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  • Lee Hsien Loong To Visit Palestine As Part Of Middle East Trip

    Lee Hsien Loong To Visit Palestine As Part Of Middle East Trip

    AMMAN, JORDAN – Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong begins his official visit to Jordan on Saturday (April 16).

    He will then travel to Israel on Monday, and to the Palestinian Territories on Wednesday.

    This is Mr Lee’s first official visit to Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian Territories, the Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement on Friday.

    “The visit will affirm Singapore’s good relations with Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian National Authority, and underscore Singapore’s commitment to support the capacity building efforts of the Palestinian people,” the statement added.

    While in Jordan, Mr Lee will be hosted to lunch by King Abdullah II. He will meet Prime Minister and Defence Minister Abdullah Ensour, who will also host him to dinner.

    Mr Lee will also meet Chief Advisor for Religious and Cultural Affairs Prince Ghazi Bin Muhammad Bin Talal. He will also meet Singapore students studying in Jordan.

    In Israel, Mr Lee will call on President Reuven Rivlin and meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

    He will also meet Leader of the Opposition Isaac Herzog and former President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shimon Peres.

    In addition, Mr Lee will meet leaders of major Israeli technology companies and visit the Hebrew University, where he will receive an honorary doctorate.

    He will also witness the signing of an agreement between Hebrew University and Singapore’s National Research Foundation to facilitate research collaboration in Singapore.

    In the Palestinian Territories, Mr Lee will meet Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority Rami Hamdallah, who will host him to lunch.

    Mr Lee will also lay a wreath at the mausoleum of the first President of the Palestinian National Authority, Yasser Arafat.

    PM Lee will be accompanied by Mrs Lee, Foreign Affairs Minister Vivian Balakrishnan, Environment and Water Resources Minister Masagos Zulkifli, Minister of State for Communications and Information and Education Janil Puthucheary, and MPs Liang Eng Hwa and Intan Azura Mokhtar.

    During Mr Lee’s absence, Deputy Prime Minister and Coordinating Minister for National Security Teo Chee Hean will be the Acting Prime Minister.

     

     

    Source: www.straitstimes.com

  • Vivian Lee, Bekas Temanita Alvin Tan, Diarah Bela Diri Di Mahkamah Atas Tuduhan Hina Islam

    Vivian Lee, Bekas Temanita Alvin Tan, Diarah Bela Diri Di Mahkamah Atas Tuduhan Hina Islam

    KUALA LUMPUR: Sebuah mahkamah di Kuala Lumpur memerintahkan Vivian Lee, iaitu bekas teman wanita blogger kontroversi Alvin Tan, supaya membela diri terhadap pertuduhan mempersenda umat Islam dan bulan Ramadan.

    Ini setelah dia menerbitkan penerbitan menghasut dalam laman sosial Facebook, tiga tahun lalu.

    Hakim Abdul Rashid Daud membuat keputusan itu selepas mendapati pihak pendakwaan berjaya membuktikan kes prima facie terhadap Vivian Lee atau Lee May Ling, 27 tahun, di akhir kes pendakwaan hari ini (14 Apr).

    Mahkamah menetapkan 10 dan 11 Mei untuk Lee, membela diri dengan memberi keterangan secara bersumpah terhadap pertuduhan tersebut mengikut Akta Hasutan.

    Mengikut pertuduhan, Vivian Lee dan Alvin Tan didakwa menyiarkan gambar mereka menikmati hidangan dengan kapsyen bertajuk ‘Selamat Berbuka Puasa (with Bak Kut Teh…fragrant, delicious and appetising (‘Selamat Berbuka Puasa (dengan) Bak Kut Teh, Wangi, Enak dan Menyelerakan’ yang mengandungi logo halal.

    Mereka didakwa bersama-sama melakukan kesalahan itu melalui laman sosial Facebook pukul 9.00 pagi pada 12 Julai 2013.

    Bagaimanapun, Abdul Rashid melepaskan dan membebaskan Lee daripada pertuduhan menyiarkan gambar lucah di Facebook.

    Ketika ditanya wartawan di luar mahkamah, Timbalan Pendakwa Raya, Wan Shaharuddin Wan Ladin mengenai pertuduhan terhadap Alvin Tan, beliau berkata: “Pada hari ini keputusan hanya terhadap Lee bagaimanapun pendakwaan terhadap Tan masih diteruskan meskipun tanpa kehadirannya di mahkamah”.

