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Reflecting on World AIDS Day
December 1, 2009 by Gary Kopycinski
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–December 1, 2009. On this World AIDS Day, as more than 33 million people worldwide live with HIV/AIDS, we want to recognize the impact of the HIV/AIDS crisis in our own country and to call for action that helps the communities and people most in need.
AIDS is the number one killer of black women between the ages of 25 and 34.
Black women are now almost 15 times as likely to be infected with HIV and 23 times more likely to be diagnosed with AIDS as white women.
A total of 44,100 people in the United States were newly diagnosed with HIV in 2007, a 13 percent increase from 2006.
Fifty-four percent of new HIV diagnoses in 2007 occurred in gay and bisexual men of all races and ethnicities.
African Americans, who make up only 12 percent of the U.S. population, now make up more than 49 percent of new infections and nearly 40 percent of all HIV/AIDS deaths in the U.S.
If African Americans in the United States constituted their own country, that country would rank 21 in the world among those with the highest number of individuals living with HIV.
In Washington, D.C., 15,000 people—3 percent of D.C.'s adult population—have HIV or AIDS. A 1 percent population threshold is required for an epidemic to be considered "severe" or "generalized."
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has threatened to cut off HIV/AIDS funding for D.C. due to severe and chronic mismanagement of previous grants.
Only 9 percent of U.S. federal discretionary HIV/AIDS spending in 2008 was dedicated to domestic prevention services—down from 14 percent in 2000.
International HIV/AIDS discretionary spending increased from 4 percent in 2000 to 46 percent in 2008.
The United States has increased its PEPFAR commitment for international HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment by $48 billion over the next five years.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would need $4.8 billion over the next five years to reduce the annual number of new HIV infections in the United States.
We are encouraged that the Obama administration's Office of National AIDS Policy is developing a National HIV/AIDS Strategy, something advocates have long called for.
At the very least, this strategy should focus on the following:
1. Providing health insurance to all people who have HIV or AIDS, regardless of their ability to afford such coverage.
2. Establishing explicit care and prevention guidelines that target people based on their sexual orientation, race/ethnicity, gender, age, immigration status, and/or geography.
3. Appointing a high-level official with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to oversee (and better leverage) funding for HIV/AIDS-related care.
The United States should continue funding programs that fight HIV/AIDS around the world. But we must also seriously address the root causes of the AIDS crisis here at home. This crisis is fueled by complex factors—poverty, discrimination, violence, homophobia, and stark racial and gender inequities—that most people prefer to ignore or at the very least address in isolation from each other. A new dynamic approach to conquering HIV/AIDS is needed, otherwise the epidemic will only persist and grow here at home.
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Connaught Rangers, 1st Battalion
William Monaghan was the son of Patrick Monahan (Monaghan), a Permanent Way Inspector for the Midlands Great Western Railway (MGWR). He was likely born in Co. Dublin like the majority of his siblings, and his family moved to Co. Longford sometime after 1905.
Pte Monahan fought in the Battle of Mons and was injured, there. In December 1915 he was sent to Mesopotamia (Iraq) and it was for services rendered there that in June 1916 that he won the Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM), for "conspicuous gallantry when rescuing a man from in front of the trenches. Private Cruthchlow crawled out pushing a stretcher, on which he placed the man, and later with Private Monahan, he rushed out again under heavy fire and brought him in".
Son of Patrick Monaghan/Monaghan, formerly Ardnacassagh, Longford
The attached image was published in the Longford Leader (link below). Another article in August 1916 stated that his father was to be transferred to Westport, and that he was an important figure in the Ancient Order of Hibernians in Longford.
Link to Longford Leader article on DCM, 1 July 1916

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Hondo, Texas
Ruins of St Dominic's Catholic Church
On a dusty county road sit the ruins of a ghost town's abandoned church.
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The ruins of Saint Dominic's Catholic Church in D'Hanis. Larry D. Moore/CC BY-SA 3.0
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St. Dominic's cemetery. Map data ©2017 Google
The D'Hanis ruins. Map data ©2017 Google
Saint Dominic's Church photographed by Fannie Ratchford in 1936. Texas State Archives/Public Domain
St Dominic's in Spring sueley (Atlas Obscura User)
The town of D'Hanis was the third settlement founded by Henri Castro, a Alsatian employee of the Texas Congress charged with populating the desert with European immigrants. He named the village after one of his top employees upon its groundbreaking in 1847. It was inhabited by a just few dozen families in mesquite shacks.
