Ms
Leila Abukar
has been
selected to
run in the
next State
election as
the LNP
candidate
for
Yeerongpilly.
Ms Abukar
has had a
wide range
of senior
managerial
roles with
government,
council and
not-for-profit
organisations.
She has a
strong
connection
to
Yeerongpilly
having
worked and
lived in the
electorate
with her two
children.
Leila
arrived in
Queensland
as a refugee
from Somalia
and went on
to gain
numerous
academic
qualifications
ranging from
Disability
Support and
Conflict
Resolution
to
International
Relations.
She is a
past member
of the
Queensland
Multicultural
Roundtable,
the Council
for
Multicultural
Australia
and Refugees
Resettlement
Advisory
Council.
She has been
recognized
for her
community
work with
several
awards
including a
Centenary
Medal for
contributions
to Crisis
Counselling,
Advocacy and
Settlement
for the
Somalia and
African
communities
in
Queensland.
The senior
students of
the College
presided
over a very
dignified
and
well-organized
ceremony
directed by
Mr David
Forde,
president of
the
Sunnybank
RSL.
Dr Mustafa
Ally handed
the school a
compilation
of the
diaries and
documents of
WW2 hero
(Bob)
Mohideen
Abdul Ghias
Howsan
prepared by
the
Queensland
Muslim
Historical
Society.
Sunnybank RSL
A record turnout attended the Sunnybank commemorations.
President of the Sunnybank RSL, Mr David Forde told CCN that his RSL branch was delighted and honoured to receive the publication that was presented by the Queensland Muslim Historical Society and that there was already keen interest from his members
On
Sunday 18
May Muslim
Aid
Australia (MAA)
and Muslim
Charitable
Foundation (MCF)
will
formally
join hands
by
co-hosting a
fundraising
lunch at
Michael’s
Oriental
Restaurant
in Eight
Mile Plains.
With the aim
of the lunch
being to
raise funds
towards
exciting new
international
projects in
Permaculture,
the aptly
named event
“25 Seeds of
Goodness”
will see the
two
organisations
combine
forces and
increase the
aid and
support
provided to
people in
need both
locally and
internationally.
Guest
speakers
including
Geoff
Lawton, a
world
renowned
permaculture
expert,
Sheikh
Hassan
Elsetohy,
MAA’s CEO,
and Mr.
Yusuf
Khatree of
the Muslim
Charitable
Foundation.
Guests will
also witness
the signing
of MAA and
MCF’s
Memorandum
of
Understanding
– a first in
Australia.
Limited
number of
tickets are
available by
calling
Riyaad Ally
of Muslim
Aid
Australia on
0434 984 520
or Yusuf
Khatree of
Muslim
Charitable
Foundation
on 0401 246
228.
This is a
unique event
and
definitely
not to be
missed.
Yahya
Ibrahim
(pictured
left) is
Canadian by
birth and
education,
Egyptian
through a
rich
ancestry,
Turkish via
marriage to
Songul and
Australian
by Choice of
residence
and
migration.
Since his
early teens
Yahya has
been talking
about Islam
to Muslims
and
non-Muslims.
He has met,
translated,
studied and
taught
alongside
some of the
Islamic
world's top
scholars.
Yahya
Ibrahim
began
memorizing
the Qur’an
at the age
of 16 and
finished 20
months
later,
receiving an
ijazah
(certification)
in
proficiency
and an
instruction
to teach.
He began
lecturing at
the age of
17 and has
been
involved in
the Islamic
community
since 1993.
He lives in
Perth with
his wife and
three
children and
is a regular
lecturer to
Muslim and
non-Muslim
audiences
their and
around the
world.
He travels
in
Australasia,
Africa,
South East
Asia, Europe
and Canada
to deliver
lectures on
Islam and
Muslims to a
variety of
audiences.
He is
committed to
spreading a
message to
Muslims that
empowers
them
spiritually
and helps
them
integrate
into the
broader
community.
He is born
in the west,
raised in
the west and
lives in the
west.
A message of
anti-militancy,
religious
tolerance,
and moral
universality
are a part
of his
outlook.
