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Children & COVID-19: Advice on vaccination
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Mobinah: If children do get COVID, how severely are they affected?
Dr Habib: Up to half of the children don’t get any symptoms of COVID infection. That’s a good thing. So they do get COVID, but most of them do not suffer from serious illnesses as the adult population may suffer, which is good. The effects of the COVID infection persist in young children. They can have fever, cough, runny nose and other respiratory symptoms. They also may have diarrhoea and vomiting, and also abdominal pain. They may start to feel unwell, not eating and drinking as well and maybe at risk of dehydration.
All of this may sound like other viral infections or illnesses. Still, we need to be mindful that it can affect some children. A small number of children can also need hospital admission and hospitalisation. We also have had incidents of children requiring intensive care, which is, for severe illnesses condition due to COVID.
This is more common in children who have already pre-existing medical conditions. So they may have other health conditions which may make them predisposed to more severe illness because of COVID. For example, having conditions such as cancer, or having some other chronic disease treatment, may have diabetes, obesity, other health conditions, genetic conditions, delayed development, autism, all of these children are particularly more at risk of developing severe complications COVID.
Mobinah: Wow, that’s so hard to hear. Initially, the health advice said that children couldn’t get COVID, but now things have changed. Can you advise if that’s the case like that switch?
Dr Habib: Yeah, so I think children do get COVID. It’s all evolving situation, and indeed while any person of any age can get COVID. We saw more severe complications and infections in the older population than children, but they get COVID.
We have had many cases of children getting infected with the COVID, especially in the recent outbreak in New South Wales and has been seen in Victoria. So they do get COVID, and indeed, we need to be mindful of that.
Mobinah: Absolutely. Should children get the vaccine? Does the vaccine cause any harm, and does it have any side effects on children?
Dr Habib: So I think children do get side effects of COVID vaccine like many other “vaccines, and the side effects are again very similar to the other vaccines, and the commonest one which we know of is injection side pain, pain the way the vaccine has been given. And can occur in up to half of the children. Up to 50% of children can get that or one in five children. So up to 20% of children can get a fever, usually within 48 hours after receiving the vaccine, and generally responds well to the pain relief or fever medications, which they can get from the pharmacy or get their local doctors to advise and administer that. It’s no different to many other vaccines, and then they do have those complications.
Serious complications are rare, very uncommon. And for example, there are some rare side effects been regularly reported, such as inflammation or the swelling of the muscle of the heart, which we call myocarditis and inflammation of the membrane or covering surrounding the heart, which we call pericarditis. These effects are much, much rare. There is ongoing monitoring of those effects in children worldwide, wherever it’s been given in children. It’s more commonly seen in male, young adults between 16 and 30 years of age, not as common in younger children under 16. So that’s reassuring, but it is something recommended that we keep an eye on, but it’s much rarer.
Just coming back to your question around, should they get the vaccine? The health advice in Australia is that children up to the age of 12 years of age, all children should get the COVID vaccine. It has been recommended by the ATAGI, which is National Advisory Body on Immunisation for the Australian population and has also been approved by TGA. The Therapeutic Goods Administration, the regula“ tory body, approves any vaccine used in Australia as other medicines or devices and antibiotics. So it is recommended.
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Muslim wins 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature
Zia Ahmad
A former African refugee Dr Abdulrazak Gurnah 73, a novelist residing in UK has won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature announced by the Nobel Committee on Thursday 7 October “for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents.”
He arrived in UK as a teenager refugee in 1960’s from Zanzibar, Tanzania completing his graduate studies at the University of London, completing his PhD from the University of Kent where he taught as a professor of post colonial literature before his recent retirement.
He has published 10 novels and several short stories where the theme of the refugee’s plight and disruption runs throughout his work.
Dr Gurnah’s writings deal with migration and displacement that he explored in most of his novels, the settings range from East Africa under German colonialism to modern-day England.
They explore the profound impact of migration both on uprooted people and the places they make their new homes.
“People are dying, people are being hurt around the world. We must deal with these issues in the most kind way,” he said.
