March 5, 2014
by worldbulletin.net
Source: muslimvillage.com
The mayor of London, the capital of the UK, has said that children
who are at risk of being brainwashed by ‘radical’ and ‘extemist’ Muslim
parents should be taken into care.
Writing in the Telegraph, Boris Johnson challenged the political
correctness of British society which makes them reluctant to judge
someone else’s culture, calling this approach as ‘utter rubbish, and a
monstrous inversion of what I mean by liberalism.’
Stating that the authorities were watching Muslims who returned from
fighting in Syria ‘like hawks’ to monitor the ideas they may have picked
up there, he also stated his belied that some young people were being
‘radicalised at home, by their parents or by their step-parents.’
‘It is the strong view of many of those involved in counter-terrorism
that there should be a clearer legal position, so that those children
who are being turned into potential killers or suicide bombers can be
removed into care – for their own safety and for the safety of the
public,’ he said.
Urging the British people to be ‘less phobic of intrusion into the
ways of minority groups and less nervous of passing judgment on other
cultures,’ Johnson called on the authorities to be ‘ruthless’ in
tackling behaviour that undermines British values.
Boris Johnson said these measures may be necessary to prevent repeats
of incidents like the killing of military drummer Lee Rigby, who was
killed by two Muslims in London last year in what they said was an ‘act
of war.’ However, Johnson failed to note that the parents of both of the
two killers were not Muslims, but were in fact Christians.
Link: http://muslimvillage.com/2014/03/05/50814/london-mayor-calls-to-take-muslim-children-away-from-extremists/.
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014
Monday, June 10, 2013
Limited health options for internally displaced Rohingya
June 9,2013
IRIN/Sittwe
Source: Gulf Times
IRIN/Sittwe
Source: Gulf Times
Aid workers are calling for better health access for an estimated 140,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Myanmar’s western Rakhine State, most of them Rohingya Muslims.
Although a number of NGOs and government mobile clinics are providing basic health services inside the roughly 80 camps and settlements, they are limited, and emergency health referrals remain a serious concern, they say.
According to Medecins Sans Frontières (MSF), conditions inside the camps, combined with the segregation of ethnic Buddhist Rakhine and Muslim Rohingya and ongoing movement restrictions, are having a severe impact on healthcare.
Movement restrictions were slapped on Rohingyas around Sittwe, the Rakhine State capital, after bouts of sectarian violence in June and October 2012.
Another concern is the negative attitude of many ethnic Rakhine to assistance provided to Muslim IDPs.
“With threats and intimidation both to health provider and patient, this becomes an irreconcilable dilemma,” Carol Jacobsen of the medical NGO Merlin said, adding that “hostile access”, limited transportation and poor security were obstacles to healthcare for the Muslim population.
Aside from IDPs, thousands of Rohingyas in their villages or places of origin - many reachable only by boat - are restricted from travelling to local township hospitals in the event of a medical emergency, aid workers report.
“MSF has just returned from areas where whole villages are cut off from basic services,” said Ronald Kremer, MSF emergency co-ordinator in Rakhine State. “What we have seen shows that current policies such as movement restrictions are having a detrimental impact on people’s health. This includes TB patients unable to access the treatment they need to stay alive, and pregnant women dying unnecessarily because they have nowhere safe to deliver.”
It’s estimated there are 5,000 pregnant displaced women living in the camps.
“Normally, these women would be going to government hospitals or clinics,” said Marlar Soe, field co-ordinator for the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) in Sittwe, noting that government midwives, who are largely ethnic Rakhine, are not going into the camps.
Almost one year after the initial violence in Rakhine State, more than half the IDPs are in Sittwe, one of nine strife-affected townships.
Most Rohingyas are confined to a series of camps on the outskirts of the town.
Security forces and metal barricades, topped with razor wire, prevent camp residents from leaving what activists are now describing as a ghetto-like prison. The 12-bed Dar Pai emergency hospital is the only government-run health facility for the more than 100,000 Muslim IDPs and residents in an area which encompasses 11 IDP camps and makeshift sites, as well as five Rohingya host communities.
