Family guilty of 'honour killing'

A father and his two sons have been found guilty of murdering his daughter's boyfriend in an "honour killing" after she became pregnant.
Arash Ghorbani-Zarin, 19, was found stabbed 46 times in a car in Rosehill, Oxford, on 20 November last year.

The Iranian Muslim had been studying at Oxford Brookes University.

Chomir Ali, 44, was found guilty of ordering sons Mohammed Mujibar Rahman, 19, and Mamnoor Rahman, 16, to kill Mr Ghorbani-Zarin, at Oxford Crown Court.

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More Muslim women need to get out of the family home and enter the workplace if genuine equality is to be achieved in Britain, says former Home Secretary David Blunkett.

The minister was speaking in Glasgow last week. He said it was time for Islamic community to start changing their attitude to women and encouraging all their mothers, daughters and wives to learn English, get a job and escape the control of male dominated households.

He said “Quite a number of people in the south Asian community in the country who have no job and are not connected to society are women”.

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We have entered the last Ashra of Ramadan…and the last odd nights.

In one of these odd nights falls Lailatul Qadr….the night of all nights….night in which the Holy Qur’an was revealed.

The the night which is considered BETTER than 83 years of worship. How much better? This is knowledge that exists with Allah (swt) alone….

The night in which prayers are answered and sins are forgiven….the night in which we are blessed with an overflow of angels.

So it makes SENSE to stay awake all night, in order to seek an abundance of reward, mercy, blessings from our Creator.

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Someone mentioned this point to me once….using the catchy slogan in the title above. It really made me think.

Does anyone believe that sometimes our focus becomes lost?

I mean, sometimes we get so bogged down dunia stuff…work/Uni/school/family etc etc that we sometimes forget stop to think about Allah (swt)…..sometimes the purpose of being sent to this world gets pushed at the back of our mind.

I feel that the people who are actually busy working for Islam, striving to improve themselves and those around them using hiqmah (wisdom) are few and far between.