......a sometimes
self-deprecating and occasional tongue-in-cheek look at ourselves and
the world around us ......
Sunday, 6 June 2010
.Newsletter
0291
Yassmin
awarded Queenslander of the Year
This year's Young
Queenslander of the Year
award has gone to youth
affairs advocate Yassmin
Abdel-Magied.
Ms Abdel-Magied, 19, founded
Youth Without Borders when
she was 17, aiming to rally
young people to work
together to participate in
their communities.
"I completely didn't expect
it, so it's amazing," Ms
Abdel-Magied said.
"The power of working
together is amazing –
there's so much you can do."
She said receiving the
award, as a Muslim woman,
was proof Australians judged
others on their merit alone.
"People talk about Australia
having discrimination," she
said. "But people still
respect me for my
achievements, and this is an
example of that."
Al-nisa
in Wonderland
The Al-nisa youth group held
a Mad Hatters themed
High-tea in Runcorn last
week Sunday.
All guests were dressed up
in an array of diverse hats
ranging from novelty hats
all the way to original
designs that were created
for this event.
The ladies were treated to
an assortment of delicious
savouries and desserts
whilst being entertained
throughout the afternoon by
games and lucky draw prizes.
The Al-nisa youth group
would like to thank all the
ladies who supported and
attended the event and look
forward to seeing you at the
next one.
Upcoming Events
• Al-nisa AGM on the 10th of
July.Please keep an eye out
for further details
• The Sounds Of Light
Concert on the 23rd of July.
For more information please
call 1300 760 155
• The Afghani fundraiser on
the 31st of July. Please
call 0433 182 520 or 0403
009 003.A ladies only event.
Madrasah
Soccer Tournament
Supporters cheering on their
teams
The inaugural outdoor soccer
tournament of madrasahs and Islamic schools in
Brisbane and the Gold Coast was held last Sunday
at the Islamic College of Brisbane.
The event was organized by the
Queensland Madaris and the Islamic Council of
Queensland and the following madrasahs and
schools took part, each fielding a Senior and a
Junior representative side:
Holland
Park Madrasah
Kuraby
Madrasah
Gold
Coast Madrasah
Australian
International College
Darra Madrasah
Iqraaa Madrasah
Islamic College of Brisbane
The Juniors final was played out
between the Islamic College of Brisbane and
Holland Park. The Islamic College of Brisbane
won in penalty shootouts.
In the Seniors final Islamic
College of Brisbane played Kuraby. Kuraby won
4-1.
There were many parents and
supporters who turned up to cheer on the lads
and all were treated to a very sumptuous lunch.
Iqraa Juniors led by Qari Fid-ur-Rehman
Mohammed Faran. Zakeriya
Mohamed. Nabeel khan. Saif Ali. Adnaan Khan.
Tajeldinho Mohammed. Ishak Ali. Mohammed Ali.
Ismail Mesbah. Abdi Hersi. Mahmoud Khan. Qari
Fida-ur-rehman.
Gold Coast
Juniors led by Imam
Imraan Husain
Islamic College of Brisbane
Juniors
Darra Juniors
Darra Seniors
Australian International
Islamic College
Islamic College of Brisbane
celebrate winning the Juniors finals
Kuraby Madrasah winners of the
Seniors Cup
(standing from left) Moulana
Akram Buksh, Abdul Rahman Nedjari,
Mohanned Chouchane,Shamil,
Murdan, Soheab Patel (coach), (Front Row from left) Saeed Mohammed,
Mohammad Lallee, Hubuddin, Mohammad Peer
Trophies donated by Mr. and
Mrs. Abdul Samim Khan
in memory of their parents
Bollywood
comes to Melbourne, and things are looking crook
THEY would never have known
it, but the onlookers at
Federation Square were
watching one of Bollywood's
most controversial films of
the year being made.
Crook: It's Good to be
Bad is a love story set
against the backdrop of last
year's wave of attacks on
Indian students in
Australia, and if you
believe the Indian media,
the local authorities didn't
want it to be shot at all.
"The Australian government
has withheld permission to
shoot," the Mumbai Mirror
reported this month.
"The sensitive subject has
made the Australian
government wary and they
have asked for the full
script of the film before
taking a final call."
Utter rubbish, says producer
Mukesh Bhatt in a break
between shots.
