7/29/2009

Volume 90, 2nd August, 2009, Toronto, Canada
Editors: Haja Mohideen and Azra HM Yusuf

In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent and the Most Merciful

13 year old Muslim Girl Headed to University


WEST HAVEN - In many ways, Maeda Hanafi is a typical kid.She likes to ride her bicycle, inline skate and play with friends, as well as with other youngsters who attend Masjid Al-Islam, her family's mosque in New Haven.But while most 13-year-olds are just completing seventh grade, Maeda already has earned 15 college credits and will be a full-time student at the University of New Haven in the fall.

"I have lots of friends of different ages," Maeda said of her stint this year at Gateway Community College in North Haven, where she was on the dean's list, completing courses in physics, pre-calculus, calculus and computer programming.The oldest child of Anna and Imam Hanafi, Maeda and her three siblings, Aisya, 5, Idris, 10, and Adam, 11, all are home-schooled.She did attend Forest Elementary School through second grade, but found she was bored. Five years later, with her parents as her teachers, Maeda had advanced enough to win a $12,000 merit scholarship to UNH.

Both parents have math and science backgrounds - Imam Hanafi has marine engineering and computer science degrees, while Anna Hanafi was trained as an economist - and felt confident they could offer their children a good education.

Maeda is the youngest student ever admitted to the college ..
"I enjoy home-schooling. When I was in public school, I played too much, and I didn't learn that much. When I was home-schooled I was focused," Maeda said.
Melissa Laskowski, assistant director of undergraduate admissions at UNH, said it appears that Maeda is the youngest student ever admitted to the college. She was 12 when she got her acceptance notice this spring.Before that, a 16-year-old matriculated to UNH and graduated a few years ago, Laskowski said.Maeda's grade point average and SAT scores qualified her for the merit scholarship, which will help her family with the almost $30,000 bill. Laskowski said Maeda also came in for an interview when she applied for admission, which was optional.The admissions official said Maeda was highly recommended by one of her Gateway professors for her maturity and academic ability. She said it was possible the young teen will graduate early from UNH, given the number of credits she has already earned."We are really excited about having her here," Laskowski said.


20 Muslims honoured by the Queen
By Elham Asaad Buaras, Muslim News
Twenty (2 CBEs, 4 OBEs, 11 MBEs, 1 BEM, and 1 QPM) Muslims were recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours this year along with 15 members of the Hindu and Sikh communities (1 Knighthood, 1 MVO, 3 CBEs, 1 OBE, 10 MBEs and 1 BEM) and thirteen members of the Jewish community (1 Damehood , 3 CBEs, 4 OBEs, and 5 MBEs). The majority of Muslims honoured gave their expertise to charities and the voluntary sector and six worked to advance social cohesion or Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) standard of living.

Muslim recipients in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2009

Commanders of the Order of the British Empire (CBE): Dr Anas Al-Shaikh Ali, academic advisor, Intl Inst of Islamic Thought, for services to community relations. Shaukat Moledina, for services to social housing & to charity.

Order of the British Empire (OBE): Reshard Auladin, Deputy Chair, Met Police Authority, for services to police & to the admin of justice. Rokhsana Fiaz, Dir, Change Inst, for services to, BME. Dr Mohammed Hossain, Dir, Research & Intl Coop, national physical lab, for services to industry. Fiyaz Mughal, Dir, Faith Matters, for services to, the voluntary sector.

Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBE); Jamila Aftab, for services to the community in Bristol. Ashuk Ahmed, for services to young people. Syeda Begum, fst Bengali & Somali people in Tower Hamlets. Mostapha Bouker Deputy Race Equality Officer, Prison Officer, HM Prison Belmarsh, Ministry of Justice. Ahmadul Haque, Chair, Al Islah Community Trust, for services to the community. Iftakhar Hussain, for services to Asian people in Hartlepool. Nurul Islam, for services to Bengali people. Ebrahim Kharodia, for services to, pharmacy in London & to charity in Malawi. Javaid Naveed, for services to BME in N Ireland. Dr Haifa Takruri-Rizk senior lecturer, Uni of Salford, for services to women, BME in science, engineering & tech education. Yusuf Saleh, admin officer, pension disability & carers’ service, Dept for Work & Pensions, for services to, public & voluntary service.

