Christians
of
various
denominations
joined
together
in a
show
of
solidarity
with
their
Muslim
counterparts
at
the
Kuraby
Mosque
on
Friday
morning
before
the
weekly
jummah
prayer.
In
the
wake
of
over
a
fortnight
of
tension
within
and
outside
the
Muslim
community
all
around
Australia,
Friday's
gathering
was
a
way
of
demonstrating
that
the
Muslim
community
was
not
being
abandoned
and
left
to
become
captives
in
their
own
country.
A
statement
calling
for
Christians
and
Muslim
to
stand
together
was
read
out
by
the
religious
and
community
leaders
of
both
faiths.
Terri
Begley
of
ABC
612
was
there,
and
shared
what
happened:
Peak body
for cultural
diversity
the Ethnic
Communities
Council of
Queensland (ECCQ)
joins
Minister for
Aboriginal
and Torres
Strait
Islander and
Multicultural
Affairs,
Glen Elmes,
in signing
and
promoting a
statement of
solidarity
that
advocates
unity and
respect
between all
people of
all faiths.
The
statement,
put together
by a group
of religious
leaders in
Australia,
led by the
organisation,
Welcome to
Australia,
is in
response to
recent focus
in the media
and in
public
discourse of
framing
ant-terrorism
efforts and
acts of
extremism
and violence
as a Muslim
issue.
The authors
of the
statement of
solidarity,
“We’ll Love
Muslims 100
Years”
write, “We
stand in
solidarity
with all
people who
are
suffering
the results
of war,
violence and
terror
around the
world,
recognising
the dignity
of all
people and
their right
to enjoy
freedom from
persecution
and
oppression.
We celebrate
the
diversity of
the
Australian
community
and
recognise
the valuable
contribution
of people of
Muslim faith
to our
culture and
community.
We know that
vilification
and
alienation
are not the
way to peace
or social
harmony, but
that
authentic
relationships,
solidarity,
listening,
learning and
mutual
respect go a
long way to
building the
kind of
community
we’d like to
live in.”
ECCQ
Director Dr
Mustafa Ally
said the
recent
negative
portrayals
of people of
Muslim faith
have had
unfortunate
consequences
for Muslim
communities
in
Queensland
who have
fallen
victim to
racial
vilification.
“Islam is a
peaceful
religion and
our Muslim
communities
are
upstanding
citizens who
contribute
greatly to
Queensland
and
Australia-wide
as community
leaders,
volunteers,
teachers,
doctors,
etc.,” he
said. “The
highly
divisive
rhetoric
currently
being used
in the media
to describe
an entire
population
of people
threatens
social
harmony at a
time when
unity and
understanding
is vital.”
Now is the
time for
unity and
solidarity
between all
cultures and
all faiths
and to stand
up to
hateful acts
and words
that may
marginalise
a whole
community.”
Walk
Together is
coming up
and that
many Muslim
organisations
around the
country will
be taking
part this
year. Watch
this space
for the
Brisbane
effort.
ON
behalf of
all
fair-minded
and decent
citizens on
the Sunshine
Coast, I
unreservedly
apologise to
the local
Islamic
community
for the
absurd and
offensive
demonstration
last
Saturday
morning
outside the
Stella Maris
Catholic
Church.
While I
respect, and
am prepared
to listen
to,
everybody
else's
varying
points of
view, I am
the person
who lives
next door to
the house
that the
local Muslim
folk have
purchased
for whatever
purpose they
intend.
I never
wished the
Islamic
community to
buy in next
door. It was
their
choice. By
doing so, I
presume that
the Muslim
community is
inviting the
Catholics
next door to
make them
welcome, so
that we can
get along
well enough
together as
good
neighbours.
Sadly, the
Stop the
Mosque
crusaders,
in trying to
pull down
the Muslim
community,
have
unintentionally
attempted to
denigrate
the local
Catholic
community as
well.
Of course
there will
be issues,
but, please,
let us sort
these things
out between
ourselves as
considerate
and
reasonable
neighbours.
