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The
Islamic
Society of
Toowoomba is
hosting the
first Mosque
in Toowoomba
for its
Opening
Ceremony to
be held on
Sunday 30
March from
11am-7pm.
The opening
ceremony is
being
organized in
conjunction
with the
First
Toowoomba
International
Food
Festival
(TIFF).
Whether your
passion is
food or
faith, there
will be
something
for everyone
at the
opening of
the city’s
first Mosque
and the
inaugural
Toowoomba
International
Food
Festival on
Sunday,
March 30.
Delicious
international
food from
Australia,
Bangladesh,
Bosnia,
Malaysia,
Middle East,
India,
Indonesia,
Iraq,
Lebanon,
Pakistan,
Turkey and
more will be
available to
try while
rides will
help keep
the kids
happy.
The event is
open to
everyone and
the guest
speakers
will include
Member for
Groom Ian
McFarlane,
Catholic
Bishop of
Toowoomba
Robert
McGuckin,
Queensland
Minister of
Agriculture,
Fisheries
and Forestry
John
McVeigh,
President of
the
Australian
Federation
of Islamic
Councils
Hafez Kassem,
Professor
Ken Udas
representing
USQ
Vice-Chancellor
Professor
Jan Thomas,
Councillor
Ros Scotney
representing
the
Toowoomba
Regional
Council
Mayor Paul
Antonio and
more.
President of
the Islamic
Society of
Toowoomba
Professor
Shahjahan
Khan said he
was very
happy with
the support
from the
local
community,
and
expressed
his
gratitude to
the
Toowoomba
residents.
“We’ve had
great
support from
Toowoomba
Regional
Council and
local groups
and
individuals,
as well as
interest
from Islamic
communities
from
Brisbane,
Gold Coast
and even
further,”
Professor
Khan said.
“The opening
ceremony is
open for all
to come
along as we
want to
bring the
community
together as
a statement
of living in
harmony.
“The Mosque
will not be
some
exclusive
place only
for the
Islamic
community—
everyone is
invited to
celebrate
with us and
we’re hoping
to use it as
a community
centre in
the future
for other
events.”
Professor
Khan said a
growing and
increasingly-diverse
Toowoomba
meant that a
local Mosque
was needed.
“Previously
we had the
Islamic
Centre at
the
University
of Southern
Queensland
but that was
getting
quite
crowded and
there was a
perception
that it was
exclusive to
University
students and
staff,” he
said.
“The new
Mosque will
be open for
the entire
community;
we don’t
want anyone
to feel left
out.”
The Islamic
Society has
already
written to
the
Principals
of all
Schools in
Toowoomba to
provide
support to
the students
studying
social or
religious
subjects.
The parking
will be
on the
streets
around the
Mosque (on
217 West St,
Harristown,
Toowoomba).
Click here
for a
map or
search
Google Maps
for
Toowoomba
Mosque (yes,
it is
already in
Google
Maps).
For more
information
on the
Mosque or
the Islamic
Society of
Toowoomba,
contact
info@isot.net.au
or phone Kim
Greathead on
0432073187
Mr Hafez
Kassem, AFIC
President
and Chairman
of Malek
Fahd Islamic
School this
week
confirmed
that the
School had
received
written
confirmation
from the NSW
Minister of
Education
that the
state
funding
freeze was
being lifted
with
immediate
effect.
The funding
from the
Commonwealth
Government
was not
affected in
any way and
continues as
usual.
Malek Fahd
is the
largest
Islamic
School in
Australia
and
certainly
among the
larger
schools in
New South
Wales. The
School
recently
obtained
approval
from the
local
Council
increasing
the
enrolment at
its
Greenacre
campus to
2100
students.
Mr Kassem
said that it
took a lot
of hard work
and
dedication
on the part
of the
Executive
Principal,
his staff
and the
School Board
to achieve
this.
Mr Kassem
emphasised
the deep
commitment
of AFIC for
its schools
and to
establish
others to
meet the
needs of the
growing
community.
He added
that under
his
leadership
he would
ensure that
all AFIC
Schools will
continue to
operate in
full
compliance
of State and
Federal laws
and
according to
the policies
of the
Schools
approved by
the Boards.
On behalf of
the School
Board, Mr
Hafez Kassem
thanked the
School staff
and others
for their
hard work in
addressing
all the
issues
concern.
The Gold Coast Community
Heritage and Safety Committee at
the Hinterland Hotel.
