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  • John Allen Puji Kaedah Cendekiawan Muslim Singapura Menentang Fahaman IS

    John Allen Puji Kaedah Cendekiawan Muslim Singapura Menentang Fahaman IS

    Jeneral pesara Amerika Syarikat, Encik John Allen, yang mengetuai utusan khas Perikatan Global bagi menentang ISIS, memuji golongan cendekiawan Muslim Singapura kerana mengambil langkah pencegahan dengan mendekati masyarakat menentang fahaman ISIS.

    “Terdapat penekanan yang tinggi dalam cara Singapura bekerjasama dengan masyarakatnya untuk mendekati segmen tertentu, terutama golongan muda, dengan mengambil langkah-langkah pencegahan dalam masyarakat bagi membasmi kepercayaan ISIS.

    “Tidak banyak negara secanggih Singapura dan saya dapati ia (cara mendekati masyarakat) sangat baik, dengan cara kerjasama para pemimpin,” katanya dalam sidang akhbar di Kedutaan Amerika Syarikat di sini semalam.

    Encik Allen berada di sini sehari sebagai siri lawatan di rantau ini untuk menjelaskan usaha yang dilakukan Perikatan Global bagi menentang ISIS.

    Sebelum ini beliau mengunjungi Kuala Lumpur dan Jordan dan hari ini beliau ke Australia bagi misi yang sama.

    Menurutnya, dalam lawatannya ke Singapura semalam, beliau antara lain sempat menemui dan berbincang dengan para pegawai Majlis Ugama Islam Singapura (Muis) dan Kumpulan Pemulihan Keagamaan (RRG) mengenai isu dan pergolakan ISIS.

    “Para cendekiawan dan pemimpin Muslim di sini telah menyusun dengan cara yang penting sebagai suatu tanggungjawab bagi menghuraikan masalah ini.

    “Itu merupakan satu mesej yang sungguh kuat,” ujarnya semasa menjawab soalan Berita Harian.

    Menurut Encik Allen lagi, para pemimpin Islam di sini telah membuat kajian mengenai radikalisme dan turut berkongsi memberi nasihat dan panduan kepada negara-negara lain dengan kajian yang dilakukan di sini.

    “Mereka juga membantu golongan yang menjadi radikal dengan sendiri agar pulang ke pangkal jalan,” tambahnya.

    Encik Allen berkata bahawa tidak seperti kumpulan Al-Qaeda, kumpulan ISIS lebih tersusun dan untuk menentangnya akan mengambil masa bukan harian atau mingguan tetapi bertahun atau mungkin berdekad.

    Namun menerusi laporan-laporan, beliau mendapati semakin ramai pejuang militan ISIS menjadi semakin hampa dan mahu pulang semula ke negara mereka.

    Encik Allen berkata, beliau memahami bahawa perjuangan ISIS bertentangan dengan kepercayaan Islam dan doktrin Al-Quran dan Hadis.

    “Ia bukan negara Islam tetapi mereka mendakwa demikian. Namun mereka yang bodoh dan terpengaruh menerusi Internet mahu mengaitkan diri dengan mereka (ISIS),” kata Encik Allen.

    Menurutnya, buat masa ini sebanyak 62 negara termasuk Singapura telah menyertai Perikatan Global bagi menentang ISIS.

     

    Source: http://beritaharian.sg

  • Barack Obama Request Congress Authorisation For A War With IS

    Barack Obama Request Congress Authorisation For A War With IS

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US President Barack Obama has sent Congress his text for an authorisation to use military force in the campaign against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), limiting operations against the militants to three years and barring use of US troops in “enduring offensive ground combat”.

    According to the text, obtained by Reuters, Obama also wants to repeal the 2002 measure that authorised the Iraq war. But his proposal leaves in place a 2001 authorisation, passed shortly after the Sept 11 attacks, for a campaign against Al-Qaeda and its affiliates.

    “I have directed a comprehensive and sustained strategy to degrade and defeat ISIL,” Obama wrote in a letter accompanying the draft, using another acronym for ISIS, an extremist Sunni Islam group.

    “Local forces, rather than US military forces, should be deployed to conduct such operations,” he said.

    Obama’s proposal must be approved by both the US Senate and House of Representatives, where it is expected to provoke strong debate between Democrats, who are generally wary of another Middle East war, and Republicans, many of whom have been pushing for stronger measures against the militant fighters.