For those
people who
worry about
international
terrorism
issues,
counter-terrorism
action
starts at
home, in our
personal
dealings
with the
folk who
live next
door.
It is wiser
to leave
security and
terrorism
issues to
the police
and other
appropriate
law
enforcement
agencies.
I
respectfully
suggest
local groups
stop
persecuting
the local
Muslim
community
and conduct
themselves,
and share
their
opinions, in
a much more
Christ-like
manner than
we witnessed
on Saturday.
"Regrettably
we are
seeing a
serious
testing of
our social
cohesion
that is
often driven
for
perceived
political
gain.
Queensland
is home to
people who
speak more
than 220
languages,
hold more
than 100
religious
beliefs (or
none) and
come from
more than
220
countries or
geographical
locations,
and we are
one of the
most
peaceful
nations on
earth. We
all live
here, are
all
different in
our own
right, yet
all share
some form of
commonality.
Everyone has
a right to
feel and be
included in
our society
within the
rule of law.
This dinner
is about
celebrating
and
supporting
positive
social
cohesion and
not about
politics or
religion."
Where:
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Oriental
Restaurant When:
Friday 17
October
2014. 6.30pm Cost:
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$350 table
of ten
includes
dinner
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Arundel
Mosque held
an open day
on Saturday
to show the
Gold Coast
community it
has nothing
to fear
THE Arundel
Mosque threw
open its
doors and
invited the
community in
the hopes of
increasing
education
and
acceptance
on the Gold
Coast.
Gold Coast
Islamic
Society
president
Hussin Goss
said the
public were
invited to
enjoy a
sausage
sizzle and
ask
questions to
help them
better
understand
what a
mosque is
all about.
The move
came after
the religion
and its
traditions
were thrown
into the
spotlight
following
international
events and
the Gold
Coast City
Council’s
rejection of
a proposal
to build a
mosque at
Currumbin.
“It’s all
been
highlighted
lately not
just on the
Gold Coast
but within
Australia
because of
what’s
happening
overseas and
on the
southern
Gold Coast,”
Mr Goss
said.
“We have an
obligation
to open the
doors to
open the
doors to the
public and
enlighten
everyone.
“I think
people are
inquisitive
about it and
some have
misunderstandings
but most
people are
good about
it.”
The day was
also used to
raise money
for a local
woman with
multiple
sclerosis
who had
reached out
for help to
fund an
operation.
“We have
done these
sorts of
things
privately
but we want
to show the
community
that we are
involved and
we are using
the day as a
bit of a
sponsorship
of her
overseas
stem cell
therapy,” he
said.
“The
operation is
$50,000 and
we want to
show that
Gold
Coasters are
good-hearted.”
The open day
was held at
the mosque
on Allied
Drive from
10am to 1pm
on Saturday.
Almost 500
non-Muslims
including
Asst. Police
Commissioner
Stephen
Hollands
visited the
Mosque.
They were
given a
guided tour
around the
Mosque and
were treated
to a
sumptuous
sausage
sizzle and
drinks.
"More that
95 percent
of the
visitors
were first
timers to
the Gold
Coast Masjid
and they
were
impressed
with the
reception.
All left
with a good
positive
impression
and better
understanding
of Islam and
Muslims.
Inshaallah,
this will be
the
beginning of
more 'Open
Day' events
at the Gold
Coast Masjid,"
Hussain Baba
(ISGC -
Secretary)
told CCN.
Imam Uzair
Akbar loves
golf and
soccer, but
his
favourite
sportsman is
cricketer
David
Hussey.
He's also
partial to a
plate of
steak and
chips.
But it is
his day job
that puts
Uzair Akbar
in the
frontline of
one of
contemporary
Australia's
most
exhausting
positions.
Uzii Akhar
is the Imaan
of the
Islamic
Council of
Holland
Park, which
is based
around the
108-year-old
Islamic
mosque in
Brisbane's
inner-south.
The Imam is
the leader
of the
Muslim
community.
