Bismillah Irrahman Irrahim

HUNGARIAN ISLAMIC COMMUNITY

1135-H Budapest,
Róbert Károly krt. 104.
Tel./fax: +36-29 414-709
www.magyariszlam.hu
Handy: +36-30 272-9865
magyariszlam@freemail.hu

Main activities in 2005.
Humanitarian activities

1. Indonesia The community collected and transported medicines, and medical instruments for cunami victims. Total value of this support was 60 million HUF.

2. Pakistan Our community collected and transported medicines for the earthquake victims. Total value of this support was 6 million HUF.

3. Sudan -  We continued our humanitarian project in Sudan, in Darfur region. The main issues of our project was in 2005:       
We collected and transported medicines and medical intruments to the refugee camps in Darfur region, five times in this year.
We transported a fully equipped ambulance car to our partner organization in Sudan. Total value of these supports was approx. 200 million HUF.    
We prepared to found a new hospital in Sudan. The hospital will start to work in 2006.  We started our initiative work on a support program to the mine victims.

4. Slovakia We collected mo re than 1000 books for a protestant (reformed) hungarian community in Slovakia.

5. Hungary: We provided more than 1500 portions of food to the indigents.

Other activities

We organised the first Abrahamic Religions conference. Some of christian, jew and muslim communities and churches delgated members to this conference. The main themes of this conference were, the common values, tolerance and cooperation.

We started our organised activity against the islamophobie, and discrimination against muslims in Hungary. Our proposal gained support from some important actors in the Hungarian public life, especially from Zita Gurmai, arepresentative of European Parliament.

We established the Gül Baba price for that non-muslims, who supported muslims and islam in Hungary.

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Selection from the international press

JAKARTA--MIOL : Waktu satu tahun diperkirakan belum cukup untuk memulihkan kembali berbagai fasilitas sarana kesehatan di Provinsi Nangroe Aceh Darussalam (NAD) yang hancur dan rusak berat akibat gempa bumi dan gelombang tsunami 26 Desember 2004 lalu.
"Saya kira waktu satu tahun belum cukup untuk memulihkan berbagai fasilitas sarana dan prasarana kesehatan di Aceh," kata relawan MER-C, dr Yogi Prabowo, di Jakarta, Senin, di sela-sela penyerahan bantuan dari Hungarian Islamic Community kepada Dewan Dakwah Islamiyah Indonesia (DDII) untuk korban bencana di NAD.
( www.depkes.go.id/showmedia.php?pid=752 )

Sementara itu warga Muslim Eropa lainnya yakni dari Hungaria ( Hungarian Islamic Community/HIC ) menggalang kerja sama dengan Komite Penanggulangan Krisis (Kompak) Dewan Dakwah Islamiyah Indonesia (DDII) untuk membantu korban gempa dan tsunami di Aceh.
M Syah Agusdin dari Kompak-DDII, di Jakarta, Sabtu, mengatakan HIC memberikan bantuan peralatan medis berupa power heart external cardioverter defibrilator seharga 55 ribu dolar AS. Selain itu, HIC mengirimkan 20 ton obat-obatan.
Syah Agusdin juga menyebutkan bahwa bantuan dari HIC tersebut akan diserahkan oleh Wakil Presiden HIC Gyorgy Rosza, di kantor Kompak-DDII, Jalan Kramat Raya 45 Jakarta Pusat, Senin (31/1).
( www.indimedia.com/bpost/012005/31/depan/utama8.htm )
 

Sunday, 26 October 2003
Money isn't the only way to help

Many countries that attended the Madrid Conference are not in a financial position to pledge monetary sums to help rebuild, but that doesn't mean that they are not willing to help :

• Slovak officials decided this week to chip in $270,000 worth of medicines, blankets, food and other goods, and said they'll consider other forms of help after the conference.
• Germany has pledged $58 million for direct emergency and humanitarian aid.
• France is providing humanitarian help, though it has not yet said how much.
• Bulgaria has committed $1 million in indirect aid to Iraq, which is to include $340,000 in clothing, footwear, medicines, food and supplies. It will also provide grants for Iraqi students to study at Bulgarian universities - an offer also made by Slovakia - and provide training at the Bulgarian Police Academy for Iraqi officers and cadets.
• Croatia has pledged $2.8 million in humanitarian aid - mostly blankets, tents, sleeping bags and staple goods.
• Romania said it also will offer $110,000 worth of food and medicines.
• The Hungarian Islamic Community recently shipped $100,850 worth of nutritional supplements and intravenous fluids donated by Hungarian pharmaceutical companies.
• The Polish Medical Mission is gathering funds to help renovate and supply a hospital in south-central Iraq.

