Richmond are investigating
an allegation that a
prominent media figure
racially vilified midfielder
Bachar Houli.
It is alleged that a comment
was made and that comment
was heard by a Richmond
staff member, who reported
the incident.
The reported allegation is
that Houli, a Muslim, was
called a terrorist.
The abuse allegation centres
on Richmond's official match
function during the first
quarter of the game.
The person under
investigation was sitting in
seats outside the Olympic
Room, where the function was
based.
The allegation was made in
the Herald Sun.
Richmond boss Brendon Gale
confirmed the investigation.
"We are investigating an
allegation of racial abuse
directed at Bachar Houli
during Friday nights game,"
Richmond chief executive
Gale said.
"The incident was brought to
my attention by a member of
our executive team."
The AFL have confirmed that
they are aware of the
investigation.
Houli, who was drafted by
Essendon in 2006 became the
first Muslim to play the
game at the national level
and works for the AFL as a
multicultural ambassador.
Speaking later on Monday
morning, Richmond captain
Trent Cotchin said he was
disappointed by the
allegations.
"I don't know a lot about
it, the first I heard of it
was this morning," Cothin
said.
"The club will be
investigating it. There's no
place for it in our game,
it's disappointing to hear
and see it in the papers."
Cotchin added that he hadn't
spoken to Houli - who hadn't
yet arrived at the club's
Punt Road headquarters.
"He's one of those guys that
won't want it to be about
him, he'll want it to be
about what's right and
what's wrong."
3AW’s John Burns response
over Bachar Houli ‘Muslim
terrorist’ allegation is a
cop out, writes Susie
O’Brien
John Burns isn’t the
first public figure
to use the “can’t
recall” defence.
WHY has 3AW radio host John
Burns apologised for
something he “honestly
believes” he didn’t say?
Four days on, and we are no
closer to knowing whether
Burns called Richmond player
Bachar Houli a “Muslim
terrorist” at the MCG on
Friday night.
Burns initially said he had
“no recollection” of the
remark, which is a total
cop-out. Then he
subsequently said: “I
honestly believed that I had
not made a comment at all”.
This is another cop-out.
When sources stuck to their
guns and insisted he had
made the remark, Burns
apologised for “what I did”.
However, he hasn’t told us
exactly what he did and what
he said.
“I don’t remember” is the
kind of excuse used by a
five-year-old with sticky
fingers who’s asked where
the lollies have gone. I
would expect more from a
much-loved broadcaster with
a pedigree like Burns.
The fact that Burns hasn’t
been able to categorically
rule out that he used the
term makes me suspicious. If
he doesn’t think it and
didn’t say it, why not
simply deny it?
He says he “honestly
believes” he didn’t make the
comment. This, in my mind,
is a very different thing
from saying he could not and
did not say anything of the
sort.
If he wasn’t drunk –and he
says he wasn’t – then why
not just close the issue
down once and for all?
Even if he said something
like this in jest – as his
fellow broadcaster Neil
Mitchell suggested this
morning - it doesn’t make it
any better.
It seems to me that even
Burns doesn’t know for sure
he didn’t use the term. No
wonder he is very
embarrassed. It’s not a good
look for someone in his
position.
Burns said he spoke to the
person who heard the comment
and “apologised for
upsetting him”.
He said “the idea that
something I’ve said has
offended someone is
mortifying to me”.
But this is still not the
same as admitting that he
used the term in question.
A spectacular event hosted
across Australia featuring
the famed American Poet
Quadir Lateef, the hilarious
American comedian Omar
Reagan, and the inspiring
British Nasheed Artist
Faisal Salah performing his
world premiere of “Smile”, a
Muslim Aid Australia
original.
An unforgettable night to
connect with the orphans,
get to know them, understand
their needs, and Support
orphans from around the
world who need your help.
“Orphan and Me” fundraising
dinners will be taking place
in Sydney, Brisbane and
Melbourne.
Federal Members of
Parliament, Luke Hartsuyker
MP (Nationals, Cowper) and
Luke Howarth MP (Liberal,
Petrie) have show support
for halal certification. In
letters to boycotters they
spelt out the government's
position on halal
certification:
1. Halal certification in no
way affects food safety.
2. Labelling is not
mandatory under Australian
regulations.