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The only thing that remained in Old D'Hanis was Saint Dominic's Catholic Church. Churchgoers continued to attend mass there until a fire ravaged the old building in 1912. In 1915 new church was built closer to town and the ruins of Saint Dominic's were left behind.
Little is left of Old D'Hanis aside from the ruins. The history of the town might be lost to time if not for the cemetery attached to the church, in which D'Hanis' original settlers are interred. The grave markers themselves are French-German in style, and the epitaphs, though difficult to read, tell much about the people who lived in Old D'Hanis.
Alexander Bohemia Hoffman's gravestone reads, "Killed by Indians in Uvalde County;" Mary Anne Rudinger's sadly states hers was "The first death upon arrival of settlers at Dhanis May 25, 1847 Carrying smaller children over streams she became ill and died on above date."
New D'Hanis is still small, with a population of 550 or so. The ruins of Saint Dominic Catholic Church and the D'Hanis Cemetery are part now of the D'Hanis Historic District. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 24, 1976.
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Former British Airways Pilot Cat Burton talks about diversity in aviation
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08/08/2017 Airline news, Features 8 minute read
Former British Airways Pilot Cat Burton talks about her career in aviation and how diversity in aviation, in particular towards Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender (LGBT), helped her fly as the person she really is.
I just retired from my 45-year career as a British Airways pilot, having joined Cardiff based predecessor airline, Cambrian Airways, in 1972. British Airways works hard to increase the number of women pilots by encouraging young women into the career with school visits and career fairs. In 2014, my chief pilot inducted me into the Diversity and Inclusion team with the words, "Cat. You're British Airways' most senior woman pilot. You belong on the team encouraging more women to become a pilot."
I was concerned that joining would cause potential problems for the employer I love. Because in 1972, there were no women airline pilots in the UK. Yvonne Pope Sintes was just about to break through that barrier. I am transgender. In 1972, British Airways actually did have a woman pilot, but at the time, they didn't know it and neither did I. I am very careful not to claim that pioneering first role as I did not share the struggle of the first women. I had my own struggles.
My chief pilot's response to my reservations, however, was to tell me to get on with it.
Cat Burton (Image: Cat Burton)
I joined the Flight Ops Diversity and Inclusion team and, eventually led it as the Diversity Champion. I visited schools but also gave 'floorplate talks' – visits to departments within British Airways to help them see that transgender is normal. Large corporate entities get why a diverse workforce is the strongest possible workforce. Recruiting from the widest possible pool, then retaining that diversity impacts the bottom line in a very positive way.
My 45-year career has seen me flying a wide variety of types on the full spread of routes operated by British Airways. I started on Cambrian Viscount 800s, initially based in Liverpool, flying the Irish Sea routes then transferring home to Cardiff flying routes such as Jersey, Guernsey, Dublin and Paris (Le Bourget way back then). When Cardiff closed as a British Airways base, I moved to Heathrow, but continued to fly Viscounts until 1980 when I trained onto the Boeing 737-200adv, an old school 737 but with a digital autopilot and autoland. This was with British Airtours, based at Gatwick, flying charter. In those early 80s, I earned my Airtours 100 tie for flying to over 100 different destinations. I flew the Lockheed L1011 Tristar for one year, on a long/short-haul mix of routes but when the Tristar was confined to short-haul, at the end of 1985, I returned to the 737 for a year before training onto the 747-100/200 at the start of 1987, based at Heathrow and flying the full width of long-haul routes, including a posting to Sydney for 4 months.
In October 1988, I went to Amsterdam as part of course number 1 for training onto the new 747-400. We ended up not taking delivery of the first -400 until the following August but that was the start of a love affair with the best flying aeroplane in my logbook. The -400, apart from a two-crew glass cockpit, had numerous other changes from the 'classic' 747, one of which was a new wing. This made the -400 handle so much more crisply than the classic that it felt like an entirely different design. The -400 remains my favourite type to fly.
But in 1992, just short of my 20 year anniversary with British Airways, I achieved a command. I became a Captain on Boeing 757s with the rebranded charter division – Caledonian Airways. I flew, there, with my own baby co-pilots. Raw cadets, most of whom were disappointed not to be the 'hub of empire' as Heathrow perceives itself. Within a month, you would have needed a stick of dynamite to get one of those co-pilots to leave Gatwick. Two reasons. The routes and the crews. We used to spend a week on the beach in Mombasa regularly. Most of those young men are now, themselves, very senior training captains with British Airways and, as a group, make me very proud to have had some small hand in their development. Just three short years later, Caledonian became part of Thomas Cook and they decided they didn't need British Airways 757s or their crews and we all headed back to Heathrow, in my case, to long-haul as captain of a 747 classic.
