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  • Woman Told Off Man For Physically Abusing Tudung-Clad Wife But Victim Played Down Incident

    Woman Told Off Man For Physically Abusing Tudung-Clad Wife But Victim Played Down Incident

    I will tell you why the Asian mentality is extremely hopeless sometimes.

    Boarding on a Malindo Airlines flight from BKI to KUL on OD1003.

    This man on the right repeatedly slapped the lady in tudung on her head a few times over – I heard about 3 smacks and turn around to see his hand moving towards her head again. It was a loud smack that we all could hear and shocked me enough to turn around. Lady was crying as they walked to board the plane.

    Many others including myself saw it and no one seems to care or was too busy staring at their phones to notice! There’s these two big burly looking men walking right behind the couple and myself and I am positively sure they saw it too.

    When I told him off and raised my voice – the two men told me to hush and not to create trouble. They then pat the man in red on the back and told him to just calm down, bincang nanti and looked over to the girl and said Sudah, Sudah. Girl looked at me and told me “no no it’s ok. Sudah biasa takpe masalah sahaja”

    They then also turned around and told me that people have troubles and don’t worry about it. They also asked if I really did see it?

    And also here we are in an airport about to board the plane – you would think that security and staffs are constantly alert and observant.

    No one else said a thing. No one.

    How have we as a society – and unfortunately I see this much more in an Asian society, turn a blind eye even when something that is obviously wrong happening right in front of you?

    All these bunch of people standing around us – I am so sad and disappointed to be living amongst you. I am so sad that we let a man hit a woman in public and let him get away with it. I am sad that when confronted this woman who was hit, think it’s ok for her partner(which I am assuming he is) to treat her like that in public. I am annoyed that Malindo staff standing right at the door of the plane said nothing and allow this man to board the flight.

    For every time that you say nothing, do nothing and not speak up when someone use aggression onto you or another person – you are silently encouraging and applauding this person’s action.

    Violence against women is never right. Violence against men is also never right. Violence against anything will never be right.

    It is an even bigger problem when you as a victim choose to brush this off and let your aggressor get away with their actions. I am extremely sad because it clearly shows our education and society has failed to create a safe environment for victims to feel safe if they are attacked. I am sad because our education system (if there is any…) has failed to raise strong independent women. We have failed to raise men to have respect.

    There is nothing right about this situation at all.

     

    Source: Bea Meow

  • Tudung Should Be A Celebrated Diversity, A Symbol To Unity

    Tudung Should Be A Celebrated Diversity, A Symbol To Unity

    Mr Dear Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong ;

    As we can have food that meet each of our religious requirements and still eat together..

    We can also have our clothing’s that meet each of our religious requirements and still live together.

    Let muslim ladies put on their “Tudung” and let us be proud as Singaporean, diverse yet united.

    Yours sincerely

    Muhammed Ibn Abd Latiff

    Please share with hash tag ‪#‎tudung‬

     

     

    Source: Muhammed Ibn Abdul Latiff

     

     

  • German Court Overturns Ruling, Female Muslim Teachers Allowed To Wear Headscarves

    German Court Overturns Ruling, Female Muslim Teachers Allowed To Wear Headscarves

    (Reuters) – Muslim women teachers can wear headscarves as long as it does not cause disruption in school, Germany‘s top court said in a ruling that overturns an earlier ban and may fuel debate about what some nationalist groups see as creeping “Islamisation”.

    The Constitutional Court struck down its own 2003 ban on headscarves for teachers, which had led some German states to forbid Muslim headscarves in schools while permitting the use of Christian symbols such as crucifixes and nuns’ habits.

    The court in Karlsruhe, ruling on a case brought by a Muslim woman blocked from a teaching job because of her headscarf, said religious symbols could only be banned when they posed “not just an abstract but a concrete risk of disruption in schools”.

    “This is a good day for religious freedom,” said Volker Beck, a lawmaker from the opposition Greens.

    He argued that headgear worn by devout Muslim, Jewish and Christian women and men was less of a threat to German society than “opponents of diversity” such as the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD), neo-Nazis and extremist Muslim Salafists.

    Christine Lueders, head of the federal anti-discrimination agency, hailed the ruling for “reinforcing religious freedom in Germany”. With education administered by Germany’s 16 states, she called on local authorities to review the relevant rules.

    But the German Teachers’ Association (DL) called the ruling “problematic”, saying it undermined the principle of political and religious “neutrality” in schools and public services.

    “We fear this ruling could lead to disruption in certain schools if, for example, non-Muslim parents do not agree with their children being taught by teachers in headscarves,” said Josef Kraus, president of the teachers’ body.

    Regional AfD leader Alexander Gauland said the ruling was “wise but only given that the crucifix goes unchallenged and is common in German schools and it’s totally right that a headscarf does not, in general, pose a concrete enough threat for peace at school or the state’s neutrality in Germany”.

    Berlin daily TAZ warned that the anti-Islam protest group PEGIDA, which began last year with marches in Dresden and soon spawned imitation rallies across Germany and beyond, would seize on the ruling to argue that Europe is being taken over by Islam.

    “PEGIDA will celebrate,” said TAZ on its front-page, beneath a photo of coloured headscarves in a shop-window in Berlin.

    Enthusiasm for PEGIDA, which stands for ‘Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West’, fizzled after its members began to be outnumbered by anti-racist demonstrators and PEGIDA founder Lutz Bachmann posed for a photo with a Hitler moustache.

    Chancellor Angela Merkel has accused the PEGIDA organisers of spreading hatred against immigrants, whom she says Germany, with its shrinking workforce and ageing population, badly needs.

