On
Saturday
15
November
Muslim
Aid
Australia
and
Read
Little
Muslim
co-hosted
a
unique
event,
Just
Kidding
Charity
Playdate,
for
the
children
in
our
communities.
With
an
impressive
turnout
of
approximately
300
people,
and
stalls
to
cater
for
all
ages
including
the
adults,
this
event
will
be
the
first
of
many.
Shajarah
Islamic
Education
provided
a
delicious
sausage
sizzle,
and
Crescents
of
Brisbane
held
their
signature
CresCafe
with
delightful
cupcakes
and
coffee
for
all.
Zed&Q
introduced
the
Brisbane
community
to a
new
sense
of
individual
style
and
creativity
with
their
wide
range
of
handmade
items
including
beautiful
and
modern
Islamic
art
pieces.
Read
Little
Muslims
showcased
their
array
of
educational
and
entertaining
Islamic
books
and
activities,
as
well
as
working
in
partnership
with
Modest
Munchies
to
create
and
facilitate
fun
arts
and
craft
activities
for
the
children
on
the
day.
Face
painting,
henna,
mini
prayer
mats,
space
craft,
bookmarks
and
personalised
donation
tins
were
all
the
rage.
In
addition
to
the
wonderful
supporters
and
stalls,
what
made
this
event
extra
special
for
the
children
was
the
Children’s
Story
Time
where
a
selection
of
books
were
read
to a
captive
audience
throughout
the
day.
Thank
you
to
Dr
Naadir
Gutta,
Faaiza
Osman
from
Modest
Munchies,
Fathima
Adat
and
Dr.
Mustafa
Ally
for
engaging
and
entertaining
the
kids!
All
proceeds
from
the
day
will
go
to
Muslim
Aid
Australia’s
Winter
Emergency
Appeal
in
Syria,
Palestine,
India,
Pakistan
and
Bangladesh.
If
you
would
like
more
information
on
either
of
the
hosts,
please
visit
www.muslimaid.org.au
and
www.readlittlemuslims.com
and
see
what
the
Brisbane
community
can
do
for
you!
If
you
attended
this
event
and
would
like
to
provide
any
feedback
please
email
riyaad@muslimaid.org.au
Prime
Minister of
Turkey, Dr
Ahmet
Davutoglu (centre),
in Brisbane
for the G20
Summit seen
at the
Griffith
University
with his
wife Dr.
Sare (left)
and Mr
Fadlullah
Wilmot (right).
Dr. Davutglu
was
scheduled to
perform his
Friday
prayers at
the Bosniak
Islamic
Centre but
cancelled at
the last
minute.
A South
Australian
dairy
company in
the eye of a
social media
storm says
it has no
regrets
about
dropping its
Halal
certification.
Fleurieu
Milk and
Yoghurt
Company was
first
attacked for
seeking
certification
to meet
Muslim
dietary
requirements,
and was then
accused of
caving into
anti-Muslim
sentiment.
It cost the
firm a
$50,000
supply deal
with
Emirates
Airlines.
Director
Barry Clarke
said the
halal
certifier
who visited
his factory
explained
that the
$1000 fee
was to pay
his
expenses.
Facebook
campaigners
claims the
fee could go
to financing
terrorism,
but an
Australian
Crime
Commission
spokesman
said it was
unaware of
any direct
link between
the
legitimate
certification
industry and
money
laundering
or terror
financing.
Fleurieu was
one of
several
businesses
targeted by
websites
like "Halal
Choices",
which
encourages
people to
boycott
businesses
that have
had their
goods Halal-certified.
Earlier this
week,
Fleurieu
marketing
manager Nick
Hutchinson
told SBS the
company had
decided the
negatives of
the backlash
outweighed
the
lucrative
Emirates
contract.
"We've now
received a
lot of
backlash
about making
this call,
for giving
into
minority
groups and
so forth,
and we
understand
that," he
said.
"It's a hard
[decision],
but, unlike
other
companies,
we knew that
we could
continue to
supply
Islamic
countries,
if we wanted
to, without
certification."
Mr
Hutchinson
said the
abuse
Fleurieu had
received had
been
difficult to
manage.
“I was
trying to
delete
things off
our social
media but
they were
coming in
quicker than
I could
delete
them,” he
said.
"To target
these people
that are
creating
jobs for
south
Australians…they’re
bringing
money from
foreign
countries
back into
south
Australia…attacking
them
personally -
it's not
fair."
He added
that the
loss of the
$50,000
Emirates
deal
wouldn't
result in
staff
redundancies.