By this time, 1995, the classic 747 was a 'dying fleet', it was old and thirsty and, for six years, all new 747s had been -400s, which are different enough that British Airways operated them as a different fleet with dedicated pilots. The classic had a shrinking route structure as, first the oldest -100s and then the -200s retired. We flew, mainly, to the East Coast of the USA. Often. In one memorable month, I crossed the Atlantic 15 times. Is it any wonder that when I achieved a return to the -400 a few years later, it felt like an escape.
British Airways 747 G-CIVI at Cardiff Airport
Then began the longest time on one aircraft type in my entire career. As a co-pilot, I'd experienced every type of flying from ultra-short-haul to ultra-long-haul. I knew the -400 was where I wanted to be. I stayed put. At the time, British Airways had a compulsory retirement age of 55 so I was expecting to retire from the -400 but the European Union had something to say about that. They made it illegal to discriminate on the grounds of age and compulsory retirement ages ended on 31st October 2006. I had been due to retire in July 2007. But by then, age was catching up with my beloved -400. The new pretender to her crown was the Boeing 777. Initially, there was just rivalry and banter but the 777 is much more fuel efficient. In times of expensive oil, it became apparent that the -400 was going the way of the classic. Several reprieves seemed to happen as oil prices fluctuated but the best routes were slowly migrating to the 777. For me, the final straw was the Mauritius. Not for its own sake but simply because it was the last beach destination to leave the -400. My final -400 flight was in January 2009. By then, I had achieved 15,500 flying hours on 747 variants alone.
The 777 is a wonderful aircraft to operate. It has the best route structure. I never felt as nice as the -400 to hand fly but in every other way, it was a good move. I arrived as number 2 in seniority and, since we bid for work in a monthly auction based on seniority, I have written my own roster since the move. I had just got under the bar for a change of types before the age of 60 and nobody senior to me could join the 777. I went where a chose, I had days off when I chose, but I had an increasing reputation as grumpy and moody.
When I was 14, I had dressed as a girl with a school friend. It hadn't been an affirming experience. Indeed, I'd looked just like what I was. A 14-year-old rugby playing lad in a frock. I'd locked the experience away in a box at the back of my mind marked 'do not open' and forgotten about it. But something opened that box and I knew from the moment it was opened I had to give this one last best chance. I was worried about looking as bad as I had in 1966 so I started by enlisting the help of a woman friend who visited one weekend and gave me a makeover, which wasn't as scary as I'd been dreading. Next, I went to another woman friend who runs a very successful business offering transformational makeovers and escorted outings in London. She showed me what was possible. From there, I slowly expanded my time as 'Cat' with shopping trips, restaurants, weekends away. Increasingly, I became more comfortable as Cat that as the old me. I was still him for work and when I needed to be, at home, but it felt like Cat was the real me and being him was the role play.
Then, in 2014, I was grounded by the CAA for extended cardiology tests. I took the opportunity to tell both British Airways and the CAA that I was transgender. I was expecting to return to work as the old me but wanted them prepped and primed. In the July, I went, as usual, to Manchester, for a transgender festival called Sparkle. I'd been before but had always had to go back to being him to return to work after the weekend. In 2014, being grounded, I stayed as the real me. It soon became apparent that I could not face returning to being the old me. When I tried, I became so emotional that I knew I'd never pass the simulator check I knew I faced on returning to work so I changed my name, legally, told British Airways and the CAA that I would be returning as Cat and started the paper trail of changes needed to adopt a new gender. Passports, US Visa, driving license, airline ID card, ATPL, bank and credit card accounts. The list is endless. But I did indeed return to work as me.
When my chief pilot asked me along to that meeting, I thought it might be to say that colleagues didn't like flying with their only transgender colleague. Indeed, he started out by saying he'd had a stream of co-pilots through his office to talk about me. But they'd all been saying how much easier and pleasant it was to fly with me. Gone were the grumpiness and the moods.
British Airways has had three years of a totally committed employee since my return to work. Still a full-time captain but also a diversity champion and vocal advocate. I have made more friends amongst my colleagues in those three years than in the preceding thirty.
And now I've retired. Although it became illegal to discriminate on the grounds of age and forced retirement, the rules of EASA and thus the CAA say public transport flying after 65 is still not allowed, even though I've continued to pass both medicals and skill checks.
So off I go, now, to new horizons. Private flying and a consultancy company to talk about aviation and diversity matters. Maybe I'll see you at one of my talks. If so, do say hello.