And this
week, Imaan
Akbar's job
leading a
Muslim
congregation
under the
tense gaze
of a
questioning
Australia
after the
most
extensive
terrorism
raids
Australia
has ever
seen, has
been a very
hard one.
Last week,
on Friday
afternoon,
however,
Imam Akbar
welcomed 200
people
inside the
mosque on
Nursery Road
for an
hour-long
open
session.
Inside, the
domed
building's
green-carpeted
prayer room
was crowded
with curious
local
residents.
Some wore
headscarfs,
some
headwear out
of respect.
All had
questions.
Imam Akbar
was
surprised at
the turnout
and at the
warm
applause he
received.
"I think
this was
very
productive
and very
constructive
and I
believe it
will grow in
size and the
message will
be related
to the wider
community,"
he said.
Imam Akbar
has been at
the Holland
Park mosque
for 18
years,
arriving in
Australia in
1996.
"I was born
in England,
studied in
Pakistan for
14 years and
then studied
in
Australia,"
he said.
As an Imam,
he has
memorised
Islam's
Koran –
known the
Quran – and
can recite
it from
cover to
cover.
Imam Akbar
explained
the Muslim
religion and
the aspects
of the
Holland Park
mosque to
those who
gathered
there on
Friday.
He was
joined by
Ali Kadri,
the general
secretary of
the Islamic
Council of
Holland Park
Islamic
community.
Mr Kadri
said Muslims
were willing
to take
responsibility
for
ignorance in
their
community
and
requested
the wider
Australian
community
learn more
about Islam.
"As the
Muslim
community we
are willing
to take
charge for
our
radicals,
for our
ignorance,"
Mr Kadri
said.
Yet, he said
there were
steps both
Muslims and
non-Muslims
could take
to ease the
tensions in
the
community.
"I see a
bridge
between us,"
he said.
"On the
Muslim side
of the
bridge there
are
extremists
sitting, not
letting us
get
through," he
said.
"And on the
other side
there are
ignorant
people
sitting not
letting us
get through.
"We need to
remove them
and take the
bridge, walk
over and be
one."
Mr Kadri
said
extremists
had
victimised
Islam in
using it as
justification
for their
violent
acts.
"Islam is
innocent, if
anything
Islam is the
biggest
victim of
the crime
committed in
the name of
Islam," he
said.
He said the
religion had
to be
separated
from acts of
atrocity.
"Islam is
innocent of
the crime
committed by
Muslims in
the same way
that
Christianity
is innocent
of the
crimes
committed by
Christians,"
he said.
"We should
not connect
the religion
to the
crimes
committed by
the people
committing
those
crimes."
His comments
were
received
with loud
applause.
Mr Kadri
said
extremists
had broken
connections
with their
mosques.
"They go and
open up a
centre and
sit on a
computer and
look at
YouTube
where a
prolific
speaker with
views that
they want to
project,
connects
with them,"
he said.
"Especially
with the
people who
feel
disenfranchised,
marginalised."
He said the
lack of
commitment
to Muslim
teachings
was one
cause of the
problems
Islam was
now facing.
"They are
reading the
same book,
but they are
not reading
it properly
and they are
not
presenting
it
properly."
Mr Kadri was
challenged
by a young
woman who
said she had
been abused
by young
Muslims.
Mr Kadri
said
incidents
like that
must be
reported to
the police
and to the
Imaans.
"If somebody
wants to
stand
against one
innocent
Australian,
they will
have to go
through me
to do that,
regardless
of their
faith," he
said.
"When Imam
talks about
this country
and the
safety of
this
country, if
any Muslim
has any idea
in their
head of
threatening
the safety
and security
of this
country –
which is a
peaceful
country –
and its
people, we
will stand
by
Australians."
The 200
people who
turned up at
the Holland
Park mosque
on Friday
could have
well been
part of
history,
with the
suggestion
of holding a
Queensland-wide
Mosque Day
also
receiving
loud
applause.
The weekend
after
September 11
– when
thousands of
people died
in the name
of Islam –
is now being
considered
one option
for a
Queensland
Mosque Day.
