- Target:
- Muslim Green Pages
- Region:
- United Kingdom
This petition has been closed by Gopetition administration as the distribution of 2007 Muslim Green Pages was completed several months ago.
The publishers of Muslim Green Pages have issued the following statement to those who objected to the 2007 edition, and to the broader Muslim community:
Statement dated March 22, 2007
Muslim Green Pages would like to thank the members of the Muslim community who have provided us with positive and constructive feedback. We also would like to ensure the public that MGP will be doing its best to ensure that such listings (which may have caused offence) do not reappear in any future editions.
Muslim Green Pages is a project with an aim to serve the Muslim community as well as bringing together mainstream companies and organizations which have products or services that are suitable for the Muslim community.
Muslim Green Pages aims to become a comprehensive & mainstream Muslim Business Hub which helps to magnify the strength and number of Muslim businesses in the UK, not only to the Muslim Community but also to the wider communities.
We would ask the Muslim community to continue to provide constructive feedback in order for us to continue to improve our services to the Muslim community.
MGP is now working on the much anticipated 2008 edition which will contain over 15,000 businesses and organizations you can visit our online directory at the address below.
Jazzakallah Khairun
Muslim Green Pages
www.mgp647.com
feedback@muslimgreenpages.com
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The original petition appears below.
A response from Musim Green Pages can be seen here.
It is the duty of all Muslim to protect one another and as such we are sending you the following information to help you in understanding why this publication should be avoided by Mosques, organisations, you and your family!
Allah (swt) says in the Quran:
The believers men and women are protectors one of another: they enjoin what is just and forbid what is evil: they observe regular prayers practice regular charity and obey Allah and His apostle. On them will Allah pour His mercy: for Allah is Exalted in power Wise.
Al Quran 9:71
You are the best community that has been raised for mankind. You enjoin good and forbid evil and you believe in Allah.
Al Quran 3:110
In the Muslim Green Pages we have found well-known Qadiani places of worship, organisations promoting shirk, ’belly-dancers’, businesses actively selling haram products and alcohol and we think that this is just the ‘tip of the iceberg!’ A small selection of these have been mentioned below:
Qadiani centres found under ‘Mosque’ or Religious Organisations’ heading.
Ahmad Muslim Association (Page 367)
Croydon Muslim Association (Page 355)
Ahmadiyya Muslim Association (Page 419)
Yoga Page 559
Shanti Sadan
They mention that they are ‘The Temple of Inner Peace, this is not physical yoga, it is an ancient spiritual form which seeks to achieve union with the universal soul and the Gods’ and ‘the self of man in essence is identical with God.’ See their website for details http://www.shanti-sadan.org/message.htm
Entertainers Page 231
Arabian Experience
This is a group of belly dancers that hire themselves out for events and even belly dancing classes. They even celebrate pagan festivals such as the Summer solstice and Halloween!! See their website www.arabian-experience.co.uk
Hilary Thacker Egyptian Belly Dancer
She offers her services in the Muslim Green Pages. See www.hilarysbazaar.com
Indian International Magic
Offer magic ‘entertainment’?
Allah says in the Quran: ‘And they knew that the buyers of (magic) would have no share in the happiness of the Hereafter. And vile was the price for which they did sell their souls if they but knew!’ Al Quran 2:102
Restaurants Pages 426-465
There seems to have been no safeguards or pre-entry checks, hence this whole section is completely unreliable as it is littered with restaurants which serve either haram food or alcohol. Below is just a small selection from the many haram and alcohol serving ones listed in the Muslim Green Pages:
Island Restaurant & Bar
They serve haram meat and alcohol.
Passage to India
They serve haram meat and alcohol.
Pride of India
They serve haram meat and alcohol.
Modhubom Indian Restaurant
Serve alcohol.
Casablanca
Serve alcohol.
Indian Heaven
Serve alcohol.
Bengal Brasserie
Serve alcohol.
Maroush
They serve alcohol and also have belly dancers!
Clubs & Associations Page 149
Indian Queen Club
They are a social ‘alcohol’ drinking club where everyone is welcome!
Poultry Farmers Page 402
Whistley Turkey’s
They do not supply anything halal.
Farmers Page 238
John A Sim
They do not supply halal meat.
We, the undersigned, call on the Muslim Green Pages to totally withdraw its 2007 publication from circulation.
The Muslim Green Pages 2007 petition to Muslim Green Pages was written by UK and is in the category Religion at GoPetition.