AMUST
AUSTRALASIAN MUSLIM TIMES
www.amust.com.au
Multicultural News & Views
ISSUE # 199
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JUNE 2022; DHUL QA’ADAH 1443
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NEWS PAGE 3
BOOMERANG PAGE 5
LIFESTYLE PAGE 14
Israeli settlers raid Masjid AlAqsa attack Palestinians
MEFF: The legacy of the largest Eid festival resumes
UMMAH PAGE 17
AMUST volunteers recognised in Australian technology awards
Rubinah
Manar
AMUST Media
Mohamed Ainullah Almost 100,000 ultranationalists waving Israeli flags and chanting “death to Arabs” assaulted Palestinians damaging their property in the Muslim quarter of Jerusalem and stormed the Al-Aqsa Masjid under the protection of Israeli forces on Sunday 29 May 2022. The flag march is meant to celebrate the occupation and subsequent annexation of East Jerusalem in 1967, a move that has not been recognised by the international community and is considered an attempt to change the status quo of al-Haram al-Sharif where Jewish prayers are prohibited. Palestinian PM Mohammad Shtayyeh warned, “Israel yesterday has crossed all red lines and international treaties with its repeated aggression against Al-Aqsa in Jerusalem. It attempts to impose a reality that doesn’t align with the historical status quo of Al-Aqsa mosque.” continued on page 2
Zia Ahmad The annual Multicultural Eid Festival & Fair MEFF, a showcase of Multicultural Australia, that had to be cancelled in 2020 and 2021 due to COVID-19 restrictions, resumed again this year on Sunday 15 May 2022 at Fairfield Showground attracting almost 15,000 people with free entry, rides for big and small and a great variety of food and market stalls. The MEFF reception and opening ceremony was attended by a large number of community and interfaith leaders and politicians including Senator Kristina Keneally, Greens politician David Shoebridge as well as Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi, who was interviewed by SBS Urdu broadcasting live from MEFF on Sunday 15 May from
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Fairfield Showground. MEFF is the first, the largest and the longest-running Eid Festival in Australia with a long track record as one of the legacies of its founders and workers, displaying great resilience, rain, hail or shine, passing on the skills from generation to generation to celebrate Eid through Australian volunteerism in order to put smiles on the faces of young and old in an atmosphere of peace and harmony. Senator Keneally acknowledged the contribution of its founder, Dr Qazi Ashfaq Ahmad OAM during her keynote address from the stage saying, “his tremendous service to this local community and his passion for bringing interfaith communities together will live on through this wonderful festival that he founded, nearly forty years ago.” continued on page 3
Two of AMUST volunteers have been recognised for their significant contribution to the community in the 2022 Australian Not-for-Profit Technology Awards, held at the Pan Pacific Melbourne on Thursday 12 May as part of the Connecting Up Conference 2022. Manar Ahmad wins Lifetime Achievement Award for volunteering his technological support services, while Rubinah Ahmad wins Tech Volunteer of the Year Award for volunteering her technological expertise, for the notfor-profit sector. Now in its sixth year, the awards recognise the very best in technology innovation and excel-lence by organisations and individuals in the Australian not-for-profit sector. Rubinah Ahmad, AMUST Graphic Designer and Technology Director, was awarded the prestigious Technology Volunteer of the Year 2022 whilst Manar Ahmad, AMUST correspondent in Canberra was awarded the Not-for-Profit Technology Lifetime Service Award. Rubinah was recognised as the Technology Volunteer of the year because of her role as the backbone to the operations of Australasian Muslim Times (AMUST), a non-forprofit print and online newsplatform. continued on page 3
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