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Luke mitchell says:
Lovely article Cat, was always lovely to fly with you at LGW. Enjoy you're retirement


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UPDATE: Researching Islamic Law; Malaysian Sources
By Shaikh Mohamed Noordin
Shaikh Mohamed Noordin has more than eighteen years of experience in law librarianship. He has been a librarian in several law firms in Kuala Lumpur and currently with Belden Advocates and Solicitors as a Library Consultant. He has contributed several articles to various law librarian journals, both locally and internationally.
Published May/June 2011
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2. Scope of Islamic Law
3. Sources of Islamic Law
4. Where to Find Islamic Law
4.1 Legislation
4.2 Law Reports
4.3 Case Law and Court Information
4.4 Introductory Works on Islamic Law
4.5 Books on Islamic Law
4.6 Periodical Articles on Islamic Law
4.7 Internet Resources on Islamic Law
4.8 Locating Islamic Law Materials in the Libraries
5. Islamic Law Study in Malaysia
6. Islamic Legal Profession
Prior to 1887, it was not known that Islamic law had existed in Malaysia; in that year, a rectangle shaped stone was found in Kuala Berang, Terangganu, with an inscription, which detailed a code of Islamic law. The stone was dated in the year 1303, hundreds of years earlier than the Law of Malacca Code was first introduced.
Islamic law was established in Malaysia by the fourteenth century. During the colonial period, the British did not interfere with religion in the country. Islam was adopted as the religion of the state, with the Constitution providing that the leader in each state must be a Muslim. Yet, the Constitution also guarantees full religious freedom to members of all faiths.
With the exception of Putrajaya, the new administrative capital of Malaysia, each state in Malaysia, including the Federal Territories (Kuala Lumpur and Labuan) has its own religious Council. The function of this Council is to advise the ruler, or the king in non-ruler states, on Muslim and Islamic matters. All of these Councils are established by state law. The Federal Constitution also provides that a State Legislature has power to enact laws relating to, inter alia, personal and family law for Muslims, Muslim Waqf, Zakat, Fitrah, Baitul Mal, Mosques, the creation and punishment of offences by Muslims against precepts of Islam, Muslim Courts, the control and propagation of doctrines and beliefs among Muslims, and the determination of matters of Islamic Law.
The Muslim courts established by State authorities have jurisdiction only over Muslims, and have no jurisdiction over criminal offences, unless specifically conferred by federal law. Most of the Islamic Law that has been enacted in the States of Malaysia has developed into an independent legal system, substantially different from the strict Islamic Law of the Syariah, except perhaps in family law.
[Post] independence (Noordin, the amendment was in 1988 – Article 121(1A)), a constitutional amendment was passed which resolved any questions of power or jurisdiction which might arise between the Shariah Court and the Civil Court. This amendment stated that no court has jurisdiction in any matter, which is under the jurisdiction of the Syariah Court; in effect, the Civil court has no influence on the jurisdiction of Syariah Court.
Problems occasionally arise in the implementation of Islamic Criminal Law. The enactment (or implementation, which?) of the Syariah Criminal Code in each State does not distinguish between the three types of crimes in Islamic law, which are Hudood, Qisas and Tazir; rather, they are all combined, which often causes confusion. In order to gain the confidence of the public, the Syariah Courts, their Judges and Officers have to show that Islamic Law is not only the best Law in theory, but also the best in practical application; hence, the aforementioned confusion is a serious concern.
In Malaysia, most of the books on Islamic law are written in the Malay language rather than the English language, and contain many Arabic terms that describe the law.
Islamic law is not a legal system, but a legal tradition, much like the common or civil law tradition. A legal tradition is a set of related beliefs, attitudes, and practices regarding the necessary components of a legal system, including the scope and purposes of the law, the manner in which law is created or discovered, the identity and function of legal actors, and the manner in which law is learned, implemented, developed and adapted.
Islam has its own personal, civil, criminal, mercantile, evidentiary, constitutional, and international law. In Malaysia, Islamic law and customary law were the law of the land long before English law became prominent, as under the current system. According to the Federal Constitution, Islamic law is a matter falling within the State List, meaning that the State Legislature is empowered to enact the law. Exceptions to this are the Federal Territories of Kuala Lumpur, Labuan and Putrajaya, in which Islamic law is enacted by the Federal Parliament. Malaysia maintains two parallel justice systems: the Syariah Court System in each of the thirteen states, and the Civil Court System for the whole Federation. Each state in Malaysia has its own Syariah court system, which deals with matters relating to Islamic law in which the permitted litigants are all Muslim.
