Salaam

[size=24][color=red]SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT:[/color] [/size]

[size=18][b]The Farghana Institute is proud to present its first Eid annual party for all - a special evening of Nasheeds followed by an Eid feast![/b] [/size]

Don't miss out on this auspicious gathering, with the company of:

*[size=18]Aashiq e Rasul [/size]nasheeds
*[size=18]Kamal Uddin [/size]nasheeds
*[size=18]Shaykh Muhammad Ramadan Qadri [/size]talk
*[size=18]Shaykh Sohail Ahmed Siddiqui [/size] talk
*[size=18]Brothers Kabir, Junaid, Milad Raza, Zain [/size]nasheeds

[b]And if that wasn't enough, Shaykh Ul

[quote][size=18]Straw asks women for veil rethink[/size]

[b]Muslim women in the UK who wear full veils make "better, positive relations" between communities "more difficult", Commons leader Jack Straw has said.[/b]

Concealing a face was "a visible statement of separation and of difference", the Blackburn MP wrote in the Lancashire Evening Telegraph.

He said he now asks women who have meetings with him to remove their veils so they can truly talk "face-to-face".

"My concerns could be misplaced, but I think there is an issue here," he said.

The MP for Blackburn - where Muslims mak

Q-News has launched a PODCAST of recordings of their public events,
interviews, commentaries and other material.

The first three episodes available now are:

[url=http://www.q-news.com/audio/OneFaithManyVoices-ImamZaidQNews.mp3][b]1(link is external). One Faith, Many Voices[/b][/url]
How Differences of Opinion Makes us Stronger, by Imam Zaid Shakir - A
lecture delivered, shortly after the controversial Danish cartoons (and
the ensuing Muslim reaction) at the Q-News event held on 7th February
2006 at Friends House, London.

[url=http://www.q-news.com/audio/OrganicIftar.mp3][b]2(link is external).

As part of the ongoing international campaign against global poverty a community event has been arranged to gather the people to stand up against poverty and show solidarity with the rest of the world.

Please bring family, friends and colleagues.

venue: Victoria square, Town Centre, Bolton.
Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
Date: Sunday October 15th 2006

visit website: www.thinkersforum.org(link is external)
email: poverty@thinkersforum.org(link sends e-mail)
telephone: 07811 467967

The event has been jointly organised by Thinkers Forum International, Oxfam, WDM and Fairtrade.