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19 Oct 10 - 11:59 AM (#3010735) Subject: BS: First Muslim mayor elected, Calgary From: Q (Frank Staplin) Calgary, a city with a population of over 0ne million, has elected a Muslim mayor, a first for North America. Naheed Nenshi, business man and community leader, is an international business consultant, advising companies in corporate strategy, and has his own company. As well as having working with petroleum, banking and telecommunication companies, and the Alberta Government, he has devised strategies for retailers including Gap and Banana Republic. Community interests include heading the Centre for Performing Arts and devised methods for United Way and other charities. He authored the book, Building Up, making Canada's cities engines of growth and magnets of development. In addition, he is a professor at Calgary's Mount Royal College. Educated first in Calgary, he has a Master's degree in Public Policy from John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. |
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19 Oct 10 - 12:15 PM (#3010757) Subject: RE: BS: First Muslim mayor elected, Calgary From: beardedbruce Good for him!. Calgary has always been a beautiful place, and the locals seemed to act in a level-headed manner every time I have been there. |
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19 Oct 10 - 02:19 PM (#3010840) Subject: RE: BS: First Muslim mayor elected, Calgary From: Richard Bridge Am I out of line to question how his business interests conform to Islam? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_economics |
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19 Oct 10 - 03:30 PM (#3010904) Subject: RE: BS: First Muslim mayor elected, Calgary From: Q (Frank Staplin) Not your Islam? |
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19 Oct 10 - 06:06 PM (#3011022) Subject: RE: BS: First Muslim mayor elected, Calgary From: pdq It maybe more important that this guy is a high-powered business leader, less important that he is a Muslim. The US news media have a habit of trashing successful business leaders who try to move into elective office. The professional politicians, news media and showbiz types all work together to promote each other. They party together, golf together, drink together. They do other things together, an example being a 15 year affair between Barbara Walters and Senator Edward Brook. We keep settling people like Joe Biden and Bill Clinton who never spent a day in a private sector job. They went directly from school into the employ of a political party which groomed them to be professional office holders. If we are going to get people back to work, the business that hire people must thrive. November 2 will put a buncha business folks in Washington and send a buncha self-serving professional politician critters back home. |
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19 Oct 10 - 06:28 PM (#3011041) Subject: RE: BS: First Muslim mayor elected, Calgary From: bubblyrat Be nice to have a Christian elected Mayor of Cairo ,or Islamabad, or Damascus ; won't ever happen though, will it ?? No , of course not.I'm not impressed ,to be honest. Be afraid. |
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19 Oct 10 - 06:28 PM (#3011042) Subject: RE: BS: First Muslim mayor elected, Calgary From: McGrath of Harlow I'd assume that he'd be conducting his business in accordance with well established Islamic business procedures, which seem to work very well. |
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19 Oct 10 - 06:53 PM (#3011060) Subject: RE: BS: First Muslim mayor elected, Calgary From: Richard Bridge That may well be a bit of an assumption McGrath, looking at the brief sketch above. It is very hard to see how the Islamic concept of partnership and equitable sharing of risk and reward fits with "red-blooded capitalism". |
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19 Oct 10 - 06:55 PM (#3011062) Subject: RE: BS: First Muslim mayor elected, Calgary From: Richard Bridge PS - Ratty, that is a disgraceful piece of bigotry. |
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19 Oct 10 - 07:00 PM (#3011067) Subject: RE: BS: First Muslim mayor elected, Calgary From: McGrath of Harlow Without knowing a lot more about it, it seems a reasonable assumption to hold provisionally. It all depends on what kind of advice he's been giving, and what strategies he's been devising. "Red blooded capitalism" after all is demonstrably a disastrous way of doing business in the long run. |
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20 Oct 10 - 12:17 AM (#3011213) Subject: RE: BS: First Muslim mayor elected, Calgary From: GUEST,999 FACT : His religion was never part of his campaign. FACT : He won 40% of the vote. FACT : Other than Harper and some of his his cabinet, Canada has very few 'religious fundamentalists' in office. Naheed Nenshi is not one of them. That he got elected in Canada and possibly a Christian in a Muslim country wouldn't have been speaks to the countries involved. I'm happy my country does its best not to discriminate on the basis of skin colour, religion, ethnicity, etc. |
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20 Oct 10 - 11:22 AM (#3011505) Subject: RE: BS: First Muslim mayor elected, Calgary From: meself Not only was his religion not a part of his campaign, my impression (here in Calgary) is that most voters did not know or care whether he was a Muslim or a Tree-worshipper. I didn't hear mention of his religion until he had won the mayoralty, and the national media got ahold of the story. |
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20 Oct 10 - 01:59 PM (#3011641) Subject: RE: BS: First Muslim mayor elected, Calgary From: Q (Frank Staplin) meself has it about right. (But a tree-worshiper would have a hard time, a strong capitalist ethic here) Calgary has a large immigrant population, between 20-25 percent. Ethnic origin ceased to be an important factor in relations since all groups contribute to the business and professional life and the growing economy of the city, now over 1.3 million. Among the "visible minorities" no single group is predominant (many of the Chinese are old-timers here). Many Muslims here are from the Middle East and Pakistan and many would be classed as Caucasian. Chinese -75,000 East Indian -48000 Filipino - 27000 North American Indian - 26000 Vietnamese -14000 Lebanese - 8000 Pakistani -7000 Korean -7000 Blacks, mostly Caribbean and African. 20500 Arabs - 11000 Latin American -13000 Calgary has North America's largest mosque- over 48,000 sq. ft. Baitun Nur Mosque There are others, over 10 places for worship. Alberta had 32000 Muslims 10 years ago, couldn't find current figure. The Muslims of Calgary website: Muslims of Calgary |