South
Australia’s
trade
minister,
Martin
Hamilton-Smith,
has now
urged other
companies
not to bow
to the
pressure of
anti-Islamic
bullying.
"One of our
key friends
and trading
partners,
Indonesia,
is the
largest
Islamic
country in
the world,”
he said. “We
should
embrace
these
opportunities
rather than
exclude
them."
Campaigns
against
halal are
anti-Islamic
bullying:
race
commissioner
Campaigns
against
Australian
companies
that make
halal
products are
"little more
than
anti-Islamic
bullying",
according to
Race
Discrimination
Commissioner
Tim
Soutphommasane
(left).
In an
address in
Adelaide on
Thursday
evening, Dr
Soutphommasane
will call
out recent
campaigns
against food
businesses
that have
halal
certification,
including
pie maker
Four'N'Twenty,
the Byron
Bay Cookie
Company and
Fleurieu
Milk
Company.
Fleurieu has
recently
ended its
$50,000
yoghurt
supply deal
with
Emirates
after a
social media
campaign.
Posters on
Facebook had
suggested
the fee the
company paid
to become
halal
certified
was being
used to fund
terrorism.
Sales
manager Nick
Hutchinson
later said
the company
wanted to
avoid
negative
publicity.
Four'N'Twenty
and the
Byron Bay
Cookie
Company have
refused to
drop their
certification.
"When it
comes to
halal,
ongoing
campaigns
against it
are little
more than
anti-Islamic
bullying,"
Dr
Soutphommasane
will tell
the Centre
for Research
in Education
annual
oration.
"Any
suggestion
that
certification
fees are
proceeds to
terrorism is
unfounded.
"Australia
has laws
that forbid
people and
organisations
from funding
illegal
activity
such as
terrorism."
The Race
Discrimination
Commissioner
will add
that the
halal
certification
does not
prevent
non-Muslims
from eating
such foods.
Dr
Soutphommasane
will say
halal
labelling is
primarily
focused on
hygiene and
ingredients,
such as
ensuring
ingredients
are free
from pork
and that
machinery
involved in
making food
has not been
cleaned with
alcohol.
The Race
Discrimination
Commissioner
will say
that there
has been a
noticeable
rise in
anti-Muslim
sentiment
during
recent
months,
"amid
community
anxiety
about the
threat of
terrorism".
"Many Muslim
communities
have made
clear to me
their
concerns
about the
safety of
their
members,
especially
women who
wear visible
Islamic
dress such
as
headscarves."
He will
argue that
anti-Muslim
sentiment
"should have
no place in
our
society".
"Every
person
should be
free to live
their lives
without
being
harassed or
intimidated
because of
their
religion."
Dr
Soutphommasane
will also
tell the
Centre for
Research in
Education
that there
is
frequently a
racial
element to
anti-Muslim
feeling.
"Religion
can be used
as a
surrogate
for race.
"When we see
verbal and
other
attacks
against
Muslim
Australians,
it is often
accompanied
by a
nastiness
and logic
that
resembles
racial
hatred."
The
Sunnybank
RSL
Sub-branch
Remembrance
Day Service
included
speeches
from
students of
Sunnybank
State High
School,
Lubna Ahmad
and Abdul
Salman,
pictured
with David
Forde
President of
Sunnybank
RSL
Sub-branch
By
Pedanius Dioscorides of
Anazarbus was a physician,
botanist and pharmacolgist
who practised at Rome and
travelled as a surgeon with
the imperial army. This page
describes the mandrake, both
male and female varieties,
and says that shepherds who
chew its roots fall into a
sort of lethargy. This copy
was completed at Baghdad in
1334.
Photograph:
British Library Qatar
Foundation Partnership
From the 9th
to the 19th
centuries,
scholars and
scribes used
Arabic as a
lingua
franca to
debate
scientific
ideas.
Arabic-speaking
scholars
translated
classical
Greek,
Persian and
even
Sanskrit
texts on
topics such
as medicine,
mathematics
and
astronomy.
These
scholars
went far
beyond
translation
and
preservation
and fostered
a unique and
vibrant
scientific
culture
within the
Arabic-speaking
world.
The British
Library and
Qatar
Foundation
have joined
forces to
launch a new
bilingual
online
portal, the
Qatar
Digital
Library,
providing
free access
to 25,000
pages of
fascinating
medieval
Arabic
manuscript.
On the left
is one from
a selection
of some of
the most
influential
scientific
texts in
history
(others to
follow in
the coming
issues of
CCN).