"That was a pure piece of
nonsense, absolutely 100 per
cent fiction,'' he says. ''I
was so appalled I didn't
even want to call the
journalist and abuse him
because I felt I would soil
my tongue.''
Still, that widely
circulated report is in
keeping with the way the
Indian student issue has
been reported generally in
India, said Bhatt. "I am
appalled at the way the
Indian media has
irresponsibly painted a
picture which is absolutely
not correct,'' he says.
''Through this movie I want
to make this very clear -
the media has blown it
absolutely out of
proportion.''
Brisbane Times
Indonesian Muslims Explore Islam in Australia
A delegation of young
Indonesian Muslim leaders-
Bayu Jatmiko from
North Sulawesi, Muhammad
Irsyadul Ibad from
Yogyakarta and
Mi’rajurahhman from
South Kalimantan departed
for Australia on Monday to
participate in a bilateral
exchange program aimed at
strengthening understanding
if Islam and inter-faith
issues in both countries.
Australian Ambassador to
Indonesia Bill Farmer said
their visit aimed to show
the group the broad cultural
diversity of Australian
Muslims, made up of 70
different ethnic
backgrounds, including from
Indonesia.
“Islam in Australia is one
of the country’s fastest
growing religions and makes
an enormous contribution to
the success of contemporary,
multicultural Australia,”
the Ambassador said.
Muslim contact with
Australia pre-dates European
settlement and goes back to
the sixteenth century when
Macassan traders and
fishermen shared their lives
with local Indigenous people
throughout northern
Australia.
Islam in
Australia is one
of the country’s
fastest growing
religions and
makes an
enormous
contribution to
the success of
contemporary,
multicultural
Australia.
“It is also important that
these young Indonesian
Muslims are able to
contribute to Australia’s
understanding of the role of
religion in Indonesia and
share their perspectives on
a range of issues,” the
Ambassador added.
During their two week
program in Australia (31
May-13 June 2010) they will
visit Melbourne, Sydney and
Canberra and meet with
community and religious
leaders, academics and media
representatives.
The delegation will
experience the diversity of
Australian society, the ways
government and
non-government organisations
engage the community, and
exchange ideas on the future
of Australia-Indonesia
relations.
They will also have a
private viewing of the “You
Am I” exhibition by
Australian Muslim artists in
Melbourne and meet members
of the Islamic Council of
Victoria, Victoria’s peak
Islamic body.
Australian Embassy
Media Release
Omar's
outstanding performance
Last week we reported in CCN
that AnverOmar,
who was taking on his 5th
Comrades Marathon, was
aiming for the Bill Rowan
medal for a sub 9 hours.
This week we can tell you
that Anver completed the run
in 8hrs 50mins and 28secs
and was placed 2242 out of
more than 18 000 runners who
took part.
The women's race was ...
well, not a race. The
Nurgalieva twins, Elena and
Olesya, (also featured in
last week's CCN) led from
the start and were never in
trouble. Elena crossed the
line in 6:13:04, one second
ahead of her sister, who won
last year in 6:12:12.
Stephen Muzhingi of Zimbabwe
became the first runner to
win two consecutive "down"
runs since Bruce Fordyce did
so in 1986.
Muzhingi's winning time of
5:29:01 for the distance of
89.28 km was more than 5½
minutes slower than the
5:23:27 he clocked last year
Respite
Centre Appeal
A home in Brisbane has been
obtained to be used as a
respite centre for Revert
Muslim Ladies.
The house needs to be
furnished and an appeal is
being made for household
items and furniture.
If you are able to donate to
the centre contact Sadek
Mustapha on 3219 7786 or
Osman Rane on 3423 2662.
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Open Day
at Kuraby Catchment
The Bulimba Creek Catchment
Committee held an open day
recently to celebrate the
environmental restoration of
the billabong site at Kuraby
(near the Gateway overpass)
which is an important
ecological link in the
catchment.
This initiative has been
supported by Crescents of
Brisbane and the Islamic
College of Brisbane since
its inception 12 months ago
with tree planting and
catering.
The images show the students
of the Islamic College and
their teacher, Ms Rabul
Khan, taking a tour of
the area they, and other
community groups, helped
develop.
Sounds of
Light 2010
Young.
