AMUST
AUSTRALASIAN MUSLIM TIMES
www.amust.com.au ISSUE # 195
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Multicultural News & Views
FEBRUARY 2022; RAJAB 1443
National days with a difference: 26 January BOOMERANG PAGE 5
Pegasus spyware: Zionist and Hindutva alliance for worldwide spying
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The Mindset Project launch COMMUNITY PAGE 9
Every citizen of the world is vulnerable and under the surveillance of those who control power. Using Pegasus spyware, corporations, governments, special interest groups, drug dealers, and organized crime mafia can easily spy on anyone who has a cell phone. Nothing is safe from those who have access to it. Pegasus is a spying software developed by the Israeli cyber-arms company the NSO Group that can be covertly installed on mobile phones and other devices running most versions of iOS and Android and has been widely used and abused by several governments The NSO Group has sold Pegasus for hundreds of millions of dollars to Saudi Arabia, UAE , Bahrain, Indian and Bangladeshi governments and many more countries where it has been used for surveillance of anti-regime activists, journalists, and political leaders from rival nations, with encouragement and mediation by the Israeli government. continued on page 2
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Thank you Archbishop Desmond Tutu UMMAH PAGE 16
Kazi Ali recognised with Order of Australia Zia Ahmad
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A veteran Muslim leader, Kazi Ali who has dedicated his life in serving the Muslim community in managing death and burial was recognised on Australia Day Wednesday 26 January 2022 for his services to the Islamic community. Mr Kazi Khalequzzaman Ali OAM of Bangladeshi origin migrated to Australia from UK in 1980 and has been involved ever since in serving Sydney’s Muslim community through various mosque associations and then heavily involved since 1983 in the development and management of Muslim cemeteries. Initially he worked with the veteran Muslim leader late Sheikh Mohammad Afif and the Lebanese Muslim Association to establish the Muslim section at the Rookwood cemetery and later established the Riverstone cemetery in 2003 by forming the Riverstone Muslim Cemetery Board (RMCB). Based on his encyclopaedic knowledge of Muslim burial in compliance with Australian government regulations, his highly developed people skills in bringing diverse community members together and his interfaith networking abilities, he collaborated closely with Mr Peter O’Meara, CEO of the Catholic Cemeteries & Crematoria Trust (CMCT) to establish the Muslim Lawn, dedicated Muslim cemetery within the Kemps Creek Memorial Park in Western Sydney. Kazi Ali signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Peter O’Meara in 2018 developing a close bond of understanding be-
tween the two based on mutual respect for their faiths, sharing of knowledge in burial and administration of cemeteries and the will to cooperate in developing further burial spaces in various parts of Sydney. The unique interfaith collaboration between the Muslim Cemeteries Board (MCB) headed by Kazi Ali and CMCT headed by Peter O’Meara has resulted in the successful establishment Muslim cemetery at Kemps Creek where a number of graves were sold in a very short time under the pre-purchase plan. Being a visionary, Kazi Ali realised the shortage of burial spaces for Muslim in
Sydney and has been collaborating with CMCT in developing many more cemeteries with facilities required for Muslim burials. While specialising in cemeteries and Muslim burials, Kazi Ali has been an active member of the Muslim community in Sydney involved in the establishment of a number of Islamic associations and mosques over the last 40 years including, Rooty Hills mosque, Parramatta mosque, Sefton Mosque and the Quaker Hills mosque. Born in 1950 into a respectable family in Comilla in East Pakistan, now Bangladesh, Kazi Ali completed his schooling in Dhaka from the Residential Model school and then obtained BSc degree from Dhaka University in 1970. Continued on page 3
Mr Kazi Khalequzzaman Ali OAM. (Photo: Zia Ahmad)
Australians dominate at Grand Slam tennis Mohamed Ainullah
Australian tennis superstar Ashleigh Barty won the Women’s Singles title while all Australian team of Nick Kyrgios and Thanasi Kokkinakis won the Men’s Doubles title at the 110th Australian Open 2022 held in Melbourne from 17 to 30 January. Spaniard, Rafael Nadal claimed his record breaking 21st major title in Men’s Singles while the Czech pair Barbora Krejčíková and Kateřina Siniaková won the Women’s Double titles at the same event. Barty is the top ranked professional Tennis Singles player since the fellow Indigenous Australian Evonne Goolagong Cawley and is the only Australian women winning the Australian Open after 44 years since Goolagong won it last in December 1977. Previous to winning the Australian open now, Barty has been a three-time Grand Slam singles champion, and is the reigning champion at Wimbledon as well as a Grand
Slam doubles champion, having won the 2018 US Open with CoCo Vandeweghe. Born on 24 April 1996 in Ipswich, Queensland, Barty is a member of the Indigenous Australian Ngaragu people, the Aboriginal people of southern NSW and northeastern Victoria through her great-grandmother. She has two older sisters, Sara and Ali. She won her only junior Grand Slam title at Wimbledon at the age of 15 and became just the second Australian to win the girls’ singles event and the first Australian girl to win any junior Grand Slam singles title since Jelena Dokic at the 1998 US Open. Barty is the National Indigenous Tennis Ambassador for Tennis Australia. promoting more Indigenous participation in the sport of tennis. She strongly identifies with her heritage having said, “I’m a very proud Indigenous woman and I think that for me taking on this role is something very close to my heart. I’m very excited.”
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Current Australian Open tennis champion Ash Barty (right) holding her trophy with fellow indigenous tennis champion Evonne Goolagong Cawley. Dispose of this paper thoughtfully - PLEASE RECYCLE