Wilders' visit, aimed at spreading Islamophobia
The protest erupted after Wilders, who is visiting Britain upon an invitation by far-right UK Independence Party leader Lord Pearson, screened his anti-Islamic film 'Fitna' in the House of Lords.
The far-right filmmaker sent shockwaves through both secular and faith-based communities when his defamatory film linking Islam to extremism was first posted on the internet in 2008.
In 2009, British officials refused the 46-year-old politician entry into the county denouncing him as a "genuine, present and sufficiently serious threat to one of the fundamental interests of society."
But the ban was overturned in October after he appealed the decision.
Fitna, which means ordeal, also drew strong criticism from UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who called the 17-minute movie "offensively anti-Islamic."
Infamous for his anti-Islamic ideas, Wilders has also calls for a ban on the Holy Qur'an.
Last year, also a court appeal in Amsterdam ordered prosecution against Wilder for "the incitement to hatred and discrimination."
ABNA
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Dutch anti-Islam MP arrives in London
Far-right Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders has arrived in Britain to attempt to screen his controversial anti-Islam film 'Fitna
Far-right Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders has arrived in Britain to attempt to screen his controversial anti-Islam film 'Fitna.'
Wilders, there on the invitation of far-right UK Independence Party leader Lord Pearson, is to present the movie to the House of Lords, the Associated Press reported on Friday.
The far-right filmmaker sent shockwaves through both secular and faith-based communities with his defamatory film linking Islam to extremism. He has also calls for a ban on the Qur'an.
Previously, British officials refused the 46-year-old politician entry into the county denouncing him as a "genuine, present and sufficiently serious threat to one of the fundamental interests of society."
Fitna, which means ordeal, has also been called "offensively anti-Islamic" by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
In 2009, a court appeal in Amsterdam ordered his prosecution for "the incitement to hatred and discrimination."
The film outraged Muslims around the world, prompting them to attend mass rallies to condemn the Dutch lawmaker.
Far-right Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders has arrived in Britain to attempt to screen his controversial anti-Islam film 'Fitna.'
Wilders, there on the invitation of far-right UK Independence Party leader Lord Pearson, is to present the movie to the House of Lords, the Associated Press reported on Friday.
The far-right filmmaker sent shockwaves through both secular and faith-based communities with his defamatory film linking Islam to extremism. He has also calls for a ban on the Qur'an.
Previously, British officials refused the 46-year-old politician entry into the county denouncing him as a "genuine, present and sufficiently serious threat to one of the fundamental interests of society."
Fitna, which means ordeal, has also been called "offensively anti-Islamic" by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
In 2009, a court appeal in Amsterdam ordered his prosecution for "the incitement to hatred and discrimination."
The film outraged Muslims around the world, prompting them to attend mass rallies to condemn the Dutch lawmaker.
UK launches education scholarships for Palestinians
The British government Tuesday launched a programme of Higher Education Scholarships for Palestine (HESPAL) that will see up 10 academics each year from Palestinian universities complete a year’s postgraduate study in the UK.
“Through training the next generation of academic leaders, HESPAL will make a real difference to local communities in Palestine, benefit the academic community and the wider society and re-energise the economy,” Higher Education Minister David Lammy said.
HESPAL, which is being handled by the British Council under the aegis of a steering committee comprising of stakeholders and sponsors, is open to seven universities in the West Bank and three in Gaza.
Speaking at the launch, British Council director for Palestine Sandra Hamrouni said the scholarships will have a “direct role in developing the quality of higher education in Palestine, building mutual links between the people of the UK and Palestine and developing further opportunities for cross-cultural engagement.”
Although the council acts as the cultural arm of the Foreign Office, it insists that it is “a non-political organisation which operates at arm’s length from government.”
The scholarship programme focuses on particular areas of study including: finance, business, education, IT, physics, chemistry, engineering, agriculture, water management, Law and International Development.
UK universities taking part include four from London – Kings College, City, the London School of Economics and the School of Oriental and African Studies – as well as Essex, Exeter, Manchester, Newcastle, Oxford Brookes, and Sussex.
One of the key fundraisers, the Palestine Britain Business Council (PBBC) said that the initiative is a “milestone in the development of higher education in Palestine.”
PBBC chair Antoine Mattar said, "It will enhance the skills, expertise and knowledge needed for all disciplines in the socio-economic environment of the communities.”
ABNA
“Through training the next generation of academic leaders, HESPAL will make a real difference to local communities in Palestine, benefit the academic community and the wider society and re-energise the economy,” Higher Education Minister David Lammy said.
HESPAL, which is being handled by the British Council under the aegis of a steering committee comprising of stakeholders and sponsors, is open to seven universities in the West Bank and three in Gaza.
Speaking at the launch, British Council director for Palestine Sandra Hamrouni said the scholarships will have a “direct role in developing the quality of higher education in Palestine, building mutual links between the people of the UK and Palestine and developing further opportunities for cross-cultural engagement.”
