Islamist Radicals Attack Woman Named Tushara Ajit for Selling Non-Halal Food in Kerala, India
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Age Islam News Bureau
26
October 2021
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Female Participation in Islamic Institutions - Women 'Encouraged To Be Active
Participants on Mosque Committees'
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Women's Cricket in Afghanistan Will be Streamlined, Says ACB Chairman
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Religious Leaders From Across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Vow To End Child Marriages
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Women Protest the World’s ‘Silence’ Over Crisis in Afghanistan
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All Signs Point to Jeddah as World’s Top Women Golfers Prepare for $2m Saudi
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Radicals
Attack Woman Named Tushara Ajit for Selling Non-Halal Food in Kerala
Oct
26 2021
(Photo courtesy: News Track)
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Kochi:
A woman named Tushara Ajit, who opened a special non-halal restaurant in
Ernakulam district of Kerala on January 15, 2021, is reported to have been
fatally attacked. She was attacked on Monday, October 25. The woman has made
Facebook live from the hospital bed and informed people about the attack. Mrs
Tushara feeds only non-halal food at her restaurant called Nandus Kitchen in
Palarevattom.
During
the inauguration of the restaurant, she put up a banner outside, which read,
'Non-Halal, Halal Bakshanam Nishidham (Halal food is banned here).' During that
time, many Muslims objected to the running of non-halal restaurants. Tushara's
daughter also shared a video of her mother being taken to hospital in an
ambulance. In this, you can see how cruelly Tushara has been beaten up by the
miscreants. According to local news reports, the woman, who was about to open
another branch of her restaurant today, was fatally attacked in Teco Park. The
report suggests that Tushara was receiving threats from radical Muslims to open
another branch of her non-Halal restaurant. Just as she get when she opened the
restaurant. The fundamentalists were threatening her against putting up
non-halal boards.
Mrs
Tushara also revealed in her Facebook Live that she was brutally beaten up for
serving non-halal food in her restaurant and putting up its banner outside it.
Condemning
the attack, Kerala BJP unit president K Surendran tweeted, "Strongly
condemns the attack on Mrs Tushara Ajit. A group of Muslim fundamentalists
brutally attacked the woman entrepreneur for not accepting the Halal Hotel.
What happened in Kakkanad is nothing short of a Taliban act. I appeal to the
people of Kerala to boycott Halal.''
Source:
News Track
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Female
Participation in Islamic Institutions - Women 'Encouraged To Be Active
Participants on Mosque Committees'
By
Imran Azam
October
26, 2021
Women 'encouraged to be active participants on
mosque committees' (Photo:Asian Image)
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THE
ORGANISER of a seminar aimed at increasing female participation in Islamic
religious institutions intends to continue her work after the success of a
day-long workshop.
Dr
Sahira Dar, chair and founder of Vibrant Scottish Mosques, aims to build on the
organisation’s “management and leadership training masterclass”, held in
Scotland last month.
Speaking
to Asian Image, she said: “We have been approached by many motivated women who
wish to be active participants on their local mosque committees. Our aim is to
advise and support them and offer a place where they can share good practices.
“Those committees which place greater emphasis on diversity, which includes
working towards a better gender balance, are more reflective of the communities
they serve. "They bring with them a different perspective and can draw on
different resources, therefore able to provide various services outwith prayer
and Quran classes. I’m referring to mother and toddler groups, counselling,
leisure activities to name a few.”
Dr
Dar added that some of those who participated in the training had approached
imams at their local mosques, highlighting the significance of “inclusivity”,
along with the importance of increasing provisions for females and young women.
She concluded with: “From my research and experience it was those mosques that
had active female participation that quickly responded to challenges of Covid.”
Shaukat
Warraich, CEO of Faith Associates, led the workshop in Glasgow (Sept 04). He
covered a number of subjects, including the impact of the pandemic on Islamic
places of worship, along with those mosques which had gained Beacon status.
He
believed that those mosques which “quickly adapted” went on to “survive and
thrive” due to the “emergence of new diverse leadership”. He added that the
Muslim community had “stepped up” during the pandemic by becoming “focal
points” in their local communities.
