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  • Petition To Mdm Halimah Yaacob To Reinstate Thaipusam As A Public Holiday

    Petition To Mdm Halimah Yaacob To Reinstate Thaipusam As A Public Holiday

    In Singapore, every major race is given two days of religious or cultural holiday. The Chinese have Chinese New Year (CNY), which lasts for two days. Malays, who are predominantly Muslim, are given holidays for Hari Raya Haji and Hari Raya Puasa. Indians are given Deepavali and Vesak Day. Hence, Thaipusam could not be made a holiday for Indian Hindus.

    However, who observes Vesak Day? It is a Buddhist holiday. Buddhism originated in India, but by and large, the world’s biggest population of Buddhists, are East Asian. In Singapore, this means it is the Singaporean Chinese who are mostly Buddhist. Why is it gazetted as an Indian holiday when there are so few Indians celebrating it?

    Thaipusam should be made a holiday in Singapore from 2016 in the interest of fairness to all races in Singapore.

    Please sign this petition that will be sent to the Public Petitions Committee of the Parliament of Singapore asking to make Thaipusam a holiday in Singapore.

    Thaipusam Petition - Change

    LETTER TO

    Chairman, Public Petitions Comittee, Parliament of Singapore Mdm Halimah Yacob

    In Singapore, every major race is given two days of religious or cultural holiday. The Chinese have Chinese New Year (CNY), which lasts for two days. Malays, who are predominantly Muslim, are given holidays for Hari Raya.

     

    Sangeetha Thanapal

    Source: www.change.org

     

  • Fahmi Rais: Singaporean Muslims Must Learn To Protect Themselves Against The Supernatural

    Fahmi Rais: Singaporean Muslims Must Learn To Protect Themselves Against The Supernatural

    Let me share this story with you so that you can draw lessons from it.

    1. I opened a makan place in JB in Apr 2014. It reached full house in the first 2 weeks of operation.

    2. 4 months later at the start of Ramadhan, suddenly there were no customers. Chickens bought at 3pm turned bad and black by 5pm. Different kinds of grasshoppers and other insects started to fly into the cafe. Staff started to throw tempers at each other. Regular customers complaint that the cafe was always closed. New customers found it hard to locate the cafe despite receiving clear cut directions. Clumbs of earth was found stuck at the front entrance of the shop etc etc. It lasted for months and business was severely hit. We eventually lost all staff.

    3. Late October, while still strange things happening to the makan place, I met with the worst car accident in my life. 3 of my kids in the car suffered some injuries with my boy requiring stitching. The windscreen broke as a result of my head upon impact and my driver seat dislocated. The 4-wheel car went into workshop for 3.5 months. Many healers came to the makan place to ‘rectify’ the situation and believed that the accident was no accident. It was a heightened direct attempt to harm me and family since the business did not. The head on collision accident could have been fatal. I could have died. The makan place was eventually cleansed and got a new buyer.

    4. Coupled by our need to make things easier for our school going kids, we decided to return to Singapore late Dec 2014 and found a flat unit in Woodlands. We also wanted to leave behind the memories. It caused us extreme financial strain from Aug to Dec. Thankfully, many friends came to help us.

    5. But then in the new house, strange things started to happen in the first week. Foot steps could be heard after midnight around the masterbedroom. Room doors and toilet doors opening and closing on their own. Frame falling down. Sounds of running water heard even when the tap is off. Glimpses of moving shadows were spotted. At one point, my maid ran out of the house and waited outside because of fear.

    6. People with special skills, started to say that I was accompanied by Jinns and a man of God who recently came to the house to check started vomiting when entering the rooms in the house. A dear brother came and a rukyah rite was performed on me, wife and house last evening.

    7. Yesterday too after Asar, I suddenly fell ill without reason and recovered fully by this morning. All energy was sucked out that I had to perform my prayer sitting down as I could not find the strength to stand straight. The illness disappeared as fast as when it came, all without reason and medicine.

    There are many more strange things that happened which I shall not labour further in here. Suffice to share the above so that all of us, take precaution and always be on guard. The supernatural has nothing to do with modernisation. I am the President of the Supernatural Investigation and Research Society and am very close with so many talented spiritual healers, and yet if these kind of attacks can affect me despite the God-given qualities in me, it could have hit others more badly.

