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Sunday, 1 March 2009
.Newsletter
0225
News you won't find on CNN!
Bush
Fire Appeal Closes Soon
The Victoria Bush Fire
Appeal has reached almost
$10 000 thanks to the
contributions of the Muslim
community and the Muslim
businesses and organizations
of Queensland.
This appeal will end on
Saturday 7 March, so if
you would like to make a
donation please click on the
image on the left for all
the details.
Shummis
takes up the Reigns as President
At the meeting of the
Executive Committee of Muslim Business
Network held during the week
Mr. Shummis Rane was
appointed the new President
and
Mr. Naseem Abdul
retained his position as
Vice President.
Mr. Iqbal
Lambat is the Treasurer
and Mr. Bilal
Rauf the Secretary.
Director of Muslim girls school charged with stealing
THE director of a Muslim
girls high school in Perth
has been charged with
stealing more than $350,000.
Police will also allege he
defrauded the WA and Federal
governments of a funds
totalling more than $1
million.
Major fraud squad detectives
today charged the
50-year-old man with four
counts of the fraudulent
falsification of records,
one count of stealing as a
director of a company, two
counts of making false
statements in an
application, and two counts
of making false statements
in a statutory declaration.
Police will allege that he
falsified grant applications
and other documents in order
to receive public funds for
the Muslim Ladies College of
Australia that it was not
entitled to.
The alleged offences took
place while he was a
director of the school
between August 2005 and
April 2007, police said.
They would allege that as
well as fraudulently
obtaining the funds for the
school, the accused man had
stolen $355,914 in school
funds.
The man is due to appear in
Perth Magistrates Court on
March 3.
Dr. Anver and
Bilkish Omar of Brisbane
have just returned to
Brisbane after completing a stint in the
Northern Territories and
sent in an update on their
travels to CCN.
[CCN Editor] Readers are
warned that some 'extracts'
in the
article may be quiet confronting.
J
The second installment on
the Outback Adventures of
the Omars will appear in
next week's CCN.
Proposal for the Expansion of the Holy Mosque
ABC
Q&A
ABC Promo:
Entertaining political
debate with Opposition
frontbencher, Christopher
Pyne, Labor's
Parliamentary Secretary for
Disabilities, Bill
Shorten, writer and
actor Jonathan Biggins,
bio-ethicist, researcher and
writer, Leslie Cannold
and Sabrina Houssami,
Miss World Australia 2006,
an extraordinary young woman
of mixed Islamic/Indian
descent.
A young Muslim viewer from
Melbourne, Felicia Shukor,
asked Sabrina about the
glass ceiling that kept
women down in the workplace,
and audience member Geoff
Quinn queried why someone
like Sabrina was always
given the adjective “Muslim”
while Christopher, for
example, was not described
as “Catholic Liberal MP”.
Sabrina
Houssami is a former Miss
World Australia and current
Miss World Asia . She
represented Australia at
Miss World 2006 contest in
Poland, taking out third
place.She is an active
charity ambassador, and has
helped to raise over five
million dollars for
charities across the world.
This work has seen her
travelling to East Timor,
Malaysia and Singapore to
assist with causes there.
But Sabrina is not just a
beauty queen. She is a
member of Mensa, with an IQ
in the top 2 per cent of the
global population. She is
currently a Liberal Studies
student majoring in
Psychology and English at
the University of Sydney.
She works part-time
variously as model,
motivational speaker and
events host.
Sabrina was born in 1986 in
the Sydney suburb of Kemps
Creek. Her father is Muslim
Lebanese and her mother
Indian. She successfully
weathered some very
sensational press reports
around the time she first
decided to enter beauty
contests. While headlines
screamed “Muslim girl defies
Muftis” , Sabrina had in
fact entered the contests
with the full support of her
local community.
Sabrina currently lives with
her parents and younger
sister, Abbey, in her home
on the banks of the Georges
River, and aspires towards a
career in the media upon
completing her degree.
The Harmony Day Fund Raiser
has been postponed to
Sunday 29 March (on
account of the State
elections).
