VOICE OF GLOBAL UMMAH
Volume 139, July 11, 2010
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Editors: Mohamed & Rashida Ziauddin
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent and the Most Merciful
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Editors: Mohamed & Rashida Ziauddin
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent and the Most Merciful
ED NOTE:
OUR DEEP APPRECIATION TO BELOW CELEBRITIES FOR THEIR INITIATIVE TO INVOLVE IN HUMANITARIAN CAUSES ACROSS THE GLOBE
(All photos in this issue except two relating to the new born baby are from Christian Science Monitor)
OUR DEEP APPRECIATION TO BELOW CELEBRITIES FOR THEIR INITIATIVE TO INVOLVE IN HUMANITARIAN CAUSES ACROSS THE GLOBE
(All photos in this issue except two relating to the new born baby are from Christian Science Monitor)
ANGELINA JOLIE: Angelina Jolie is a UN Goodwill Ambassador and has spent time volunteering in Tanzania, Sudan, and Somalia, among many other countries. Here, she is seen in Somalia, speaking with Somali refugees at the Dadaab refugee camp on the Kenya-Somali border during a visit in September 2009. (Christian Science Monitor)
BEN AFFLECK: Ben Affleck began the Eastern Congo Initiative (ECI) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which aims to provide support to existing organizations that are working to reshape the country. ECI's mission is to promote the hadisi (the Swahili word for “story”) of the people of the eastern Congo. Affleck is seen here filming in November 2008 at Nakivale Refugee Settlement in Uganda, making a film with Rolling Stones front man Mick Jagger that they hope will raise awareness about refugees dealing with the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. ( Christian Science Monitor)
MADONNA: Madonna started the Raising Malawi organization to bring an end to the extreme poverty and hardship faced by the 2,000,000 Malawi orphans and vulnerable children. Raising Malawi seeks to provide children with food, clothing, secure shelter, education, and medical care. Here, Madonna breaks ground at the site of the Raising Malawi Academy for Girls in October 2009. (Christian Science Monitor)
GEORGE CLOONEY: George Clooney helped start he Not on Our Watch project that focuses on drawing attention to human rights atrocities across the world and offering humanitarian assistance. The project has focused specifically on Darfur in Sudan and Zimbabwe. Clooney meets with Vice President Joe Biden in February 2009 at the White House to discuss relief aid for Darfur. (Christian Science Monitor)
MIA FARROW: The US Envoy to Sudan, Mia Farrow addresses the genocide and refugee situation in the nation. Here, Farrow who is also a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, speaks with a group of Karimojong children near Kitodo, Uganda, on July 15 during her tour of the country. (Christian Science Monitor)
BONO: Through his organization ONE, U2's front man Bono works to help fight "poverty and preventable diseases, particularly in Africa." Bono is seen here in March 2008 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania with Eusebia Chilipwele, a former nurse and grandmother who volunteers full-time to provide home-based care to adults and orphans with HIV/AIDS. (Christian Science Monitor)
MATT DAMON: In Las Vegas, Nev., Matt Damon participates in the Fourth Annual Ante Up for Africa 2010, a poker tournament at the World Series of Poker. The tournament raised more than $275,000 at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino. Ante Up for Africa is a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to raising money and awareness for Africans in need. Damon has also visited Zimbabwe and worked with George Clooney's organization, Not on Our Watch, to help raise awareness of the refugees' plight. (Christian Science Monitor)
DANNY GLOVER: On Capitol Hill in May 2007, actor Danny Glover testifies before the Africa and Global Health Subcommittee hearing on "Vulture Funds and the Threat to Debt Relief in Africa: A Call to Action at the G8 and Beyond." Glover is Chariman of the board of TransAfrica Forum and also worked in the early 1990s toward ending apartheid in South Africa. (Christian Science Monitor)
A BABY IS BORN:
(Ed Note: It will be great if the Global Ummah takes every opportunity to spread events of happiness as they arise and of course, when there is grief, to share the grief and be supportive to each other. Thanks to the e-mail from Br. Mohamed Aminuddin of Los Angeles, California who sent below e-mail sharing the joyous occasion of the birth of his second grand-daughter. Please note the Islamic flavor of the e-mail)
BismilLah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem
Assalamu`alaykum waRahmatullahi waBarakatuh
Insha'Allah everyone is doing well!
We wanted to introduce and share with you all our 2nd little bundle of joy...