"Where all
the mosques
can open for
one weekend
– in the
third
weekend in
September
preferably,
because
September is
connected
with a very
sad event
where 3000
poor souls
were killed
in the name
of Islam
unfortunately,"
Mr Kadri
said.
He also
suggested
the week
after
September 11
become a
week of
discussion.
Mr Kadri
asked the
visitors
gathered at
the Holland
Park mosque,
including
Arts
Minister Ian
Walker,
their view
and received
positive
applause.
"I think we
should start
here. We are
the pioneers
of communal
harmony and
we should
start it
from here
and let the
world learn
how to live
in peace in
harmony," he
said.
Friday's
crowd also
included
Greenslopes
MP Ian Kaye
and Brisbane
councillor
Krista
Adams.
Bill Shorten
(left)
and Michelle
Rowland
(bottom
right)
have written
an
open-letter
to the
Islamic
community
following
concerning
reports
about
Australia’s
Islamic
community
being
assaulted,
vilified,
and being
wrongly
stigmatised
for the
crimes of
ISIL.
In such
difficult
times, Labor
will
continue to
speak out
against
ill-informed
and
dangerous
views and
stand up for
tolerance
and
multiculturalism.
Read their
letter here:
To whom it
may concern,
We have been
very
distressed
by recent
reports
about the
Australian
Islamic
community
being
wrongly
blamed for
the crimes
of ISIL,
including
assaults and
other forms
of
vilification.
Labor stands
shoulder to
shoulder
with
Australia’s
Islamic
community
and, now
more than
ever, we are
committed to
tolerance,
social
cohesion,
mutual
respect and
multiculturalism.
Labor will
continue to
work with
you to stop
misinformation,
bigotry and
prejudice
directed at
the
Australian
Islamic
community.
Regrettably,
some in our
community,
including a
very few
elected
representatives,
have made
comments
which have
the
potential to
damage
community
harmony and
inflame
tensions.
Labor
strongly
opposes
these
ill-informed
and
dangerous
views and we
will
continue to
speak out
against
them.
We know that
the twisted
ideology of
ISIL bears
no relation
to a faith
of peace,
love and
tolerance
which is
followed by
millions
around the
world – and
we will
continue to
make this
point.
ISIL has no
right to use
the name of
Islam.
We will work
with you to
help stop
ISIL
spreading
division,
radicalising
disaffected
and
vulnerable
young
people. We
will not
allow them
to nurture
intolerance
and create a
world where
people fear
the unknown
and resent
differences.
The Islamic
story in
Australia
has a rich
history and
grows
stronger
each year.
Australia’s
Muslim
community
continues to
do our
nation a
great
service by
fostering
enduring
cultural and
religious
harmony, and
making a
substantial
contribution
to our
national
prosperity.
This
reflects
modern
Australian
multiculturalism:
a story of
cultural
enrichment,
social
cohesion and
economic
growth and
it is a
story that
the Labor
Party is
committed to
and will
always
defend.
We are keen
to engage
with you and
your
organisation,
to listen to
you about
how we can
further
these goals
together.
Please
contact Ms
Rowland’s
office on 02
6277 4833 or
Michelle.Rowland.MP@aph.gov.au
if you would
like to make
such
arrangements.
We look
forward to
hearing from
you.
Finally, on
the upcoming
occasion of
Eid Ul Adha,
we wish you,
your family
and your
community a
heartfelt
Eid Mubarak.
Yours
sincerely,
Bill Shorten Leader of
the
Opposition
Michelle
Rowland Shadow
Minister for
Citizenship
and
Multiculturalism
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This program will be for
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Qatar women’s basketball
team pull out of Asian Games over hijab ban
SOUTH KOREA: Qatar’s women’s
basketball team has withdrawn from the Asian
Games after they were banned from wearing
their hijabs on court.
The team first forfeited their game against
Mongolia after they were refused permission
to wear the Islamic headscarf during play,
and on Thursday the team pulled out of the
Games completely ahead of their match
against Nepal.
The players claim to have been told that
they would be able to wear hijabs during the
competition, held in Incheon in South Korea.
