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  • Nama Pelajar Islam Disalah Eja Jadi ‘Isis’ Di Buku Tahunan Sekolah

    Nama Pelajar Islam Disalah Eja Jadi ‘Isis’ Di Buku Tahunan Sekolah

    Seorang pelajar California tertekan dan terpaksa menanggung malu, setelah gambar beliau sedang bertudung dipaparkan dengan nama “Isis Phillips” dalam buku tahunan sekolah tingginya.

    Demikian menurut sebuah kumpulan penyokong masyarakat Islam semalam (8 Mei).

    Pelajar tahun akhir di Sekolah Tinggi Los Osos di Rancho Cucamonga itu dan ibu bapanya “rasa malu setelah melihat gambar itu di buku tahunan itu, dan mengalami penderitaan emosi dan psikologi,” menurut kenyataan menerusi emel oleh Majlis Hubungan Amerika-Islam (CAIR).

    Pengetua sekolah tersebut sudahpun meminta maaf atas apa yang disifatkannya sebagai “kesilapan pada cetakan”. CAIR menyatakan pasukan guamannya akan bertemu dengan keluarga pelajar itu dan pegawai-pegawai sekolah hari ini, dan meminta agar insiden tersebut disiasat, kata seorang jurucakap kepada Reuters.

    ISIS merupakan salah satu gelaran bagi kumpulan Islamic State atau Negara Islam, kumpulan militan yang sudah merampas kuasa di sebahagian besar Iraq dan Syria, dan mengaku bersalah atas kejadian-kejadian pengeboman di Eropah.

    Pertubuhan Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu (PBB) menyifatkan ISIS sebagai kumpulan pengganas.

    Seorang pelajar yang terlibat dalam penerbitan buku tahunan tersebut berkata pihaknya tersilap mencetakkan nama yang salah itu, dan seorang lagi pelajar bernama Isis Phillips berpindah ke sekolah lain dari sekolah itu awal tahun ini, menurut laporan New York Daily News.

    Gambar tersebut tersebar luas dan dikongsi berkali-kali di lelaman media sosial, termasuk dikongsi pelajar itu sendiri, yang nama sebenarnya ialah Bayan Zehlif, menurut New York Daily News.

    “Saya amat sedih, meluat, hati saya terluka dan saya malu kerana buku tahunan Sekolah Tinggi Los Osos boleh terlepas dari perbuatan ini. Nampaknya nama saya ‘Isis’ dalam buku tahunan ini.

    “Pihak sekolah sudah menghubungi saya dan ada hati beritahu saya mereka tersilap eja. Saya tidak setuju, marilah kita bercakap jujur,” menurut kenyataan yang ditulis pada apa yang kelihatan seperti laman Facebook milik Cik Zehlif.

    Reuters tidak dapat mengesahkan sama ada akaun itu milik pelajar Islam tersebut, dan sama ada ia adalah namanya yang sebenar.

    CAIR enggan memberikan nama pelajar itu. Para pegawai di sekolah tinggi berkenaan pula tidak dapat dihubungi.

    Susan Petrocelli, pengetua sekolah itu, berkata para pegawai akan memperbetulkan “kesilapan pada cetakan” itu. Sekurang-kurangnya 200 buku tahunan sudahpun diagihkan, menurut CAIR.

    “Sekolah Tinggi Los Osos sedang mengambil semua langkah yang perlu untuk membetulkan dan menyiasat kesilapan pada cetakan hang dikesalinya pada buku tahunan itu. Kami dengan ikhlas meminta maaf,” kata Cik Petrocelli dalam kenyataan yang ditulis di Twitter.

    Source: Berita MediaCorp

  • SBS Driver Jumps Bail

    SBS Driver Jumps Bail

    An SBS Transit bus driver accused of negligent driving, which resulted in 23 passengers getting hurt, failed to appear at his hearing in court yesterday.

    A warrant of arrest was issued for Ahmad Jamalulail Abdul Rashid, 43, a Malaysian national.

    Jamalulail is accused of failing to keep a proper lookout while driving an SBS bus along Sims Avenue at about 5.25pm on July 11, 2014.

    As a result, the vehicle hit the rear of another SBS bus that had slowed down because of road works ahead.

    Two passengers suffered grievous injuries. Jaswinder Singh, 18, had a nasal fracture and Mr Lee Joo Long, 58, suffered injuries to his spine, court papers said.

    Twenty-one other passengers, aged between 16 and 79, were also hurt.

    Jamalulail was charged with one count of causing grievous hurt to Mr Lee and Mr Singh by a negligent act and one count of endangering the lives of the other 21 passengers by a negligent act.

    He was granted $5,000 bail and was supposed to turn up at the State Courts yesterday.

    But defence lawyer Amarick Gill told the court he had been unable to contact Jamalulail since March and later discharged himself.

    Jamalulail’s bailor, who identified herself as his former colleague, was ordered to attend a show-cause hearing next month.