Doctors are rarely seen and medicine is in short supply, say IDPs. “You’re lucky if you can get an aspirin there,” said Aung Win, a 57-year-old Rohingya man from the Mawlee quarter of Sittwe, referring to the hospital.
Edward Hew, head of relief operations for Mercy Malaysia, says it is time for the international community to come together with state health authorities to strengthen the Dar Pai hospital as it is currently the only option available.
“Many patients are not comfortable with being referred to Sittwe Hospital,” he said.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) currently provides emergency medical evacuation services to Sittwe Hospital.
“This, however, is not always easy given the security situation, as well as the limited number of beds (12) allocated for Muslims,” said one aid worker who preferred anonymity. Meanwhile, with monsoon rains having begun, there is growing concern about the risk of water-borne and communicable diseases.
“Many of the risk factors for an outbreak are present, including overcrowding, open defecation, limited potable water, poor hygiene standards and many living in makeshift shelters,” said Ingrid Maria Johansen, project co-ordinator for MSF in Sittwe, warning that an outbreak of acute watery diarrhoea could spread quickly through the camps.
Saturday, May 11, 2013
Protest at Jerusalem Prison Demands Release of Mufti
May 8, 2013
Source: (WAFA)
Source: (WAFA)
JERUSALEM, May 8, 2013 (WAFA) – Dozens of Palestinians Wednesday demonstrated outside the Russian Compound prison in West Jerusalem demanding the release of the Mufti of Jerusalem and Palestine Sheikh Muhammad Hussein.
Israeli police arrested Hussein at his home on charges of calling on Muslims to protect al-Aqsa Mosque against attempts by Jewish extremists to infringe on its sanctity.
Palestinian Minister of Jerusalem Affairs Adnan Husseini denounced in a statement what he said was “Israel’s illegal detention” of Hussein, and called for his immediate release.
“We hold Israel fully accountable for this new act of aggression,” he said. “This provocative arrest takes place at a time when Israeli occupation forces are protecting gangs of extremist settlers, who are terrorizing Palestinian families all over Occupied East Jerusalem while celebrating their illegal occupation.”
Husseini accused Israel of violating the religious rights of not only Palestinian Muslims but also Christians when police “repressed and physically assaulted Palestinian Christians, including priests, preventing them from celebrating the important occasion of Holy Fire Saturday.”
He called upon the international community to “take concrete action” against Israel, stressing that “words are simply not enough.”
He said that “the impunity granted to Israel allows it to act without consequence. The Israeli government’s belligerent actions are fueling extremism and systematically destroying the social fabric of the Palestinian people, principally in Occupied East Jerusalem.”
Link:http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=22323
Link:http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=22323
Israel bars Muslims from entering al-Aqsa mosque
Israel bars Muslims from entering al-Aqsa mosque
May 11, 2013
Source: Press TV
For two consecutive days, Israeli police have prevented Muslims, men and women under the age of 50, from entering one of the holiest Islamic sites, by erecting flying checkpoints around the compound. All elderly people had to show their ID’s to Israeli police before entering the compound.The Minister of Jerusalem Affairs stated that Muslims now need to unify in order to protect al-Aqsa mosque.The police evacuated all young Muslim worshippers in order to allow a group of 40 Israeli settles to tour the compound. The next day, over 100 settlers gained access to the mosque, accompanied by Israeli forces.
May 11, 2013
Source: Press TV
For two consecutive days, Israeli police have prevented Muslims, men and women under the age of 50, from entering one of the holiest Islamic sites, by erecting flying checkpoints around the compound. All elderly people had to show their ID’s to Israeli police before entering the compound.The Minister of Jerusalem Affairs stated that Muslims now need to unify in order to protect al-Aqsa mosque.The police evacuated all young Muslim worshippers in order to allow a group of 40 Israeli settles to tour the compound. The next day, over 100 settlers gained access to the mosque, accompanied by Israeli forces.
