The Muslim Judicial Council wishes to express its support to the Turkish Prime Minister, Mr Recep Tayyip Erdogan who has taken constructive steps to wrestle the control of Turkish society from the secularist military which has dominated politics since Kamal Ataturk’s reign.Turkey's secular military has ousted four governments since 1960, proof to many that it has been the real power in the country since Ataturk set up the secularist republic from the ashes of the Ottoman Empire.

CONDEMNATION OF DECISION BY ISRAELI GOVERNMENT TO INCLUDE IBRAHIMI AND BILAL BIN RABAH MOSQUES AS ISRAELI ARCHEOLOGICAL SITES

The Al-Quds Foundation SA, The Muslim Judicial Council (MJC) and the Media Review Network (MRN) strongly condemn the decision of the Israeli Government to include the Ibrahimi mosque in Al Khalil (Hebron) as well as the Bilal BIn Rabah mosque in Bait Laham (Bethlehem) on the list of Israeli archeological sites. This decision is an extremely outrageous one and is yet another indication of Israel’s deliberate disregard for religious and heritage sites of the Palestinian people.

Media Release: 4 February 2010

A group comprising of 12 members of the Muslim community today met with three leadership figures within South Africa’s intelligence community, representing both the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) and the South African Secret Service (SASS).

The 12 were drawn from a number of organisations within the Muslim community, including the ‘Ulama, legal, academic and media fraternities. Organisations represented at the meeting included the United Ulama Council of South Africa, Muslim Judicial Council, Jamiatul Ulama, Sunni Jamiyat-e-Ulama, the Muslim Lawyers’ Association and the Somali Association of South Africa. The meeting was initiated by Ebrahim Patel, who requested the State Security Agency (SSA) – which encompasses NIA and SASS – to meet with a delegation from the South African Muslim community to discuss what he called a “campaign to spread fear in South Africa through rumours of a terror threat to the Soccer World Cup”.

The Muslim Judicial Council has sent a senior delegation of Ulema to perform Salaatul Istisqau in drought stricken George. Salaatul Istisqau which took place at 2pm on Sunday 14 February on an open field in George came as a response to an appeal made to the MJC in early February, which called for assistance to help alleviate the worst drought in the area for the past 140 years.