BHMF Boys' Youth Club is organising an outing to Spring Barn Farm in Lewes, on Sunday 4th July. Meet at 10am at the Youth Club. Please contact Sabri on 07867 773723 if you'd like to come.
Attractions include a Maize Maze, indoor and outdoor play areas, assault course and of course all the animals!
Mr Mike O’Brian MP, Minister of State for Trade, Investment & Foreign
Affairs and Ms Fiona Mactaggat MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of
State for Race, Equality, Community Policy & civil Renewal has recently
Invited Kadeer Arif, the Policy Advisor for the Brighton & Hove Muslim
forum, to attend the launch ceremony of the Alif Aleph UK Manifesto, at
the Foreign Common Wealth Office in London on the 21st June 2004. Alif
Aleph UK exists to promote and facilitate dialogue between British
Muslims and British Jews at all levels.
Al Medina Mosque has featured recently in OnRoute magazine. Located in
Bedford place, the mosque has a capacity of 1,500. The magazine says,
"Inside, the mosque is a serene space with no opulence or intricacy of
interior design to distract from prayer. There are simply rows of books
containing the teachings of Islam, bare walls and a carpeted floor on
which worshippers sit or kneel in rows pointed towards Mecca."
The article also mentions the BHMF Boys Youth Club, and its founder,
BHMF chair Sabri ben Ameur. "[the youth club] places an emphasis on
learning and playing in an Islamic environment. Sabri ben Ameur
advocates integrated education but emphasises the importance of the one
hour session, learning basic Islamic studies such as the Qur'an and
Arabic."
BHMF's secretary, Daoud Clarke, has been interviewed in the recent
issue of Emel, the Muslim lifestyle magazine, as part of an article about children of converts to Islam. Both his parents converted to Islam in Jerusalem, at the hand of Shaykh Muhammad al-Jamal.
He says about the British Muslim identity, "There are many things in
British culture, such as politeness, hospitality, and a sense of
equality and justice that are engrained, and that are very compatible
with Islam. It is these things that we need to bring out and emphasise
in our dealings with non-Muslis, in order to show how 'British' Islam
can be!
"I don't think I have a confused identity. I want to be part of forming
a British Muslim identity, and I think this is an exciting time for
British Muslims."
On Saturday 19th June, Islam4children.com will be
inshallah holding a Children's Islamic Book Fair from 10:30am to
1:30pm, at:
Arabic Language School and Club,
Hangleton Community Centre,
Harmsworth Crescent,
Hove.
On sale will be items from one of the largest collections of children's
Islamic educational material in the UK, including books, posters,
arabic alphabet puzzles, audio and video tapes including nasheeds.
All welcome.
An exhibition of photographs by Tokashi Morizumi, documenting the impact of the current war in Iraq, and the Gulf war previously, focussing especially on the effects of depleted uranium weapons.
Inshallah the exhibition will be at the University of Sussex, Arts D Ground Floor from 7th to 9th June, 12-5pm
From 10th to 29th June, the exhibition will be at the Cowley Club, 12 London Road, Brighton, open from 12-4pm Tuesdays to Fridays.
Admission free.
More info from the exhibition website.
This exhibition has been organised in association with BHMF.
