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  • Number Of Muslim Converts In France Increased After Charlie Hebdo

    Number Of Muslim Converts In France Increased After Charlie Hebdo

    The number of people accepting Islam in France has increased significantly after the Charlie Hebdo attacks, with imams reporting a growing number of people coming  to take the Shahada at mosques.

    “It makes me want to go to Islam and to show everyone that this is not what Islam is about,” a young Muslim convert to Islam was quoted by RTL Radio a week ago.

    According to the radio station, the Great Mosque of Paris issued 40 reversion certificates to Islam.

    At the same period last year, the mosque gave certificates to 22 only, almost 50 percent of this year’s conversion rate.

    Percentage of converts to Islam in Strasbourg and Aubervilliers was also high, scoring around 30% increase.

    Lyon also followed the same trend with an increase of 20%.

    The imams said they were surprised at first by the increase in the number of new converts.

    Additionally, the diversity of those converts, including a doctor, a school headteacher or a police officer who all crossed the gate of the Grand Mosque to accept Islam.

    A few days after Charlie Hebdo attack, a French business director Isabelle Matic, announced her decision to revert to Islam on her FaceBook account.

    As well as condemning the attackers as unIslamic, French Muslims also called for the criminalisation of insulting religions amid increasing anger around over Charlie Hebdo’s decision to publish new cartoons of Prophet Muhammad (saw).

     

    Source: http://5pillarsuk.com

  • Mufti Mesir Gesa Agar Cari Huraian Yang Adil Dan Elak Gunakan Keganasan

    Mufti Mesir Gesa Agar Cari Huraian Yang Adil Dan Elak Gunakan Keganasan

    Muslim yang berasa sedih dan terguris akibat penghinaan ke atas Nabi Muhammad saw menyusuli penerbitan karikatur di majalah Charlie Hebdo, diajak mencari huraian yang adil berdasarkan perundangan negara dan mengelak daripada menggunakan keganasan.

    Reaksi terbaik bagi umat Islam menangani kejadian sedemikian ialah mencontohi amalan Nabi Muhammad yang membalas setiap keburukan dengan sifat kebaikan.

    Demikian pesanan Mufti Besar Mesir Sheikh Dr Shawki Allam di Seminar Asatizah yang berlangsung di Hab Islam di Braddell Road semalam.

    Seminar anjuran Majlis Ugama Islam Singapura (Muis) yang dihadiri sekitar 200 peserta itu membawa tajuk Penguasa Agama dan Pembentukan Sebuah Masyarakat Harmoni dalam Dunia Majmuk.

    Antara yang hadir di acara itu ialah Ketua Eksekutif Muis, Haji Abdul Razak Hassan Maricar dan Mufti Dr Mohamed Fatris Bakaram.

    Di seminar itu, Sheikh Dr Shawki diminta mengulas tentang isu penerbitan karikatur yang menghina Nabi Muhammad saw oleh majalah Charlie Hebdo di Paris dan serangan oleh sekumpulan lelaki bersenjata ke atas pejabat majalah itu yang mengakibatkan 17 nyawa terkorban.

    “Kita rasa sedih dan terguris apabila kita mendengar atau melihat penghinaan ke atas Nabi Muhammad saw.

    “Namun kita harus mencari huraian yang adil kepada semua menerusi perundangan atau sistem negara,” kata Sheikh Dr Shawki.

    Sebagai anggota masyarakat yang bertanggungjawab, beliau menekankan individu tidak berhak menjatuhkan hukum dengan sewenang-wenangnya apabila berdepan dengan sesuatu yang tidak menyenangkan atau apabila menyaksikan sesuatu jenayah.

    Cara yang lebih berhemah menurut beliau ialah mencontohi amalan Nabi Muhammad saw yang membalas setiap keburukan dengan kebaikan dan cara yang berakhlak.

    Terdapat banyak contoh dalam riwayat Nabi yang mempamerkan sifat beliau yang berahlak.

    Sheikh Dr Shawki menukil kisah seorang jiran yang selalu membuang najis dan kotoran di hadapan kediaman Nabi Muhammad saw.

    “Suatu hari, Nabi Muhammad saw mendapati tiada kotoran yang dibuang di hadapan rumahnya dan beliau diberitahu jiran yang sering mengotori lamannya sedang sakit.

    “Nabi Muhammad bersifat mulia dan menziarahi jiran berkenaan,” kata beliau.

    Sheikh Dr Shawki berada di sini dalam rangka lawatan empat hari bermula kelmarin di bawah Program Pelawat Unggul (DVP) Muis.

    Ini kali pertama ketua agama itu, yang dilantik menjadi Mufti ke-19 Mesir pada 2013, mengunjungi Singapura dan rantau ini.

    Sheikh Dr Shawki seorang pemimpin Islam dan ulama yang dihormati dan dikenali kerana dedikasi dan usahanya ke arah keamanan menerusi pemahaman masyarakat yang pelbagai dan berbeza.

    Semalam beliau menghadiri jamuan malam bersama pemimpin berbilang agama.

    Hari ini beliau dijadualkan bertemu Presiden Tony Tan Keng Yam dan Perdana Menteri Lee Hsien Loong di Istana.

    Selepas itu beliau akan mengunjungi Pusat Sumber dan Kaunseling, Kumpulan Pemulihan Keagamaan (RRG) di Masjid Khadijah.

    Malam ini pula beliau akan menyampaikan Ceramah Muis di Hotel Orchard.

