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  • Rally At Hong Lim Park Calling For The Release Of Amos Yee

    Rally At Hong Lim Park Calling For The Release Of Amos Yee

    A day before teenage blogger Amos Yee returns to court, where he could be sentenced for posting an obscene image online and posting content intended to hurt the religious feelings of Christians, a rally was held at Hong Lim Park today (July 5) calling for his release.

    The rally was organised by Community Action Network, a group of individuals describing themselves as “concerned about freedom of expression in Singapore”.

    The group had also started a petition on change.org two months ago to drop charges against the 16-year-old. As of 10pm today, there were more than 6,300 signatories.

     

    Source: www.todayonline.com

  • Hilang Daya Penglihatan Bukan Halangan Ambil Diploma

    Hilang Daya Penglihatan Bukan Halangan Ambil Diploma

    Dunia Cik Masayang A. Samad menjadi gelap lapan tahun lalu apabila beliau kehilangan daya penglihatan akibat penyakit kencing manis.

    Namun, Cik Masayang, 43 tahun, tidak membiarkan dirinya terus diselubungi kegelapan.

    Beliau bangkit mempertingkat diri dan baru tamat mengambil kursus dua tahun sijil psikologi dan kaunseling Islam di Institut Pengajian Tinggi Al-Zuhri.

    “Apabila saya jatuh sakit, saya telah menghadapi kemurungan dan pernah terfikir hendak membunuh diri kerana tidak mahu menyusahkan orang lain.

    “Tetapi saya teringat kata-kata arwah ibu saya bahawa saya harus berdikari dan selalu berfikiran positif,” ujar Cik Masayang yang kini tinggal seorang diri di flat satu bilik.

    Beliau juga mendapat sokongan moral daripada ayahnya, seorang warga Malaysia yang menetap di Johor Bahru.

    Cik Masayang, anak tunggal, pula memilih tinggal di Singapura kerana lebih mudah menjalani dialisis di sini. Lulusan diploma dalam jurusan pengurusan perniagaan daripada Politeknik Nanyang itu bakal meneruskan diploma psikologi dan kaunseling dalam Islam pula di Al-Zuhri pada Ogos ini.

    “Saya ingin guna ilmu itu membantu orang lain pula yang senasib dengan saya,” ujar Cik Masayang.

    Beliau merupakan antara 552 keluarga yang menerima zakat daripada Darul Arqam tahun ini.

    Tahun ini, persatuan itu mengagihkan sejumlah $179,400 daripada kutipan zakat dan fidyah, dengan setiap keluarga menerima $255 tunai dan baucar bernilai $70.

    Seorang lagi penerima ialah Cik Nur Madiah Hidayah Lim Othman, 34 tahun, yang dilahirkan tanpa tangan dan kaki.

    Sejak beberapa tahun lalu, beliau mula berdikari dengan menjual pakaian wanita menerusi Facebook.

    Bergerak menggunakan kerusi rodanya, Cik Nur Madiah akan ke pejabat pos bagi menghantar barangan yang dibeli pelanggan.

    “Saya fikir ini cara terbaik bagi saya mencari rezeki. Saya berpegang kepada prinsip agar sentiasa berfikiran positif dan tidak berputus asa,” ujarnya.

    Majlis penyampaian zakat semalam itu turut dihadiri Menteri Pendidikan, Encik Heng Swee Keat, dan Presiden Darul Arqam, Encik Faiz Edwin Ignatious.

    Dalam ucapannya, Encik Heng berkata pemberian zakat memaparkan semangat gotong royong dalam masyarakat.

    “Acara hari ini mengingatkan kita bahawa kita semua memainkan peranan membangun sebuah masyarakat berihsan dan penyayang, yang membantu mereka yang memerlukan.

    “Semangat membantu sama lain dalam Islam juga sesuatu yang semakin kita lihat di masyarakat Singapura yang lebih luas,” ujarnya.