Dr Gurnah’s native language is Swahili but who writes in English, and he is the sixth Africa-born author to be awarded the Nobel for literature.
Commenting on his writings, Mr Anders Olsson, chairman of the Nobel Committee for literature said, “His work gives us a vivid and very precise picture of another Africa not so well known for many readers, a coastal area in and around the Indian Ocean marked by slavery and shifting forms of repression under different regimes and colonial powers: Portuguese, Indian, Arab, German and the British.”
He further added that Gurnah’s characters “find themselves in the gulf between cultures … between the life left behind and the life to come, confronting racism and prejudice, but also compelling themselves to silence the truth or reinventing a biography to avoid conflict with reality.”
AMUST Media
The Alliance of Australian Muslims (AAM) held its 4th National Summit online on Sunday 31 October 2021 via ZOOM.
Prominent Muslim organisations and community leaders from around Australia attended the National Summit to discuss important issues of concern to Australian Muslims and the future of the community in Australia.
The AAM is currently comprised of over 200 mainstream Muslim organisations from all Australian States and Territories. It is open to all mainstream and representative Muslim organisations and individuals who are active in the Australian Muslim community.
The AAM aims to serve as a collaborative platform to coordinate and enhance efforts of common benefit for the Australian Muslim community. Further, the AAM continue to stand with and contribute to the Australian community.
The delegates at the National Summit focused on the key areas of promoting an Australian Muslim identity, enhancing media and political engagement, strengthening public relations, and advocating for the protection of civil rights of minority groups.
This includes the serious concern in relation to the rise of Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim sentiment.
The member organisations had reviewed and re-endorsed the AAM Covenant, which outlines the importance of the AAM and the Muslim organisations working together, including the positive role that Australian Muslims contribute to their country.
The 4th AAM National Summit focused on: 1. Preservation of Islamic Identity discussed the National survey to gain a better understanding of the sentiment of the
Muslim community in Australia and to better cater to the Muslim community’s needs, in particular the Muslim youth. 2. Media Representation reinforced on Religious freedom, the rise of Islamophobia (Anti- Muslim sentiment) and the real threat of right-wing extremism. 3. Defence of Muslim Rights, addressed
Civil rights Awareness campaigns and dealing with the threat of Islamophobia. 4. Public Relations aimed to hold a National Mosque Open Day and National Community Ramadan Iftaar to expand on the community engagement with the wider
Australian society. 5. Lobby and Political Advocacy planned for the next Federal Elections 2022, raise awareness on the importance of political activism and involvement.
As part of the 4th National Summit, member organisations from different states across Australia made a presentation on their current activities and programs to exchange benefit and experience with other organisations.
Despite the limitations of using an online platform for the summit, the presentations were of a high calibre, with robust engagement and discussion resulting in a successful event overall.
The Alliance of Australian Muslims aims to meet onsite in Sydney for the 5th National Summit on 30 October 2022.
All Muslim organisations and community leaders are invited to attend and support this initiative. All nominations and expressions of interest to join AAM can directly apply online: australianmuslims.org.au/join/
Sport results lead to antiMuslim pogroms in India
The unexpected but spectacular win by Pakistan over India in a T20 World Cup cricket match on Sunday 24 October led to a wave of anti-Muslim frenzy in India incited by Hindutva elements under the patronage of the ruling BJP government.
Soon after the game ended, Mohammed Shami, the only Muslim in the Indian cricket team, was viciously trolled and abused online. Social media users accused him of deliberately giving runs to the Pakistani team, while others labelled him a traitor.
A number of TV anchors known for their blind support for the BJP government went on an anti-Pakistan tirade and unsubstantiated accusations of Indian Muslims celebrating Pakistani victory after the match.
There were several reports of mobs in a number of places in India raising anti-Pakistan slogans, intimidating Muslim Indians and vilifying Islam.
In the northern state of Punjab there were reports of attacks on Kashmiri students allegedly for celebrating Pakistan’s victory after the cricket match.