( ww.alphapatriot.com/home/archives/2003/10/26/money_isnt_the_only_way_to_help.php )

Latest news briefs from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency   
Feb 15, 2005
Hungarian Muslim leaders laid wreaths commemorating the Holocaust at a memorial wall at Budapest's main synagogue. Calling the event "historic," the head of the Hungarian Islamic Community, Zoltan Bolek , said it was the first time "that Hungarian Muslims came in an organized fashion to commemorate the victims who were so mercilessly slaughtered," the Hungarian Telegraphic Agency reported. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
( www.news.surfwax.com/home/files/Wreaths_Door.html )

 
Hungarian Muslims donate vaccines to Sudan
04-10-2004
BUDAPEST, Hungary, (AP) -- An organization of Hungarian Muslims said Monday it would donate thousands of doses of hepatitis vaccine to aid Sudan's troubled Darfur region.
The Hungarian Islam Community said the vaccines, worth 21 million forints (US$105,000; A€86,000), will be flown in refrigerated containers to Khartoum, the Somali capital, later this week and then -- with help from the Sudanese government -- to the western Darfur region.
"We have made arrangements with Red Crescent officials in Darfur who will distribute the vaccines where they are most needed," community leader Zoltan Bolek said.
Bolek said his group obtained the vaccines from pharmaceutical companies months ago, but was unable to cover transportation costs. DHL, a shipping company owned by Deutsche Post, the German postal service, offered to deliver the vaccines without charge.
A violent conflict between the Sudanese government and Darfur rebels has killed some 50,000 people and displaced some 1.4 million over the past 20 months.
( www.muslimnews.co.uk/news/news.php?article=8192 )

 
BUDAPEST, Hungary, Oct 4, 2004 (AP) -- An organization of Hungarian Muslims said Monday it would donate thousands of doses of hepatitis vaccine to aid Sudan's troubled Darfur region.
The Hungarian Islam Community said the vaccines, worth 21 million forints (US$105,000; A€86,000), will be flown in refrigerated containers to Khartoum, the Somali capital, later this week and then -- with help from the Sudanese government -- to the western Darfur region.
"We have made arrangements with Red Crescent officials in Darfur who will distribute the vaccines where they are most needed," community leader Zoltan Bolek said.
Bolek said his group obtained the vaccines from pharmaceutical companies months ago, but was unable to cover transportation costs. DHL, a shipping company owned by Deutsche Post, the German postal service, offered to deliver the vaccines without charge.
A violent conflict between the Sudanese government and Darfur rebels has killed some 50,000 people and displaced some 1.4 million over the past 20 months.
(www.sudantribune.com/article.php3?id_article=5798&var_recherche=Hungarian)

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Hungarian Islamic Community Mosque

The H.I.C. has been financed, recognized and officially registered by the state since 02/08/1988.
It represents both the hungarian and non-hungarian muslims.
It was under the direction of Dr. Mihálffy Balázs Adburrahman between 1988 and 1996.
And it was registeredamong 63 "HOUSES OF RELIGION". The state offers us between 70.000-1.000.000 HUF yearly (3500-5000 USD). During our work we managed to have important connections like:
- The Prime Minister Office
- The ministry of foreign affairs
- The Parlament
- The parlament parties
- Town halls
- Media
- Other religions houses
- Hospitals and others

The Hungarian official executives help us and do their best to make us wider relations here and abroad.
We are the bridge between the foreign muslim countries and the local muslims.

The Hungarian Islamic Community would like raising the necessary funds for:
- Expences of mosque
- Give financial assistance to refugees (from Irak, Pakistan, Banglades, Algir ...etc...)
- Socal help for Hungarian poor unemployed muslims
- Educations
- Translation of books
- Print islamic books
- Prepare children for kindergarten and school
...etc...

This is the reason why we will be the business and commercial mediator between of Islam World and Hungary.

We can offer the next objects for muslim businessman:
- Household honey
- Poultry
- Cheese
- Household jam
- Porcelain, ceramics
- Popular and applied art objects (included horseback)
- Medicinal water turism

Bank account number:
Kereskedelmi és Hitelbank Rt.
Budapest, 1051. Vigadó tér.1.
Swift code:OKHBHUHB
10402142-21481226-00000000

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Hungarian Muslims Plan Friendly Games for Sudan

By Gyorgy Jakab, IOL Correspondent BUDAPEST, January 18, 2006 (IslamOnline.net) - Hungarian Muslims are planning soccer friendly games in Sudan next month to raise funds for re-opening a much-needed hospital to cater for the poor. "Sport is a peaceful activity, Islam is a religion of peace, let us organize friendly games to build peace and show the peacefullness of Islam to the outside world," Zoltan Bolek, President of the Hungarian Islamic Community (HIC) which organizes the games, told IslamOnlie.net Wednesday, January 18.

Bolek surrounded by Darfuris holding the Hungarian flag.

