4/28/2009

VOICE OF GLOBAL UMMAH
Vol 77, May 02, 2009

St. Louis, Missouri

Editors: Mohamed & Rashida Ziauddin

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

GLOBAL UMMAH IN PICTURES:
One picture speaks a thousand words



An Iraqi teacher lectures a class of illiterate women at an all-female school in Baghdad. Last year saw a sharp increase in the number of suicide attacks committed by women in Iraq but now, in a country where 35 percent of the female population cannot read, a new programme is aiming to help women into education.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)



Egyptian activists wear stickers of the Kefaya (enough) movement, the Egyptian Movement for Change, over their mouths during a protest in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, April 6, 2009 . A planned nationwide strike and series of demonstrations by pro-democracy activists in Cairo fizzled Monday in the face of a massive security presence and widespread apathy. (AP Photo/Amr Sharaf)


A famous Pakistani Social Worker Abdul Sattar Edhi on a wheelchair, along with other members of Pakistan civil society March during a rally to mark International Women's Day in Karachi, Pakistan on Sunday, March 8, 2009. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)



A member of Pakistani civil society with a candle take part in a rally in connection with International Women's day in Lahore, Pakistan on Saturday, March 7, 2009. Pakistan will observe the International Women's day, along with other nations on Sunday. It is a major day of global celebration for the economic, political and social achievements of women. (AP Photo/K.M.Chaudary)



An Iraqi woman holds a banner that reads "Stop Violence Against Women" during a rally in Najaf, Iraq, Sunday March 8, 2009. Iraqi women face extreme poverty and personal insecurity despite an overall decrease in nationwide violence, a prominent aid group said Sunday as it urged the Iraqi government to increase state aid for women and their families. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani)



DOME OF ROCK: Palestinian worshippers pray outside the Dome of Rock at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem on Feb 6, 2009. Police beefed up security in Jerusalem's old City on Thursday following reports that Jewish extremists planned to rally at the compound as Muslims holds prayers there. (AFP/File/Ahmad Gharabli)




DARFUR: Displaced Sudanese people queue up to receive aid at the Kasab camp near Kutum in norther Darfur. Armed men in Sudan's Darfur have kidnapped two aid workers from a French humanitarian group, the group said, in the latest act to target foreign aid organizations in the war-ravaged region. (AFP/FILE/March Prior)




Women of a Pakistani civil society dance on the traditional drum beat during a rally to mark International Women's Day in Islamabad, Pakistan on Sunday, March 8, 2009. Thousands of women demonstrated in nation-wide rallies on International women's Day, demanding freedom, equal rights and an end to discriminatory laws in this Muslim nation. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)oto/Channi Aanand)


Migrant women workers push hand carts loaded with cow dung which is used in place of fuel in rural areas, in Amritsar, India. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri) oto/Mahesh Kumar A)



A young girl smiles while carrying cow dung on her head..which is used in place of fuel in rural areas, ahead of the International Women's day, in Amritsar, India, Saturday March 7, 2009. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri) oto/Mahesh Kumar A)





A police special forces officer speaks with a street vendor selling flowers, the bestselling item of the Women's day shopping, in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, Russia, Sunday, March 8, 2009. While some former Soviet Republics have dropped International Women's Day on March 8th, as a relic of the Communist era, it is still an official holiday in Russia, where men give flowers and gifts to female relatives, friends and colleagues. (AP Photo/Musa Sadulayev)




A view of a mosque in Cairo during sunset April 14, 2009.
REUTERS/Tarek Mostafa




A Bangladeshi beggar looks through the window of a car in an upscale area of Dhaka on April 4, 2009. BANGLADESH WHERE AN ESTIMATED 700,000 PEOPLE HAVE EKED OUT A LIVING BY BEGGING, A NEW GOVERNMENT CRACKDOWN HAS MADE THE PRACTICE ILLEGAL. (AFP/File, Munir UZ Zaman)




A Bangladeshi beggar asks for money in an upmarket area of Dhaka. (AFP/File, Munir UZ Zaman)


A blind Bangladeshi beggar holds her child as she begs for money in an upscale area of Dhaka. (AFP/File, Munir UZ Zaman)

Refugees from Myanmar and Bangladesh hold Friday prayers in Sabang. Indonesia said Friday it will repatriate 174 "economic migrants" who fled Myanmar claiming persecution, as new accounts emerged of their harrowing sea journey and alleged abuse by the Thai navy.
(AFP/Chaideer Mahyuddin)



Muslims bow toward Mecca during the "Biswa Ijtema" or the World Islamic Congregation at Tongi, on the outskirts of Dhaka. At least two million worshippers gathered north of the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka Friday for a three-day event billed as the largest annual Islamic event after the hajj. (AFP/Munir Uz Zaman)




Muslims gather for the "Biswa Ijtema" or the World Islamic Congregation at Tongi, on the outskirts of Dhaka. At least two million worshippers gathered north of the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka Friday for a three-day event billed as the largest annual Islamic event after the hajj.
(AFP/Munir Uz Zaman)


A boy holds a child as his mother Mariam Bibi crushes dry cell batteries to recycle carbon, ahead of International Women's Day in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Saturday, March 7, 2009. BIBI EARNS ABOUT ONE U.S. DOLLARS FOR CRUSHING ONE THOUSAND BATTERIES PER DAY. (AP Photo/Pavel Rahman)




Bangladeshi women march through the streets to mark the international Women's Day in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sunday March 8, 2009. The banner in Bengali reads "END THE VIOLENCE AGAINST THE WOMEN AND GIRL CHILD TOGETHER". (AP Photo/Pavel Rahman).




File photo shows a view of the Bibi Heybat Mosque just outside Azerbaijan's capital Baku. The commander of the ex-Soviet state's air force, Rail Rzayev, has been shot dead in the capital, local news agencies have reported. (AFP/File/Mladen Antonov)



Israeli Police control one of the entrances to Jerusalem's Old City near the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. US Middle East envoy George Mitchell was set to meet Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas in the West Bank after pressing a two-state solution to sceptical officials in Israel.(AFP/Ahmad Gharabli)



Indian Election Commission representatives photograph Muslim women voters along with their identity cards after they cast their votes at a polling booth at Chitavanpur village in mirzapur district, in the northern Indian State of Uttar Pradesh, Thursday, April 16, 2009. All the voters at this booth were photographed as a precautionary measure to check bogus voting. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)


Jazakullah Khair

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