Zul Hijja / Muharram 1422 H
March 2002
Volume 15-03 No:183
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Zul Hijja / Muharram 1422 H March 2002 Volume 15-03 No:183 |
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Order of British Empire for Six MuslimsLondon: Six Muslims received the Order of
British Empire (OBE) and six others were selected for Member of British
Empire (MBE) in this year's New Year list. But no Muslim figured in the
knighthood list. Among those who received OBE is Chennai-born Nasser
Hussain, the captain of the British cricket team. The award is in
recognition of Hussain's leadership in leading England to four wins in
the consecutive series. Dr. Rashid Gatred, head of Paediatrics in Manor
Hospital in West Midland received the OBE for his services in the field
of treatment of children and to ethnic minorities. Dr. Khizar Humayun
Ansari received the OBE for services to higher education. He is director
of the Centre for Ethnic Minorities Studies at Royal Holloway College,
University of London. Another OBE awardee is Dr. Moussa Jogee, Deputy
Chair Commissioner for Racial Equality, Scotland. He was awarded for
services to Racial Equality. Wasfi Kani got the OBE for work in prisons.
She set up Pimlico Opera in 1988 which tours prisons all through
England. Kani says her Operas are supposed to educate and rehabilitate
prisoners. Jasim Ahmed received the OBE for service to the British
community interest in Asia. Among the MBE awardees are Freda Hussain for
service to the community in Leicester, Abdul Karim Shakoor, Outreach
worker, Cartwheel community, Arts, services to arts in Manchester, Shama
Mahmood Ahmed, services to the community in Newham, Chaudhury Mohammad
Anwar, services to community relations in Middlesex and Parveen Mirza
for service to Community Relations in Nottingham. |
Washington: Four Muslim members of the New York City
police department were recently honoured here for their heroic work after the
World Trade Center terrorist attack on September 11. The event, entitled: “A
Tribute to Muslim and Arab-American Heroes,” was sponsored by the Islamic
Institute and the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. The event drew
over 120 members and leaders of the Muslim and Arab-American communities, as
well as the Bush administration officials. Officers Adil Almontaser, Ahmed
Nasser, Rafet Awad, and Faisal Khan were all on duty when the attacks occurred
at the World Trade Center. They spent the next several days working non-stop in
the rescue efforts. Since September 11, Nasser said he has noticed a difference
in the questions put to him about Islam. The NewYork police force is also making
an effort to understand Muslims, he said. Nasser immigrated from Yemen 15 years
ago, and joined the force. Officer Almontaser and his colleagues had decided to
create the American Muslim Law Enforcement Officers Association, AMLEOA, “to
bridge the gap between law enforcement and the Muslim community.” Their aim,
he said, is to encourage more Muslim Americans to go into law enforcement. Nina
Shokraii Rees, Deputy Assistant to the Vice President for Domestic Policy, said
“These brave public servants are among our nation’s greatest heroes”. Ziad
Asali, president, American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, said, “the four
men who are here represent the very best we can offer this country.” Khaled
Saffouri of Islamic Institute, said lack of understanding about Islam and the
Muslim community is because “we do not participate in the law enforcement
system”