Pic: Mike BatterhamSource: News
Limited
MAYOR Tom
Tate has
taken aim at
organisers
who have led
a protest
meeting
against his
plans to
“convert”
Surfers
Paradise and
Broadbeach
to Islam.
About 100
people
attended a
meeting last
night at
Nerang’s
Hinterland
Hotel
organised by
the Gold
Coast
Community
Heritage and
Safety
Committee.
Speakers at
the meeting
were cheered
by
supporters
when they
accused the
Mayor of a
“lack of
leadership”
and
“advocating
the
introduction
of the
forces of
Jihad on the
Gold Coast”.
Cr Tate told
the Bulletin
during a
trip to the
Middle East
last October
that the
Gold Coast
City Council
would
encourage
more Islamic
prayer rooms
and an
extension to
trading
hours to
cater for
big spending
Middle
Eastern
tourists.
An Oxenford
resident
responded by
creating an
online
petition No
Concessions
to Islam on
the Gold
Coast which
has
attracted
2237
respondents.
Some
interstate
tourists who
signed the
petition
have
threatened
not to
return to
the Coast
and their
comments
have been
forwarded to
the Mayor
and city
councillors.
Fearing
council
would follow
the Mayor’s
plan, a
protest
meeting was
organised.
The Mayor is
overseas on
a trade trip
and neither
he or any of
his
councillors
attended
last night’s
meeting.
Leaflets
promoting
the meeting
maintained
“this has
nothing to
do with
race” but Cr
Tate when
advised of
the protest
accused the
organisers
of a fear
campaign
that is
“misguided
and out of
touch” in a
city where
tourism
provides
employment
for 27,000
residents.
“A quarter
of Gold
Coasters
were born
overseas.
They’re our
friends, our
neighbours
and members
of our own
families,”
Cr Tate
said.
“Racism and
vilification
has no place
in our
liberal
western
democracy
and it
should have
no place on
the Gold
Coast.
Organisers
have bought
into a
sensationalist
headline and
accepted it
as gospel.”
Gold Coast
Community
Heritage and
Safety
Committee
spokesman
Chris Newman
said the
meeting was
arranged
after
feedback
from
residents
who claim
their
letters of
concern were
not
acknowledged
by the Mayor
and city
councillors..
“We are not
attacking
the Mayor.
We are
challenging
his poor
judgment in
opening up
the Gold
Coast
community to
Islamic
money,
politics and
influence.
It is a road
to tears,”
Mr Newman
said.
Mr Newman
declined to
provide
estimates of
the
supporter
base in
southeast
Queensland
for the new
group which
aims to
“defend
Australian
culture,
heritage and
community
safety”.
Youth
unemployment
is one of
the most
persistent
economic
problems
facing the
country,
particularly
migrant
populations.
One of the
hotspots is
south-western
Sydney where
one in five
young people
can't find
work. For
the first
time social
workers and
employment
agencies are
working
together to
find a
solution.
Federal
Labor MP Ed
Husic has
called on
his party to
apologise to
a South
Australian
Liberal
candidate
for
highlighting
her "ethnic"
surname in
an election
pamphlet
(see above)
distributed
days before
voters went
to the
polls.
Federal
Attorney-General
George
Brandis said
the
pamphlet,
which read
"Can you
trust Habib",
was "overtly
racist"
because it
focused on
the surname
of Liberal
candidate
Carolyn
Habib.
The pamphlet
was used in
the South
Australian
electorate
of Elder
last week
ahead of
Saturday's
state
election.
Labor
figures
declined to
criticise
the pamphlet
before the
poll, but
Western
Sydney MP Mr
Husic, who
is Muslim,
today
condemned
the campaign
tactic and
said whoever
was
responsible
had some
explaining
to do.
Mr Husic
said the
leaflet
should never
have been
issued.
Ms Habib
last week
said the
tactic was
"offensive"
and
"un-Australian",
adding that
Labor had
reached a
"new low" in
a "very
filthy
campaign".
Mr Husic
said Ms
Habib was
entitled to
be angry.
"I think we
should say
to Carolyn
Habib that
this was a
bad
pamphlet,"
Mr Husic
told the
ABC.
"There
should be an
apology
extended to
her."
Mr Husic
said he had
been the
victim of
personal
attacks
aimed at his
religion in
campaigns
past and the
method of
campaigning
should have
no place in
Australian
politics.
We asked you
if you
thought the
election
pamphlet was
"overtly
racist"?
Here's what
you had to
say.
