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  • Orang Islam Di Itali Adakan Bantahan Bagi Kebebasan Bersolat

    Orang Islam Di Itali Adakan Bantahan Bagi Kebebasan Bersolat

    Beberapa ratus Muslim menunaikan solat di luar bangunan Colosseum di Rome sebagai bantahan terhadap apa yang menurut mereka adalah sekatan tidak adil terhadap kebebasan mengamalkan agama Islam di Itali.

    Para penganjur berkata mereka mengadakan bantahan itu semalam (21 Okt) menyusuli penutupan lima masjid sementara di negara itu atas sebab-sebab pentadbiran.

    Ramai rakyat Muslim Itali mengesyaki pihak berkuasa tempatan memberi respons terhadap rasa curiga terhadap orang Islam akibat serangan pelampau baru-baru ini di Eropah, dengan menutup tempat-tempat ibadah disebabkan masalah-masalah yang mudah dihuraikan, seperti jumlah tandas di sesebuah premis tertentu.

    “Kami merasakan orang ramai menuding jari ke arah kami,” kata Francesco Tieri, seorang warga Itali yang memeluk agama Islam yang merupakan penyelaras bagi beberapa kumpulan Islam.

    “Tiada keinginan politik untuk mengiktiraf bahawa kami ada di sini dan kami masyarakat yang aman. Kami terpaksa menyewa tempat untuk solat – yang bagi kami adalah seperti bernafas, jika kami tidak boleh lakukannya, kami akan mati,” katanya lagi.

    Menurut perangkaan rasmi, lebih 800,000 orang Islam tinggal di Itali secara sah dan para pegawai menganggarkan lagi 100,000 tinggal di negara itu secara tetap tanpa dokumen rasmi.

    Ini bermakna masyarakat Islam mungkin membentuk lebih 1.5 peratus penduduk di Itali dan Islam merupakan agama kedua yang paling ramai dianuti di negara yang kebanyakan penduduknya beragama Roman Katolik itu.

    Islam bagaimanapun tidak diiktiraf sebagai agama rasmi di Itali, tidak seperti agama Yahudi atau Mormon, dan ramai orang Islam dari utara Afrika dan Asia Selatan rasa didiskriminasi dari segi kaum dan agama.

    Rome menempatkan masjid terbesar di dunia Barat, namun saranan-saranan untuk membina masjid-masjid bercorak tradisional di tempat lain kerap dibantah majlis-majlis tempatan yang boleh menyekat izin bagi merancang pembinaan atas pelbagai sebab teknikal daripada saranan saiz kemudahan meletak kereta, dan keharmonian seni bina dengan sesuatu kejiranan tertentu.

    Parti-parti berhaluan kanan menyeru agar mengharamkan mana-mana masjid yang dibina dengan dana dari penderma di luar Itali.

    Anggota Parlimen Barbara Saltamartini dari Liga Utara yang anti-imigresen, menyifatkan bantahan itu sebagai “provokasi tidak boleh diterima” yang tidak sepatutnya dibenarkan diadakan di Rome sama sekali.

    Source: Berita MediaCorp

  • He Helped Hide Bullet Fired During Game

    He Helped Hide Bullet Fired During Game

    While on duty at the Tuas Checkpoint in Aug last year, a Certis Cisco corporal decided to have some fun with his revolver.

    But his firing of the weapon led to a series of attempts to cover up the offence and eventually got his colleague fired, fined and jailed.

    Last Aug 13, Gregory Lai Kar Jun, 23, and his then-colleague, Muhammad Dzul Adhar Azmi, who was also a Certis Cisco corporal at that time, were at an observation point at the Checkpoint.

    Lai took out his revolver to play a game similar to Russian roulette.

    Dzul, now 22, was nearby when Lai fired one shot.

    Instead of reporting it to the authorities, Dzul kept mum and even tried to help his friend cover his tracks.

    But they were caught and Dzul was jailed three weeks and fined $2,000 yesterday.

    He pleaded guilty to one count each of intentionally obstructing the course of justice and failing to give information to the police about the rash act Lai had allegedly committed.

    Deputy Public Prosecutor (DPP) Sarah Shi said Lai placed a bullet into the chamber of his revolver at around 2pm on Aug 13 last year before pulling the trigger.

    The weapon did not fire at first, but it went off when Lai pulled the trigger again.

