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Married Woman Had Sexual Affair With Bangladeshi, Blackmailed With Sex Videos

A Bangladeshi national filmed himself having sex with a married Singaporean woman, then threatened to send the explicit video clip to her friends and family.

On Tuesday (May 24), the 42-year-old man was sentenced to five months’ jail after admitting to threatening the woman, aged 38, between March 27 and April 4 this year.

He was initially scheduled to go for trial but changed his mind and pleaded guilty on Monday (May 23). Neither he nor the complainant can be named due to a gag order.

Deputy Public Prosecutor Ryan David Lim said the pair were in an intermittent relationship from around 2007 to 2013. They broke up in 2014 and he returned to Bangladesh.

He returned in early 2015 and tried to resume their relationship but she refused.

He told her he had multiple video clips of them having sex and the contact details of her family and neighbours. He sent her screenshots of the details to substantiate his claims.

He told her that they would have to meet before he would allow her to delete the video clips from his mobile phone.

The complainant had sex with him multiple times to try to have the video clips deleted. But the accused had saved several copies of the clips and the complainant was unable to delete all of them.

On Jan 28, 2016, while they were having sex, he filmed a video clip of the act without her knowledge, using his mobile phone.

From March 28 to April 6, as the complainant began ignoring him, he sent several messages to her over the WhatsApp messaging service, threatening to send the video clip to her friends and family.

On April 6, after the complainant did not reply to his messages, her husband and daughter each received a copy of the video clip from the accused’s mobile phone.

When her daughter received it, she screamed from her room and shouted at her mother to tell the accused to stop disturbing her. The daughter then retrieved the phone belonging to her father and deleted the video clip that the accused had sent.

The accused could have been jailed for up to two years and fined for criminal intimidation.

Source: www.straitstimes.com

May 25, 2016
Rileks Bro – Let Police Handle Amos Yee!

Amos Yee has once again gone out of his way to offend Muslims. Where we felt anger previously, we only have sympathy for Amos now. He is in desperate need of attention and psychiatric help.

This video is not the least bit funny. The existence of people like him is is partly the reason why there are inter-religious conflict in the world today. Whatever it is, let’s not get carried away.

We urge our fellow Muslims to calm down, take a breather and rileks. This crazy attention-seeker is not worth wasting your energy on, or even worse, getting into trouble for. Remember, as Muslims, our words and actions must be a credit to Islam and Prophet Muhammad SAW.

Let the authorities handle him. With the video, nobody can defend him.

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Hope that authorities detain him without any more delay. Just worry he got killed if he remain free outside

Source: Abdul Rahim Suef

May 25, 2016
ISIS Video Shows Anti-Terror Battle Is About Winning Young Hearts, Minds

SINGAPORE — The latest propaganda video by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (Isis) showing child fighters from Malaysia and Indonesia firing guns, burning their passports and denouncing their citizenships — while a wanted terrorist delivered a provocative message for regional governments — has raised concerns among terror experts.

Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen yesterday also weighed in on the “disturbing” 16-minute clip, calling it a reminder that “this fight against terrorism is global and above all, about winning hearts and minds of the younger generation”.

Noting that the video showed footage of young children “excelling in unarmed combat, drills with rifles and knives”, Dr Ng wrote on Facebook: “Many of them should be in school getting a proper education to ensure a bright future. Instead they spend their days in training camps, indoctrinated to hate their fellow countrymen in Malaysia and Indonesia, burn their passports as a sign of their allegiance to terror groups like Isis, and drilled to kill innocent lives.”

Dr Ng described the clip — which named Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand as countries which “created trouble” and “damaged” Islamic beliefs — as “the first Isis video that targets South-east Asia explicitly”. “But unfortunately, I expect more to come,” he said.

The video, titled The Generation of Epic Battles, was released by Isis last week. Narrated in Arabic with subtitles in Bahasa Indonesia, it showed crowds of children clad in combat uniform and headscarves who were firing weapons and undergoing drills. They were also told to wrestle with one another. Individual children pledged to wage jihad against those who have “changed the laws of God”.

