Voice of Global Ummah
Volume 80, May 24, 2009
St. Louis, Missouri
Editors: Mohamed & Rashida Ziauddin
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent and the Most Merciful
GLOBAL UMMAH'S PICTURE OF THE WEEK
CONTENTS:
(1) Editorial
(2) Burkha Squads: Two Sides of an Issue
(3) Happy Moments
(4a) Enemies of Islam A: Suicide Bomber who kill the innocents
(4b) Enemies of Islam B: Turkey Massacre
(5) Bangalore: Heart Surgery
(6) Iranian Militants
(7) Fashion Show in Caucasian Muslim Countries
(8) Brutal injustice
(9) Child Actor from Oscar Winning Movie:
Slum Dog Millionaire
St. Louis, Missouri
Editors: Mohamed & Rashida Ziauddin
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent and the Most Merciful
GLOBAL UMMAH'S PICTURE OF THE WEEK
"The believers in their mutual kindness, compassion and sympathy are just like one body. When one of the limbs suffers, the whole body responds to it with wakefulness and fever." (Reported by Muslim)
A woman, with a baby on her back, mourns on the grave of a relative in the village of Bilge, near the city of Mardin in southeastern Turkey, Wednesday, May 6, 2009. (AP Photo/Ibrahim Usta)
CONTENTS:
(1) Editorial
(2) Burkha Squads: Two Sides of an Issue
(3) Happy Moments
(4a) Enemies of Islam A: Suicide Bomber who kill the innocents
(4b) Enemies of Islam B: Turkey Massacre
(5) Bangalore: Heart Surgery
(6) Iranian Militants
(7) Fashion Show in Caucasian Muslim Countries
(8) Brutal injustice
(9) Child Actor from Oscar Winning Movie:
Slum Dog Millionaire
(1) Editorial:
May 20 (Bloomberg) -- Pakistan’s Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani called on Islamic scholars to help root out extremism, as security forces waged an urban offensive against Taliban militants in the northwestern Swat Valley.
TERRORISTS ARE PERVERTING THE TEACHINGS OF ISLAM AND SCHOLARS SHOULD SPEAK WITH ONE VOICE AGAINST THE MILITANTS, Gilani said yesterday.
“It is time that they stand united to protect the country from all challenges,” Gilani said at a religious affairs conference in the capital, Islamabad, the state-run Associated Press of Pakistan reported.
(Ed Note: Two sides of an issue: Literal interpretation of Islam VERSUS Women's dress worn by men as a tool to apprehend criminals.)
"Ibn Abbas narrated: 'The Prophet (SAW) cursed the men who appear like women and the women who appear like men.'" Bukhari)
(3) HAPPY MOMENTS:
(4 a) Apprehending a vicious suicide bomber and preventing loss of innocent lives.
Women react near the graves of their family members in the village of Bilge, near the city of Mardin in southeastern Turkey, Wednesday, May 6, 2009. (AP Photo/Ibrahim Usta)
Iraqi woman Khalida lifts the shirt of her son Saleh Thanoon, 2, to show marks on his chest, as he recovers from heart surgery at Narayana Hrudayalaya hospital in Bangalore, India, Saturday, May 2, 2009.
Iraqi child Younis Ali, 12, left, who is recovering from heart and throat surgery looks at the camera as Nadia holds her 11 month old baby Salaam Hareth, right, also recovering from a heart surgery at Narayana Hrudayalaya hospital in Bangalore, India, Saturday, May 2, 2009. The hospital has conducted the largest number of heart surgeries in the world on children since it was founded in May, 2001, said hospital authorities. More than forty Iraqi children who were brought to India by an Iraqi non government organization Tareeq Al Zuhoor were operated at the hospital as part of their international welfare program. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)
(5) Iranian Militants
A model presents a creation by designer Iris van Herpen of the Netherlands during Kazakhstan Fashion Week in Almaty May 16, 2009. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (KAZAKHSTAN FASHION)
(7) Brutal injustices:
Jazakulla Khair
Please feel free to contribute your valuable opinion: amyusuf786@yahoo.com
Inshallah, ultimately the Global Ummah will prevail given the current context of certain misguided Muslim extremists who have hijacked Islam & are continuing to cause havoc to thousands of innocents across the world and tarnishing the image of Islam.
The recent Islamic conference in which the top one hundred and fifty Islamic scholars got together and unitedly condemned terrorist acts including suicide bombing and killing innocents is a blow to the small minority of unislamic extremists who are through their unislamic actions continuing to bring more harm to Islam and disgrace to the majority of the Global Ummah who are peace loving Muslims.
We urge all Muslims to assertively speak out against terrorism, suicide bombing and killing innocent people at all levels, individual, organizational and state sponsored. LET US ALL WORK TOGETHER TO CONDEMN EXTREMISM, TERRORISM AND WORK FOR WORLD PEACE THROUGH ALL POSSIBLE WAYS INCLUDING INTERFAITH WORK. For after all, the Holy Quran states: MANKIND IS BUT ONE COMMUNITY".