But world basketball regulations outline
headgear and hair accessories among the
items not allowed on the basketball court.
Confusion around the rules for the Asian
Games could have arisen from the recent
relaxation of guidelines outlined by the
international governing body for basketball,
Fiba, aimed at making the game more
accessible.
“We were told that we would be able to
participate in matches by wearing a hijab,”
Amal Mohamed A Mohamed, one of the Qatari
players, said, adding that the team had
travelled to the games based on this
assurance.
Wearing a hijab is not banned from all
sports at the Games; the Iranian lightweight
women’s quadruple sculls team, who wore a
bronze medal on Wednesday, all wore the
headscarf during their race.
On Wednesday the Olympic Council of Asia
issued the statement: “The right of the
athletes must be the highest priority”.
China's war on terror
becomes all-out attack on Islam in Xinjiang
SHACHE COUNTY, China – The
month of Ramadan should have been a time of
fasting, charity and prayer in China’s
Muslim west. But here, in many of the towns
and villages of southern Xinjiang, it was a
time of fear, repression, and violence.
China’s campaign against separatism and
terrorism in its mainly Muslim west has now
become an all-out war on conservative Islam,
residents here say.
Throughout Ramadan,police intensified a
campaign of house-to-house searches, looking
for books or clothing that betray
“conservative” religious belief among the
region’s ethnic Uighurs: women wearing veils
were widely detained, and many young men
arrested on the slightest pretext, residents
say. Students and civil servants were forced
to eat instead of fasting, and work or
attend classes instead of attending Friday
prayers.
The religious repression has bred
resentment, and, at times, deadly protests.
Reports have emerged of police firing on
angry crowds in recent weeks in the towns of
Elishku, and Alaqagha; since then, Chinese
authorities have imposed a complete blackout
on reporting from both locations, even more
intense than that already in place across
most of Xinjiang.
‘Anti-Muslim
discrimination’: HSBC shuts down only
account of UK Islamic charity
UK: HSBC has officially
closed the bank account of one of Britain’s
oldest mosques, in an effort to minimize its
risk. The mosque’s chairman said the banks’
action was discriminatory and Islamophobic.
Meanwhile, they have opened an account with
a new bank.
Finsbury Park mosque in north London
(pictured above) received a letter in
July notifying them that their account would
be shut down on September 22nd, adding that
they should not try to open another account
with the bank in the future.
The charity was told that following a
‘general review’ of its customer portfolio,
the bank decided it would stop providing
banking services to the mosque, because it
fell out of HSBC’s ‘risk appetite.’
However, Finsbury Parks’ management believes
that the move was an act of ‘anti-Islamic
discrimination’ against the mosque and the
community that attends it.
Finsbury Park Mosques’ chairman Mohammed
Kozbar told RT that HSBC “made it difficult”
to ascertain why their account had been
closed, but that the mosque is “committed to
continue the work it is doing.”
Kozbar also told RT that it was unlikely
that the mosque was a credit risk. “We are a
local organization; we don’t send or receive
money from abroad and our money goes into
funding our local work,” he said.
Trustees of the mosque have also hit out at
HSBC’s decision, with some calling it a
deliberate act of prejudice.
In July, Khalid Oumar told the trade
magazine Third Sector that the decision was
“clearly discriminatory” and "unacceptable".
Oumar also said HSBC was unwilling to
disclose any further information regarding
its decision.
UK: More than 8,000 boys born
last year were named with some variation of
Muhammad. The UK’s Office of National
Statistics declared Oliver as the top pick
of 2013 with 6,949 boys sporting the name.
However, a closer look at the complete list
showed that parents selected several
spellings of Muhammad for their sons, making
the name more popular.
Combined spellings of Muhammad have made it
the most popular name for newborn boys in
England for three years in a row.
They rank higher than other favourites such
as Harry and Jack in the top 100 names.
Across England, a total of 7,032 babies were
given the name using the spellings of
Muhammad (18th), Mohammed (25th) and
Mohammad (58th) – topping the 6,893 that
were called Harry.