3. Halal certification is
voluntarily undertaken by a
business
4. Halal certification can
increase a business's market
share
5. Halal certification is
not a tax
The Australian
Government is committed
to ensuring that
consumers have access to
sufficient information
to make informed choices
about the safety and
nutritional quality of
the food they purchase.
Food safety is the
overarching principle
for guiding decisions
about food labelling
regulation in Australia.
All Australian food,
regardless of its method
of production, is
required to meet
Australian food safety
requirements as set out
in the Australia New
Zealand Food Standards
Code, which prohibits
the sale of unsafe food.
The process of halal
certification or
preparation in no way
changes the safety of
the food.
I note that you would
like it to be mandatory
for companies to label
halal certified
products. Commonwealth,
state and territory
ministers responsible
for food regulation
considered food
labelling on attributes
such as halal
certification in 2011,
in response to
recommendations of the
report of the
independent review of
food labelling law and
policy, Labelling Logic.
In their response to the
review, COAG ministers
determined that a
market-driven,
self-regulatory approach
to consumer values and
concerns is likely to be
more responsive to
consumer needs than a
regulatory approach.
Further information on
this policy is available
in the food ministers’
response to the review,
available at
www.foodlabellingreview.gov.au.
The Australian food
industry is highly
competitive, with
companies competing in
markets here and
overseas. One way that
manufacturers and
producers can increase
their market share is to
highlight special
features of their
products, such as being
organic, Australian
grown or meeting
religious or dietary
requirements, such as
halal. Businesses
typically work to create
and market these
features by, for
example, obtaining
certification or using
certain labels on the
packaging. It is
important to note that
the halal certification
fees charged by Islamic
organisations are not
taxes; they are a fee
for the certification
service.
Halal assurance
processes for food are
implemented by the food
production business and
operate under a standard
commercial arrangement.
With the exception of
some exported meat
products, the Australian
Government has no direct
involvement in the halal
assurance process for
food. The decision by a
food company to meet
halal requirements is a
voluntary decision.
Halal certification is
not required to be
declared on the label,
although food businesses
may choose to
voluntarily display this
information. I encourage
you to seek information
directly from food
companies to identify
products that have been
produced appropriately
for your needs.
Additional information
about halal
certification is
available on the website
of the Australian Food
and Grocery Council,
which represents
Australia’s packaged
food, drink and grocery
product manufacturers (www.afgc.gov.au/about-afgc/our-policies/halal-certification).
You also raised a
potential breach of your
constitutional rights in
relation to the
availability of non-halal
food. The Australian
Government is prohibited
by section 116 of the
Australian Constitution
from making a law that,
among other things,
imposes a religious
observance. However,
your concerns appear to
relate to a practice
undertaken by some food
manufacturing companies
as a commercial choice
rather than because of a
requirement imposed by
an Australian Government
law.
Yours sincerely,
The Hon Luke Hartsuyker
The Nationals’ Federal
Member for Cowpe
Islamic law, or Shariah,
requires that interest forms
no part of any transaction,
meaning that the vast
majority of loan products
available in Australia do
not conform.
Let's forget for a moment
that politics, religion and
money are the big three
no-go topics for polite
conversation, and tackle all
three at once. When the
Financial Systems Inquiry
kicked off, there were calls
for Joe Hockey to include
Islamic finance in its
scope. While it was not
included, it is important to
clarify the sometimes
sensational headlines
regarding Islamic finance,
by breaking down exactly
what it is, why it exists
and how it works.
Approximately two per cent
of the Australian population
seek banking, loan,
investment and insurance
products that conform to
Islamic law (or the Shariah).
Depending on the extent to
which someone complies with
Shariah, this means they may
only participate in
transactions that represent
tangible assets. They may
also seek loan and
investment products that do
not charge or earn interest,
do not present uncertainty,
and do not finance products,
services or activities
banned under Islamic law,
such as alcohol, gambling,
pork or pornography. Yield
generally arises from profit
sharing, while risk is also
shared, which can present
some complications when it
comes to insurance.
Islamic finance, investment
and insurance products that
are designed to work within
Islamic law are available in
Australia. For those that
allow people to purchase
property and commercial
equipment, at least, the end
result is very similar to
what you would expect to see
with any other loan product.
Examples of Shariah-compliant
loan products include:
• The lender, an Islamic
finance institution,
purchases an asset and
sells it to a client,
with payment by
instalments over an
agreed period. The sale
price is higher than the
purchase price to
account for the profit
that the lender would
usually earn from
interest.
