1. Ghan Kebab House, Prospect road.
The food is fantastic.
2. Fel Fella Pizza, Henley Beach Rd
Delicious pizzas
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Friday, September 24, 2010
Olympic games
Comments people made:
Vikas:
The Indian man on TV speaks Bull@#$% with no idea what is happening, they are all bloody bunch of twits. I am an indian living in Aus for 8yrs, nothing is offensive at all in what people say, it is the real true fact of indian governement and the organizers, they can never do any job well
http://au.sports.yahoo.com/news/article/-/8005817/photos-emerge-filthy-games-village/43/
Vikas:
The Indian man on TV speaks Bull@#$% with no idea what is happening, they are all bloody bunch of twits. I am an indian living in Aus for 8yrs, nothing is offensive at all in what people say, it is the real true fact of indian governement and the organizers, they can never do any job well
http://au.sports.yahoo.com/news/article/-/8005817/photos-emerge-filthy-games-village/43/
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Racist comments on the internet
Des: Typical subhuman asian garbage. And to think they are here in Aus. Can't stand them and africans.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/mp/7969207/chinese-man-held-for-gruesome-us-kidnap/1/asc/501494/#thread
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/mp/7969207/chinese-man-held-for-gruesome-us-kidnap/1/asc/501494/#thread
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Mosques and Musollas in South Australia
1.Adelaide Masjid 20 Little Gilbert St. Adelaide SA 5000
2.Islamic Centre SA 658 Marion Road. Park Holme SA 5043
3.Gilles Plains Masjid 52 Wandana Avenue. Gilles Plains SA 5086
4.Al-Khalil Masjid Torrens Road. Woodville SA 5011
5.Elizabeth Masjid 139 Hogard Road. Elizabeth Grove SA 5112
6.Whyalla 5 Morris Crescent. Whyalla-Norrie SA 5608
7.Renmark Society 230 Fourteenth Street. Renmark SA 5341
8.Adelaide Union House, Adelaide University
9.Playford building, UniSA
10.Murray Bridge Masjid Old Swanport Rd. Murray Bridge SA 5253
2.Islamic Centre SA 658 Marion Road. Park Holme SA 5043
3.Gilles Plains Masjid 52 Wandana Avenue. Gilles Plains SA 5086
4.Al-Khalil Masjid Torrens Road. Woodville SA 5011
5.Elizabeth Masjid 139 Hogard Road. Elizabeth Grove SA 5112
6.Whyalla 5 Morris Crescent. Whyalla-Norrie SA 5608
7.Renmark Society 230 Fourteenth Street. Renmark SA 5341
8.Adelaide Union House, Adelaide University
9.Playford building, UniSA
10.Murray Bridge Masjid Old Swanport Rd. Murray Bridge SA 5253
Friday, August 13, 2010
Notorious family patriarch 'shot dead'
By staff writers
13 August 2010
A MAN in his 60s, believed to be Macchour Chaouk, has been shot dead in Melbourne.
Paramedics and police are at the scene of the shooting, which occurred at the corner of Cypress Ave and Geelong Rd.
The area has been cordoned off and has yet to be declared safe.
It is understood that the gunman responsible has not been apprehended.
The public has been urged to stay away from the area.
The Chaouk family has allegedly been embroiled in a feud with a rival Lebanese family from Melbourne's north, the Haddaras.
Family patriarch Macchour, 64, and his two sons, Walid, 36, and Omar, 18, were arrested in July at the same house where Mohamed Chaouk was killed by police during a dawn raid in 2005.
Macchour and Walid were released without charge before Omar was released on bail after police found a stash of weapons, ammunition and blank passports.
Born in Tripoli, Macchour Chaouk migrated from Lebanon in 1969, working at a tyre factory in Sydney's west.
He returned to Lebanon to marry Fatma, and then the couple settled in Brooklyn, in Melbourne's west, in 1974.