The recent Islamic conference in which the top one hundred and fifty Islamic scholars got together and unitedly condemned terrorist acts including suicide bombing and killing innocents is a blow to the small minority of unislamic extremists who are through their unislamic actions continuing to bring more harm to Islam and disgrace to the majority of the Global Ummah who are peace loving Muslims.
We urge all Muslims to assertively speak out against terrorism, suicide bombing and killing innocent people at all levels, individual, organizational and state sponsored. LET US ALL WORK TOGETHER TO CONDEMN EXTREMISM, TERRORISM AND WORK FOR WORLD PEACE THROUGH ALL POSSIBLE WAYS INCLUDING INTERFAITH WORK. For after all, the Holy Quran states: MANKIND IS BUT ONE COMMUNITY".
RELATED NEWS:
CALL ON ISLAMIC SCHOLARS TO HELP ROOT OUT EXTREMISM
www.bloomberg.com
Ed Johnson, Sidney, Australia
Ed Johnson, Sidney, Australia
May 20 (Bloomberg) -- Pakistan’s Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani called on Islamic scholars to help root out extremism, as security forces waged an urban offensive against Taliban militants in the northwestern Swat Valley.
TERRORISTS ARE PERVERTING THE TEACHINGS OF ISLAM AND SCHOLARS SHOULD SPEAK WITH ONE VOICE AGAINST THE MILITANTS, Gilani said yesterday.
“It is time that they stand united to protect the country from all challenges,” Gilani said at a religious affairs conference in the capital, Islamabad, the state-run Associated Press of Pakistan reported.
The three-week army offensive HAS FORCED ALMOST 1.5 MILLION PEOPLE FROM THEIR HOMES, THE LARGEST AND FAST EXODUS TO OCCUR ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD IN RECENT YEARS, ACCORDING TO UNITED NATIONS.
2 Million Displaced
The UN estimates more than 500,000 people fled fighting in the region last year, bringing the number displaced to about 2 million.
The UN estimates more than 500,000 people fled fighting in the region last year, bringing the number displaced to about 2 million.
Displaced Pakistani civilians plead for ice at the Chota Lahore camp in Swabi district.
(AFP/File/Pedro Ugarte)
(2) Burkha Squads(AFP/File/Pedro Ugarte)
(Ed Note: Two sides of an issue: Literal interpretation of Islam VERSUS Women's dress worn by men as a tool to apprehend criminals.)
"Ibn Abbas narrated: 'The Prophet (SAW) cursed the men who appear like women and the women who appear like men.'" Bukhari)
Police officers across the Bangladeshi capital are donning wigs and wearing women's clothing to catch criminals targeting females on the city's streets, according to a senior official. The specially formed teams across Dhaka, nicknamed "burka squads" after the Muslim female garment, are helping to catch muggers, bag snatchers and pickpockets, which are on the increase in the city.
(AFP/File/Shah Marai)
(AFP/File/Shah Marai)
Relatives of Iraqi detainees wave to them as they were brought to be released at a Shiite neighborhood of Kazimiyah in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, May 14, 2009. A total of nine people were released from the US military custody Thursday. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)
Iranian-American reporter Roxana Saberi briefs the press outside her home in Tehran. Saberi, freed this week from a Tehran jail, said the spy charges she had faced arose after she obtained a classified report on the US war on Iraq.
(AFP/Behrouz Mehri)
(AFP/Behrouz Mehri)
India's Hindu nationalists, REJECTED at the ballot box, find themselves at an ideological crossroads, pulled one way by their right-wing base and another by centrist reformers keen for power. (AFP/Raveendran)
(4) Enemies of Islam:
Anybody who involves in killing of innocents
Anybody who involves in killing of innocents
Holy Quran: 5: 32 - For that cause we decreed for the Children of Israel that WHOSOEVER KILLETH A HUMAN BEING for another manslaughter or corruption in the earth, IT SHALL BE AS IF HE HAD KILLED ALL MANKIND, and whoso saveth the life of one, it shall be as if he saved the life of all mankind. Our messengers came unto them of old with clear proofs, but afterwards lo! many of them became prodigals in the earth.
(4 a) Apprehending a vicious suicide bomber and preventing loss of innocent lives.
