(uighur muslims clash vs. china) blame it on al-qaeda

Uyghur girls in Hotan, Xinjiang, China

Originally uploaded by centralasiatraveler

is it me but whenever any muslim ethnic minority clash head on with any State, the State always seem to conveniently point the on al-qaeda…do they know how damaging this is…

the minority have every right to voice their complaint but it seems normal to just call any issue as terrorism based…

this is be it america, israel, thailand, now china…

and china has a fantastic record of supporting human rights!

this is commenting from the latest news coming out of xinjiang…

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http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/07/07/2619451.htm

Ethnic conflict fears in Xinjiang unrest
By China correspondent Stephen McDonell and wires

Posted Tue Jul 7, 2009 6:31pm AEST
Updated Tue Jul 7, 2009 7:15pm AEST

The latest clashes continue unrest which has already seen 156 people killed and more than 1,000 injured. (AFP Image: Peter Parks)

Video: Protests continue in Honduras (The Midday Report) Video: China clashes continue (ABC News) Audio: Riots break out in Urumqi, north-western China (PM) Related Story: Tension, death toll mounts in China riots Related Story: Fresh protests erupt in Xinjiang There are fears that clashes in China’s Xinjiang region could be turning into a broader ethnic conflict between Han Chinese and local Uighurs.

Han Chinese who live in Xinjiang’s capital Urumqi have now been seen attacking local Uighurs in retribution for the weekend’s killing of Han Chinese people by protesting Uighurs.

The latest clashes continue unrest which has already seen 156 people killed and more than 1,000 injured.

According to Xinhua wire service, there have been chaotic scenes at a number of places in Urumqi.

People were seen running in panic at the Urumqi South Railway Station, roadside shops have been closed and residents are carrying wood and iron clubs for self-defence.

Riot police also fired teargas to disperse rock-throwing Han and Uighur protesters.

Earlier today about 200 Uighur protesters clashed with riot police in front of visiting foreign reporters

They claim their relatives have been arbitrarily detained following deadly clashes on the weekend, when Han Chinese were beaten to death.

There have been reports that police have gone into certain suburbs rounding up mostly men of a certain age.

Meanwhile police say they have detained 15 people in relation to the original attack on Uighur workers at a southern Chinese toy factory.

Protesters took to the streets on Sunday demanding an investigation into the incident and the conflict spread from there.

According to the Xinjiang regional government more than 1,400 people have been arrested following Sunday’s violent protests.

Confirmation internet cut

Chinese authorities also confirmed they cut off internet access in parts of Xinjiang’s capital to prevent the violence from spreading, state media reports.

The top Communist Party official in Urumqi, Li Zhi, confirmed reports from web users and human rights groups, saying officials stopped internet access to reassert control.

“We cut internet connection in some areas of Urumqi in order to quench the riot quickly and prevent violence from spreading to other places,” Mr Li was quoted as saying.

He did not say when internet access would be fully restored.

Despite efforts by Chinese officials to cut off the internet and mobile phones, pictures, videos and updates from Urumqi poured into social-networking and image-sharing websites such as Twitter, YouTube and Flickr.

- ABC/AFP
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8141541.stm
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ic4Qujd5daKI0SnmxDTued_gK9xAD99AT42G0
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/business/story/0,28124,25768852-5013584,00.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1198455/MARK-ALMOND-Chinas-battalions-brutality-As-thousands-troops-protesters-time-running-ruthless-regime.html

baida chicken -halal?

Halal Subway in Sydney

Originally uploaded by islamoyankee

just saw in the coles shopping brochure featuring baida chicken in one of their weekly specials…and i’m shocked

i normally purchase baida flaming chicken pieces and chicken nuggets from my local halal butcher, so had to find out if it was really halal or not seeing its the same brand and i checked on their websites and a forum that it was, which was quite a surprised coz it means i don’t have venture out so far to fetch my beloved white meat

http://www.aussiemuslims.com/forums/showthread.php?t=26678
http://www.baiada.com.au/aboutus/accreditation.html
http://www.afic.com.au/

even though there are more halal outlets that’ve popped up in and around the city, you eventually get bored of eating there and just wished we had halal mc donald’s, kfc’s, hungry jacks, subways -just like they do in melbourne and sydney…why is perth so isolated -that i have to fly 4 hours to the eastern states or internationally like malaysia, singapore, egypt to sample such fast foods…not that its healthy but still…you’ve spent of your life here steering away from these things because they’re not halal, would be nice if they were closer to home…

how do you celebrate a birthday for someone who’s diabetic?

