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Warga Singapura Ketua Ajaran Sesat di Melaka, Percayai Dirinya Imam Mahdi

JASIN 17 Sept. – Jabatan Agama Islam Melaka (JAIM) menahan seorang lelaki berusia 53 tahun yang dipercayai ketua ajaran sesat iaitu mirip ajaran Hakikat Insan dan bergiat aktif di 13 lokasi di negara ini sejak 10 tahun lalu.

Lelaki yang dikenali sebagai Pak Engku atau Wak itu ditahan bersama dua pengikut, isterinya berusia 60 tahun serta seorang kanak-kanak perempuan berusia tujun tahun, dipercayai anak angkatnya di sebuah rumah tujuh bilik di Kampung Batu Gajah, Merlimau di sini pada pukul 2 petang, kelmarin.

Ketua Penguat Kuasa JAIM, Rahimin Bani berkata, lelaki berasal dari Batu Pahat itu bergiat menyampaikan ajaran difatwakan haram itu secara berpindah-randah di beberapa negeri sebelum menyebarkannya di Melaka sejak 10 bulan lalu.

“Hasil siasatan mendapati, suspek menjalankan kegiatan itu bersama pengikutnya dengan melakukan pemujaan menggunakan telur ayam, susu lembu, pulut kuning yang di alas dengan kain merah untuk dipersembahkan kepada makhluk halus.

“Difahamkan, lafaz syahadah yang mereka amalkan juga berbeza.

“Daripada maklumat yang kami perolehi, seramai 20 orang pengikut akan terlibat secara langsung dalam upacara tertentu dan beberapa amalan seperti puasa pemutih dan mandi suci turut dilakukan oleh kumpulan ini.

“Lelaki itu juga mengakui bahawa dia adalah Imam Mahdi dan Sultan Mahmud dalam kalangan pengikutnya,” katanya kepada pemberita dalam sidang akhbar di pejabat JAIM, Bukit Palah di sini hari ini.

Rahimin berkata, beberapa barangan serta peralatan yang digunakan untuk kegiatan ajaran tersebut turut disita serta dimusnahkan oleh JAIM.

Katanya, antara yang dirampas adalah buku-buku catatan yang tertera bahawa keseluruhan anggota badan merupakan ‘lembaga Muhammad’, dua pil perangsang seks, barangan pemujaan dan keris lama.

“Barangan yang dimusnahkan ialah tiga pasang pakaian yang dipercayai digunakan untuk acara pertabalan dan pemujaan, botol-botol air tertera nama-nama nabi tertentu serta botol air yang dibalut dengan kain kuning tertera nama Sultan Mahmud pertama,” ujarnya.

Kata Rahimin, rumah yang didiami oleh empat keluarga termasuk suspek dan isterinya itu turut mempunyai sebuah bilik yang dipercayai digunakan untuk aktiviti pemujaan dan sebuah bilik khas yang dipanggil bilik ratu.

Tambahnya, siasatan dilakukan mengikut Seksyen 60 Enakmen Kesalahan Syariah Negeri Melaka kerana menyebarkan ajaran salah yang memperuntukkan denda RM5,000 atau tiga tahun penjara atau kedua-duanya.

“Siasatan turut dilakukan mengikut Seksyen 61 enakmen sama kerana mempersendakan Islam serta Seksyen 48 kerana melakukan penerbitan agama bertentangan dengan syarak.

“Suspek telah ditahan reman tiga hari sejak Isnin lalu, manakala isterinya yang merupakan warga Singapura diserahkan kepada Jabatan Imigresen negeri kerana didapati tinggal di negara ini tanpa visa sejak dua tahun lalu,” ujar beliau.

Sumber: http://www.utusan.com.my/utusan/Dalam_Negeri/20140918/dn_11/JAIM-tahan-ketua-ajaran-sesat-sita-barangan-pemujaan

September 18, 2014
Primary 5 Student Harbour Racist Sentiments Towards Minorities

How do you react to racism from a P5 child?

this is a convo that occurred at the very beginning of class. I teach creative writing to three classes of P5 students on Mondays. This was during my first class today, in fact, just an hour ago. I have been teaching these kids for half a year now.