He
explained: “Mosques have served entire communities and not just local Muslims
and that’s the role of a mosque, serving all of humanity. They have set up food
banks, provided provisions for asylum seekers and refugees, and acted as
vaccination centres. I feel that from a non-Muslim perspective, the perception
of mosques has totally changed.”
Source:
Asian Image
https://www.asianimage.co.uk/news/19671836.women-encouraged-active-participants-mosque-committees/
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Women's
Cricket in Afghanistan Will be Streamlined, Says ACB Chairman
25
Oct 2021
Since
the Taliban took over the reigns in Afghanistan, there have been plenty of
questions about how things would function in the country, including sport.
One
of the concerns, apart from getting women athletes to safety first, was the
future of women’s cricket. The men’s team are currently in UAE for the T20
World Cup.
On
Sunday, Afghanistan cricket chief Azizullah Fazli told AFP on Sunday that
"women's cricket will be streamlined" under the new regime.
"Some
people talk about our policy on women's cricket, for them my message is just
wait," said Fazli.
"Our
government is streamlining things and women's cricket will also be streamlined."
Earlier,
during their first stint in power in Afghanistan, the Taliban had banned most
forms of entertainment and converted stadiums to execution venues. Women’s
sport was banned as well.
The
ICC are understood to be monitoring the matter and are also expected to discuss
it during their next meeting in Dubai next month.
The
head of the Afghanistan cricket board, who had also been in the same post three
years ago, said that the sport had given the country a new identity.
"Cricket
unites the world so we talk about unity of the cricket world," said Fazli.
"Cricket
has given us an identity and we are getting better and better."
He
also said that they were building infrastructure and hoped to host
international cricket in the future.
Recently,
the Australian cricket board too had threatened to not play their Test match
against Afghanistan in November if women’s cricket wasn’t given its rightful
due.
ICC
rules too dictate that all member nations to have men’s and women’s teams.
Afghanistan’s
men’s team open their T20 World Cup campaign against Scotland on 25 October.
Source:
The Quint
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Religious
Leaders From Across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Vow To End Child Marriages
October
26, 2021
PESHAWAR:
Religious leaders from across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa here on Monday expressed their
resolve to promote the rights of girls, women and all vulnerable segments of
society.
They
were speaking at a dialogue on ending child marriages jointly organised by the
Council of Islamic Ideology (CII), Women Parliamentary Caucus (WPC) and Child
Welfare and Protection Commission, according to a statement issued here.
Speaking
on the occasion, CII Chairman Dr Qibla Ayaz said religious leaders from across
Pakistan were invited to join them in the campaign to end harmful social
practices like child marriage through awareness and behavioural change.
Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa Chief Khateeb Maulana Tayyab Qureshi said faith-inspired
initiatives were instrumental in promoting behavioural and attitudinal change
to discourage forced marriages.
Qamar
Naseem, programme coordinator of Blue Veins and lead of the Provincial Alliance
to End Early Child and Forced Marriages, said every citizen had a
responsibility to discourage child marriages, to ensure that children completed
their education and reached their full potential.
Madiha
Nisar, vice-chairperson of WPC, said keeping girls in school was one of the
best ways to prevent child marriages. “Child marriage limits girls’ access to
quality education,” she added.
Source:
Dawn
https://www.dawn.com/news/1654050/ulema-vow-to-end-child-marriages
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Women
protest the world’s ‘silence’ over crisis in Afghanistan
October
26, 2021
KABUL:
Women activists in Kabul held up signs that read “why is the world watching us
die in silence?” on Tuesday, protesting the international community’s inaction
on the crisis in Afghanistan.
Around
a dozen women risked the wrath of the Taliban, who have banned demonstrations
and shut them down using violence since taking power in August, holding banners
affirming their “right to education” and “right to work,” before the Islamists
stopped the press from approaching the march.
“We
are asking the UN secretary-general to support our rights, to education, to
work. We are deprived of everything today,” Wahida Amiri, one of the organizers
for the Spontaneous Movement of Women Activists in Afghanistan, told AFP.