     

    Source: http://beritaharian.sg

  • #IamRaviPhilemon – Charlie Hebdo Cartoon Not Attack On Islam

    #IamRaviPhilemon – Charlie Hebdo Cartoon Not Attack On Islam

    Dunno if our community knows this. I read on another alternative media actually. As a Muslim I am offended.

    After the Charlie Hebdo incident, this Ravi Philemon tweeted #IamCharlieHebdo and express “solidarity with victims of terror attack in France”. This he share himself on his Fb and blog – some people later advise him not to share in bigotry and racism of Charlie Hebdo.

    Ravi Philemon - TweetBut he stubborn.  He say from what he understand, Charlie Hebdo’s cartoon was “not against Islam but against ultra-fundamentalism and extremism” (this is his own word you can see his blog on 9 January).

    Ravi Philemon IamCharlie

    Everybody who follow the Charlie Hebdo saga know they attack Islam…bukan only I say but many other ppl also say! Even the Pope pun lebih open-minded.

    If Ravi bother to know Islam he will find out that Islam do not allow picture or drawing of Nabi Muhammad (saw).  We Muslims pun dont do it kan! If against extremism then do caricature on Osama or IS or whoever extremist.  Why must use Nabi Muhammad (saw)???

    Even more funny, Ravi said even his Muslim friend tell him that “we need to stand on the right to offend because if not we go down slope of censorship”.  Apa ni? Muslim friend? Who is this Muslim friend? Apa advise dia give Ravi ni? Tak ke ni Charlie Hebdo cartoon is attack on Islam? So just because dier tak nak censor then he is ok with people making fun of Islam?

    I shock lar bila tahu dier actually politician from NSP.  Is this the calibre of politician we have?  Or just NSP? Yang NSP Malay members macam mana pulak?

    Then last I tengok dier ada make police report on one blogger who also write about this.  The blog is kat sggeneralelections2016.blogspot.com you tengok 11 January punya entry. Dia boleh offend orang tapi orang cannot offend him? Dia confuse ke?

    What about Muslims like me yang offended? What about me and my friends who are offended with dier punya pandai-pandai on Islam? Who is he to say that Charlie Hebdo cartoons not attack on Islam? What right he have?

    Entah lah why have this kind of people…I dunno why dier mesti action pandai macam dier understand Islam sangat and dier understand intention Charlie Hebdo.  To me dua-dua pun salah.  Condemn lah yang attackers memang patut…they deserve it. Tapi must be fair lar and condemn Charlie Hebdo juga kan?  I betul concern ada politician macam gini.

    Tolong publish so that our Muslim friends will be aware.

     

    Muslimah Singapura

     

  • Thousands March Through Karachi To Protest Against Charlie Hebdo

    Thousands March Through Karachi To Protest Against Charlie Hebdo

    Thousands of people marched through Pakistan’s largest city on Thursday in the country’s biggest protest yet against French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo for publishing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.

    The march through the streets of Karachi is the biggest in a series of demonstrations against the magazine, whose Paris offices were attacked on January 7 by Islamist gunmen, killing 12 people.

    An intelligence official overseeing the rally told AFP that the protesters numbered in the “thousands”, still a relatively small turnout in a city of 18 million people.

    Protesters carried green flags printed with the prophet’s mausoleum and chanted anti-Charlie Hebdo slogans as they marched.

    “Down with Charlie Hebdo, down with the blasphemers,” they shouted.

    Many carried placards demanding blasphemers be killed.

    One of the protest leaders, Sarwat Ejaz Qadri, demanded the Pakistani government cut diplomatic ties with France.

    “Their ambassador should be declared persona non grata and must be expelled from the country,” Qadri said.

    In the southwestern city of Quetta, some 400 activists of Markazi Jamiat-e-Ahl-e-Hadith, a Sunni Muslim organisation, held a demonstration in front of the press club and burned a French flag.

    The demonstrators, many of them children, carried placards condemning the satirical magazine and shouted slogans including: “Let blasphemers be hanged, we will not tolerate anyone ridiculing our prophet.”

    Across the border in Afghanistan, around 50 people gathered outside the French Embassy in Kabul to protest against the magazine, chanting “France you are the devil”.

    Charlie Hebdo last week published a “survivors” issue with an image of the Prophet Mohammed weeping on the cover. The issue quickly sold out before more copies of an eventual print run of five million hit newsstands.

    Under Pakistan’s strict blasphemy laws, insulting the prophet can carry the death penalty, and the country’s prime minister and parliament last week strongly condemned the publication of the cartoons.

    At least three people were injured on Friday when protesters and police clashed at an anti-Charlie Hebdo demonstration outside the French consulate in Karachi.

    They included AFP photographer Asif Hassan, who was shot in the back and is now recovering in hospital.

     

    Source: https://sg.news.yahoo.com

  • Inconvenient Questions (Part 1) : Reacting To The Charlie Hebdo Attack

    Inconvenient Questions (Part 1) : Reacting To The Charlie Hebdo Attack

    This is a two part debate.

    In Part I :The Charlie Hebdo killings. The Sydney hostage crisis. The Peshawar school massacre. As leaders in the West march in solidarity for freedom of speech, are there no exceptions to this absolute freedom? Who will be accountable when there is retaliatory action where life is lost? Are we witnessing a new age of instability driven by ideologies that offer no middle ground? What’s Singapore’s position on the matter?

     

    Source: http://inconvenientquestions.sg