    Mereka turut didakwa atas tuduhan menyiarkan gambar lucah dalam laman Facebook yang sama, antara 9.00 malam pada 6 Julai 2013 dan 2.00 pagi pada 7 Julai 2013.

    Pada 6 Mac tahun lalu, pendakwa meneruskan perbicaraan terhadap Lee meskipun tanpa kehadiran Tan, 28 tahun, yang disyaki melarikan diri ke Amerika Syarikat bagi mengelak menghadiri prosiding perbicaraan.

    Source: http://berita.mediacorp.sg

  • Faisal Manap: Malay Muslim Community Fund Patut Diagih Kepada Masjid-Masjid

    Faisal Manap: Malay Muslim Community Fund Patut Diagih Kepada Masjid-Masjid

    Assalamualaikum Wr. Wb.
    May Peace Be Upon You

    My Malay speech for MCCY’s COS debate touching on the allocation of the Malay Muslim Community Fund (MMCDF).

    MMCDF was established in 1991 to support Mendaki’s effort in enhancing the social development of the Malay Muslim Community

    My speech (in Malay):

    ‘Dalam menjawab soalan saya didewan ini, sama ada pengunaan MMCDF boleh dilanjutkan kepada institusi masjid, Menteri berkata, ini tidak dapat dilakukan kerana masjid tidak dianggap sebagai sebuah badan Melayu-Islam. Namun beliau menambah bahawa Masjid boleh meraih dari dana ini jika program-program sosial mereka dijalankan dengan kerjasama badan-badan pemerintah atau organisasi Melayu Islam yang lain.

    Saya amat kagum dengan usaha kerjasama masyarakat Islam Singapura dalam pentadbiran masjid. Lembaga Pentabdiran dan warga-kerja sesebuah masjid berusaha bertungkus-lumus dalam mentadbirkan masjid manakala masyarakat Islam pula memainkan peranan kearah kestabilan masjid melalui sumbangan kewangan dan tenaga. Seperti yang diketahui, pihak masjid amat mengalu-alukan setiap sumbangan masyarakat dalam segala jenis bentuk terutamanya sumbangan kewangan. Ini adalah kerana, apa yang saya fahami, segala perbelanjaan dalam pengurusan masjid seperti perbelanjaan utiliti, pembayaran gaji bulanan dan yang lain-lain dibiayai menerusi wang sumbangan masyarakat.

    Inilah Semangat Muafakat atau Kerjasama yang terlahir atas niat dan usaha yang ikhlas demi mencapai objektif bersama iaitu memajukan masjid di Singapura. Kestabilan institusi masjid yang dibina atas Semangat Muafakat atau Kerjasama ini akan menjadikan masjid antara penyumbang yang penting dan utama bukan hanya sahaja dalam pembentukan spiritual tetapi juga pembentukkan sosial masyarakat Islam kita.

    Salah sebuah tema pada Belanjawan ini adalah Semangat Kerjasama. Atas Nilai Semangat Kerjasama ini, saya ingin menyarankan agar Menteri dan pihak pemerintah dapat mempertimbangkan usulan agar penggunaan dana ini dapat dilanjutkan kepada masjid agar MMCDF ini dapat mendatangkan lebih manfaat terhadap pembangunan masyarakat Melayu Islam Singapura. Ini juga memperkuatkan lagi Semangat Kerjasama antara pemerintah dan badan-badan Melayu Islam.

    Saya ada 2 soalan bagi Menteri, (1) Bolehkah Menteri terangkan apakah kriteria yang diambil kira dalam mengkategorikan sesebuah institui atau badan sebagai sebuah Badan Melayu Islam (MMO) dan (2) siapakah atau pihak manakah yang menentukan kriteria yang digunakan ini.’

     

    Source: Muhamad Faisal Abdul Manap

  • Wearwhite: Homosexual Propaganda Distorts The Truth In Islam

    Wearwhite: Homosexual Propaganda Distorts The Truth In Islam

    – The writer of “Why Does Gay Sex Scare Modern Muslims?” conflates the clear teachings of Islam with the actions of some Muslims. This is what Islamophobes do all the time too.

