on September 20, 2011
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Address: Old Pretoria Main Road and Le Roux Road, Midrand
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The masjid is really coming along nicely. The marble is being layed. Seems like most of the tiling is done. We managed to climb up one of the minarets today. Nanima is very unfit and little scared of heights, so only went first level, Madala and bachoo went right to the top.
The school looks like it is coming along. They will have from grade 0-3 next year and grade 8. School is run by SAMA. Mixed primary school till grade 7. The new premises will have grade 8 to matric high school and boarding facilities for boys. Girls school will be in Mayfair. I just hope when Bachoo is in grade 8, the girls school will be closer then Mayfair. It is an amazing piece of architecture and looks similar to pictures I saw of the blue mosque in Turkey. For poiroo it seems like his school will be sorted inshaAllah
March 2011
We visited the Masjid recently. Alhamdulillah it looks stunning.
They already started teaching there and have boarding students for Grade8. We saw one boy from Cape Town and he was lissing for a good home cooked meal. He said Turkish food is an acquired taste. They school is in operation for them and they have classes till 3pm.
Next year they start with all the grade 0-3 and grade 8. School is run by SAMA school. Seems from grade r – grade 7 will be a girls and boy primary school. Only boys school including boarding from grade 8. Wonder where the girls will go after grade 7?
I hope the girls school will be in the same area because I am sure many families will move to be close to this masjid and school.
December 2010
Soon after I discovered this place, my family and I decided to go and see this place for ourselves. We met Uncle Ali, who sits in a caravan with his wife and are watching how they build this masjid. What a humble man. Alhamdulillah. Both he and his wife did not speak any English but were very warm especially towards my children giving them lots of chocolates.
The principal of SAMA then gave us the grand tour of the masjid. Here are pictures of what the masjid being built.
29 November 2010
I was driving to take the little one to the doctor. I was so shocked and excited and happy to see minarets in a distance. I drove that way in September and I didn’t notice anything. Within two months it seems this building came up from nothing. truly amazing. the skyline of johannesburg is changing with minarets in all directions.
on August 8, 2011
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LACHUTE, Que. – Animal rights advocates say they have found 37 malnourished dogs chained to trees on a property northwest of Montreal.
The Huskies were discovered Saturday in a wooded area near Lachute, Que. after the advocates received a tip about their condition.
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You have to hand it to Standard and Poor’s. Forget their two-trillion dollar math error. The whole idea that these clowns are evaluating the creditworthiness of the United States is just loony.
For starters, these are the same people who brought us the crisis, by blessing junk sub-prime loans as AAA securities. And they did so because they were paid as consultants by the same financial scoundrels who created the securities.
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With a collection of hot pink sports cars and her endless wardrobe, Barbie is a far cry from a sustainability role model.
But now it looks like she may be getting an eco-friendly dream house, after Mattel and the American Institute of Architects (AIA) unveiled the winning entry of the AIA Architect Barbie® Dream House™ Design Competition.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – There were no buyers Sunday at the auction of a 1940s stag film that an events promoter claims shows an underage Marilyn Monroe having sex before she became a movie star.
The auction was a flop. Nobody came forward willing to pay Mikel Barsa’s starting price of 2 million Argentine pesos, about $480,000.
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on August 7, 2011
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There was an old Saturday Night Live sketch, where in the middle of an interview with Golda Meir, they plunk Yasser Arafat in the room with her and say the two of them will be locked in a room until they come to an agreement. The point being that these two polar opposites would be forced to overcome their differences to reach a peace agreement or be stuck with each other until they do.
This is similar to what we could see in the debt congressional super committee. There are two sides seemingly intractably opposed on how we should reduce our national debt. Most hard-line are the Republicans who seem wed to the Tea Party hard line of not raising any taxes on the rich or anybody else. It seems this will be a litmus test on who they will appoint to the committee. The Democrats, on the other hand, seem ready to appoint centrists and pragmatists like Max Baucus. In such a way they are already signaling their intent to compromise and want to seem like the reasonable adults in the room. This is the approach that President Obama tried to take that has resulted in him being completely rebuffed at every turn. So what should the Democrats do?
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Tired of watching teens get tormented by insidious Facebook wall posts and text messages, MTV is rewarding those who refuse to let this bullying trend continue, starting Monday.
Through its public service announcements, teen surveys and partnerships with activist organizations, MTV continues to grow its “A Thin Line” campaign, an initiative that encourages young people to consider if a message about a peer really is harmless before sending it out into cyberspace. “A Thin Line” most recently expanded its mission by teaming up with DailyFeats, a website and iPhone application that lets users log their good deeds and get prizes in return.
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The option to impose one’s will on another is an option that position alone wrongly affords all too many individuals. Indeed this option to impose on, rather than work with, this option to impose on without any regard whatsoever for due process, becomes, in the hands of most, a license to harm, if not destroy the careers and lives of others. People do, after all, inexplicably lose their jobs; careers do get gently nudged onto the rocks; professional marginalization does occur; first-rate organizational, social and political initiatives do encounter untenable resistance, if they are not obstructed altogether; minority oppression does occur; individual whim decimates cultures and destroys countries.
There are some obvious explanations as to why individuals would abuse the authority associated with their formal positions. The existence of an altogether unrelated drive for personal gain would be at the top of that list, such as we saw unleashed through the financial sector before ultimately taking the form of the housing crash, which devastated not only America, but the global economy. I would further imagine that the existence of malice toward others characteristic of economic, social, political, religious, ethnic and racial injustices would be a close second. Now as much as we have just cast a wide net, something else I have observed, based on my work for over two decades as both an executive consultant within the business sector and psychoanalytical therapist, is that the majority of these abuses of position, as they present in their everyday forms within business, professional and political circles, are attributable to something far less sinister, albeit no less destructive. What I have been led to conclude is that managerial or leadership incompetence is a significant factor when it comes to such abuses within business, professional and political circles.
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“Shark in a boat” seems so last month. Now it’s “shark in the forest.”
A call to police reporting an unusual odor on Thursday night led New Hampshire authorities to find a shark decomposing in the forest, WMUR-9 reports.
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A few weeks ago, England announced their intention to play, during their World Cup campaign, in an all black jersey. The first reaction of fans — in England, New Zealand and all rugby-playing countries in between — was to check their calendars.
It wasn’t April 1st. The announcement, it seemed, was serious. And so the discussions began. Some defended the shirt, calling it a tribute to New Zealand, to be worn in the land where the all black shirt is the greatest source of national pride. Others said it was an insult to the country for precisely the same reason.
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