     

    Source: http://uk.reuters.com

  • JAIS Compares Women To Houses, Asserts That Women Should Cover Aurat To Prevent Rape And Other Form Of Harassment

    JAIS Compares Women To Houses, Asserts That Women Should Cover Aurat To Prevent Rape And Other Form Of Harassment

    KUALA LUMPUR ― Muslim women should cover up their “aurat” to prevent rape and other forms of sexual harassment, Selangor’s Islamic authority said in its Friday sermon today.

    The sermon, prepared by the Selangor Islamic Religious Department (Jais) and available to mosques statewide, also compared women who do not cover up to homes which are left unlocked, and therefore are liable to break-ins by robbers.

    “The easiest comparison we can take is a house which was left by its residents who returned to their hometown. House A was left with its windows and doors properly locked, its fences secured with padlocks. Meanwhile, House B was left open and carelessly abandoned.

    “Which house would robbers love and break into? Surely house B because it was exposed and made it easy for external elements to intrude. Therefore, that was a simple analogy for women who cover up their ‘aurat’,” said the sermon.

    “Aurat” in Malay refers to “intimate body parts” that Muslims must cover with clothing; exposing these is considered sinful.

    According to contemporary Muslim teachings, Muslim women’s “aurat” towards unrelated men is their whole body except their faces and both palms.

    Friday prayers are attended almost exclusively by Muslim men in Malaysia.

    Jais claimed covering up would help women to stop themselves from being harassed physically and mentally, in addition to preventing negative ills such as rape, illicit sex and incest.

    The sermon also refuted claims that the Islamic practice of covering up suppresses individual rights, blaming so-called “enemies of Islam” for perpetuating the notion.

    “Allah prohibits men and women from exposing their aurat not to restrict their freedom, but because Allah exalt and appreciate them. No man or woman are persecuted by covering their aurat, but exposing it means being cruel to themselves and destructing others,” it added.

     

    Source: www.themalaymailonline.com

  • MUIS Builds Villas On Wakaf Land To Fund Upgrading of Al-Huda Mosque

    MUIS Builds Villas On Wakaf Land To Fund Upgrading of Al-Huda Mosque

    The 110-year-old Al-Huda Mosque in Jalan Haji Alias, off Sixth Avenue, will be getting new neighbours – six luxury villas that come with a swimming pool.

    And money from the sale of these villas will be used to fund the current upgrading of the mosque.

    Known as Alias Villas, the semi-detached strata landed units were launched yesterday by Warees Investments, the real estate development arm of the Islamic Religious Council of Singapore (Muis).

    The three-storey villas have a 99-year lease and are expected to be ready by 2017. They range from 3,000 to 3,670 sq ft and will go for at least $1,500 per sq ft, or around $5 million each.

    The launch is part of an ongoing revitalisation scheme by Warees Investments to enhance the asset value of wakaf properties, which are built on land bequeathed or willed by Muslims towards religious or charitable uses. The 30,450 sq ft wakaf land parcel that will house the villas was donated in 1905 by Indian landowner Navena Choona Narainan Chitty to trustees for building the Al-Huda mosque.

    Upgrading works to the mosque began last June and are due for completion next month. The $1.1 million upgrading cost is expected to be reimbursed with money from the sale of the adjacent villas.

    “Alias Villas is a reflection of the success of the Singaporean Muslim community,” said Mr Haider M. Sithawalla, chairman of Warees Investments’ board of directors.

    “What used to be a humble plot of land in the middle of the old Kampung Tempeh is now going to be a prestigious residential development in the heart of District 10,” he added, referring to how the area used to be a kampung from the 1920s to 1980s.

    At the launch at Marina Mandarin hotel yesterday, Minister-in-charge of Muslim Affairs Yaacob Ibrahim said: “The whole idea is really to unlock the value of our wakaf. So this is a good example… a mosque which has been bequeathed with a little piece of land… We’ve been able to maximise it to generate further income for the mosque and for the beneficiaries of the wakaf.”

    He said he believed the duty of Muis and Warees is to maximise the potential of the wakaf land because the benefit goes back to the community.

    “So I think this is something which we are obligated to do and we will do our best with the help of the community.”

    One-stop website for Malay heritage

    Spanning news features, videos and even a digitised traditional game, a new website aims to be a one-stop gateway for resources on the Malay community’s heritage.

    The WarisanSG portal, warisansg.com, was launched yesterday by the Malay Heritage Foundation (MHF). Available in Malay and English, it includes news articles, event listings, picture and video galleries, and even a cyber version of congkak, a traditional Malay game.

    More than 20 Republic Polytechnic and National University of Singapore students who interned with the foundation contributed to the site’s content.

    A mobile game app and book were also launched yesterday. The app, Warisan Enigma, is a puzzle game where players can find out more about the history of Malay artefacts dating as far back as the 14th century.

    The book, Faith, Authority And The Malays: The Ulama In Contemporary Singapore, is the third of five books in the Singapore Malays: Our Heritage & Legacy series.

    Written by Mr Norshahril Saat, a doctorate candidate at Australian National University, it looks at the history of the Islamic religious elite and how Malay Muslims here respond to the challenges of modernisation while preserving their Islamic heritage.

    Ms Sim Ann, Minister of State for Communications and Information, and Education, attended the launch at the Malay Heritage Centre in Sultan Gate. She said these initiatives will facilitate the documentation, promotion and preservation of Malay heritage.

    “As we celebrate our nation’s 50th birthday this year, I am heartened by the efforts of individuals and organisations, such as the MHF, in the documentation and preservation of our local culture and heritage. This is a task that has no end, and is much better done by many hands and minds.”

     

    Source: http://news.asiaone.com