    – To the author Truth is true only when it conforms to the demands of the context, no matter what the context is.To him if Muslims want to be accepted in Europe, Islam must not reject Homosexuality. This is to say that truth is nothing but the product of the context and is subservient to it. In Islam, what is real (reality) is not necessarily true. It is truth that must be made into reality, not the other way round. We should not confuse what is with what ought.

    – Fundamentalism in the sense that we should return to the fundamentals of Islam is nothing but good.

    – When God said he created this for that purpose, this is what Muslims mean by natural, any kind of action that strayed away from that purpose is considered as an unnatural act, a transgression. Therefore, the very act of consciously turning away from the opposite sex for the same sex to satisfy one’s sexual need – in any way – is explicitly prohibited in The Quran :

    “Of all the creatures in the world, you approach the males? And leave those whom Allah has created for you to be your mates? Nay, you are a people of transgression.” (Quran 26:165-166)

    How explicit than this do you want the Quran to be?

    – The verses quoted above is enough to debunk the “rape theory”.

    – Yes, The Quran does not condemn those men who are not in need of women (24:31), but the Quran also does not say that they are in need of men or sanction homosexuality. This is a clear fallacy of Non Sequitur.

    – The author seems to necessitate sex in a love relationship between men, with his logic all men who love their fellow men passionately must be homosexuals, to stretch this faulty logic further, it will not be wrong to say that when there is love between a father and his daughter the relationship must be incestuous.

    – Linking conservatism with ISIS’ atrocities is a clear example of slippery slope.

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    We know that such brittle articles will keep on coming, because if your position is weak, you have nothing to strengthen it with but repetition and paraphrasing.

     

    Source: Wearwhite

  • Chan Chun Sing: I Will Be The Last Person To Allow The PA To Be Politicised

    Chan Chun Sing: I Will Be The Last Person To Allow The PA To Be Politicised

    Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office Chan Chun Sing on Thursday (14 April) hit back at opposition Member-of-Parliament (MP) Sylvia Lim’s concerns that some members of the People Association’s (PA) were undermining the work of non-ruling party MPs on the ground.

    Chan, who is the PA’s deputy chairman, said that the PA was not a partisan organisation and it did not check on the political allegiance of its members and their voting preferences, saying that the latter was “not relevant to our work”.

    “I will be last person to ever allow the People’s Association to be politicised,” Chan told Parliament in the Committee of Supply debate.

    Lim, the chairman of the Workers’ Party, had on Wednesday (13 April) said that PA activists were being mobilised to campaign for People’s Action Party candidates, and that the Citizens’ Consultative Committee (CCC) – which is a part of the PA – had not replied to her letters when she had requested information about private estate upgrading projects in Aljunied GRC, which the WP held on to in the 2015 General Election.

    “An unhealthy culture seems to have developed within some quarters of the PA, who see its role to include advancing the ruling party politically and undermining the work of opposition MPs,” Lim said.

    Chan said PA participants were average Singaporeans from all walks of life and that he had personally seen some members taking part in activities supporting both the PAP incumbent and the opposition.

    “When I see my own residents, participants of my PA activities, supporting the opposition, I can only ask myself ‘How can I work harder to win them over?’” Chan said.

    He said the PA was a statutory board which “executed the directions of the government of the day” as per any other stat board, and did not allow any political activities or canvassing of votes on its various premises.

    He also said he would be willing to look at any evidence of partisanship Lim or other opposition members could provide.

    “If Ms Lim has any such evidence of wrongdoing, you can let me know, and I guarantee you, I will follow up,” the minister said.

    Regarding the specific example Lim gave, Chan said he did not have all the details.

    “I’ve heard from both sides on the ground accusing each other of being uncooperative. All I can say is I urge both sides, be it (the) town council or the CCC to always remember to put the interests of the residents first,” he said.

    Lim said she welcomed the minister’s “unequivocal public statement that the PA should never be politicised”, calling it a “timely reminder to those who may think otherwise”.

    She also asked during clarification time if the PA adopted the government standard operating procedure of replying to MPs’ letters written on behalf of their constituents, to which Chan replied, “The answer is yes.”

    Lim had also asked about the PA’s budget for FY2016, which was nearly $900 million, a 34 per cent increase from FY2014.

    Chan said the bulk of the increase was not from 2015′s SG50 celebrations, but the starting up of the Pioneer Generation office and capital expenditure on facilities in Tampines and Geylang Serai.

    Source: Yahoo News