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Pokemon Go Didakwa Buat Si Pemain Sering Lupa Solat Maka Diharamkan

Majlis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) bahagian Lebak, di wilayah Banten Indonesia mengharamkan Pokemon Go, permainan yang kian mendapat perhatian ramai.

Langkah tersebut diambil berdasarkan pendapat para ulama secara amnya, bahawa permainan yang tidak bermanfaat hukumnya haram.

MUI bahagian Lebak menyifatkan Pokemon Go sebagai tidak bermanfaat dan boleh menyebabkan si pemain menjadi lalai terhadap kewajipan bersolat lima waktu serta pekerjaan mereka.

“Kami meminta MUI pusat segera melakukan kajian juga mengeluarkan fatwa terkait dengan Pokemon Go,” menurut Setiausaha Agung MUI bahagian Lebak, KK Ahmad Hudori, seperti yang ditukil laman Antara.

Menurut beliau, ajaran Islam mengharamkan permainan yang membazirkan waktu dan juga yang boleh membahayakan diri sendiri.

Demam Pokemon Go sudah sampai ke Indonesia dan sejauh ini, pemerintah negara itu berasakan masih belum ada keperluan untuk melarang permainan tersebut.

Namun, permainan itu tidak dibenarkan di tempat-tempat berhampiran pejabat pemerintah dan bangunan-bangunan utama negara itu.

Sebelum ini, kerajaan Arab Saudi turut mengeluarkan fatwa mengharamkan permainan Pokemon Go.

Menurut para ulama, kartun pokemon menggunakan simbol-simbol seperti “garisan silang menyerupai salib, segi tiga yang melambangkan Freemason dan simbol Shintoisme Jepun, yang berdasarkan kepercayaan terhadap lebih daripada satu Tuhan”.

Source: Berita MediaCorp

July 25, 2016
Adlin Aman Ramlie: Jangan Tuduh Saya Sebagai Pesalah

Pelakon, pengacara dan pelawak Adlin Aman Ramlie menafikan dirinya ditahan reman selama empat hari bagi membantu siasatan berhubung penipuan pelaburan hartanah.

Menurut laporan Malaysiakini, Adlin yang berusia 44 tahun percaya diri beliau menjadi mangsa syarikat yang menggunakan singkatan HGR yang dituduh terbabit dalam kes penipuan tersebut.

Beliau juga menafikan dirinya terbabit dalam kekerasan sepanjang tempoh beliau disiasat.

“Saya anggap ia hanya kunjungan hari raya apabila ditahan di rumah pada 2.30 petang pada 20 Julai lalu.”

“Polis menyatakan sebab saya perlu ikut ke Bukit Aman dan Balai Polis Dang Wangi ialah untuk membantu siasatan kes pelaburan haram di bawah seksyen 420.”

“Saya dibebaskan di bawah jaminan polis selepas ditahan dalam tempoh 24 jam dan akan sentiasa tampil memberi kerjasama kepada polis,” kata Adlin dalam laporan Malaysiakini.

Beliau berkata demikian di satu sidang media di Sri Pentas TV3 pada Ahad (24 Julai).

Menurut Malaysikini lagi, pembabitan Adlin dalam syarikat itu hanyalah untuk membuat kemunculan khas apabila tiba sesuatu undangan acara.

“Ya, saya memang kenal beberapa individu yang dinamakan sebagai suspek dari pihak syarikat tetapi saya tidak terbabit dalam sebarang pelaburan yang ia kendalikan.”

“Gaji saya dibayar berdasarkan tugas saya sebagai pakar motivasi atau artis jemputan saja.”

“Kerja itu memang saya buat sebagai bidang profesional di beberapa syarikat pemasaran rangkaian (MLM) yang lain,” tambah beliau.

Sebelum ini, beberapa laporan menyatakan pihak polis menahan seramai 13 individu yang bergelar Datuk Seri dan Datuk yang kini ditahan reman selama 21 hari dalam kes sindiket penipuan itu.

Malaysikini melaporkan Adlin ditahan kerana didakwa menyediakan rumah untuk melindungi dua dalang sindiket itu.

Mengenai perkara itu, Adlin menjelaskan bahawa sidang media itu diadakan bagi menghuraikan kekeliruan mengenai kisah yang dipaparkan menerusi media sosial.

“Tujuan sidang tersebut diadakan bagi memperbetulkan segala cerita mengenai saya yang tidak tepat tetapi telah tersebar dengan meluas di arus media perdana.”

“Jangan letakkan saya sebagai orang di tempat pesalah dan mendahului tugas siasatan polis,” tegas beliau.

Source: Berita MediaCorp

July 25, 2016
Menteri Pengangkutan Malaysia: Penguatkuasaan Sistem VEP Tetap Akan Diteruskan

Kerajaan Malaysia tidak mempunyai rancangan untuk membatalkan pelaksanaan Permit Kemasukan Kenderaan (VEP) dan menyatakan bahawa ia akan disambung semula sebaik sahaja sistem tersebut bersedia untuk dikuatkuasakan.

Menolak laporan awal, Menteri Pengangkutan Malaysia Liow Tiong Lai sebaliknya menekankan bahawa penguatkuasaan sistem VEP tidak tergendala, lapor The Rakyat Post.

“Jangan dengar khabar angin. Kerajaan akan tetap menguatkuasakan (VEP). Bukan hanya di Singapura bahkan juga (di sempadan-sempadan kita) di Thailand, Kalimantan dan Brunei. Kami tidak membeza-bezakan, semua sempadan akan dikenakan VEP,” tegas beliau.

