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Sunday, 26 July 2009
.Newsletter
0246
News you won't find on CNN!
Islamic
Expo NOW ON!
The
Kuraby State Special School hall has been
transformed into a supermarket of Islamic books,
clothes, DVDs and artwork taking up virtually
every available space in the large hall.
The Expo started of yesterday
with steady support from the Brisbane public and
continues today (Sunday) until 5pm.
The goods were transported from
the IBC shop in Melbourne for Queenslanders to
stock up on a range of items in time for Ramadan
and Eid.
So there's still time today to
check out the impressive collection before they
head back home to Victoria.
Books and clothes
to cater for all needs
Accessories to
suit all tastes
Amaan Meman
surveys part of the large collection of books
and games for children of all ages
A newly developed and developing website aims to make
accessible the basic teachings and principles of Islam.
The idea that led to the development of this website has
come from the Adult Educational Series, spearheaded by a
group of Ulema from Azaadville, South Africa.
There are over 70 entrants from local madressahs,
schools and private institutions for today's (Sunday)
ICQ Qu'ran Competition .
The programme starts at 9am and will conclude around
1pm.
Mustafaa
the Maestro!
'Musty's' golden moment
Rawlins Taekwondo QLD took a team of four to Malaysia
and came home with 1 gold and 1 bronze.
It was a hard tournament with 800 competitors from more
then 20 countries.
Our gold medal winner was where MustafaaOlomi
(pictured left) who had 9 fights and came out top
in each one.
For Mustafaa it was a very hard day starting his first
fight at 10.30am and ending with his last fight at
11.30pm.
But the hardest part was when he had to fight his
quarter final, semi final and final all in a row with
only a minute's break in between.
"He has made his club and country proud and fought the
best he could to beat fighters from Singapore, Malaysia,
Indonesia, Korea and Australia," his proud dad and
trainer, Haris Olomi told CCN.
This is Mustafaa's third International gold medal having
also won in the Singaporean and Korean opens last year.
The second medalist was Jahan Olomi. This
was her first international fight and she did very well
to win a bronze.
Jacob and Robert missed out on a medal by
one fight and hope to make amends in this weekend's
Queensland selections.
Rawlins Taekwondo has been at all of the major
tournaments this year and bagged more then 80 gold medal
in the process.
Muslim
Match Making Makes Its Mark
By
Abdul Rahman Keri
Braving the unknown yet keen on
finding a life partner, single Muslims attended ‘Speed
Intros for Muslims’, a matchmaking-style event held at
the Siebel Citygate, Brisbane.
Twenty-seven enthusiasts participated in
the matchmaking event, each given five minutes to
interview prospective spouses.
Event organiser, Julu Latif said there is
a need in the community to find partners for single
Muslims because the opportunity to meet is difficult.
Matchmaking in the community isn’t a new
trend, traditionally an ad hoc referral by a mutual
friend and a tendency for couples to wed within similar
ethnic backgrounds.
However this multicultural event provided
another option for single Muslims looking for marriage
partners.
For some participants, five minutes wasn’t enough time
to know if a suitor was appropriate. Feedback from the
event was overwhelmingly positive, with some
participants expressing interest in coming back to any
future events.
Mrs. Latif suggested she may host the
event again at a later date.
.
Tabbaa
inspired to join the club
MAKING inroads with uniting the Islamic and Christian
community earned Abdallah Tabbaa (pictured left)
a Pride of Australia Medal.
Mr Tabbaa helped form the new Australian National Sports
Club at Parry Park, Lakemba, to get youths off the
streets and interested in sport.
The project manager of the complex said it would open
soon and house more sports including netball, badminton
and boxing.
“Sport is the only way,” Mr Tabbaa, of Greystanes, said.
“You can see any game you want - do you see any
nationality missing?”
“We’re trying to bring these kids together and to form
teams and do something constructive other than forming
gangs and being destructive.”
He believes he has seen more community harmony compared
with 13 years ago when he raised the idea for a new
sports complex.
“Once upon a time it used to be predominantly Muslim
(fighting against each other),” he said.
“Now we’ve got Muslims and Christians working together.”
Bankstown State Labor MP Tony Stewart, who has helped Mr
Tabbaa fund part of the complex, nominated him for the
Pride of Australia medal.
“Abdallah has been a true community-spirited person for
many years,” Mr Stewart said.
“He’s been instrumental in getting this facility in
place to support youth needs particularly in that area
of Canterbury-Bankstown.”
