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The United Nations’ Commission on Human Rights adopted a resolution to monitor defamation of religions, particularly Islam. The voting on the resolution took place at the 61st session of the UNCHR in Geneva, Switzerland. Thirty-one countries voted in favour of the resolution, 16 voted against and five abstained from voting, says newsportal rediff.com. United States, United Kingdom and Israel voted in the negative. Russia and China voted in favour of the resolution. India was among those who abstained. The resolution was pushed forward by Pakistan on behalf of the Organisation of Islamic Conference. According to this resolution, the Special Rapporteur of the UN will “examine the situation of Muslims and Arab people in various parts of the world, the discrimination faced by them with regard to access to justice, political participation, respect of cultures, physical assaults and attacks against their places of worship, cultural centres, business and properties.” The Special Rapporteur will submit a report on this issue next year and give recommendations to improve the situation. The OIC pushed this resolution alleging “discrimination against Muslims in the aftermath of the September 11 attack in America.” It said, Islam was continuously targeted and defamed by many countries, individuals and the media at several fora, including the United Nations.

Saudi Arabia proposes to introduce a law whereby anyone found circulating or distributing pornographic material through camera-phones will be liable to be punished with 1000 lashes, a 12-year jail term and a fine of Saudi Riyals, one lakh. The stringent Saudi law comes following a Saudi court pronouncing a sentence of 1200 lashes each to three accused who filmed a rape scene and distributed the pornographic footage through camera-phones.

The Punjab Quran Board has recommended that translation of the Quran rather than the Arabic text be used on invitation cards, calendars, wedding cards and the chadors offered at graves in order to avoid the possible desecration of the divine words. The Board made this recommendation last month at a meeting held at the Aiwan Awqaf here in which leading religious clerics and officials participated.


Religious leader, Mujeebur Rahman Inquilabi pointed out that since invitation and wedding cards, calendars etc, are carelessly handled, there are possibilities of desecration. Board member Maulana Abdur Rauf said the translation of the Quran is not considered as holy as the Arabic text and therefore minimises the scope of sacrilege while outlining that even then proper care must be taken to see that the divine scripture does not suffer any disrespect. He also appealed to the Government of Pakistan to set benchmark for the standard publication level for the Quran and preparation of authentic translation. The members were informed that the Government would be moving a bill to ensure standards in publication of the Holy Quran in the Pakistan National Assembly.
(BBC.urdu.com)

Three Saudi women have valiantly withstood social stigmas and defied traditions when they started their jobs as waitresses in a five-star hotel in Jeddah recently.


Ameera, Awatef and Amna are the first Saudi waitresses. All three were students at Abdul Latif Jameel Fund (ALJ) for Training and Development, majoring in housekeeping. After graduating with 13 other Saudi women, they were guided by ALJ to the five-star hotel where they were accepted after an interview. They work on shifts of nine hours a day and have a weekly day-off. “My father passed away when I was very young and my elder brother raised me. He and my mom were very supportive and trusted that I would stick to my Islamic values no matter where I worked,” said Ameera. “This job is not considered a disgrace. A disgrace is when a family is poor and in need and the girl is a burden to her family,” she added. Ameera stressed that the world should see that Saudi women are not restrained. “We are able to work in various jobs within our Islamic boundaries.”

Pakistan launched its first fully indigenously manufactured car ‘Revo’ on April 18. The 800 cc car has been manufactured by Adam Motors of Karachi. Pakistan has thus joined a club of 16 industrialised nations that can make a full car. However, the company conceded that engine and the transmission of the car has been imported from China. The car is priced at Rs. 2,69,000. A similar Japanese car in Pakistan costs Rs. 3,15,000.


However, Pakistan has several assembly units of Japanese cars. Pakistan has been witnessing soaring demand for cars in the wake of liberalisation of the economy. During the last fiscal, Pakistan auto market made a turnover of Rs. 51 billion.

The Saudi civil authorities will accept applications for citizenship between May 7 and 28. Those who have lived in Saudi Arabia continuously for 10 years, are working in the field of computers and medicine, have sound health and can read, write and converse fluently in Arabic would be preferably be conferred the citizenship on a priority basis.