     

    Source: http://beritaharian.sg

  • Bekas Pelajar Madrasah Kecapi Ijazah Pujian Kelas Pertama Dalam Bidang Kerja Sosial Di NUS

    Bekas Pelajar Madrasah Kecapi Ijazah Pujian Kelas Pertama Dalam Bidang Kerja Sosial Di NUS

    Daripada madrasah ke menara gading.

    Namun bukan itu sahaja, Cik Siti Nur Diyanah Hardy, 23 tahun, kini menempa sejarah sebagai anak Melayu pertama yang lulus daripada jurusan kerja sosial di Universiti Nasional Singapura (NUS) dengan ijazah kepujian kelas pertama.

    Cik Diyanah merupakan antara lebih 10,000 lulusan yang akan menerima ijazah mereka dalam majlis konvokesyen di NUS yang berlangsung hari ini hingga Selasa depan.

    Majlis konvokesyen bagi fakulti bekas pelajar Madrasah Al-Maarif Al-Islamiah itu akan berlangsung pada 14 Julai.

    Meskipun beliau telah menghabiskan masa 13 tahun belajar di madrasah, Cik Diyanah berkata beliau tidak pernah mengalami kejutan budaya apabila melangkah masuk ke universiti.

    “Pastinya kehidupan di universiti baru dan lain bagi saya tetapi saya rasa perkara ini tentu sama bagi ramai pelajar lain, sama ada mereka daripada madrasah atau bukan.

    “Semasa saya membesar pun, saya tak fikir apa yang saya lalui di sekolah berbeza daripada pelajar lain di sini. Semakin saya membesar juga dan lebih tahu tentang perbezaan yang ada, saya tak mengalami cabaran masuk universiti,” katanya.

    Sepanjang di NUS, Cik Diyanah turut aktif menabur bakti kepada bekas madrasahnya.

    Anak kedua daripada empat beradik itu memulakan program Maarif Maths Mentoring tiga tahun lalu bersama temannya bagi membimbing pelajar Madrasah Al-Maarif yang mengalami kesukaran dalam mata pelajaran tersebut.

    Program itu telah berkembang kepada 20 mentor kini berbanding enam mentor apabila ia baru dimulakan dan sejauh ini telah membantu sekitar 250 pelajar madrasah itu.

    Sikap suka membantu itu juga mungkin antara sebab beliau terdorong menyertai sektor kerja sosial.

    Cik Diyanah turut diberi Anugerah Angkatan Karyawan Islam (AMP) yang mengiktiraf pelajar Fakulti Sastera dan Sains Sosial (FASS) NUS yang menghasilkan tesis kepujian terbaik berkaitan isu yang relevan kepada masyarakat Melayu/Islam setempat.

    Tesisnya meninjau bagaimana individu seperti ustaz atau bomoh menjejas cara orang Melayu yang mengalami isu kesihatan mental mendapatkan bantuan profesional.

    “Topik ini menggabungkan minat saya dalam kerja sosial dan pengajian agama.

    “Pengalaman ini mendatangkan kepuasan bagi saya dan saya dapat belajar banyak bukan sahaja dengan menulisnya (tesis), malah dengan mendengar sendiri daripada mereka yang mengalami isu kesihatan mental.

    “Saya mahu suara mereka didengar menerusi tesis saya… dan saya harap hasil dapatannya akan mendatangkan manfaat kepada masyarakat,” kata anak pasangan guru dan pegawai logistik itu.

    Cik Diyanah kini mengikuti program internship dengan Jawatankuasa Singapura bagi sayap wanita Pertubuhan Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu (PBB) dan antara lain terlibat dalam kempen Girls2Pioneers yang bertujuan menggalak lebih ramai golongan wanita menceburi kerjaya dalam bidang Sains, Teknologi, Kejuruteraan dan Matematik (Stem).

    Presiden Tony Tan Keng Yam yang juga Canselor NUS akan merasmikan majlis konvokesyen utama NUS tahun ini di Kampus Kent Ridge hari ini.