All matters pertaining to Islamic law shall only be heard in the Syariah court; all other cases are heard in the civil courts. The Constitution has empowered the State Legislature to promulgate Islamic law and personal and family law for all persons professing the religion of Islam (except with regard to matters included in the Federal List) such as succession, betrothal, marriage, divorce, maintenance, adoption, guardianship, trusts, Islamic religious revenue and mosques. Civil and Criminal law are within the Federal Government's jurisdiction, except for criminal offences, which involve Muslims as listed in the State List. The rules of Syariah are set by various sultans, who serve as Head of the Islamic religion in their respective states. Because Islamic law is administered by the respective states, there is a lack of uniformity in the administration of Islamic law in Malaysia.
The Quran is the primary source of Islamic law, as it contains all the fundamental directives and instructions of God. The Sunnah is the second source of Islamic law. Sunnah is an Arabic word, which means "Method," and it refers to the statements, actions, and agreements of the Prophet Muhammad. Its authority is derived from the text of the Quran. The Quran and the Sunnah are complimentary – the laws described in the Quran are general in nature, and the Sunnah makes them specific and particular. The Sunnah explains the instructions of the Quran. The Quranic injunction is sometimes implicit; the Sunnah makes it explicit by providing essential ingredients and details. Ijma (consensus of opinion of scholars) and Qiyas (laws derived through analogical deduction) are the secondary or dependent sources of Islamic law. For more information, see Islamic Law and
E-Hadith.
State legislation is not widely available on the internet, so it is not easy to find Islamic legislation of the individual states. However, Islamic law that affects Federal territories is available from several sources, some of the links to which are listed below.
Since Islamic law is regulated by state legislative assemblies, the law is published within the respective state gazettes, except for the Federal Territories of Kuala Lumpur, Labuan and Putrajaya, in which the Islamic law is enacted by the Parliament and is published in the Federal Gazettes.
Islamic Family Law
Islamic Family Law (Federal Territories) Act 1984, Act 303
Enacts certain provisions of the Islamic Family Law regarding marriage, divorce, maintenance, guardianship and other matters connected with family life. Extension and modification in its application to Federal Territory Putrajaya – PU (A) 250/2002.
Islamic Procedural Law
Administration of Islamic Law (Federal Territories) Act 1993, Act 505
Provides for the enforcement and administration of Islamic law, the constitution and organization of Syariah Courts and related matters in the Federal Territories.
Syariah Criminal Procedure (Federal Territories) Act 1997, Act 560
An Act to make provision relating to Syariah criminal procedure for Syariah Courts. Extension and modification in its application to Federal Territory Putrajaya – PU (A) 248/2002.
Syariah Court Civil Procedure (Federal Territories) Act 1999, Act 585
Makes provisions relating to civil procedure for the Syariah Court. Extension and
modification in its application to Federal Territory Putrajaya – PU (A) 252/2002.
Syariah Court Evidence (Federal Territories) Act 1997, Act 561
Defines the law of evidence for the Syariah Court. Extension and modification in its application to Federal Territory Putrajaya – PU (A) 259/2002.
Islamic Criminal Law
Syariah Criminal Offences (Federal Territories) Act 1997, Act 559
Provides for Syariah criminal offences and matters relating thereto. Extension and modification in its application to Federal Territory Putrajaya – PU (A) 251/2002.
Syariah Courts (Criminal Jurisdiction) Act 1965, Act 355
Confers jurisdiction upon Courts constituted under any State law for the purpose of dealing with offences under Islamic law. Originally enacted as Muslim Courts (Criminal Jurisdiction) Enactment.
Islamic Financial Law
Islamic Banking Act, 1983, Act 276
Provides for the licensing and regulation of the Islamic banking business.
Islamic Financial Services Board Act, 2002, Act 623
Enables Bank Negara Malaysia to become a member of the Islamic Financial Services Board by signing and accepting the Agreement establishing the Board, and confers certain powers, immunities, and privileges upon the Board and its constituent organs for matters to which it is connected.
Islamic Development Bank Act, 1975, Act 153
Gives effect to an international agreement for the establishment and operation of the Islamic Development Bank, and enables Malaysia to be a Member thereof.
Takaful Act 1984 (Act 312)
Provides for the regulation of the takaful (Islamic insurance) business in Malaysia.
Undang-Undang Syariah (Syariah Law in Malay)
Syariah Reports (Selected Cases) from 2004
Published by the Malaysian Current Law Journal (CLJ), this is a compilation of selected cases from the Syariah Courts. The compilation, which reports 56 Malay language judgments of the Syariah High Courts/Appeal Courts in Malaysia, and 3 judgments in English from the Syariah Appeal Board of Singapore, is published in collaboration with the Department of Syariah Judiciary, Malaysia.
Shariah Law Reports
From October 2004 to present, a quarterly journal on the Syariah published
by Malaysian Law Journal (MLJ)
Arahan Amalan Mahkamah Syariah – Practice Directions of Syariah Court
Syariah Court Procedures & Processes (in Malay)
Department of Syariah Malaysia - Portal E-Syariah
Jabatan Kemajuan Islam Malaysia
Halsbury's Laws of Malaysia – Syariah Law (Vol. 14)
Syariah Law
This is the first work of its kind ever to be published in Malaysia, and is the result of the combined efforts, knowledge, expertise and practical experience of Syariah law experts and academics. It covers a wide range of topics such as conflict of laws between Syariah and civil courts; Islamic banking and its operations; Islamic family law, including betrothal, marriage, divorce and its ancillary orders; arbitration by Hakam; legitimacy and maintenance of children, Islamic criminal law and procedure; and Islamic law of evidence and Syariah civil procedure including contempt of court and appeals. It also contains provisions of the individual State Enactments, a wealth of Syariah cases, which have been reported in the Malayan Law Journal and the Jurnal Hukum, relevant Quranic citations, as well as references to the Sunnah and Hadith. This title is the definitive and indispensable companion for all Syariah lawyers, academics, and students, as well as for the public.
Islamic Law Book Catalogues:
List of Textbook Titles and Statutes on Islamic Law in Malaysia - Published by International Law Book
Services (ILBS)
A.S. Noordeen – Malaysian Publisher of Islamic Books – list of books on Islamic law
Islamic Books Online
Bibliografi Islamic Law
Selected Islamic Law Books:
Islamic Law in Malaysia: Issues and Developments by Mohammad Hashim Kamali, Kuala Lumpur, Ilmiah Publisher (2000).
Powers and Jurisdiction of Syariah Courts in Malaysia, 2nd Ed., By Farid Sufian Shuaib, Kuala Lumpur, LexisNexis Malaysia (2008).
The Administration of Islamic Law, by Ahmad Ibrahim, Abdul Monir Yaacob – Kuala Lumpur: Institute of Islamic Understanding Malaysia (IKIM), 1997.
An Introduction to Islamic Law of Evidence, by Mahmud Saedon A. Othman, translated by Raden Ahmad Shauki R. Hisam – Kuala Lumpur: The Open Press, 2000.
Undang-Undang Islam di Mahkamah-Mahkamah Syariah di Malaysia, by Ahmad Hidayat Buang, Kuala Lumpur, Jabatan Syariah dan Undang-Undang, Akademi Pengajian Islam, Universiti Malaya, 1998.
Perlaksanaan Undang-Undang Islam Dalam Mahkamah Syariah dan Mahkamah Sivil di Malaysia, by A. Monir Yaacob, Kuala Lumpur: Institut Kefahaman Islam Malayisa [i.e. Malaysia], [1995].
Collections of Articles on Islamic Law:
1. Article Collections – International Islamic University Malaysia
2. Academy of Islamic Study, University of Malaya – Theses on Islamic Law
3. Sisters in Islam – The Law & You – Legal Column
Selected Islamic Law Articles:
1. Recent Developments in Shariah Law in Malaysia
2. Internet-Based Learning in Malaysia: Islamic Law by Noor Inayah Yaakub.
3. Separate legal entity under Syariah law and its application on Islamic banking in Malaysia: A Note
By Zainal A. Zuryati, Mohamed Yusoff and Ahmad N. Azra
Law Journals:
1. Jurnal Hukum , from 1980 to present.
2. The IIUM Law Journal, from 1989 to present.
3. Jurnal Syariah
Islamic Legal Vocabulary
E-Syariah
Jabatan Kehakiman Syariah Malaysia - Department of Syariah Judiciary Malaysia
Pursat Pengurusan Undang-Undang Islam (PPUI) - Islamic Law Management Centre
Persatuan Peguam Syarie Malaysia (PGSM) – Syarie Lawyers Association of Malaysia
Panelist and expertise in Syariah Community in Attorney General's Chambers
MLTIC Syariah Law Portal
Institute of Islamic Understanding Malaysia library
Department of Syariah Judiciary Malaysia Library
International Islamic University Malaysia Library
There are currently six law schools in public universities in Malaysia –they are University of Malaya, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, International Islamic University of Malaysia, University Teknologi MARA, Islamic Science University of Malaysia and Universiti Utara Malaysia. Further information is available at the links below:
Islamic Legal Education in Public Law Schools in Malaysia – Charting the Direction by Muhammad Nizam Awang
Islamic Legal Education at International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM): Some suggestions for Improvement
Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) & Bachelor of Laws (Shari'ah) (LL.B_S) from International Islamic University Malaysia
Bachelor of Syariah and Law with Honours- Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia
Diploma in Islamic Judicial and Advocacy Practice (DIJAP) – Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia
Diploma Pengajian Islam Pengkhususan Syariah dan Undang-Undang – Kolej Islam Pahang Sultan Ahmad Shah (KIPSAS)
A Study of Islamic Family Law in Malaysia: A Select Bibliography by Raihana Abdullah
Department of Islamic Law – International Islamic University Malaysia
Although there is no restriction for non-Muslims to study Islamic law in Malaysian universities, a non-Muslim lawyer however cannot practice in the Syariah courts. The Islamic Council of each state acts as a governing body to regulate Islamic legal practice and licence Islamic law graduates as 'Syarie' lawyers. In a landmark case recently decided by the Kuala Lumpur High Court, a non-Muslim lawyer lost in her bid to challenge the requirement of the Islamic Council that a Syariah lawyer must be a Muslim. The lawyer who holds a diploma in Syarie Law and Practice (DSLP) conferred by the International Islamic University Malaysia failed to get an order to compel the Federal Territory Islamic Religious Council to accept her application to be a Syariah lawyer .
Who qualifies as a syariah lawyer?
Note: All links are good as of March 30, 2011.
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In the first post in this series, Deceptions in the Food Industry: Low-Fat Foods, I talked about the pervasiveness of processed, low-fat foods in our food supply, misconceptions about how low-fat foods are healthy, and the dishonesty of labeling about these foods.
Today I'll discuss the "all natural" label on processed, packaged foods and how it can harm your health. As with most things from the food industry, information on the labels or web sites is filled with half-truths, misleading statements, outright lies, or information is left out altogether.
You might see "all natural" on a Ben & Jerry's ice cream carton or even a package of 10-year-old chips or crisps. This terminology is not regulated by the FDA. Never mind that you can't pronounce the ingredients and don't really know what they are. A great deal of non-certified organic foods on the market claiming "natural" on their product labels are those performing the most unnatural activities to create them.
When Wendy's fast-food chain announced their new "natural cut fries with sea salt", suddenly everyone started buying them. This doesn't say anything about product ingredients. The potatoes used by Wendy's most other fast-food chains to make fries undergo at least three unnatural treatments. One is spraying with a chemical called sodium acid pyrophosphate. This keeps the potatoes from turning brown during not one, but two deep-frying sessions – once in the factory, and then again at the restaurant.
Then, dextrose, a corn-derived (think GMO) coating of sugar is used on the fries to help retain color. Finally, to stabilize the frying oil, dimethylpolysiloxane is added. This is a silicone-based chemical food additive which prevents the oil from becoming foamy after repeated fries.
With strong opposition from sustainable food communities about toxic sweeteners in our food supply like high-fructose corn syrup, agave has hit the store shelves by storm in the last few years, and is heralded as a "natural" sweetener. One of the biggest problems with other sweeteners coming in to take the place of harmful ones like HFCS is that in many cases, the alternatives are just as hazardous as the ones they replace.
Agave nectar is not a traditional sweetener. Its origins come from the large, spiky plant referred to sometimes as Blue Agave in the Mexican region, but like high-fructose corn syrup, the end product is a highly-refined sweetener which is concentrated in…fructose. But wait, isn't fructose natural and doesn't it come from fruit? Fructose in fruit doesn't exist in an isolated form as it does in agave nectar or HFCS.
Research shows that fructose increases blood sugar levels as much as glucose, another substance that has been shown to cause insulin-resistance. Unlike glucose, processing fructose in the cells is not possible. So the liver takes up most of this burden, causing weight gain and increase in appetite. Metabolism of fructose can also cause increase in triglyceride production, which raises the potential not only for insulin-resistance but also obesity, inflammation, and cardiovascular disease. Since the liver expends so much energy metabolizing fructose, this limits its ability to metabolize excess blood glucose, again leading to an increase of blood sugar levels and the need for insulin.