AUSTRALIAN
INTERNATIONAL
ISLAMIC
COLLEGE IT
TEACHERS
WANTED –
PRIMARY/SECONDARY
Contract
position for
a qualified
IT Teacher
for our
Durack
Campus.
This
position
will
commence in
Term 1 2015.
Must hold
current
Queensland
Teachers
Registration.
Successful
applicants
will be
notified by
email.
Please email
your CV to:
admin@aiic.qld.edu.au.
AL
KAUTHAR
COURSE
COMING SOON
Al Kauthar
Brisbane is
pleased to
announce an
exclusive
ONE DAY
COURSE with
Sheikh Yahya
Ibrahim in
sha Allah on
Saturday 6th
December.
The course
is entitled
"The Sacred
Formula- The
Power of Dua"
All details
are
currently
being
finalised
and will be
released
soon.
JAKARTA – Combating the
Western influence in the Indonesian
community, several Islamic business networks
are promoting Islamic products in a campaign
to preserve the Islamic values in the
Muslim-majority nation.
“I think Indonesia has become too Western,”
Risti Rahmadi, a member of Hijabers
Community, said.
“Younger Indonesians spend most of their
time hanging out at malls, and they forget
to pray.”
The 37-year-old Muslim woman, Rahmadi,
believes that the only way to lure the new
segments to the thriving Muslim market is
through fighting western consumerism.
Being a member of the Hijaber, an Islamic
all-women business network, Rahmadi has
noticed an increase in the demand for
Islamic products including events that are
hosted by Islamic groups.
A once stylish girl who used in her 20s to
save up for the latest Guess cloths and
Revlon make-up, Rahmadi now dresses modestly
as a proud Indonesian Muslim who dons the
hijab and uses a mobile app to remind her of
prayer times.
Wearing headscarves was often associated
with an unfashionable life.
This has all changed nowadays.
In modern Indonesia, hijab turned to be a
fashion item, as YouTube viewers can find
thousands of Indonesian women offering
tutorials on how to fashionably wear hijabs.
Islam sees hijab as an obligatory code of
dress, not a religious symbol displaying
one’s affiliations. Islamic fashion is part
of a growing appetite for Shari`ah-related
industries and assets, ranging from finance
to halal food.
Modesty and religion are the cornerstones
behind the fast-growing Islamic fashion
industry, which is making a mark on runways
from Indonesia and Dubai to Monte Carlo.
The booming Islamic market has apparently
succeeded in Indonesia by offering several
services like hosting live shows for
celebrity preachers and Qur'an text-message
services.
Besides the surging demand for Islamic
services, a demand for cloths and jewelry
with an Islamic twist has been high during
the past few years in Indonesia.
Reny Feby, a jeweler from Jakarta, has
joined Hijabers 3,000-member team to combat
the Western influence through her designs
which prices ranges from $500 (385-euro) for
brooches to $50,000 for diamond rings.
“Fifteen years ago, no one wanted to buy my
jewelry because it was seen as too Muslim,
and I used ‘proudly made in Indonesia’ as my
tagline,” said Feby, 42, wearing orange
beads and an electric-blue headscarf.
“But now Indonesians are proud to buy local
and Islamic fashions, and the elite who buy
my pieces use them as status symbols.”
Like many business owners, Feby believes
that the reason behind the increasing demand
for Islamic products is the “fast expansion
of the middle class” during the recent years
in the Southeast Asian country, with an
economic growth of more than 6% annually.
According to the World Bank, the annual per
capita income (GDP) has steadily increased
from $890 in 2003 to about $3,000 in 2011.
Indonesia is the world's most populous
Muslim state with Muslims making up around
85 percent of its 237-million population.
Christians, both Protestants and Catholics,
make up nearly 12 percent of the country’s
population.
The booming global halal industry is
expected to grow from about $1 trillion in
2012 into a $1.6 trillion industry by 2018,
according to DinarStandard, a research firm
specializing in Muslim markets.
Locally, Indonesian Muslims are literally
“consuming their Muslim faith in a very
tangible way”, according to experts.
“A lot of the pious Muslims in the middle
class want to show to the people around them
they’re living pious lifestyles — through
their clothes, schools, the shopping they do
and the books they read,” Greg Fealy, an
Indonesia expert at Australian National
University in Canberra, said.
UK:
In 2010, Lutfur Rahman became Britain’s
first Muslim mayor and was re-elected in the
2014 elections as the mayor of Tower Hamlets
in East London. A recent report commissioned
by the communities secretary, Eric Pickles,
found the borough of Tower Hamlets ‘was not
delivering best value for the taxpayer’ and
there have been calls for the mayor to
resign.