“Kami akan bermula dengan Singapura (kenderaan berdaftar) terlebih dahulu dan kemudian ke sempadan-sempadan lain,” tambah beliau seperti yang ditukil The Rakyat Post.

Encik Liow berkata demikian sebagai menjawab pertanyaan mengenai sama ada VEP akan dibatalkan memandangkan proses penguatkuasaannya berdepan dengan “gangguan-gangguan” dan terlepas tarikh yang sepatutnya VEP dikuatkuasakan.

“Ia akan mengambil masa untuk dilaksanakan memandangkan kami mahu memastikan tiada gangguan setelah kami mulakannya. Jika sekarang dalam tempoh percubaan ia hanya berjalan selama 12 jam, kami mahu sistem tersebut berjalan selama 24 jam sekurang-kurangnya dalam masa sebulan dua,” jelas beliau.

Sistem VEP, yang disarankan pada 2006, sepatutnya mula mengenakan bayaran RM20 (S$7) bagi kenderaan asing yang memasuki Johor pada 16 Julai – namun ditangguhkan buat kali keempat berturut-turut, menurut The Rakyat Post.

Source: Berita MediaCorp

July 25, 2016
Where Has The Kampung Spirit Gone To In Singapore?

What has become of Singapore?

Have we successfully evolved to become a society of binary minded beings, where the mind only sees Ones and Zeros in our day to day living?

A neighbour of mine is in the middle of shifting out and like most of us living in high rise HDB flats, we get help from movers. By all logical thinking for accessibility, the lorry driver temporarily parked the vehicle he was driving on a No Parking lot that has a concrete gradual slope making it easy for the workers to push trolleys of heavy furniture and boxes.

Then came along a parking warden demanding the vehicle be moved while workers were in the middle of loading the lorry. According to him, someone called to complaint and there are white lots nearby (buffered by a metre and a half divider of drainage, grasspatch and tree roots) where the lorry can park. This is very strange because according to my neighbour, there wasn’t anyone obstructed by the vehicle (there is another sloping no parking access 10 mtrs to the right) thus it is either the person who made the complaint (if any) is irrational or the warden lied about it.

In any case, what is the issue here? Firstly, there is no loading and unloading bay in a HDB carpark, secondly, the move was done outside peak hours, thirdly this is a one off event (just like weddings, funerals, elections…). My take is that the warden is one that may not be living in a HDB flat, has no discretionary capacity and has successfully evolved into a mechanical enforcer like judge dredd.

This is perhaps another of the many examples that appear over the net week in week out reflecting the evolution of Singapore society. Especially in the last 10 years, it does seem that Singapore has lost its compassionate soul that has for many decades long before independence allowed multi ethnicity to thrive and blend its own Singapura flavour.

To the leaders of Singapore, do note that The Kampong Spirit is not simply a slogan to rally and move your constituents to do what your boardroom committee draw up. Military dictators achieve the same effect through propaganda. Where Kampong spirit exist, neighbours would have gathered to help out in the moving process and bid a heartfelt farewell to the leaving neighbour. Today, this neighbour of mine might just have had a bitter memory imprinted on their last day in the neighbourhood.

P.s. If only I know the number to the Ghostbusters… I would have called them to get rid of the imposter Kampong Spirit…

Source: Rafiz Hapipi

July 25, 2016
New Report On Iraq Invasion Raises Questions Around Singapore’s Involvement

In 2003, Singapore deployed servicemen, ships and aircraft to the Persian Gulf in support of the Iraq war, as part of a mission to “maintain security” and to see Iraq achieve self-government through a political transition.

Singapore was officially part of the Multinational Force — Iraq (MNF-I) from then until 2008, with the Defence Ministry describing it as supporting “reconstruction efforts” in Iraq.

The Government publicly showed its support for the US-led invasion of Iraq, in what is perceived as it acting without the mandate of the United Nations Security Council. On March 14, 2003, in response to questions raised by Members of Parliament, then Foreign Minister, Professor S Jayakumar, asserted that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction.

Former Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong and President Tony Tan (then Defence Minister) issued similar statements asserting the legitimacy of the invasion of Iraq.

Earlier this month, on July 6, the Report of the Iraq Inquiry was published by the United Kingdom and it seriously questioned any purported justifications for the invasion. The report unanimously concluded that peaceful options for disarmament had not been exhausted and therefore, military action was not a last resort.

Significantly, the report also concluded that “(t)here was no imminent threat from Saddam Hussein”.

The effects of the illegal invasion of Iraq were devastating, and continue to be so. Between March and April 2003 alone, 6,882 civilian deaths were caused by US-led forces. Even today, Iraq may be viewed as entering a phase that could prove every bit as destabilising — perhaps even more so — than the war against the Islamic State.

But the report also raises important questions for Singapore: Was the Government independently satisfied of the factual and legal basis for invading Iraq, or did it take the US’ word for it, as the UK did?

Did the Government feel compelled, as Tony Blair did, to stand together with an important ally? How does our involvement square with our oft-stated principle of acting according to the rule of international law?

The answer is important not only because it goes to the heart of our foreign and defence policy, but also because Singaporean lives were put on the line. Singaporean assets deployed to support the illegal invasion of Iraq were withdrawn only in March 2005.

With respect to the democratic values of accountability and transparency in government, and for the rule of law, I appeal to the Singapore Government to address these issues in Parliament.

As our elected representatives, the decisions made by our Government reflect our entire nation. As a member of the global community, the devastation of the Iraq invasion is a responsibility borne by us all.

Source: TODAYOnline

July 24, 2016