Schedule untuk solat Aidilfitri on Sunday, 1 Syawal! Selamat beribadah kepada sesiapa yang akan mengerjakan solat Aidilfitri!
Source: Majlis Ugama Islam Singapura (MUIS)
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Ismail Kassim: Prioritise Muslim Unity Before All Else
Who liberated Jerusalem from the Crusaders? Of course, all Muslims know it is Saladin, the magnificent, the courageous, the benevolent.
How many realise that Saladin is a Kurd by ethnicity. How many know that the Al-Sauds and the Wahhabis nowadays regard all Kurds as heretics.
I am both angry and sad at ignorant Muslims who, having been fed poison and misled by their respective teachers, are quick to condemn other Muslims as heretics.
They are free to practice their narrow-minded and pedantic form of Islam, but they should refrain from bad-mouthing other Muslims.
Just think why Trump is supporting the Saudis. Is it because he loves Islam or is it because he likes Sunnis more than the Shias.
Or is he encouraging the bloodshed among Muslims to enrich himself and his army of arms manufacturers
and US industry.Remember how the Saudis and the US instigated the megalomaniac Saddam Hussein to attack Iran.
The result one million Muslims died on the battlefields and thousands of Americans became billionaires.
To me, I am a Muslim; not Shia, not Sunni and faithful only to the Prophet of Islam and to no other.
Source: Ismail Kassim
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40 Belia Sunni, Syiah Anjur Majlis Iftar, Pupuk Persefahaman
Sekumpulan belia Islam mengadakan majlis iftar di Masjid Baalwie hari ini bagi mengikrarkan sokongan terhadap dalam masyarakat Islam tempatan.
Inisiatif itu adalah sebahagian daripada siri sesama umat Islam anjuran kumpulan belia Muslim Collective (TMC).
Ia adalah kali pertama acara sedemikian diadakan di sebuah masjid tempatan.
Seramai 40 belia Islam dari pelbagai latar belakang berbeza hadir di acara ini, yang dihoskan oleh Imam Masjid Baalwie, Habib Hassan Al-atas.
Mereka mengikrarkan sokongan terhadap interaksi sesama umat Islam dari fahaman-fahaman berbeza, untuk menentang radikalisme.
Majlis iftar yang serupa diadakan sebelum ini di sebuah pusat masyarakat Syiah tempatan yang baru dibuka.
Ia adalah kali kedua iftar sebegini diadakan di bulan Ramadan ini.
Sebelum ini ia dihoskan oleh masyarakat Syiah tempatan yang disertai 100 belia dan pemimpin masyarakat Islam.
Source: http://berita.mediacorp.sg
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Osman Sulaiman: Will CPIB Investigate Allegations Against Lee Hsien Loong?
Do we have to wait for someone to lodge a complaint to CPIB before they would investigate the allegations made by Lee Hsien Loong’ brother?
In other functioning democracies, the CPIB would have already begun their investigations. But then again, the inaction by the CPIB is to be expected. The CPIB reports to the PM.
This problematic arrangement has been highlighted by the people before.
If CPIB reports to the PM, what happen if the PM himself is embroiled by allegations of corruption? Would it investigate? Or would it act independently without fear or favour?
Source: Khan Osman Sulaiman
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Pritam Singh: In The Interest Of Fairness, Let Lee Wei Ling And Lee Hsien Yang Speak In Parliament Too
Some Singaporeans have asked about Parliamentary Select Committees. What are they?
Parliament hosts powers to appoint Select Committees of MPs to look at issues in depth, including calling for evidence and summoning witnesses if necessary. My WP colleagues and I have filed a number of parliamentary questions that relate to allegations of the Prime Minister abusing his powers in the matter of 38, Oxley Road. The Prime Minister has announced he will make a statement in Parliament and welcomes vigourous debate. There is one problem though. Unlike the Prime Minister, Mr Lee Hsien Yang and those who support him will have no opportunity to clear the air on 3 July 2017.
In the interests of fairness, Mr Lee should be allowed to tell his story to Parliament too. A Select Committee would allow MPs the opportunity to call up any witness, including the Prime Minister or anyone else to get to the truth of the matter behind the allegations of abuse of power.
By way of a parliamentary question, I have asked the Prime Minister to support the setting up of a Select Committee to look into the serious allegations made against him. The use of Select Committees for such a purpose is nothing new. The PAP have used Select Committees to look into allegations made against the Government in the past.
On 21 Mar 1996, Parliament resolved to appoint a select committee to verify the Government’s healthcare expenditure, amongst other reasons, to verify statements made in the Singapore Democratic Party publication, The New Democrat and in a speech made by SDP MP Ling How Doong in Parliament where he said, “healthcare costs are not subsidised at all.”
One submission to this Select Committee defined the role of Select Committees perfectly:
“The public has every right to know the facts and to receive from the Government the fullest possible information….The Select Committee serves a useful and informative field of public education and members of the Select Committee would seek to produce agreed reports in the best interest of the public.”
In a voluminous report (hyperlinked below), the Select Committee on Healthcare Subsidies published all the questions MPs put to various witnesses who were asked to give evidence to the committee. But things did not stop there. In view of the replies given to the Select Committee by Mr Chee Soon Juan and other witnesses, then Minister of Health George Yeo filed a complaint of contempt of Parliament to the Committee of Privileges against several witnesses arising out of the Select Committee hearings. I remember watching clips of the Select Committee hearing on TV, with PAP MPs relentlessly questioning Chee Soon Juan.
Like many Singaporeans, no one knows how long the current episode is going to drag on for with new information and allegations coming out almost on a daily basis, and perhaps even after 3 July 2017.
The allegations of abuse of power by the Prime Minister need to be looked into. A Parliamentary session as a forum to hear only one side of the story will just not do. After all, it was the late Lee Kuan Yew who said:
“No government in this part of the world will open willingly when it need not open a problem like this and take it out, whether a Commission of Inquiry, debate in Parliament, Select Committee, or even a prosecution if a case could be made out.”
Useful links:
30 Sep 1996 – Report of the Select Committee on Verification of Healthcare Subsidy of Government Polyclinics and Public Hospitals: goo.gl/zgk6ie
22 Nov 1996 – Report of the Committee of Privileges: Complaint against Representors from the Singapore Democratic Party: goo.gl/xG6ER3
Source: Pritam Singh