The Al-Aqsa mosque and the Dome of the Rock, is the third holiest site in Islam. However, it is also a site where Jewish Israeli’s believe as the Second Temple, a holy site for Jewish, stood before al Aqsa. But, despite rigorous archeological excavations by the Israeli’s, they have found no proof of the existence of this site.
“Following two days of ban on Muslim worshippers from entering the al-Aqsa compound, senior Palestinian politicians have called upon all Muslims in Jerusalem al Quds to remain in the mosque in order to protect it from Israeli settlers and soldiers. They further stated that the Israeli settlers and soldiers are trying to change the status quo by claiming it as a Jewish place of worship. Nel Burden, Press TV, Occupied Jerusalem al Quds.”
Monday, February 1, 2010
Muslim inventions that shaped the modern world
By Olivia Sterns for CNN
January 29, 2010 7:53 a.m. EST
London, England (CNN) -- Think of the origins of that staple of modern life, the cup of coffee, and Italy often springs to mind.
But in fact, Yemen is where the ubiquitous brew has its true origins.
Along with the first university, and even the toothbrush, it is among surprising Muslim inventions that have shaped the world we live in today.
The origins of these fundamental ideas and objects -- the basis of everything from the bicycle to musical scales -- are the focus of "1001 Inventions," a book celebrating "the forgotten" history of 1,000 years of Muslim heritage.
"There's a hole in our knowledge, we leap frog from the Renaissance to the Greeks," professor Salim al-Hassani, Chairman of the Foundation for Science, Technology and Civilisation, and editor of the book told CNN.
"1001 Inventions" is now an exhibition at London's Science Museum. Hassani hopes the exhibition will highlight the contributions of non-Western cultures -- like the Muslim empire that once covered Spain and Portugal, Southern Italy and stretched as far as parts of China -- to present day civilization.
Hospitals as we know them today, with wards and teaching centers, come from 9th century Egypt
--professor Salim al-Hassani
RELATED TOPICS
* Middle East
* World History
* Science and Technology
Here Hassani shares his top 10 outstanding Muslim inventions:
1. Surgery
Around the year 1,000, the celebrated doctor Al Zahrawi published a 1,500 page illustrated encyclopedia of surgery that was used in Europe as a medical reference for the next 500 years. Among his many inventions, Zahrawi discovered the use of dissolving cat gut to stitch wounds -- beforehand a second surgery had to be performed to remove sutures. He also reportedly performed the first caesarean operation and created the first pair of forceps.
2. Coffee
Now the Western world's drink du jour, coffee was first brewed in Yemen around the 9th century. In its earliest days, coffee helped Sufis stay up during late nights of devotion. Later brought to Cairo by a group of students, the coffee buzz soon caught on around the empire. By the 13th century it reached Turkey, but not until the 16th century did the beans start boiling in Europe, brought to Italy by a Venetian trader.
3. Flying machine
"Abbas ibn Firnas was the first person to make a real attempt to construct a flying machine and fly," said Hassani. In the 9th century he designed a winged apparatus, roughly resembling a bird costume. In his most famous trial near Cordoba in Spain, Firnas flew upward for a few moments, before falling to the ground and partially breaking his back. His designs would undoubtedly have been an inspiration for famed Italian artist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci's hundreds of years later, said Hassani.
4. University
In 859 a young princess named Fatima al-Firhi founded the first degree-granting university in Fez, Morocco. Her sister Miriam founded an adjacent mosque and together the complex became the al-Qarawiyyin Mosque and University. Still operating almost 1,200 years later, Hassani says he hopes the center will remind people that learning is at the core of the Islamic tradition and that the story of the al-Firhi sisters will inspire young Muslim women around the world today.
5. Algebra
The word algebra comes from the title of a Persian mathematician's famous 9th century treatise "Kitab al-Jabr Wa l-Mugabala" which translates roughly as "The Book of Reasoning and Balancing." Built on the roots of Greek and Hindu systems, the new algebraic order was a unifying system for rational numbers, irrational numbers and geometrical magnitudes. The same mathematician, Al-Khwarizmi, was also the first to introduce the concept of raising a number to a power.