"I can
understand
why [Ms
Habib] would
be upset. If
it was me,
I'd be
upset," he
said.
"We should
be focused
on getting
people to
work
together
regardless
of where
they came
from."
He did not
deny that he
was
"apoplectic"
when he was
first shown
the flyer.
"I have to
say I raised
an eyebrow
about it,"
he said.
"I thought
it was a
terribly
constructed
brochure
that had a
focus on her
surname
instead of a
legitimate
question
about a
public
office
record.
"It was
clearly
designed to
hone in on
her
background.
There was an
ethnic
background
to that
name, and
there was a
focus on
it."
Mr Husic
said he
would make a
submission
to the South
Australian
Labor
Party's
post-election
review,
complaining
about the
tactic.
"I think
people in
due course
will reflect
on this
pamphlet and
think, 'I
could have
done better,
I should
have done
better'," he
said.
"When the
dust settles
on this
election, we
should be
taking a
hard look at
the people
who
constructed
this
pamphlet."
South
Australian
Federal
Liberal MP
Andrew
Southcott
has praised
Mr Husic's
stance –
calling him
a "very
decent man"
on Twitter.
However not
all Liberals
believe the
Labor
Party's
attack was
racist.
South
Australian
senator Cory
Bernardi
told the ABC
he was
waiting for
an
explanation
as to how
highlighting
someone's
surname
could be
considered
racist.
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Myth No.
10:Muslims
have become
so populous
that the
most common
baby name in
Britain is
now
Mohammed.
This is true
- - but it
means far
less than
you’d think.
In 2010, if
you combined
all 12
spelling
variants of
the Islamic
prophet’s
name,
“Mohammed”
was more
popular than
any other
name given
to new
babies.
But that’s
more a
consequence
of naming
trends than
anything
else. In a
great many
Muslim
cultures,
ALL male
babies are
given
“Mohammed”
as an
official
first name.
But among
many
Westerners –
especially
white
Anglo-Saxons
and black
Christians -
- there has
been an
explosion in
unorthodox
baby names -
- as of
2011, these
groups are
50% more
likely than
they were a
generation
ago to give
their
children
uncommon
baby names.
As a result,
Mohammed
manages to
reach the
Number 1
spot without
being all
that common
- - when
combined,
babies named
after the
Islamic
prophet made
up only 1%
of British
newborns in
2010.
(Sourced
from Doug
Saunders'
The Myth of
the Muslim
Tide)
14. The Al
Rajhi family
$4.3bn (new
entry) Saudi
Arabia
Sulaiman Al
Rajhi,
chairman of
Al Rajhi
Bank — Saudi
Arabia’s
largest
Islamic
bank,
established
by royal
decree in
1988 — began
transferring
his assets
to family
members in
July 2010.
His bank’s
origins date
back to the
1940s, when
it began
operating as
a money
changer in
the kingdom.
Today, its
operations
include
retail,
corporate
and
investment
banking.
Sulaiman
owns the
largest cut
of the
institution’s
shares. With
an
established
base in
Riyadh, Al
Rajhi Bank
has a
network of
over 550
branches,
over 100
dedicated
ladies
branches and
more than
2,600 ATMs.
A
philanthropist,
Al Rajhi
founded the
SAAR
Foundation,
a flagship
corporation
representing
charities,
think tanks
and business
entities. Al
Rajhi also
oversees
stakes in a
number of
Saudi firms
— 24.9
percent of
Al Rajhi
Bank, 23.7
percent of
Yanbu Cement
and a 19.7
percent
stake in
Nadec.
All the containers that we have been helping to fill
for overseas destinations have now been filled.
Please do not leave goods at Janeth Deen's home as
we have not received any more requests for clothing
at present.
Household goods for refugees will be requested as
the need arises.
Salaams
Qld Muslim Welfare Association Inc.
Dear Editor
I have four Category 1 tickets to the Bosnia v Iran
group match in Salvador on June 25.
Unfortunately we are unable to attend this match.
If anyone wants these tickets I would be happy to
transfer them for well below cost price.
Muslims booted from Empire
State Building for praying: suit
US:
A Muslim family from Long Island slapped the
owners of the Empire State Building Tuesday
with a scathing $5 million lawsuit that
claims they were booted from the building’s
observation deck for praying.
Fahad and Amina Tirmizi of Farmingville said
their civil rights were violated when they
were “assaulted, battered and forcibly
removed” from the famed observatory last
July.
