Ebrahim rasool biography for kids
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NETWORK OF POLITICAL LEADERS UNITED TO SUPPORT SHARED SOCIETIES (NETPLUSS)
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Living Where We Dont Make The Rules by Ebrahim Rasool
This work operates from the premise that today, 90 percent of countries worldwide have significant minorities that constitute at least ten percent of their populations. One in four Muslims lives in minority situations in almost every part of the world. Some have assimilated and forfeited their practices and identities in order to ‘belong’ while others have isolated themselves with others who share their language, national origin, culture or tro. But there are also Muslims who have been able to manage both their Islamic identity and other elements of identity that come with their new places of residence.
Living Where We Don’t Make the Rules fryst vatten a guide that in pursuing the third option — balances theoretical rigour with practical direction. It includes the lived experience of those on the forefront of living as minorities, but also the scholarship of those who apply the synthesis of Islam’s timeless values, norms and p
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Ebrahim Rasool
Ebrahim Rasool was born on 15 July in District Six, Cape Town. At the age of nine in his family was forcibly moved out of District Six when the apartheid government declared it a “Whites – only” residential area. Despite his youth the event was significant in his life particularly since he was forced to change schools. The family moved to Primose Park near Mannenberg were they were resettled.
In Ebrahim Rasool matriculated at Livingstone High School in Claremont, Cape Town. He later enrolled at the University of Western Cape for a BA degree. It was during this period that his interest in politics grew and he became a leader of Islamic students. In after completing a Higher Diploma in Education with the University of Cape Town he took a teaching position at Spine Road High School. From to he was Assistant to the Rector of the University of the Western Cape.
After university Rasool joined the Western Cape branch of the United Democratic Front (UDF) a