MUHARRAM: HOLY MONTH FOR SHI'A ISLAM: ST MARRY'S MOSQUE

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Muharram is observed by the Shia community of Muslims in commemoration of the martyrdom of Prophet Mohammed's grandson, Imam Hussain, who was killed in the Battle of Karbala in AD 680. The prophet's son-in-law Ali, and Ali's elder son Hassan, are also remembered during this period as having suffered and died for righteous causes.

Muharram, or the sacred month, marks the beginning of the Muslim year.





Muharram is one of the four sacred Months out of twelve. The other being ZiQad,ZilHajj and Rajab. It is a sacred month NOT because the grandson of Prophet Muhammad (saw) was martyred in this month. It is sacred because Allah made it sacred along with three other months and told us about it in the Quran.

The word muharram also means respect.

THE HAZARA ETHNIC SOCIETY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA (HESWA)

THE HESWA IS HOLDING THE MUHARRAM MOURNING 10 DAYS TO RECITE PLAINTIVE VERSES AT:

PLACE: St Marry's Mosque
TIME: 2000-2200 (8am-10pm)** (**=time variation due to assembling)

For contact details please contact the head of the HESWA.
To add more to this post or any thing else regarding the Holly month of Muharram please do not hesitate to contact me either by placing a comment on this post or by email at:

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55th asylum seeker boat intercepted

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55th asylum seeker boat intercepted: Rudd under pressure

Authorities have intercepted another asylum seeker boat, taking the tally for the year to 55.

The boat was intercepted just after 8pm on Tuesday by HMAS Launceston about 30 nautical miles northeast of the Ashmore Islands.

Initial indications suggest there are 51 passengers and four crew on board the vessel. They will be transferred to Christmas Island where they will undergo security, identity and health checks.
The latest arrival comes as the government faces increasing pressure to do more to solve the asylum seeker problem with detention facilities on Christmas Island already stretched to their limits.

As of Tuesday, there were 1,487 detainees on the island, including 82 in tents which were erected as temporary accommodation to cope with the growing asylum seeker population.
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Asylum seekers injured in riot-Christmas Island

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Thirty-seven Afghans and Sri Lankans have been injured in a massed brawl on Australia's Christmas Island involving 150 detainees.

Ten of the detainees were taken to the island's hospital and three of the more seriously hurt - one with a broken leg, one with a broken jaw and one with a broken nose - were flown to Perth for treatment on Sunday.

Some guards suffered minor injuries while breaking up the fight, an Immigration Department spokesman said.

Christmas Island detention centre authorities have now separated the Afghan and Sri Lankan detainees, with those believed to be the cause of the trouble placed in "stronger" detention, Immigration Minister Chris Evans said.

Senator Evans rejected suggestions the brawl was caused by tensions arising from overcrowding at the offshore detention centre, blaming the incident on anxiety caused by the repatriation of some Sri Lankans.

"We've had some people removed back to Sri Lanka found not be refugees," he told ABC Radio on Monday.

"But essentially we've had a fight between some detainees which got out of hand."

There was always a tension inside a detention centre for 1000 people, Senator Evans said.

"It's like any other place where you have to detain large groups of people."

There will be a full investigation by the Australian Federal Police, he said.

WEAPONS USED

The trouble began about 6.30pm on Saturday. As the confrontation between the Afghans and more recently arrived Sri Lankans developed, those involved wielded pool cues, broom handles and branches.

Detention centre staff moved in quickly to break it up but it took them 30 minutes to get those fighting under control.

"This was a confrontation between a group of detainees, it was not aimed at staff or the centre itself," the spokesman said.

There are 969 asylum seekers detained in the centre, which is designed to take 1088.

The spokesman said the detention centre was not overcrowded and all of the detainees were accommodated appropriately.

The two groups involved had been separated to ensure there was no further friction, he said, and they were being kept apart in two sections of the centre.

''All is calm and there have been no further incidents,'' the spokesman said.

The Opposition immigration spokeswoman, Sharman Stone, described it as "very disturbing" and called on the Federal Government to launch an independent inquiry into what went wrong.

She said it was a "serious breach of internal security" and both detainees and staff were in real danger.

Forty-four boats carrying 2094 passengers, most of them from Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and Iraq, and 92 crew have arrived in Australian waters so far this year.

The latest was intercepted by the Australian Customs vessel Roebuck Bay south-west of the Ashmore Islands on Friday.

It was carrying 53 passengers and two crew, and they were taken to Christmas Island.

The boat was the fifth to arrive in Australian waters in a week.
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Theory: Origins of Hazaras

The origins of the Hazaras are not fully reconstructible and thus debatable.

At least partial Mongol descent is difficult to rule out, because the Hazaras' physical attributes and parts of their culture and language resemble those of Mongolians. Thus, it is widely accepted that Hazaras do have Mongolian ancestry, if not direct male-line descent from Genghis Khan, as some Hazaras allege. Some Hazara tribes are named after famous Mongol generals, including the Tulai Khan Hazara named after Tolui, the youngest son of Genghis Khan. Theories of Mongol or partially Mongol descent, are plausible, given that the Il-Khanate Mongol rulers, beginning with Oljeitu, embraced Shia Islam. Today, almost all Hazaras adhere to Shiism, whereas Afghanistan's other ethnic groups are mostly Sunni.

Another theory proposes that Hazaras are descendants of the Kushans, the ancient dwellers of Afghanistan famous for constructing the Buddhas of Bamiyan. Its proponents find the location of the Hazara homeland, and the similarity in facial features of Hazaras with those on frescoes and Buddha's statues in Bamiyan, suggestive. However, this belief is contrary not only to the fact that the Kushans were Indo-European Tocharians, but also to historical records which mention that in a particularly bloody battle around Bamiyan, Genghis Khan's grandson, Mutugen, was killed, and he ordered Bamiyan to be burnt to the ground in retribution, renaming it Ma-Obaliq ("Uninhabitable Abode") while replacing the local population with his armies and settlers[citation needed].

A third theory, and the one accepted by most scholars, maintains that Hazaras are a very mixed race. This is not entirely inconsistent with descent from Mongol military forces. For example, Nikudari Mongols settled in eastern Persia and mixed with native populations who spoke various Iranian languages. A second wave of mostly Chagatai Mongols came from Central Asia and were followed by other Turko-Mongols, associated with the Ilkhanate (driven out of Persia) and the Timurids, all of whom settled in Hazarajat and mixed with the local Persian population, forming a distinct group.
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HAZARA GENETICS-MONGOL LINKED Y-CHROMOSOMES

HAZARA GENETICS-MONGOL LINKED Y-CHROMOSOMES

Genetically, the Hazara are primarily a mixture of eastern Eurasian and western Eurasian peoples.

Genetic research suggests that they are related to neighboring peoples, while there also seems to be a distant relation to Turkic and Mongol peoples of Inner Asia,such as the Uyghurs of China.

A Mongol element in the ancestry is supported by studies in genetic genealogy as well, which have identified a particular lineage of the Y-chromosome characteristic of people of Mongolian descent ("the Y-chromosome of Genghis Khan"). This chromosome is virtually absent outside the limits of the Mongol Empire except among the Hazara, where it reaches its highest frequency anywhere. About two thirds of the Hazara males sampled carry a Y-chromosome of this lineage.
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