Last modified: Saturday, October 02, 1999 08:00:03 PM

To understand about my choice to be in Malaysia you can read the article "Back to Islam" on the magazine "Islamic Review" issue n.7-8 (1998). The activities in ABIM started in Penang where Prof. Mohd. Talhah Idrus (Lecturer at the University of Science of Malaysia) use to keep his Sunday class at Islamic Outreach ABIM. The lessons about Islam were so clear and convincing that I soon became more and more attracted.

Prof. Talhah is not a fanatic and he has no prejudice nor he teach Islam to show that is the superior religion. He knowledge of Christian and other religions and is a modern man very open minded. This environment cleared  my doubts and was the main cause of my entrance in the world of Islam. Soon Prof. Talhah took me, step by step, inside what it was not only a religion, but a philosophy and a new ethnic of living.

After understanding how close Christianity and Islam are, I felt compelled to work and help to spread moderate Islam as help in socialproblems,human rights and environment.

I was slowly introduced in ABIM (Angkatan Belia Islam Malaysia) or Muslim Youth Movement of Malaysia: a very well known and respected NGO, one of the most prominent in Asia, led in the past by Deputy Prime Minister Answar Ibrahim (an example for all Muslims). In his past, as student, Anwar rallied with the people and for the people and helped to build a civil society.

I started to help in the center of ABIM, Islamic Outreach in Penang, a nice island in north Malaysia. Few months later I met the Chairman of Islamic Outreach ABIM and I was invited to a training week at the headquarter in Kuala Lumpur, capital of Malaysia. There I learned more about ABIM and got to know his leaders.

...still under contructions....