    Lai later found the used bullet under a table at the observation point and took it.

    DPP Shi said: “Lai told the accused that he had an idea to put one bullet in a toilet bowl, following which he would claim that he had lost two bullets while using the toilet.”

    Dzul agreed to help him and they planned to get rid of the used bullet.

    DPP Shi told District Judge Crystal Ong that Lai hatched a plan to hide it in a traffic wand and Dzul agreed to help him.

    After concealing it in the wand, Lai went to a nearby restroom and threw a second bullet into a toilet bowl.

    He then reported the matter to the Tuas Checkpoint operations room.

    In the meantime, Dzul retrieved the used bullet from the traffic wand and placed it inside a cigarette box.

    Police officers conducted their investigation and tried to look for the bullet at around 8.50pm that day.

    Dzul and Lai also took part in the search.

    DPP Shi said Dzul took the discharged round to Bedok Reservoir and threw it into the water at around 2am the next day.

    SERIOUS OFFENCE

    Stressing that Lai’s alleged offence was a serious one, she urged Judge Ong to jail Dzul between one and two months, and fine him $2,000.

    Dzul’s lawyer, Mr Rajan Supramaniam, told the court his client had lost his job with Certis Cisco due to his offences and is now working as a truck assistant.

    He added Dzul had been blinded by his loyalty to Lai and asked for his client to be given the minimum sentence.

    Lai’s case is still pending.

    For intentionally obstructing the course of justice, Dzul could have been jailed up to seven years and fined.

    And for failing to give information to the police about the rash act Lai had allegedly committed, he could have been jailed up to six months and fined.

     

    Source: The New Paper

  • Starhub Fibre Broadband Service Outage Sparks Customers’ Ire

    Starhub Fibre Broadband Service Outage Sparks Customers’ Ire

    StarHub customers took to social media to air their frustrations following a fibre broadband service outage by the local telco on Saturday evening (Oct 22).

    According to affected StarHub customers on social media, the outage started at around 10pm and has yet to be resolved.

    Responding to queries from Channel NewsAsia, a StarHub spokesperson said the telco is “working as fast as it can to fix an issue affecting customers’ broadband service” and added that updates on the outage will be provided on its Facebook page.

     

    Source: ChannelNewsAsia

  • Angry Foreigner: Foreign Workers Can Screw Singapore If They Continue To Be Treated Like Dirt

    Angry Foreigner: Foreign Workers Can Screw Singapore If They Continue To Be Treated Like Dirt

    My dear Singaporean friends, please excuse this rant but I am royally pissed this evening.

    It is not usual for me to use expletives on Facebook but today I really do feel the urge with two particular reasons.

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    Firstly, I was clearing out some of my stuff from the old house in SG and the boys were watching some Mediacorp drivel that they produce pretending it to be “Entertainment” I believe it was not a quiz show per se with real contestants, rather a pseudo quiz staffed with people who imagine themselves to be celebrities.

    About the final question was “What makes you happy to be Singaporean?” One of them replied “That we are not Malaysian”. The expletive that I am avoiding in this case would refer to the aforementioned person as an arrogant player of the pink trombone. Seriously? Singapore that great country whose citizens venture into neighbouring countries and have sex with their cars in order to get more cheap fuel into them? Where Mediacorp “entertainment” is anything but?

    The second was the way the Singaporean side of the causeway is being run. After 9.30 p.m. there are two feeds onto the causeway for cars, over the viaduct from the BKE or up the ramp from Woodlands road / Woodland Central. Each of these is funnelled into a specific lane and they are usually manned pretty much equally.
    Tonight, I joined the queue over the viaduct at about 3.00 a.m. It was SLOW. The sign said HEAVY TRAFFIC INTO JB. I reached passport control at 4.45 a.m. The reason? The channel that the viaduct feeds into had TWO booths open while the other channel had about eight open. There wasn’t really much traffic – it was simply poor load balancing. All kudos to the officer in charge of handling the manning of the booths, he was obviously busy handling him own interests instead. SO I finally get home to loved ones around 5.15. Thanks a lot. (See the cheeky reference I slipped in there?)

    Both annoy me – but the thing that annoys me far more is that there was an almost stationary jam in the bike lane.

    I find it odd that Middle Eastern countries are criticised for their treatment of foreign workers but everybody keeps mum on Singapore’s attitude.