Happy Birthday Dad

Originally uploaded by Honora Gerbeck

its dad’s birthday today…

just realised it when i woke up this morning…too many things going on made me forget…

anyways, i’m waiting for my sis to come back home to buy something garden-y from bunnings since he’s got quite a green thumb…he’s made what was a barren aussie backyard to a malaysian exotic jungle…he can grow practically anything in this climate and poor soil…so much that most of his and mum’s friends, even the nearby neighbours come over to ask for free lemongrass, bananas, curry leaves, chillis, limes, guavas, jackfruits, mangoes, lemons, kiwi fruits, promegranates, etc etc…coz all these things are so expensive at your local chinese grocers…

anyways, he turned 59 today…mum’s cooked some beef rendang, carrot rice to do her part of the celebrations…told my sis shila to buy a card as well…

why the whohaa today…well out of my 2 folks, its always been my dad who’s remembered our birthdays and goes out of his way to celebrate it, even when we’ve been such pains…but i don’t think we can ever afford his desired birthday presie -for him to retire early, own a home and never having to work again, just spend all day gardening yet…particularly with the current economic crisis at the moment…but one day inshaállah…

just managed to find diabetic ideas for birthday occasions…

http://www.recipezaar.com/bb/viewtopic.zsp?t=168256&sid=ffabc2c7989dc9fdd5de01041d532d37

alhamdulillah for us being healthy and still living and because of this, have always got something to give…

Tudung galore

Tudung Nabila

Originally uploaded by Yanna’s

there’s tudung glam, tudung ikin, tudung nabila, tudung bawal…so many to choose from…

they’re the latest craze in malaysia at the moment -which is a mini amira hijab with a hard top and some you can wrap around…that comes in a variety of colours, some you can wrap around, others sequined, embelished or embriodered, in very thin, breathable material (remembering that malaysia’s so so humid and hot)

just by-passes the need to layer up the hijabs in what you might find in the egyptian styled hijabs like these….

http://thehijablog.wordpress.com/page/2/?tag=egypt
http://www.jailanatef.com/

here’s where i’m normally shopping at for the malay modo’s

http://www.hijabiboutique.net/
http://tudung.multiply.com/
http://butikputeri.com/index.php?cPath=29_32&osCsid=1fb256189783a3ef86db39ae08391072

http://www.tudungtoday.com/

Too stingy to buy milk formula

Moms who chooses the best

Originally uploaded by Lita Mariana

had another row with hubby today, this time over milk formula and nappy..

hubby hasn’t been paid for the last 2 weeks so been living on the allowance the government gives me and baasil (which is $409 a fortnight)…and this is what’s been finding us 3 amigos…

this morning i text him to transfer some money to our joint account to buy baz’s milk and nappy coz the freaking bank had automatically blocked my mastercard because stupid optus had problems recharging my net and because baz has thrash, i don’t want to breastfeed him or else i’d get mastitis and sick…

checked the account lunch time, still no money. so text him as to where’s the money. he said why am i not using the baby bonus money. and i said, since he got paid yesterday, why not use his since he’s always complaining that i don’t save…

so we got into a heated argument again…told him its not the government’s money to take care of me and baz coz the government’s not my husband. told him whatever Allah gives, your family has a right to it, especially when the mother doesn’t work.

even if he’s a millionaire, he’ll still probably want me and baz to live off from welfare…that how freaking stingy he is…and he forgets…its shaitan that makes you think you’re short in pocket…that spending on your family is the best sadaqah…but what the fuck does he know…prays up and down but has no compassion or generosity in his heart…

i told him when he’s son’s hungry, does his father expect his son to wait until 6pm before he even gets a drop of milk? had to fork out from the avon money to make up for it.

he expects me to beg, freaking why should i be humiliated?!