    She told the court she has since filed a police report.

    If convicted, Jamalulail faces up to two years’ jail and a fine of up to $5,000 for causing grievous hurt by a negligent act.

    For endangering human life by a negligent act, he could be jailed up to six months and fined up to $2,500.

     

    Source: The New Paper

  • RRG, MUIS Mahu Setiap Asatizah Ikuti Modul Cara Tangkis Fahaman Pelampau

    Kumpulan Pemulihan Keagamaan (RRG) dan MUIS bermatlamat mendapatkan setiap asatizah mengikuti modul utama kumpulan itu mengenai cara menangkis fahaman pelampau.

    Demikian menurut Menteri Bertanggungjawab bagi Ehwal Masyarakat Islam, Dr Yaacob Ibrahim.

    Modul itu adalah sebahagian daripada program Pendidikan Profesional Berterusan yang wajib disertai mereka yang berdaftar di bawah Skim Pengiktirafan Asatizah.

    Dr Yaacob menjelaskan demikian sebagai menjawab pertanyaan dari AP Dr Fatimah Lateef.

    Beliau berkata 80 peratus asatizah sekarang termasuk dalam skim itu.

    Usaha giat sedang dijalankan bagi menggalakkan baki 20 peratus asatizah yang belum berbuat demikian supaya turut serta.

    Menerusi modul itu, RRG berkongsi dengan asatizah tentang pengalamannya membantu bekas para anggota kumpulan pengganas Jemaah Islamiyah kembali ke pangkal jalan dan ke pangkuan masyarakat.

    Menurut Dr Yaacob, MUIS dan RRG akan terus mengemaskini modul itu bagi memastikan ia kekal relevan.

    Dr Yaacob menambah, MUIS juga akan terus memperkukuh kurikulum madrasah dengan bahan relevan yang dibangunkan RRG.

    Source: http://berita.mediacorp.sg

  • Almakhazin: Chee Soon Juan As An Intellectual Statesman

    Almakhazin: Chee Soon Juan As An Intellectual Statesman

    There are very few politicians that I believe have impeccable integrity.

    Faisal Abdul Manap is one.

    Chee Soon Juan is another. Chee Soon Juan’s integrity I believe, come from his deep commitment to his Christian beliefs.

    It is this commitment and integrity that I am sure, helped him to weather the challenges of opposition politics in Singapura.

    Soon Juan has done a lot for Singapura’s political space. He has sacrificed and suffered. He gave all that he had to the cause.

    Like JBJ, he has fought the good fight.

    But fighters do not necessarily become leaders. And while the system remain, they may not necessarily be fully appreciated.

    Singapurans may not generally recognise his sacrifices. The system and instruments of the state have been successful in painting him as a rabble-rouser who may not be able to manage the state or a town council.

    And while there is optimism that Singapurans may be better informed and more receptive of his message, we should recognise that accepting his ideas do not necessarily mean they are willing to have him as their representative.

    The Bukit Batok By-Election

    The election was a watershed moment. After the optimism from opposition gains in 2011, there was a strong sense that the PAP may lose a few more wards in 2016. SG50 and Lee Kuan Yew’s deification clearly swung support to the PAP.

    While there is evidence of some remnants of the SG50/ Lee Kuan Yew effect, the by-election provided a strong yardstick, not only of where the PAP is with regard to the public, but whether Soon Juan is able to dismiss the public perception that has been created.

    There are indications that he has changed some minds. However, once again, the perception change relates to his ideals and person. Not necessarily as a statesman or political administrator.

    Soon Juan has helped to elevate how Singapurans view the political process. He has helped to expand political understanding.

    His ideas are making its way among Singapurans not because he was elected into office but because he transmits it outside of the defined political arenas.

    Redefine role

    He did not need to be in parliament to transmit his ideas and ideals.

    He has done a lot without needing political office.

    I truly hope that Soon Juan will consider a shift. And we can help him to achieve that shift.

    Not as a politician.

    Not as a future MP.

    But as a moral and public intellectual.

    The fighter in him will want to keep fighting for parliamentary access.

    But rather than focus on winning a seat, I hope he will redefine his role.

    Help civil society develop.

    And be an intellectual statesman.

     

    Source: Almakhazin SG

  • “Garbage Man” Uncle Hurt By Name-Calling By Singaporeans

    “Garbage Man” Uncle Hurt By Name-Calling By Singaporeans

    “What was the saddest moment of your life?”

    “When someone called me ‘Garbage Man’ for the first time. Until then I just think it was my job – because there is more to life than job, like family, children, being happy. But then someone call me that, and I realize people think it is my identity.

    That day I come back and cry to my wife and say – Why people care about what I do? They don’t say to anyone else they lawyer man or banker man, then why do they call me garbage man?

    It is like that is only thing left in Singapore that people care about – what you do, not how you are as person.”

     

    Source: Humans Of Singapore

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