British Empire Medal (BEM); Anis Tiki, for services to the community.

Queens Police Medal (QPM); Mohammed Aziz, constable West Yorkshire Police

Protest ALDO Group
American shoe company ALDO has launched its new range of shoes in USA and named it FATIMA for Ladies and ABDULLAH for Men... names are written on the sole and inside the shoe. Protest ALDO Group……forward to all Muslims………..do it before Allah asks you what did you do for your Religion….this is a confirmed news plzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. do not doubt its authenticity ALLAH SAYS: 'If you deny me in front of your friends, I shall deny you on the day of Judgment 93% of people won’t pass this on.... Will you be one of them ?????????????????


It’s Barbie’s world

Altmuslimah, By Farah Banihali


Islamic Barbie Dolls



Now, we have Fulla, who is marketed as a Muslim doll. She represents a “culturally sensitive alternative” to Barbie’s flashy lifestyle. Fulla is not manufactured by Mattel, but by a Syrian based company called NewBoy. She does bear obvious physical similarities to her white American counterpart: 11” tall, unable to stand on her own, and made in the same factories in China as Barbie. Fulla has “outdoor” and “indoor” clothes; her outdoor clothes include a hijab, a black abaya, or a long, cream coat, while her indoor clothes consist of trendy, Western-style outfits. She also comes with a mini pink prayer mat. Fulla herself has long black hair, large brown eyes, painted-on eyebrows, and an olive complexion, although some of the Internet images of the doll show her color ranging from dark brown to as white as Barbie’s. She also has two ‘friends’; blonde-haired Yasmine and red-haired Nada.
Razanne, a Muslim doll (again, similar to Barbie) is made by a Muslim couple in the U.S. and sold through their website. Buyers can purchase different varieties of Razanne – Fair Skin/Fair Hair, Olive Skin/Dark Hair or Dark Skin/Dark Hair. Like Fulla, Razanne has “inside” and “outside” attire. At home, Razanne dresses in all the latest fashions, and when she is out and about she dons her hijab and jilbaab. Yaqin argues that while Razanna is a “veiled mimicry” of Barbie, such dolls do offer an alternative representation of Muslim identity because the dolls are presented as a substitute to the culture of commodification. However, she concludes that it remains debatable whether the dolls break stereotypes of Muslim women, or reinforce them through constructing a universal female Muslim subject. It is important to realize that while dolls like Fulla and Razanne do offer an alternative to Barbie, the dolls remain inherently consumerist and construct their own discourse of femininity. (Photo: Chandra Marsono)

Americans lead humanitarian convoy to Gaza


Over two hundred Americans of all faiths led a humanitarian aid convoy to Gaza. Although initially denied the possibility to travel to Gaza, Viva Palestina endured the Egyptian bureaucracy and prevailed. Humanitarian aid convoy included former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney and New York City Councilman Charles Barron joined by many Americans witnessed the destruction of Gaza by Israel and speaking to the victims, including children.

Farah Pandith America’s special Muslim representative By Elham Asaad Buaras, Muslim News


The US Department of State’s appointment of veteran advisor Farah Pandith as Special Representative to Muslim Communities has been welcomed by some quarters in Capitol Hill but left others wishing Secretary Hillary Clinton selected someone less seasoned by years serving the Bush Administration.

Clinton said Kashmiri-born Pandith “sees her personal experience as an illustration of how Muslim immigrants to the US can successfully integrate themselves into American society.”

Pandith, who has been in various Government departments since 2003 and had worked in Kabul, with the US Agency for International Development, spoke to The Muslim News about her new job created “for the first time in American history” and the trials that comes with it. Among her many challenges is the accusations that her role is not as ‘new’ nor as ‘historic’ as Clintons’ State Department would have people believe.

India: A group formed to wage Jihad against terrorism
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New Delhi: Some peace-loving citizens of Mumbai have established a new organization, National Institute for Jihad Against Terrorism (NIJAT), to fight against terrorism and abolish it.

Talking with newsmen in Mumbai, the national convener of NIJAT, Farooq Azam said, “The world is facing a macabre situation in the form of anti-human terrorism. Lives of lacs of people have been devastated and innumerable have become a victim of painful circumstances all over the world.” He further said, “This is a proven fact that terrorism does not spread without any cause but we also believe that in this civilized society of 21st century, terrorism is no solution to any problem.”

