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  • Najib Razak: Malaysian Chinese Are Sons Of Malaysia, Not Pendatang

    Najib Razak: Malaysian Chinese Are Sons Of Malaysia, Not Pendatang

    Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak assured the Chinese Malaysians today that he recognised them as “sons of Malaysia” and not “pendatang” or immigrants.

    He said that they were Malaysians above all, and they should not “worry too much about one or two individuals” who may insist otherwise.

    “As far as I’m concerned, the Malaysian Chinese have contributed a lot to the development of Malaysia, to the growth of Malaysia.

    “The spectacular growth of Malaysia. You’ve played your part,” Najib said in his speech at the Gerakan annual national delegates’ conference in Shah Alam today.

    “And that is why you are not ‘pendatang’. You are the sons of Malaysia. you were born here, you grew up here and when the time comes, you will be buried here, or your ashes will be scattered somewhere in Malaysia.”

    Najib said the government would continue to protect the interests of the Chinese, including ensuring vernacular schools continued operating.

    He said that while having a single stream of schools was “ideal”, such a system was not included in the social contract signed by Malaysia’s founding fathers.

    “Our social contract allows for different streams, and we live with it. We have to live with it. There’s no use going back.”

    He added that Malaysians must look beyond race and judge others by their character, rather than their colour.

    “There are good Malays, there are good Chinese, there good Indians. There are also bad Malays, bad Chinese, bad Indians. There are also Malay gangsters, Chinese gangsters, Indian gangsters.

    “In fact, there are even more Indian gangsters than others,” Najib quipped, prompting laughter from the hall of Gerakan delegates.

     

    Source: www.themalaysianinsider.com

  • Zulfikar Shariff: Keep Up The Struggle, Remember There Is No Success Without Allah

    Zulfikar Shariff: Keep Up The Struggle, Remember There Is No Success Without Allah

    A few weeks ago, I read a Muslim post a status that seems quite despondent.

    He mentioned several of the difficulties that we face…from the discrimination by the PAP to the difficulties Muslims face internationally.

    The US and Russia, both representing two poles of the same political evil dominate world politics. Capitalism, Zionism, secularism, liberalism, our world is on a path of destruction and we are caught in it.

    We try to feed the hungry, we help end oppression, we raise our voices, write petition, teach our children, our young, the not so young to live as Muslims and more challenges appear.

    Sometimes it feels like all we do is fight fire. We put one out and another appear. For some, it feels like a never ending battle.

    A battle they cannot win.

    A battle they are doomed to fight…over and over and over.

    To those who despair that the world is in such a terrible state, who feel that nothing we do seem to matter…

    Do not despair.

    The battle will not end.

    And it is not a bad thing.

    This life is not for us to relax.

    It is one for us to struggle for.

    These challenges are opportunities for us. The challenges we face allow us to strive…with our hearts and minds…our sweat…to serve Allah.

    We will be tested.

    We will face massive challenges.

    Our role is to face it. Work at it.

    Persevere.

    Keep fighting.

    Insha Allah every little effort we put in for Allah’s sake, will be rewarded.

    When we feel tired…Keep fighting.

    When we have been hit so much we struggle to get up…Keep fighting.

    When all the world seems to want to destroy us…Keep fighting.

    This life is short.

    Jannah is eternal.

    Keep up the struggle. Know that Allah’s promises are true.

    There is no success except with Allah.

     

    Source: Zulfikar Shariff

  • NUS Dining Operator, Chartwells, Served Non-Halal Roast Beef At Halal Counter

    NUS Dining Operator, Chartwells, Served Non-Halal Roast Beef At Halal Counter

    A dining operator at the National University of Singapore (NUS) was found to have served non-halal roast beef at a halal counter earlier this month.

    The beef was served at two dining halls for students from four residential colleges at NUS on Oct 8. Close to 2,400 staff and students, including about 80 Muslims, attended the dinner.

    A spokesman for Chartwells, which was appointed the dining operator for both halls in June, told The Straits Times that the lapse “is an isolated incident, resulting from a (chef’s) poor judgment call, for which the chef feels deeply regretful”. The chef had worked at the kitchens on the NUS campus for “a number of years” and has since been suspended, pending the outcome of Chartwells’ full inquiry.

    When contacted, the Islamic Religious Council of Singapore (Muis) said Chartwells had breached conditions of the halal certification system, and that Muis “will be taking further action”.

    Muis said the halal certificate may be suspended or revoked. Anyone found guilty of abusing the Muis halal certificate and logo could also be fined up to $10,000 or jailed for up to a year, or both.

    An NUS spokesman told The Sunday Times that a Muslim student resident had told an academic staff member on Oct 8 that the beef served at a halal counter was prepared in an oven in a non-halal kitchen. Chartwells has halal and non-halal kitchens in NUS. NUS’ Office of Housing Services then immediately alerted Chartwells and apologised to the affected Muslims the next day in an e-mail.

    The beef had been taken to the halal kitchens before being served at a halal counter, and the halal kitchens were closed after NUS learnt of the incident. They will reopen only after being re-certified by Muis.

