MUSLIM
AUSTRALASIAN
Multimedia News & Views
ISSN: 1039-2300
Print Post Publication No. 100021354
S
TIME
AMUST
www.amust.com.au
Phone: (02) 8006 2063 Email: info@amust.com.au
Print edition published Monthly on first Friday with Website updates
Issue # 123
February 2016; Rabi’ul Aakhir 1437
Justice for the Indigenous
Saudi Student’s Discovery
Modest Fashion Industry
Islamic Learning in the West
BOOMERANG PAGE 5
COMMUNITY PAGE 9
LIFESTYLE PAGE 12
EDUCATION PAGE 18
$1.00
Call for modernity in thinking Zia Ahmad
The Indian High Commissioner to Australia, Mr Navdeep Singh Suri has called for the need for an element of modernity in our thinking and value system. He was addressing the audience at Sir Syed Day Celebrations, where he was the Chief Guest, on Saturday 30 January at the Strathfield Town Hall, organized by the AMU Alumni of Australia. He praised Sir Syed Ahmad Khan who managed to bring about a balance between religion and enquiry and laid down the foundations for the Aligarh Muslim University which has served the community for almost 150 years. Speaking on education, Mr Suri said that there was a great potential for India to develop vocational education, learning and using Australian strength in this sector. He said that currently there are around 67,000 Indian students enrolled in Australian educational institution and there were plans to collaborate with TAFE in order to upskill Indians with vocational education. Previous to his assignment in Canberra starting April 2015, Mr Suri was India’s Ambassador to Egypt and speaks fluent Arabic, a sample of which he displayed at Sir Syed Day. He highly appreciated the Poem composed by the last Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar, sung in the most melodious way by Mr Riaz Shah at the occasion. Sir Syed Day is globally celebrated on the birth anniversary of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan,
AMU Alumni kids singing Children’s Prayer by the famous poet of South Asia, Allamah Iqbal at Sir Syed Day. founder of the Aligarh Movement that greatly every year inviting educationists, community for working single mindedly on his educationcontributed towards the modern education of leaders and diplomats for a gala dinner, inspir- al mission in spite of widespread opposition Indians, Muslims in particular. ing talks and entertainment. from the community elites of the time. AMU Alumni of Australia was founded in The President of AMU Alumni, Mr Aale Ali the early nineties and has been holding SS Day in his welcome address paid tribute to Sir Syed continues on page 7
Mariam awarded “Young Cricket: Usman Khawaja reinvents himself Citizen of the Year” Zia Ahmad
Hasan Fazeel
Mariam Moeladawilah, 8, an Year 4 student at Al Siraat College in Melbourne has won the “Young Citizen of the Year” award from the City of Whittlesea for her dedication to charity work. She was nominated for her charity work towards kids fighting cancer, riding her bike for the Great Cycle Challenge to be sponsored (all donations going to the Children’s Medical Research Center, Sydney), her interfaith engagement (radio interview with J-Air, a Jewish radio station), her help and support in collecting donations for Mercy Wings towards refugees. Mariam undertook a bike ride, together with her mum Tanya Kubitza, riding 1,061km late last year, to help raise funds for children with cancer. Mariam was presented with the award from TV and radio icon John Blackman at the City of Whittlesea Australia Day celebrations held on Tuesday 26 January 2016 where Mayor Cr Stevan Kozmevski formally announced and congratulated the successful recipients of the City of Whittlesea continued on page 7
Usman Khawaja seems to have finally cemented his position in the Australian cricket team in all the three formats of the game namely the traditional test matches, the one dayers and now the T20 internationals. His run scores in the last 10 innings have been 174, 9 (not out), 121, 109 (not out), 144, 56, 62, 104 (not out), 70 and 14, a total of 863 runs this summer. Although he did not stay long enough to make a big score in the Sydney T20 final against India, he started well scoring 14 runs from 5 balls at a strike rate of 233.33. India won the match with a nail biting finish with the last ball of the match and clinching the series with a whitewash against Australia 3:0. Khawaja was initially left out of the starting 11s for the three-game T20 series against India and the one-day matches on the tour of New Zealand. He is now included in the one day squad playing New Zealand. The T20 series was lost mainly on the back of faltering batting. The collapses through the middle overs in successive run
Mariam Moeladawilah with her award on Australia Day.
Proudly Printed in Australia by Spotpress Pty Ltd
chases during the first two matches were terminal against Indian spin. Khawaja is now considered as one of the hottest batsmen in world cricket in all formats of the game where he has reinvented himself from being a test cricketer to a continued on page 10
Dispose of this paper thoughtfully - PLEASE RECYCLE