“Irrespective of the religion he adheres to, none has got a right to exploit religious belief to justify his satanic ways at the cost of human suffering”, Farooq Azam said, “Because every religion spreads the message of peace, harmony, brotherhood, mutual care and not harming others.” He avowed to spread this message of Jihad against terrorism across the country.

On this occasion, the president of All India Ulema Board, Maulana Naushad Alam Siddiqui said, “In order to eliminate this human tragedy and make this world a better place for our children and coming generations, we should associate ourselves with such movements.” He congratulated Farooq Azam for launching NIJAT.

NIJAT has planned to make people aware of the scourge of terrorism and bring back the astray youths on right path through national level seminars, conferences and dramas.

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7/23/2009

Volume 89, July 26, 2009, Toronto, Canada
Editors: Haja Mohideen and Azra HM Yusuf

In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent and the Most Merciful

Invitation to Voice of Global Ummah by
"Voice of IslamicBoard Show" - Ummah Radio
Assalamu Alaykum Mohamed Ziauddi,

On behalf of IslamicBoard, we pray that this e-mail finds you in the best of health and Imaan (Faith).

Just a simple reminder, this Saturday at 7 PM GMT, we are having an exclusive show on Ummah Radio, with Brother Islam Adra. He is quite popular from the video-sharing site called YouTube. His topic is set to be directed to the youth, but is an open forum discussion with everyone. Defining Youth can be of any age.

After the 7 PM GMT "Voice of IslamicBoard Show" with Br. Islam Adra, we will be hosting a Quiz Show, Yes/No Games, and much more. We may possibly have prizes as well. So please join us for this event.

An interview with Br. Harun Yahya will also take place after our program, and we highly recommend you join that one as well. Q/A Session will be provided.

To listen to the show, simply visit UmmahRadio.com at the timings provided. The Voice of IslamicBoard Show will be recorded in case you miss the show. Live Q/A and game participation may be done via MSN. Please add presenters@ummahradio.com on MSN to actively and directly participate.

On the other note, please visit the forums to join our Qur'aan Initiative Project, brought to you by the IslamicBoard Staff. It is a highly recommended self-paced course on memorizing the Qur'aan. "The best amongst you is he who learns the Qur'aan and teaches it."

Jazakumullahu Khair & Wa Alaykum As-Salaam, eHafiz

The Future MECCA in Saudia Arabia
(Construction in Progress)
Jamarat Project in Mina Makkah Al Mukkarrma after Completion

Makkah-Al-Mukkarrma after 12 Years

Electric Trains will be started Next Year from Haram to Mina

Holy kaaba'a Mataaf Covered with 4 umbrellas

After Three Years Haram Mosque will Look Like This

World 2nd Tallest building starting in Jeddah K.S.A

Madena Haram Masque After four Years
A big housing project started near the Holy Haram


No bus for veiled muslim Aussie women

It never crossed Khadijah Ouararhni-Grech's mind that covering her face would make her fell prey to racism in Australia. "As I was stepping on to the bus, the driver said: 'You can't get on the bus wearing your mask'," Khadijah told Australia's The Daily Telegraph on Friday, July 24.

The Aussie Muslim woman politely told the driver that her niqab (face-veil) was not a "mask", but a religious dress. "It is law," the driver replied. "I told him it wasn't the law and he said 'You have to show me your face'," Khadijah said. "I said to him, 'There's no difference between me and that lady sitting there who chooses to not wear what I'm wearing.'"

After a heated argument that distressed passengers, the driver eventually let the veiled Muslim woman on the bus. "There were others present, there was a lady with a baby who was also disgusted about the discrimination that was brought upon me," said Khadijah.

The Muslim woman filed a racism complaint with the privately-operated HillsBus company. Hijab, Why? Hijab: Always A Woman's Business? "At HillsBus we take complaints seriously and we value our record of customer service," a HillsBus spokesperson said. "We received the complaint on Tuesday and an internal inquiry is now under way. "Until the matter is investigated it would obviously not be appropriate to offer further public commentary." "Attitude change" Khadijah, a mother of two, does not want punishment for the driver, but wants the bus company to improve driver's education and attitudes towards Muslims. "I'd just like to change his attitude," she said. "I just want him to be educated on the subject."