• An investor provides
finance to an
entrepreneur for a
commercial enterprise.
Risk is carried by the
investor, and the
partners determine the
share of profits.
• Both partners
contribute capital for a
commercial enterprise,
which may be run by one
or both of the
investors, or by another
party, agreed by the
investors. The partners
determine the share of
profits, but risk is
shared according to the
original capital
investment.
One notable difference
between Islamic finance and
other common loan types in
Australia is the treatment
of stamp duty.
"As I understand it, the
financier must pay stamp
duty on the purchase. The
property is then 'leased' to
the 'lessee' who must, in
most states and territories,
pay stamp duty (again) when
the property is transferred
to them at the end of the
payment cycle," explains
Peter Kennedy, MFAA
Compliance Manager.
The two transactions are
clear in the first example
above: one at the start,
when the financier purchases
the property, and another at
the end of the payment
period, when the property is
transferred to the client.
The only Australian state
that charges stamp duty on
such transactions only once
is Victoria. This removes a
significant impediment to
property purchase and makes
participation in wealth
building within Australia
more accessible for
followers of Islamic law.
Several Muslim
professionals, who want to
settle down, have to contend
with a lot of pressure in
finding rightful partners.
Marriage proposals that come
their way yield nothing.
Countless samoosa runs
arranged by families to meet
prospective brides and
grooms sway with nothing
happening.
In some communities, aunties
and uncles make it a point
to connect their nephews and
nieces with “perfect
families”. But for the
contemporary Muslim
professional this
arrangement is not always
the most suitable.
Some traditional preferences
that have been upheld for
decades when looking for a
spouse are slowly being cast
aside by segments of the
Muslim working class.
Emergence of Muslim
matrimonial sites
The
advent of technology has
ushered in a new dimension
on the role of traditional
marriages in Islam. It could
have taken time to come to
pass but finally,
matrimonial sites have
become a source of
marriages. More and more
single Muslims are shunning
the traditional way of
proposal opting to pursue
the technological corridor.
To some it doesn’t work
while for others it has been
full of bliss. Their
testimonies are readily
available to prove it is
indeed possible to get
married to a person you met
online. Meeting prospective
partners online has been a
distant thing to Muslims,
thanks to technology it’s
now a trend. The sprawling
of Muslim marriage sites
confirm to the growing
demand of such services.
Such interests drove
Shahzaad Younas, CEO of
Muzmatch, to develop a free
mobile application, which is
made for all Muslims
worldwide who are seeking
their perfect spouse.
“For some they say there’s
nothing out there for
Muslims. There was a similar
thing for English or western
commercial dating and there
was nothing that had Islamic
attributes and makes it for
Muslim,” he said.
Finding a partner
For someone looking for a
prospective husband or wife,
Muzmatch that runs on
android and IOS smart
phones, offers 30 profiles a
day for a user to get hold
of suitable candidates. It
uses your phone number to
extract location where you
are and set options for your
suitable preferences.
The
app which is offered for
free has set measures to
protect the women folk who
have often been targeted by
cyber stalkers.
“ For them (women) the key
contact will be that for
anyone to talk there need to
be a mutual interest, so
both sides need to say I am
interested in you before
anyone can even talk. This
is because with many
websites women have
bombarded with thousand
messages from different
men,” Younas told Cii News.
On queried on how Muslims
can draw the line between
dating and marriage, as this
application can give room to
unIslamic ethos of dating
before marriage, Younas said
Muslim should be sincere in
their intentions when using
this service.
“I don’t want to be someone
who makes an app that
encourages people to fitna
or dating. The first thing
with an app or website is
our actions or intentions.
If people want to use it
they can make use in a very
halaal and very safe service
if the person is that way
inclined,” said Younas.
The Muzmatch app which has
been built from the ground
up with privacy, security
and ease of use in mind
allows users you to set up a
Wali on your account. Each
week they will receive an
email of all the messages
sent and received, while
matches will be notified
that their prospective bride
or groom will be reading
messages.
UK: Prime Minister, David
Cameron, insists that it is
not his view to see
Britain’s Muslim community
through the prism of counter
terrorism after his
Government for the first
time put the discredited
Prevent extremism programme
on a statutory footing.