Enjoy a night out and a fine
meal and be part of a worthy
cause.
Salam
Cafe for the Logies
You can get behind
Salam Cafe,
winner of the
Australian Muslim
Media of the Year
Award 2008, and vote
for the show to win
the "Most Popular
Light Entertainment
Program" at the
TV Week Logie Awards.
For any light
entertainment
program including
comedy, game, talk,
variety and music
shows on
Australian-made
television in 2008
( )
9am With David & Kim
( )
Maggie With...
( )
The Gruen Transfer
( )
Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?
( )
Mark Loves Sharon
( )
The Hollowmen
( )
Australia's Funniest Home Videos
( )
Mornings With Kerry-Anne
( )
The Know
( )
Australia's Got Talent
( )
Newstopia
( )
The Mansion
( )
Cash Cab
( )
Review With Miles Barlow
( )
The Merrick & Rosso Show
( )
Celebrity Singing Bee
( )
RocKwiz
( )
The New Inventors
( )
Comedy Slapdown
( )
Rove
( )
The Rich List
( )
Deal Or No Deal
(X)
Salam Cafe
( )
Today
( )
Enough Rope With Andrew Denton
( )
Spicks & Specks
( )
20 To 01
( )
Good News Week
( )
Sunrise
( )
Very Small Business
( )
Hole In The Wall
( )
Swift And Shift Couriers
( )
Video Hits
( )
Kenny's World
( )
The Einstein Factor
Kia for
sale
Kia Carnival bought in May
2005, full service history.
Mileage 59,500 km. Excellent
condition.
For further details contact
Anver Omar on 04246 17968
Little
Mosque on the Prairie: Season 3 Episode 3
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
AFIC
Activities
Around the Muslim
World with CCN
India Muslims Chafe Under
Discrimination
Three months after coordinated terrorist attacks in
India's financial capital of Mumbai, Indian Muslims
are chafed at the growing discrimination since the
atrocities.
"Every time there is a terror blast and a Muslim is
arrested, it is as if an entire community must
accept the blame," Laila Atif, 30, a marketing
executive, told the Washington Times on Saturday,
February 21.
"Do we demand the same sense of collective guilt
from other communities?"
More than 160 people, at least a third of whom were
Muslims, were killed in attacks on several Mumbai
targets in November.
Zaky’s
Learning Club is a One4Kids incentive, which has
been greatly appreciated by teachers, parents and
the children themselves. The main focus is to
outline critical issues facing the children of
today, such as healthy eating, exercise, global
warming and developing good character. Ideally we
would like to get this newsletter out to every
school all over the world. We are aiming to complete
four editions per year.
You can advertise your business in our edition for
as low as
$499
per edition. This will give public expose of your
business to over 15,000 to 50,000 Muslim families
all over Australia.
Don’t miss out on this wonderful opportunity, as
places are limited per edition.
Thank you
for you support.
Jazzakullah Khair,
“Thank you for
supporting One Islam Productions. Your continued
support allows us to produce more quality films
which are much needed for the Muslim world”
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| One Islam Productions / One 4
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The Lemon Tree: An
Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East
by
Sandy Tolan
The tale of a simple act of faith
between two young people - one Israeli, one Palestinian
- that symbolizes the hope for peace in the Middle East.
In 1967, not long after the Six-Day War, three young
Arab men ventured into the town of Ramle, in what is now
Jewish Israel. They were cousins, on a pilgrimage to see
their childhood homes; their families had been driven
out of Palestine nearly twenty years earlier. One cousin
had a door slammed in his face, and another found his
old house had been converted into a school. But the
third, Bashir Al-Khairi, was met at the door by a young
woman called Dalia, who invited them in.
This act of faith in the face of many years of animosity
is the starting point for a true story of a remarkable
relationship between two families, one Arab, one Jewish,
amid the fraught modern history of the region. In his
childhood home, in the lemon tree his father planted in
the backyard, Bashir sees dispossession and occupation;
Dalia, who arrived as an infant in 1948 with her family
from Bulgaria, sees hope for a people devastated by the
Holocaust. As both are swept up in the fates of their
people, and Bashir is jailed for his alleged part in a
supermarket bombing, the friends do not speak for years.