Over the next 20 years the couple produced five sons and a daughter, and built several houses on Geelong Rd in Brooklyn.
For a time, Macchour Chaouk worked in a wool store in Sunshine and then a fruit shop, but he was never out of trouble for long.
In 1975, Macchour Chaouk was charged with his first offence - assault with a weapon after he beat another man with metal bars at a factory.
In 1983 he was convicted of trafficking heroin, and two years later was charged with assaulting police.
And his crimes were not just restricted to Victoria. In 1984 he was charged with assault and burglary by NSW police.
In 1985 he was incapacitated by two motor accidents, and has not worked since.
In 1986, Macchour Chaouk was admitted to a psychiatric hospital, and spent years on anti-depressants.
He was charged with recklessly causing serious injury after beating a man over an allegedly stolen bike in 1991.
That year he also invested in an unsuccessful grocery shop, a failure that resulted in the loss of his home.
In 2000, Chaouk was sentenced to five years in prison for trafficking in heroin.
This year, a coroner investigating the 2005 police shooting death of Mohamed Chaouk said the family had a "violent and unpredictable nature".
http://extras.geelongadvertiser.com.au/rss_article.php?news_id=42973541
13 August 2010
A MAN in his 60s, believed to be Macchour Chaouk, has been shot dead in Melbourne.
Paramedics and police are at the scene of the shooting, which occurred at the corner of Cypress Ave and Geelong Rd.
The area has been cordoned off and has yet to be declared safe.
It is understood that the gunman responsible has not been apprehended.
The public has been urged to stay away from the area.
The Chaouk family has allegedly been embroiled in a feud with a rival Lebanese family from Melbourne's north, the Haddaras.
Family patriarch Macchour, 64, and his two sons, Walid, 36, and Omar, 18, were arrested in July at the same house where Mohamed Chaouk was killed by police during a dawn raid in 2005.
Macchour and Walid were released without charge before Omar was released on bail after police found a stash of weapons, ammunition and blank passports.
Born in Tripoli, Macchour Chaouk migrated from Lebanon in 1969, working at a tyre factory in Sydney's west.
He returned to Lebanon to marry Fatma, and then the couple settled in Brooklyn, in Melbourne's west, in 1974.
Over the next 20 years the couple produced five sons and a daughter, and built several houses on Geelong Rd in Brooklyn.
For a time, Macchour Chaouk worked in a wool store in Sunshine and then a fruit shop, but he was never out of trouble for long.
In 1975, Macchour Chaouk was charged with his first offence - assault with a weapon after he beat another man with metal bars at a factory.
In 1983 he was convicted of trafficking heroin, and two years later was charged with assaulting police.
And his crimes were not just restricted to Victoria. In 1984 he was charged with assault and burglary by NSW police.
In 1985 he was incapacitated by two motor accidents, and has not worked since.
In 1986, Macchour Chaouk was admitted to a psychiatric hospital, and spent years on anti-depressants.
He was charged with recklessly causing serious injury after beating a man over an allegedly stolen bike in 1991.
That year he also invested in an unsuccessful grocery shop, a failure that resulted in the loss of his home.
In 2000, Chaouk was sentenced to five years in prison for trafficking in heroin.
This year, a coroner investigating the 2005 police shooting death of Mohamed Chaouk said the family had a "violent and unpredictable nature".
http://extras.geelongadvertiser.com.au/rss_article.php?news_id=42973541
Chaouk and Haddara family : A disgrace to Islam !
These people have got nothing to do with Islam. Islam is strongly against alcoholism and drugs. Islam does not allow people to take the law into one's own hands. Good practicing Muslims never do so.
It is disgusting that these people dare to call themselves Muslims when everything they do is against Islamic teachings!!!
Many of these Lebanese people, when they board a flight they drink alcohol like nobody's business. This is clearly unIslamic. May God punish them for what they have done.