6. Optics
"Many of the most important advances in the study of optics come from the Muslim world," says Hassani. Around the year 1000 Ibn al-Haitham proved that humans see objects by light reflecting off of them and entering the eye, dismissing Euclid and Ptolemy's theories that light was emitted from the eye itself. This great Muslim physicist also discovered the camera obscura phenomenon, which explains how the eye sees images upright due to the connection between the optic nerve and the brain.
7. Music
Muslim musicians have had a profound impact on Europe, dating back to Charlemagne tried to compete with the music of Baghdad and Cordoba, according to Hassani. Among many instruments that arrived in Europe through the Middle East are the lute and the rahab, an ancestor of the violin. Modern musical scales are also said to derive from the Arabic alphabet.
8. Toothbrush
According to Hassani, the Prophet Mohammed popularized the use of the first toothbrush in around 600. Using a twig from the Meswak tree, he cleaned his teeth and freshened his breath. Substances similar to Meswak are used in modern toothpaste.
9. The crank
Many of the basics of modern automatics were first put to use in the Muslim world, including the revolutionary crank-connecting rod system. By converting rotary motion to linear motion, the crank enables the lifting of heavy objects with relative ease. This technology, discovered by Al-Jazari in the 12th century, exploded across the globe, leading to everything from the bicycle to the internal combustion engine.
10. Hospitals
"Hospitals as we know them today, with wards and teaching centers, come from 9th century Egypt," explained Hassani. The first such medical center was the Ahmad ibn Tulun Hospital, founded in 872 in Cairo. Tulun hospital provided free care for anyone who needed it -- a policy based on the Muslim tradition of caring for all who are sick. From Cairo, such hospitals spread around the Muslim world.
For more information on muslim inventions go to: muslimheritage.com. For more information about the exhibition at London's Science Museum go to: science museum.org.uk
January 29, 2010 7:53 a.m. EST
London, England (CNN) -- Think of the origins of that staple of modern life, the cup of coffee, and Italy often springs to mind.
But in fact, Yemen is where the ubiquitous brew has its true origins.
Along with the first university, and even the toothbrush, it is among surprising Muslim inventions that have shaped the world we live in today.
The origins of these fundamental ideas and objects -- the basis of everything from the bicycle to musical scales -- are the focus of "1001 Inventions," a book celebrating "the forgotten" history of 1,000 years of Muslim heritage.
"There's a hole in our knowledge, we leap frog from the Renaissance to the Greeks," professor Salim al-Hassani, Chairman of the Foundation for Science, Technology and Civilisation, and editor of the book told CNN.
"1001 Inventions" is now an exhibition at London's Science Museum. Hassani hopes the exhibition will highlight the contributions of non-Western cultures -- like the Muslim empire that once covered Spain and Portugal, Southern Italy and stretched as far as parts of China -- to present day civilization.
Hospitals as we know them today, with wards and teaching centers, come from 9th century Egypt
--professor Salim al-Hassani
RELATED TOPICS
* Middle East
* World History
* Science and Technology
Here Hassani shares his top 10 outstanding Muslim inventions:
1. Surgery
Around the year 1,000, the celebrated doctor Al Zahrawi published a 1,500 page illustrated encyclopedia of surgery that was used in Europe as a medical reference for the next 500 years. Among his many inventions, Zahrawi discovered the use of dissolving cat gut to stitch wounds -- beforehand a second surgery had to be performed to remove sutures. He also reportedly performed the first caesarean operation and created the first pair of forceps.
2. Coffee
Now the Western world's drink du jour, coffee was first brewed in Yemen around the 9th century. In its earliest days, coffee helped Sufis stay up during late nights of devotion. Later brought to Cairo by a group of students, the coffee buzz soon caught on around the empire. By the 13th century it reached Turkey, but not until the 16th century did the beans start boiling in Europe, brought to Italy by a Venetian trader.