Their
demonstration, addressing the “political, social and economic situation” in
Afghanistan was initially planned to take place near the UN mission in
Afghanistan (UNAMA).
But
it was moved at the last minute to the entrance of the former “Green Zone,”
where the buildings of several Western embassies are located, although most of
their missions left the country as the Taliban took control.
Taliban
gunmen at the entrance to the ultra-secure area initially asked the
demonstrators and the press to move away.
An
AFP reporter then saw a reinforcement of a dozen Taliban guards — most of them
armed — push back journalists and confiscate the mobile phone of one local
reporter who was filming the protest.
“We
have nothing against the Taliban, we just want to demonstrate peacefully,”
Amiri said.
Symbolic
demonstrations by women have become a regular occurrence in Kabul in recent
weeks as the Taliban have still not allowed them to return to work or permitted
most girls to go to school.
Last
Thursday about 20 women were allowed to march for more than 90 minutes, but
several foreign and local journalists covering the rally were beaten by Taliban
fighters.
Source:
Arab News
https://www.arabnews.com/node/1955571/world
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All
signs point to Jeddah as world’s top women golfers prepare for $2m Saudi Arabia
double-header
October
26, 2021
Some
of the biggest names in women’s golf will head to Saudi Arabia in November for
back-to-back Aramco Saudi Ladies International and Aramco Team Series Jeddah
tournaments.
The
two events will take place at Royal Greens Golf & Country Club in nearby
King Abdullah Economic City and, together, form the Kingdom’s debut Women in
Sport Season.
Leading
players on the Ladies European Tour will compete for a total of $2 million in
the space of a fortnight.
First
up is the Aramco Saudi Ladies International (Nov. 4-7), presented by the Public
Investment Fund, in which almost 100 players will go head to head for a share
of $1 million in prize money.
The
final of four Aramco Team Series events — launched on the Ladies European Tour
for the first time this year — will take place from Nov. 10-12, with the Jeddah
leg following tournaments in London, Spain and New York.
The
new format sees three professional players team up with an amateur player and
then compete for a share of $800,000, with the best individual scorers also
battling for a $200,000 prize fund.
The
individual category of this month’s New York leg was won by England’s Charley
Hull, who returns to Saudi Arabia after competing in last year’s debut tournament.
Speaking
after her win in New York, the 25-year-old Hull said: “I’ve loved the Aramco
Team Series and played in every event so far — London, Spain, New York and
Saudi Arabia is now next. I can’t wait. I played in Saudi last year and thought
it was a great event. The golf course was lovely, so I’m really looking forward
to getting back.”
She
added: “The Aramco Team Series isn’t just a great event for the women on tour,
but also for the amateurs who get to play and the fans who get to watch. It’s a
lot of fun. For me, it will be great to get back to Saudi, especially with the
support Golf Saudi and Aramco are giving the sport. Since last year’s first
event I’ve heard that a lot of young girls out in Saudi Arabia are taking up
golf, which is so good to hear.”
Joining
Hull at Royal Greens will be Denmark’s Emily Kristine Pedersen, who recorded a
clean sweep in the Kingdom last year when she won the Aramco Saudi Ladies
International presented by Public Investment Fund, then both the team and
individual elements in what was then the Saudi Ladies Team International, the
precursor to the Aramco Team Series.
“Last
year was such a fantastic experience for me in Saudi Arabia,” Pedersen said. “I
loved the course, the weather, the people were so nice, and it was just a great
10 days. I obviously have such fond memories so going back will certainly be
special for me.”
“The
Aramco Saudi Ladies International felt like a big moment in women’s golf —
something the Aramco Team Series has really built on this year, building our
game even further. I’ve really enjoyed all three ATS events so far this season,
and I know the final one in Jeddah will be awesome, too.”
Other
names taking part are England’s Annabel Dimmock, Anna Nordqvist of Sweden,
Minjee Lee of Australia and Georgia Hall, also of England.
Source:
Arab News
https://www.arabnews.com/node/1955511/sport
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