Chee Hoi Lan, Who Raised Muslim Adoptive Daughter, Rohana Abdullah, Gets 2022 National Milad ur Rasul Award
New Age Islam News Bureau
10 October 2022
• Female Students Tell Iran’s Raisi To ‘Get Lost’ As
Unrest Rages: According To Activists
• ‘Not Ashamed At All’: Saudi Women Reject Stigma To
Embrace Pole Dancing
• Israeli Forces Violently Attack Palestinian Women
Marking Prophet’s Birthday Anniv. In Al-Quds
• Al-Hilal Sports Women Sign 5-Year Partnership With
Alwaleed Philanthropies
• Temple Priest Jishnu Namboothiri Caught Roaming In
Burqa In Kerala
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Chee Hoi Lan, Who Raised Muslim Adoptive Daughter,
Rohana Abdullah, Gets 2022 National Milad ur Rasul Award
Rohana Abdullah and Chee Hoi Lan. (Metro Daily Photo)
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09 Oct 2022
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 9 — Retired Chinese kindergarten
teacher, Chee Hoi Lan today received the 2022 National Milad ur Rasul Award for
her sacrifices in bringing up her Muslim adoptive daughter according to the
Islamic faith.
The 83-year-old Chee earned the Ibu Sejati-Keluarga
Malaysia icon award.
She had single-handedly raised Rohana Abdullah, 20,
since she was two months old, garnering the public and government’s attention
and praise as she had brought up and cared for the girl although they belong to
different religions.
Rohana is the daughter of an Indonesian woman who
worked at Chee’s kindergarten and was left behind in Malaysia when her mother
was forced to return to her country.
Yang Di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin
Al-Mustafa Billah Shah presented the awards at this year’s National Milad ur
Rasul celebration held at the World Trade Centre, her, in conjunction with
Prophet Muhammad’s birthday.
When met by reporters after the event, the
wheelchair-bound Chee replied briefly: “I am ecstatic to receive the award.”
The Perdana Milad ur Rasul Award 1444H/ 2022 M went to
corporate figure Tan Sri Syed Zainal Abidin Mohd Tahir, who is also a board
member of the Federal Territories Islamic Religious Council (MAIIWP) and
chairmen of its Education Committee.
Syed Zainal Abidin, 59, said the award gave him
further motivation to carry out his challenging daily tasks.
“I like preaching corporate sermons and with this
award, my other corporate friends and I will use the existing platform to do
good in the company and the surrounding community,” said the Kota Bharu-born.
The others who received the Maulidul Rasul Award this
time included Universiti Malaya Centre for Civilisation Dialogue director, Prof
Datuk Dr Azizan Baharudin; executive producer for Islamic content on TV3 and
TV9), Ahmad Noor Sulaiman, and Yayasan ZIKAY chairman, Mohd Khay Ibrahim.
The others were humanitarian activist and motivational
speaker Shazrina Azman, better known as Mizz Nina, and registered counsellor,
Hushim Salleh. — Bernama
Source: Malay Mail
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Female Students Tell Iran’s Raisi To ‘Get Lost’ As
Unrest Rages: According To Activists
A newspaper with a cover
picture of Mahsa Amini, a woman who died after being arrested by the Islamic
republic's "morality police" is seen in Tehran, Iran September 18,
2022. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS
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08 October, 2022
Female students in Tehran chanted “get lost,”
according to activists, as Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi visited their
university campus on Saturday and condemned protesters enraged by the death of
a young woman in custody.
As nationwide demonstrations that have rocked Iran
entered a fourth week, Raisi addressed professors and students at al-Zahra
University in Tehran, reciting a poem that equated “rioters” with flies.
“They imagine they can achieve their evil goals in
universities,” state TV reported. “Unbeknownst to them, our students and professors
are alert and will not allow the enemy to realize their evil goals.”
A video posted on Twitter by the activist 1500tasvir
website showed what it said were women students chanting “Raisi get lost” and
“Mullahs get lost” as the president visited their campus.
An Iranian state coroner’s report denied that Mahsa
Amini had died due to blows to the head and limbs while in morality police
custody and linked her death to pre-existing medical conditions, state media
said on Friday.
The death of 22-year-old Amini, an Iranian Kurd, has
ignited nationwide demonstrations, marking the biggest challenge to Iran’s
clerical leaders in years.
Women have removed their veils in defiance of the
clerical establishment while furious crowds called for the downfall of Supreme Leader
Ali Khamenei.
After a call for mass demonstrations on Saturday,
security forces shot at protesters and used tear gas in the Kurdish cities of
Sanandaj and Saqez, according to the Iranian human rights group Hengaw.