Jail them or send them to live in Sahara deserts. Do whatever you want as these people's actions have got nothing to do with Islam. Everyone involved in crime and drugs should be punished by the laws.
It is disgusting that these people dare to call themselves Muslims when everything they do is against Islamic teachings!!!
Many of these Lebanese people, when they board a flight they drink alcohol like nobody's business. This is clearly unIslamic. May God punish them for what they have done.
Jail them or send them to live in Sahara deserts. Do whatever you want as these people's actions have got nothing to do with Islam. Everyone involved in crime and drugs should be punished by the laws.
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Taliban and Opioid production
It is interesting to note that lately in the news, Taliban has been accused of being involved in opium trade. Why is a group that has a very strict interpretation of Islam allowing opium trade to prosper? Was it not Mullah Omar who tried to wipe opium out of Afghanistan when Taliban first came into rule? Is this just probably part of US-led propaganda to tarnish the image of Taliban and create a better image of Mr Karzai? Taliban is a Sunni group and it is well known that Sunnis consider the abuse of opium to be a sinful act. Only the Shi'ites of Iran, Afghanistan, etc consider the abuse of opium to be alright. Iran considered Taliban a strong enemy and she played an important role in trying to topple the Taliban. Nowadays the US is accusing Iran of aiding the Taliban. Does all of these make sense?
Also read:
JALALABAD, Afghanistan (February 15, 2001 8:19 p.m. EST
U.N. drug control officers said the Taliban religious militia has nearly wiped out opium production in Afghanistan -- once the world's largest producer -- since banning poppy cultivation last summer.
A 12-member team from the U.N. Drug Control Program spent two weeks searching most of the nation's largest opium-producing areas and found so few poppies that they do not expect any opium to come out of Afghanistan this year.
"We are not just guessing. We have seen the proof in the fields," said Bernard Frahi, regional director for the U.N. program in Afghanistan and Pakistan. He laid out photographs of vast tracts of land cultivated with wheat alongside pictures of the same fields taken a year earlier -- a sea of blood-red poppies.
A State Department official said Thursday all the information the United States has received so far indicates the poppy crop had decreased, but he did not believe it was eliminated.
Last year, Afghanistan produced nearly 4,000 tons of opium, about 75 percent of the world's supply, U.N. officials said. Opium -- the milky substance drained from the poppy plant -- is converted into heroin and sold in Europe and North America. The 1999 output was a world record for opium production, the United Nations said -- more than all other countries combined, including the "Golden Triangle," where the borders of Thailand, Laos and Myanmar meet.
Mullah Mohammed Omar, the Taliban's supreme leader, banned poppy growing before the November planting season and augmented it with a religious edict making it contrary to the tenets of Islam.
The Taliban, which has imposed a strict brand of Islam in the 95 percent of Afghanistan it controls, has set fire to heroin laboratories and jailed farmers until they agreed to destroy their poppy crops.
The U.N. surveyors, who completed their search this week, crisscrossed Helmand, Kandahar, Urzgan and Nangarhar provinces and parts of two others -- areas responsible for 86 percent of the opium produced in Afghanistan last year, Frahi said in an interview Wednesday. They covered 80 percent of the land in those provinces that last year had been awash in poppies.
This year they found poppies growing on barely an acre here and there, Frahi said. The rest -- about 175,000 acres -- was clean.
"We have to look at the situation with careful optimism," said Sandro Tucci of the U.N. Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention in Vienna, Austria.
He said indications are that no poppies were planted this season and that, as a result, there hasn't been any production of opium -- but that officials would keep checking.
The State Department counternarcotics official said the department would make its own estimate of the poppy crop. Information received so far suggests there will be a decrease, but how much is not yet clear, he said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
"We do not think by any stretch of the imagination that poppy cultivation in Afghanistan has been eliminated. But we, like the rest of the world, welcome positive news."
The Drug Enforcement Administration declined to comment.
