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Part XIV of “The Abraham-Squares Proposal” Book Project
This columnist’s “Abraham Square” proposal finds additional support from a New York City Islamic Group. Last Thursday, January 23, 2025, Sheikh Musa Drammeh of the said group said that he would sponsor this columnist being honored as an “Honorary Muslim” for his writings on how peace could be achieved in Muslim Mindanao (Philippines) and the Middle East — using the “Abraham Square” idea.
But it will take more lobbying to have such viable Abraham-Square projects in Marawi City (Mindanao Island of the Philippines), Bulan town of Sorsogon Province (the proposed original site of an “Abraham Square” in the Philippines), the Sinai Desert of Egypt and Gaza (Palestine), and even the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights of Syria, or even as a permanent solution to the conflict in Ukraine.
To read again the column article published on April 9, 2023, please read “The Sorsoganon Idea of an Abraham Square Can Lead to Middle-Eastern Peace” at this link. Part XXVII of the Biden Back-to-Basics Governance Series was in this column.
Sheikh Musa Drammeh is also the founding chairman of the New York Peacebuilding Commission (NYPC), which has a Facebook Group at this link. This columnist was invited as the NYPC’s first charter member of Filipino descent and was made a moderator of its Facebook Group.
Perhaps former POTUS Joe Biden, whom this columnist calls now “President Emeritus,” his wife, First Lady Emerita Dr. Jill Biden, and Vice President Emerita Kamala Harris may help push the idea of the “Abraham Squares.” After all, the idea was proposed to them starting in 2023.
Since several members of the Democratic Governors Association are the leading aspirants for their party’s presidential primary elections in 2028, they may as well join a budding “Abraham Square” group. It may be the initiative that can promote it as THE most cost-effective and practical solution for the conflicts in the Middle East, Ukraine, the Philippines, and other African nations where pestering Muslim-Christian conflicts remain unsolved.
Incidentally, this columnist’s peers encourage him to turn his column articles into hardcopy and e-book projects. To date, a New York-based Filipino-American publisher, Jobo Elizes, has published three books based on some of this column’s articles. They are available under the collective title of “Mabuhay Writings,” printed and published by Amazon Books.
