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AUSTRALASIAN MUSLIM TIMES
www.amust.com.au ISSUE # 165
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Multicultural News & Views
AUGUST 2019; DHUL HAJJ 1440
The White Genocide: Srebrenica
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The Sacred Sounds of Andalusia
COMMUNITY PAGE 15
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AMUST Award Recipients
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AMUST showcase with awards, sacred music and lion dance See your nearest Eid prayer locations at amust.com.au/eidprayer
The Abraham Conference
Healing memories & making history Rev Dr Diego SarrióCucarella.
From left: Mr Jihad Dib, Member for Lakemba, Mr Zia Ahmad, Editor-In-Chief, AMUST, Mrs Mehar Ahmad, President, Seena Inc, Ms Jane Jeffes, MC for the event, Dr Nahla El Ghazawi, Deputy Principal, AIA Strathfield, Dr Ibrahim Abu Mohamed, Grand Mufti of Australia, Mr Chin Tan, Race Discrimination Commissioner and Ms Mobinah Ahmad, Managing Editor, AMUST with THQ Cabra Lions. Photo by Dr Benny Baharuddin. Zia Ahmad The AMUST Awards Night and Gala Dinner celebrating 5 years of Muslim Media attracted more than 220 movers and shakers from diverse backgrounds and professions enjoying a jam-packed program that included a documentary on AMUST
success story and video reflections by community leaders topped up by Uyghur music and highly popular lion dance performances. The attendees at the event, held on Saturday 20 July 2019 in Bankstown, Sydney, were addressed by Jihad Dib, MP from Lakemba and Chin Tan, the Race Discrimination Commissioner with awards pre-
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sented to almost 50 AMUST team members with outstanding contributions towards making AMUST a powerful positive media platform within the last 5 years. continued on page 6 See photos of Award recipients on pages 16 - 17.
Kim Chong More than 120 delegates from the Jewish, Christian and Muslim faiths attended the 2019 Abraham Conference held at Parramatta Mission Fellowship Hall on Sunday 28 July 2019 to “heal memories and make history”. In a time when attacks on innocent worshippers in mosque, church and synagogue try to divide us, the followers of Abrahamic faiths came together to acknowledge our unique bond through our common ancestor, Prophet Abraham (a), while accounting for our differences through dialogue and friendship. continued on page 18
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