No U.S. government official can enter Afghanistan because of security concerns stemming from the presence of suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden.
Poppies are harvested in March and April, which is why the survey was done now. Tucci said it would have been impossible for the poppies to have been harvested already.
The areas searched by the U.N. surveyors are the most fertile lands under Taliban control. Other areas, though they are somewhat fertile, have not traditionally been poppy growing areas and farmers are struggling to raise any crops at all because of severe drought. The rest of the land held by the Taliban is mountainous or desert, where poppies could not grow.
Karim Rahimi, the U.N. drug control liaison in Jalalabad, capital of Nangarhar province, said farmers were growing wheat or onions in fields where they once grew poppies.
"It is amazing, really, when you see the fields that last year were filled with poppies and this year there is wheat," he said.
The Taliban enforced the ban by threatening to arrest village elders and mullahs who allowed poppies to be grown. Taliban soldiers patrolled in trucks armed with rocket-propelled grenade launchers. About 1,000 people in Nangarhar who tried to defy the ban were arrested and jailed until they agreed to destroy their crops.
Signs throughout Nangarhar warn against drug production and use, some calling it an "illicit phenomenon." Another reads: "Be drug free, be happy."
Last year, poppies grew on 12,600 acres of land in Nangarhar province. According to the U.N. survey, poppies were planted on only 17 acres there this season and all were destroyed by the Taliban.
"The Taliban have done their work very seriously," Frahi said.
But the ban has badly hurt farmers in one of the world's poorest countries, shattered by two decades of war and devastated by drought.
Ahmed Rehman, who shares less than three acres in Nangarhar with his three brothers, said the opium he produced last year on part of the land brought him $1,100.
This year, he says, he will be lucky to get $300 for the onions and cattle feed he planted on the entire parcel.
"Life is very bad for me this year," he said. "Last year I was able to buy meat and wheat and now this year there is nothing."
But Rehman said he never considered defying the ban.
"The Taliban were patrolling all the time. Of course I was afraid. I did not want to go to jail and lose my freedom and my dignity," he said, gesturing with dirt-caked hands.
Shams-ul-Haq Sayed, an officer of the Taliban drug control office in Jalalabad, said farmers need international aid.
"This year was the most important for us because growing poppies was part of their culture, and the first years are always the most difficult," he said.
Tucci said discussions are under way on how to help the farmers.
Western diplomats in Pakistan have suggested the Taliban is simply trying to drive up the price of opium they have stockpiled. The State Department official also said Afghanistan could do more by destroying drug stockpiles and heroin labs and arresting producers and traffickers.
Frahi dismissed that as "nonsense" and said it is drug traffickers and shopkeepers who have stockpiles. Two pounds of opium worth $35 last year are now worth as much as $360, he said.
Mullah Amir Mohammed Haqqani, the Taliban's top drug official in Nangarhar, said the ban would remain regardless of whether the Taliban received aid or international recognition.
"It is our decree that there will be no poppy cultivation. It is banned forever in this country," he said. "Whether we get assistance or not, poppy growing will never be allowed again in our country.
http://www.opioids.com/afghanistan/index.html
Also read:
JALALABAD, Afghanistan (February 15, 2001 8:19 p.m. EST
U.N. drug control officers said the Taliban religious militia has nearly wiped out opium production in Afghanistan -- once the world's largest producer -- since banning poppy cultivation last summer.
A 12-member team from the U.N. Drug Control Program spent two weeks searching most of the nation's largest opium-producing areas and found so few poppies that they do not expect any opium to come out of Afghanistan this year.
"We are not just guessing. We have seen the proof in the fields," said Bernard Frahi, regional director for the U.N. program in Afghanistan and Pakistan. He laid out photographs of vast tracts of land cultivated with wheat alongside pictures of the same fields taken a year earlier -- a sea of blood-red poppies.
A State Department official said Thursday all the information the United States has received so far indicates the poppy crop had decreased, but he did not believe it was eliminated.