Although the council acts as the cultural arm of the Foreign Office, it insists that it is “a non-political organisation which operates at arm’s length from government.”
The scholarship programme focuses on particular areas of study including: finance, business, education, IT, physics, chemistry, engineering, agriculture, water management, Law and International Development.
UK universities taking part include four from London – Kings College, City, the London School of Economics and the School of Oriental and African Studies – as well as Essex, Exeter, Manchester, Newcastle, Oxford Brookes, and Sussex.
One of the key fundraisers, the Palestine Britain Business Council (PBBC) said that the initiative is a “milestone in the development of higher education in Palestine.”
PBBC chair Antoine Mattar said, "It will enhance the skills, expertise and knowledge needed for all disciplines in the socio-economic environment of the communities.”
ABNA
Former envoy ridicules "Islamic Republic of Britain" documentary
Former UK Ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray Tuesday ridiculed the broadcasting of a television documentary provocatively entitled the Islamic Republic of Britain.
“Channel 4 Dispatches used to be a haven of serious documentary, but has degenerated into a stream of Islamophobia,” Murray said, branding the programme as a “shock horror.”
“All in all, the most visible piece of half-baked Islamophobia I can recall,” he said on his website set up after he was sacked from his diplomatic post in 2004 for criticising the excesses of Britain’s foreign policy.
The documentary was fronted by British journalist Andrew Gilligan as a follow-up of his controversial article in the Sunday Telegraph that claimed that the Islamic Forum of Europe (IFE) had infiltrated the ruling Labour Party.
“These Muslims actually wanted society to be ordered in an Islamic way on Islamic principles. To try to achieve this they were - shock horror - undertaking political activity and joining political parties!” Murray wrote.
“Surely they have a right to their beliefs and ideology and a right to espouse it? Surely we should be delighted that these Muslims are seeking to advance their views through participation in the democratic process and not through violence?” he said.
The documentary was also criticised by the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), which was also deliberated targetted in an attempt to cast aspersions on the umbrella organisation's diversity and its leadership.
MCB media secretary Tufael Ahmad said that the programme not only once again resurrected stereotypes but also used “out of context quotations” while echoing the rhetoric of far-right extremists, who claim that British Muslims are “somehow foreign, alien, extremist and imposing their way of life on the others."
The core of the documentary accuses the IFE and the East London Mosque, the largest in the UK, of fostering so-called 'Islamist' extremism and has an undue and pernicious influence over politics in the UK.
"Both claims are a gross and highly insulting misrepresentation of bodies that have done much to serve the common good. Both have a long and proud record of openly and actively spoken in favour of seeking common cause with all Britons,” Ahmad said.
"The message from this programme is clear, British Muslims have no right to take part in this country's great democratic culture,” he said in a statement obtained by IRNA.
On Monday, the Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) accused Britain’s Environment Minister Jim Fitzpatrick of joining the witch-hunt against Muslims.
The IFE has said that it was considering legal action against the grossly inaccurate reports, which, in a number of respects, were “libellous” and would not allow these “false slurs to go unchallenged.”
The organisation is not “radical” and had never advocated the implementation of Shariah law or an Islamic State in the UK, as has been claimed, it said.
Source: ABNA
“Channel 4 Dispatches used to be a haven of serious documentary, but has degenerated into a stream of Islamophobia,” Murray said, branding the programme as a “shock horror.”
“All in all, the most visible piece of half-baked Islamophobia I can recall,” he said on his website set up after he was sacked from his diplomatic post in 2004 for criticising the excesses of Britain’s foreign policy.
The documentary was fronted by British journalist Andrew Gilligan as a follow-up of his controversial article in the Sunday Telegraph that claimed that the Islamic Forum of Europe (IFE) had infiltrated the ruling Labour Party.
“These Muslims actually wanted society to be ordered in an Islamic way on Islamic principles. To try to achieve this they were - shock horror - undertaking political activity and joining political parties!” Murray wrote.
“Surely they have a right to their beliefs and ideology and a right to espouse it? Surely we should be delighted that these Muslims are seeking to advance their views through participation in the democratic process and not through violence?” he said.
The documentary was also criticised by the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), which was also deliberated targetted in an attempt to cast aspersions on the umbrella organisation's diversity and its leadership.
MCB media secretary Tufael Ahmad said that the programme not only once again resurrected stereotypes but also used “out of context quotations” while echoing the rhetoric of far-right extremists, who claim that British Muslims are “somehow foreign, alien, extremist and imposing their way of life on the others."
The core of the documentary accuses the IFE and the East London Mosque, the largest in the UK, of fostering so-called 'Islamist' extremism and has an undue and pernicious influence over politics in the UK.
"Both claims are a gross and highly insulting misrepresentation of bodies that have done much to serve the common good. Both have a long and proud record of openly and actively spoken in favour of seeking common cause with all Britons,” Ahmad said.