girl: teacher are you singaporean? as in are you from India or are you from Singapore?
me: what do you think?
girl: I don’t know but I think you are from India
me: why?
girl: but if I say why then I can be sued
me: it’s okay, you can just say it
girl: cos your skin very dark so you must be from India
me: no such thing, there is a huge spectrum of skin colours. and do I ask you if you are born in China or singapore?
girl: but I’m not so fair like ppl in China
me: what? have you been to China?
girl: no.
me: I lived in China for a month, I can tell you for certain not all Chinese there are very fair.
girl: teacher you know just now when I was walking to class I was walking behind you
me: yes I realised, why you never say hi?
girl: I didn’t know it was you, you usually wear dress and then today you got braid. teacher you like braid ah?
me: I just felt like it today, why?
girl: just now got so many Indians at the busstop, so smelly you know, and then their hair already curly they go tie braid then so ugly, I hate it when my mother ties braid for me, after she tie I quickly take out and comb it straight again

You see this is a class of 9 kids. by this point of the convo we are 10 min into class time. I need time to cover the syllabus plus they need time to complete their essays in class. also, I refuse to combat racism with any equivalent racist stereotypes. I also have a very silent 8 other kids listening to this convo. what to I do? I don’t utter another word and begin the lesson.

I’ve run through the worksheet and they are now writing their essays. and I’m sitting here feeling annoyed, angry, sad, and incapable (of nipping racism in the bud).

And the one rare day I decide to dress down, I get closeted by racial stereotypes. and what are this girl’s parents teaching her? or not teaching her? I feel like I’m in primary school all over again dealing with and experiencing racism.

Teachers out there, parents also, how would you deal with this?

‪#‎feelinglikeatotalnoob‬
‪#‎ughhh‬

If you read the comment thread of this post, you would come across a particularly brilliant suggestion (among many good ones) by Hemma Balakrishnan. and I took her advice. let me update you on how this story ends.

After collecting their essays, I had 5 min left before I had to dismiss them. I drew a table on the board with 4 columns – Chinese, Malays, Indians, Others.

me: so this is a pretty fun activity, tell me what you think all Indians or Malays or Chinese are like
student: ang moh where?
student: others la
student: teacher I know why you doing this, cos of what she say just now right so the columns were filled up. We completed Indians first – black, braids, smelly. then Malays – men wear skirts, lazy. then Chinese.

student: white!

student: no la where got white.

After this there were no responses. They just looked at me blankly with nothing to fill in for the Chinese column

student: Chinese are nice!

me: (chuckling) wah for everyone else you said bad stuff and when it’s about you, you are nice?

me: okay since there are no non-Chinese here maybe you guys have never heard of these things but lemme tell you a few things ppl say about all Chinese. greedy. don’t shower in the mornings.

student: but teacher I shower in the mornings!

So here, I go on to explain how if what is in the Chinese column is not true, why would any other stereotype in the other columns be true. We went through each stereotype listed, debunking them. Specifically for the stereotype about Indians being black, I did not say something along the lines of “not all Indians are black”, rather I went on to say that there is nothing wrong with being black. students were mostly nodding their heads in agreement with me as we moved along each stereotype. For the Indians are smelly stereotype, apart from the fact that it isn’t true, I also spoke about how construction workers might be smelly but that’s only because they work so hard to build our houses and they are paid so little so they cannot afford to buy deodorant or perfume. also, everyone naturally has body odour after you hit puberty, it’s about how well you manage it by wearing deodorant etc.

It was such a ‘ting!’ moment for all the kids and the particular girl who had passed the remarks looked rather defiant but didn’t really say anything because all her classmates agreed with me. It was an amazing teachable moment.

Thank you so much Hemma and everyone else on this comment thread!

I will continue to monitor this particular girl and if I realise that she still harbors racist sentiments, i’ll speak to her parents. but things should be all good again a huge huge thank you! so glad I posted this on Facebook. you all played a part in turning my day around and enabling me to nip racism in the bud

Authored by: Jayasutha Samuthiran

September 18, 2014
Man Charged For Organising ‘Million Masks March’ at City Hall MRT

Jacob Lau Jian Rong, 24, pleaded guilty to organising the event in support of the Million Mask March on Nov 5 in opposition to new regulations for Internet sites, which the Media Development Authority (MDA) rolled out last May. Under the new framework, some online news sites require individual licences to operate.

The prosecution said Lau proceeded with the offence despite a police advisory which was issued earlier that day.

The police had advised the public that it was illegal to organise or take part in a public assembly without a permit.

The Million Mask March, an online movement which calls for 24-hour protests around the globe to commemorate Guy Fawkes Day, was promoted here though social media platforms, including a Facebook page titled Million Mask March Singapore.