Baby Aaishah would love to meet her new aunts, uncles, grandparents, great grandparents insha'Allah!!!! So please come visit us!!!! :)
Lastly, please continue to make du`a' for our growing family and pray that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala chooses Maryam and lil Aaishah to be from amongst His most loved and blessed servants, make them both of the as-salihat, and a means for their parents to enter Jannah! ameen!
The Prophet (SAW) used to seek Allah's protection for Al-Hasan and Al-Husain by saying:
'U'eethukumaa bikalimaatil-laahit-taammati wa min kulli shaytaanin wa haammatin, wa min kulli 'aynin laammatin.
"I seek protection for you in the Perfect Words of Allah from every devil and every beast , and from every envious blameworthy eye".
Reference: Al-Bukhari 4/119.
Abu and Umm Maryam
DIVERSITY OF THE GLOBAL MUSLIMAS
MUSLIMA IN THE U.S. MILITARY
US Marine Sgt. Monica Perez (l.) helps Lance Cpl. Mary Shloss put on her head scarf before heading out on a patrol in Khwaja Jamal in Helmand province, Afghanistan. Perez and Shloss are members of the Female Engagement Team, whos mission is to engage with local Afghan women. Julie Jacobson/AP
MUSLIMA INVOLVED IN LEISURE/FUN
Sama Wareh walks along the sand dressed in swimwear designed for Muslim women in Newport Beach, Calif. Chris Carlson/AP
Jordanian soccer player Shehnad Gabriel (2nd r.) kicks the ball during a game against the Palestinian national team in the West Bank town Aram in October. The match was the first women's soccer game to be played in the Aram stadium Tara Todras-Whitehill/AP
Danish politician Asmaa Abdol Hamidis wears a headscarf in this 2007 file photo. Hamidis was the first Muslim woman to wear a headscarf of hijab in the Danish Parliament. Francis Dean/Dean Pictures/Newscom
A Palestinian woman appears in Court led by Hamas in Gaza City in July. A top Gaza judge has ordered female lawyers to wear Muslim headscarves when appearing in court. Ahmad Khateib/Newscom
MUSLIMA IN SPORTS
Jordanian soccer player Shehnad Gabriel (2nd r.) kicks the ball during a game against the Palestinian national team in the West Bank town Aram in October. The match was the first women's soccer game to be played in the Aram stadium Tara Todras-Whitehill/AP
Students compete in an 800 meter race during a week-long women's sports event in Sanaa, Yemen, in March. The event features women taking part in activities such as volleyball, boxing, and horse riding, among others. Khaled Abdullah/Reuters
MUSLIMA IN EDUCATION:
Husna Haq, a Boston University graduate student and Monitor intern, chose to wear hijab in ninth grade. Born and raised in the United States, she says that she has many more positive encounters over the veil than discouraging ones. Mary Knox Merrill/Staff
MUSLIMA IN POLITICS:
(DENMARK)
(DENMARK)
Danish politician Asmaa Abdol Hamidis wears a headscarf in this 2007 file photo. Hamidis was the first Muslim woman to wear a headscarf of hijab in the Danish Parliament. Francis Dean/Dean Pictures/Newscom
MUSLIMA LAWYER:
A Palestinian woman appears in Court led by Hamas in Gaza City in July. A top Gaza judge has ordered female lawyers to wear Muslim headscarves when appearing in court. Ahmad Khateib/Newscom
MUSLIMA BY NATIONALITY:
FRANCE:
Two women, one wearing a niqab, a conservative Muslim garment that only exposes a woman's eyes, walk side by side in Marseille, France, in June. Claude Paris/AP
Moroccan Faiza Silmi walks down a street in Le Mesnil-Saint-Denis, France, on Jan. 12. A controversial French parliament report on the burqa issued in Paris on Jan. 26 recommends outlawing the full-length Muslim veil in public or state venues like buses, hospitals, and schools – though it also condemns what it calls 'Islamophobia.' Silmi has taken her case to the European Court of Human Rights, but her fate could be decided before her case is heard if France passes the law banning burqas. France is home to an estimated 5 million Muslims, the largest population in western Europe.Christophe Ena/AP
SRI LANKA
Sri Lankan Muslim women walk across a field as they go to vote in presidential elections in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Jan. 26.Eranga Jayawardena/AP
ITALY
A Muslim woman walks in Duomo square in Milan, Italy, in October. Italy's anti-immigration Northern League party is pushing for legislation regulating women's burqas and veils. Alessandro Garofalo/Reuters
INDIA
Veiled Muslim women send off relatives who are leaving Ahmedabad, India, for Mecca, Saudi Arabia, for the annual Haj pilgrimage in November. Amit Dave/Reuters