"The message from this programme is clear, British Muslims have no right to take part in this country's great democratic culture,” he said in a statement obtained by IRNA.
On Monday, the Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) accused Britain’s Environment Minister Jim Fitzpatrick of joining the witch-hunt against Muslims.
The IFE has said that it was considering legal action against the grossly inaccurate reports, which, in a number of respects, were “libellous” and would not allow these “false slurs to go unchallenged.”
The organisation is not “radical” and had never advocated the implementation of Shariah law or an Islamic State in the UK, as has been claimed, it said.
Source: ABNA
Muslim leader to condemn terrorists
The leader of a Muslim movement with thousands of followers in the UK is due to issue a fatwa - or Islamic religious ruling - condemning terrorism and warning suicide bombers that they are "destined for hell".
The leader of a Muslim movement with thousands of followers in the UK is due to issue a fatwa - or Islamic religious ruling - condemning terrorism and warning suicide bombers that they are "destined for hell".
Pakistan-born Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri, founder of the global Minhaj-ul-Quran movement, will make the formal UK proclamation of a fatwa, or religious edict, condemning terrorism and suicide bombing at a news conference in London.
The 600-page fatwa announces that "suicide bombings and attacks against civilian targets are not only condemned by Islam, but render the perpetrators totally out of the fold of Islam, in other words, to be unbelievers".
Shahid Mursaleen, spokesman for Minhaj-ul-Quran UK, said: "He has hit hard on the terrorists as it prevents Islamists from considering suicide bombers as 'martyrs'. This fatwa injects doubt into the minds of potential suicide bombers.
"Extremist groups based in Britain recruit youth by brainwashing them that they will 'with certainty' be rewarded in the next life and Dr Qadri's fatwa has removed this key intellectual factor from their minds."
The fatwa has been billed as "arguably the most comprehensive" theological refutation of Islamic terrorism to date by counter extremism think tank the Quilliam foundation.
A Quilliam spokesman said: "Terrorist groups such as al Qaida continue to justify their mass killings with self-serving readings of religious scripture.
"Fatwas that demolish and expose such theological innovations will consign Islamist terrorism to the dustbin of history."
The Minhaj-ul-Quaran movement runs courses in combating religious extremism in educational centres throughout Britain including London, Birmingham, Manchester, Nelson, Walsall, Glasgow and Dundee.
The leader of a Muslim movement with thousands of followers in the UK is due to issue a fatwa - or Islamic religious ruling - condemning terrorism and warning suicide bombers that they are "destined for hell".
Pakistan-born Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri, founder of the global Minhaj-ul-Quran movement, will make the formal UK proclamation of a fatwa, or religious edict, condemning terrorism and suicide bombing at a news conference in London.
The 600-page fatwa announces that "suicide bombings and attacks against civilian targets are not only condemned by Islam, but render the perpetrators totally out of the fold of Islam, in other words, to be unbelievers".
Shahid Mursaleen, spokesman for Minhaj-ul-Quran UK, said: "He has hit hard on the terrorists as it prevents Islamists from considering suicide bombers as 'martyrs'. This fatwa injects doubt into the minds of potential suicide bombers.
"Extremist groups based in Britain recruit youth by brainwashing them that they will 'with certainty' be rewarded in the next life and Dr Qadri's fatwa has removed this key intellectual factor from their minds."
The fatwa has been billed as "arguably the most comprehensive" theological refutation of Islamic terrorism to date by counter extremism think tank the Quilliam foundation.
A Quilliam spokesman said: "Terrorist groups such as al Qaida continue to justify their mass killings with self-serving readings of religious scripture.
"Fatwas that demolish and expose such theological innovations will consign Islamist terrorism to the dustbin of history."
The Minhaj-ul-Quaran movement runs courses in combating religious extremism in educational centres throughout Britain including London, Birmingham, Manchester, Nelson, Walsall, Glasgow and Dundee.
Karadzic: Islamic militants to blame for bloodshed
THE HAGUE, Netherlands – Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, charged with the worst genocide in Europe since the Holocaust, testified Monday that his people were simply defending themselves against Islamic fundamentalists who he claimed were seeking to take over Bosnia.
In his opening defense statement at the U.N. war crimes tribunal, Karadzic denied any intention to expel non-Serbs from their homes, and said the Serb objective was to protect their own lives and property during the violent 1990s breakup of the former Yugoslavia.
The Serb "cause is just and holy," Karadzic said as he began his two-day statement, relying only on sparse notes. "We have a good case. We have good evidence and proof."
Karadzic, 64, faces two counts of genocide and nine other counts of murder, extermination, persecution, forced deportation and the seizing of 200 U.N. hostages. He faces possible life imprisonment if convicted.
Prosecutors say Karadzic orchestrated a campaign to destroy the Muslim and Croat communities in eastern Bosnia to create an ethnically pure Serbian state. The campaign included the 44-month siege of the capital of Sarajevo and the torture and murder of hundreds of prisoners in inhuman detention camps. That violence culminated in the massacre of some 8,000 Muslim males in one horrific week in July 1995 in the Srebrenica enclave, the worst bloodbath in Europe since World War II.