Now, however, the single variant Muhammad
has topped the list in the capital with 768
registered births last year, ahead of Daniel
on 666.
There are 18 variations of Muhammad featured
on the 2013 list of baby boy names. The most
common variations were Muhammad, with 3,499
namesakes, Mohammed, with 2,887, and
Mohammad, with 1,059.
Islamic thought in 20th century Bosnia and Herzegovina
Volume 1. By Enes Karic, Sarajevo: El-Kalem,
pp510, HB, 2011
This
is the first volume of Professor Enes Karic’s unique attempt
to survey twentieth century Islamic thought and
contributions in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The author is a
Professor of Qur’anic Studies at the Faculty of Islamic
Studies in the University of Sarajevo, a former Education
Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and a prolific writer.
Fluent in Arabic, Turkish, English and Bosnian, Dr Karic is
an internationally recognised scholar and writer. His
notable publications include two volume translation and
commentary of the Qur’an into Bosnian language and Essays
(on behalf) of Bosnia (2000). I am grateful to the author
for sending me this important book.
Consisting of an Introduction, 18 chapters, bibliography and
an index of names, in this book the author seeks to
highlight the lives, thoughts and contributions of selected
Bosnian scholars, thinkers and reformers for the benefit of
his people. According to Dr Karic, he was motivated to write
this book to preserve information and data for the benefit
of present and future generations.
In his own words, ‘Twentieth century Bosnia and Herzegovina
was a country that endured bitter wars. Not one of the
former Yugoslav republics suffered such destruction,
bloodshed and forced population movements during the Second
World War as did Bosnia and Herzegovina. During that war
hundreds of Muslim villages and settlements of Eastern and
Western Bosnia went up in flames, and with them dozens of
libraries, both private and public. The source materials on
the Bosnian Muslims and their most important thinkers are
increasingly disappearing without trace, even the most
recent, merely some hundred years old…I had therefore wanted
for many years to write a short history of Islamic thought
in Bosnia and Herzegovina. I wanted to make my modest
contribution to ensuring that at least a small part of our
heritage be rescued from oblivion and disappearance.’
(pp6-7)
First six chapters of the book focuses on the history,
heritage and contributions of Gazi Husrev Bey Madrasa and
Khanaqa, a remarkable Islamic institution established in
1537 by Gazi Husrev Bey (1480-1547), a notable Ottoman
governor and one of the most important benefactors of
Bosnia. In these chapters, the author covers the history of
this institution during the Ottoman period (1537-1878),
Austro-Hungarian period (1878-1918), the time between two
World Wars (1918-1941), and the Socialist period
(1945-1990).
According to Dr Karic, ‘There is no doubt that the Madrasa
has for four and a half centuries been the greatest
guarantor of our religious survival. It stands on the
borders of the past and the present, and was required to
adapt itself to changes through which Bosnia passed…there
are academic disciplines that form a permanent part of the
Madrasa curriculum, based on the sound and unalterable past
and tradition, but also new ones that are imposed by the
needs of the future towards which one must remain open…The
Gazi Husrev Bey Madrasa also stands on the boundaries
between two worlds, the East and the West. From its very
origins it was not possible to speak of one without the
other, and this is especially true today.’ (p93)
Of the remaining 12 chapters, three are devoted to reform
and renewal in 20th century Bosnia and Herzegovina (chapter
9), the role of El-Hidaje periodical in raising awareness of
Islam (chapter 12) and a historical survey of translation of
the Qur’an into Bosnian (chapter 13), while the remaining
chapters of the book provide critical overview of the lives
and contributions of prominent scholars, thinkers and
reformers like Mehmed Dzemaludin Causevic, Mehmed Handzic,
Husein Dozo, Adil Bey Zulfikarpasic, Nerkez Smailagic and
Muhamed Filipovic.
However, the contribution of scholars like Alija Izetbegovic
and Smail Balic are not covered in this volume. No doubt,
these and other scholars will be covered in the next volume.