The suit, filed against Malkin Properties,
security company Andrews International Inc.
and others, claims that Fahad, 32, and his
30-year-old wife were unfairly targeted
because they were Muslim and wearing
traditional Muslim attire.
“We weren’t doing anything wrong,” Fahad
said. “We just wanted to enjoy the view like
everyone else.”
The couple and their two children were on
the 86th-floor outside deck when they walked
over to a quiet spot to recite evening
prayers, the suit says.
Although Amina briefly prayed without
incident, a security guard quickly
confronted Fahad and “menacingly poked” him
and loudly told him he was not allowed to
pray on the deck.
Another guard joined the fray and told all
the family members that they had to leave,
and “forcibly escorted” them down to the
lobby and out of the of the building, the
suit says.
Fahad told The Post that he has prayed in
public before and tries to be respectful.
“Earlier that same day at the Staten Island
Ferry terminal, I needed to pray the
afternoon prayer and wanted to make sure I’m
not in the way,” he said.
“I confirmed with a police officer who was
standing right there to make sure it was a
good spot. The officer responded, ‘Go for
it, it’s not illegal to pray.’ ”
The Tirmizis’ lawyer, Phil Hines, said the
family outing became an experience of
intolerance.
“To most, the Empire State Building is one
of the great landmarks of this city, but for
my client and his family, it is a building
of ignorance and injustice,” Hines said.
“A family trip to enjoy the cityscape was
cut short after security officials threw
them out of the building for exercising
their religious beliefs.”
Representatives for Malkin Properties did
not immediately return messages.
Female students in full body
veil at the Ashraf-ul Madares
madrassa
US: An unregistered religious
school in northern Afghanistan has been
accused of radicalising thousands of women.
A BBC investigation has found that the
Ashraf-ul Madares madrassa in Kunduz
province preaches that listening to radio,
watching television and taking photos are
un-Islamic activities and that women should
not work outside their homes.
Activists say the school undermines women's
rights, but the founders say they are
providing badly needed religious education.
About 6,000 women and young girls are
studying at the madrassa which was
established by two influential mullahs in
Kunduz four years ago.
Students from the madrassa are instantly
recognisable because of their strict Islamic
clothing.
'Tent wearers'
The older students cover their heads, faces
and eyes, and they also wear gloves and
socks. Some wear a full body black chador,
which has led to them being dubbed
"tent-wearers" by some residents.
Kunduz city officials say the radical
interpretation of Islam taught in the school
- particularly over dress codes - is causing
tension between seminary students and other
local people.
Hip-hop propaganda: How
the U.S. enlists rap music to fight “jihadi
cool”
There's a new
counter-"extremist" program coming from U.S.
and European governments -- "moderate"
Muslim hip-hop
One of the odder phenomena of
the last decade is hearing national security
elites, terrorism experts, and career
diplomats discuss the finer points of
“flow,” “bling,” and the “politics of cool.”
American and European
terrorism experts have increasingly
expressed concerns over “anti-American
hip-hop,” accenting the radicalizing
influence of the genre.
Noting that Al-Shabaab, the
Somali-based Islamist group, uses “jihad
rap” in its recruitment videos, Harvard
scholar Jessica Stern wrote in Foreign
Affairs: “The first- and second-generation
Muslim children I interviewed for a study of
the sources of radicalization in the
Netherlands seemed to think that talking
about jihad was cool, in the same way that
listening to gangster rap is in some youth
circles.” Others have advocated mobilizing
certain substyles of hip-hop against “jihadi
cool.” In Europe, hip-hop is being enlisted
in a broad ideological offensive to counter
domestic extremism.
As in America, some of the biggest stars on
the European hiphop scene are Muslim, the
children of immigrants and/or converts, a
number of whom have been embroiled in
controversies about freedom of expression,
national identity, and extremism.
Britain became the first
country to deal with the issue of “Muslim
hate rap” when, in 2004, the song “Dirty
Kuffar” was released online by rap group
Sheikh Terra and the Soul Salah Crew. The
video, splicing together images from Iraq,
Palestine, and Chechnya, praises Osama bin
Laden and denounces Bush, Tony Blair, Ariel
Sharon, Hosni Mubarak, and Saudi Arabia’s
King ‘Abdallah as “dirty infidels.” The
track drew the attention of the Home Office
and Labour MPs, who saw the lyrics and
imagery as advocating violence.