The Muslim woman also offered help in introducing programs to drivers about the Muslim code of dress. "I'd be more than happy to go to the company with my sheikh and educate these people about what this exactly is and our beliefs and the reason why."

Islam sees hijab as an obligatory code of dress, not a religious symbol displaying one's affiliations. As for niqab, the majority of Muslim scholars believe that a woman is not obliged to cover her face or hands. They believe that it is up to every woman to decide whether to take on the face-cover or not. Muslims, who have been in Australia for more than 200 years, make up 1.5 percent of its 20-million population. Islam is the country's second largest religion after Christianity.

In post 9/11 Australia, Muslims have been haunted with suspicion and have had their patriotism questioned. A 2007 poll taken by the Issues Deliberation Australia (IDA) think-tank found that Australians basically see Islam as a threat to the Australian way of life.

In 2008, a governmental report revealed that Muslims are facing deep-seated Islamophobia and race-based treatment like never before. Source: IslamOnline


Britons seek justice in Shari`ah Courts


More non-Muslim Britons are resorting to Shari`ah courts to find speedy justice instead of the long wrangling of regular courts, the Times reported on Tuesday, July 21. It cited the case of a non-Muslim who took his Muslim business partner to the Muslim Arbitration Tribunal (MAT) last month to sort out a dispute over the profits of their car fleet company. "[He] claimed that there had been an oral agreement between the pair," Freed Chedie, a spokesman for Faiz-ul-Aqtab Siqqiqi, a barrister who set up MAT in 2007, told the Times. "The tribunal found that because of certain things the Muslim man did, that agreement had existed. The non-Muslim was awarded £48,000." The case is one of many in which non-Muslims have resorted to the Shari`ah courts to secure their rights. Some 5 percent of the cases MAT reviewed recently involved non-Muslims who came to resolve commercial disputes and other civil matters. Chedie said the tribunal had adjudicated on at least 20 cases involving non-Muslims so far this year. "We put weight on oral agreements, whereas the British courts do not," he explains. MAT, which was established in 2007, runs Shari`ah courts that in addition to tackling Muslims personal affairs disputes also resolve commercial matters. It already operates in London, Birmingham, Bradford, Manchester and Nuneaton, Warwickshire. Rulings issued by Shari`ah courts are enforceable with the full power of the judicial system, through the county courts or High Court, provided that both parties agree to that condition at the beginning of any hearing. Shari`ah courts are mediation councils that deal with Muslims’ personal affairs, basically the issues of marriages, inheritance and endowment, which is known as the Muslim personal law. They have been operating in Britain, home to some 2 million Muslims, for over two decades. Growing

Arab countries ban elderly, young from hajj

In a bid to contain the spread of swine flu, Arab health ministers agreed Wednesday, July 22, to ban the elderly and young children from going on `Umrah and hajj in Saudi Arabia this year. "Hajj and `Umrah will continue with some conditions," said Ibrahim al-Kerdani, World Health Organization (WHO) spokesman in Egypt, reported Agence France-Presse (AFP). "Some groups will be excluded from hajj: people over the age of 65, people under the age of 12 and people with chronic illnesses." Delaying `Umrah Because of Swine Flu Swine Flu: Beware, Be Safe (Folder) Swine Flu to Affect Hajj Season? The ban was taken during an emergency meeting of Arab health ministers to coordinate arrangements and precautions to be taken during hajj. Kerdani said the decision to keep the vulnerable groups away from hajj is yet to be ratified by the Arab governments. The swine flu (H1N1), a mixture of various swine, bird and human viruses, first emerged in Mexico in April. The World Health Organization (WHO) says the virus is moving around the globe at "unprecedented speed," with more than 700 people killed since the outbreak began. Several Muslim countries have already warned vulnerable people against going on `Umrah and hajj in Saudi Arabia over swine flu concerns. On Monday, Egypt became the latest country to advise vulnerable people against going to the holy sites in Makkah, after an Egyptian woman back from Saudi Arabia became the first swine flu death in the Middle East and Africa. In Iran, a health ministry official on Tuesday repeated calls for elderly Iranians and children to avoid going on hajj this year. Tunisia earlier this month suspended `Umrah because of the virus, while reserving judgment on whether hajj should be undertaken. Saudi Arabia itself in June warned elderly Muslims and pregnant women against undertaking hajj, one of the five pillars of Islam, because of the threat of swine flu. More than two million Muslims perform hajj, an obligation for all able-bodied, financially capable Muslims at least once in a lifetime, every year. Requirement The WHO says Saudi Arabia is expected to ratify the Arab recommendation to exclude the vulnerable people from hajj. "The Saudi government will make (these conditions) a requirement," said Hussein Gezairi, the WHO regional director for the Eastern Mediterranean region. "No one will get their visa unless these requirements are fulfilled." Around 3 million Muslim pilgrims from around the world head for the holy city of Makkah each year for hajj. But Riyadh said that it would not restrict the number of visas it issues for hajj this year. "We did not change the percentage of any country, we changed certain rules," Saudi Health Minister Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al-Rabeeah said. "It's up to the country to replace (applicants who fall under the restrictions) with" other pilgrims, he said. He, however, said that there would "probably" be fewer pilgrims this year. Source: IslamOnline