Last year, Afghanistan produced nearly 4,000 tons of opium, about 75 percent of the world's supply, U.N. officials said. Opium -- the milky substance drained from the poppy plant -- is converted into heroin and sold in Europe and North America. The 1999 output was a world record for opium production, the United Nations said -- more than all other countries combined, including the "Golden Triangle," where the borders of Thailand, Laos and Myanmar meet.
Mullah Mohammed Omar, the Taliban's supreme leader, banned poppy growing before the November planting season and augmented it with a religious edict making it contrary to the tenets of Islam.
The Taliban, which has imposed a strict brand of Islam in the 95 percent of Afghanistan it controls, has set fire to heroin laboratories and jailed farmers until they agreed to destroy their poppy crops.
The U.N. surveyors, who completed their search this week, crisscrossed Helmand, Kandahar, Urzgan and Nangarhar provinces and parts of two others -- areas responsible for 86 percent of the opium produced in Afghanistan last year, Frahi said in an interview Wednesday. They covered 80 percent of the land in those provinces that last year had been awash in poppies.
This year they found poppies growing on barely an acre here and there, Frahi said. The rest -- about 175,000 acres -- was clean.
"We have to look at the situation with careful optimism," said Sandro Tucci of the U.N. Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention in Vienna, Austria.
He said indications are that no poppies were planted this season and that, as a result, there hasn't been any production of opium -- but that officials would keep checking.
The State Department counternarcotics official said the department would make its own estimate of the poppy crop. Information received so far suggests there will be a decrease, but how much is not yet clear, he said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
"We do not think by any stretch of the imagination that poppy cultivation in Afghanistan has been eliminated. But we, like the rest of the world, welcome positive news."
The Drug Enforcement Administration declined to comment.
No U.S. government official can enter Afghanistan because of security concerns stemming from the presence of suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden.
Poppies are harvested in March and April, which is why the survey was done now. Tucci said it would have been impossible for the poppies to have been harvested already.
The areas searched by the U.N. surveyors are the most fertile lands under Taliban control. Other areas, though they are somewhat fertile, have not traditionally been poppy growing areas and farmers are struggling to raise any crops at all because of severe drought. The rest of the land held by the Taliban is mountainous or desert, where poppies could not grow.
Karim Rahimi, the U.N. drug control liaison in Jalalabad, capital of Nangarhar province, said farmers were growing wheat or onions in fields where they once grew poppies.
"It is amazing, really, when you see the fields that last year were filled with poppies and this year there is wheat," he said.
The Taliban enforced the ban by threatening to arrest village elders and mullahs who allowed poppies to be grown. Taliban soldiers patrolled in trucks armed with rocket-propelled grenade launchers. About 1,000 people in Nangarhar who tried to defy the ban were arrested and jailed until they agreed to destroy their crops.
Signs throughout Nangarhar warn against drug production and use, some calling it an "illicit phenomenon." Another reads: "Be drug free, be happy."
Last year, poppies grew on 12,600 acres of land in Nangarhar province. According to the U.N. survey, poppies were planted on only 17 acres there this season and all were destroyed by the Taliban.
"The Taliban have done their work very seriously," Frahi said.
But the ban has badly hurt farmers in one of the world's poorest countries, shattered by two decades of war and devastated by drought.
Ahmed Rehman, who shares less than three acres in Nangarhar with his three brothers, said the opium he produced last year on part of the land brought him $1,100.
This year, he says, he will be lucky to get $300 for the onions and cattle feed he planted on the entire parcel.
"Life is very bad for me this year," he said. "Last year I was able to buy meat and wheat and now this year there is nothing."
But Rehman said he never considered defying the ban.
"The Taliban were patrolling all the time. Of course I was afraid. I did not want to go to jail and lose my freedom and my dignity," he said, gesturing with dirt-caked hands.