"The editor of SISTERS is Na'ima B. Robert, author of
From My Sisters' Lips (www.nbrobert.com). The SISTERS
team is an eclectic group of writers, journalists,
artists and readers who are based all over the world,
from London to Khartoum, from New York to Johannesburg.
We are all committed to filling our magazine with
uplifting, inspiring and enlightening material to help
you become the best Muslimah you can be, from the inside
out.
SISTERS covers a range of subjects in the areas of
Inspiration, Self, Family, Community, World, Homes,
Looks, Tastes and a range of reader offers and
competitions. Our magazine's ethos is rooted in the
Qur'an and Sunnah, according to the understanding of the
Pious Predecessors, and our inspiration is Islam as a
beautiful and richly rewarding way of life.
SISTERS began as a digital publication in March 2007 and
was received with much acclaim and enthusiasm. SISTERS
is now available in print and online, and will be
published four times a year initially. As a subscriber
and online shopper, you can enjoy the benefits of having
the magazine delivered direct to your home or office.
Just click on the relevant category on the left to make
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The niqab,
fact v fiction
How much do
you really know about the
niqab? An insider guide to
common misconceptions
Hindus,
Muslims willing to tie the knot outside their religions
Sydney, July 20 : An increasing number of Hindus and
Muslims are willing to exchange wedding vows with people
of other faiths, according to researchers.
A Monash University research has shown that 10 per cent
of Hindus have married out of their faith, along with 8
per cent of Muslim men and 6 per cent of Muslim women.
However, the highest rates of intermarriage have been
found among Christians.
About 60 per cent of Presbyterian men and women had
married someone outside their faith, followed by more
than 43 per cent of Uniting Church members, 41 per cent
of Anglicans and more than 37 per cent of Catholics.
During the study, the researchers analysed 2001 and 2006
census data.
The 2006 census showed 64 per cent of Australians as
Christian, but that was a drop of 7 per cent from a
decade earlier.
Instead, non-Christian faiths experienced a rise, as did
people identifying with no religion at all.
"It doesn't mean an absence of religion; it means the
withdrawal of religion from everyday life and practices,
including partnering," the Sydney Morning Herald quoted
researcher Genevieve Heard as saying.
She said that smaller religious communities, especially
those tied to emerging migrant groups like Muslims and
Hindus, had not had as long to establish themselves as
those of Christian faiths.
Former National Australia Bank Ltd (NAB) executive
director Ahmed Fahour (pictured left) has been appointed as the
new chief executive of Middle Eastern Islamic investment
bank Gulf Finance House (GFH).
Five months after leaving NAB to become interim chief
executive of the federal government's Australian
Business Investment Partnership (ABIP), Mr Fahour will
now move to Bahrain to spearhead GFH's global expansion,
the bank said in a statement.
Mr Fahour will be responsible for increasing the bank's
exposure to international markets and expanding the
Islamic banking system.
GFH chairman Dr Esam Janahi said the Lebanese-born
Australian would be ideally suited to expanding the
company's global expansion.
"As a Muslim he has an inherent appreciation of the
Islamic values that underpin our work and the philosophy
woven into all GFH's key initiatives," he said.
GFH has a reputation for breaking the mould in
originating excellent high value investment
opportunities, Mr Fahour said.
GFH observes Sharia law in its banking practice, and has
a market capitalisation of $US709.2 million ($A886.9
million).
"As a Muslim he has an inherent appreciation
of the Islamic values that underpin our work
and the philosophy woven into all GFH's key
initiatives"
It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and the
bourses in Kuwait, Bahrain and Dubai.
Mr Fahour left NAB seven months after missing out on the
bank's top job to Cameron Clyne last year.
He is believed to have received five offers during 2008
for top executive roles at offshore and local
institutions.
As he left NAB, he accepted an offer the same day to
become chief executive of ABIP, the government-backed
entity that was to provide as much as $70 billion of
refinancing to major commercial property projects which
risked collapse as foreign and local lenders withdrew
support for the sector.
Dubbed RuddBank, ABIP was to be a banking partnership
between the federal government and the big four banks.
But in June the Senate voted to reject the enabling
legislation for ABIP, with the Greens voicing concerns
over executive remuneration.
Mr Fahour, who joined NAB from Citigroup in September
2004 as chief executive of the bank's Australian and
Asia operations, changed roles within the bank last
December when he became a group-wide strategic
troubleshooter.
Under Mr Fahour's leadership, the Australian region
delivered cash earnings growth of 15.8 per cent for
fiscal 2008 and underlying profit growth of 19.3 per
cent.
I was just wondering if you knew of any places -
Uni/Tafe etc. where one can study Arabic?