Lutfur Rahman is not perfect and he is not
free from making mistakes, neither are any
other politicians. In 2013, Eric Pickles got
himself into a pickle when it was discovered
that the communities department had spent
almost Ł60,000 on biscuits, sandwiches, tea
and coffee.
As a Tower Hamlets resident, I have seen
noticeable improvements in the borough under
mayor Lutfur Rahman and here are 5 things he
has achieved which I believe demonstrate his
competency as a mayor and is an indication
of value for money being delivered to the
tax payer:
Indian Muslim university students accuse
media of misreporting ban on female
students.
INDIA: Students at India's
Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) are
countering national headlines that women are
banned from their main library.
The reports stem from controversial remarks
made by Vice Chancellor (VC) Zameer Uddin
Shah. The VC rejected a demand from students
of the university's Women's College to use
the central Maulana Azad Library ,
reportedly saying there would be "four times
more boys" in the library if girls were
allowed in. He added: "The issue is not of
discipline, but of space. Our library is
packed".
Shah's remarks sparked accusations of sexism
from the media and government officials. He
later claimed he was misquoted , and women
were in fact allowed access to the library.
Shah said only undergraduate students in the
Women's College could not be accommodated
due to "paucity of space". Students,
including women, were also quick to respond
to the accusations of gender discrimination,
criticising the media for "biased"
reporting.
At first, many online, including prominent
television channels, politicians and
journalists criticised the university for
these alleged restrictions.
In a first, Washington
National Cathedral to host Friday Muslim
prayer service
UK: Washington National
Cathedral (above), known for
presidential funerals and other major
spiritual services, will host a Muslim
prayer service for the first time Friday.
The cathedral, part of the Episcopal Church,
has long held high-profile interfaith
events, and some mosques hold services in
synagogues or churches if they need overflow
space. But organizers said Monday that they
are seeking to make a statement by having
Muslim leaders come and hold their midday
service in such a visible Christian house of
worship.
“We want the world to see the Christian
community is partnering with us and is
supporting our religious freedom in the same
way we are calling for religious freedom for
all minorities in Muslim countries,” said
Rizwan Jaka, a spokesman with the prominent
ADAMS mosque in Sterling, Va., one of the
co-sponsors of Friday’s service. “Let this
be a lesson to the world.”
The service, which will begin around 12:20
and is for invited guests only, developed
out of a relationship between the
cathedral’s director of liturgy, the Rev.
Gina Campbell, and the South African
ambassador to the United States, Ebrahim
Rasool, who is Muslim. The two worked
together on a memorial service for Nelson
Mandela, Jaka said.
“This is a dramatic moment in the world and
in Muslim-Christian relations,” Rasool said
in a prepared statement. “This needs to be a
world in which all are free to believe and
practice and in which we avoid bigotry,
Islamaphobia, racism, anti-Semitism, and
anti-Christianity and to embrace our
humanity and to embrace faith.”
Campbell said she and Rasool connected over
the sensitive project of planning the
Mandela service. “There was a lot of tension
in trying to get that to a manageable size
and [to be] a beautiful thing, with all the
competing interests,” she said Monday.
“He got the cathedral — he understands what
it represents in the United States; he made
the connection to the power of a cathedral
to shape relationships, community,
conversation, to do deep, important things,”
she said.
The night before the Mandela service, she
said, the two stood in the cathedral’s
soaring nave, looking down the long aisles.
It was like being in a mosque, Rasool said.
How so? she asked. In ancient mosques, he
told her, long troughs of water in long
aisles like the cathedral’s worked to carry
the acoustics.
“I was struck by the idea that two people
could be standing in the same place but see
their own prayers,” she said.
They stayed in touch, discussing topics such
as the desire to elevate moderate religious
voices. She eventually asked him what it
would take for him to pray there. They
walked through the cathedral and considered
different spots and different services.
Rasool settled on the jummah prayer, the
midday Friday prayer, which includes a short
sermon. Observant Muslims pray five times a
day.
While many other non-Muslim places of
worship around the country host Muslim
services, Campbell said the cathedral is
different.
“This is the place where we bury our
presidents, where we bury our national
heroes,” she said.
Efforts to reach Rasool on Monday were not
successful.
About 100 people will be at the service,
which will be spoken and chanted without
music, Campbell said. Muslim leaders will
bring prayer carpets.