     

    Source: http://beritaharian.sg

  • ISIS Video Shows Mass Executions In Syria’s Ruins Of Palmyra

    ISIS Video Shows Mass Executions In Syria’s Ruins Of Palmyra

    BEIRUT (AFP) – The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group on Saturday released a video showing 25 Syrian government soldiers being executed by teenagers in the ancient amphitheatre in the city of Palmyra.

    The video documented an execution that reportedly happened shortly after the militant group captured the city on May 21.

    It shows the soldiers in green and brown military uniforms being shot dead on the amphitheatre’s stage in front of an enormous version of the group’s black and white flag.

    The executioners all appear to be children or teenagers and are wearing desert camouflage and brown bandanas.

    The killings are carried out in front of a relatively sparse crowd of men and some children watching from the ancient theatre’s seats.

    ISIS reportedly carried out more than 200 executions, including of civilians, in and around Palmyra in the period when it captured the city.

    The executions in the Palmyra amphitheatre were first reported on May 27 by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitor, less than a week after ISIS captured the city.

    At the time, Syria’s antiquities director Mamoun Abdelkarim said he feared the killings could signal the start of “the group’s barbarism and savagery against the ancient monuments of Palmyra”.

    “Using the Roman theatre to execute people proves that these people are against humanity,” he told AFP.

    The Greco-Roman ruins at Palmyra are listed as a Unesco World Heritage Site, and the city’s capture by ISIS prompted international concerns for the fate of its spectacular ancient treasures.

    So far, ISIS is not reported to have damaged the actual ruins, although it has blown up and desecrated Muslim graves in the city and destroyed a statue outside the Palmyra Museum.

    ISIS has regularly released videos of its mass executions, with slick production and gruesome violence that experts say is a key propaganda tool for the group.

     

    Source: www.straitstimes.com

  • Red Lions Land Safely After Parachute Snag

    Red Lions Land Safely After Parachute Snag

    A Red Lions skydiver was involved in a midair drama yesterday when he had to cut off his parachute while descending to the Padang during the rehearsal for the National Day Parade.

    The jumper, who has not been named, was the first of five.

    He managed to deploy his back-up parachute before landing safely on the parade grounds to cheers from the invited crowd.

    Some onlookers managed to photograph the detached parachute falling through the air. There were moments of fear that the freefaller was in danger.

    The NDP executive committee insisted that yesterday’s 10-minute long freefall display “was executed as planned”.

    TENSE MOMENT

    At deployment height, one of the jumpers’ first parachute went into a twist, a common occurrence while parachuting.

    SPOKESMAN, NDP executive committee

    “At deployment height, one of the jumpers’ first parachute went into a twist, a common occurrence while parachuting,” a spokesman said. “The jumper assessed that he could not clear the twist in time, and cut away the first parachute to deploy his reserve parachute, landing safely within the designated area in the Padang.

    “There were no injuries sustained,” the spokesman added.

    Aviation enthusiast Ow Eng Tiong, 41, who regularly attends the Red Lions display which is held annually, witnessed the incident from a nearby street.

    “I could see that his parachute had not opened completely,” he told The Sunday Times.

    “I saw him spiralling down like a corkscrew and falling faster than usual. I knew that something was wrong. But I presume he is fine since the second parachute worked,” he added.

    The last known parachute accident at the parade was in 2005, when a Red Lion fractured his pelvis as a result of a bad landing at a rehearsal. The Red Lions display, a perennial crowd favourite, takes place before the ceremonial military parade.

    This year, the military parade will feature more than 2,000 people in 37 contingents, among them representatives of 16 public- and private-sector bodies.

    Colonel Simon Lee, who oversees the parade and ceremony segment, said 42 companies and organisations had applied to march on Aug 9.

    Col Lee said: “There is only so much we can pack in. We want a good mix to show the various facets of total defence… we select those that best represent the Singapore identity.”

    Among the marchers will be Sembcorp Design and Construction managing director and former People’s Association chief, Mr Yam Ah Mee, 58.

    The former air force brigadier- general, who will lead the Sembcorp contingent, said: “The chance to march in a Jubilee parade does not come by often. I can also catch up with old friends and bond with all the youth.”

     

    Source: www.straitstimes.com

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