Mazhar Krasniqi
Mazhar Krasniqi (born 17 October 1931 in Pristina ) is a New Zealand - orthodox Muslim community leaders.
In the 1970s and 1980s, he was head of the New Zealand Muslim Association. In addition, in 1979 he was the first president of the Federation of Islamic Associations of New Zealand. On 31 December 2002 it a Certificate of Merit was awarded by the Governor General of New Zealand, which he took in Wellington on 4 April 2003.
Life
Mazhar Shukri Krasniqi, son of Shukri Krasniqi and Aisha Minushi was born in Pristina, Yugoslavia in Kosovo today. In 1950 he escaped from the then communist Yugoslavia and came aboard the refugee ship SS Goya to New Zealand. Wellington he achieved on May 1, 1951 penniless. In the following ten years he worked among others in agriculture and industry in Southland, Waikato and around the Bay of Plenty regions. In 1956 he attended the first " Muslim Congress ," an emerging New Zealand Muslim Association and was a very active member of the Executive Committee. He was the member until his retirement in 1992. 1975 and again in 1987, he was the president.
Opened in 1960 Krasniqi a restaurant with the name " Albania " in Panmure, a suburb of Auckland. He became a successful and wealthy businessman. In 1970 he opened a kiosk in the new Panmure " Swimarama ", and later he founded the " New Zealand Middle East Export Company " and a waterbed company.
In 1965, Krasniqi at an important international conference in Mecca in Saudi Arabia. In the 1970s, chatted Krasniqi extensive contacts with the embassies of Muslim States in Wellington and Canberra and continued to participate in conferences and events abroad in part on behalf of the New Zealand Muslim community. He was involved in laying the foundation stone of the first mosque Neuses country on 30 March 1979. The mosque members Mazhar Krasniqi, Hajji Abdul Rahim Rasheed Saeed Alvi, Mohammed Yakub Patel and Mohammed Hussein Hajji Sahib took mortgages on their own homes to finance the construction. Further extensions of the hall was carried out in 1987, when Krasniqi was the president of the " New Zealand Muslim Association ".
Federation of Islamic Associations of New Zealand ( FIANZ )
After the foundation of the mosque Mazhar Krasniqi first president of the first national Muslim organization in New Zealand, the " Association of Islamic Associations of New Zealand " was ( FIANZ ).
The end of 1980 transferred Hajji Muhammad Ali Hrakan, general secretary of the relevant Muslim World League ( Rabitah Al- Alam al -Islami ), Mazhar Shukri Krasniqi, the right to issue clearance certificates for the export of halal meat and other food products to Saudi Arabia. Five years later, a contract was signed with Hajji Ashraf Choudhary, president of the FIANZ, after long negotiations with the " New Zealand Meat Producers Board". Krasniqi was 1985, the first FIANZ Halal Supervisor of the North Island. His work took him regularly to Wairoa, and Omahu Morewa on the east coast.
At the annual meetings of the NZMA Mazhar Shukri Krasniqi in 1992 became the patron, Haroon Rasheed Aziz was elected President of Fiji and Ali Feroze elected General Secretary. The following year, Krasniqi withdrew from politics and from the activity in the NZMA and FIANZ. He later or in part in hearings of the U.S. Congress.
During the Kosovo crisis in 1999, the New Zealand government took at the request Krasniqi 650 Albanian refugees. On 1 April 1999 organized the Albanian "New Zealand Civic League ", whose president was Krasniqi, a demonstration in Auckland to show their support for the US-led NATO intervention in Yugoslavia expressed.
On 31 December 2002, the Governor-General of New Zealand Mazhar Krasniqi gave the " Queen's Service Medal " ( QSM ) for services to the community of Albanian and Muslim communities in the name of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II
In August 2005, the Association FIANZ her silver jubilee in more modest scale with a brochure, Mazhar Shukri Krasniqi was in a site dedicated with congratulations. In the same year in New Delhi, India, published study titled " 100 great Muslims of the 20th century " was the first president of the FIANZ, including Mazhar Krasniqi listed. His name stands alongside other famous names of the Orthodox- Islamic world as Ahmed Deedat H., Alija Izetbegovic, Dr. Mahathir Mohamed, Al - Hajj Muhammad Husain Al Amini, Imam Hassan al -Banna, Ismail Bey Gaspraly, King Abdul Aziz bin Abdul Rahman Al -Saud and King Faisal bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, Malcolm X, Mohammed Jinnah, Maulana Mohammed Ilyas, Muhammad Asad, Professor Kurshid Ahmad, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Musavi, Sayyid Qutb, Sheikh Ahmad Yassin, Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi and others.