Shams-ul-Haq Sayed, an officer of the Taliban drug control office in Jalalabad, said farmers need international aid.
"This year was the most important for us because growing poppies was part of their culture, and the first years are always the most difficult," he said.
Tucci said discussions are under way on how to help the farmers.
Western diplomats in Pakistan have suggested the Taliban is simply trying to drive up the price of opium they have stockpiled. The State Department official also said Afghanistan could do more by destroying drug stockpiles and heroin labs and arresting producers and traffickers.
Frahi dismissed that as "nonsense" and said it is drug traffickers and shopkeepers who have stockpiles. Two pounds of opium worth $35 last year are now worth as much as $360, he said.
Mullah Amir Mohammed Haqqani, the Taliban's top drug official in Nangarhar, said the ban would remain regardless of whether the Taliban received aid or international recognition.
"It is our decree that there will be no poppy cultivation. It is banned forever in this country," he said. "Whether we get assistance or not, poppy growing will never be allowed again in our country.
http://www.opioids.com/afghanistan/index.html
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Alternatives to Microsoft Office
Got no money to buy original softwares? Try these out.
1. OpenOffice.org
2. Google Docs
3. Zoho
4. Microsoft Office 2010
All of these are free.
1. OpenOffice.org
2. Google Docs
3. Zoho
4. Microsoft Office 2010
All of these are free.
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Apology letter to the Iraqis
The rules of engagement exposed!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/news/2010/04/100423_wikileaks_letter_hs.shtml
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sSuEf4BAVk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QEdAykXxoM&feature=player_embedded
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/news/2010/04/100423_wikileaks_letter_hs.shtml
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sSuEf4BAVk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QEdAykXxoM&feature=player_embedded
Thursday, April 22, 2010
60K for a funeral !
Is it normal for Australians to have such an expensive funeral? What is that waste of money for?
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Why get engaged?
Two Australian women were talking loudly about their coming engagement party. They felt pressured as they have to spend a lot of money for the wine, etc. Why get engaged when you can get married straight away? What's the big difference between getting engaged and then getting married and getting married straight away?
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Democracy?
Is there more to democracy than mere lobbying? It is the rich subtly influencing the poor with all the means that they have.
Al-Awlaki
Who is this guy who came up in the news yesterday? Is he really a Muslim scholar or he is just a normal preacher? To the ignorant Muslims every one who speaks a little bit of Arabic is a scholar. So, beware!
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
New Halal Food Place : Edwardstown
About 15 minutes from the city there is a new cafe selling Halal food known as Golden Bite Cafe. Let's try it out Muslims. Support the Halal food industry!
http://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/15930652/4195156/name/Golden
http://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/15930652/4195156/name/Golden
Meat in Non Muslim Countries
Nice article here:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/17235910/Halal-Meat-Masala-or-Rules-for-Muslims-in-NonMuslim-Country
http://www.scribd.com/doc/17235910/Halal-Meat-Masala-or-Rules-for-Muslims-in-NonMuslim-Country
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Australia is not a Kitaabiyy country
It is quite clear that Australia is not a country which adheres to the teaching of Christianity or Judaism. It is very much a secular country with about 20 per cent of the population being atheists. Therefore it is only sensible to embrace the fact that meat slaughtered in Australia is generally not halal unless proven otherwise. Fellow Muslim, be wary of the meat that you eat. Are you sure that it is halal or you just don't care?
Note:
Kitaabiyy - Christians and Jews
Note:
Kitaabiyy - Christians and Jews
How come no one told me about these websites?
Every Muslim newcomer to Adelaide should have been informed about these two websites! No one ever mentioned to me about this! This is a must-read for Muslims wanting to live a very basic Islamic life in SA.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/6080185/Muslim-Guide-Adelaide-version-11-20071213
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/unisais/
http://www.scribd.com/doc/6080185/Muslim-Guide-Adelaide-version-11-20071213
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/unisais/
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