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  • COVID 19 – SELF ISOLATION

    LETTER TO PREMIER SIHLE ZIKALALA

    21 April 2020 – A Letter Was Sent from SAMNET to The Kwazulu-Natal Provincial Government Premier, Mr. Sihle Zikalala

    And The MEC For Health, Ms Nomagugu Simelane-Zulu
    Concerning Self-Isolation during Lockdown period.

    SAMNET notes with pleasure your clarification of initial media reports suggesting that your
    office and the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Health had instructed that all self-isolation should be
    done in State facilities and that home or private institutional self isolation would not be permitted
    in our province. We believe and are relieved at your clarificiation, given the fact that the State
    facilities are already overburdened financially, logistically and under staffed with human
    resources.

    Had the policy of isolation in state facilities, as initially reported, been implemented, it would
    have overburdened already stretched state facilities, state resources and funding to care for
    asymptomatic or well patients in isolation, whereas this can adequately be done at home or
    another controlled setting. People would also have been discouraged by such a policy, to test and
    report.

    Our extensive information campaigns in association with organisations like the Islamic Medical
    Association of South Africa (IMASA), have been directed towards health education and
    compliance with national disaster management act regulations and provisions of the lockdown.
    Our community has for the overwhelming majority, responded very positively and proactively to
    help “flatten the curve”.

    We continue to urge our communities and those who have tested Covid 19 positive, to strictly
    follow self quarantine regulations and to abide by our laws and general medical advice.
    Muslims are going to start the holy month of Ramadhan on Friday, the 24th April 2020, which
    entails many additional requirements over and above the normal requirements of prayer as well as
    enhanced spirituality and praying time, and the ability to self-isolate will certainly allow fasting
    Muslims, not withstanding the inability to go to mosque to pray, the ability to carry out the
    requirements of the month of Ramadhan within their homes with adequate support structures
    while still self-isolating and strictly abiding by quarantine regulations.

    We will continue to promote our information campaigns and look forward to working with you to
    ensure that we all beat the disease together.
    We should not be burdening state facilities, nor punishing the entire public, because a few people
    have not abided by quarantine regulations.

    Our community will continue, even during the fasting, to be at the forefront of delivering food
    and PPE to vulnerable communities, as we have been since the pandemic started.
    We attach a report detailing the spend of our community in food provisions for the deserving
    since the start of the lockdown.

    LETTER – KZN PREMIER SIHLE ZIKALALA – 21 APRIL 2020

  • RACISM FROM AN ISLAMIC PERSPECTIVE

    Before Racism was even a major issue in the world, The Prophet Muhammed (SAW) was the first person in human history to declare his views concerning Racism and condemn racism. We are all equal, no colour or race is superior to any other. Humanity should exist in unity irrespective of race/colour/gender etc.

    No person is above another by virtue of Race or Ethnicity.

    Take a few minutes to watch this amazing clip on racism from an Islamic Perspective by a non-Muslim.

  • Islam and Religious Pluralism featuring John Esposito

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    Islam is a great religious tradition, the second largest and fastest growing of the World’s Religions, embracing some 57 Muslim countries and is the second or third largest religion in Europe and America. Despite the global achievements of Islam as a faith and civilization, since the Iranian Revolution, Islam has been viewed through the lens violence and the actions of militant terrorists.
    John Esposito, Professor of Religion and International Affairs and of Islamic Studies at Georgetown, addresses the questions:
    1. Who are Muslims and what do they believe?
    2. What do Islam, Judaism and Christianity share in common?
    3. Why does it matter?
    The humanities encourage us to think creatively and explore questions about our world. UCTV explores human culture through literature, history, ethics, philosophy, cinema and religion so we can better understand the human experience. UCTV is the broadcast and online media platform of the University of California, featuring programming from its ten campuses, three national labs and affiliated research institutions. UCTV explores a broad spectrum of subjects for a general audience, including science, health and medicine, public affairs, humanities, arts and music, business, education, and agriculture. Launched in January 2000, UCTV embraces the core missions of the University of California — teaching, research, and public service – by providing quality, in-depth television far beyond the campus borders to inquisitive viewers around the world. (https://www.uctv.tv)

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