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7/18/2009

VOICE OF GLOBAL UMMAH
Volume 88, July 19, 2009 Toronto, Canada

Editors: Haja Mohideen and Azra HM Yusuf


In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent and the Most Merciful




n A mosque in Urumqi in northwest China’s Xinjiang region. Security forces armed with semi-automatic weapons and batons were deployed in China’s restive Urumqi city as worshippers descended on mosques for the main Muslim day of prayer. (AFP/Frederic J. Brown)

Ethnic Uighurs and Han Chinese Muslims pray together during Friday prayers at Yang Hang mosque in the city of Urumqi in China’s Xinjiang Autonomous Region July 17, 2009. REUTERS/David Gray



n Kashmiri college students shout slogans during a protest over the rape and murder of two Muslim women, in Srinagar on July 15. Police in Kashmir have arrested four fellow officers for allegedly destroying evidence in the rape and murder of two women that sparked huge anti-India protests, officials said Thursday. (AFP/Rouf Bhat)


n A Rohingya refugee mother along with her children are seen at Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh in 2002. Medical charity Doctors without Borders (MSF) on Wednesday condemned an "aggressive and abusive" attempt by Bangladeshi police to forcibly displace Rohingya refugees by destroying and looting their makeshift homes. (AFP/File/Jewel Samad) ommunity and prompted international outrage. (AP Photo/Musa Sadulayev)


n A man grieves as he clutches the coffin of his brother, slain Iraqi traffic policeman Hussein Qassim, 19, in Baghdad. Qassim and another traffic policeman were killed on Tuesday after exchanging fire with gunmen at a checkpoint near Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Khalid Mohammed)


n Shiite pilgrims gather at the Imam Mousa al-Kazim shrine to commemorate the revered imam’s eighth century death in northern Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, July 17, 2009. A bomb planted under a bridge killed a married couple who were among hundreds of thousands of Shiite pilgrims heading to the shrine. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)


n Pallbearers carry the body of slain rights activist Natalya Estemirova to a cemetery for burial in Koshkeldy, 70 km (44 miles) east of Grozny, Chechnya, Thursday, July 16, 2009. Weeping mourners escorted the body of Natalya Estemirova through Chechnya’s capital on Thursday, honoring the activist whose brazen kidnapping and execution-style killing shocked Russia’s beleaguered human rights community and prompted international outrage. (AP Photo/Musa Sadulayev)

People pray at the burial of slaim rights activist Natalya Estemirova at a cemetery in Koshkeldy, 70 km (44 miles) east of Grozny, Chechnya, Thursday, July 16, 2009.

People, holding a poster reading Who is next, cry during a mourning ceremony for slaim rights activist Natalya Estemirova in Grozny, Chechnya, Thursday, July 16, 2009.