Yahya is a
registered
Teacher and
serves the
Muslim
community at
Curtin
University
and teaches
internationally
with al-Kauthar
Institute
www.alkauthar.org.
It has been
announced
that Sheikh
Mohammed
Junaid
Thorne will
be on tour
to deliver a
talks to the
Muslim
communities
in Lutwyche,
Gold Coast
and Brisbane
between the
2nd and 4th
of May.
Sheikh
Junaid was
born in
Australia
and is of
indigenous
descent from
the Noongar
tribe in
Perth. He
completed
memorization
of the
Qur'an
before the
age of 6 and
went to
Riyadh,
Saudi Arabia
at the age
of 10.
He spent 14
years there
studying
various
Islamic
sciences
including
Tafseer,
Ayat Al-Ahkam,
Tajweed,
Hadeeth (Bukhari
& Muslim),
Mustalah Al-Hadeeth,
Hanbali Fiqh,
Usul ul-Fiqh,
Qawa'id
Fiqhiyyah,
Arabic
Grammar,
Balaaghah, 'Aroodh
& poetry and
other fields
of knowledge
under
numerous
Scholars in
the Masaajid
of Riyadh &
Madina.
The Sheikh
also has
Ijazah in 3
different
Qira'aat (Asim,
Ibn Katheer,
Ibn Aamir)
and Riwayat
Warsh.
Seeking
highly
motivated
individuals
committed to
the
education of
Muslim
children.
Opportunities
for:
Casual
positions
(4.00 pm –
6.30 pm,
Monday –
Friday)
Relief
teaching
Professional
learning,
training and
development
(no
commitment
to work in
the
Madrassah
required;
open to
qualified
teachers;
homeschoolers;
parents; and
others).
Weekly
professional
learning
topics:
Islamic
education
philosophy
Evidence
based
teaching and
learning
strategies
Student
centred
teaching
practice
Prophetic
pedagogical
strategies.
All
interested
candidates
are invited
for either
employment
or
professional
learning
opportunities.
Often
described as
the Duke of
Nablus or
Palestine’s
Rothschild,
Masri is
known as the
patriarch of
a prominent
Palestinian
family that
has produced
bankers,
consultants
and
politicians.
Masri, a
geologist,
hails from
the West
Bank town of
Nablus from
where he
resides at
his
Palestine
House, a
palace of
limestone
resembling
the
Palladian
style Villa
La Rotonda
in Vicenza,
Italy.
Masri, who
was once a
close
confidant of
the late
Palestinian
leader
Yasser
Arafat (who
offered him
the
premiership
three
times), made
his fortune
in oil and
gas working
in the Gulf
region,
North Africa
and
elsewhere.
When the
Oslo peace
process
kicked off
Masri helped
set up the
Palestine
Development
and
Investment
Ltd. (PADICO),
the largest
private
investor by
initial
investment
in the West
Bank and
Gaza Strip,
which he
chairs.
The holding
group
controls
over 30
companies
across
various
industries
that include
telecommunications,
construction,
tourism,
energy,
environment,
banking,
finance and
agriculture.
He also
founded the
Edgo group
(industry,
commerce,
health,
education,
distribution),
which
oversees 29
companies
across the
Middle East,
Africa,
Europe and
North
America.
Masri, who
is a member
of the
Palestine
Central
Council, is
also a
philanthropist.
To
commemorate
Women’s
History
Month, we
collected
photos of
Muslim
American
women.
We’ve
compiled
thirty-two
images. One
for each day
of March,
plus another
because no
one month
can contain
the
awesomeness
of Muslim
Women.
These images
show the
status and
the
importance
of Muslim
women in our
society.
Muslim women
are
liberated,
educated,
and play the
most
important
roles in our
society.
Update: The
purpose and
intent of
this article
is not to
showcase the
ethnic and
racial
diversity of
Muslimahs.
No one
article can
do that. We
meant to
express the
diversity of
the roles
Muslimahs
play in
society and
to begin to
re-frame how
they are
thought
about. Going
forward we
will make
sure to be
all
inclusive.