3. Flying machine
"Abbas ibn Firnas was the first person to make a real attempt to construct a flying machine and fly," said Hassani. In the 9th century he designed a winged apparatus, roughly resembling a bird costume. In his most famous trial near Cordoba in Spain, Firnas flew upward for a few moments, before falling to the ground and partially breaking his back. His designs would undoubtedly have been an inspiration for famed Italian artist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci's hundreds of years later, said Hassani.
4. University
In 859 a young princess named Fatima al-Firhi founded the first degree-granting university in Fez, Morocco. Her sister Miriam founded an adjacent mosque and together the complex became the al-Qarawiyyin Mosque and University. Still operating almost 1,200 years later, Hassani says he hopes the center will remind people that learning is at the core of the Islamic tradition and that the story of the al-Firhi sisters will inspire young Muslim women around the world today.
5. Algebra
The word algebra comes from the title of a Persian mathematician's famous 9th century treatise "Kitab al-Jabr Wa l-Mugabala" which translates roughly as "The Book of Reasoning and Balancing." Built on the roots of Greek and Hindu systems, the new algebraic order was a unifying system for rational numbers, irrational numbers and geometrical magnitudes. The same mathematician, Al-Khwarizmi, was also the first to introduce the concept of raising a number to a power.
6. Optics
"Many of the most important advances in the study of optics come from the Muslim world," says Hassani. Around the year 1000 Ibn al-Haitham proved that humans see objects by light reflecting off of them and entering the eye, dismissing Euclid and Ptolemy's theories that light was emitted from the eye itself. This great Muslim physicist also discovered the camera obscura phenomenon, which explains how the eye sees images upright due to the connection between the optic nerve and the brain.
7. Music
Muslim musicians have had a profound impact on Europe, dating back to Charlemagne tried to compete with the music of Baghdad and Cordoba, according to Hassani. Among many instruments that arrived in Europe through the Middle East are the lute and the rahab, an ancestor of the violin. Modern musical scales are also said to derive from the Arabic alphabet.
8. Toothbrush
According to Hassani, the Prophet Mohammed popularized the use of the first toothbrush in around 600. Using a twig from the Meswak tree, he cleaned his teeth and freshened his breath. Substances similar to Meswak are used in modern toothpaste.
9. The crank
Many of the basics of modern automatics were first put to use in the Muslim world, including the revolutionary crank-connecting rod system. By converting rotary motion to linear motion, the crank enables the lifting of heavy objects with relative ease. This technology, discovered by Al-Jazari in the 12th century, exploded across the globe, leading to everything from the bicycle to the internal combustion engine.
10. Hospitals
"Hospitals as we know them today, with wards and teaching centers, come from 9th century Egypt," explained Hassani. The first such medical center was the Ahmad ibn Tulun Hospital, founded in 872 in Cairo. Tulun hospital provided free care for anyone who needed it -- a policy based on the Muslim tradition of caring for all who are sick. From Cairo, such hospitals spread around the Muslim world.
For more information on muslim inventions go to: muslimheritage.com. For more information about the exhibition at London's Science Museum go to: science museum.org.uk
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Shas party spiritual leader on Muslims: “Their religion is as ugly as they are.”
by Yaniv Reich
December 14, 2009
An outrageously large number of Israeli politicians express violently racist sentiments in public. What must they say in private?
Today’s case study in Israeli racism toward Arabs/Palestinians/Persians/Muslims (aren’t they all the same anyway?) comes from Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, who is the spiritual leader of Shas, a right-wing, religious party in Israeli with 11 Knesset seats (out of 120). It is the fifth largest political block at the moment and sits in PM Netanyahu’s coalition government. Its party members currently hold four cabinet posts, including Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior. In other words, Shas is not some fringe group of outpost settlers (although settlers are, of course, duly supported by them), but rather an integral part of Israeli government and society.
This is what their spiritual leader had to say about Muslims:
"They’re stupid. Their religion is as ugly as they are."
(Thanks to Coteret for initially posting this article.)
December 14, 2009
An outrageously large number of Israeli politicians express violently racist sentiments in public. What must they say in private?
