A Note of Thanks & Acknowledgement
Mukto-Mona Moderation Team
Published on Darwin Day (February 12, 2006)
We at Mukto-Mona would like to thank everyone who has helped make the celebration of Darwin Day a success. Our thanks are due to everyone who helped make this event a success, and, in particular to those who have helped us with the special page that we have dedicated to the occasion on our website. Prof Eric Chaisson of the Wright Center for Science Education at Tufts University is to be thanked for letting us use his page design and graphics on our page in particular. Thanks are also due to Prof. Victor Stenger who consented to giving us an interview for this occasion.
Among organizations that have come forward with messages of
support and solidarity, the Center for Inquiry is an
organization that has mentored and helped us for a long
time. We would like to individually thank Prof Paul Kurtz,
Dr Austin Dacey and Susan Jacoby for their separate
messages of encouragement. Prof Narendra Nayak, President of
the Federation of Indian Rationalist Associations is someone
whom we consider one of us. He has always been supportive of
our work and has freely given us his writings on his many
exposes of charlatans in India and outside. Our thanks are
due to Prof Nayak for his warm message the instant he became
aware of the fact that Mukto-Mona was going to celebrate
Darwin Day. Prof Newton Joseph whose Atheist Fellowship has
offered us permission to post his writing on Mukto-Mona, is
someone whose work our members would be seeing regularly in
the future. Our thanks are due to Prof Newton for his
encouragement and support. Leo Igwe, recipient of the
Freidenkers� award for 2005, whose articles and dispatches
are frequently published on our pages, is a friend to
Mukto-Mona who has joined in the celebrations with a zeal that is
typical of him, and we thank him for his always enthusiastic
support. Our next two supporters, Pamela Taylor, Co-Chair of
the Progressive Muslim Union and Tarek Fatah of the Canadian
Muslim Congress are religious members who have offered us
their support in bringing the message of Darwin Day to the
Muslim community. While it is commonly portrayed in media
that majority members of today�s Muslim community are
dogmatic, superstitious and like to live in 7th
century world, the strong support from Pamela Taylor of the
Progressive Muslim Union and Tarek Fatah of Canadian Muslim
Congress for upholding Darwinism shows definitely the bright
side of the moon. Prof Ajoy Roy has been one of our guiding
lights, someone who has always had words of encouragement
and enthusiastic support to us in our endeavors. Our thanks
are due to him for his constant support. We live in an age
where cinema influences peoples� thoughts probably to a much
greater extent than any other medium. Syed Hasan Imam, the
renowned actor and film personality from Bangladesh has
shown his solidarity with Mukto-Mona on this occasion in a
gesture that is much appreciated. Robyn Johannes, President
of the Union des Athees in Europe has also extended his warm
support and given us his views on the importance of
celebrating this occasion. Our thanks are also due to Prof
Abdus Shahid for his warm greetings from New Jersey, and
scientists and researchers Manju Biswas and Dr S I Shelley.
We must offer our thanks to members of the press who have
come forward to offer their support - Aminul Islam Bedu and
ABM Saleh Uddin are two senior journalists from Bangladesh
and Quazi A. Haque, the Senior Development Engineer of Dade
Behring Inc. who have offered words of encouragement and expressed their
solidarity on this occasion. And, our final thanks are due
to our members and readers. We hope that the effort that we
have put into designing this page and producing it brings
you material that you enjoy reading. We invite, as always,
your views on the matters under discussion here. But, first
of all, we invite you to celebrate the cause of Science,
Humanism and Rationalism in this secular festival.
A Very Happy Darwin Day and Humanist future to everyone.