A Buddhist family of 27 has embraced Islam in Bangladesh and registered their conversion at the local law courts in the Bandarban region of the country. A special function was held in Chitagong, to welcome them to the fold of Islam.

BBC Urdu Service has closed down its ‘Mast FM 103’ which was broadcasting Urdu news bulletin every one hour from Karachi, Multan, Lahore and Faisalabad for the last 10 months. The Pakistan broadcasting authority ‘Pemra’ had asked the FM radio to discontinue its services as it was in violation of the rules. Pemra had ordered the radio station to be closed from April 2 and had warned of withdrawal of licence. BBC has challenged the order which came up before the court on April 14.
Local BBC chief Abbas Nasir said that the matter would be resolved after negotiations with the Pak authorities.

The Islamic University of Gaza has produced seven cartoon films on Islamic and Arab culture. Thirty experts of computer graphics and multimedia are working under the project. The University proposes to export these films to universities and Islamic centres all over the world.

A new Hollywood film titled ‘Kingdom of Heaven’ is likely to debunk several myths about Islam and Muslims from the Western mind. The $ 130 million film portrays the history around the third crusade in 1187 in which Islamic commander Salahuddin Ayyubi defeated the joint Christian and European army led by King Frederick of Germany and recaptured Jerusalem and declared general amnesty against Christians.


Syrian actor, Ghassan Massoud plays Salahuddin, while the film is being directed by Ridley Scott. Other actors include Orlando Bloom and Liem Neeson. Massoud says the film carries the message that the Middle East crisis could be solved only through diplomatic negotiations rather than war.

Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti, Sheikh Abdul Aziz, who heads the Council of Senior Islamic Scholars, has come out strongly against the practice of forcing women to marry against their will while calling for the imprisonment of violators.


The grand mufti’s call evoked positive reaction among women in the Kingdom, who greatly welcomed the move, saying it was a “wake-up” call. They also hoped that a mechanism would be set up to monitor and help those who come out against such practices. “Forcing a woman to marry someone she does not want and preventing her from wedding someone she chooses ... is not permissible,” the grand mufti said. “Anyone who insists on forcing a woman ... to marry against her will is disobeying God and His Prophet (Muhammad),” he said. Fatin Bundagji, director of Women’s Empowerment and Research at the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry, welcomed the Fatwa.

Statistics indicate that the Muslim population in Australia now stands at 7,50,000, out of a total population of 20 million, and the Australian government gives complete freedom of worship. In fact, the Australian people are keen to learn more about Islam and respect its Muslim community. Mosques could be seen in various parts of the country, and there are also some Islamic centers. But the problem is that within the community there are constant differences and frictions, brought about mainly by extremist elements.

An area covering 2,000 feddans on the Kuala Lumpur-Kuala Selangor Road is planted with trees that are not of much commercial benefit. Therefore the state government of Selangor, with the cooperation of the federal government of Malaysia has taken the initiative of making the area more profitable for the government by planting it with various types of fruit trees, and the area has become known as the “Selangor Fruit Valley.” It is being overseen by the Selangor Commission for Agricultural Development in the state. It is expected that this scheme will increase Malaysia’s fruit production by leaps and bounds, and the country will become a major exporter of fruits.

The University of Melbourne has set up a Centre of Islamic Studies under the Faculty of Arts and Law. The Centre would conduct research on Islam. According to Prof. Abdullah Sayeed of the Faculty, Islam is arousing more interest around the world in recent years. He said the Centre would impart courses in Islamic jurisprudence and law.

A top Muslim scholar said the minority would abide by the Swedish law in confronting a Christian preacher who insulted Prophet Muhammad (Pbuh)), urging his fellow Swedish Muslims not to take the law into their own hands or commit any violent acts to avenge the repulsive remarks of the Christian cleric.


“We beg those who threatened Runar Sogaard, in the name of Islam, to let Swedish law judge between him and us,” said Hassan Moussa, the head of Sweden’s council of imams.


Evangelist preacher Runar Sogaard, in a sermon at Filadelfia church in Stockholm, recently, repeated claims against Prophet Muhammad (Pbuh) saying the Prophet was “a confused pedophile” since his wives included a girl aged nine years old, alluding to the Prophet’s wife Aisha (RA).

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