Mr Zainuri Kamaruddin, who leads the Malay-speaking Isis arm Katibah Nusantara and is wanted by the Malaysian authorities, was also featured in the video. He led the child fighters in tossing their passports into a bonfire.

Speaking in Malay, he said the “cubs of the caliphate” were preparing themselves to “become the fighters of tomorrow”. He added: “To all the governments of Indonesia and Malaysia, we are not your citizens and we rid ourselves of your passport. But know that we will come back with the strengths of a mighty force that you cannot fathom that you cannot defeat. We will now burn these passports as symbol of our liberation.”

In March last year, Isis also relesed a video titled Education in the Shadow of the Caliphate, which featured children from South-east Asia in military garb studying, praying, eating and undergoing weaponry training.

The latest video was further evidence that the Isis threat is “real and present” in the region, experts said.

Ms Nur Diyanah Anwar, a research analyst at the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies’ (RSIS) Centre of Excellence for National Security, noted the recent surge of propaganda materials from Isis that were translated into regional languages such as Malay and Bahasa Indonesia.

“It is clear that Isis is placing great focus on South-east Asia,” she said.

Videos centered on children are a timely reminder that Isis runs a “multigenerational campaign” that targets everyone in society, including children and women, said Professor Rohan Gunaratna, who heads the RSIS International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research.

National University of Singapore political scientist Bilveer Singh said the act of burning passports was symbolic of Isis followers severing ties with their home countries. “(The scene) shows to the world that Isis supporters were defiantly abandoning their home state for the Islamic State. It is a public act of disavowal,” he said.

He added: “We cannot (for) any longer compartmentalise our response to Isis. It has become everybody’s business and hence, all of us should be involved in building national resilience.”

Source: www.todayonline.com

May 24, 2016
Singaporean Helps Youths Across The Causeway Realise Varsity Dreams

Still in university and with no industry experience, Mr Tengku Ahmad Syamil and Mr Syakir Hashim joined competitions and met with potential investors, hoping to raise funds to set up a crowdfunding platform that would link needy undergraduates with generous sponsors.

Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia: Interview with Skolafund’s founderForbes Asia 30 Under 30: Inspired by the community’s generous response to a student’s plea for financial aid on his university’s Facebook group, Mr Tengku Ahmad Syamil, 25, a Singaporean studying in Malaysia, set up a scholarship crowdfunding platform called Skolafund.com.

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Posted by TODAY on Saturday, May 21, 2016

It was to no avail. The investors didn’t see potential in their idea and did not believe in the young team. “No one wanted to listen to us because we were just two young boys,” recounted Mr Syamil, 25, co-founder of scholarship crowdfunding platform Skolafund.

But the duo were undeterred. So in December 2014, they dipped into their savings to hire developers to build a website. “We knew that it would be buggy and crappy based on our limited budget but we wanted to prove that the model can work,” said Mr Syamil, who came up with the idea after seeing a Facebook post from a fellow undergrad at the International Islamic University Malaysia seeking financial aid and the subsequent offers of help.

Hello Everyone! My friend and I are participating in “Your Action Project” Competition by Malaysia Youth Council to…

Posted by Tengku Ahmad Syamil on Sunday, May 11, 2014

Their determination paid off and soon after launching the website in April last year, they were selected for an accelerator programme in Singapore, which provided mentorship and funding of S$24,500 to financial technology start-ups. “Once we got into the programme, suddenly a lot of people were interested in us and welcomed us to their offices. We got to meet directly with the CEOs,” he recounted. Finally, Skolafund was up and running. One year on, 42 campaigns have been launched, 25 of which have been successful. Among them, 22-year-old Razlan Ibrahim Mukhtar, who lost his eyesight at age 10, raised close to RM6,000 (S$2,033) from the public before Malaysian telco Maxis, through Skolafund, offered him a RM300,000 scholarship to study at the University of South Australia in June last year. While Skolafund is only available in Malaysia now, plans are underway to launch the site in Singapore by July. Unlike in Malaysia where the focus is on raising university fees, the campaigns in Singapore will focus on raising funds for overseas internships or overseas activities like exchange programmes and community projects, said Mr Syamil, who was accepted into a university here but chose to study in Malaysia.