    Without the tens of thousands of Malaysians who come in by bike and bus every day the Singapore economy would be screwed. How do they reward these brave people who ride through hot sun and torrential rain to power the Singapore economy? My putting in place such a inefficient system that the jam for bikes can be up to two hours EVERY DAY. Rain or shine. And today it was still jammed at 4.45 p.m. when I left.It is getting worse.

    Shame on you for this Singapore. I really feel that you can do better. You don’t pay enough for Singaporeans to be able to survive doing these jobs, but you treat the heroes who have a similar enterprising spirit to those who built your country, the construction workers, the domestic helpers, the shipyard hands – you treat them all like dirt, while you sit in a nice air-conditioned office feeling smug.

     

    Source: Dave Appleton

  • Singaporeans Prefer To Be Fooled by PAP, Good Jobs Go to Foreigners

    Singaporeans Prefer To Be Fooled by PAP, Good Jobs Go to Foreigners

    In PAP’s elitist eyes, Singaporeans are fools and are therefore treated as such. No one should blame PAP.

    For years, Singaporeans have been fooled by PAP’s creation of “good” jobs for citizens, which is of course another half truth. We don’t bother, or are afraid, to ask the government point blank to list all the good jobs it has created. Well, there’s likely to be only a handful and that’s about it because most of the “good” jobs go to foreigners.

    Whether a job is ‘good’ is relative: it’s dependent on our living costs.

    To a foreigner degree holder from India, any job paying between $2000 and $3000 a month is a good job. Damn good in fact for he would be earning only a fraction of this amount back home and could also have been periodically unemployed. In 15 to 20 years, he would have sufficient savings to enjoy an early retirement back home, not eating at hawker centres but restaurants.

    For a local diploma graduate, a $2000 starting salary won’t get him far if he is considering marriage and having kids. Our high cost of living, inflated by PAP through property prices, is a killer and there is little prospect of retirement, even if one eats at a hawker centre every day.

    One would have thought that after 26 years of prostituting Singaporeans for GDP growth, PAP must have created hundreds of thousands of well-paying jobs. So how come PAP is unable to provide a breakdown of good jobs in the various industries created for SINGAPOREANS?

    In a self-insulting statement, DPM Teo insisted PAP was unable to provide “a more detailed breakdown because it may not be in our interests to do so”. “Our” of course refers to “PAP”, not Singaporeans. PAP has resorted to obfuscating the truth by lumping PRs and citizens together. There would be public outrage and all hell will break loose should relevant employment statistics be publicly disclosed.

    The majority of Singaporeans appear to be sleepwalking and don’t seem to be aware that government-linked companies are totally dependent on hundreds of thousands of foreigners to mitigate high rental and labour costs. Profit driven PAP will always enact legislations in GLCs’ favour.

    (Besides GLCs, there are PAP-affiliated companies – SMCs set up by PAP grasslooters – whose employees are mostly foreigners.)

    Sleepwalkers should wake up and take a look at Changi Airport, SATS, SBS Transit, SMRT, NTUC, etc. Still cannot see the hundreds of thousands of jobs created for foreigners?

    With the opening of Jewel Changi Airport in 2019, what is the ratio of good jobs created for foreigners vs locals? Of course there are good management positions but don’t they all go to PAP cronies?

    Even GLCs in the security industry such as Certis CISCO and AETOS employ at least 80% of foreigners to lower business costs. (AETOS was recently transferred to Surbana Jurong)

    If PAP wasn’t profit driven and had focused on improving productivity, it would not have set up an entire business park in Changi for foreigners, mostly Indians. And guess which nationality some of the Indian companies employ. PAP creating good jobs for Singaporeans? Or are we expected to believe that Singaporeans are so choosy that few want good jobs with good pay?

    Where is PAP’s ‘blueprint’ for job creation for Singaporeans? How come got no figures?

    The business model of most GLCs rely 100% on cheap labour, without which they would have gone ‘pock kai’ years ago. PAP has created hundreds of thousands of jobs which pay peanuts and they do not benefit Singaporeans. PAP has not been creating good jobs for locals.

    Singaporeans are supposed to be an educated lot but what’s the point of a ‘good’ education when we choose to go down the same path after being repeatedly fooled?

     

    Source: https://likedatosocanmeh.wordpress.com

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