British. Female. Muslim.
Thousands of young British
women living in the UK
decide to convert to Islam -
here are some of their
stories
Senator Corey Bernardi
called for the banning of
the burqa in Australia. A
Brisbane resident, who
wishes to remain anonymous,
wrote the Senator
a letter questioning his
motives.
`Community
Newsletters and Updates
The
Bosnian Bulletin for Bosnian Readers in Bosnian
On Friday 21 May 2010, our
class of semester three
endorsed Enrolled Nurses
were honoured to be invited
into the mosque to learn
more about the Islamic and
Muslim culture.
During this visit the Imam
gave an excellent tour of
the facility and explained
many aspects of a Muslims'
life and customs answering
many of our questions.
Many were impressed with the
morals, philosophies and
integrity which the Muslim
society is based as it is
much harmonised compared to
life as we know it.
To see a full “service” and
“prayers” must be amazing as
the small touch we
experienced today left a big
impression.
The visit was very
informative and I will be
telling everyone about what
we learnt today.
So on behalf of the Gold
Coast TAFE third Semester
Endorsed Enrolled Nurses we
thank you very much for
letting us into your sacred
ground and have thoroughly
enjoyed our experience as
well as taking away a new
appreciation of the religion
with the insight we
experienced today.
The South
African Soccer World Cup Corner
With the World Cup a few
weeks away and many
Australians making their way
to South Africa, CCN will,
over the next few weeks,
bring readers, heading out
to the Rainbow Nation, up to
speed with world cup news,
and the local politics,
idiosyncrasies,
personalities and culture of
the country.
The World Cup 2010 invitation to South Africa and the
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The state parliament of
Lower Saxony has sworn in AyguelOezkan as
minister of social affairs for the northern state,
making her the first female Muslim minister in Germany.
The 38-year-old, who is a member of Chancellor Angela
Merkel's conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU),
was born in Hamburg to Turkish immigrants.
She was the party's economic policy spokeswoman for the
regional parliamentary group in Hamburg before being
appointed as the first Muslim woman in Germany to be
elected to a ministerial post on the state level,
Deutsche Welle reported.
Earlier this month, Christian Wulff called her
appointment "a good signal for children and young people
with immigrant backgrounds." Oezkan however quickly made
clear that she did not want to be regarded as a "token
immigrant."
Oezkan has said she intends to dedicate her efforts to
furthering integration in Lower Saxony as social
minister.
"I have made it clear that I intend to take over the
area of integration. Up to now, integration has been
more and more part of the interior ministry, but this is
an area where I would like to make an impact," she told
the Focus Magazine.
Muslim
dentist refused to treat patients unless they wore
traditional Islamic dress
Dentist Omer
Butt faces being struck off
after refusing to treat
women patients not wearing a
headscarf
A dentist faces being struck
off after refusing to treat
Muslim patients unless they
wore Islamic dress.
Dr Omer Butt
ordered female patients to
wear headscarves and forced
men to take off gold
jewellery before allowing
them into the dentists'
chair..
He even kept
a box full of hijabs at his
practice so he could lend
them to women before
checking their teeth.
Butt enforced
his religious dress code
despite previously being
warned by the General Dental
Council for the same
offence.
The dentist
ordered two women to wear
head scarves before he would
see them and their families,
the professional conduct
committee of the GDC found.
One woman was
forced to leave the clinic
in pain after refusing to
cover her head while another
wore the garment but was
outraged after Butt asked
her son if he prayed.
The panel
concluded that Butt, of
Prestwich, Greater
Manchester, sought to impose
a dress code on Muslim
patients while working at
the Unsworth Smile Clinic in
Bury, Greater Manchester,
between April 2005 and June
2007.
The GDC
committee found: 'Your
evidence was that you regard
yourself as a Muslim first
and a dentist second, and it
is clear that you were using
your position as a dentist
to seek to influence
patients as to non-clinical
issues.
The committee
concludes that
these actions
are more
consistent with
a person who has
gone beyond mere
persuasion or
request and is
seeking to
impose a dress
code
'You have
explained that you had a
moral and religious
obligation to persuade other
Muslims to comply with
Islamic requirements.
'You admitted
that you would offer rewards
to some patients who
complied with the dress
code.