They finally reconcile and convert the house in Ramle
into a day-care centre for Arab children of Israel, and
a center for dialogue between Arabs and Jews. Now the
dialogue they started seems more threatened than ever;
the lemon tree died in 1998, and Bashir was jailed
again, without charge.
The Lemon Tree grew out of a forty-three minute radio
documentary that Sandy Tolan produced for Fresh Air.
With this book, he pursues the story into the homes and
histories of the two families at its center, and up to
the present day. Their stories form a personal microcosm
of the last seventy years of Israeli-Palestinian
history. In a region that seems ever more divided, The
Lemon Tree is a reminder of all that is at stake, and of
all that is still possible.
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.
Q: Dear Kareema, my husband and
I train together daily but are often too time-poor to
stretch.
Is it OK not to bother stretching at times?
A: Stretching is one of the most important phases of any
training schedule and should not be overlooked.
Make it an essential part of your daily training
program.
Try my following smart-stretch rules:
• Incorporate several muscle groups in one stretch,
making it more time effective
• Hold your stretches for about 20 seconds
• Never force a stretch, go only to where you can feel
the stretch
• If you're really pushed for time, at least stretch the
muscles that you used most during your workout
• Finish your workout a few minutes earlier which will
give you some time for stretching
All questions sent in are published here anonymously and
without any references to the author of the question.
KB's Culinary Corner
Pecan Shortbread
Ingredients
1 Cup Butter Softened –Whip
for ten minutes and then stir in
½ cup Icing sugar
¼ cup corn flour (maziena).
1½ cups flour.
Method
Beat again on high for 2
minutes
Add ½ cup chopped pecans
Drop a tablespoon of the mixture, leaving
some space in between onto a baking tray
lined with baking paper. Bake at 180c for 12
minutes- allow to cool before transferring
onto wire racks – When cool dust with sifted
icing sugar.
Do you have a recipe
to share with CCN readers? Send in your favourite recipe to
ccn@crescentsofbrisbane.org and be our "guest chef" for
the week.
The CCN Chuckle
A Fisheries warden
finds Jallalludin at the dam with ten Barramundi
cod in a bucket.
"That's way over the limit," he says. "You're under
arrest."
"But Sir, please," Jallalludin says, "these are my
pet fish from home. I just bring them down here to let
them swim free once a week. When I whistle, they all
come back and get into the bucket to go home."
"I don't believe it," says the warden. "Show me."
Jallalludin promptly dumps the cod into the dam
and gazes after them as they swim away.
University of Queensland,
323 Hawken Drive,
St. Lucia
Every Monday
Event: Weekly Learning Circle: Sharh
Riyad-us-Saliheen (An Explanation of
'Gardens of the Righteous'
Venue: Prayer Room, University of Queensland
Time: 6.45pm to 7.30pm
Every Friday
Subject:
Fiqh Made Easy
Venue:
Room E215 Building 1 (Forgan Smith),
University of Queensland
Time: 6.30pm to 7.35pm
Every Friday
Subject:
Tafseer al Qur'an (Explanation of the
Qur'an)
Venue: Room E215 Building 1 (Forgan Smith),
University of Queensland
Time: 7.45pm to 9pm
Sunnah Inspirations is a
non-profit organisation to cater for Muslim
social support and supplying information to
Muslims and non-Muslims. They have
been doing various activities around
Australia, and have organised Da'wah
information stalls at various universities
in Brisbane. More info can be found on
their website above.
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CCN or Crescents of Brisbane Inc.
Sabrina
Houssami is a former Miss
World Australia and current
Miss World Asia . She
represented Australia at
Miss World 2006 contest in
Poland, taking out third
place.She is an active
charity ambassador, and has
helped to raise over five
million dollars for
charities across the world.
This work has seen her
travelling to East Timor,
Malaysia and Singapore to
assist with causes there.
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