(4)
Sarah
Kureshi
– MD, MPH
Assistant
Professor of
Family
Medicine at
Georgetown
University
School of
Medicine
UK: British
counter-terrorism police chiefs are making
an unprecedented appeal to Muslim women to
persuade their relatives not to go to Syria
to fight.
The national campaign for women to intervene
follows a string of deaths of UK men who
joined Syria's civil war against President
Assad's regime.
Co-ordinated events are being held in
London, Birmingham and Manchester.
Critics and campaigners questioned whether
the police were trusted enough to get their
message across.
'Major risk'
Security chiefs think hundreds of people
have travelled from the UK to fight in
Syria, some of whom have returned.
Forty people have been arrested for alleged
Syria-related offences during the first
three months of this year - almost double
the number held during the whole of 2013,
police said.
And reports suggest up to 20 men from
Britain have died in the conflict.
Recent deaths have included Crawley
father-of-three Abdul Waheed Majeed - who
became the first British suicide bomber in
the war - and a teenager from Brighton.
Star of Ukip advert
suspended for calling Miliband 'not
British', attacking 'evil' Islam and saying
Africans should 'kill themselves'... and he
is from ZIMBABWE
UK:
Ukip has suspended the star of its first
European election TV broadcast after it
emerged that he condemned Ed Miliband as
‘not a real Brit’, suggested Africans should
‘kill themselves off’ and said Islam was an
evil religion with a paedophile prophet.
Andre Lampitt (pictured left) also
said he loathed the charity Oxfam and
welcomed Aids outbreaks in Africa, saying:
‘Inner peace will come when Aids does what
it should and reduce African density.’
Like party leader Nigel Farage, he said he
admired Russian leader Vladimir Putin,
adding: ‘At least Putin loves his country.
David Cameron does not love Britain, he
loves the EU.’
Ukip said it was ‘shocked’ by
his views, which will embarrass the party as
it prepares for local elections next month –
with Mr Lampitt standing as a councillor in
Merton, South London.
The builder, who describes himself as ‘born
British in Rhodesia’, was one of five
supporters hand-picked to appear in a
prime-time television campaign starting this
week.
He was featured in the broadcast criticising
immigration from the EU, saying: ‘Since the
lads from Eastern Europe are prepared to
work for a lot less than anybody else, I’ve
found it a real struggle.’
Yesterday, the party said it
was suspending him after discovering he had
expressed ‘repellent’ views in a series of
potentially unlawful messages on Twitter
over recent months.
In one tweet he claimed that Islam was not a
religion and called it an ‘evil organisation
respecting a prophet who as a pedo.’[sic]
He added: ‘All Muslims need to leave
Europe... or denounce their pathetic satanic
religion.’
Another message insisted:
‘Most Nigerians are generally bad people...
I grew up in Africa and dare anyone to prove
me wrong.’
He suggested Africans should be ‘left to
‘kill themselves off’ and suggested people
should ‘get over’ slavery, which he said was
an ‘act of war’.
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: It's a win-win
situation when your husband gets you a cooking
class for a birthday gift as Fathima Adat soon
found out when she turned out this delicious
cake.
Baked Italian Lemon Cheesecake
Ingredients
Sweet Shortcrust
300g plain flour
120g icing sugar
pinch of sea salt
1 lemon zest
120g unsalted butter, cold and diced
2 egg yolks
(ALL the above ingredients need to be cold)
Cheesecake
500g ricotta
½ cup plain flour
½ tsp sea salt
½ tsp vanilla paste or seeds scraped from 1
vanilla bean
4 eggs, separated
2 lemons, zest
1 cup pure cream
1 cup castor sugar
Method
1. Shortcrust:
Place the flour, icing sugar, salt and lemon
zest in a food processor and pulse together.
Add the butter and process until crumbly.
Drizzle egg yolks in
and pulse until pastry starts to form a ball –
don’t over process. Add a little iced water if
the pastry is too dry.
Place the pastry on
a bench and gently knead together. Form a disc
and wrap in cling film.