Karadzic sought to trace the origin of Bosnia's full-scale civil war to the Muslims' rejection of all power-sharing proposals.
A core group of Muslim leaders in Bosnia was "plotting and conniving," Karadzic told the court. "They wanted Islamic fundamentalism and they wanted it from 1991."
Prosecutors are trying "to present me as a monster because they do not have any evidence" that I committed a crime, he said. "This indictment should not have been issued in the first place."
Karadzic is the most important figure to be brought to trial since former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, who died of a heart attack in 2006 before his case was concluded. Karadzic, president of the breakaway Bosnian Serb state, negotiated with diplomats, U.N. officials and peace envoys; he appeared often in the media; and he set the tone and pac.
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Monday, March 1, 2010
Congratiolations on week of unity: Muslims unity in Imam Khomeini's viewpoint
The Thoughts and Words of Imam Khomeini(r.a) on Muslim Unity
O Muslims! Keep Away From the Disuniters!
O you powerful Muslims! Beware! Know yourselves and let the world know you.
Cast aside the sectarian and regional disputes, which have been created by the
World-devouring powers and their corrupt agents for the purpose of plundering you and treading upon your human and Islamic honor.
You are to cast away, in accordance with the judgment of Allah, the Most High, and the Glorious Qur’an, the disuniters, such as the mercenary akhunds and the ationalists who know nothing of Islam and of the interests of the Muslims. The harms of these people to Islam are no less than those of the world-devourers. They show Islam upside-down and pave the way for the plunderers. May Allah, the Most High, deliver Islam and the Muslim countries from the evil of the world-devourers and their affiliated and connected agents
The Difference Between the Shias and the Sunnis Is the Want of the Foreigners
If there happens a dispute between the Iranian nation and the other nations, or between the Sunni brothers and the Shia brothers, it will be to the disadvantage of all of us, of all Muslims.
Those who want to cause disunion are neither of the Sunnis nor of the Shias. They are the directors of the Super Powers and they are serving them.
Those who try to create disunity between our Sunni brothers and our brothers of the Shia, are the groups who plot for the enemies of Islam. They want to help the enemies of Islam to overcome the Muslims. They are the followers of America, and some are the followers of the USSR. The Muslims, wherever they may be must be aware that disunion between a country in the farthest end of the world and another one on the other end of the world, does not mean a local dispute.
The world of today is not like before. It will not be the question concerning only that part of the world. If there is a dispute among you brothers in Iran, it will concern the whole world, and if there is a dispute between the Iranian brothers and the Iraqi brothers, i.e., the Iraqi nation, it is a matter concerning the whole world, not a local matter between Iran and Iraq.
It is considered in the whole world, as those in the world who want to put the profits of the world in their own pocket and to impose their control over the whole world, they exploit any disunion which may happen between the Shia brothers and the Sunni brothers in Iran. Similarly, if it happened between our
Iranian brothers and the brothers who are in Pakistan, they exploit the situation, too.
We must be awake and know that the divine judgement says: “The believers are but
brothers” (Hujurat: 10). There is nothing among them other than brotherhood, and they are obliged to have brotherly conduct. It is a political point to have all the Muslim nations-nearly a milliard in number- be brothers to one another, in which case no harm may befall them and none of the Super Powers will be able to transgress them. O brothers! Pay attention to this!
Sunni and Shia Brothers Should Avoid All Disputes.
A group of the Muslims are Shia, a group of the Muslims are Sunni, a group are Hanafi, a group are Hanbali, a group are Akhbari. Basically it was erroneous from the beginning to suggest such ideas. In a society where all want to serve Islam and to be for Islam, such matters should not be suggested. We all are brothers and are together. It is merely that your ulama issued a set of fatwas and you followed them in imitation, and so you became Hanafi. Another group became Shafi`i and followed him. Another group followed the fatwa’s of the Imam Sadiq and became Shia. These should not be causes of difference. We should not have any difference or contradiction. We all are brother’s. The Shia and Sunni brothers should avoid all differences. Today, our differences will be in the interest of those who believe neither in Shiism nor in the Hanafi or in the other sects. They want neither this nor that to be. Their way is to cause differences between us. We must realize that we are all Muslims, followers of the Qur’an and of tawhid, and that we must toil for the Qur’an and to serve tawhid
The Muslims of the World Are to Join Together
They are uselessly trying to create disunity. The Muslims are brothers and would not be disunited by the evil propaganda of some corrupt elements.
The origin of this question concerning Shia and Sunni, the one on one side and the other on the other side, is caused by ignorance and by the propaganda waged by the foreigners.