Any help is greatly appreciated
JazakaAllah Khair,
وعليكم السلام
عالية
{Editor] If any CCN
Reader is able to help here or point us in the right
direction please email
ccn@crescentsofbrisbane.org
and we will forward on the details.
Around
the Muslim World with CCN
Muslim model Kartika Sari
Dewi Shukarno to be caned for drinking beer: Malaysian
court
Noorazah Baharuddin, believed
to be first woman in Malaysia sentenced to
caning for drinking alcohol
A Singaporean Muslim
model who drank beer at a nightclub in Malaysia will be
caned.
A Malaysian religious court sentenced the tearful
22-year-old Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno to six strokes of
the cane after she pleaded guilty to consuming alcohol,
the English-language New Straits Times newspaper
reported.
"The rotan is aimed at making the accused
repent and serves as a lesson to Muslims. "
Pahang Sharia High Court judge Abdul Rahman
Yunus
She was with her
Singaporean husband in a hotel nightclub in the eastern
state of Pahang last year when syariah officers raided
the lounge, nabbing 20 other Muslims for drinking
alcohol, which is forbidden in Islam. Her husband was
let off, according to an earlier report in the Times.
She told the newspaper
before the trial that “it was sheer bad luck” the lounge
was raided.
"We feel the sentence is fair after going through the
prosecution's argument and since the rotan (cane) is
provided for in the law," Pahang Sharia High Court judge
Abdul Rahman Yunus said, according to the paper.
Non-Muslims turning to Sharia courts to resolve civil
disputes
Sheikh Suhaib Hasan, of the
Islamic Sharia Council, says problems such as
knife crime would be resolved if Britain
implemented Islamic penal codes
UK: Increasing numbers of non-Muslims are
turning to Sharia courts to resolve commercial disputes
and other civil matters, The Times has learnt.
The
Muslim Arbitration Tribunal (MAT) said that 5 per
cent of its cases involved non-Muslims who were using
the courts because they were less cumbersome and more
informal than the English legal system.
Freed Chedie, a spokesman for Sheikh Faiz-ul-Aqtab
Siqqiqi, a barrister who set up the tribunal, said: “We
put weight on oral agreements, whereas the British
courts do not.”
In a case last month a non-Muslim Briton took his Muslim
business partner to the tribunal to sort out a dispute
over the profits in their car fleet company. “The
non-Muslim claimed that there had been an oral agreement
between the pair,” said Mr Chedie. “The tribunal found
that because of certain things the Muslim man did, that
agreement had existed. The non-Muslim was awarded
£48,000.”
The African
Caliphate
The Life, Works and Teaching of Shaykh Uthman dan Fodio
(1754 – 1817)
by
Ibrahim Sulaiman
This scholarly
work focuses on the establishment in 1809, in what is
today Northern Nigeria, of the celebrated Sokoto
caliphate, which may well have been the last complete
re-establishment, anywhere in the world, of Islam in its
entirety, comprising all its many and varied dimensions.
As well as
giving the biography of the Shehu and a comprehensive
account of the history of his movement, the book also
provides an in-depth examination of his teaching and
literary works.
These factors
are all inextricably interwoven since, in a way scarcely
equalled by any other historical figure, the Shehu’s
writings sprang directly out of the exigencies and
requirements of his immediate situation and were what
drove his movement forward and articulated its vision.
As will be
seen, his sole inspiration and source of guidance in
every instance were the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of
His Messenger # to such a point that he even died at
exactly the same age. It is also astonishing how
relevant the Shehu’s teachings are, in spite of the
clear difference in both time and environment, to the
situation of so many Muslims in the world today and the
solution to many of the problems currently besetting
Islam are clearly indicated within its pages.
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.
Sift
2 ½ cups flour
1/2 tsp Bicarbonate of Soda
1 tsp salt
2 tsp baking powder
3 tsp cinnamon powder
Beat separately
1 ½ cups sugar
1 ½ cups oil
4 eggs
Fold in
2 cups grated carrot
½ cup chopped pecan nuts
250 grams crushed pineapple, drained
Method
1 Beat egg whites , add sugar and then oil
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2 Add Sifted dry ingredients and beat for 30
seconds.
3 Fold in the remaining ingredients
4 Place in cup cake or muffin pans – ¾ full
5 Bake at 180degrees for 15mins or until
light brown.
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"When my wife
and I were first married, I would come home from the
Mosque, she would bring my slippers and our cute little
dog would run around barking. Now after ten years it's
all different, I come home, the dog brings the slippers
and my wife runs around barking."
"Why complain?"
said Mula Nasruddin. "You're still getting the same
service!"
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