The event is being co-sponsored by the
cathedral, Rasool and several Muslim
spiritual and advocacy groups: ADAMS — whose
full name is the All Dulles Area Muslim
Society — the Council on American Islamic
Relations, the Islamic Society of North
America, Muslim Public Affairs Council and
Masjid Muhammad mosque in Northwest
Washington.
Rasool will deliver the khutbah, or sermon,
at the service, which will be held in a part
of the massive cathedral “with arches and
limited iconography, almost mosque-like,” a
statement from the cathedral said.
Jaka noted that three of ADAMS’s 22 weekly
services are held at two synagogues and a
church. ADAMS is hosting a fundraiser for
Christian religious freedom in Pakistan, and
it regularly hosts non-Muslim speakers.
“Deep relationships come out of prayer,”
Campbell said in the statement. “Different
connections come out of being in prayer —
beyond the political or academic.”
The service will be streamed live at the
Cathedral’s Web site.
Five year old British boy
becomes youngest ever qualified computer
specialist
JAKARTA: 120,000 Muslims who
have memorized the entire Quran Hafiz
graduated at one time in one of the biggest
Hifdh graduation ceremonies in Indonesia .
It was held in a football stadium.
Using the book club you
can see what books fellow CCN readers have on their
shelves, what they are reading and even what they,
and others, think of them.
KB says: This is an
easy and flop proof recipe when there is a call
out for a batch of cup cakes for fund raisers or
for school fetes. The oil is said to give the
cakes a lighter and more moist feel over the use
butter.
Vanilla Cupcakes (using oil)
Ingredients
3 eggs (at room
temperature)
1 cup castor sugar
Ľ
cup oil
Ľ
cup water
1tsp. vanilla essence
2˝ tsp. baking powder
1 cup sifted flour
Method
1. Beat eggs and
sugar.
2. Add oil, water and essence.
3. Fold in flour and baking powder and mix
gently.
4. Spoon into your prepared cupcake pans only ˝
full.
5. Bake at 180degrees until light brown.
6. Cool and ice with your favourite butter
icing.
Ali and Habib, recent arrivals to Australia by boat,
were settled in Sydney on a community detention program.
Not allowed to work, they beg in different areas of
Sydney.
Habib begs just as long as Ali does, but only collects
$2 to $3 every day.
Ali brings home a suitcase FULL of $10 notes, drives a
Mercedes, lives in a mortgage-free house and has a lot
of money to spend.
Habib says to Ali 'I work just as long and hard as you
do but how is it that you bring home a suitcase full of
$10 notes every day?'
Ali says, 'Look at your sign, what does it say'?
Habib's sign reads 'I have no work, a wife and 6 kids to
support'.
Ali says 'No wonder you only get $2- $3
Habib says... 'So what does your sign say'?
Ali shows Habib his sign....
It reads, 'I only need another $10 to move back to
Afghanistan.
1. All Islamic Event dates given above are tentative and
subject to the sighting of the moon.
2. The Islamic date changes to the next day starting in
the evenings after maghrib. Therefore, exceptfor Lailatul
Mehraj,
Lailatul Bhahraat
and
Lailatul Qadr – these dates refer to the commencement of the event
starting in the evening of the corresponding day.
The Tafseer gets recorded and uploaded on to our website end
of each week, please visit our website to download these
recordings at
www.masjidtaqwa.org.au.
The Tuesday and Thursdays Dars Nizame program is in Urdu,
these sessions too are recorded as well as webcasted live.
For webcast details please contact us via our website
“contact us” page. The recordings are sent via a download
link, if you are interested please again contact us via our
website “contact us” page.
Queensland Police Service/Muslim
Community Consultative Group
Meeting Dates & Times
Time: 7.00pm sharp Date: Tuesday 2 December 2014 Venue: Islamic College of Brisbane - 45 Acacia Road
Karawatha
Australian Muslim Youth
Network (AMYN)
Find out about the
latest events, outings,
fun-days, soccer
tournaments, BBQs organised
by AMYN. Network with other
young Muslims on the
AMYN Forum
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The
CCN Inbox: Letters
to the Editor
Campaigns
against
Australian
companies
that make
halal
products are
"little more
than
anti-Islamic
bullying",
according to
Race
Discrimination
Commissioner
Tim
Soutphommasane
(left).
UK:
In 2010, Lutfur Rahman became Britain’s
first Muslim mayor and was re-elected in the
2014 elections as the mayor of Tower Hamlets
in East London. A recent report commissioned
by the communities secretary, Eric Pickles,
found the borough of Tower Hamlets ‘was not
delivering best value for the taxpayer’ and
there have been calls for the mayor to
resign.
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