They even cause disuninon among the Shias themselves. They do the same among the Sunni sects, too, placing one group against another. Today all the sects of the Muslims are facing the Satanic powers who want to uproot Islam, because they do know that what can be dangerous to them is Islam, and that the greatest danger is in the unity of the Muslim nations.
Today is the day on which all the Muslims of the whole world must come together. Today is not the day for a group in a place to say: “Only we” and another group in another place say: “Only we”. Today is the day on which all are to be united on the basis of the rule of Islam and the Judgements of the Qur’an.
They are not to dispute. The dispute among the Muslims, in any way it may be, is prohibited by the Qur’an. Dispute will bring them failure and effaces the attractive qualities of man and nation. This is the command of Allah, the Generous.
Those who try to create disunion, and yet claim to be Muslims, have not found the Islam whose Book is the Qur’an, the Islam whose ka`bah is its Qiblah. They do not believe in Islam. The ones who believe in Islam are those who accept the Qur’a?n and its contents, the content which says: “The believers are but brothers”.
So they must comply with what brotherhood requires.
Brotherhood requires that if some misfortune happened to you all the other brothers, wherever they maybe, sympathize with you. If you are happy, all will be happy, too.
Source: Islami Davet
Chechnya wants Islamic leaders to attend Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) birthday celebrations in 2011
Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov has decided to celebrate the Prophet Muhammad's birthday next year at an international level, with the heads of a number of Islamic states invited, Ziyad Sabsabi, a Russian Federation Council member representing Chechnya, told journalists.
Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov has decided to celebrate the Prophet Muhammad's birthday next year at an international level, with the heads of a number of Islamic states invited, Ziyad Sabsabi, a Russian Federation Council member representing Chechnya, told journalists.
Speaking on behalf of Kadyrov, Sabsabi also invited all the members of a delegation of Islamic countries participating in celebrations of the Prophet Muhammad's birthday to come to Chechnya next year.
The delegation members praised positive changes that have occurred in Chechnya in a brief period of time.
A plane carrying the members of the delegation of Islamic counties has left the Grozny airport for Moscow.
Source : Interfax
Don't miss! Some Beatiful SMS
Daily we open our inbox & read msg sent by friends, but how many times we open QURAN and read msg sent by Allah ?
2. The fastest thing on earth
Whats the fastest thing on earth?
Bullet?
No..Sound?
Not quite, Light?
Almost answer:-
Prayer.
Because it reaches Heaven even before u can say it.Have a nice day
3. Before Sleeping
Please think 5 matters everyday before you sleeping.
(1):What are you doing today,for ALLAH?
(2):What are you doing today,for your parents?
(3):What are you doing today,for your society?
(4):What are you doing today,for your relative?
(5):What are you doing today,for your mine?
May Allah help you.
4. Beautifuls!
The Most beautiful Name is ALLAH.
The most beautiful Song is AZAN.
The most beautiful Nobel is QURAN.
5. The Bests
There is no word as beautiful as ALLAH.
No example as beautiful as RASULULLAH.
No Leader as well as Imam ALI.
No lesson as beautiful as ISLAM.
No song's melodious as AJAN.
No charity as meaningfull as NAMAJ.
No peacefull place as JANNAT.
No Nobel as nice as QURAN.
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Russia: Kremlin supports plan to form higher coordinating Muslim council
The Kremlin's chief domestic policy advisor Alexey Grishin has put his support behind plans to set up a higher Muslim coordinating council in Russia.
Russia: According to Ahlul Bayt News Agency (ABNA), The Kremlin's chief domestic policy advisor Alexey Grishin has put his support behind plans to set up a higher Muslim coordinating council in Russia.
"This form will help deal with the Muslim community's most important problems on the basis of consensus, make joint statements and pass mufti's fatwas (edicts), and organize effective ties with the government," Grishin told the 4th congress of Tatarstan Muslims in Kazan on Saturday.
The idea was proposed by head of the Central Muslim Board of Russia Talgat Tajuddin who sees the council as a body co-chaired by the heads of three leading Muslim associations - the Central Muslim Board, the Council of Muftis and the Coordinating Council of North Caucasus Muslims.
The idea of setting up a council "with an equal representation of all Muslim boards has been backed by most of Russia's muftis and imams," Grishin said.
On the Muslim organizations' unity, he said, "our position on this issue has remained unchanged and we have always advocated unity between Russia's Muslims."
"But this process should be handled with great caution, as leaders of major Muslim organizations have said before, in order to avoid fresh conflicts and confrontation," he said.
Tatarstan President Mintimer Shaimiyev said this process refers in the first place to the Muslim boards of Tatarstan. Only then can the prospect of integrating the Tatarstan and Caucasus boards of muftis be considered, he said.
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Russia: According to Ahlul Bayt News Agency (ABNA), The Kremlin's chief domestic policy advisor Alexey Grishin has put his support behind plans to set up a higher Muslim coordinating council in Russia.
"This form will help deal with the Muslim community's most important problems on the basis of consensus, make joint statements and pass mufti's fatwas (edicts), and organize effective ties with the government," Grishin told the 4th congress of Tatarstan Muslims in Kazan on Saturday.
