Hi,
I will be in Melbourne from July till mid August for an internship and I would like to know what are some good halal butchers or places to get halal meat I don’t know how readily available it is in mainstream supermarkets so I am more focused on butchers.
Thank you
As salam alaikum all.
Hope you all are in the best of health In shaa Allah.
As the tittle goes, we are a family of 5 planning to move to Australia in the near future if Allah wills.
Atm, we dont have any direction to the plan as the information we have is only on the basis of online research where somewhere it fits into the criteria’s that makes us want to shift to Australia.
My husband and I are planning a trip to Melbourne, to visit their islamic center with the hopes to gather information on prospective city’s to settle in which are muslim friendly and that have good business opportunities.
If anyone would like to share their opinions/ideas/suggestions that would help us i will be thankful.
Jazak’Allah.
For context I’m not Muslim. I’m a queer person living in Melbourne.
I’ve often found myself feeling a kinship with the Muslim community in a weird way. In my experience queer ppl generally feel the same as I do towards Muslim folk.
Being trans, I know that most Muslim people probably wouldn’t approve of me. And I, for obvious reasons, don’t subscribe to a faith.
But at the same time. I see the way our communities are spoken about in mainstream media, and how we’re demonised generally by the broader public. While literally just existing normal lives. And, I can’t help but feel there’s a bit of shared struggle in that aspect.
Having to constantly prove we’re “one of the good ones”, take on the position of educator, or represent the ENTIRE community. Just by virtue of existing.
But yeah, I was wondering if that’s a sentiment that goes both ways. If Australian Muslims ever feel this sentiment in reverse?
Hey so I’m from Melbourne and I am a Pakistani Pashtun female. I’ve been finding it very difficult to find a decent Muslim practicing Pashtun guy. All the ones that I have received proposals from were two-faced, scammers and insecure. I’m losing hope in the Pashtun community, both Afghan and Pakistan. How do I convince my parents to let me marry out of my race? They want me to marry someone from overseas however I’m afraid that they just want to marry me for the visa (which is the case 80% of the time). Can anyone let me know how or what I can do to either find a decent Pashtun guy who ticks all the boxes in Melbourne?
For context I’m a convert and my dad is not Muslim. First time parent with a new baby, my dad wants to send money every week to put into a bank account that my daughter can access when she is 21. Every children’s bank account is a high interest savings type account. Islamic finance companies don’t seem to have options for kids? Looking for something that’s a better alternative to just keeping cash, I want something that will grow her money so it’s not worthless in 21years time. I have previously used Hejaz to buy ETFs but with brokerage fees it’s not practical to invest weekly.
Asalaamu alaykum wa rahmahtullahi wa barakatuh everyone,
I think it's important that we continue to discuss the recent traction that One Nation have been getting in the country as a means of keeping track of what this could mean for us, as Australian Muslims.
I've listened to the presser in full (and come away somehow surprised that Pauline is an even worse orator than I anticipated, even when reading) and believe me it wasn't easy. Problematic speech left and right.
I thought I'd just put a few of my thoughts down to get started and welcome some discussion on the matter.
First, I couldn't help but notice that she opened the whole thing on the note of 'radical' Islam (whatever she really means by that. I think it's a dog-whistle, I think she's intentionally vague and I think she will never define it.)
There were a great many books she could have cited, to try and make a case...But instead of course she lazily chooses an quote from the Ed Husain book *The Islamist: Why I Joined Radical Islam in Britain, What I Saw Inside and Why I Left*. I guess she couldn't do too much digging, trust the book does what it says on the label right?
She went on and on, taking about 'hate preachers' (ironic right?) who are 'sowing division' (ironic again, right?) and how they must be punished with deportation or 'to the full force of the law' (again, no examples of what would qualify as hate speech, what she has seen that she would treat as hate speech...Just vague dog-whistley terms).
Later on in her address she crowed on about 'Aussie Values' (are we in 2006 again?) and how we need to become monocultural, as multiculturalism has failed. And how we can't risk winding up like 'The UK, France or Canada...I don't wanna say...Can I say it? S-holes' (Oh wow, Pauline, bravo...Trump already did the 'S-hole country' thing in early 2017.)
The Aussie Values debate, to anyone old enough to remember was fought and decidedly lost by the LNP for the 2007 election (yes, people like to credit work choices...Personally I think it's both.) It's just sad the 20th anniversary rehash of the failed strategy like this, but what's even sadder though is sections of the media not only eating it up, but actively amplifying it as a talking point.
I guess I will leave it here for now. But this should be concerning to all of us, the fact that she can amass growing support with rhetoric like this. Rhetoric we should have been able to assume was dead years ago.
Did anyone else watch?
Even just snippets?
Your thoughts?