“I do not see the Muslim
community through the prism
of counter terrorism. I see
the Muslim community in
Britain as making a
fantastic contribution in
our economy, in our health
service, in our culture, in
our sport, in our media and
increasingly in politics,”
Cameron said.
“I am proud to have a
British Muslim man Secretary
of State for Culture, Media
and Sport, Sajid Javid,
round the cabinet table. I
see the British Muslim
community that way,” he said
in an exclusive interview
with The Muslim News on
April 27.
I
don’t want
to tar the
rest of the
Muslim
community
with that
brush (of
extremism).
It is
completely
unfair.
Muslims in
Britain want
good schools
and good
education
for their
children
David
Cameron
The controversial Prevent
strategy has been criticised
by the likes of former MI5
chief Baroness
Manningham-Buller and
National Union of Teachers
for putting Muslims under
surveillance virtually from
the cradle to the grave by
making extremism as a
statutory duty across local
councils, universities,
schools, healthcare trusts,
probation services, prisons
and even nurseries.
“We should not criticise
British Muslims for a small
number of people that are
involved in extremism and
terrorism. The answer is to
deal with the people
involved in extremism and
terrorism,” the Prime
Minister asserted.
He explained that they
inherited the Prevent
programme, “which was not
working, where there was
confusion between countering
terrorism and encouraging
integration.”
One
of Australia's most senior
rabbis has come to the
defence of Australia's
Muslim community, saying the
anti-halal campaign headed
by the group Reclaim
Australia and backed by some
parliamentarians is an
attack on religious freedom.
Rabbi Moshe Gutnick
(pictured left) says
attacks on halal
certification are based on
prejudice, and similar
claims about kosher would be
labelled anti-Semitic.
In a scathing article
published in a local
newspaper, Rabbi Gutnick,
senior rabbi at the Kashrut
Authority of Australia and
NZ, said the anti-halal
campaign was an attack on
Australians' religious
rights.
Reflecting on Yom Ha'Shoah,
the day Jews commemorate the
victims of the Holocaust, he
wrote that he was inspired
to speak out by those who
risked their lives by
protecting Jews from Nazi
persecution.
"The current attack we
are hearing against
halal certification in
Australia is wrong,"
Rabbi Gutnick writes.
"It is the product of
prejudice and ignorance.
If it was against kosher
certification it would
be labelled
anti-Semitic. If anyone
believes anyone is
funding terrorism and
breaking Australian law,
let them go to the
police with evidence and
the police will
investigate it.
"All this has absolutely
nothing to do with the
legitimate rights of the
Islamic community to
practice their religion
in Australia through the
certification of food as
being halal and has
absolutely nothing to do
with the rights of
Australian manufacturers
to seek halal
certification for the
foodstuffs in order to
sell them to Muslims."
A
vigil and march organised by
Justice For Palestine will
be held at King George
Square, Brisbane CBD, at 5
pm on Friday, May 15 to mark
Palestine’s Al Nakba.
Al Nakba (or ‘Catastrophe’
in Arabic) Day is
commemorated across the
world on May 15th to
remember the genocidal
ethnic cleansing wherein 531
Palestinian villages and
towns were entirely
depopulated and destroyed
between 1947 and 1950 by
Israeli militia.
“ISLAMAPHOBIA” is a
manufactured left wing
concept. Literally. It was
made up in 1997 by a British
left wing think tank called
the Runnymede Trust.
Although the word had
appeared in theological
texts earlier with a far
more limited meaning, the
Runnymede definition created
a phony problem and in doing
so built a fraudulent
victimhood industry.
The new term was then
exploited by Britain’s
Labour Party to stifle any
criticism of its disastrous
policies towards immigration
in general and Muslims in
particular.
Much like Australia’s Labor
Party, Britain’s Labour
Party has benefited mightily
over the years from
harnessing the Muslim vote.
Here, leading lights of
Labor such as Bob Carr and
Tony Burke happily attack
Israel in order to curry
favour with Sydney’s Muslim
electorates.
In Britain, the proverbial
Martian landing in parts of
the major cities would think
he’d got his intergalactic
co-ordinates wrong and
beamed down to Beirut or
Baghdad instead. So what is
“Islamophobia”? And why is
it such a fraudulent term?
Spare a thought for the
racists. They’re having a
really hard time lately.
They keep trying to oppress
Muslims in a liberal,
rational way but
accidentally end up looking
like Nazis.
