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India.com
a day ago
- Politics
- India.com
Bilal Gani Lone Quits Separatism, Urges Kashmiris To Embrace Indian Democracy
Bilal Gani Lone, chairman of the People's Independent Movement, formerly part of the separatist amalgam Hurriyat Conference, has announced his transition to mainstream politics. He made this statement in an interview with a news agency. Bilal is the son of Abdul Gani Lone, a founding member of the Hurriyat Conference, who was killed by terrorists in 2002. His younger brother, Sajad Gani Lone, chairman of the People's Conference, is also a separatist-turned-mainstream politician and has previously served as a Cabinet Minister in Jammu and Kashmir with the support of the BJP. This marks a significant departure from Bilal's long-standing association with the Hurriyat Conference, a separatist conglomerate formed in 1993. Lone urged Kashmiri youth to accept India as a formidable power and integrate into its democratic framework, emphasising the importance of education, health, and employment over violence, which he believes has only led to 'devastation.' Calling the Hurriyat Conference 'irrelevant' and 'non-functional,' Bilal said, 'Hurriyat is no more relevant or functional as of now; it is not present anywhere in Kashmir.' He acknowledged that while the Hurriyat once had public trust, it lost its relevance due to its inability to seize opportunities for the progress of Kashmir. He expressed regret, saying, 'The Hurriyat Conference had many opportunities, but we missed them. We could have achieved something for our people, but we couldn't. That's the reality—let's be honest about it.' Lone also advised Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, the leader of the moderate faction of the Hurriyat Conference, to consider joining active politics. His comments about the Hurriyat's irrelevance and his call for Kashmiris to move on and integrate into India's democratic system can be seen as an implicit suggestion that others, including Mirwaiz, reconsider their political stance. Bilal concluded by stating that the need of the hour is to initiate a process of reconciliation among the people of Jammu and Kashmir to rebuild trust, which he said has been the biggest casualty in recent years.
Sydney Morning Herald
3 days ago
- Business
- Sydney Morning Herald
This halal Underwood shop will rekindle your love of steak sangers
Perfectly cooked wagyu, shokupan, fries, Swiss cheese and pecorino. There's nothing extraneous about this creation. It might just be the perfect steak sandwich. Bilal Ghumra wasn't looking to open a sandwich shop. He wasn't even looking to open a burger shop. Instead, he wanted to open a pizza shop. So how did he end up with all three? Well, actually, it's two shops. But in one. Let's explain. Fatty Patty, a burger shop by accident Bilal and his brothers Zainuddin Ghumra and Shehzad Ghumra, and father Imtiyaz Ghumra, are best known for BurgerMe, their Calamvale burger joint that became a minor sensation for its halal smashed patty burgers. The Ghumras sold BurgerMe in May last year with the intention to open a pizza shop, Sam's Pizza, in Kuraby. The only issue? Turns out, the property it sat on was being resumed. 'So we had to relocate the pizza shop,' Bilal says. 'But where we ended up relocating to is [three] times the size. We had to fill the space, so Fatty Patty was born.' Fatty Patty shares a simple shopfront with Sam's Gourmet Pizzas on the northern side of Underwood Marketplace. Walk through a door off the outside car park and you're presented with two counters – pizza on the right, and Fatty Patty on the left – and a small dining room (most of that extra space is occupied by a much larger kitchen). The Fatty Patty menu leads with a bunch of burgers – a couple of cheeseburgers, an All the Way burger that adds lettuce and tomato, a chicken burger, a plant-based burger, and a snack-sized cheeseburger. They're different to BurgerMe, though, Bilal says. 'BurgerMe was more of a hybrid – so a thick patty, not completely smashed,' he explains. 'Fatty Patty, we've gone full smash. And then we have the sandwiches.' Ah, yes, the sandwiches. That is, after all, what we're here for. The burger shop that keeps selling out of sandwiches Below the burgers on Fatty Patty's menu are a clutch of sandwiches. These, it turns out, are its killer app. The first time this masthead visited late during lunch service on a weekend, the shop had sold out of sangers. Fatty Patty actually had to take a timeout on its most popular sandwich, the Fatz Signature, after the Ghumras discovered they hadn't prepped enough house-smoked and cured pastrami. 'We're a halal restaurant,' Bilal says. 'Being Muslim, I couldn't really find anywhere to eat a nice deli-style sandwich, or even pastrami in a sandwich or anything like that. We thought, 'sandwiches are semi-trending right now,' so we went with it. 'The first week we opened, the pastrami did take us by surprise. We cure it in-house and smoke it in-house, it's a bit of a process. So we did a fair bit and were, like, 'This should be good for two weeks, maybe three.' And by the Friday we thought, 'Oh no.' So we had to pull it off the menu temporarily so we could catch up with stock levels.' The Fatz is a Swiss precision variation on a Reuben served on shokupan bread, hence its popularity. Beyond that, there's the Mama Mia mortadella focaccia, and the Silly Sam mozzarella and pesto sandwich, also served on focaccia. And then there's the Goat'd. The humble steak sandwich gets a major upgrade Steak sandwiches are a perennial afterthought, often propping up the menu at a burger joint, fish and chip shop or pub. 