Lana, center, 15-year-old daughter of slain rights activist Natalya Estemirova, cries in a mourning procession while heading to a cemetery for burial in Koshkeldy, 70 km (44 miles) east of Grozny, Chechnya, Thursday, July 16, 2009.


n Pakistani and foreign religious students take exams at the Islamic seminary of Jamia Binoria University in Karachi in April. Pakistan has virtually shelved a US-aided, multi-million-dollar plan to reform seminaries considered nurseries of jihad, faced with uncooperative Islamists, as the military cracks down on the Taliban. (AFP/File/Rizwan Tabassum)


n Maryam Rajavi, head of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), stands next to a photo of a woman identified by the NCRI as Neda Agha Soltan at a memorial ceremony at Auvers sur Oise, near Paris June 25, 2009. REUTERS/Gareth Watkins

n People hold placards with pictures of murdered Marwa El-Sherbiny during a memorial service in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin July 17, 2009. El-Sherbiny, 31, mother of a 3-year-old and three months pregnant, was stabbed 18 times by the man she was testifying against during a July 1 appeal hearing in Dresden. El-Sherbiny was at the court to testify on charges that the man had called her a "terrorist" on a playground in 2008 because she was wearing a headscarf. The poster on (R) reads "Islam is not a problem, but rather a solution". REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch (GERMANY POLITICS CONFLICT CRIME LAW)

A placard which reads "Against Islamophobia and discrimination" is pictured during a memorial event for murdered Marwa El-Sherbiny in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin July 17, 2009.


A girl holds a picture of murdered Marwa El-Sherbiny during a memorial in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin July 17, 2009.


n Muslim worshipers overflow from a mosque out in to the street during noon prayers in Kashgar, China, Friday, July 10, 2009. Boisterous crowds turned up at mosques in riot-hit parts of this western Chinese city of Urumqi, ignoring orders canceling Friday prayers due to the ethnic violence and forcing officials to let them in. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Elizabeth Dalziel)



n Supporters of Afghan presidential candidate and former foreign minister Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, unseen, react during a campaign rally in Herat, Afghanistan, Friday, July 17, 2009. Afghans will head to the poles on Aug. 20 to elect the new president. (AP Photo/Fraidoon Pooyaa)











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7/09/2009

VOICE OF GLOBAL UMMAH



Volume 87, July 12, 2009 Toronto, Canada
Editors: Haja Mohideen and Azra HM Yusuf

In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent and the Most Merciful



A general view shows the Saudi capital Riyadh in 2007. Special security courts in Saudi Arabia have convicted a number of militants of plotting attacks inside the country with Al-Qaeda, the state news agency SPA reported on Wednesday.(AFP/File/Hassan Ammar)






A policeman fires a tear gas shell towards Kashmiris protesting the death of a man they say was abducted by security forces in Srinagar, India, Wednesday.(THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Dar Yasin)




Iraqis wave Iraqi flags and dance as they celebrate the U.S. withdrawal from Iraqi cities on June 30, 2009 in Baghdad, Iraq. Iraq celebrated as it declared June 30th 'National Sovereignty Day' after U.S. troops handed over control of Iraq's cities to their domestic security forces.(Muhannad Fala'ah/Getty Images)





Iraqi parliament speaker Iyad al-Samarrai (C) arrives at the Kuwaiti national assembly in Kuwait City. Iyad al-Samarrai on Wednesday proposed that Kuwait invest the multi-billion-dollar war reparations it is owed by Baghdad into his country's economic reconstruction.(AFP/Yasser al-Zayyat)




Chinese riot police watch a Muslim ethnic Uighur woman protest in Urumqi in China's far west Xinjiang province following a third day of unrest. Canada on Monday expressed alarm over violence in the ethnic Uighur enclave of Xinjiang in China, where scores of protesters were killed during weekend protests against the Beijing government.(AFP/Peter Parks)





Tobba Yahya and her husband Mohammed Shafee speak to reporters at their home in Montreal about the loss of their children Geeti, aged 13, Sahar, aged 17 and Zainab Shafia, aged 19, on Friday, July 3, 2009.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Peter McCabe




Afghan women walk in the artisan's village of Istalif in the Shomali plains, about 30 kms north of Kabul. Rape in Afghanistan is "widespread" and violence against women serving in public life is on the rise, a UN report said Wednesday, nearly eight years after the fall of the Taliban.(AFP/Shah Marai)