Kashmiri Shiite Muslim women pray during Muharram in Khanda, west of Srinagar, Kashmir in December. Danish Ismail/Reuters
Students interact on the college campus of Jamia Millia Islamia in New Delhi, India. Mary Knox Merrill/Staff
INDONESIA
An Islamic sharia policeman (r.) gives advice to Acehnese girls during a street inspection in Banda Aceh, Indonesia. Women may soon be banned from wearing tight trousers in parts of an Indonesian province that practices strict Islamic law, and offenders could see their attire cut up. Aceh is the only province in predominately Muslim Indonesia to use Islamic Sharia for its legal code. Beawiharta/Reuters
EGYPT
Egyptian women walk down the street in Cairo, Egypt on Oct. 29. In its broadest sense, the “Islamic veil” refers to a large variety of coverings, the most widely worn is the head scarf. Covering hair and neck, it can be black and simple, or colorful and sweeping, as in Cairo, where scarves are tightly wound around women’s heads and then cascade luxuriously to their waists. Amr Nabil/AP
AFGHANISTAN
A burqa-clad woman walks past a billboard in Kabul, Afghanistan, in August. Mohammad Kherikhah/UPI/Newscom/FILE
IRAN
An Iranian woman adjusts her veil before the start of the Eid-al-Fitr prayers outside a mosque in Tehran, Iran. Behrouz Mehri/AFP/Newscom/FILE
(ED NOTE: We found below article from Christian Science Monitor quite interesting and wanted to share it with you all)
THE MUSLIM VEIL: MODESTY HAS ITS OWN STYLE:
By Carol Huang, Staff Writer
12/12/2009
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
For many Muslims the question isn’t “Should I veil?”
As the trend of wearing hijab spreads, so, too, have hijab fashions. Women from New Jersey to Jakarta are trying new ways of wearing wraps taught on YouTube or showcased on runways. They’re wearing silk print scarves and scarves from The Gap, sheer scarves with sequins and hot-pink frilly scarves, scarves awash with the Fendi logo.
Whatever the look, hijabistas share one style principle: This is not their mother’s head scarf – conservative, plain, a little too formless.
“It looks kind of like a tent,” JoKima Hamidullah says of her mother’s veil. “Like a burqa,” but shorter.
“It looks kind of like a tent,” JoKima Hamidullah says of her mother’s veil. “Like a burqa,” but shorter.
The New Jersey housewife, who offers hijab du jours and hijab don’ts on her Islamic fashion blog, one of hundreds filling the Internet, gets her ideas from mainstream trends.
Looks vary by country but blend across borders. Pakistanis, known for draping a scarf (or dupetta) lightly over their hair, are seeing more women envelop their faces Saudi-style. In Egypt and Europe more women are wearing the “Spanish style,” tying their veil like a bandanna, then sweeping its strands into a graceful side ponytail.
Looks vary by country but blend across borders. Pakistanis, known for draping a scarf (or dupetta) lightly over their hair, are seeing more women envelop their faces Saudi-style. In Egypt and Europe more women are wearing the “Spanish style,” tying their veil like a bandanna, then sweeping its strands into a graceful side ponytail.
In Dubai many locals wrap their signature black hijab (or shayla) around a high bun, giving the air of an elegant updo. Trendy Emiratis simply drape their scarf like a dupetta or lay it over their shoulders. They match their hijab with their abaya, a black robe worn over clothing, or buy the two as a set, the trim on the robe’s sleeves also lining the veil.
Also in vogue are designer scarves, say, a dusty pink Valentino whose wavy layers swirl into a rose: $350 at one boutique here. A more popular Valentino – black lace, $1,000 – has sold out.
Some women prefer a busy look, accessorizing the head scarf with flower pins and headbands. They pile on layers for a wedding cake of color – a blue underscarf (a stretchy cap), then a brown one, then a white chiffon scarf with blue sequins. For holidays some pair festive colors, like orange and black for Halloween. Hala Osman, a development worker in Cairo, mixes and matches one scarf over her hair and another around her neck.
She and others, through their fashion choices, are embracing a broad view of Islam’s mandate for modesty. “I know our rules,” says Ms. Hamidullah. Within them, “the styles are endless.”
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Good attempt. Hands off..
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