Take, for example, recent
discussions of banning halal
meat. On the surface, it
looks perfect for the
racists. It involves
animals, which everyone
loves, so they can dress up
the issue as about the
welfare of cuddly sheep and,
because making meat tends to
involve killing animals,
they can blow up the issue
so it looks like killing
animals is an exclusively
Muslim practise.
They feign outrage at halal
slaughter – you can’t kill
an animal by slitting its
throat! You’ve got to chase
it through woods and have it
ripped apart by dogs! That’s
the civilised way of doing
things.
But, the thing is, Jewish
and Muslim methods of
butchery are pretty much
identical. The traditions
barely diverge at all,
except for the languages in
which prayers are said.
Personally, I’m happy to see
halal as basically the same
as kosher and, unless a
rabbi is willing to sanction
a chicken house that will
give me six nuggets and a
can of Coke for £3, I won’t
be convinced otherwise.
What that means is that
racists – when they do try
to attack Muslim eating
habits – end up attacking
Jews’ too. This puts them in
quite an uncompromising
position. When Jewish News
recently asked UKIP how they
could justify banning Jews
from eating meat, their
agricultural spokesperson,
Stuart Agnew, stammered over
the phone: “This isn’t aimed
at you – it’s aimed
elsewhere – it’s aimed at
others. You’ve been caught
in the crossfire; collateral
damage. You know what I
mean.”
Oh yes, Mr. Racist, yes we
do. You’d like to persecute
Muslims but – oops – some
Jews just got in the way and
made you look, well… like a
racist.
I’m under no illusion that
the racists don’t want to
appear anti-Semitic because
they actually like Jews. Far
from it. They still hate us.
It’s just that now we’re not
numerous enough or obvious
enough to be the principal
target of their ire. Think
that might be because we
went through a bit of a
genocide seventy years ago
that we’re still trying to
cope with.
The School of Arts and
Social Sciences at Southern
Cross University in
collaboration with
Remembering and Healing
presented this public
seminar by Associate
Professor Mehmet Ozalp, from
the Centre for Islamic
Studies and Civilisation,
Charles Sturt University on
23 April 2015 at SCU Lismore
campus.
On this episode of Halal in
the Family, Aasif (Aasif
Mandvi) hears that his
daughter Whitney (Shoba
Narayanan) is being bullied
at school, he invites the
bully over to try to teach
her about the dangers of
Islamophobia. With Sakina
Jaffrey (House of Cards) and
Nicky Maindiratta.
SOUTH AFRICA: Ebrahim
Gangat speaks to Sheikh Riyadh Walls the
Imam of masjid Al Jaamia about the
reversion of Judge John Hlophe, the
Judge President of the Western Cape
Division of the High Court of South
Africa.
Obama Makes Fun Of
Those Who, Somehow, Still Think He Is A
Muslim
US: President Barack Obama
poked fun at those who still suggest he is a
Muslim during the annual White House
Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday.
"Being president is never easy. I still have
to fix a broken immigration system, issue
veto threats, negotiate with Iran, all while
finding time to pray five times a day,"
Obama said.
In 2012, 17 percent of registered voters
said they believed Obama was Muslim, even
though he is in fact a Christian.
AFGHANISTAN:
Activists in Kabul Perform Dramatization of
Farkhunda's Killing
Farkhunda, a 27-year-old
Afghan woman, was murdered in Kabul on March
19, 2015. She had been arguing with a
mullah, who then made a false accusation
that she had burned the Quran. Police
investigations revealed that she had not
burned anything. Her death led to 26
arrests, and was protested by women's rights
activists.
US: Muslims are expected to
surpass Jews as the second largest religious
group in the US in 2050 owing to their
continuous migration and the highest
fertility rate, according to a study.
Two trends that are already underway the
decline of Christians and the growth of
religiously unaffiliated people as a share
of the US population are expected to
continue in the decades ahead, said the Pew
Research Center's projections of major
religious groups around the world.
If current demographic trends hold, there
also will be other significant changes in
the US religious landscape: Judaism will no
longer be the largest non-Christian religion
in the country and by 2050 Muslims are
projected to outnumber them, it said.
Muslims, due to their continued migration to
the USA and high fertility rates, are
expected to make up 2.1 per cent of the US
population in 2050, up from 0.9 per cent in
2010.
Jewish people are projected to decline from
an estimated 1.8 per cent in 2010 to 1.4 per
cent in 2050.