The idea was proposed by head of the Central Muslim Board of Russia Talgat Tajuddin who sees the council as a body co-chaired by the heads of three leading Muslim associations - the Central Muslim Board, the Council of Muftis and the Coordinating Council of North Caucasus Muslims.
The idea of setting up a council "with an equal representation of all Muslim boards has been backed by most of Russia's muftis and imams," Grishin said.
On the Muslim organizations' unity, he said, "our position on this issue has remained unchanged and we have always advocated unity between Russia's Muslims."
"But this process should be handled with great caution, as leaders of major Muslim organizations have said before, in order to avoid fresh conflicts and confrontation," he said.
Tatarstan President Mintimer Shaimiyev said this process refers in the first place to the Muslim boards of Tatarstan. Only then can the prospect of integrating the Tatarstan and Caucasus boards of muftis be considered, he said.
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UK jails more Muslims for 2009 anti-Israeli rally
Five more British protestors have been sent to jail for taking part in anti-Gaza war protests rally in front of the Israeli Embassy in London last January.
According to Ahlul Bayt News Agency (ABNA), Five more British protestors have been sent to jail for taking part in anti-Gaza war protests rally in front of the Israeli Embassy in London last January.
The courtroom's entrance was packed with a crowd of demonstrators, chanting slogans in defense of the right to protest. Some believed this was an intent government crackdown on Muslim protesters.
Saturday's ruling came despite the presiding judge's admission that in some of the cases the unlawful behavior had only lasted several minutes.
In total, 78 people are facing law suits after being arrested in the hours-long rally against Israel's military assault on Gaza. The charges vary from clashing with the police to damaging public property.
Out of that number, 20 people have already been tried and handed sentences in a move which authorities say is aimed deterring others from the same offences.
The sentencing comes two weeks after the same court sent six British Muslim men, between 19 and 20 years old, to jailed for periods of between one and two years each in jail for violent conduct.
This is while a human rights organization's charges of police brutality have largely been dismissed.
The Islamic Human Rights Commission also said the police had failed to investigate up to 30 complaints against the Metropolitan police force.
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UK; ‘Racist’ school bus drivers ‘refusing to stop for young Muslim girls who are wearing the hijab’
School bus drivers have been accused of racism after failing to stop for pupils wearing Muslim hijabs.
According to Ahlul Bayt News Agency (ABNA), School bus drivers have been accused of racism after failing to stop for pupils wearing Muslim hijabs.
Young girls have claimed they are being bullied on board for dressing in the traditional veil which covers the head.
To avoid trouble, ‘cowardly’ drivers are allegedly ignoring pupils who wait at bus stops wearing the headscarf.
Following a police investigation, officers will now be drafted on to board the buses to protect the students from ‘racist’ taunts of other passengers.
The problems centre on Merseytravel and pupils attending West Derby’s Holly Lodge Girls’ College in Merseyside, where 10 per cent of the 11,274 11 to 18-year-old students are from ethnic minorities.
Members of the Muslim community said the issue was a long-running one.
Amina Ismail, who works at Liverpool John Moores University, was approached by the victims.
She said: ‘They said people driving past were being abusive because they were wearing the hijab.’
Ms Ismail said bus drivers refusing to stop were ‘cowardly’ and that ‘they should not push their own personal prejudices on young people’.
She urged people to ‘see past the scarf or skin colour and look beyond this’.
Holly Lodge has previously won praise from Ofsted for its ‘promotion of equality and diversity’.
Headteacher Julia Tinsley said: ‘There have been a small number of cases where ignorant people have directed racist comments at our pupils while they are on buses.
‘It is completely unacceptable and very upsetting for those involved and we have provided support to those affected.
‘We welcome the assistance from Merseyside police in tackling the mindless minority who think it is acceptable to make racist comments.’
Merseyside police has produced an action plan to prevent any further incidents, including looking at how victims can pass on anonymous information.
A spokesman said the force was committed to tackling racism, adding: ‘We will be putting police community support officers on public buses during the periods these incidents are happening to reassure passengers and deter would-be offenders.
‘CCTV will be routinely checked following allegations of any criminal offence.’
However, Colin Carr, regional adviser for Unite – whose members include bus drivers – said he would be surprised if they were failing to stop.
‘The union would condemn this kind of action, and equality and diversity is something we promote across the spectrum,’ he said.
Merseytravel said it condemned ‘all acts of racism’ and, after probing the claims, has ‘now drawn up an action plan to deal with and prevent any further incidents’.
Source: Europe ABNA
Former Danish editor admits spying for Zionists
According to Ahlul Bayt News Agency (ABNA), A former Danish newspaper editor admitted Saturday he abused his journalistic position to spy for Zionist regime for a decade in the 1960s.