Afghans sit around the graves of victims of an explosion in Logar province on July 9. A truck rigged with explosives blew up near Kabul on Thursday, killing 25 people including many students in one of the deadliest blasts this year in Afghanistan, police said.(AFP/Shah Marai)




Afghans dig the graves for victims of an explosion in Logar province on July 9. A truck rigged with explosives blew up near Kabul on Thursday, killing 25 people including many students in one of the deadliest blasts this year in Afghanistan, police said.(AFP/Shah Marai)

BEWARE OF ANTI-ISLAMIC WEBSITES




SAVE YOUR RELIGION, Please send this message to every Muslim you know...ASAP! If you don't...A Muslim somewhere in the world could be receiving false information about Islam. So prevent that from happening.!PLEASE!Beware of the following websites:













These sites have been developed by Anti-muslims , who Intentionally are spreading wrong information about the QURAN , the HADITH and ISLAM itself. Please spread this information To all the Muslim brothers and sisters around the world. The list of traced
anti- Islamic websites, about Islam are:




1. http://www.islamreview.com/ This site has posted fake stories of how Muslims converted to Christianity. How do I know? Read the following excerpt from one of the stories:First the 'convert' says: (emphasis added)In the end, I managed to convince my mother, as it was for Allah and I joined the Islamic College. Having graduated as an ustaz, I was soon posted to my neighbourhood.And then:My trip to Mecca for the Haj (pilgrimage) was tiring but eventful. I did not have the rare opportunity to see inside the holy Kabah and the holy idols inside, which Prophet Muhammud had helped to place, as explained in Bukhari's HadithAn Ustaz (scholar) in Islaamic Studies is saying that there are idols inside the Kabah and that too placed by Muhammad (saw) himself!?!?!This clearly shows that the author is deliberately trying to spread misinformation about Islaam and wants to convey to possible reverts to Islaam that it is religion of idol worship.In fact most of the Christian sites use this tactic of false convert stories but it's not always possible to prove it.


2. MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "http://www.faithfreedom.org/" claiming to be http://www.faithfreedom..org/
AlhamduliLlaah I was able to catch another site posting fake stories of Muslims leaving Islaam. See the false information imparted here. That the attempt is deliberate is known through the claim that the 'convert' has done detailed study about the topic.For Islamic Education, I had to study about marriage in detail to do well. So, I learnt all the stuff and got the highest grade anyone can get for Islamic Education. And guess what? Because I know it so well, I know that there is a lot of discrimination against women in Islam. Things like a father and grandfather can marry a girl/woman to whomever they want even if the girl/woman doesn't want to marry that person. In addition, I learned things like women couldn't be witnesses in Syariah Courts and things like that. The first point here is a total lie whereas the second is a distorted version of the truth.



3. http://www.answering-islam.org/Testimonies/younathan.html
Here's yet another extract from a false convert story aimed at spreading misinformation about Islaam.As I started thinking about my life and the Quran, I realized all Muslims, even the prophet Muhammad, would go to Hell for certain sins they committed in their lifetime.This is a common ploy of the Christian Missionaries. They first inform gullible victims that Jesus (God) is Love and just by believing in the Crucifixion, you will be assured of Paradise . Whereas the concept of God in Islaam is so harsh that no one will be spared from Hell and that even Prophet Muhammad (saw) was not sure of where he would end up. For this purpose they quote an ayat of the Qur'aan out of context. Here there have gone a step further by saying that even our beloved Prophet (saw) would have to go through hell. Nothing could be further from the truth.Anti Islaamic Sites under misleading names






Anti Islaamic Sites apparent even by name
























































Always check the source of any Islamic web site even if it is very convincing A FAKE AMERICAN QUR'AN
(The FURQAN QUR'AN)http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1579211755/qid=1096805827/102-4933271-2395342


PLEASE DO NOT ignore this and FORWARD this to as many Muslims as you can. The new AMERICAN Qur'an: a dangerous trick. A new Quran is being distributed in Kuwait , titled 'The True Furqan'. It is being described as the verses of the Shaytan and Al-Furqan weekly magazine has found out that the two American printing companies;'Omega 2001' and 'Wine Press' are involved in the publishing of 'The True Furqan ', a book which has also been titled 'The 21st Century Qur'an '!