Police in the Kashmir valley charged a number of students and staff at two medical colleges under the draconian anti-terror laws allegedly for shouting pro-Pakistan slogans during the match.
In the city of Agra, UP three Kashmiri university students accused of celebrating Pakistani victory, were arrested by police egged on by a mob raising “Pakistan murdabad” death to Pakistan slogans.
The three students were promptly suspended by their college pressured by members of the BJP and were charged for sedition and treason under IPC Sections 153-A (promoting enmity between different groups) and 505 (1)(B) (with intent to cause, or which is likely to cause, fear or alarm to the public, or to any section of the public), and 66-F of the Information Technology Act for allegedly sending WhatsApp messages “against the country” after the India Pakistan match.
The lawyers in Agra have refused to represent the Kashmiri students in the court. The Chairman of the Agra Bar Association Pramod Sharma said, “If you raise slogans against India while living in the country, it
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of Peace is not acceptable. It was a decision of the entire Bar Association that no one will represent the youths. As a citizen of this country, one must follow its policies. And if the same does not happen, it must be criticised.” It has now become a crime in the largest democracy of the world to cheer up your favourite sports team or sports star and if you do not comply with this nationalistic jingoism, you can be deemed a traitor or even a terrorist.
Thankfully the Indian cricket team still displayed sportsman spirit and captain Virat Kohli strongly came to the defence of Mohammed Shami trying to keep religion and national politics out of sports.
Readers comments
Re: Justice, not gender dictates the true Islamic leadership
I would like to congratulate Dr. Rashid Raashed for his courageous stand when everyone else prefers to remain silent. Dr. Raashed says that the Talibans are inspired by the Deobondi Fikh. I shall add to it by saying the Talibans ae bent on implementing it with their characteristic violent misogyny. They will not listen to anybody unless something comes from Deobond itself. There is no chance. This is not Islam. They will take Afghanistan to the stone age. Bad for the Muslims and bad for the world.
Farouk Choudhury Bella Vista NSW
Re: Muslims need to respond via the ballot box
It is a difficult journey, but as a Muslim we must put our trust in Allah. May Allah unite us and lead us to change the state of affairs towards good.
Mashallah, Inshallah.
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What an amazing AMUST Issue!
The articles are varied, have been well-researched, and food for thought! A lot of effort has also been put into putting the publication together.
JazakAllah for presenting information of an ‘Islamic’ nature, which enables the reader to be aware of so many issues.
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AMUST ISSUE # 192
FRIDAY 5 NOVEMBER 2021 29 RABI’UL AWWAL 1443 News 1 - 3
- Israel’s latest move condemned - Children & COVID-19 - Zia Ahmad recognised with award
- Anti-Muslim pogroms in India - Report: Countering violent extremism - Muslims as part of the underclass?
- Kids Deen Times - Social Spotlights
Boomerang 4 - 7
Community 8 - 15
- SistaHub: vaccination campaign - Minimise COVID-19 in mosques
Australia 16 - 19
- Premier of NSW went to our school - Women in the Abrahamic Traditions
Lifestyle 20 -22
- Home is where the heart is - Divorce: 9 Self-Care strategies
Ummah 23
- Dr Fathi Osman remembered - Emancipation of Muslim women
Education 24 - 25
- Approach to the Shari’ah - Seeking refuge in Allah
Business 26
- Processing the Future - Breaking the stereotypes
Travel 27
- Resilient Muslims in regional and remote Australia
Social 28 - 31
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LIFESTYLE 20 22 Perspectives on countering violent extremism in Australia
Dr Nada Roude
This research explores Australian Muslim leaders’ perspectives on the Federal Government’s countering violent terrorism policies and program, the efficacy of the government’s community engagement strategies, and the impact of political/media rhetoric and foreign policy on community trust and engagement.
Using a mixed method approach, the study elicits recommendations from data provided by Muslim leaders for improving Government–community engagement and curbing key indicators that foster extreme and violent ideologies.