"I travelled in Africa under the cover of a journalist and I made my reports to the Israeli embassies," Herbert Pundik told the on-line daily Information.dk in an interview.
Now in his early 80s, Pundik, former editor-in-chief of the Politiken newspaper, has lived in 'Israel' since 1954.
He also insisted the information passed to Israeli authorities also be transmitted to the Danish authorities.
Pundik at the time was reporting both for the newspaper Information and for Danish public radio, according to Information.dk.
He reportedly quit his spying activities in the early 1970 -- the year he became Politiken's editor-in-chief. He stepped down in 1993.
"Working for intelligence services is totally incompatible with the profession of journalist," Information's editor-in-chief Palle Weis was quoted as saying.
Source: ABNA
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Stockholm gives go-ahead for new mosque
The Muslim population in Rinkeby, an area where many immigrants have congregated, has long requested the construction of a mosque, and Stockholm has now identified a suitable location.
The Muslim population in Rinkeby, an area where many immigrants have congregated, has long requested the construction of a mosque, and Stockholm has now identified a suitable location.
Representatives of six Swedish political parties published a joint editorial in Dagens Nyheter (DN) newspaper on Saturday in support of the new house of worship.
The six politicians hope that a mosque might stimulate the local economy and increase security in the area, pointing to the mosque built in Södermalm in the 1990s as an example of a similar success story. They also emphasize it is important for the parties to maintain a broad coalition to stand behind the mosque construction in order to combat prejudice.
“The mosque will be built on the site where the former administrative building for Rinkeby stood. During the spring, the City of Stockholm...will earmark this site as a location for the Swedish Islamic Association (Islamiska förbundet) to build a mosque. It is a positive addition to Rinkeby and to Stockholm,” they wrote in DN.
Source: ABNA
Representatives of six Swedish political parties published a joint editorial in Dagens Nyheter (DN) newspaper on Saturday in support of the new house of worship.
The six politicians hope that a mosque might stimulate the local economy and increase security in the area, pointing to the mosque built in Södermalm in the 1990s as an example of a similar success story. They also emphasize it is important for the parties to maintain a broad coalition to stand behind the mosque construction in order to combat prejudice.
“The mosque will be built on the site where the former administrative building for Rinkeby stood. During the spring, the City of Stockholm...will earmark this site as a location for the Swedish Islamic Association (Islamiska förbundet) to build a mosque. It is a positive addition to Rinkeby and to Stockholm,” they wrote in DN.
Source: ABNA
German federal prosecutors probe Mossad death squad affair
erman federal prosecutors have launched a preliminary investigation into the use of German passports by a Mossad death squad responsible for the murder of a senior Hamas leader in Dubai, press reports said Friday.
The probe is to focus on the use of a German passport by a Mossad agent after documents indicated that the German passport allegedly used in the Dubai attack, carrying the name Michael Bodenheimer, was not falsified.
It was reportedly obtained by a Mossad agent in Germany, using documents
showing him to be the descendant of a family that fled the country during the Nazi era.
Last week, Cologne prosecutors initiated also proceedings to investigate possible passport fraud.
Cologne was the city where the suspect applied for the German passport.
The Mossad case is a tough balancing act for Germany, a staunch ally of Israel.
For years, Berlin has, along with other Western governments, remained silent about
the killer squad activities of Mossad.
German authorities have remained tight-lipped in the wake of the Hamas murder
scandal amid mounting public demands for a major investigation of the issue.
Two German opposition parties have called for a parliamentary probe of the affair.
Germany's foreign intelligence service BND has so far refused to react to Arab press reports which alleged that the German national was implicated in the killing of al-Mabhouh.
The Hamburg-based weekly news magazine Der Spiegel identified the
German suspect as 43-year-old Michael B.
Mossad death squads have in the past used German passports for secret operations
although some of them had been forged, according to press reports.
Germany and Israel have a very deep military and intelligence cooperation whose details remain highly secretive to the German public.
It was reportedly obtained by a Mossad agent in Germany, using documents
showing him to be the descendant of a family that fled the country during the Nazi era.
Last week, Cologne prosecutors initiated also proceedings to investigate possible passport fraud.
Cologne was the city where the suspect applied for the German passport.
The Mossad case is a tough balancing act for Germany, a staunch ally of Israel.
For years, Berlin has, along with other Western governments, remained silent about
the killer squad activities of Mossad.
German authorities have remained tight-lipped in the wake of the Hamas murder
scandal amid mounting public demands for a major investigation of the issue.
Two German opposition parties have called for a parliamentary probe of the affair.
Germany's foreign intelligence service BND has so far refused to react to Arab press reports which alleged that the German national was implicated in the killing of al-Mabhouh.
The Hamburg-based weekly news magazine Der Spiegel identified the
German suspect as 43-year-old Michael B.
Mossad death squads have in the past used German passports for secret operations
although some of them had been forged, according to press reports.
Germany and Israel have a very deep military and intelligence cooperation whose details remain highly secretive to the German public.
