I'll vote for the Lib-Dems in Blackburn

[A Hussain]

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£2m for Tsunami victims
A FORMER president of Darwen Rotary Club has helped raise more than £2million for tsunami victims after creating an emergency website to deliver goods directly to stricken Sri Lankan families within 24 hours.

Electronics engineer Tony Melia, 44, of Woodside Bank, Darwen, used his IT skills to create a website which allows visitors to choose goods specifically requested by victims and pay for them by credit card.

Mr Melia said he was touched by the shocking images of devastation caused by one of the most destructive natural disasters in living history and set about finding a way to help.

He contacted the president of Sri Lanka's Colombo Rotary Club, who arranged for the site to be linked to a grocery shopping site in the city and set about asking victims what they needed most.

After goods have been bought, rotarians deliver them directly to where they are needed.

Mr Melia said: "The beauty of the site is that it is so simple. The main items needed are no longer food and aid, they are things to help the re-build phase.

"The government has released lands to give people the confidence to build up their lives again.

"The site was set up so early in the early stages of the disaster when lot of the bigger aid agencies had yet to set up channels through which to donate.

"There were two or three days where nothing happened and people started wanting to donate. This was one of the first ways.

"Since the morning of the disaster, rotary clubs in Sri Lanka have been working around the clock. Without their effort in ensuring the basic human needs of those affected by the tsunami I am sure many more lives would have been lost."

To spread the message, Mr Melia emailed the web address to hundreds of big companies and forwarded the details to his contacts, asking them to pass them on. Colombo rotarians did the same.

Darwen Rotary Club has donated almost £2,000 - £1,000 of which was one member's personal donation.

The club is planning to sponsor a small boat business in Sri Lanka to help the local economy.

Mr Melia will visit Sri Lanka for a week in March to meet his Sri Lankan counterparts with whom he has forged a close relationship.

To donate visit www.lankafood.com.

This was in the lancashire evening Telegraph Friday.
I will Be voteing for the LIB-Dems in the election this time. no one elese has done anything for us like this. What a Guy. we need someone that gets off his bum and does something for a change. This Tony Melia I want to meet him. I belive he is going to walk round Blackburn every Saturday from now till the Election lets get down there and support Him. He deserves it!!!
I reckon he is the man to take out Jack Straw
Abdul

[myyis]

the reality is that the Lib dems are no different to the other parties they believe in the same thing, they believe in secular democracy that Allah SWT is no relevance when it comes to make hokum. To vote for something haram is haram. So lib dems what to make brothels halal they have already done so in Liverpool. What they are saying to Muslims is vote for us and we will do certain things according to our manifesto, so Muslims are been asked to give them authority and they will make hokum on there behalf. To call, support, to work to vote for haram is haram.

[LocalGenius]

The good stuff they might do out weighs the bad stuff. I dont understand myyis are you going to boycott the elections>??

[A Hussain]

The good stuff they might do out weighs the bad stuff. I dont understand myyis are you going to boycott the elections>??

I agree. We are all on the quest for the perfect life. For now i think that we will have to accept that life is a balance. 100,000 dead in Iraq or a brothel in
liverpool ? The Lib-Dems where against the war from the outset. i'll leave you to decide !!!!!!!

[myyis]

The reality is that they belive in the same thing and the same system, it sounds like the princible of voting is a little haram is ok. The reality of this is that as muslims to support call work or vote for haram is haram. As for will I vote, the question is does Allah SWT allow us to vote for that which is haram or even a little haram. Lib Dems like all the other parties will still support the occupation of muslim lands will still support the murder of muslim by agent rulers. Why do muslims what to accept a political system when Allah swt has given us a system.

The choice is halal Khilafah elections of kuffar democratic elections

[FractionMan]

Myyis,

You said "The priniciple of voting is haram"

You also said "To call, support, to work to vote for haram is haram"

Well here is a newsflash pal, get out of this country now and do hijrah into king faisal sauds lap (if he will have morons like you) because everything in this country is built under the premise of democracy and voting...

But, i guess you never will leave, because you are living off social security, probably driving a cab on the sly too, and trying your hardest to get your family in this country too...

[myyis]

The reality is that where every the Muslims live it is the same system that is been implemented Ie non-islamic, It is a very shallow argument to say leave the country rather then trying to defend committing the haram action. Are you saying to vote for a system other that that which is revealed by Allah swt is permitted. Allah revealed the ayat about those who do not rule by what he has revealed.. It might be worth reading Ibn kathir the tasfir of this ayat, to see if it is compatible with voting callings supporting haram

[FractionMan]

Yes I am saying that "to vote for a system other that that which is revealed by Allah swt is permitted".

And before you start quoting Tafseer Ibn Kathir, Allah's word is for all time, not Ibn Kathirs. I would also urge you to read Ibn Taymiyyah's fatwah on participation in a non-islamic government.

I disagree that "leaving the country is a shallow argument". (the principle of hijrah is far from shallow , maybe you should read ibn kathir about that too). If you who claim that "voting is haram" and also claim "to call, support, to work" for voting is haram, then you have but no other choice then do hijrah. As King Faisal of Saud does not have a voting system, so see if he will have you.

As for your claim on reality that wherever Muslim live the same system is being implemented, yes i agree, but stop using that as an excuse. You are hear in a system that can be changed, yet you do nothing.

People like you can read Ibn Kathir all you want, (and i have a feeling you have'nt even read it) but simply you will be deaf, dumb and blind to any guidance.

I know this may seem harsh, but i really can see no other answer for such stupid remarks...

[LocalGenius]

Yes I am saying that "to vote for a system other that that which is revealed by Allah swt is permitted".

And before you start quoting Tafseer Ibn Kathir, Allah's word is for all time, not Ibn Kathirs. I would also urge you to read Ibn Taymiyyah's fatwah on participation in a non-islamic government.

I disagree that "leaving the country is a shallow argument". (the principle of hijrah is far from shallow , maybe you should read ibn kathir about that too). If you who claim that "voting is haram" and also claim "to call, support, to work" for voting is haram, then you have but no other choice then do hijrah. As King Faisal of Saud does not have a voting system, so see if he will have you.

As for your claim on reality that wherever Muslim live the same system is being implemented, yes i agree, but stop using that as an excuse. You are hear in a system that can be changed, yet you do nothing.

People like you can read Ibn Kathir all you want, (and i have a feeling you have'nt even read it) but simply you will be deaf, dumb and blind to any guidance.

I know this may seem harsh, but i really can see no other answer for such stupid remarks...


mmm very sensible remarks fraction. maybe i was mistaken when calling you a HT brother that you are clearly not. and yes i agree that for SOME pppl you have to use a harsh route.

[muslim_beta]

My only reservation in voting for Lib-dems is that if we do support them, we will take a sizeable amount of votes from Labour, which will inturn allow the Tories to sneak through into first place. What are your thoughts on that?