Category: Agama

  • Foreigners Eat BBQ Pork At Halal Section @ Newton Hawker Centre

    Foreigners Eat BBQ Pork At Halal Section @ Newton Hawker Centre

    Hi All Singapore Stuff,

    Over the weekend, myself and a few of my muslim friends was having dinner at Newton food centre. We were having Halal BBQ seafoods.

    During the dinner, I saw a couple was queuing up to buy BBQ suckling pig from this stall named “THE PIG STOP”. After buying, They brought the foods to the muslim section and sit right beside us. As a result, my muslim friends was feeling very uncomfortable. In the end, we decided to move further away.

    I know is free sitting in Newton food centre and taking into consideration that they are foreigners. Just hope that we can respect and be more sensitive towards each other religion in future to prevent such incident from happening again. Thanks.

    Jer
    A.S.S. Contributor

     

     

    Source: www.allsingaporestuff.com

     

  • Orang Islam Di Itali Adakan Bantahan Bagi Kebebasan Bersolat

    Orang Islam Di Itali Adakan Bantahan Bagi Kebebasan Bersolat

    Beberapa ratus Muslim menunaikan solat di luar bangunan Colosseum di Rome sebagai bantahan terhadap apa yang menurut mereka adalah sekatan tidak adil terhadap kebebasan mengamalkan agama Islam di Itali.

    Para penganjur berkata mereka mengadakan bantahan itu semalam (21 Okt) menyusuli penutupan lima masjid sementara di negara itu atas sebab-sebab pentadbiran.

    Ramai rakyat Muslim Itali mengesyaki pihak berkuasa tempatan memberi respons terhadap rasa curiga terhadap orang Islam akibat serangan pelampau baru-baru ini di Eropah, dengan menutup tempat-tempat ibadah disebabkan masalah-masalah yang mudah dihuraikan, seperti jumlah tandas di sesebuah premis tertentu.

    “Kami merasakan orang ramai menuding jari ke arah kami,” kata Francesco Tieri, seorang warga Itali yang memeluk agama Islam yang merupakan penyelaras bagi beberapa kumpulan Islam.

    “Tiada keinginan politik untuk mengiktiraf bahawa kami ada di sini dan kami masyarakat yang aman. Kami terpaksa menyewa tempat untuk solat – yang bagi kami adalah seperti bernafas, jika kami tidak boleh lakukannya, kami akan mati,” katanya lagi.

    Menurut perangkaan rasmi, lebih 800,000 orang Islam tinggal di Itali secara sah dan para pegawai menganggarkan lagi 100,000 tinggal di negara itu secara tetap tanpa dokumen rasmi.

    Ini bermakna masyarakat Islam mungkin membentuk lebih 1.5 peratus penduduk di Itali dan Islam merupakan agama kedua yang paling ramai dianuti di negara yang kebanyakan penduduknya beragama Roman Katolik itu.

    Islam bagaimanapun tidak diiktiraf sebagai agama rasmi di Itali, tidak seperti agama Yahudi atau Mormon, dan ramai orang Islam dari utara Afrika dan Asia Selatan rasa didiskriminasi dari segi kaum dan agama.

    Rome menempatkan masjid terbesar di dunia Barat, namun saranan-saranan untuk membina masjid-masjid bercorak tradisional di tempat lain kerap dibantah majlis-majlis tempatan yang boleh menyekat izin bagi merancang pembinaan atas pelbagai sebab teknikal daripada saranan saiz kemudahan meletak kereta, dan keharmonian seni bina dengan sesuatu kejiranan tertentu.

    Parti-parti berhaluan kanan menyeru agar mengharamkan mana-mana masjid yang dibina dengan dana dari penderma di luar Itali.

    Anggota Parlimen Barbara Saltamartini dari Liga Utara yang anti-imigresen, menyifatkan bantahan itu sebagai “provokasi tidak boleh diterima” yang tidak sepatutnya dibenarkan diadakan di Rome sama sekali.

    Source: Berita MediaCorp

  • MHA: Foreign Companies Need Permit To Sponsor, Promote Or Participate In Speakers’ Corner Events

    MHA: Foreign Companies Need Permit To Sponsor, Promote Or Participate In Speakers’ Corner Events

    Foreign companies will need a permit to sponsor, publicly promote or get its employees to participate in events at the Speakers’ Corner, stated the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Friday afternoon (Oct 21).

