PRACTICAL LESSONS FROM THE CAIRO, BEIJING, AND ISTANBUL CONFERENCES

By Dr. A. Majid Katme

I am very grateful to you my God for showing us the way, the way of the FAMILY—the cornerstone and base for any society that wishes to survive and be happy.

I am thankful to the World Congress of Families for inviting me and taking me into their beautiful extended family.

I am also at all times very thankful for the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children in Britain for taking me on board to all the international UN conferences and taking full care of me.

My work in the UN, my struggle, my battle and the LESSONS I have learned. Allow me to clarify first:

The UN has got 178 countries. Among them there are about 50 Muslim countries representing about l.4 billion Muslims.

My main task was always to meet the influential Muslim delegates and explain to them on a daily basis during the whole of the conference any statement in the document discussed which is against the unborn child or the family or morality, or any of our God’s values, especially the evil agenda of the population control lobby.

I try at all times to produce fliers on the pro-life/pro-family issues in Arabic or English, linking it to the texts discussed with the attractive additions of some Islamic or religious references.

I distribute these fliers to the Muslim delegates, especially the vocal ones.

Also I talk to them about it and ask them in the name of God, Islam, and humanity to speak up in order to take out any anti-life or anti-family ideas. I do talk to some Muslim media, too (TV, radio, newspapers), putting out our Islamic views.

I work and liaise all the time with all my good friends: the pro-life, pro-family NGOs from all the Western world, especially the U.S., Britain, Canada, France, and so forth.

I do learn a lot also from talking to the Holy See delegates.

I do communicate sometimes with some Muslim NGOs to help me in my campaign and to spread the message.

What I have found in all the agendas of all these international UN conferences is the same evil agenda, which is at all times against the unborn, the family, God, and morality.

Under the different titles of the international UN conferences, they were PUSHING at all times for:

• Reproductive health, where fertility control and interruption of pregnancy are to occur according to the WHO definition, meaning abortion—and abortion on demand. We Muslims, according to lslam, prohibit abortion, as life is sacred, and only our God—the Creator of all—is the Author of Life.

• New, perverted types/styles of family without mention of marriage, such as two men together or two women together (homosexuals) or single-parent families. We Muslims object to all these deviations from the natural traditional family.

• The distortion and the destruction of the normal genders, male and female—making a new gender, socially constructed and not biologically respected.

• The devaluation of womanhood, femininity, and motherhood; and the facilitation for mothers and wives to go like the men to the labor market, with the neglect of her natural, great job as a mother and a wife.

• The implementation of the population control agenda by widely distributing the pill, condoms, sterilization, and abortion, especially to our young generation and unmarried youth. We Muslims object to the concept of population control and all its forbidden techniques.

• Permissive sex education, homosexuality, and lesbianism.

• The undermining of parental responsibility with school-based clinics.

• The lack of respect for traditional values, cultures, and morality.

• The undermining of the sovereignty of each country.

All these destructive, disease-ridden, immoral, anti-God, and anti-family values were propagated all the time in the different documents of the UN conferences. Obviously, Muslims all over the world object strongly to all these evil ideas.

It looks to me all the time that a "gang" of extremist feminists who are sick and twisted in their minds, perhaps having had very bad life experiences, are behind all the evil text in the UN documents. Dirty tricks have been used by playing with the translation and maneuvering the meetings in order to push their sick agenda.

Muslim countries were very grateful to us for "educating" them and making them aware of all these dangerous ideas, which contradict our religion and our culture. Sudan and Iran were the best to help us in our Divine Pro-life, Pro-Family campaign. They were, most of the time, vocal and spoke up. A few other Muslim countries did help us too, such as Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, and Kuwait.

To me, it was the most enjoyable type of work and campaign: divine and humane—working for God's values together, Muslims and Christians, for the same goal.

It is amazing that we have shared together, at all times, the same attitudes, the same concerns, and the same plan of action.

I believe strongly that the future of our humanity is in our hands if we continue and expand our work to implement God's values in the UN, before the UN conferences, and after the UN conferences.

This is what I see as the only hope for the survival of our planet and our humanity.

It is not true what you hear in the media about Islam and the Muslims. The media today is evil everywhere, and their agenda is the UN agenda.

Many of them are simply ignorant, and others are devious and evil. They are after the destruction and the distortion of all God's values. They are against God, the unborn, the family, and morality.

We are the SILENT MAJORITY. We need to speak up together and to work harder, especially in all the UN conferences, in the media, in the schools, and in the health systems.

Time is very CRITICAL, and we cannot afford any more complacency, or sitting quietly, or only talking to ourselves.

We need badly to work together to save our children, our lost young generation who are the future of our humanity. It is our duty and our responsibility.

We need to bring back the natural, traditional, normal FAMILY OF GOD.

The LESSONS we have learned from all these UN Conferences are many:

Lastly, allow me now to move to a new, fascinating subject.

I have been personally looking for A GOOD LADY who represents the symbol of CHASTlTY at a time where adultery and fornication are the norms, and at a time where many sexually transmitted diseases and AIDS are rife and spreading wildly in the world.

I have been looking for a GOOD LADY who represents the symbol of MOTHERHOOD—full of love and full of care for her unborn child even in the most difficult and unnatural circumstances, never even thinking to interfere with the pregnancy or to kill her baby, the GIFT of God, through abortion.

I have been looking for a GOOD LADY who represents the symbol of OBEDlENCE TO GOD, when women today are turning their back on God, rejecting their own flesh and blood—the UNBORN BABY—and devaluing and disrespecting motherhood.

I have been looking for a GOOD LADY who represents the attractive flower of womanhood and femininity at a time when women today are rejecting and destroying their own gender, femininity, and womanhood.

I have been looking continuously for this great LADY who we all need badly.

At last, thanks to God, I have found her.

She is with you, and she is with us. She is THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY.

My God, how much all the women of the world need her now and very quickly.

All the women on our planet, Muslims and Christians, and every single woman on earth should look seriously to this GREAT LADY, THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY, as the MODEL for all the needed values of every woman: CHASTITY, MOTHERHOOD, MODESTY, PIETY, and OBEDIENCE to GOD; WOMANHOOD AND FEMININITY; and TOLERANCE and the ACCEPTANCE of GOD'S WAY or DESTINY.

You have got her in your Bible. We have her in the last holy book AL QUR'AN, a whole chapter in her name in the Qur’an called "MARIAM" (MARY), with its 98 verses.

Our beloved last Prophet, Muhammad, has said clearly, "Mary is the leader of all the women of the world, in paradise and heaven."

I would propose to organize international conferences in the East and in the West in order to discuss and learn the VIRTUES of our great Lady, THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY—the mother of our blessed Jesus.

Her complete virtues are the only real guarantees to save all the women of the world and to bring the lost woman in the West and everywhere to her senses and to her natural qualities and characters in order to save THE FAMILY today.

Dr. A. Majid Katme has practiced psychiatry in Great Britain for over 10 years. He is the Muslim coordinator for the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children and the Muslim trustee for the National Family Trust. He has defended the family, the unborn, chastity, and motherhood at United Nations conferences on population, women, and human settlements.