Norway: Education minister against hijab in elementary school
Norwegian Eduction Minister Kristin Halvorsen (SV, Socialists) wants hijabs out of elementary schools.
"I think children-hijab are absolutely undesirable, because it hampers the children's development and their chances of making independent choices," Halvorsen Said.
Helga Pedersen (Ap, Labor) said yesterday that she would consider a ban on hijab in elementary schools. The proposal is already supported by the FrP (Progress Party)
The SV leader and education minister doesn't hide that she's against the Muslim head-dress.
"Hijab in elementary school in Norway is something that appeared in recent years. I see it as coercion of small children, and it hinders them from participating equally with other children in Norwegian schools," says Halvorsen.
"I can't see that there's any religious reason for putting hijab on little girls. Neither is it a tradition in Muslim countries to treat little girls like adult women," says Halvorsen.
New waves of Islam phobia have started in recent years in Europe, especially after The September 11 attacks.
"I think children-hijab are absolutely undesirable, because it hampers the children's development and their chances of making independent choices," Halvorsen Said.
Helga Pedersen (Ap, Labor) said yesterday that she would consider a ban on hijab in elementary schools. The proposal is already supported by the FrP (Progress Party)
The SV leader and education minister doesn't hide that she's against the Muslim head-dress.
"Hijab in elementary school in Norway is something that appeared in recent years. I see it as coercion of small children, and it hinders them from participating equally with other children in Norwegian schools," says Halvorsen.
"I can't see that there's any religious reason for putting hijab on little girls. Neither is it a tradition in Muslim countries to treat little girls like adult women," says Halvorsen.
New waves of Islam phobia have started in recent years in Europe, especially after The September 11 attacks.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Shimon Peres Depicted Bowing to Erdogan
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Israel is turning a blind eye to a huge poster showing its President Shimon Peres seemingly bowing to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan that was unfurled from a crane in an Ankara suburb on Sunday.
Neither the Israeli President’s Residence nor the Foreign Minister would comment on the poster, which superimposed an image of a bowing Peres in front of Erdogan, over the caption “Erdogan, a leader whom the world bows down to.”
While at first glance this seemed to be Turkish retribution for the public hazing of Turkey’s ambassador to Israel in January, when Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon sat him on a lower chair and reprimanded him over an anti-Semitic television show broadcast in Turkey, the Turkish press reported that Erdogan’s office had the poster taken down before Erdogan appeared at the site to inaugurate a new road network.
It was not immediately clear who was responsible for the poster, with some diplomatic officials in Tel Aviv saying it obviously came from the top, while others said it was quite possible that this was an independent act of protest that was not choreographed by the government.
One diplomatic official in Tel Aviv termed the incident “scandalous,” saying that it demonstrated a great deal of disrespect both for Peres and for Israel.
Relations between Erdogan and Peres reached a nadir in January 2009, after Operation Cast Lead, when the two had an angry exchange at the World Economic Forum in Davos, with Erdogan at one point storming off the stage after telling Peres, “When it comes to killing, you know well how to kill.”
In an interview with the Spanish newspaper El Pais that was published Monday, Erdogan said that the Davos incident – which made him a hero in much of the Arab world – ushered in a new Turkish approach to foreign policy. “That opened a new approach to foreign relations,” he said. “We have a philosophy of strength. It is a foreign policy with a backbone.”
Source . Ahlul Bayt News Agency
Over 2,000 people rally in Berlin against German troops in Afghanistan
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Organized by peace groups and the opposition Left party, demonstrators called for the immediate withdrawal of all German and other NATO soldiers from the war-stricken country.Protesters held up banners saying "No more soldiers. Give peace a chance - troops must leave Afghanistan."
The German government has approved plans to boost its troop size in Afghanistan from 4,500 to 5,350.
The decision of the center-right cabinet is expected to be authorized by the German parliament next week amid mounting public opposition to the Afghan war.
As part of the new Afghan mandate, around 500 of those troops are to be dispatched directly to join the 4,500-strong German military force contingent, based mostly in northern Afghanistan and Kabul as part of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF).
In addition, some 350 soldiers would be maintained as a "flexible reserve", to be
used to provide extra security in political events like the parliamentary election, scheduled for fall.
Berlin had faced tremendous pressure by its key NATO allies, among them the US and
Britain, to sent more troops to Afghanistan to battle the Taliban and al-Qaeda
insurgency.
Imam Khomeini’s anthology rendered into Turkish
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According to a report by the Islamic Culture and Relations Organization (ICRO), the book was translated by two professors of Istanbul University’s Persian Language and Literature Department and published by Qoqnous Publishing House. The Turkish people have always considered Imam Khomeini a political and religious leader while his mystic and literary personality has remained unknown.
This is for the same reason Iran’s Cultural Office published the Turkish version of the book to introduce the mystical and literary aspects of the late Imam's characteristics.
Imam’s works and political divine will has so far been translated into various languages.
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