Tags - Australia
Rasa - Thirty-four-year-old Sheikh Ahmed Abdo has become NSW’s first Muslim police chaplain since 2011, and is believed to be the only Muslim to hold the position currently in any state or territory of Australia.
News ID: 1691 Publish Date : 2014/11/27
Shia community leader in Sydney:
Rasa - Muslim community leaders in Australia say sectarian tensions are soaring, as radicalized Sunni youth, inspired by ISIS, seek to import the religious conflicts wracking the Middle East.
News ID: 1567 Publish Date : 2014/11/06
Rasa - Thousands of Shia Muslims marched through the Sydney’s CBD on Tuesday to mark Ashura, chanting anti-ISIL slogans.
News ID: 1547 Publish Date : 2014/11/04
Rasa - A quarter of Australians describe their personal attitude towards Muslims as negative or very negative, according to a detailed national survey on social cohesion and immigration.
News ID: 1510 Publish Date : 2014/10/29
Rasa - The inaugural National Mosque Open Day will see Australian Muslims welcome non-Muslims inside their places of worship in an effort to promote peace, awareness and understanding.
News ID: 1494 Publish Date : 2014/10/27
Rasa - Two mosques and a Muslim school were vandalized last weekend in the city of Perth, Western Australia, according to ABC news.
News ID: 1493 Publish Date : 2014/10/27
Rasa – Australian-based Herald Sun’s Blanche Clark walks us through marvelous life of a Shiite family in Australia, as the couple, Fatima and Hussain, tell us about what’s it really like being a Shiite Muslim in Melbourne.
News ID: 1483 Publish Date : 2014/10/26
Rasa - A controversial plan to make Muslim women wearing the face-covering veil sit in separate glassed public enclosures at Australia’s Parliament House because of security concerns was abandoned Monday after an outcry.
News ID: 1445 Publish Date : 2014/10/21
Rasa – Despite the negative stereotype Islam has in Australia, Sarah, an Anglo blue-eyed Australian woman who embraced Islam says she never found peace and quiet and connected with God until she converted to Islam.
News ID: 1382 Publish Date : 2014/10/14
Rasa - It is the little things that Sara misses the most: driving around with the windows down, taking her kids to the park, ducking to shops for groceries.
News ID: 1361 Publish Date : 2014/10/10
Rasa - It is the little things that Sara misses the most: driving around with the windows down, taking her kids to the park, ducking to shops for groceries.
News ID: 1360 Publish Date : 2014/10/10
Rasa - A Muslim mother verbally abused at a Melbourne playground and ordered to stop her child from playing with others is among dozens of attacks against the Islamic community in recent weeks.
News ID: 1355 Publish Date : 2014/10/09
Rasa - an Australian Muslim group has called upon media and government organisations to stop using the Islamic State's title altogether.
News ID: 1346 Publish Date : 2014/10/09
Rasa - The young Muslim woman stands in shock as she is told she looks like a terrorist in the heart of Sydney's CBD – but it's what happens next that most shocked the man who orchestrated the nasty abuse.
News ID: 1336 Publish Date : 2014/10/07
Rasa - A group of women in Australia are donning headscarves in support of the country's Muslim population who they say are increasingly being targeted because of their appearance.
News ID: 1332 Publish Date : 2014/10/07
'Muslims Welcome':
Rasa - Michael Barnes, the minister of Gordon United Church in New South Wales, Australia is sending the powerful message that Muslims are welcome in his church -- and he hopes the community at large will follow suit.
News ID: 1329 Publish Date : 2014/10/07
Rasa - A 26-year-old Muslim woman suffered injuries after being racially abused, assaulted and thrown off a moving train in Australia's Melbourne last week, in an alarming Islamophobic attack.
News ID: 1315 Publish Date : 2014/10/05
Rasa - Muslim leaders are fuming at what they claim is the unacceptable treatment of a senior cleric by officials at Sydney airport.
News ID: 1249 Publish Date : 2014/09/27
Rasa – community leaders are now deeply worried that Australia’s mission against Islamic State and recent anti-terrorism raids are fuelling attacks against Muslims in Europe.
News ID: 1225 Publish Date : 2014/09/25
Rasa - Muslim leaders called for a full investigation into the fatal shooting of a teenage Muslim man after he stabbed two counter-terrorism officers in Melbourne last night.
News ID: 1221 Publish Date : 2014/09/24