In Sanandaj, capital of Kurdistan Province in
northwest Iran, one man lay dead in his car while a woman screamed “shameless,”
according to Hengaw.
One of the schools in Saqez city’s square was filled
with school girls chanting “woman, life, freedom,” it reported.
Amini was arrested in Tehran on September 13 for
“inappropriate attire,” and died three days later.
Rights groups say more than 150 people have been
killed, hundreds injured and thousands arrested by security forces confronting
protests.
Hengaw said on Saturday that Iranian security forces
had launched crackdowns in two Kurdish cities.
“Security forces are shooting at the protesters in
Sanandaj and Saqez,” the group said. It said riot police were also using tear
gas.
The widely followed Tavsir1500 Twitter account also
reported shootings at protesters in the two northwestern Kurdish cities.
A university student who was on his way to join
protests in Tehran said he was not afraid of being arrested or even killed.
“They can kill us, arrest us but we will not remain
silent anymore. Our classmates are in jail. How can we remain silent,” the
student, who asked to remain anonymous, told Reuters.
Widespread strikes are taking place in the cities of
Saqez, Diwandareh, Mahabad and Sanandaj, said Hengaw.
The government has described the protests as a plot by
Iran’s enemies including the United States, accusing armed dissidents - among
others - of violence in which at least 20 members of the security forces have
been reported killed.
Source: Al Arabiya
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‘Not Ashamed At All’: Saudi Women Reject Stigma To
Embrace Pole Dancing
Oct 10, 2022
When yoga instructor Nada took up pole dancing, the
backlash in deeply conservative Saudi Arabia was both harsh and quick, and she
has struggled to overcome the fallout ever since.
Family and friends in the capital Riyadh told her the
grueling form of exercise -- a test of strength and coordination involving
acrobatic movements on a vertical pole -- was "so wrong".
Pole dancing as a form of exercise has been tainted by
its association with the seedy strip clubs and burlesque houses often depicted
in Hollywood films.
Undeterred, Nada stuck with the course she enrolled in
a few years ago at a local gym, in part to chip away at that very stigma.
The 28-year-old believes she has made progress, at
least within her own circle of friends.
"At first, they said this is inappropriate and a
mistake," she told AFP. "Now they say 'We want to try it'."
But Nada's insistence on being identified by her first
name only indicates that she and other Saudi pole dancers still have some work
to do.
Wider push for participation
For many years, notorious restrictions on what Saudi
women could wear and where they could work also limited their options for
physical recreation.
However, the promotion of women's sports has recently
featured as part of a broader push to open up Saudi society and project a
softer image to the outside world, despite persistent repression of women
activists and dissidents.
Last month saw the Saudi women's national football
team compete in their first matches at home against Bhutan, and a women's
premier league is now in the works.
Officials are also working towards greater women's
participation in golf, a traditionally male-dominated sport whose popularity is
taking off domestically.
In this changing context, at least three gyms in Saudi
Arabia have spotted an opening and begun offering pole dancing courses.
"I feel that pole dancing has been given more
attention, because it's something new and girls love to try it," said May
al-Youssef, who owns one such gym in Riyadh.
'Feeling good in my skin'
Pole dancing enthusiasts argue that because alcohol is
banned in Saudi Arabia, and there are no strip clubs, the activity's bad rap
must come from abroad.
One pole dancing student in Riyadh claimed that she
"wasn't ashamed at all" to give it a try.
"That's my personality, I would say. I'm not
ashamed to embrace my sensuality, my femininity. I'm not ashamed of anything,
as long as I'm not hurting other people," she said.
But she did acknowledge that not everyone would be so
comfortable with it, and agreed to describe her experience only if she could
remain anonymous.
The only reason she stopped, she said, was because
pole dancing turned out to be so physically demanding -- much more difficult than
it looks on screen.
"I realised it's not my thing," she said.
"It needs a lot of muscles, a lot of strength to be able to do it."
Gym manager Youssef said she hopes the physical
demands of pole dancing come through in the pictures and videos that she posts
on Instagram.
She believes that compelling evidence of its benefits
can be found in the transformation of her clients.
"With time they seem to like their bodies
more," she said. "They say to themselves: 'I am feeling good in my
skin'."
Source: Hindustan Times
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Israeli forces violently attack Palestinian women
marking Prophet’s birthday anniv. in al-Quds
09 October 2022
In yet another act of aggression against Palestinians,
the Israeli regime’s forces have violently attacked Palestinian citizens,
including women, commemorating the birthday anniversary of Prophet Muhammad
(PBUH) near the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the occupied Old City of al-Quds.