The events of 11 September 2001, Madrid, 2004, London and Bali in 2005 generated new government responses and approaches to the threat of terrorism by the United States of America and its close allies- the Five-Eyes Partners, including the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand and Australia. Central to these counter-terrorism policies and strategies is the importance that communities play in defeating terrorism.
Community engagement is an important component in the so-called ‘fight against extremism and terrorism’. Since 2001, Australian Governments has identified the community as an important player collaborating with government to defeat terrorism.
This is supported by literature in Australia and the UK, which has reiterated the importance of community engagement to the success of governments’ countering extremism strategies (Briggs, 2010; Gunaratna, 2011; Klausen, 2009; Pickering, McCulloch, & Wright-Neville, 2008; Spalek & Imtoual, 2007; Spalek & Lambert, 2008).
This research explores the Australian government’s counterterrorism policies and, in particular, the countering violent extremism (CVE) strategy that was implemented at state and federal levels. The CVE strategy commenced under the Rudd government in 2009 with the creation of a CVE national framework, which was the first of its kind in Australia.
Religious and community leaders in the Australian Muslim communities have expressed concerns about the negative impact counterterrorism policies and legislation have had on members of the Muslim community, resulting in a lack of confidence and trust in working with government authorities.
Political and media rhetoric in Australia has been negative towards Muslim Australians, often contributing to heightened fears and the alienation of Australian Muslims from mainstream Australian society.
This study examined the extent to which negative political and media narratives have reinforced differences and thereby contributed to distrust and radicalisation among Muslims. This study also investigated: how the language used in political and media responses to terrorist attacks has affected the trust of local Muslim communities; and the engagement of Muslim communities with the government as partners in countering extremism.
The research focuses on Muslim community leaders’ perspectives on the effectiveness of the CVE strategy and the engagement processes, in order to identify factors that currently impede or might improve the likelihood of its success. In particular, the research aims at identifying better approaches for engaging Muslim communities as partners in developing counter-extremist strategies.
The research employed a mixed method of gathering data. A purposive sample was selected focusing on leaders of peak, state and local organisations and its leaders (or representatives) from Australia’s diverse Muslim community. These leaders were first asked to participate in an online questionnaire, and then a one on one semi-structured interviews
In this study, a Strength, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) analysis method was used to analyse data collected from the research participants on the reasons, factors and suggestions for improving the government CVE programme’s approach to countering violent extremism.
Dr Nada Roude is a consultant advising on cross cultural and religious issues. Her research addresses government approaches for engaging Muslim Communities as partners in countering violent extremism.
Muslims as part of the underclass?
Bilal Cleland
The notion of ethnic or social superiority is absent from Islam, if not from the practice of all Muslims.
“O humanity! We created you from a single (pair) of a male and a female and made you into nations and tribes that you may know each other (not that you may despise each other). Truly the most honoured of you in the sight of Allah is (the one who is) the most righteous of you. And Allah has full knowledge and is well acquainted (with all things).” [Quran 49:13]
There is a notion in western thinking of “blue blood.”
Not much openly discussed these days, it originated in Spain in the ninth century.
The Gothic nobles of the north proved that they were of pure pedigree by displaying the blue veins on their inner wrists, unlike the darker skinned Muslims.
Eventually it came to divide the lower and upper classes throughout Europe, with the original racist religious origins forgotten.
We saw a very clear illustration of the continuation of this ruler’s attitude towards “the other” in Pru Goward’s recent article. [AFR, 19 October 2021]
Ms Goward, NSW Liberal minister for community services until 2019, and a former federal sex discrimination commissioner, was appointed Professor of Social Interventions and Policy in August 2019 by Western Sydney University, of all places.
Likening the “underclass, ” which she seems to think is linked to the proletariat, to the stoats and weasels of “The Wind in the Willows,” she writes…..”They were to be feared and were, to use my mother’s words, not very nice.”
“Government agencies view them with alarm as huge cost centres; they are over-represented in their use of government crisis services and are always the last to give up smoking, get their shots and eat two servings of vegetables a day.”