    Mere belief in God is insufficient. You have to be a practising person of faith. I am still battling the supernatural as I enter this diary-like entry on my open FB wall so that we can find strength in each other and help one another. Disbelieving does not mean ‘they’ cease to exist. I pray what I went through is just a story you heard and learnt and not something you are forced to experience first hand. It is threatening and if you have a family, your kids and spouse could be at risk.

    May God continues to protect us all. You may share this posting with good intent. I am not ashamed by sharing, belittled by the effect of doing so nor defeated by what have happened. Perhaps whoever that harbours the evil intent on me can read this and know that I am still standing.

    Salam and in good faith,

    Fahmi Rais

  • Datuk Jackie Chan Acted In Porn Movie In 1970s

    Datuk Jackie Chan Acted In Porn Movie In 1970s

    Last week Hong Kong actor Jackie Chan was bestowed with the Panglima Mangku Wilayah (PMW) award from the Yang di Pertuan Agong Tuanku Abdul Halim Mua’dzam Shah. The award now means that Chan carries the title of “Datuk”.

    Chan is of course a global superstar, having headlined movies such as Police Story, Drunken Master, Project A, and a few Hollywood flicks such as Rush Hour and Shanghai Knights. But did you know that the Kung Fu master also once starred in a porn movie?

    According to Hong Kong media, Information Daily, Chan was in a 1975 porn movie titled “All in the Family”. This of course was before he established himself as an actor and achieve famed. “I had to do anything I could to make a living 31 years ago, but I don’t think it’s a big deal. Even Marlon Brando used to be exposed in his movies,” he was quoted to have said. “The porn movies at that time were more conservative compared to the current films,” he added further.

    The movie was directed by Zhu Mu and also starred Dean Shek, Tien Chun, and Sammo Hung.

     

    Source: www.malaysiandigest.com

  • TransAsia Airways Plane Crashed Into River In New Taipei City

    TransAsia Airways Plane Crashed Into River In New Taipei City

    At least 12 people were killed and many more are feared trapped after a TransAsia Airways plane crashed into a river in New Taipei City, which encircles Taipei, on Wednesday.

    According to the latest update from government officials at 1.52pm local time, 30 people remain missing and 16 others are injured. The extent of their injuries is not clear.

    The ATR-72-600 turboprop aircraft with 58 onboard, of whom 31 are tourists from mainland China, was flying from Taipei to the offshore island of Kinmen when it crashed into the Keelung River at 10.26am, the quasi-official Central News Agency (CNA) and Reuters said. The plane apparently ramming into an elevated highway before falling into the river, CNA said. The crash happened shortly after the plane took off from Songshan Airport in Taipei and was suspected to be due to insufficient propelling force, according to United Daily News.

    The pilot of flight GE235 radioed a “Mayday, Mayday” distress call shortly before the crash, but did not respond when air traffic controllers answered, the report said.

    An eyewitness on the ground was cited as saying the aircraft was flying “almost 90 degrees on its side” and going increasingly lower until it hit the highway bridge and crashed into the river.

    CNA posted on its website dramatic photos of the plane hitting the highway, as a taxi on the highway apparently swerved to avoid being hit.

     

    Source: www.straitstimes.com

  • Wefie Of Palestinian With Chasing Israeli Soldiers Goes Viral But It’s Not What You Think

    Wefie Of Palestinian With Chasing Israeli Soldiers Goes Viral But It’s Not What You Think

    As far as band promotions go, taking a selfie while “being chased by the Israeli Defence Force” has got to be right up there with the most daring – and controversial.

    The image, posted to Twitter by the Palestinian hip hop trio DAM, has exploded across social media, with the official version receiving more than 15,000 retweets in less than 24 hours.

    Unfortunately, part of the reason for that seems to be that people genuinely believe it shows a man with the audacity to grab a quick selfie while fleeing from armed police.

    The group’s website describes DAM – or Da Arabian MCs – as “the first Palestinian hip hop crew and among the first to rap in Arabic, [who] began working together in the late 1990s”.

    And to the credit of a number of Twitter users, many have pointed out that the selfie actually appears to simply feature band members Suhell Nafar, Tamer Nafar and Mahmoud Jreri – with two of them in “bad costumes”.

     

    Source: www.independent.co.uk

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