‘Islam Can Be Used to Curb Tobacco Use’
SINDH TODAY: Mumbai – An Iraqi cancer specialist’s view that the teachings of Islam can be used to curb tobacco consumption has found favour with experts from several nations, especially those with Muslim majorities, who attended the 14th World Conference on Tobacco or Health here.

“Islam can be used as an effective tool for tobacco control among Muslims, who constitute 22 percent of the world’s population,” Lath Yahya Ibrahim Mula Hussain, an oncologist from Iraq, told IANS.

“It is a hard fact that most Muslims have fallen prey to tobacco. Islam is a powerful tool that can be used to guide the lives of Muslims across the globe but it ought to be used effectively,” said Hussain.

He added that a large number of Muslim scholars and clerics are not convinced about tobacco being dangerous and hence haven’t taken steps to prohibit it. >>> ik/sh/jg | Thursday, March 12, 2009

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From Benightedness into Benightedness?
ASSOCIATED PRESS OF PAKISTAN: KHANEWAL: A Hindu couple, belonging to Umar Kot, Sindh, embraced Islam at the hands of a local religious scholar here Saturday. Mahu Jee son of Surwa Jogi and his would-be wife Seeta daughter of Mithu Jogi embraced Islam at the hands of Maulana Azizur Rahman.

They were renamed Muhammad Ramzan and Aisha Bibi, after which their nikah was solemnised in the chamber of Ghulam Jilani and Anjum Joya advocates at the district courts.

The couple told newsmen that they had been desiring to embrace Islam since long but their respective families were resisting this move.

“Islam is the religion of truth and brotherhood, in which there is no class difference, while in Hinduism there is a caste and class system, which looks down upon the lower castes, the untouchables and the poor,” explained the convert Muhammad Ramazan. Hindu Couple Embraces Islam >>> | September 20, 2008

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