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  • UK Police Face Backlash Over Allahu Akbar Chant During Anti-Terror Exercise

    UK Police Face Backlash Over Allahu Akbar Chant During Anti-Terror Exercise

    Efforts to fight terrorism should not be hampered by perpetuating sterotypes against Muslims, said the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), after police in England used the phrase “Allahu Akbar” at an anti-terror training exercise.

    Monday’s exercise at a shopping mall in Manchester comprised more than 800 volunteers, including a masked man dressed in black who, in video footage, was seen running and shouting the words before setting off an explosion.

    Miqdaad Versi, assistant secretary general of the MCB, told Al Jazeera that “by using this word [in the terror training], Muslims around the world are being associated with terrorists”.

    “Muslims use this term in prayers and is a perfectly noble term and we must not allow the terrorists to hijack it,” said Versi.

    Assistant Chief Constable Garry Shewan from Greater Manchester Police said while the exercise was based on a “suicide attack by an extremist Daesh [ISIL] style organisation”, the use of the word was unacceptable.

    “On reflection we acknowledge that it was unacceptable to use this religious phrase immediately before the mock suicide bombing, which so vocally linked this exercise with Islam.

    “We recognise and apologise for the offence that this has caused.”

    Versi added that “using this term in such exercises is not helpful in any way” before welcoming the police for “recognising the problem and for apologising”.

    Reactions raced through social media, mostly on Twitter, where people condemned the act.

    “I’m disgusted by Manchester Police using ‘Allah hu Akbar’ in a terrorism training exercise. Once again demonising Muslims and Islam,” said a Twitter user.

    Police said there was no specific threat in Manchester and that the exercise was devised in December, a month after the Paris attacks that killed 130 people.

    A British Muslim Labour party candidate, Sadiq Khan, was sworn in as London’s new mayor this month after receiving the largest number of votes of any London mayoral candidate ever.

    Some of the fault lines surrounding Khan’s election were visible on social media where many users mocked what they saw as xenophobic responses to Khan’s mayorship.

     

    Source: www.aljazeera.com

  • Why I Am Staying In A Rental Flat

    Why I Am Staying In A Rental Flat

    I am currently living in a rental flat, with my family of five. I’ve heard and read reports that Ministers said it is not difficult to own your own house. What would they know? They have never been in my situation before. I was comfortably in a job that pays me $2,000 a month, enough to tide by and support my family. If we had saved and followed the financial plan we as a family had, we would be able to own our own house, one day not too far away.

    But that was provided I still have my job, Unfortunately, my company deemed me too expensive. They released me when my contract ended, and in my position, they appointed a foreign worker, who they pay much less than if they had to pay me. The company saved on money, while I lost my job. Is it fair? Is the foreign worker that took over my position more highly skilled than me? Or he has a job just because he comes cheap? He does not have to own a house in Singapore. He does not have to provide shelter for his family in Singapore. This cheap foreign labour will be a rich man when he returns to his family in the country he came from.

    While me and my family of five still have to live in a rental flat, where we cannot call it our very own home. We are just numbers to the government. I work hard, but i cannot help myself if cheaper foreign labour is preferred over a Malay Singpaorean male with a family of five to feed and house. Maybe that is my fate in life. I will forever be one of the growing number of Malay families living in rental flats.

     

     
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  • Pembahas Madrasah Aljunied Menang Anugerah Pembahas Terbaik Di Qatar

    Pembahas Madrasah Aljunied Menang Anugerah Pembahas Terbaik Di Qatar

    Pelajar Madrasah Aljunied Al-Islamiah, Nazihah Mohamad Pauzi berjaya menjulang anugerah pembahas terbaik dalam Kejohanan Bahas Antarabangsa di Doha, Qatar baru-baru ini.

    Tiga anugerah pembahas terbaik dari kalangan negara-negara bukan Arab diberikan, dan Nazihah merupakan salah seorang penerimanya.

    Kesemuanya, empat pelajar Madrasah Aljunied Al-Islamiah mewakili Singapura dalam kejohanan tersebut, iaitu Harithatunnu’man Hasbi, Muhammad Hariz Ramli, Humaira Julfikar Khan dan Nazihah Mohamad Pauzi.

    Ini adalah kali kedua Madrasah Aljunied diundang untuk mengambil bahagian dalam kejohanan bahas dwi-tahunan itu, yang diadakan dalam Bahasa Arab.

    PENCAPAIAN MEMBANGGAKAN

    Pencapaian Nazihah selaku Pembahas Terbaik boleh dibanggakan kerana ia menunjukkan mutu pendidikan madrasah di Singapura. Ini sehinggakan ia berjaya melahirkan pelajar yang mempunyai bakat dan potensi yang besar, serta mampu menguasai pelbagai bahasa khususnya Bahasa Arab.

    Semasa dihubungi BERITAMediacorp, Nazihah berkongsi pengalaman bertutur bahasa Arab di sana.

    “Ia satu pendedahan bagi saya terhadap berbual dalam Bahasa Arab kerana pengalaman berbual Bahasa Arab antara kami di sekolah itu lain daripada kami berbual dengan mereka (para peserta negara lain). Jadi itu pun telah memperbaiki perbualan saya dalam Bahasa Arab,” kata Nazihah.