An explosives expert pins down a suicide bomber during his arrest in a Shi'ite mosque in Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles), north of Baghdad May 1, 2009. REUTERS/Iraqi Police
A suicide bomber is tied up after being apprehended trying to blow himself up at the Shiite Muslim Zahra mosque in the northern city of Kirkuk, some 225 kms from Baghdad. April saw 355 people killed in Iraq, making it the deadliest month since September, official figures showed Friday, but the US military insisted that recent attacks have not reignited sectarian fighting. (AFP/Marwan Ibrahim)
A relative of one-year-old boy Ali, who was killed when a mortar struck his family home in eastern Baghdad, Iraq, bring his body back from a hospital, Saturday, May 16, 2009. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
Shaqir Ahmed, uncle of the one year-old-boy Ali Ahmed who was killed when a mortar struck his family home in eastern Baghdad, Iraq, carries his body after a funeral prayer, Saturday, May 16, 2009. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
(4 b) Enemies of Islam (Continued):
Turkey Massacre
Women mourn beside the grave of a relative in the village of Bilge, near the city of Mardin in southeastern Turkey, Wednesday, May 6, 2009. Masked assailants with automatic weapons attacked a celebration Monday night, killing 44 people and injuring six others in what appeared to be the result of a family feud, according to Turkish authorities. Hasan Duruer, the governor of Mardin province, said Wednesday a court has charged eight suspects accused of killing 44 people in an assault on an engagement ceremony in Bilge. (AP Photo/Ibrahim Usta)
Women arrive to attend the funeral of the victims from the attack on Monday night, in the village of Bilge, near the city of Mardin, in southeastern Turkey, Tuesday, May 5, 2009. (AP Photo/Ibrahim Usta)
Woman cries as others mourn in the village of Bilge, near the city of Mardin in southeastern Turkey, Tuesday, May 5, 2009(AP Photo/Ibrahim Usta)
A boy recites from the Quran, as women stand near the graves of their family members in the village of Bilge, near the city of Mardin in southeastern Turkey, Wednesday, May 6, 2009. (AP Photo/Ibrahim Usta)
A young girl holds a copy of the Quran as men pray at the graves of their family members in the village of Bilge, near the city of Mardin in southeastern Turkey, Wednesday, May 6, 2009. (AP Photo/Ibrahim Usta)
Women react near the graves of their family members in the village of Bilge, near the city of Mardin in southeastern Turkey, Wednesday, May 6, 2009. (AP Photo/Ibrahim Usta)
Women mourn on the grave of a relative in the village of Bilge, near the city of Mardin in southeastern Turkey, Wednesday, May 6, 2009. (AP Photo/Ibrahim Usta)
A young girl recites the Quran, Muslim holy book, near the graves of family members in the village of Bilge, near the city of Mardin in southeastern Turkey, Wednesday, May 6, 2009. (AP Photo/Ibrahim Usta)
(5) Bangalore (INDIA) : Heart Surgery
Iraqi woman Khalida lifts the shirt of her son Saleh Thanoon, 2, to show marks on his chest, as he recovers from heart surgery at Narayana Hrudayalaya hospital in Bangalore, India, Saturday, May 2, 2009.
Iraqi child Younis Ali, 12, left, who is recovering from heart and throat surgery looks at the camera as Nadia holds her 11 month old baby Salaam Hareth, right, also recovering from a heart surgery at Narayana Hrudayalaya hospital in Bangalore, India, Saturday, May 2, 2009. The hospital has conducted the largest number of heart surgeries in the world on children since it was founded in May, 2001, said hospital authorities. More than forty Iraqi children who were brought to India by an Iraqi non government organization Tareeq Al Zuhoor were operated at the hospital as part of their international welfare program. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)
(5) Iranian Militants
IRANMILITIA: Female members of Iran's Basij militia carry national flags during the Army Day parade in Tehran on April 18. Five rebels and three members of the hardline Basij militia were killed in clashes in western Iran near the border with Turkey and Iraq, a press report said on Wednesday. (AFP/File/Behrouz Mehri)
(6) Fashion Show in Caucasian Muslim Countries
Mosque in Pavlodar, Kazakhstan
Kazakhs predominately follow Sunni Islam. Majority of the Kazakh population are Muslims followed by Russian Orthodox. While we fully understand the respect the Quranic verse: "There is no compulsion in Islam", as members of Ummah we pray Allah to guide all Muslims in the right path. What innovative ways are there for the Global Ummah to PEACEFULLY work on areas of improvement in terms of guiding other national/ethnic Muslim groups on issues that have been imitated from non-Islamic societal values ?
A model presents a creation by designer Iris van Herpen of the Netherlands during Kazakhstan Fashion Week in Almaty May 16, 2009. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (KAZAKHSTAN FASHION) first photo-pearl dress
A model presents a creation by designer Iris van Herpen of the Netherlands during Kazakhstan Fashion Week in Almaty May 16, 2009. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (KAZAKHSTAN FASHION)
A model presents a creation by designer Iris van Herpen of the Netherlands during Kazakhstan Fashion Week in Almaty May 16, 2009. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (KAZAKHSTAN FASHION)
A model presents a creation by designer Iris van Herpen of the Netherlands during Kazakhstan Fashion Week in Almaty May 16, 2009. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (KAZAKHSTAN FASHION)
Model presents a creation by Kazakhstan's Kenje design house during Kazakhstan Fashion Week in Almaty May 15, 2009. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (KAZAKHSTAN FASHION)
(7) Brutal injustices:
Abugarhib: A handout photo from SBS TV received in 2006 allegedly shows a hooded and bound prisoner being attacked by a dog in Iraq's Abu Ghraib jail. (AFP/HO/File)
(9) Child Actor from Oscar winning movie: Slum Dog Millionaire:
"Slumdog Millionaire" child actor Mohammed Azharuddin Ismail (L) in a classroom in Mumbai in February. The shantytown home of Azharuddin was torn down on Thursday as Mumbai authorities cleared an illegal slum, eyewitnesses said. (AFP/File/Pal Pillai)
Jazakulla Khair
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