Harry Potter and Voldermort unite in the fight against justice
Pop quiz: if a beloved children's author who wrote a series of books about good vs evil and about good winning was confronted with injustice, what would the author's reaction be?
If it is JK Rowling that we are referring to above, the answer is to choose to fight for injustice of course.
Police who battered Babar Ahmed found "Not Guilty"
A jury at Southwark Crown Court has found four Metropolitan police officers not guilty of assaulting a terrorism suspect. But it has taken almost eight years for the story to be fully told in the British courts.
Channel 4 news piece from a month ago:
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Police who battered Babar Ahmed found "Not Guilty"
A jury at Southwark Crown Court has found four Metropolitan police officers not guilty of assaulting a terrorism suspect. But it has taken almost eight years for the story to be fully told in the British courts.
Channel 4 news piece from a month ago:
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Acid blinding sentence postponed by Iran after international outcry
Eye-for-an-eye punishment of Majid Movahedi put on hold despite calls by his disfigured victim, Ameneh Bahrami, for retribution
[size=10]Ameneh Bahrami holds a photo showing herself before she was blinded with acid by Majid Movahedi. Photograph: Lluis Gene/AFP/Getty Images[/size]
Iran has postponed blinding a man with acid following an international outcry over the retributive punishment imposed after he was found guilty of doing the same to a woman who refused to marry him.
In a literal application of the sharia law of an eye for an eye, Majid Movahedi was scheduled to be rendered unconscious in Tehran's judiciary hospital today while his victim, Ameneh Bahrami, dropped acid in both his eyes.
But Iran's semi-official ISNA news agency reported that officials had postponed the sentence on Friday night and not indicated when the punishment might be carried out in future.
Bahrami, who had asked for an eye-for-an-eye retribution in a criminal court in Tehran, was not informed of the postponement.
Read more @ BBC News
Time Magazine Front Cover, 9 August 2010
The front cover for Time Magazine for Volums 176 No 6 to be launched on 9 August 2010
It is a portrait of Aisha, a shy 18-year-old Afghan woman who was sentenced by a Taliban commander to have her nose and ears cut off for fleeing her abusive in-laws. Aisha posed for the picture and says she wants the world to see the effect a Taliban resurgence would have on the women of Afghanistan.
(See managing editor Richard Stengel's message to readers about the cover.)
Kensington Garden Winter Walk for Gaza
Muslim Hands Winter Walk is Back and taking place on Saturday 5th December 2009!
This year, set in the beautiful Kensington Gardens, in the heart of historic London, we invite you to wrap up warm, bring your family and friends and raise money in our 10 km sponsored walk. We’ll also be joined by Moazzam Begg, who will be supporting the cause and showing that we have not forgotten the continuing plight of victims suffering since the bombing. “Children in Gaza are growing up surrounded by broken buildings and a childhood full of difficult memories of losing parents and loved ones... the Winter Walk is a chance to show that we care for Gaza’s future as much as its past,” he describes.
Last winter, almost 150 walkers took to Hyde Park to raise more than £30,000 in emergency aid for Gaza. Through Muslim Hands, the money raised was used to provide ambulances, intensive care facilities, winter blankets and food parcels for families in Gaza. One year on, we’re looking to run programmes from its new Maternity and Childhood Centre focussing on providing treatment to 2500 children suffering from trauma and anxiety. Children will be provided counselling as well as being given the rare chance to enjoy sports activities, creative workshops and trips to the zoo. These experiences that have otherwise been denied to children in Gaza help treat emotional disorders - which otherwise hinder their education and emotional development, echoing far into their adult lives.
The Winter Walk is open to all. It will take sponsored walkers round the historic Kensington Gardens on a 10 kilometre route, starting from 10:30am. For more details and to register for a sponsorship pack, please visit the Muslim Hands website www.muslimhands.org/winterwalk.
Please direct any queries to afaaf.rajbee@muslimhands.org or call 0203 246 0015
One Good Judge
Salaam
I'm in uni today deleting old files and backing up what's important and I've come across something I wrote a couple of months back.
Remember that story about a rich sheikh torturing some dude who crossed him in business? When I read about it I felt sick and so that day I started to write a story...it was an interesting story and one that didn't get finished. But the prose was smooth and for that reason I didn't want to delete it. So here it is, me getting annoyed with injustice and subsequently getting creative: