Do you Believe Muslim people?

Do you trust Muslim People?

I reckon a lot of you will says no...., but in 17 December 2008 there is some changing.

A second round of partnership funding is now available for groups wanting to build relationships and improve trust between Muslim communities and local police, national Race Discrimination Commissioner.This funding of up to $10,000 is available to those projects which are approved by the Steering Committee, the membership of which is made up of a balance of police and community leaders.

This program relations through the Community Policing Partnerships Program (CPPP), a partnership between the Australian Human Rights Commission and the Australian Multicultural Foundation (AMF). This is to encourages police and Muslim communities to work together in responding to current issues identified and agreed upon by Muslim communities and police.

Police and community trust building programs have been established in some areas, while other programs encouraged young Muslim Australians to enter the police force.

Even more specific projects were funded such as Tie the Knot the program in Sydney’s South West, which aimed to raise awareness of domestic violence in Australian Muslim communities.

The time has come to focus all of our efforts on social, cultural and economic inclusion as the best way forward in helping all groups within our society feel like they are stakeholders in Australia’s future.

All of the 19 projects funded around Australia under the first round have helped to build bridges between local police and Muslim communities.

The CPPP provides a real opportunity to add value to cultural diversity in community life and demonstrate positive responses to community policing.

The CPPP is one of several programs the Australian Human Rights Commission is running until the end of 2010 with special funding of $250,000, it aims to promote social harmony across the Australian community.

This is just a good start builder trust each other between Muslim and Non Muslim

Posted by: Kathy Stevko

Descrimination For Lebanese People in Employment...

Hi everyone, today my topic is about Lebanese people who had descrimination in employment. Based on the information i was read, most of Lebanese people who lived in Australia had a descrimination in their work especially those who were unemployed, and they also felt the Lebanese had a bad image. This is also the opinion of a wide range of professionals people in services industrie.

Lebanese seeking work are unlikely to be told their application for employment is rejected because they are Lebanese. The most clear examples of descrimination given were by Sunni women. Her employer did not want to employ them because of their dress, i.e. headscarves and longdresses. The employers in their said it would cause trouble with other workers because they would think them strange. Not only the employers had descrimination like that, the teenagers from Lebnese had the same experience too in their schools. They indicated they wanted to wear a scarf but that they feared being rejected by their non-Lebanese peers.

The Lebanese have acquired a negative stereotype of being aggressive, reluctant to work and prone to industrial accidents. The negative stereotypes about Lebanese are the product of complex processes and images. These include political violance in lebanon, rivalry between Lebanese communities in Sydney, high unemployment amongst Lebanese born workers, and descrimination onthe grounds of age and sex in the labour market.

Posted by Karina Ekasari S

Complain about racial discrimination ...

When people believe they have been discriminated against because of race, skin colour or national or ethicbackground, they can make a complaint to t he Human Rights and Equal Oppurtunity Commission, which receives the complaint for the race Descrimination Commisioner. They may speak to Enquiry Officers at Commission offices in various capital cities or at one of the State Anti-Discrimination or Equal Oppurtinity Commision offices which act as agents for the Commission. The Equiry Officers will assist with information about race discrimonation under Federal and State or Territory legalisation and can help with making the complaint. Comlpaints must be put in writing, but not necessarily in English. The Statement should say that the writers believe they have been descriminated against because of race, colour or national or ethnic background. It should describe what happenedm when and where it took place, who was involved, and give the names of anyone else who saw or heard what happened.

A group of  people who have all suffered the same behaviour from the same person or organisation can make a complainf together, just like an individual comlaint. This is  called a representative complaint. When a complaint is received by commission, and if it is start to gather evidance from both side of the complaint: from the person who made the complaint and the person or organisation about whom the complaint has been made the respondent.

In some sircumantances the commission might decided that a complaint should go straight to a public hearing rather than through the concilitation process. The complaint-handling  process is flexible, with the commission reserving the right not to continue with certain cases. The president of the Commission has the power to review decision at some stages of process.

posted by Karina Ekasari Syafruddin

what do you know about muslim?

HEY...., Im back again

Is it everyone know about Salam cafe??? Janice does.....

Basically, Salam cafe format is hardly ground breaking, and the aims to deliver laughs via sketches, vox pops and discussion of the day's issues. The twist is that the panellists and interviewers are Muslim, giving Salam Cafe an endearingly subversive edge.

I will expose one of the episode of Salam Cafe

The interviewer ask one of the audience, What do you know about Mulim?" Not a lot, but i know their beliefs are pretty dangerous," and again the interviewer ask " What do you think of Muslims? " I hate them"...

From these conversation we can see, the reflection of Australian for Muslim people and this is not far away of Racism for Middle Eastern

This show is very good for us who is non Muslim, we can see that Muslim people who usually from middle eastern country, not as bad as we are thinking.

Posted by: Kathy Stevko

Ethnicity

"Ethnicity refers generally to the perception of group difference, meaning not objective differences but the sense of differences which can occur where members of a particular cultural group interact with non members." (Wallman 1979:ix).

Ethnic identity is a way of making judgements about a particular group which makes self identification an important element. Ethnicity is a way people can identify themselves through their culture, language or heritage. 

Australia is a mutlticultural country and therefore plays an important in integration and cultural diversity. It accepts all the ethnics groups and recognises them as Australian citizens instead of distinguishing them according to their race and ethnicity.

We as the citizens of a multicultural society should these things into consideration and accept other cultures and their practices and live in peace. This in particular to the Middle Easterns in Australia, we shouldn't consider them as a bad element in our society but make friends with them and a part of our world.

Posted by Shreshta Belani

Why????

Since the tragedy on September 11 that make the descrimination of Middle Eastern has greatly increased in Australia and US. There are many difference way of descrimination: religion, language, and the difference in theire appearance. The descrimination  seems to be seen most commontly through visual appearance. The religion that account for the majority of Middle Eastern is Islam. Religioua descrimination is the acting ones of the prejudiceagaint a person beliefs, ritual, costums, and values their particular religion hold. The Example of religious descrimination asociated with Middle Eastern people include descrimination towards woman who wear a hijab. 

Visual descrimination is the easiest for some one to descrimonation. Because appearance is readily available, a person can make their prejudice feelt quikly without needed knowledge of anythingelse. and the another example of the visual descrimination is taking action upon clothing and dress. The way one dresses says something abouth them whether they are aware of it or not.

Finally descrimination can also based on the language, the way we speak can carries a nation of place or area where we from. It can also carry with it an idea or procenceived notion, such as the Southern drawl of South East US people is associated with slowness or natives. A problem also ocurs with the language descrimination is misinterpretation. there are thousands of languages with  thousands af dialects throught the worlrd. So, when an individual hears a language, accent, or dialect theat they interpret as Middle Eastern,  they may be very mistaken. Because of these misinterpretations people may be decriminated against who are completely to the area, faith, and culture of those from the Middle Eastern 

Posted by Karina Ekasari Syafruddin

Just listen and you will learn

Im just read an article about Just listen and you will learn.

Walled Ali argues  that arrogance blights relations between Muslim and non- Muslims.

In this article which is talking about how his wife and himself- Susan Carland- Walled Ally. She was treated by people who non-muslim. People just judge her from outside, that's just because she used hijab, " we are swimming in a world of ignorance where we still assert ourselves with unimpeachable" he said.

People use to be have negative thinking, when they see people use hijab, have beard or how middle eastern looks like, even this people are not a terrorist, Ali says that when people in the West call for a reformation in Islam they do not realise the reformation is here; it is called al-Qaeda.

Ali publishes a book called People Like Us, How Arrogance id dividing Islam and the West, and the purpose from this book he wants to start a conversation on Islam, which he believes is lacking in Australia, one that goes beyond the "this is face of terror" headlines and radio shock jocks.

Two thumbs for Ali, i really like what he said about gender reform in islamic society, what i think it is really a good point. People should understand too, that muslim people were all human, but with different religion, so why we need to treated them differently, do you reckon?

Publish by: Kathy