The violence broke out late on Saturday after the
Israeli soldiers attempted to disrupt the celebrations, with the Palestinian
media reporting that a number of Palestinians had sustained various bruises and
an unspecified others been arrested amid strict measures imposed by the
occupying regime in the city.
The reports said the occupation forces stormed Bab
al-Amoud, also known as Damascus Gate, in the city of al-Quds and assaulted
Palestinian citizens, including women, who had gathered to watch the
celebrations marking the Prophet’s birthday anniversary.
The Israeli forces also attacks Palestinians in the
Bab Al-Sahira area, which is one of the historical gates of the occupied city.
The Tel Aviv regime has recently ramped up incursions
into the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the occupied Old City of al-Quds, with the
Palestinian resistance movement Hamas warning that such infringements upon the
holy site could lead to “explosions” in the region.
Israeli forces have also been conducting overnight
raids and killings in the northern occupied West Bank, mainly in the cities of
Jenin and Nablus, where new groups of Palestinian resistance fighters have been
formed.
Earlier on Saturday, Israeli forces killed two
Palestinian teenagers and injured nearly a dozen others during a raid on the
northern occupied West Bank, bringing to four the number of people shot dead
during the past 24 hours.
According to the Palestinian official Wafa news
agency, undercover forces raided the Jenin refugee camp in the morning, before
Israeli military vehicles rolled into the camp from multiple directions,
sparking confrontations with local residents.
More than 150 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli
forces in the Israeli-occupied territories since the start of the year,
including 51 in the besieged Gaza Strip during Israel’s three-day onslaught in
August.
More than 30 of those killed were either from Jenin or
were killed in the Jenin region.
Source: Press TV
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Al-Hilal Sports Women sign 5-year partnership with
Alwaleed Philanthropies
KHALED ALARAFAH
October 10, 2022
RIYADH: Al-Hilal Sports Women have completed a
partnership with Alwaleed Philanthropies that will run for five years.
The board of directors of Al-Hilal, headed by Chairman
Fahd bin Saad bin Nafel, announced the deal with the charitable organization,
whose board of trustees is chaired by Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal Al-Saud, on
Sunday night.
Bin Nafel signed the contract with Secretary-General
of Alwaleed Philanthropies Princess Lamia bint Majid Al-Saud at the Four
Seasons Hotel in Riyadh.
Also present were the club's vice-chairman of the
board of directors, Suleiman Al-Hatlan, and the members of the board of
directors Faisal Al-Ghashian and Salman Al-Tuwaijri, as well as Sultan
Alsheikh, CEO of Al-Hilal Investment Club.
The partnership aims to empower women in the sports
field, in accordance with the Kingdom’s Vision 2030. It also bids to provide a
high-quality experience and to enhance the club’s achievements in women’s
sports.
Bin Nafel was delighted at signing the deal with one
of the biggest contributors to community and humanitarian projects locally,
regionally and internationally.
He said: “We are pleased to conclude this partnership,
which will contribute to promoting women’s empowerment in the sports field
toward achieving our goals.
“We established a women’s sports department more than
a month and a half ago, which was launched and started with eight women’s
games.”
Princess Lamia said the deal showed the foundation’s
tireless work to empower women and open up new areas of opportunity for them.
Over the course of four decades, Alwaleed
Philanthropies has provided support and spent more than SR16.5 billion ($4.4
billion) on social welfare programs, and implemented more than 1,000 projects
in more than 189 countries around the world.
The foundation collaborates with a range of
charitable, governmental, and non-governmental organizations to combat poverty,
empower women and youth, develop local communities, provide disaster relief,
and create cultural understanding through education.
Source: Arab News
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2178331/sport
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Temple Priest Jishnu Namboothiri Caught Roaming In
Burqa In Kerala
9th October 2022
Kozhikode: A temple priest, moving around suspiciously
in Koyilandy near here, wearing a burqa was caught by the public and handed
over to the police.
Jishnu Namboothiri (28) was caught by auto drivers at
Koyilandy junction on October 7, police said on Sunday.
“They found him wandering in a burqa and handed him
over to the police. However, there was no complaint against him for committing
any crime. So, we let him go after his relatives reached the police station,”
they said.
The man, who is working as a priest at a temple near
Meppayur here, told the police that he was wearing burqa as he had chicken pox.
A burqa is a loose garment covering the whole body
from head to toe, worn by Muslim women.
The police said they could not find any traces of
chicken pox on preliminary examination.
They verified his name, address, and other details and
let him off.
Source: Siasat Daily
https://www.siasat.com/temple-priest-caught-roaming-in-burqa-in-kerala-2430369/
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