    While Chartwells is still serving non-halal food, it stopped serving halal food a day after the incident and was replaced by another halal-certified vendor, Eurest Catering. But some NUS students were uneasy with this arrangement.

    Mr Syamil Maulod, believed to be from the University Scholars Programme (USP), posted on Facebook on Oct 10 that Eurest Catering and Chartwells belong to the same parent company, Compass Group.

    “Our trust was violated. We do not feel it is right to engage the same (parent) company,” he wrote.

    An article on The Cinnamon Roll, an official online publication of the USP, also said last Sunday that “most students, Muslim and non-Muslim, regard (the lapse) a serious breach of trust”.

    The NUS spokesman said that getting Eurest to provide halal meals was an “interim measure” and a “third-party, external halal-certified caterer” has been providing halal meals since last Thursday. The caterer is not related to the Compass Group, said NUS.

    Compass Group Singapore managing director Andrew Marshall said: “We deeply regret this issue… We continue to work closely with NUS and the student body to rebuild the trust of the community.”

    A Cinnamon College resident, who declined to be named, said that NUS should have given an assurance earlier and asked the vendor to provide a public explanation.

    “Only Muslims need to observe the dietary standard, but if you think about it, it is about food handling in general,” he said. “People who are vegetarians, or people who have allergies… we expect their needs to be taken care of.”

     

    Source: www.straitstimes.com

  • Rich Singaporean Wives Hiring Women To Lure Their Husbands

    Rich Singaporean Wives Hiring Women To Lure Their Husbands

    Singaporeans have been hiring agencies in China to get their husbands’ mistresses to back off, according to a foreign report on these “mistress-ditching” firms.

    But what if the spouse’s lover is in Singapore?

    To save their marriages from falling apart, Singaporeans have been paying five-figure sums to hire honey trappers to seduce their own misbehaving husbands or wives, reveal private investigators here.

    The honey trapper will attempt to seduce the third party or the cheating spouse to destroy the extramarital relationship, they say.

    Yes, agents have been engaged by distraught husbands, too.

    “It is not an advertised service. The request must come from the client,” says Mr David Ng from DP Quest Private Investigation Consultancy.

    “They usually know what they want. They would request a particular profile of a honey trapper that they want, specific to the preference of their cheating spouses.”

     

    Source: www.tnp.sg

  • Muslims From Violence-Hit Rakhine Show Support For Aung San Suu Kyi

    Muslims From Violence-Hit Rakhine Show Support For Aung San Suu Kyi

    THANDWE, Myanmar – Muslim supporters of Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Saturday they hoped a government lead by her National League for Democracy (NLD) would improve their lives in Rakhine State, where many still face discrimination after violence in 2012 and 2013.

    The Muslims have put their hopes in the NLD even though the party did not field a Muslim candidate on its lists of over 1,100 hopefuls standing in the Nov. 8 election and has been criticized for not speaking out against their marginalization.

    The campaign ahead of what is billed as Myanmar’s first free and fair election in 25 years, which started a month ago, has seen a spike in tensions stoked by anti-Muslim hardline Buddhist group Ma Ba Tha, which has sharply criticized the NLD.

    On Saturday, Suu Kyi spoke in Thandwe, where in October 2013 five Kaman Muslims were murdered during a flare-up in religious violence.

    Many Muslim residents of Thandwe and surrounding villages who came to see Suu Kyi said they still supported her and hoped the NLD would help to end their discrimination and foster reconciliation between Buddhists and Muslims.

    “We have a little hope,” said Win Naing, 41. “We don’t have equal rights. I hope that if Mother Suu wins the election, we will get equal rights,” Win Naing said.

    Another supporter, Tun Win, 48, from a village outside Thandwe, said Muslims faced bullying from Buddhists and that many Muslims had been denied national identity cards by the government, curbing their freedom of movement. He hoped the NLD would make obtaining them easier.

    “They say, ‘go to Yangon,’ but we can’t because we don’t have any identity cards,” he said. “We come and go around here and it is like a prison.”

    Suu Kyi made no mention of the violence in Thandwe during her speech on Saturday. During a speech in the nearby town of Tongup on Friday she also did not mention the 2012 killing of 10 Muslims, who were pulled from a bus by a mob in the town.

    While avoiding references to specific incidents, Suu Kyi made broader points about religious tensions and violence.

    “It is very important that all people regardless of race and religion living in our country must be safe,” she said. “We can have peace in our country only if the people feel safe both mentally and physically,” she said.

    Unlike the marginalized Rohingya Muslims, who also live in Rakhine, the Kaman from Tandwe are one of Myanmar’s 135 recognised ethnic groups. The Rohingya live predominantly in Sittwe and northern Rakhine, where 140,000 were displaced by violence in 2012.

    Suu Kyi will not visit Sittwe or northern parts of Rakhine during her three-day trip through the western state. The Nobel peace laureate has been criticized for saying little about the Rohingya’s plight.

     

    Source: www.todayonline.com

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