Today’s case study in Israeli racism toward Arabs/Palestinians/Persians/Muslims (aren’t they all the same anyway?) comes from Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, who is the spiritual leader of Shas, a right-wing, religious party in Israeli with 11 Knesset seats (out of 120). It is the fifth largest political block at the moment and sits in PM Netanyahu’s coalition government. Its party members currently hold four cabinet posts, including Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior. In other words, Shas is not some fringe group of outpost settlers (although settlers are, of course, duly supported by them), but rather an integral part of Israeli government and society.
This is what their spiritual leader had to say about Muslims:
"They’re stupid. Their religion is as ugly as they are."
(Thanks to Coteret for initially posting this article.)
Monday, September 28, 2009
Muslims all over the world must unite and voice their objections and protest to these despicable acts of the IOF
The Muslim Brotherhood will not stand and witness the indecent and barbaric violations committed on the Aqsa'a sacredness; it is the duty of Muslims all over the world to unite and voice their objections and protest to these despicable acts of the Israeli occupation force.
Monday, September 28,2009 15:13
IkhwanWeb
The Muslim Brotherhood will not stand and witness the indecent and barbaric violations committed on the Aqsa'a sacredness; it is the duty of Muslims all over the world to unite and voice their objections and protest to these despicable acts of the Israeli occupation force.
In a statement on current incidents taking place in Jerusalem and in particular the Aqsa mosque Dr Mahmoud Ezzat stressed that "The Palestinian issue has been and always will be a major issue as long as the Israeli's occupation forces continue in their barbaric ways. We witness daily the obstinate, indecent and offensive measures in which they defy not only the sanctity of Alaqsa but also the most meager of all rights; the rights of freedom and the right to simply exist. The IOF offensive on all that is holy and consecrated will not deter the Palestinians who have no choice but to protect it with all their might, in fact it isn't an option but rather an obligation not only for the Palestinians but for all Muslims. It is the duty of the entire Muslim nation to unite and assist those who literally stand in the face of the IOF's weaponry and aggression". Dr Mahmoud continued to emphasize that the real change had to begin within each individual therefore it is significant that each and every man, woman and child endeavour to improve themselves which will result in improving society and consequently the Muslim world.
Ezzat claimed that the Muslims will not be fooled by any hearsay by Obama or anybody else who sweetly laces their dialogue. Positive actions will be the defining factor which will prove the good-will of all. Unfortunately what is currently taking place in regards to Alaqsa's mosque is not a first and measures must be taken to halt these ignorant invasions.
Monday, September 28,2009 15:13
IkhwanWeb
The Muslim Brotherhood will not stand and witness the indecent and barbaric violations committed on the Aqsa'a sacredness; it is the duty of Muslims all over the world to unite and voice their objections and protest to these despicable acts of the Israeli occupation force.
In a statement on current incidents taking place in Jerusalem and in particular the Aqsa mosque Dr Mahmoud Ezzat stressed that "The Palestinian issue has been and always will be a major issue as long as the Israeli's occupation forces continue in their barbaric ways. We witness daily the obstinate, indecent and offensive measures in which they defy not only the sanctity of Alaqsa but also the most meager of all rights; the rights of freedom and the right to simply exist. The IOF offensive on all that is holy and consecrated will not deter the Palestinians who have no choice but to protect it with all their might, in fact it isn't an option but rather an obligation not only for the Palestinians but for all Muslims. It is the duty of the entire Muslim nation to unite and assist those who literally stand in the face of the IOF's weaponry and aggression". Dr Mahmoud continued to emphasize that the real change had to begin within each individual therefore it is significant that each and every man, woman and child endeavour to improve themselves which will result in improving society and consequently the Muslim world.
Ezzat claimed that the Muslims will not be fooled by any hearsay by Obama or anybody else who sweetly laces their dialogue. Positive actions will be the defining factor which will prove the good-will of all. Unfortunately what is currently taking place in regards to Alaqsa's mosque is not a first and measures must be taken to halt these ignorant invasions.
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