On average, Jews have 1.9 children per woman
compared with 2.8 for US Muslims, the study
said, adding that Muslims also have the
youngest median age of any major religious
group in America.
Muslims are not the only American religious
minority that is growing. Hindus, who make
up another relatively young group that
continues to be boosted by migration, are
projected to double from 0.6 per cent in
2010 to 1.2 per cent in 2050.
Buddhist population will see a modest rise
from 1.2 per cent to 1.4 per cent. Members
of "other religions" (a category for all
those not categorized elsewhere in the
projections, including Sikhs, Wiccans and
Unitarian Universalists) are projected to
increase from 0.6 per cent in 2010 to 1.5
per cent in 2050, it said.
No
‘Halal’ sex shop in Mecca, story fabricated
by Moroccan media
MOROCCO: An unsubstantiated
story which alleged that a “Halal” sex shop
would soon open in the Muslim holy city of
Makkah has gone viral in recent days. But,
the story has been labelled as fabricated
after being propagated via an
Arabic-language Moroccan website which seems
to have deliberately used a sensational –
yet slightly misleading - headline.
In a story dated April 12, 2015, Moroccan
news website Alyaoum24 carried a story with
the headline “Moroccan intends to open a
Halal sex shop in Makkah.”
However, the story only
gained momentum ten days later, when British
daily The Independent claimed that the sex
shop will actually open in Makkah and
attributed the inaccurate information to
Alyaoum24, which has not published a
clarification or corrected its misleading
headline as of the time this article was
published.
Met
considers criminal inquiry into Tower
Hamlets mayor Lutfur Rahman
UK: Rahman is told to vacate
post immediately after election court judge
finds him guilty of widespread corruption in
seeking office last May
Police are considering
whether to launch a criminal inquiry
relating to the former mayor of Tower
Hamlets after he was found guilty of
multiple corruption allegations by the high
court and kicked out of office.
The mayoral election in the east London
borough will be rerun after Lutfur Rahman
and his supporters were found to have used
religious intimidation through local imams,
vote-rigging and wrongly branding his Labour
rival a racist to gain power.
Rahman, who has been banned from seeking
office again, was also found to have
allocated local grants to buy votes. He was
ordered to pay immediate costs of £250,000
from a bill expected to reach £1m.
Summing up, Judge Richard Mawrey said Rahman
had sought to play the “race and
Islamophobia card” throughout the election
and would no doubt do so after this
judgment. “He was an evasive witness –
Rahman was no doubt behind illegal and
corrupt practices,” Mawrey said.
He also faces being stripped of his
profession as a lawyer after the judge
claimed he told “a pack of lies” in the
witness box.
The ferocity of the judge’s verdict provoked
gasps in court. Friends of Rahman claimed he
had been unfairly treated.
The Guardian
The Lutfur Rahman verdict
and the spectre of ‘undue
spiritual influence’
The legislation by which the
mayor of Tower Hamlets was
unseated was introduced in
the 19th century to keep
Irish Catholics in their
place. The religion being
discriminated against has
changed, but the sentiment
hasn’t
Among the reasons presented
by deputy high court judge
Richard Mawrey QC for
removing Rahman from office,
was that, in cahoots with
local imams, the mayor
exerted “undue spiritual
influence” on some sections
of the electorate,
specifically voters from the
Muslim Bangladeshi
community. The former mayor
has now said he will appeal
against the judgment. But in
order properly to understand
this extraordinary and
highly politicised piece of
law one has to rewind to the
middle of the 19th century
when it was first introduced
as a response to the fear of
the Irish, specifically of
Irish Roman Catholicism.
The Muslim News Awards for
Excellence 2015 shortlist
UK: The readership of The
Muslim News selected and nominated them, and
a distinguished independent panel of Judges
reviewed, deliberated and mused over the
list.
Over the next few weeks
CCN will profile one of the illustrious men,
women, children and projects deemed to be
worthy of short-listing for a Muslim News
Award for Excellence.
These exemplars of good practice, excellence
– our future role models – will be treated
to a Gala Evening in the presence of their
peers and other renowned guests in March,
when the finalists are announced for the
[16] coveted Awards for Excellence
Allama Iqbal Award for
Creativity in Islamic Thought
The International Institute of Islamic
Thought (UK) established a London
office in 1981 and has since been
particularly dynamic and creative in
intellectual development, pursuing a range
of activities to enable Muslims to deal
effectively with present challenges and
contribute to the progress of human
civilization.
