Tag: communist

  • Warga Singapura Ditahan Di Batam Dek Pakai Baju Lambang Tukul Dan Sabit

    Warga Singapura Ditahan Di Batam Dek Pakai Baju Lambang Tukul Dan Sabit

    Seorang warga Singapura yang memakai baju dengan lambang tukul besi dan sabit semasa berlibur di Batam, ditahan dan disoal siasat, menurut Jakarta Post.

    Lambang tukul besi dan sabit itu mirip lambang parti komunis, dan dilarang di Indonesia.

    Pelancong itu, Azri Zulfarhan Kamsin, 29 tahun, memakai baju merah dengan lambang tersebut ketika bersiar-siar di Mega Mall Batam Centre kelmarin (30 Apr), lapor Merdeka.com. Beliau ke Batam untuk beriadah sempena cuti hujung minggu bersama anak dan isterinya.

    Menurut Merdeka.com, Encik Azri sempat makan di pusat beli-belah tersebut, namun bajunya itu menarik perhatian ramai.

    Beliau ditahan oleh para pegawai Komand Tentera Bandar Batam dan dibawa ke sebuah bilik soal siasat, lapor Jakarta Post.

    Encik Azri memberitahu para pegawai bahawa beliau tidak tahu lambang tukul besi dan sabit dilarang di Indonesia.

    “Itu oleh-oleh dari saudara saya yang berkunjung ke Vietnam,” katanya seperti ditukil Merdeka.com. Setelah memberikan penjelasan tersebut, Encik Azri dibebaskan pada hari yang sama.

    Namun, Encik Azri diarahkan menanggalkan baju itu dan memakai baju lain. Merdeka.com melaporkan, baju merah tersebut dirampas oleh para pegawai untuk dijadikan bukti.

    Belum pasti bagaimana Encik Azri dibenarkan melepasi pemeriksaan imigresen di Batam – adakah beliau ketika itu memakai baju dengan lambang tukul besi dan sabit tersebut atau memakai baju lain.

    Seorang pegawai Komand Tentera Bandar Batam, Baziduhu Zebua, memberitahu Jakarta Post: “Lambang komunis itu yang menjadi masalahnya. Ia mungkin bukan satu masalah di Singapura, tetapi sepatutnya dia menghormati adat kami di sini di mana komunisme diharamkan. Ini sebabnya para pegawai memeriksanya dan mengarahkannya supaya menanggalkan bajunya.”

    Source: Berita Mediacorp

  • Imams In Xinjiang Forced To Swear That They Will Not Teach Religion To Children

    Imams In Xinjiang Forced To Swear That They Will Not Teach Religion To Children

    URUMQI – In another crackdown on religious freedoms, China has forced the imams of eastern Muslim majority district of Xinjiang to dance in the street, and swear to an oath that they will not teach religion to children as well telling them that prayer is harmful to the soul.

    During the incident, reported by World Bulletin on Monday, February 9, Muslim imams were forced to brandish the slogan that “our income comes from the CKP not from Allah”.

    State Chinese news said the imams were gathering in a square in the name of civilization where they were forced to dance and chant out slogans in support of the state.

    They also gave speeches telling youth to stay away from mosques, and that the prayer was harmful to their health, encouraging them to dance instead.The slogans included statements glorifying the state over religion such as ‘peace of the country gives peace to the soul’.

    Female teachers were instructed to teach children to stay away from religious education and made to swear an oath that they will keep children away from religion.

    Uighur Muslims are a Turkish-speaking minority of eight million in the northwestern Xinjiang region.

    Xinjiang, which activists call East Turkestan, has been autonomous since 1955 but continues to be the subject of massive security crackdowns by Chinese authorities.

    Rights groups accuse Chinese authorities of religious repression against Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang in the name of counter terrorism.

    Last November, Xinjiang banned the practicing of religion in government buildings, as well as wearing clothes or logos associated with religious extremism.

    In August, the northern Xinjiang city of Karamay prohibited young men with beards and women in burqas or hijabs from boarding public buses.

    Earlier in July, China banned students and government staff from observing Ramadan fasting, as officials tried to encourage locals in Xinjiang not to wear Islamic veils.

     

    Source: www.onislam.net