Mark Kastel, senior farm policy analyst for The Cornucopia Institute, a non-profit watchdog group for organic standards commented that this was a good start, "But Dean Foods will not be able to [say] the products are produced without pesticides, herbicides, antibiotics and other drugs or genetically modified feed crops, or that the cows are required to graze in pastures rather than confined to factory farm feedlots," he said.
You'll find many indecipherable ingredients on product labels. One is autolyzed yeast extract and the other is hydrolyzed protein (sometimes appearing as "vegetable", sometimes "soy"). Both of these contain MSG. In fact, there are dozens and dozens of other ingredients in foods that don't bear the name monosodium glutamate, but which are in fact, MSG all the same.
If you read the research of Dr. Russell Blaylock, M.D. on substances like MSG in processed foods, you'll find that they are not naturally-occurring as in nature. Sure, they are extracted from plants like seaweed or tomatoes which contain free glutamic acid, but in very concentrated amounts. Then, they are engineered in a laboratory to have an even more potent (and toxic) effect in the food. It's sole reason for existence is not nutrition, but a chemical taste enhancer.
What products contain autolyzed yeast extract?
Many products made from soy such as fake meats, tofu, veggie burgers, etc.
If you eat whole, natural food like seaweed or tomatoes, that's not an issue. The problem is when you take MSG out of these foods – like so many food manufacturers – and synthesize MSG to put it into a highly concentrated form. It then behaves as neurotoxin. Dr. Blaylock's book, Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills gives a scientifically-based account about the hazards of glutamates in processed foods.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), GMOs are "organisms in which the genetic material (DNA) has been altered in such a way that does not occur naturally." Many products in our food marketplace come from foods created with genetically-modified organisms, and there are currently no labeling laws in the U.S. to alert consumers about genetically-modified substances.
Can you imagine what would happen if there were labels? You'd walk into a store, and the majority of what's there would bear these labels. Would you willingly buy these products? Some people might, but many would avoid them. In fact, unless a product has the Non-GMO label, the chance of genetically-modified organisms being in that product is very high.
Does this mean you have to spend hours in the grocery store reading labels to avoid these products? The best solution for your health and your wallet is to take an interest in making foods from scratch at home, and throw out all your boxes of boullion, cans of soup stock, and other packages of pre-made foods. Avoid processed foods altogether and buy real, whole foods that are sustainably produced from local farmers you trust.
In this new series, I'm going to show you the fallacies of processed foods, and the claims made on the labels of many foods you will find in the grocery store.
One by one, I'll go through various types of packaged foods you may recognize and eat, and may even be under the false assumption that these foods have worthwhile health benefits.
In this post, I'll talk about one of the darlings of the processed food world: low-fat foods. These foods are the craze of the mainstream health community. For decades, doctors, health "experts", personal trainers, and dietitians have touted the benefits of eating low-fat and low-calorie foods.
Experts repeatedly warn us about fat and cholesterol being bad for our health and that these foods will contribute to weight gain, heart disease, stoke, high blood pressure, and cancer.
Some of the so-called "heart healthy" foods on the market contain polyunsaturated fats such as canola oil, cottonseed oil, soybean oil, and others which are unstable when heated and are often already rancid on the shelf. Did you know that "75% of arterial plaque is made up of unsaturated fat, of which 50% is polyunsaturated"? According to Chris Kresser, only 25% is saturated! "The greater the concentration of polyunsaturated fat in the plaque, the more likely it is to rupture. Such ruptures, and the ensuing blood clots that form, are a primary cause of heart attacks." Polyunsaturated vegetable oils are also high in Omega 6s which contribute to inflammation.
Foods with fat contain more nutrients than those without, and especially fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E, and K which are necessary to absorb other nutrients in the foods you eat.
Dr. Weston A. Price who studied traditional diets of people living all over the world discovered that all populations who ate animal fats and animal products containing fat and cholesterol had superior health and were largely free from disease and illness. Ditch toxic, processed foods and eat foods containing healthy fat with abandon and watch your health soar!
Know Your Fats – Mary G. Enig, PhD.
Don't be a calorie counter – eat fat and lose weight!
This post is part of Food Renegade's Fight Back Friday Carnival.


Fit for the discerning diva dog, this dog toy is sure to provide you with a hearty chuckle. Regular is about 6" x 3.5"
I got this toy for my Shih Tzu puppy. I absolutely love it. Very cute and sqeaks!
My puppy is having her 1st birthday soon, and I thought this would be such a cute gift. I am a Chanel lover, so I may appreciate it more than her ;) I cannot wait to give it to her!