FROM MAULANA’S DESK

FROM MAULANA’S DESK 1. The World’s 500 Most Influential Muslims 2012, Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre, Jordan. Maulana Wahiduddin Khan, born in 1925, in Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh, is an Islamic spiritual scholar who is well-versed in both classical Islamic learning and modern disciplines. The mission of his life has been the establishment of worldwide peace. He has received the Padma Bhushan, the Demiurgus Peace International Award and Sayyidina Imam Al Hassan Peace award for promoting peace in Muslim societies. He has been called ’Islam’s spiritual ambassador to the world’ and is recognized as one of its most influential Muslims1. His books have been translated into sixteen languages and are part of university curricula in six countries. He is the founder of the Centre for Peace and Spirituality based in New Delhi. A SANE VOICE FROM AMERICA A N Australian immigrant to America, Nick Adams, has written a book titled Green Card Warrior. An introductory note to this book, which appeared in The Times of India, is being quoted here in full: Millions of immigrants hanker after a permanent residency in the United States, in a tortured pursuit often dubbed the “green card blues”. Now, President Trump has indicated what could be an easy route to it under his watch: show your merit, and possibly, be conservative! In an unusual plug that comes at a time his aide Kellyanne Conway is still under fire for hawking his daughter’s merchandize from the White House podium, the US President on Friday endorsed on twitter, a book on the green card pursuit. “Nick Adams new book, Green Card Warrior, is a must read. The merit-based system is the way to go. Canada, Australia!” Trump wrote, days after he proposed economic criteria for immigration rather than the family-based one that is currently the primary driver.