    For the first time, the ministry made clear what a Singapore entity was: those incorporated or registered in Singapore and controlled by a majority of Singapore citizens.

    The entity’s directors must be mostly Singaporean, and the majority of its ownership must be held by Singaporeans or one or more Singapore companies.

    Meanwhile, the ministry is loosening rules for local entities organising events at the Speakers’ Corner. From next month, Singapore companies or non-government organisations no longer need permits to hold events at the Speakers’ Corner. Now, only Singapore citizens are exempted.

    In its news release on the amendments to the rules, the ministry reiterated that the Speakers’ Corner was set up in 2000 for Singaporeans to express their views on issues that concern them.

    “The Government’s position has always been that foreign entities should not interfere in our domestic issues, especially those of a political or controversial nature,” said the MHA. “The amendments reinforce the key principle that the Speakers’ Corner was set up primarily for Singaporeans.”

    MHA is also extending the rules to those who participate at Speakers’ Corner events through remote means. So foreign entities will also need a permit if they speak through teleconferecing or pre-recorded messages at the Speakers’ Corner.

    These changes come on the back of reviews to Speakers’ Corner rules which the MHA started in June. The ministry had wanted to “make it clear that foreign entities should not fund, support or influence” events held at Speakers’ Corner, such as June 4’s Pink Dot – the annual lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rally.

    This year’s Pink Dot – the eighth such – attracted 18 sponsors including multinational companies such as Google, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Visa and General Electric.

     

    Source: www.straitstimes.com

  • Ustaz Abd Al-Halim: Is ARS Just A Mechanism For Asatizahs To Be Controlled By The State?

    Ustaz Abd Al-Halim: Is ARS Just A Mechanism For Asatizahs To Be Controlled By The State?

    AsSalaam’alaikum!

    I recently attended a seminar on making the Asatizah Recognition Scheme mandatory. It is clear that asatizahs are worried that if they resist the ARS scheme i.e. teach even if they are without ARS, they could be arrested and put to jail. One person actually asked that question during the Q & A. Of course, there is as yet no passing of any laws. There is no police force to watch over the asatizahs for now. But the indications that the speakers gave is that there will be law enforcement. One speaker spoke of levying fines upon asatizahs who do not comply. It is one thing to come up with a questionable policy but entirely another to implement it. I wonder if such enforcement is to be done by the government which is, by the way, secular. If so, will we have a secular non-Muslim government sending police officers out to arrest asatizahs who do not have ARS but are nonetheless qualified to teach given that they have been teaching for years and years and that they have been appointed to teach by ulama before ARS came along?

    I spoke to a senior person who is knowledgeable in Islam afterwards. He is not convinced that making ARS mandatory is about stemming “ajaran sesat” (deviant teachings). Instead he, like many others know that this is becoming a draconian mechanism to control the asatizahs. He further quipped that if they are concerned with ajaran sesat, there are many ideas that the religious authorities themselves seem to propagate that can be classified as “ajaran sesat” such as the idea that all religions are the same and that it is ok to praise Lee Kuan Yew who is a non-Muslim (Kafir) in the mosque during Jumaat sermon even though the Jumaat sermon is part and parcel of our ibadah and that the Masjid should not be politicised.

    It is glaring that the President of Pergas had to assure the audience that those behind making ARS mandatory are not agents of the government – pointing to the panelists and making the audience repeat after him several times that they are not agents of the government but instead they are Warathatul Anbiyaa’ (Inheritors of the legacy of the Prophets).

    I was there and those who were there and reading this can verify or debunk what I say here.

    May Allah swt save this ummah from internal and external enemies. Amiin!

     

    Source: Ustaz Abd Al-Halim

  • CAN Singapore: Amos Yee Beaten Up In Changi Prison, Free Him Now

    CAN Singapore: Amos Yee Beaten Up In Changi Prison, Free Him Now

    <Credits: Community Action Network – CAN Singapore>

    #freeamosyee, interestingly, we have been informed that Amos has been transferred from Changi’s Men’s Prison to Tanah Merah Prison… Amos has said that Tanah Merah Prison has mostly Malay youths.

    We have also been informed that he has been threatened, slapped on the back and kicked while he was climbing up the stairs. A complaint has been lodged with the Prison Authorities, who had efficiently replied to say they will look into the matter.

    Amos’ mother has put in an urgent request for Amos to be moved to Home Detention.

    Source: www.allsingaporestuff.com

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