It is over 366 pages and is in both the Arabic and English languages...it is being distributed to our children in Kuwait in the private English schools! The book contains 77 Surats, which include Al-Fatiha, Al-Jana and Al-Injil. Instead of Bismillah, each Surat begins with a longer version of this incorporating the Christian belief of the three spirits. And this so called Qur'an opposes many Islamic beliefs. In one of its verses it describes having more than one wife as fornication, divorce being non-permissible and it uses a new system for the sharing out of the will, opposing the current one. It states that Jihad is HARAM. This book even goes as far as attacking God Almighty Allah!All this is poisoning our children at approx. $3.


BROTHERS AND SISTERS PLS SHARE THIS INFORMATION WITH AS MANY MUSLIMS AS POSSIBLE.

May Allah reward you. Ameen.



Our appalling ignorance of matters Muslim

By Haroon Siddiqui, Toronto Star


Recent events in Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey, Egypt, Germany and France challenge some well-entrenched notions.


Indonesia – the world's most populous Muslim nation, at 235 million, and the third largest democracy, after India and the U.S. – held a free and fair presidential election. It featured three secular-minded candidates, including a woman who does not wear the hijab.
The incumbent, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, won. He was rewarded for ushering in political and economic stability, controlling crony capitalism and corruption, and rooting out Islamic militancy.


Three months earlier, there had been parliamentary elections. Parties with an Islamic agenda lost to those who wanted to keep state and religion separate, though many may themselves be deeply religious.

Neighbouring Malaysia has begun rolling back a decades-long quota system for the majority Malays, which discriminates against Chinese, Indians and others. Prime Minister Najib Razak is pre-empting the resurgent opposition leader, former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim, whose pledge to end the quotas was gaining traction.
Democracy is also working well in Turkey. The government has just proclaimed a law limiting the power of military courts. Civilian courts will try military personnel in peacetime and military courts will be barred from prosecuting civilians.


This complies with the European Union's requirements for Turkey to be eligible for EU membership. But its real significance is that Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the popular prime minister, has ended the 80-year-old immunity enjoyed by the army, which used to stage coups and topple governments.


If you include the elected governments in Pakistan and Bangladesh (populations 176 million and 158 million, respectively) and add the Muslims of India (155 million), you realize that about 800 million Muslims enjoy varying degrees of democracy.


The Western view of Muslims living under military or monarchical despots is true mostly of the Middle East. And the worst among them (Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states) are the closest allies of the U.S. – and Canada.


So the idea of America as the harbinger of democracy for Muslims is humbug. The ballyhooed democratization of Iraq and Afghanistan (never the aim of the invasions) has come at a horrendous human cost, widely viewed in the Muslim world as crimes against humanity. A parallel notion, that Muslim women are living in the Dark Ages, also applies mostly to the Arab world, especially the nations closest to the U.S. and Canada.


Indonesia, Pakistan, Turkey and Bangladesh have had women leaders. Even in Iran, the land of limited democracy and crackdowns, women are in the forefront of civic engagement, including protests.


In Germany, a pregnant hijabi woman was stabbed, 18 times, to death in a courtroom, as her 3-year-old son looked on. Instead of going after the suspect (a man who hated Muslims and was in court for calling her "a terrorist"), police mistakenly shot her husband, one presumes by presuming him to be at fault. He's in critical condition.


Marwa Sheribini was buried in her native Egypt where angry protesters condemned German Islamophobia, as did the Arab League. Elsewhere, Muslims berated the Western media's silence. Among them: Wahida Valiante, the hijab-wearing president of the Canadian Islamic Congress. Its executive director, Zijad Delic, added that if Sheribini's attacker had been a Muslim, "the media would've reported it widely. Then for days afterwards, they would deliberate the case and conclude that Muslims are `brutal and uncivilized.' But when a racist European murders an innocent woman, the silence is deafening."


In France, Ayatollah Nicolas Sarkozy has issued a fatwa against the niqab: It's "not a sign of religion. It's a sign of subservience and debasement." Perhaps. However, the issue is not theological but rather secular: On what legal basis does a democracy ban one person's veil but favour another's bikini?


The above examples point to geopolitical inconsistencies or instances of individual racism and state complicity/complacency. But they most glaringly highlight the West's appalling, and dangerous, ignorance of matters Muslim.
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