The march was originally scheduled to take place at Hong Lim Park on the morning of Nov 5, but it did not materialise.

Inspired by the discontentment expressed online, Lau initiated another march at 7pm that day and rounded up participants via a post on the event page. The post drew around 143 comments.

At 7.25pm that day, Lau arrived at the entrance of City Hall MRT Station and met nine others, who were dressed mostly in red and black. One of them even donned a Guy Fawkes mask.

The group was arrested before they could move off. A total of 14 Guy Fawkes masks were seized from the group.

The prosecution said Lau had no intention to comply with the advisory and had “acted irresponsibly and blatantly” in organising the activity which was “potentially causing disruptions to public order”.

Lau’s lawyer Amarjeet Singh pleaded for probation as Lau was intending to apply for further studies. Judge Chay Yuen Fatt denied the request.

Lau now works as a bank teller after he lost his previous job as a claims officer. He could have been fined up to S$5,000 for the offence under the Public Order Act.

His attempt to organise the illegal march followed a string of protests against the MDA’s Internet licensing regulations.

On Oct 31 last year, a video, allegedly made by the international hacker collective, Anonymous, threatened to unleash cyberattacks against the Government for restricting Internet freedom.

In the week following the video’s release, at least 19 government websites were either made inaccessible, or had their front pages defaced with mocking messages.

Source: TODAY

September 18, 2014
20 People Killed in Communal Clash Between Muslims and Buddhists from Myanmar

GEORGE TOWN, Sept 18 — Twenty people savagely murdered in Penang this year are believed to be victims of communal clashes between Muslims and Buddhists from Myanmar.

Police said the latest was the double-murder of two men in their 30s who had their throats slit and their bodies dumped in an oil palm plantation in Kampung Manggis in Bukit Mertajam on Monday.

Police are worried religious and ethnic tensions between the two groups in Myanmar have bubbled to surface in the state with deadly consequences. Most of the victims were Buddhists.

They have been unable to head off the violence due to communication problems with both
communities.

State deputy police chief Datuk A. Thaiveegan said a special task force has been set up by police to investigate the deaths.

“We are probing if religious disputes are involved,” he said.

The flashpoint of this violence is Seberang Prai where Rohingya Muslims from the western Rakhine state are the main suspects in the killings.

No one has been arrested in connection with the murders which began in January, although several weapons, mainly knives have been seized.

The reason for the killings are not immediately clear, with both groups blaming each other for the bitter tension.

Police sources said the victims, mostly factory workers, were brutally killed and were found with their throats slit.

A source said: “Six people were been killed in central Seberang Prai in three separate cases while the remains of two other victims were discovered in southern Seberang Prai in the last four months.

“The remaining cases were reported in northern Seberang Prai while several other cases have also been occurred on the island.”

The source said the victims, all men, aged between 20 and 40 were abducted from their homes and murdered elsewhere.

Most of the victims were found without documents and their remains were identified by colleagues and friends.

Police believe the assailants had targeted their victims through their workplace colleagues and had also obtained information on them from members of their community who have been here for years.

Investigations have shown further conflict is at risk and police have asked employers of the victims for leads.

On Monday, a plantation worker stumbled upon the bodies of the two men at about 8.50am. Apart from slit throats, they also suffered multiple stab wounds.

Police believe they were murdered at another place before their bodies were dumped at the plantation.

One of the victims was identified based on his travel document while the identity of the other is still unknown.

Source: http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/gruesome-myanmar-communal-murders-grip-penang#sthash.GqBY6W1Z.I4nMDZ6q.dpuf

September 18, 2014
North Korea Has Successfully Landed First Human on the Sun

A North Korean central news anchorman said during a live broadcast: “We are very delighted to announce a successful mission to put a man on the sun. North Korea has beaten every other country in the world to the sun. Hung Il Gong is a hero and deserves a hero’s welcome when he returns home later this evening”.

Hung is expected back on Earth in just a few hours time, where he will be greeted by his uncle, and supreme leader: Kim Jong-un. Hung traveled in the cover of darkness, as it would protect him from the harsh, and extreme temperatures of the Sun. Hung will also be bringing back some sun spot samples for his uncle, which I’m sure he will show off to the world in a short amount of time.

The North Korean central news agency is calling the 18-hour mission the “greatest human achievement of our time” – and so they should, landing a man on the Sun, a trip that took 18 hours return, is quite the achievement, all things considered. I wonder if Dennis Rodman considered this a slam dunk for the country.

September 18, 2014