Hungary's Budapest Honved team is planned to play five friendly games in Sudan to help raise necessary funds (estimated at 200,000 euros) to reopen a three-storey closed hospital downtown Khartoum.
Bolek, who reverted to Islam 27 years ago, said that the Hungarian Muslim efforts were a sign of solidarity and national pride.
"Solidarity because Muslims are brothers and are supposed to help each other," Bolek said.
"It is also a national pride because Hungary is a small country, and Muslims make up only small minority within this small country, still they are ready to help, sometimes even over their normal capabilities."
The charity funds will be allocated for restoring the delapelated building, which belongs to the Sudanese Umm El-momineen Charity, and buying necessary medical equipment.

Famed Players
Famed Hungarian players of the good old days like Gyula Grosics will accompany the HIC mission.
"Our prime goal is to help those in dire need," retired striker Lajos KU told IOL.
Bolek also said the Sudanese suggested to hold the games in honour of Hungary's legend footballers like Ferenc Puskas, who trained Egypt's Zamalek team in the past.
He noted that internal troubles had made it difficult for the Hungarian national team to come to Sudan. Bolek further said the Sudanese Ministry of Sport will cover the expenses of the five games.
"These friendly games present another chance to further deepen Hungarian-Sudanese relationship."

Sudanese Imams
Bolek said that he will tackle with Sudanese scholars the possibility of dispatching imams to Hungary to educate Muslims about their religion.
It is also planned to have Hungarian Muslims travel to Sudan to study Arabic and Islam, he added.
The HIC was established in 1988. It was then the first Muslim organization in the then Communist central European country.
The HIC has sent five relief missions to Sudan's troubled region of Darfur region, in addition to several others to tsunami-hit Aceh province, Indonesia, war-torn Iraq, Bosnia and recently Kashmir.

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Europe - Austria/Hungary - Islam
"Muslims call for prison imams"
by Adél László ("Budapest Sun," September 08, 2005)

Budapest, Hungary - ZOLTÁN Bolek, president of the Hungarian Islamic Community, says regulations need to be changed in order to ensure free practice of religion for Muslims in Hungarian prisons with the help of an imam.

"Our prison mission has a lot of obstacles," Bolek told The Budapest Sun, claiming imprisoned Muslims are deprived of assistance from their spiritual leaders.

But Katalin Yazbekné Szabó, spokesperson for the prison authorities, said it was a matter of demand, not denial. "No one has requested a representation [imam] of this religion in our prisons yet, neither the prisoners nor community leaders," she said. "There is simply no demand for it and that's why the religion is not represented. We do consider the needs of Muslim prisoners, their eating habits and we even provide carpets for praying, but not a single person has requested a religious representation so far, although our doors are open to any religion."

Balázs Tóth, program assistant of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee told The Sun, "According to the 1996 order of the Ministry of Justice, the rights for free practice of religion are ensured for the prisoners if they don't break the rules and don't hinder a newly launched criminal procedure." In practice this ruling ensures rights only for the pastors of Hungary's "historical" churches.

Bolek believes this is a problem. "Only these pastors have a contract and a position and only they get salary. Unfortunately, since we should work under the supervision of a Christian priest, our job would be hindered," he said.

"The Hungarian Islamic community became a recognized religious community in 1916.

This religion has a great past in Hungary, we have written documents of Muslim settlers from the period between the 9-13th centuries. Also, the 150-year-long Turkish conquest influenced Hungary greatly."

Hungary's 32 prisons house some 16,500 people, including several hundred Muslims (of Turkish, Albanian, Serbian and Asian origin). Religious needs are met by 18 Roman Catholic priests, three Evangelicals, five Reformed pastors, and one rabbi.

Katalin Román, a Hungarian Muslim, told The Sun that introducing an imam would have only positive effects. "It would create a positive atmosphere, which can have a good effect on the prisoners," she said.

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Brother Sultan Bolek,
 assalamu alaikum,

I acknowledge receiving the relief goods from Hungry. I feel special thrill and happiness on receiving these goods. Not only because it shall help the earthquack victims but particulrly that it came from Hungry.I pray and hope that in Allahs account your efforts will be very well rewarded and all of you will be very very happy.  I share the excitement felt by brother Muhammad Khan that brothers from Hungry has worked for the victims . this not only indicates special place for Pakistan in the hearts of Hungarian muslim brothers but also your quest to be part of Ummah. We must not let go this oppertunity as one off event but make it a permanant bond. We have so much to learn from each other .

Please conveys my thanks to all the brothers and i look forward to having permanant contacts. For any thing that you need we are  all for you.

Muhammad Tariq
President PIMA
Secretary FIMA 

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2002. Eid al Fitv in Kultur Museum, Budapest

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Learn to non muslim young people from Islam

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In July we took part a programme organised by severeal Cherished in Eger. A number of different Christian denominations and the Jewish one introduced themselves.
In August there was a very popular media event in the H.I.C. Centre for our better press representation, to in keep.
On the day of the Islam, after 310 years the asan was heard again from the minaret of Eger.
The Hungarian press very positively reported this event.