Refrigerate pastry
for 30 minutes before using.
Preheat the oven to 170 degrees.
Grease a 23cm spring form baking tin.
Roll out pastry on a
floured bench and cut to fit baking tin. Press
into base and sides.
Place the pastry
lined baking tin in the fridge for 10 minutes
and then remove and blind bake for 8 minutes.
Remove and fill with cheesecake mixture.
2. Cheesecake mixture:
Place ricotta, flour, salt, yolks and vanilla in
a stand mixer with a paddle attachment and beat
to smooth.
Gradually add cream
and lemon zest and incorporate.
Beat egg white to
soft peaks and rain in the sugar until a stiff
meringue forms – about 5 minutes on a high
speed.
Gently fold meringue
through ricotta mixture. Fill pastry case and
bake for 40 minutes or until firm to touch.
Q: Dear Kareema, is it
possible to over exercise? And if so, how do you
know that you are over doing it?
A: The short answer is yes.
Symptoms include constantly
feeling exhausted, or falling ill every so
often, and can even include being moody.
If you’re slogging it out at the
gym for hours at a time, start re-thinking your
approach.
Try high-intensity workouts –
which consists of short, intense bursts of
exercise with either active recovery or complete
rest in between - and can be done in as little
as 20mins.
This means you don’t have to
spend as much time at the gym working out and be
sure to take rest days between weight training
sessions.
When Mula Nasruddin was studying at the University,
there was his lecturer who felt a certain degree of
animosity towards Mula Nasruddin, and because Mula
Nasruddin never lowered his head towards him, their
'arguments' were very frequent.
One day, the lecturer was having lunch at the dining
room of the University and Mula Nasruddin came along
with his tray and sat next to the him.
The lecturer, in his arrogance, said, "Nasruddin: you do
not understand... a pig and a bird do not sit together
to eat ", to which Mula Nasruddin replies, "You do not
worry sir, I'll fly away ", and he went and sat at
another table.
On another occasion the lecturer confronted Mula
Nasruddin with the following question: "Nasruddin, if
you are walking down the street and find a package, and
within it there is a bag of wisdom and another bag with
a lot of money; which one will you take?"
Without hesitating, Mula Nasruddin responded, "The one
with the money, of course".
The lecturer, smiling, said, "I, in your place, would
have taken the wisdom, don't you think?"
"Each one takes what one doesn't have", responded Mula
Nasruddin indifferently.
On yet another occasion the lecturer writes on Mula
Nasruddin's exam sheet the word 'idiot' and gives it
back to him.
Mula Nasruddin takes the exam sheet and sits down.
A few minutes later, Mula Nasruddin goes to the lecturer
and says, "Sir, you signed the sheet, but you did not
give me the grade."
For those
who give in charity, men and
women, and loan to Allah a
beautiful loan, it shall be
increased manifold (to their
credit), and they shall have
(besides) a liberal reward.
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.
Topic = Tafseer lessons
Venue = Masjid Taqwa, Bald Hills, Qld 4036
Day = Every Monday | Time = After Esha salah | Period =
approximately 30 minutes
Presenter = Mufti Junaid Akbar
Cost = free, and InShaAllah Allah will give great reward
Who can come = All brothers and sisters are welcome to
attend
Please note that these recordings will be available for
downloading from our website
masjidtaqwa.org.au.
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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.
Ms
Leila Abukar
has been
selected to
run in the
next State
election as
the LNP
candidate
for
Yeerongpilly.
.
Yahya
Ibrahim
(pictured
left) is
Canadian by
birth and
education,
Egyptian
through a
rich
ancestry,
Turkish via
marriage to
Songul and
Australian
by Choice of
residence
and
migration.
Casual
positions
(4.00 pm –
6.30 pm,
Monday –
Friday)
UK:
Ukip has suspended the star of its first
European election TV broadcast after it
emerged that he condemned Ed Miliband as
‘not a real Brit’, suggested Africans should
‘kill themselves off’ and said Islam was an
evil religion with a paedophile prophet.
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