when i came home after doing my avon brochure rounds, the argument fired up again…

he asked me what sort of law was i living on, that he needed some straight-talking from me…i was like wtf! he’s the one that shamelessly expects his wife to feed him while he’s the one making all the money…what fucking law justifies that…only one of greed and selfishness…

so i told him once he’s done with his tax return, he can go back to his own country and never bother to see his son again…

mum tried to break the fight up, blaming me again…because of my voice…but how does my voice got to do with stirring things up when he’s the one not being manly enough to look after his family for months…she’s always complaining as why i’m not paying dad rent, helping out with the groceries, does she ever bloody ask ayman who’s freaking holding the money!!!

if i’m taking care of everything -i should have a right to some money!

and he could want me to hand over the baby bonus money too saying i had no right over that…wtf…

i told him to go because he deserves to be on the streets not in a home since he’s hardly sustaining one and he’s still not budging…

centrelink can’t help me out with the single parenting payments coz he’s still in the home…feel so trapped

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5yb7lJyebU

astounded by how much baz seeks my love

Love, love, love

Originally uploaded by kayleigh_clarke

in my life, its always been me the one who seeks other people’s love, attention, care…so when baz does this to me, it is quite a shock to my system…

i know its normal for bubs to do this, but for me its something quite new because i thought i would be the one trying catch a smile, a laugh from him…

when he’s with someone else and i happen to leave the room his eyes follow me hoping that i return again…

this is only when he’s 3 months, how about when he’s older…how can i go on my trips to do errands whilst i leave him with mum?

even if when he’s with dad, trying to catch up on some arabic, coz in the morning he gets his malay lessons from grandma, most of the day english with me, baz would insist to dad that he’d rather be with me…

it is a nice feeling to be wanted because its very few times i’ve experienced this from anyone. i dont even get this with ayman most of the time. but i know it’ll also fade away when he grows much older and becomes more independent…

the hijab martyr-marwa sherbini”

“Hate The Figurehead”

Originally uploaded by The Voice of Eye

i’m still waiting for our local tv commercial channels to pick this story up…i’ve even written to one of them and all i get on yahoo7 is something like ‘world’s longest golf course to open’…you can cover a stupid future golf tournament course but not a brutal hate crime -committed against an innocent, pregnant, veiled muslim woman.

we can wish something like the holocaust to never happen again -maybe not to the jews, but its occuring in other ethnic groups as we speak and everyone particularly the media, those in power, turns a blind eye. just like they’re turning a blind eye to the death of this woman, who was trying to defend herself in court from being abused all because she was muslim, only to be butchered in front of the dresden court, her husband and baby with security doing squat about it, only to have accidently (my ass) hit her husband.

i’m tired coz its taken me 6 hours to put baz to sleep and i’m so over mj’s tributes. get over it!!! just had to squeeze this in before i go to bed and thats before i finish making ayman’s lunch and breakfast in advance

here are other link:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/07/german-trial-hijab-murder-egypt
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8136500.stm
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/07/20097612424648553.html
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/07/06/egypt.woman.killed/
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j5hAwHTYyudXwuL-hFiLsNKbyNKAD9994MIO0

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=491_1246904758

Amr Diab’s new album

Amr Diab New Poster

Originally uploaded by amr diab

was youtubing and didn’t realise mr diab’s got a new album out -which sounds like all his other albums but with club beats…wish thye’d sound more timeless like hani shaker’s songs…

what im a little shocked is the tat on his shoulder…this is the 2nd arab muslim artist with one, the first is whore galore haifa wehbe

BAZ -Lil Talking Eyes

Talking eyes

Originally uploaded by Noura♥

before when baz discovered his lung and vocal capacity to scream, his eyes did the talking…

if you were a little late in doing his milk or picking him up after waking up, he would give you the biggest evils/guilty trip…

when he didn’t see ayman much, and thats with anyone unfarmiliar, boy would his eyes just say “who the hell are you? what do you want?”look…how very territorial at such a young age

you just know how he feels with his eyes…

wish it was that easy for people to read me…even when i’m going a hard time, it never shows facially, physically because they always buy into my smile…

baz loving this tune; mohamed hamaki

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Originally uploaded by 7ama2i.com