Skolafund has received about 20 funding requests from students and parents here.

For his work on Skolafund, Mr Syamil was selected by Forbes for its inaugural 30 Under 30 Asia list — which features 300 promising people under the age of 30 from 10 sectors – and invited to its Under 30 Summit Asia in Singapore. The listees were selected by industry leaders based on qualities such as creativity, use of technology and adaptability. Mr Syamil, a Singaporean, was selected under the social entrepreneurs category and is one of 24 people on Forbes’ list based in Singapore.

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Posted by Skolafund.com on Thursday, May 19, 2016

“Getting recognised by Forbes gives us that morale boost and the signal that we should keep on persevering,” said Mr Syamil in an interview with TODAY. “It also enhances the Skolafund team’s credibility and somewhere down the line, investors will take us more seriously and support us.”

Students in need can sign up for free and the Skolafund team will verify the application. During the campaign period, capped at 30 days, the team helps spread the word on social media and via “influencers”. If the target is met, Skolafund transfers the funds to the school and to students as allowance. Otherwise, the money raised will be refunded and sponsors can either cash out or contribute to another campaign.

(Click to enlarge. Source: Skolafund.com)

Skolafund takes a 5 per cent commission on each successful campaign. The team consists of two others, Mr Wildan Zulfikar, 21, and Mr Faruq Rasid, 25. All four members of the team are still studying — two of them are studying in Malaysia while the other two are at the National University of Singapore. Mr Syamil, who is studying business administration, said he intends to focus on Skolafund full time after he graduates in 2017.

Mr Syamil said the team also intends to launch in Indonesia. “Ultimately, we want Skolafund to be the best higher education financing platform in Asia. In five years’ time, we really hope to develop more ways for students to receive and manage their funds for universities,” he said.

Source: www.todayonline.com

May 24, 2016
LoveSingapore WearWhite’s Message Is Troubling In Multi-Culural, Diverse Singapore

On May 19, the LoveSingapore Christian network released a Facebook post launching the Wear White movement for 2016, calling on churches in its network to wear white. While the Wear White movement was founded last year by a Muslim religious teacher as a counter-movement to Pink Dot, LoveSingapore, as a Christian group, appears to be taking the lead this year. This year, the Wear White movement is scheduled on the same weekend (June 4-5) as Pink Dot, which will be held on June 4 at the Speakers’ Corner.

LoveSingapore’s Facebook post, which they said was addressed to the government, church, press and society, contains several points which are troubling. In the second point of the post, the LoveSingapore network calls for churches to arise and move on their convictions regarding public morality. This was followed by Howard Hendricks’ quote which said, “A belief is something you will argue about. A conviction is something you will die for.”

The juxtaposition of LoveSingapore’s mobilisation call and Hendricks’ quote raises eyebrows. Such rhetoric is questionable, especially in view of this year’s terrorist attacks in Brussels and Jakarta.

The third and fourth point in the message emphasized the importance of listening to Singapore’s conservative majority and keeping with the core values they possess. It also warned that the conservative majority will push against attempts to promote lifestyles and ideologies that openly and outrightly contradict Singapore’s laws, government’s stated policies, national core values, and the conservative majority’s views on public morality, marriage and family.

LoveSingapore’s repeated emphasis on the word “majority” is troubling. In Singapore’s multiracial, multireligious society, no particular religion or group can claim to speak for the majority.
The Humanist Society (Singapore) calls for respectful, informed discussion on the topic, based on reason, evidence, and compassion around the cause.

Executive Committee Humanist Society (Singapore)

Source: Humanist Society Singapore

May 24, 2016