In 2006, Aki Nawaz of the
popular hip-hop techno group Fun-Da-Mental
released an album, All Is War, with a cover
depicting the Statue of Liberty hooded and
wired like an Abu Ghraib prisoner, and a
song (“Che Bin Pt 2”) comparing bin Laden to
Che Guevara. Two MPs called for his arrest.
MY STORY: Maulana Saeed
Ncane – From Prison to Pulpit
Maulana
Saeed Ncane is the the first South African
parolee who graduated in 2013 at the Darul
Uloom Nu’maniya in Durban.
He was imprisoned in 2001, accepted Islam at
the Westville Prison due to the efforts of
the Muslim Prison Board in KZN. He was
released on parole in 2008 and studied the
Imaamat course at Madressah Taalim ud Deen
in Isipingo Beach. Thereafter he began the
aalim course at madressah Miftaahul Falaah
in Harding from 2009 to 2012.
SOUTH AFRICA: The reality of
everything [my life] started coming to me
when I began attending the programs which
are conducted by the Muslim Prison Board KZN
– Maulana Shabir Asmal, Sheikh Amir and they
used to bring many Ulama, well known Ulama
from the country and from out of the
country, to the prison.
From that I started
collecting and trying to understand. I had
Muslim friends around me and I started
knowing that this must be the right way
because we just spoke about God, the worship
of God. I was doing intensive reading and I
had the intention, previously I didn’t
understand what Islam was about, only when I
was in prison everything became clear.
Every reception has an amir
for Muslims, I spoke with the amir, he was
also from Chatsworth, African brother. He
clarified a lot of things for me and I took
Islam and the Kalima under his guidance.
Normally every Monday when the Imaam used to
come, he’d have a group of maybe two, three,
four or sometimes 10 people who accepted
Islam.
Normally every Monday I would
notice a few people and I was amongst that
group who accepted Islam. They had classes
where they taught Quraan, Islamic history,
and that’s where I started learning and I
became very interested and learned a lot.
There is also Taraweeh Salaah in prison,
there are Huffaaz that used to lead the
prayers but I also used to participate
reading Salaah, the five times Salaah
because I had so much love for Deen, I can’t
explain it, but I was in the environment of
Muslim brothers all around me, a circle of
friends who was speaking about the love for
Allah Ta’alah and leaving the things we used
to do.
After reading the Quraan and
being in contact with all these brothers I
felt like a new me and like a big burden
came off my back. Even the sentence I was
serving, I didn’t feel so hard about it, I
thought that I had to be sentences because
I’ve hurt so many people and committed so
many crimes. I just felt fifteen years was
nothing, I did so many things which I was
not caught for so I really deserved this and
I made a lot of taubah until my release.
IslAmerica: The Trials of
Islamic Converts in The United States
US: Though Will Caldwell was
born, raised and college educated in
Georgia, he is uncomfortable praying there.
He has felt that way since a clear summer
evening in 2007 at a nondescript gas station
off a nondescript interstate somewhere
between Savannah and Macon. He was on his
way home to Saint Simons Island from Emory
University, where he had just finished his
junior year. Caldwell had pulled his red
Mini Cooper into the rest stop because the
sun was starting to set and, since he had
converted to Islam one year earlier, this
meant that it was time to pray.
In the empty field next to the gas station,
he found a discrete corner, laid out his mat
and began to recite the holy verses, first
standing, then bent forward, then on his
knees with his head to the ground. He
noticed two people looking at him,
secretively peering out from behind their
truck. Uneasy, he rushed through the ritual,
folded up his mat and got back in the car to
leave. As he pulled away, he could see in
his rear view mirror a cop car pulling into
the parking lot. The people who had been
staring were flagging down the police
officer and pointing at Caldwell. He drove
on at an intentionally moderate pace, and
the cop did not follow, but he has not
risked praying publicly in the South since.
Caldwell is soft spoken. He pauses
thoughtfully before talking and sometimes
between sentences. He wears a plaid button
down shirt, slacks and small, round
wire-framed glasses. His wide-set green eyes
gaze out earnestly from his creamy white
face. One quickly gets the sense that he is
a kind and spiritual person. Perhaps this is
his fatal flaw. After growing up in the
Episcopal Church, Caldwell rediscovered his
spirituality in Islam and decided to
convert. Now, less than a hundred miles from
where he was raised, onlookers see
Caldwell's prayer as a potential threat. Why
might this be?
