Are Muslims the cats who are tree-climbing pests or the cats sleeping peacefully a home?
One would imagine that someone so enormously wealthy, titled and the leader of millions would come into South Africa in a blaze of glory and leave only after doing the obligatory photo-shoot with President Nelson Mandela, a walkabout through the portals of Parliament and a banquet with the rich, famous and influential of the South African cocktail circuit. This did not happen during the visit this month of the Aga Khan, who put in a Cape Town pit-stop to address the world’s media. A more controversial figure in the Muslim world you could not find. The Aga Khan is the Imam of 20 million Ismaili Muslims; he is a breeder of racehorses and is emerging as an elite media baron. So with his “haram” horse-racing links, what was he doing at an international conference in South Africa. Actually, he was there to defend Muslims, to tell the media world it has been more than a trifle unfair in handling news relating to Muslims. Delivering a keynote address to the Commonwealth Press Union Conference
