Here’s an excerpt about a Jamaican turned Ambassador at least in the realms of Muslims.
IN 1974, a typical 17-year-old, christened Douglas Owen, left Jamaica’s shores for Florida to pursue a course of studies in law. But the tides of life navigated him elsewhere.
He is now Ambassador Imam Douglas Owen Ali, the International Ambassador of Peace with spiritual, social, economic and political responsibilities for the Universal Islamic Centre based in the United States to Jamaica and the entire Caribbean. He was elected to the task by Shaykh Tijani on behalf of the Universal Islamic Centre of America, based in Chicago, Illinois.
Born in Kingston, on April 27, 1957, Imam Ali was, in the words of a former teacher at Calabar High ‘a talented idler’. In an ironic twist, his former principal and founder of Blake’s Prep (now defunct), Winsome “Winnie” Wilson, 84, now describes him as ‘a talented ambassador’.
He is one of a minority of Muslims who has taken a stance against the tragic terrorist attacks of September 11.
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