In reconstructing the past, the author had to be mindful of
the links between the past, present and the future so as to
provide a holistic interpretation of the passage of time. In
his own words, ‘I was faced…with the issue of that
inescapable distance. But distance is a double-edged sword.
One the one hand, it does indeed allow us, with the passage
of time, to be more objective, unbiased…But on the other
hand, distance often also becomes a barrier between us and
the events we describe. Distance often makes the past seem
uninteresting, dull, forcing us to regard the entire wealth
of the past reductively, as a mere mass of history,
subsequently ‘objectivized’ and reconstructed. With
distance, then, one both gains and loses. One gains
objectivity towards the past, but…strict distance often
renders the past and its personalities and content insipid,
deprives it, in short, of its subjectivity.’ (pp5-6)
Striking a balance between objectivity and subjectivity in
relation to the past is never an easy task, but, in this
book, Dr Karic has shown that it is possible to reconcile
the past with present for the benefit of the future. He
deserves much applaud for such an important and invaluable
contribution. Highly recommended reading for scholars and
students of modern European Islamic thought, culture and
history.
Muhammad Khan, Acclaimed author of The Muslim 100 (2008)
and The Muslim Heritage of Bengal (2013)
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KB says: This
recipe has been contributed by Nazrina Joosub
who tells me that it is an ideal accompaniment
to any BBQ.
Savoury Rice
Ingredients
1 onion diced.
1 tab. ghee
Julienne strips of carrots and green and red
peppers (1/2 cup each)
¼ cup of corn and peas.
½ tsp lemon pepper, garlic flakes and green
chillies
2 tsp. spice for rice
1 tsp salt
2 cups of rice
½ cup of mixed vegetables (could use the frozen
variety)
A handful of shell pasta
4 cups of boiling water
A handful of roasted slivered almonds
Method
1. Sauté the onion
in ghee until softened.
2. Add all the spices and vegetables and cook
until tender.
3. Add 4 cups of boiling water and add the 2
cups of rice and the shell pasta.
4. Cook until the rice is done and the water has
been absorbed.
5. You may need to adjust for salt.
6. Garnish with slivered almonds and greens
before serving.
Q: Dear Kareema, I’m on a
mission to lose some kilos so I’ve been on a few
different diets and have been exercising as
well. I have a really busy work schedule so I’m
trying to cut corners wherever I can. Any
suggestions?
A: Unfortunately cutting corners is not going to
get you the results you’re after. Certain diets
restrict food groups and can cut calories but
will leave you feeling tired, hungry and craving
sugar.
Why not try a well-balanced diet
rich in fresh, whole foods (unprocessed) and
plenty of water.
Combined with regular exercise,
this is key to maintaining a good healthy
weight, and
• Carry small, healthy snacks with you during
the day
• Eat easy to prepare meals
• Plan your meals on the weekend so it’s less
time consuming during the week
• Incorporate 5-minute mini workouts throughout
your day
• Set your alarm for half and hour earlier and
go for a walk or jog
• Keep it simple and get the most out of the
little time you have
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and
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starting in the evening of the corresponding day.
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ON
behalf of
all
fair-minded
and decent
citizens on
the Sunshine
Coast, I
unreservedly
apologise to
the local
Islamic
community
for the
absurd and
offensive
demonstration
last
Saturday
morning
outside the
Stella Maris
Catholic
Church.
Arundel
Mosque held
an open day
on Saturday
to show the
Gold Coast
community it
has nothing
to fear
“We have an
obligation
to open the
doors to
open the
doors to the
public and
enlighten
everyone.
This
is the first volume of Professor Enes Karic’s unique attempt
to survey twentieth century Islamic thought and
contributions in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The author is a
Professor of Qur’anic Studies at the Faculty of Islamic
Studies in the University of Sarajevo, a former Education
Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and a prolific writer.
Fluent in Arabic, Turkish, English and Bosnian, Dr Karic is
an internationally recognised scholar and writer. His
notable publications include two volume translation and
commentary of the Qur’an into Bosnian language and Essays
(on behalf) of Bosnia (2000). I am grateful to the author
for sending me this important book.
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