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- From: nadeem@igpho (Nadeem Malik)
- Subject: Re: Voting on the Ahmadiyya Newgroup
- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.164341.24570@bernina.ethz.ch>
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- Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
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- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 16:43:41 GMT
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- rick@crick.ssctr.bcm.tmc.edu (Richard H. Miller) writes:
- : In article <1992Nov14.024750.3261@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu>, rached@blanc.eng.ohio-state.edu (rached) writes:
- : > Hi
- : >
- : > I am completely confused. This morning I read about the CFV for SRIA and
- : > sent my vote to the specified address. Then now I read that the votes
- : > should be sent to somwhere else. I think this is a very bad way to
- : > conduct a voting and therefore I move to call for an annulation of both
- : > votes and a postponment to the voting period to a time where it is
- : > clear where the votes must go and how the voting should be done.
- :
- : I am not mystified but troubled. In the period of time I have been on the net
- : and for the first time since we had news.announce.newgroups this is the first
- : time I have ever seen this happen. For the sake of preventing another even more
- : violent flame war over this vote may I suggest that the CFV for the group be
- : canceled now and a disinterested third party volunteer to take the votes. I
- : can already see that regardless of how the vote goes; if either a proponent or
- : opponent of the group collects the vote, there will probably be claims of
- : improprieties in the vote. Let's head them off as much as possible and not
- : repeat the fiascos such as the sf-lovers reorg or soc.culture,indian.american
- :
- :
- : --
- : Richard H. Miller Email: rick@bcm.tmc.edu
- : Asst. Dir. for Technical Support Voice: (713)798-3532
- : Baylor College of Medicine US Mail: One Baylor Plaza, 302H
- : Houston, Texas 77030
-
- I have talked to most Ahmadis on e-mail, and we are all very disturbed by this
- latest episode. One M. Jaffrey somehow was given "authority" unoficially and
- unilaterally by a Moderator of Soc.religion.islam to issue a CFV for the proposed
- s.r.i.ahmadiyya newsgroup. This is a most extraordinary move since of all people
- the moderator, one Balasat Ali has been aware that our moderator, Nabeel Rana
- was to woul be the one to call for votes. This is clear since a previous CFV by
- Nabeel a week or two was cancelled. So the Ali and Jaffrey cannot claim any
- sort of ignorance on this issue.
-
-
- So one is left to speculate on their motivation for making an un-offocial CFV. some
- of the things that are disturbing us most is that (1) it may confuse many people so
- that they may end up wasting their votes either by sending to the wrong address or
- simply getting fed up of it all; (2) the knowledge that the oppposing Muslims
- gain from who is voting YES for the s.r.i.a. may be used to canvass or even
- intimadate these people privately to vote NO.
-
- Since this is quite unprecedented, I am strongly in favour of cancelling the present
- CFV and waiting about a week or two before proceding. In the meantime, is it possible
- that the opposing camp should be penalised for their very obvious deception. I
- feel that strong and decisive action must be taken otherwise it may encourage them
- to other follys later on.
-
- Nadeem Malik
- nadeem@p.igp.ethz.ch
-