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Constituency District Winners Party Gopalpur Azamgarh Vasim Ahmad SP Nizamabad Azamgarh Alambadi SP Charda Bahraich Shabbir SP Bahraich Bahraich Dr. Vaqar Ahmad SP Utraula Balrampur Anwar Mahmood SP Tulsipur Balrampur Mashood Khan SP Sikandarpur Balia Jiyauddin Rizvi SP Kawar Bareilly Sultan Beg SP Baheri Bareilly Manjoor Ahmad SP Gauri Bazar Deoria Shakir Ali SP Rudauli Faizabad Abbas Ali Zaidi SP Kamalganj Farrukhabad Jamaluddin Siddiqui SP Firozabad Firozabad Azim Bhai SP Sambhal Jyotiba Phule Iqbal Mahmood SP Aryanagar Kanpur Haji Mushtaq SP Kinthore Meerut Shahid Manjoor SP Kunderki Moradabad Mohd Rizwan SP Pilibhit Pilibhit Riyaj Ahamad SP Rampur Rampur Mohd.Aazam Khan SP Domariaganj Siddharthnagar Kamal Yusuf Malik SP Menhdawal Siddharthnagar Abdul Kalam SP Varanasi North Varanasi Abdul Kalam SP Amroha Jyotiba Phule Mehboob Ali RPD Baghpat Baghpat Kawkab Hameed RLD Bareilly Cantt Bareilly Shahlin Islam IND Mau Mau Mukhtar Ansari IND Kaimganj Farrukhabad Luis khursheed INC Moradabad rural Moradabad Shamimul Haq INC Suartanda Rampur Nawab Kazim Ali INC Gauriganj Sultanpur Noor Mohammad INC Agra Cantt Agra Mohd.Vashir BSP Soraon Allahabad Mohd.Mujtaba BSP Sagri Azamgarh Malik Masud BSP Mahsi Bahraich Ali Bahadur BSP Seohara Bijnor Kutubuddin BSP Salempur Deoria Fasiha Murad BSP Khaga Fatehpur Mohd. Shafir BSP Sandila Hardoi Abdul Mannan BSP
Mumbai: Hundreds of pilgrims in Mumbai who had all the
relevant travel papers were denied permission to travel to Saudi Arabia for this
year's Haj. An official in the Central Haj Committee (CHC), the body under the
Ministry of External Affairs that arranges for the travel of pilgrims from
India, admitted that this was the first time pilgrims with proper travel papers
were left behind. The CHC official in Mumbai says the pilgrims were denied
passage because there were no accommodation facilities for them in Saudi Arabia.
But when some of them told the authorities they would arrange for their own
accommodation there, they were told there were no seats available on the
aircraft. There are allegations of widespread corruption in the CHC. The CHC has
a quota of 72,000 pilgrims who are given partially subsidised travel facilities
to Saudi Arabia. This year, only 70,000 pilgrims applied under the quota. In
Mumbai, more than 100 pilgrims whose papers had been processed by the CHC were
not allowed to travel. Shahabuddin Shaikh, owner of the Shalimar restaurant in
Null Bazar in Mumbai, said that even after he was told by immigration that the
'pilgrim pass' could be used to travel on a regular flight, he was denied a
ticket by Saudi Arabian Airlines. The explanation given by Yusuf Abrahani,
Mumbai-based member of the Central Haj Committee, is that there were fewer
cancellations from Haj pilgrims this year, which is why these 100 pilgrims could
not be accommodated. "Normally, during any year, there are around 5,000
cancellations. This year there were only 2,000. We had accommodation for 69,500
pilgrims. But we had 70,000 pilgrims, including those in the waiting list who
were adjusted against the cancellations,"says Abrahani.
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Riyadh: The World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY) will
hold its 9th International Conference here from October 22 -25, 2002, on the
theme of “Muslim Youth and Globalisation”. According to Dr. Manie Al-Johani,
secretary-general of WAMY, Muslim scholars, intellectuals and Dawah activists
can participate in the conference, which will be dedicated to the challenges
facing the Muslim youth. Explaining the significance of the seminar, Dr. Al-Johani
said globalisation has led to the dismantling of socio-cultural and national
barriers, because of the impact of the IT revolution and the satellite tele-communications
network. The topics to be discussed in the bilingual conference are: “Youth
and Economic liberalisation”. “Cultural and Information Freedom”; “Youth
and Political Consciousness”; “Cultural and Educational liberalisation”
and “Dawah and Globalisation.” Participants should submit copy of their
abstracts before June 1 and the research papers by August 2, 2002.
