Issue 184 - March 2021

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AUSTRALASIAN MUSLIM TIMES

www.amust.com.au ISSUE # 184

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Multicultural News & Views

MARCH 2021; RAJAB 1442

Standards of justice for violent extremism BOOMERANG PAGE 4

Dr Hameed’s research leads to Australia’s first ‘revived’ kidney transplant Dr Ahmer Hameed, MBBS, BSc, MS, PhD.

Zia Ahmad Westmead Hospital surgeons with the support of Westmead Institute for Medical Research (WIMR) researchers have performed a successful transplant of a ‘revived’ kidney into a patient. A first in Australia, the success has been achieved based on cutting edge research technique, a brainchild of Dr Ahmer Hameed where normothermic machine perfusion (NMP) on donated kidneys is performed before transplanting them into patients. continued on page 2

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Scathing report on human rights violations in Kashmir Mohamed Ainullah The dual impact of brutal lockdown for more than 18 months and COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in extreme human suffering and near-total alienation of the people in the Kashmir valley from the Indian state. This is the conclusion drawn in “Human Rights in Jammu and Kashmir: Mid-Term Report, August 2020-January 2021, by The Forum for Human Rights in Jammu and Kashmir, an informal group of concerned citizens comprising of retired Indian judges, public servants, journalists and military leaders. This is the second report comprising of 57 pages issued by the Forum, largely compiled from government sources, media accounts (carried in well-established and reputed newspapers or television), NGO fact-finding reports, interviews, and information garnered through legal petitions. Most of the violations described in the Forum’s first report, remains, even 18 months after the imposition of a lockdown on Jammu and Kashmir, where arbitrary detentions continue, public assembly is still prohibited and hundreds, including minors and several elected legislators of Jammu and Kashmir, remain under preventive detention. continued on page 17

Australia least prepared to counter far right Hindu extremism Zia Ahmad Australian Alliance Against Hate and Violence (AAAHAV) says that Australia is least prepared to counter the rising threat of far right Hindu extremism and calls on politicians, federal and state governments to urgently recognise the threat that it poses to social cohesion in Australia and to take concrete steps to address this threat. The Alliance has been formed to create awareness and advocacy to prevent the violence and hate speech that is causing so much hardship and suffering in India to come to Australia disrupting its multicultural, pluralistic and harmonious living. The AAAHAV represents civil society activists and organisations that include Hindus for Human Rights, Turbans 4 Australia, Australian Federation of Islamic Councils AFIC, Pax Christi Australia, The Humanism Project THP, Basmala Australia and representatives of the Indian Ambedkarite community. The call from AAAHAV is in response to a number of incidents of social tension driven by far right Hindu extremist elements allied with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party

(BJP) in India. Their actions are perpetuating targeted attacks and online hate speech against Sikhs, Muslims, Christians, Indian Ambedkarite community (Dalits) and mainstream Hindus living in Australia. In order raise awareness of the rising threat that far right Hindu extremism poses to social cohesion in Australia, the AAA-

HAV organised a press conference on Sunday 28 February 2021 in front of the Indian Consulate in Sydney along with Greens MP David Shoebridge, Former Greens Senator Lee Rhiannon, Mr Amar Singh, President of Turbans 4 Australia, Keysar Trad, CEO of Australian Federation of Islamic Councils (AFIC), Dr Haroon Kasim from THP and

From left: Dr Haroon Kasim, THP, Former Greens Senator Lee Rhiannon, Ansari Zainul Abideen, Basmalla Australia. David Shoebridge MLC, NSW and Kulwinder badesha, Turbans 4 Australia.

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Mr Ansari Zainul Abideen from Basmalla Australia. With the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) conducting an Inquiry into extremist movements and radicalism in Australia to report by 30 April 2021, the media conference called on the Australian government and opposition to acknowledge the dangers of far right Hindu extremism and security agencies to monitor Hindu fascist organisations like RSS just like white supremacist groups. Mr Amar Singh raised concerns about the treatment of farmers in India. Greens MP David Shoebridge concurred with Mr Singh’s statements and said that the AAAHAV stands with Indian farmers and other communities in India that are standing up against an increasingly intolerant Modi government. In February 2021, these far-right Hindu extremist elements have attempted to disrupt Sunday services at the Glenwood Sikh temple and were involved in two separate attacks on Sikh youth in Harris Park and Granville areas. This follows an ugly street brawl between these far right Hindu extremist elements and Sikh youth late in 2020. continued on page 3

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