Echoing Malthus she says: “Their birth rates far outstrip those of professional couples and they are now a significant potential contributor to our workforce.”
They not only breed like rabbits but they are also mentally deficient: “… their children languish in the growing number of behavioural support classes in general high schools where they learn little.”
They might suffer from mental illness, cognitive disabilities and traumatic childhoods but they can be of service, presumably to the “blue bloods.”
They can help avoid the importation of large number of workers by being made more amenable to exploitation with some undefined but “well designed” social policy.
“I am convinced we can do better to harness the force that the people of the underclass represent. We need to make it a focus of social policy, not a by-product of it. We have little choice, or we will continue to import our workforce …”
This approach, coming from a Western Sydney Professor of Social Interventions and Policy, is concerning.
“A Demographic, Social and Economic Profile of Muslims in Australia 2015,” by Professor Riaz Hassan, pointed to evidence of social injustice, rather than inferiority, behind the picture.
Australian Muslims’ level of educational attainment compares favourably with the total population.
They are more likely to have completed Year 12 and Muslim men are more likely to have a bachelors or postgraduate degree.
A larger proportion of Muslims are in fulltime education compared with all Australians.
Muslims live near employment opportunities, 75% living in Melbourne or Sydney.
The Muslim population is young, going on the profile of immigrants to this country, with over 60% of our Muslim population immigrant.
What does not match this well educated and productive profile is the level of income, of unemployment and ease of obtaining employment.
Muslim Australians are significantly underrepresented in the high-status occupational categories and overrepresented in lower socioeconomic categories.
Their rate of unemployment is about double that of all Australians and there is blatant discrimination in employment practices.
“To get as many interviews as an Anglo applicant with an Anglo-sounding name, an Indigenous person must submit 35 per cent more applications, … and a Middle Eastern person 64 per cent more applications.”
Blue blood mentality, Malthusian starve the poor to stop them breeding, God favours the good through prosperity, are all anti-human attitudes which still exist under the surface, only occasionally vomiting forth.
The Muslim community needs to step up front on such issues and defend basic morality.
Scholars need freedom to persuade Taliban to Islamic practices
Dr Daud Batchelor
To sell occupation of Afghanistan as part of the US led Western coalition destructive wars for over 25 years on the Muslim world, Neocons promoted to Westerners that it was to establish democracy (which they could manipulate). However, this perspective was not fully embraced by Afghans who refrained from strongly supporting the US-installed, corrupt Afghan government. Further, would you expect to change ingrained cultural mores of battle-hardened guerillas on women’s rights, facing the muzzle of a gun?
The overriding issue today is preventing further harm to Afghan-resident citizens, who experienced 40 years continuous warfare, and whose well-be ing Gallup Poll surveys demonstrate, has slumped to abysmal levels. This statement applies to all – Hazaras, Pashtuns, Tajiks etc.
W e shouldn’t be distracted by those who wish to keep the conflict raging, rather than addressing dire needs of long-suffering Afghans.
Following rapid takeover by the Taliban, we saw their relative restraint shown to diverse groups, and in facilitating the emigration of erstwhile adversaries.
It is likely the Taliban will shut down opium production facilitated by the former government, which will save countless lives. Taliban also provides a higher level of statewide security.
However, the Taliban are not yet reflecting Islamic teachings in many of their practices.
Probably, the best way to influence their leadership, often raised on a narrow rigid view of Islam, is for Ulama to engage them and draw attention to their many un-Islamic practices.
As an example, Iranian women were notably successful after the 1979 Iranian Revolution in engaging the Ulama, putting forward persuasive fiqhi arguments, thereby bringing positive change in women’s treatment.
AFIC’s initiatives in trying to engage with Taliban leadership should be supported, perhaps in consultation and inclusion of representatives from the Australian Afghan community including women.
There should not be any ill-advised government censorship over zealously-protected freedoms of speech in Australia, especially in preventing Muslim scholars persuading Taliban leadership to a softer, compassionate, more inclusive governance of their majestic country and its courageous citizens.