'Our [steak sandwich] was inspired by a trip to Melbourne, where a few places were doing a steak frites sandwich ... even if I felt sometimes they took things a bit far.' Bilal Ghumra 'We wanted to have some sort of steak sandwich because we felt they were a bit hit and miss,' Bilal says. 'They weren't really getting the proper attention around town. 'Afterthought' is the right word. 'Ours was inspired by a trip to Melbourne, where a few places were doing a steak frites sandwich. They were very nice, even if I felt sometimes they took things a bit far.' The Goat'd is designed to flip the script on the traditional steak sandwich. And the six-seven score wagyu beef and shokupan bread it's served on are bold starts, but this isn't some sort of over-the-top blockbuster. Instead, everything has its place. There's Swiss cheese; griddled onion along with pickled red onion; fresh tomato; a considered scattering of fries; a spinach and rocket mix; a premium off-the-shelf whole egg chipotle mayo; and a final sprinkle of pecorino once the sandwich is sliced. The Swiss cheese adds a sweet, nutty flavour that helps smooth the mouthfeel; the pickled red onion provides a lovely tangy crunch; the chipotle mayo is velvet smooth; and the pecorino a lovely piquant, appetising touch. Normally fries in a sanger could amount to carb-on-carb crime but not when combined with the shokupan, which is a lovely, luscious number the Ghumras have sourced locally and given a quick toast on the griddle. It's a bit of a masterstroke – there are no shredded gums with this thing. And then there's that wagyu: cooked medium to render down the fat, the choice of beef means this is a touch more spenny than your average steak sandwich, but you'll hardly care. There's absolutely nothing extraneous on the Goat'd – no stunt ingredients – and it's an absolute joy to eat (in about three minutes in our case, because it's so easy to demolish). It's the reinvention of the steak sandwich we've been waiting for. 'We thought the sangers would be an add-on to the burgers, because we do a really great smash patty,' Bilal says. 'But the Fatz and the Goat'd are our most popular items.' Where to get it Fatty Patty's Goat'd steak sandwich is $26. You can get one at Shop 44/3215 Logan Road, Underwood. But maybe aim for an early lunch to avoid disappointment.
The Age
3 days ago
- Business
- The Age
This halal Underwood shop will rekindle your love of steak sangers
Perfectly cooked wagyu, shokupan, fries, Swiss cheese and pecorino. There's nothing extraneous about this creation. It might just be the perfect steak sandwich. Bilal Ghumra wasn't looking to open a sandwich shop. He wasn't even looking to open a burger shop. Instead, he wanted to open a pizza shop. So how did he end up with all three? Well, actually, it's two shops. But in one. Let's explain. Fatty Patty, a burger shop by accident Bilal and his brothers Zainuddin Ghumra and Shehzad Ghumra, and father Imtiyaz Ghumra, are best known for BurgerMe, their Calamvale burger joint that became a minor sensation for its halal smashed patty burgers. The Ghumras sold BurgerMe in May last year with the intention to open a pizza shop, Sam's Pizza, in Kuraby. The only issue? Turns out, the property it sat on was being resumed. 'So we had to relocate the pizza shop,' Bilal says. 'But where we ended up relocating to is [three] times the size. We had to fill the space, so Fatty Patty was born.' Fatty Patty shares a simple shopfront with Sam's Gourmet Pizzas on the northern side of Underwood Marketplace. Walk through a door off the outside car park and you're presented with two counters – pizza on the right, and Fatty Patty on the left – and a small dining room (most of that extra space is occupied by a much larger kitchen). The Fatty Patty menu leads with a bunch of burgers – a couple of cheeseburgers, an All the Way burger that adds lettuce and tomato, a chicken burger, a plant-based burger, and a snack-sized cheeseburger. They're different to BurgerMe, though, Bilal says. 'BurgerMe was more of a hybrid – so a thick patty, not completely smashed,' he explains. 'Fatty Patty, we've gone full smash. And then we have the sandwiches.' Ah, yes, the sandwiches. That is, after all, what we're here for. The burger shop that keeps selling out of sandwiches Below the burgers on Fatty Patty's menu are a clutch of sandwiches. These, it turns out, are its killer app. The first time this masthead visited late during lunch service on a weekend, the shop had sold out of sangers. Fatty Patty actually had to take a timeout on its most popular sandwich, the Fatz Signature, after the Ghumras discovered they hadn't prepped enough house-smoked and cured pastrami. 'We're a halal restaurant,' Bilal says. 'Being Muslim, I couldn't really find anywhere to eat a nice deli-style sandwich, or even pastrami in a sandwich or anything like that. We thought, 'sandwiches are semi-trending right now,' so we went with it. 'The first week we opened, the pastrami did take us by surprise. We cure it in-house and smoke it in-house, it's a bit of a process. So we did a fair bit and were, like, 'This should be good for two weeks, maybe three.' And by the Friday we thought, 'Oh no.' So we had to pull it off the menu temporarily so we could catch up with stock levels.' The Fatz is a Swiss precision variation on a Reuben served on shokupan bread, hence its popularity. Beyond that, there's the Mama Mia mortadella focaccia, and the Silly Sam mozzarella and pesto sandwich, also served on focaccia. And then there's the Goat'd. The humble steak sandwich gets a major upgrade Steak sandwiches are a perennial afterthought, often propping up the menu at a burger joint, fish and chip shop or pub. 