campaigns are devastating.  There is no depths of low that the abortion zealots won't stoop to to maintain their incomes.  I was fascinated hearing this because I'djust come from a conference where I'd heard similar tactics done by the tobacco companies when it was recognized that they were lying and causing so much costly damage.
Last night I heard one of our group members has been struggling with their news that their family has been kidnapped by the el Quada.  In Canada there are people who believe the el Quaida are a figment of American war machine yet the Africans here tell of el Quaida attacks and massacres they've lived through.  Kidnapping is a standard way they raise money for their bombs.
So many of these people here have experienced the war and terror, tragedies that my refugee patients tell me of ,but most Canadians are so utterly unaware of. Yet they grumble and grump without the least gratitude.  Being here I'm so grateful for the peace our country has known and the work of our government and institutions do to maintain peace in Canada.  We're truly privileged and learning this I'm concerned about those who are just critics and want to destroy a great country with hair brained schemes that serve only their self interests.
I'm involved right now on the issue of 'legalization of marijuana'. There's decriminalization which everyone agrees on but whenever a substance like tobacco or alcohol has been 'legalized' so it can essentially be bought in shopping markets the devastation in terms of public health and cost to society has been gargantuan.
Here I'm hearing about the unspeakable costs of the Abortion Industry.
I feel like I did when I listened to the claims that there was no 'cover ups' around 9/11 yet even in the subsequent enquiry the key questions that we all had asked were glossed over.  I came away from that knowing that there is a conspiracy when there's a conspiracy to insist there's no conspiracy.
That's essentially the feeling I get here with discussions of the Pro Life groups all of which are predominantly volunteers. I know personally that abortions are truly high paid with clinics the likes that only Cosmetic Surgeons can afford.  Doing regular medicine at standard pay I'm having trouble paying my overhead in the downtown. Meanwhile these abortion clinics are high end high profit industry sites.  I'm envious of their staff and facilities.  I feel like the doctors in the military who tell me of struggles to get medical supplies when millions are lost on ammunitions.  Killing is always higher paid than life saving.
It's probably all just envy on my part. I would like to get paid more but I just couldn't live with myself as an abortionist.  Morgentaller is as slimy to me as Eva Braun yet both of them are white washed in the media.  Psychopaths and sociopaths are the greatest chameleons and really do threaten anyone warm blooded.
IMG 3977
IMG 1254
IMG 1255
IMG 1252
IMG 1247
IMG 1249
IMG 1244











Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Muslim Pro-Life

Dr. A. Majid Katme is a Pro-life family Muslim Campaigner in the United Kingdom and the United Nations as well as the Muslim Coordinator to the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC), a member of the 3 Faith Forum and One of the Advisors to the Medical Ethics Alliance.
Today he presented one of the most remarkably helpful and astute workshops I've heard. Treating Muslim patients in Canada I have encountered often the very concerns these patients have with their own lives and decisions relative to their faith.
Dr. A. Majid Katme provided a hand out of his talk and began discussing specifically what Muslim scripture said.  From this he expressed his concerns and then went on to express the concerns that members of his community were having with changes that were occurring.  Most specifically he and other Muslims were concerned about the increasing number of abortions among Muslims.
According to  Muslim Scriptures, Dr. A. Majid Katme stated,
It is prohibited in Islam:
-To kill the unborn child through abortion - Life is SACRED in Islam. Muslims fully suppor the Pro-Life Campaign in the UK/UN.  Also Muslims support Palliative Care and the Hospice Movement
-Prohibited too - Attempted suicide, assisted suicide/euthanasia and suicide, destructive embryo research, human cloning - egg donation, sperm donation, embryo donation and Surrogacy. IVF to avoided except if it was the only way to conception in marriage after making sure that the sped of the husband is only mixed with the egg of the wife
-It is prohibited to have sex before and outside of marriage
-It is prohibited to give the contraceptive pill, the Morning After Pill and the condom to our unmarried children or adults - the immoral sex education in schools.  Parents are the primary educators to their children.
 it is prohibited - all homosexuality, all prostitution, all gambling, lap dancing, Lack of modesty (nakedness or sexual appearance - woman is not a sex object), all pornography (soft and hard) , the sexualization of our children especially girls, to be transvestite/transsexual or to change one's sex or gender

-it is prohibited - violence and swearing and bullying in all media, at home at work or in school.

What then followed were a series of specific cases in which Dr. Katme explained the 'ethics' of the case and how this would be decided from a muslim perspective.  Dr. Katme acknowledged that there was a lot of variation from one country to another in Moslem approach to each of the above but that this was the scriptural and orthodox position. However, as with any set of rules individual cases had to be decided and this was often difficult and fraught with conflicting opion though when it came to abortion, there was universal acceptance that this was wholly unacceptable.  Individuals were doing this but without any support in the scriptures, culture or community.
"We see today that most Christian organizations are working hard and making campaign after campaign against many of these prohibition issues in Islam so our organized help and support will give us all victory (GOD willing).
I raised the issue of Iran's acceptance of Transexuals who subsequent to sex change marry their opposite sex.  He expressed his personal dismay at the discovery of a large group of Muslims who are practicing homosexuals and that this is causing major concern in his religion.  There was however no conflict of opinion around Pro Life issues. Muslims where definitely pro life.  Pornography was also universally unacceptable officially in modern Islam but the internet was causing major concerns as well as more and more developed sexual addiction.
Dr. Katme, whether one might agree or not with a particular stance was highly intelligent, cogently articulate, a very spiritual man with obvious great love for his religion.  He was a very righteous man and had no difficulty also acknowledging that "unfortunately not all Muslims are aware or practice these divine Islamic values and a beliefs, some abuses/misuses do occur in some Muslim countries."
Dr. Katme's talk today specifically addressed Muslim "prohibitions". In addition he has talk on "marriage/pro family values", "Christianity in the Islamic Holy Scriptures", "The rights of Christians in Islam and Islamic Society",