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Islamic body offers assistance for bright but poor students
A Islamic charity -The National Zakat Management Body (Baznas)- on Saturday launched a program to pay for bright but poor youths to study in state universities.
Under the program, called "One family, one scholar", the mandatory alms management body will provide full scholarships to students whose immediate family members do not have a university education.
Baznas spokeswomen said all poor people deserve education regardless of their religion.
"But because 80 percent of the population is Muslim and many of them are poor, the priority is given to Muslim students," she said.
Knowledge or "ilm" is the second most used word in the Holy Quran and a duty of Muslims to seek it. Zakat or charity is the one of the 5 pillars in Islam. A Islamic charity -The National Zakat Management Body (Baznas)- on Saturday launched a program to pay for bright but poor youths to st... more -
Indonesia to send medical team, material aids to China
Indonesia is going to send a medical team and some material aid to China later this week according to the Director of the Crisis Center of the Health Ministry Rustam Pakaya on Monday.
Pakaya said the medical team will consist on 102 people (comprising 20 specialist doctors, eight doctors, 12 nurses, some other health workers, and a number of volunteers from the military, the police and rescue teams will take part in the humanitarian mission).
The medical team will leave for China on Sunday, Pakaya told reporters after a launching ceremony of the humanitarian assistance to China at the Health Ministry.
"We are now processing their immigration procedure. We expect them to leave on Sunday," he said.
A senior official of the ministry Rahmi Utoro said Indonesia would also send five tons of medicine and five tons of logistics to China on Wednesday.
Indonesia is the world's most populous Muslim nation who has recently got hit by earthquake itself. Indonesia is going to send a medical team and some material aid to China later this week according to the Director of the Crisis Cente... more -
New York imam forges close ties with city's Jews
The largest Mosque in NY, the ICC, is getting applause from the city's influential Jewish community. Mohammad Shamsi Ali is the Mosque's Indonesian born-imam.
Rabbis who've spoken there call it an open and welcoming community. The Jewish Theological Seminary and the ICC are planning a joint soup kitchen for the homeless. The mosque is organizing an inter-religious studies program for teenagers.
"What I heard Shamsi Ali preach was as fine a sermon on brotherhood as has ever been preached," said Visotzky, professor of midrash (scriptural interpretation) and inter-faith studies across town at the Jewish Theological Seminary.
Rabbi Marc Schneier spoke at the ICC last year and invited the imam to speak in his Synagogue last month:
"It was impressive when he spoke to the congregation about Israel's territorial integrity and how suicide bombings are a perversion of the Koran and Islam."
The imam has taken part in the prayer at an inter-faith memorial service in Yankee Stadium two weeks after the September 11 attacks. Ali has also been active in larger inter-faith initiatives such as the National Dialogue of Muslims and Catholics and Imams and Rabbis conferences in the United States and abroad. The largest Mosque in NY, the ICC, is getting applause from the city's influential Jewish community. Mohammad Shamsi Ali is the M... more
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