'The
committee concludes that
these actions are more
consistent with a person who
has gone beyond mere
persuasion or request and is
seeking to impose a dress
code.'
The committee
heard how the dentist, who
is the older brother of
extremist Hassan Butt, put
up signs asking women to
cover their heads in his
surgery and asking Muslims
to observe religious law.
'It may be
that you were not successful
in every case and the
committee has heard that
some female Muslim patients
were treated without wearing
a head scarf.
'Nonetheless,
the committee is satisfied
that you had a general
policy to seek to impose a
dress code with the
intention that the patient
in question would agree to
it.'
The GDC
panel, which is sitting in
London, will now consider
whether this impaired Dr
Butt's fitness to practise
and, if so, what penalty to
impose on him.
This is the
second time that the dentist
has appeared before a
disciplinary committee for
his stance on traditional
Muslim dress.
In September 2007, Butt
received an admonition from
the GDC after being found
guilty of discriminating
against a female patient by
refusing to treat her unless
she wore 'appropriate
Islamic dress'.
The patient
said staff at his clinic
told her Muslim women had to
wear a head scarf and Muslim
men could not wear gold
jewellery.
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, how do I tone my upper arms and
shoulders?
A: For seriously toned arms and shoulders,
include some push-ups as part of your upper body
training.
This will target your shoulders and chest muscles while
strengthening your arms.
You can use some dumbells for bicep curls to target
front of the upper arm, (palms facing up, elbows close
to your side, move weights up towards your chest and
then slowly release towards your thighs). Feet hip
distance apart and upper body still.
For the triceps (back of the arm), kneel down on one
knee, lean forward with upper body (about 45 degrees),
keep upper-arm parallel to floor, and extend your elbow
behind you (tricep kickbacks).
Tricep dips are great too, (using your own body weight,
sit on a chair with hands next to you, walk your feet
forward and move your bottom off the chair, slowly lower
you body, keeping your back close to the chair and
gently push through the palms of your hands to lift
yourself back up.
Boxing is another great alternative.
For a cardio blast and upper body-burn, you won't go
wrong with this workout and you'll end up with seriously
toned arms!
All questions sent in are published here anonymously
and without any references to the author of the
question.
The CCN Chuckle
Mula Nasruddin’s four sons left home for university, and
they became successful doctors and lawyers and
prospered.
Some years later, they chatted after having dinner
together.
They discussed the gifts they were able to give their
elderly father who lived far away in another city.
The first said, "I had a big house built for Baba."
The second said, " I had a hundred thousand dollar
theatre built in the house."
The third said, "I had my Mercedes dealer deliver an
SL600 to him."
The fourth said, "You know how Baba loved reading the
Quran and you know he can't read anymore because he
can't see very well. Well, I met this Qari who told me
about a parrot that can recite the entire Quran. It took
twenty Qaris 12 years to teach him. I had to pledge to
contribute $100,000 a year for twenty years to the
Mosque, but it was worth it. Papa just has to name the
Sura and Ayat and the parrot will recite it."
The other brothers were impressed.
After the holidays Mula Nasruddin sent out his Thank You
notes.
He wrote: "Abdul-Bari, the house you built is so huge I
live in only one room, but I have to clean the whole
house. Thanks anyway."
"Abdul-Hakim, I am too old to travel. I stay home, I
have my groceries delivered, so I never use the
Mercedes. The thought was good. Thanks."
"Abdul-Fattah, you gave me an expensive theatre with
Dolby sound, it could hold 50 people, but all of my
friends are dead, I've lost my hearing and I'm nearly
blind. I'll never use it. Thank you for the gesture just
the same."
"Dearest Abdul-Jabbar, you were the only son to have the
good sense to give a little thought to your gift. The
chicken was delicious. Thank you."
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Events and Functions
ON TODAY (SUNDAY 6 JUNE)
Queensland Muslim Historical Society
Exhibition @ Government House
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this week will be held on Thursday 10 June
from 12pm-1pm.
Contact
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details.
All ladies
welcome
Inspiration
Talk, BBQ and Youth Hour
Topics that are relevant, Iman-boosting and
mind-capturing. Where: AMYN Islamic Youth Centre,
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Info: www.AMYNweb.com Everyone is invited
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Find out about the latest
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organised by AMYN. Network with other young Muslims on
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