'Our [steak sandwich] was inspired by a trip to Melbourne, where a few places were doing a steak frites sandwich ... even if I felt sometimes they took things a bit far.' Bilal Ghumra 'We wanted to have some sort of steak sandwich because we felt they were a bit hit and miss,' Bilal says. 'They weren't really getting the proper attention around town. 'Afterthought' is the right word. 'Ours was inspired by a trip to Melbourne, where a few places were doing a steak frites sandwich. They were very nice, even if I felt sometimes they took things a bit far.' The Goat'd is designed to flip the script on the traditional steak sandwich. And the six-seven score wagyu beef and shokupan bread it's served on are bold starts, but this isn't some sort of over-the-top blockbuster. Instead, everything has its place. There's Swiss cheese; griddled onion along with pickled red onion; fresh tomato; a considered scattering of fries; a spinach and rocket mix; a premium off-the-shelf whole egg chipotle mayo; and a final sprinkle of pecorino once the sandwich is sliced. The Swiss cheese adds a sweet, nutty flavour that helps smooth the mouthfeel; the pickled red onion provides a lovely tangy crunch; the chipotle mayo is velvet smooth; and the pecorino a lovely piquant, appetising touch. Normally fries in a sanger could amount to carb-on-carb crime but not when combined with the shokupan, which is a lovely, luscious number the Ghumras have sourced locally and given a quick toast on the griddle. It's a bit of a masterstroke – there are no shredded gums with this thing. And then there's that wagyu: cooked medium to render down the fat, the choice of beef means this is a touch more spenny than your average steak sandwich, but you'll hardly care. There's absolutely nothing extraneous on the Goat'd – no stunt ingredients – and it's an absolute joy to eat (in about three minutes in our case, because it's so easy to demolish). It's the reinvention of the steak sandwich we've been waiting for. 'We thought the sangers would be an add-on to the burgers, because we do a really great smash patty,' Bilal says. 'But the Fatz and the Goat'd are our most popular items.' Where to get it Fatty Patty's Goat'd steak sandwich is $26. You can get one at Shop 44/3215 Logan Road, Underwood. But maybe aim for an early lunch to avoid disappointment.
Al Bawaba
13-07-2025
- Al Bawaba
Video: Man tortures dog in sea, attempts to drown it in Lebanon
Published July 13th, 2025 - 08:11 GMT ALBAWABA - A man in Lebanon is under fire after a video circulated online showing him torturing a dog in the sea and hitting it. Animal rights activists posted footage of a man in the sea in Lebanon grabbing a dog, beating it, and attempting to drown it. The video caused shock among people in the country, who called on the Lebanese authorities to arrest the person in the clip and punish him for what he did to the dog. Some social media users allegedly said that the man in the video is called Bilal, claiming that he is originally from Lebanon's Tripoli city. However, no official source has yet spoken or commented on the horrifying video. It is worth noting that it was not verified whether the dog belongs to the man or not, but some people noted that it could be, as it is attached to a robe. Note//Distrurbing video: © 2000 - 2025 Al Bawaba (
Morocco World
09-07-2025
- Politics
- Morocco World
Mosque in Netherlands Suspends Imam After Jerusalem Visit, Meeting with Israel President
Rabat – The Bilal Mosque in Alkmaar, the Netherlands, has announced the immediate suspension of Imam Youssef Msibih following his controversial meeting with Israeli President Isaac Herzog in Jerusalem. Reports identified the suspended cleric as a Moroccan-Dutch imam, who was suspended from his duties after he joined a delegation of European Muslim leaders who met with Herzog on July 7. The European Leadership Network, an NGO that advocates for ties between Europe and Israel, organized the event. The visit sparked outrage and frustration among pro-Palestinians, who demanded an explanation from the mosque. In response, the mosque issued a statement in which it stressed that 'there is no place for the imam within the mosque.' The mosque's 'board bears no responsibility whatsoever for his statements or actions outside the mosque,' the statement added, noting that there is no longer any formal or substantive ties between the imam and the Bilal Alkmaar Mosque. Emphasizing that the case of the imam has already been addressed, the mosque emphasized that the suspended cleric acted in a personal capacity. 'His actions are entirely separate from the vision of the mosque,' the statement said, urging everyone not to place pressure on or interfere with the mosque's board, or its volunteers and members. The statement highlighted that the mosque promotes peace, adding that the deliberate spreading of rumors and false information could have serious consequences. It also warned that it explicitly reserves the right to take appropriate legal action in cases of defamation, slander, or incitement against individuals or groups who endanger the peace, dignity, or safety of the mosque or its community. Tags: imamIslam in the Netherlands