"The political context we are in is so
charged with anti-Muslim rhetoric that it's
almost impossible, I would say, for that
conversion not to have some kind of
political ramifications even if the convert
in no way intends it," says Brannon Ingram,
a professor of religious studies at
Northwestern University, who specializes in
Islam and Sufism. In July of 2013, Fox News
correspondent Lauren Green interviewed
religion scholar Reza Aslan about "Zealot",
a book he just had written about Jesus
Christ. She repeatedly questioned his
credentials and asked him to explain how a
Muslim could write about Christianity. In
2013, a Pew Research Center for the People &
the Press study found that 45 percent of
Americans believe that Muslims face "a lot"
of discrimination.
What
if the problem is us? Sixty years ago a goatee beard would
have gotten you beat up in a lot of places. Chin fuzz was
the symbol of the Beats or Beatniks, a mid-century, marginal
group who pioneered a new kind of lifestyle. Their approach
to life was hedonistic, experiential, fluid, and
individualistic. Their contradictory approach to
spirituality combined a search for God with a search for
'kicks'. In 1947, these Beatnik heroes set out on a road
trip across America re-writing the "life-script"; of all
future generations.
Theirs was a new kind of lifestyle for a
secular age. Their lives then (like so many of our lives
now) were built upon experience, pleasure, mobility and
self-discovery. They would also model a new approach to
faith: desiring Christ, while still pursuing a laundry list
of vices. Yet this dream would turn into a nightmare and the
open road would lead back to an ancient half-forgotten path.
This was a path trodden by millions of feet over thousands
of years.
It was a path that began with a single step
of faith as a pilgrim named Abraham stepped away from a
cynical culture. A path of devotion that would lead to a
cross on a hill named Golgotha.
Would
you like to see the cover of your favourite book on
our book shelves below?
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: Aamena Nathie
says this is her signature drink, one she
invented to stop her children from drinking soft
drink which is so full of colourings and
additives.
Iced Tea
Method
Infuse 5 Lipton
teabags in boiling water in a 2 cup oven
proof jug.
Add 1 cup castor
sugar and stir to dissolve.
Pour into a 2L
jug and top with filtered water
Garnish with a
finely sliced lemon and lots of fresh
mint...
Q: Dear Kareema, we’re
looking at taking a break over the coming weeks
and was wondering if there is anything you can
suggest we do while away. We love the outdoors
and are keen to keep our fitness levels up.
A: If you’re looking at a city getaway,
then find a place with a pool, tennis court and
gym so there is no excuse not to exercise.
Be sure to pack your skipping
ropes for cardio and exercise tubes / bands for
resistance training. Early morning runs / walks
is a great way to start the day.
If anything, using your own body
weight while exercising is a great challenge –
incorporate tricep dips and tricep push-ups,
sit-ups, hovers, etc. into every workout routine
for a stronger, leaner body.
If you’re looking at escaping the city then I
suggest a hiking getaway or yoga retreat. Farm
stays will be good if you don’t mind
horse-riding, etc.
Places with lakes are great so
you can go for a paddle or swim while enjoying
the great outdoors.
It is He
Who makes the stars (as
beacons) for you, that you
may guide yourselves, with
their help, through the dark
spaces of land and sea: We
detail Our Signs for people
who know.
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 weekly program schedule is as follows:
Mondays: Tafseer
Wednesdays: Tafseer
The above lessons will start at 7:30 pm and will go for
approximately 1/2 an hour each day.
All brothers and sisters are welcome.
Queensland Police Service/Muslim Community
Consultative Group
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
Islamic
Society of
Toowoomba is
hosting the
first Mosque
in Toowoomba
for its
Opening
Ceremony to
be held on
Sunday 30
March from
11am-7pm.
The
Islamic
Information
Service of
Cooloola has
produced a
newsletter
and run-down
of IISOC’s
work within
the region
during the
past two
months.
US:
A Muslim family from Long Island slapped the
owners of the Empire State Building Tuesday
with a scathing $5 million lawsuit that
claims they were booted from the building’s
observation deck for praying.
Maulana
Saeed Ncane is the the first South African
parolee who graduated in 2013 at the Darul
Uloom Nu’maniya in Durban.
What
if the problem is us? Sixty years ago a goatee beard would
have gotten you beat up in a lot of places. Chin fuzz was
the symbol of the Beats or Beatniks, a mid-century, marginal
group who pioneered a new kind of lifestyle. Their approach
to life was hedonistic, experiential, fluid, and
individualistic. Their contradictory approach to
spirituality combined a search for God with a search for
'kicks'. In 1947, these Beatnik heroes set out on a road
trip across America re-writing the "life-script"; of all
future generations. 
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