In this respect, AFIC appointed Grand Mufti of Australia, Sheikh Abdul Quddoos Al-Azhari, in his talk prepared in advance for the cancelled webinar, requested the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan: firstly, to educate all Afghans without any gender-based discrimination; secondly, to provide equal treatment of citizens without discrimination based on gender or clan, treating them honourably and compassionately; and thirdly, to ensure justice in providing people their legitimate Islamic rights, including their right to choose representatives, and governance through a Shura’ process.
As Islam reformed pre-existing Arabian Jahiliya society, so there is no place in Afghanistan for Asabiyyism tribal/ethnic solidarity that excludes participation of all communities.
Also keep in mind that a recent public debate was won by the team advocating engagement with Taliban.
The Australian Institute of International Affairs NSW hosted a debate that “Australia should establish full diplomatic relations with the Taliban government in Afghanistan.”
Adjudicator, Kevin Boreham, awarded victory to those affirming that dealing pragmatically with the government in effective power in Afghanistan would help Afghans by promoting better conditions and support Australian objectives, facilitating humanitarian aid, assisting refugees and preventing its use as a terrorism base.
If Taliban’s current refusal to open female high schools is due to financial shortfalls, the Australian Government could provide foreign aid to cover emergency operating funds.
We call on Islamic scholars worldwide to reach out to the Taliban and help persuade them to implement teachings befitting a state calling itself Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan – to protect all Afghan citizens and shows the true face of Islam, not one coloured by just Pashtun lenses.
Dr Daud Batchelor, holds an MA in Islamic and Other Civilisations and a Diploma in Islamic Studies from the International Islamic University Malaysia, PhD from University of Malaya, MSc from the University of London.
The Hapsburg Family was so focused upon preserving blue blood that it became inbred and produced generations of the Hapsburg Jaw.
Bilal Cleland is a keen reader, a prolific writer and a regular columnist of AMUST based in Melbourne.
Kangaroo Made Into Jungle King
Fazlul Huq
Bush beyond fire trail is seen to be covered with native trees including gum and casuarina, banksia and paper bark, bush magnolia and tree of the unknown heritage.Where kookaburras and cuckoos in multitudes are witnessed to remain perched on the gum tree branch in preference to others as they are seen to fly in the air. While you also seen deer and wallaby come out of the bush as do mighty lizards and flowing reptiles, the kangaroo hued in brown is found to have made into Jungle King.
Dr Fazlul Huq is a retired academic and Editor-in-Chief Emanreserch Journal Of Angiotherapy. He is also the poet “Jujube” at Allpoetry.com with over 35,000 compositions.
Nada Kalam
SistaHub are a group of Melbourne-based Muslim women hailing from diverse cultural and professional backgrounds united by a common cause – preserving the wellbeing of Muslim women by catering to their specific needs and addressing their concerns.
The team have launched a vaccination campaign recently that has garnered tremendous community support and positive media attention. The campaign aims to address the very valid concerns of Muslim women but to also offer solutions, by organising two vaccination hubs for Muslim women.
The hubs are located in Hume and Wyn- SistaHub are proud to be affiliated with SistaHub: “dham, and will be women-only spaces that cater to religious and cultural sensitivities. The staff the values of compassion, integrity and human welfare, rather than with a present will only include women. The team have preserving the particular organisation. The team aim aimed to provide bicultural volunteers to assuage concerns and answer questions. Bookings can be made wellbeing of Muslim women by catering to their to branch out into other areas of community need and interest once the vaccination campaign via the SistaHub website, which also offers insights into the campaign’s focus and other valuable information. specific needs... “ includes. SistaHub are a great example of how much momentum and traction can be gained when community advocates band together at short notice for a common cause.
For information and bookings, visit SistaHub.org and follow their social media pages.
Nada is passionate about technology disruption in evolving and rapidly growing markets. She is currently working at Telstra Energy as the engineering lead on a suite of projects. She is also the founder of two operational organisations – one focussed on waste management (Why Waste Waste), and a professional mentoring and networking organisation (Muslim Professionals Association).
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