The Institute has published
several ground-breaking publications, and
translated important works into the English
language.
The Institute has also forged
links with leading academic institutions
from around the world. For example, the
conference The Future of Faith in the Age of
Globalization held in Sarajevo in 2010
involved co-operation with universities and
academic centres in Sarajevo, Cambridge,
Westminster, and Georgetown.
The Institute’s London office
was also closely involved with the
‘Contextualising Islam in Britain’ project
conducted by the Centre of Islamic Studies
at the University of Cambridge and supported
by the Department of Communities and Local
Government.
Q: Dear Kareema, I’ m not
really a morning person, so I try to get to the
gym in the evening whenever possible. Is it best
to eat before or after I exercise?
A: You should not be exercising on an
empty stomach, so to best fuel your body for an
evening gym session is to have a small meal more
than an hour before the start of your workout.
A protein snack post-workout
should suffice to aid in muscle recovery - Try
smoothies or healthy snack foods.
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: I think
butter chicken is fast becoming an Aussie
favourite Indian dish and here I am adding it to
a wrap for a quick and easy meal. This recipe
can be easily doubled if you need to and
remember you can freeze the extra wraps for
another occasion.
Butter Chicken Wraps
Ingredients
⅓ Cup plain yoghurt
2 Tab. lemon juice
1 Tab. chopped garlic
1 Tab. chopped ginger
1 tsp. ground cumin
1 Tab. ground coriander
½ tsp paprika
salt and pepper
4 chicken breasts, cubed
25 g butter
2 red chilies, chopped
1 can (410 g) tomato purée
Yoghurt, wraps and fresh coriander to serve
Method
1. Preheat the grill to high.
2. In a bowl mix the yoghurt, lemon juice,
garlic, ginger, cumin, ground coriander,
paprika, salt and pepper
3. Add the chicken cubes and stir to coat.
4. Grill the chicken for 10 minutes.
5. Melt the butter in a pot over medium heat,
add the chillies and the grilled
chicken and cook for 5 minutes.
6. Add the tomato purée and simmer for another 5
minutes.
7. Serve the chicken with wraps and fresh
coriander and a tablespoon of yoghurt (optional)
Jallalludin wanted to start a new hobby, and he decides he's
going to learn a new flying sport.
So
he invites his friends to come and watch.
He
takes them to the top of a cliff, and produces three bird
cages - one containing a budgerigar, the second containing a
chicken, and the third a parrot.
"What are you up to?" asked one of his friends.
"Well," said Jallalludin, "I couldn't decide between
budgie-jumping, hen-gliding or parrot- shooting.... so I
thought I'd try all three."
If a man kills a Believer
intentionally, his
recompense is Hell, to abide
therein (forever): and the
wrath and the curse of Allah
are upon him, and a dreadful
penalty is prepared for him.
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ccn@crescentsofbrisbane.org.
Muharram 1437 – Islamic New Year 1437 (1st Muharram
1437)
PLEASE NOTE
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 Tafseer gets recorded and uploaded on to our website end
of each week, please visit our website to download these
recordings at
www.masjidtaqwa.org.au.
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these sessions too are recorded as well as webcasted live.
For webcast details please contact us via our website
“contact us” page. The recordings are sent via a download
link, if you are interested please again contact us via our
website “contact us” page.
Queensland Police Service/Muslim
Community Consultative Group
Meeting Dates & Times
Time: 7.00pm sharp
Date: Wednesday 11 February 2014
Venue: Islamic College of Brisbane - 45 Acacia Road
Karawatha
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The
CCN Inbox: Letters
to the Editor
The
advent of technology has
ushered in a new dimension
on the role of traditional
marriages in Islam. It could
have taken time to come to
pass but finally,
matrimonial sites have
become a source of
marriages. More and more
single Muslims are shunning
the traditional way of
proposal opting to pursue
the technological corridor.
The
app which is offered for
free has set measures to
protect the women folk who
have often been targeted by
cyber stalkers.
David
Cameron 
One
of Australia's most senior
rabbis has come to the
defence of Australia's
Muslim community, saying the
anti-halal campaign headed
by the group Reclaim
Australia and backed by some
parliamentarians is an
attack on religious freedom.
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