VOICE OF GLOBAL UMMAH

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)