    Dia juga mengambil peluang tersebut dan menjadikannya sebagai latihan untuk bertutur dalam bahasa Arab secara berkesan.

    “Jika kita belajar tetapi tidak mempraktikkannya, ia akan menjadi susah. Memang mencabar untuk berbual dalam Bahasa Arab tapi saya menjadikannya satu motivasi untuk berbual dalam Bahasa Arab,” kata Nazihah lagi, kepada pihak kami.

    Nazihah kemudian berkata, dia menghargai pelbagai usaha pihak madrasah untuk menanamkan rasa sayang akan bahasa Arab.

    Walaupun demikian dia mengakui, menggunakan bahasa Arab dengan kumpulan penutur asli memang bukan mudah: “Ia memang sangat susah tetapi ia pengalaman yang amat baik.”

    PASUKAN S’PURA MENANG 1, KALAH 4

    Di peringkat saringan, pasukan dari Singapura itu mengalahkan Croatia tetapi tewas di tangan India, Kuwait, Ukraine dan Brazil. Ini menyebabkan mereka gagal mara ke peringkat suku akhir.

    Pada tahun ini, 53 negara mengambil bahagian dalam kejohanan tersebut, khususnya negara-negara Arab dan Teluk.

    Negara-negara bukan Arab yang turut mengambil bahagian termasuk Amerika Syarikat, Britain, Croatia, Ukraine, Bosnia, Malaysia, Turki dan Singapura.

    Tuan rumah Qatar muncul sebagai juara dalam kejohanan bahas ini, manakala Syria adalah naib johan.

    Pasukan Madrasah Aljunied itu berada di Qatar dari 10 April sehingga 13 April untuk menyertai kejohanan tersebut. Mereka diiringi oleh pembimbing mereka, Ustaz Mohamad Nasrullah Refa’ie.

    Source: Berita MediaCorp

  • SBS Driver Jumps Bail

    SBS Driver Jumps Bail

    An SBS Transit bus driver accused of negligent driving, which resulted in 23 passengers getting hurt, failed to appear at his hearing in court yesterday.

    A warrant of arrest was issued for Ahmad Jamalulail Abdul Rashid, 43, a Malaysian national.

    Jamalulail is accused of failing to keep a proper lookout while driving an SBS bus along Sims Avenue at about 5.25pm on July 11, 2014.

    As a result, the vehicle hit the rear of another SBS bus that had slowed down because of road works ahead.

    Two passengers suffered grievous injuries. Jaswinder Singh, 18, had a nasal fracture and Mr Lee Joo Long, 58, suffered injuries to his spine, court papers said.

    Twenty-one other passengers, aged between 16 and 79, were also hurt.

    Jamalulail was charged with one count of causing grievous hurt to Mr Lee and Mr Singh by a negligent act and one count of endangering the lives of the other 21 passengers by a negligent act.

    He was granted $5,000 bail and was supposed to turn up at the State Courts yesterday.

    But defence lawyer Amarick Gill told the court he had been unable to contact Jamalulail since March and later discharged himself.

    Jamalulail’s bailor, who identified herself as his former colleague, was ordered to attend a show-cause hearing next month.

    She told the court she has since filed a police report.

    If convicted, Jamalulail faces up to two years’ jail and a fine of up to $5,000 for causing grievous hurt by a negligent act.

    For endangering human life by a negligent act, he could be jailed up to six months and fined up to $2,500.

     

    Source: The New Paper

  • RRG, MUIS Mahu Setiap Asatizah Ikuti Modul Cara Tangkis Fahaman Pelampau

    Kumpulan Pemulihan Keagamaan (RRG) dan MUIS bermatlamat mendapatkan setiap asatizah mengikuti modul utama kumpulan itu mengenai cara menangkis fahaman pelampau.

    Demikian menurut Menteri Bertanggungjawab bagi Ehwal Masyarakat Islam, Dr Yaacob Ibrahim.

    Modul itu adalah sebahagian daripada program Pendidikan Profesional Berterusan yang wajib disertai mereka yang berdaftar di bawah Skim Pengiktirafan Asatizah.

    Dr Yaacob menjelaskan demikian sebagai menjawab pertanyaan dari AP Dr Fatimah Lateef.

    Beliau berkata 80 peratus asatizah sekarang termasuk dalam skim itu.

    Usaha giat sedang dijalankan bagi menggalakkan baki 20 peratus asatizah yang belum berbuat demikian supaya turut serta.

    Menerusi modul itu, RRG berkongsi dengan asatizah tentang pengalamannya membantu bekas para anggota kumpulan pengganas Jemaah Islamiyah kembali ke pangkal jalan dan ke pangkuan masyarakat.

    Menurut Dr Yaacob, MUIS dan RRG akan terus mengemaskini modul itu bagi memastikan ia kekal relevan.

    Dr Yaacob menambah, MUIS juga akan terus memperkukuh kurikulum madrasah dengan bahan relevan yang dibangunkan RRG.

    Source: http://berita.mediacorp.sg