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Japan, IINA: The Islamic Center in Tokyo is giving the
final touches to the setting up of an Islamic Cemetery. The cemetery has been
financed by the Saudi Monarch, King Fahd bin Abdul Aziz. The center has also
acquired land in Tokyo on which it intends to build a new Islamic school in the
Japanese capital. Since the September 11, events in the US, the Tokyo Islamic
Center has been receiving numerous enquiries about Islam, to the extent that the
officials of the center have now appealed for the reprinting of the Quran
translation and other Islamic books. There are around 100,000 indigenous
Japanese Muslims, in addition to 300,000 Muslims from other countries who are
working and living in Japan.
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Dubai: The establishment of a new medical college for Indian
Muslims was discussed at the Middle-East Convention of the Muslim Educational
Society (MES) here recently. The one-day conference of the MES was held at the
Dubai Renaissance Hotel which was attended by delegates of the Indian Muslim
communities from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, Kuwait and Kerala. According to Dr.
M K Ibrahim, Chairman of the MES’s Middle East Committee and Convenor of the
meeting in Dubai, the setting up of a new medical college in Kerala within a
year was on the agenda.
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Islamabad: Girls as young as 10 are being offered for
marriage in exchange for bags of flour in a desperate struggle for survival in
parts of Herat and Farah provinces in Western Afghanistan, according to a Red
Crescent Mission report. Describing the shocking poverty in Western Afghanistan,
a Red Crescent assessment mission reported scenes of great deprivation in
villages which have been cut off from the outside world for years. Young girls
were offered as brides for as little as 100 kgs of wheat flour. “We saw
children digging in the fields for roots to eat. Leaves from the trees were also
being eaten,” said the operations manager of Red Cross and Red Crescent
Societies in Islamabad. The assessment team surveyed 12 villages in the remote
valley of Rood Gaz with a population of 10,305 people. Among them were 510
orphans, 261 widows and 699 elderly dependent on their impoverished neighbours
and remittances from refugees in Iran.
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Washington, IINA: The Washington-based Council for
American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has embarked on a programme that seeks to
register at least 100,000 Muslim voters for the upcoming elections in November.
The local government and Congressional elections will take place in November.
CAIR has also established a database of Muslim voters and anyone seeking more
information about registration and other relevant matters could visit their
website at http://www.cair-net.org/asp/voting/asp. CAIR has also published a
directory entitled The Directory of the Muslim Voter comprising the basic
information on how to register, and how to organise the registration exercise.
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Jerusalem, IINA: A survey conducted recently on the
effects of the Israeli occupation and aggression on the Palestinian children,
women and families, has revealed that 596,000 children under the age of 18, have
become hysterical and cry uncontrollably, while another 788,000 have been
affected by the fear of being left alone in the home and another 839,000 fear
darkness. Another finding of the survey is that 28 per cent of the children have
been permanently disabled, while another 28 per cent partially disabled, while
another 22 per cent have been disfigured. The survey shows that 56,000
Palestinians have moved away from their homes, as a result of the siege imposed
by the Israelis, of whom children make up 53 per cent.
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New Jersey: Residents of nine Muslim countries called
the United States “ruthless and arrogant” in a new poll., with most
describing themselves as “resentful” of the superpower. The Gallup poll
found that a 2 to I margin, residents in these nations express an unfavourable
opinion of the United States and a majority also indicated their displeasure
with President Bush. Sixty one per cent said they did not believe Arab groups
carried out the September 11 terrorist attacks. Researches conducted face-to
face interviews with 9,924 residents of Pakistan, Iran, Indonesia, Turkey,
Lebanon, Morocco, Kuwait, Jordan and Saudi Arabia to gauge public opinion in
those countries following the September 11 attacks. The overall view was not a
positive one for the United States-53 per cent of the people questioned had
unfavourable opinions of the United States, while 22 per cent had favourable
opinions.
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New Delhi: The State government in Delhi has decided
to regulate the functioning of over 1,000. madrasas through a ‘Madrasa
Board’. According to the proposal, the Board will not only be responsible for
monitoring the functioning of the madrasas, but will also introduce modern
system of education for the students. According to Delhi Wakf Board chairman
Haroon Yusuf, there are over 1,000 madrasas, which are not registered under any
authority and majority of them operate from local mosques.
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