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    Source: www.straitstimes.com

  • Anonymous Hackers Target Social Media Accounts Linked To IS

    Anonymous Hackers Target Social Media Accounts Linked To IS

    Hacking group Anonymous has claimed responsibility for taking down hundreds of social media accounts allegedly linked to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants, including some belonging to Malaysians, media reported on Tuesday.

    “ISIS, we will hunt you, take down your sites, accounts, emails and expose you,” the group warns in a two-minute video posted on YouTube, saying that its campaign targeting the militants under the name #OpISIS is continuing.

    Anonymous has published a list of 800 Twitter accounts, Google Plus accounts, recruitment websites, Facebook accounts and email addresses that it had exposed and targeted, the Daily Mirror reported on Monday.

    Some of the 11 Facebook accounts revealed were believed to be owned by Malaysians, according to Sin Chew Daily.

    The video was Anonymous’ second warning in two months against ISIS, which has built up a large social media presence with accounts on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Instagram, BBC reported.

    The Islamists, who have seized large swaths of Iraq and Syria, used the Internet as a channel for disseminating propaganda, circulating brutal videos of hostages being killed and as a tool for radicalising and recruiting new members.

    Anonymous “declared war” on websites run by ISIS last month after an attack on a magazine’s offices in Paris.

    Yet the hacking group’s efforts did not manage to silence ISIS on the Internet, as the Islamists have recently released a social media guide to help members create accounts that are not easy to detect.

    Anonymous is made up of activists and hackers claiming to defend and protect democracy.

    “We are Muslims, Christians, Jews, we are hackers, crackers, Hacktivist, phishers, agents, spies, or just the guy from next door,” says the voice in Anonymous video.

    “Remember the terrorists that are calling themselves Islamic State are not Muslims.”

     

    Source: www.straitstimes.com

  • Barack Obama Confirms Death Of American Hostage Held By IS

    Barack Obama Confirms Death Of American Hostage Held By IS

    WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – US  President Barack Obama on Tuesday confirmed the death of  Kayla Jean Mueller, an American aid worker who had been held hostage by ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) militants, saying the United States would “find and bring to justice the terrorists who are responsible”.

    Mueller’s family also said in a statement that they were “heartbroken” to learn of her death and released a copy of a letter she had written in 2014 while in captivity.

    The comments by Obama and the family come four days after ISIS said Mueller, a 26-year-old humanitarian worker from Arizona, was killed when Jordanian fighter jets bombed a building where she was being held, although Jordan expressed doubt about the Islamist militant group’s account of her death. Mueller was determined to have died after her ISIS captors privately contacted her family over the weekend, a White House spokeswoman said.

    “Over the weekend, the family received a private message from Kayla’s ISIL captors containing additional information,”National Security Council spokeswoman Bernadette Meehan said, using an acronym for Islamic State. “Once this information was authenticated by the intelligence community, they concluded that Kayla was deceased.”

    A family representative, who asked not to be identified by name, said the family received a private message from her captors over the weekend containing “additional information, which the intelligence community authenticated and deemed credible”.

    Neither Obama nor the family gave details of the circumstances of her death. US officials said that the family received an email and photo from ISIS that confirmed she was dead.

    US officials said they had no evidence to support Islamic State claims that she was killed in a Jordanian air strike, adding the details surrounding her death remained unclear.

    “It’s unclear from the intelligence picture how she died,”said one US official, speaking to Reuters on condition of anonymity.

    Mueller was the last-known American hostage held by Islamic State, which controls wide areas of Syria and Iraq. She was taken hostage while leaving a hospital in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo in August 2013.

    The group has beheaded three other Americans, two Britons and two Japanese hostages – most of them aid workers or journalists – in recent months.

    “No matter how long it takes, the United States will find and bring to justice the terrorists who are responsible for Kayla’s captivity and death,” Obama said in a statement released by the White House.

    “ISIL is a hateful and abhorrent terrorist group whose actions stand in stark contrast to the spirit of people like Kayla,” Obama added.

    Even after ISIS Friday announced her death on Friday, the family had expressed hope that she was still alive.

    On Tuesday, her parents and brother issued a statement saying, “Kayla was a compassionate and devoted humanitarian. She dedicated the whole of her young life to helping those in need of freedom, justice and peace.”

    The family also released a handwritten letter they said she wrote to them in the spring of 2014 while in captivity. In it, she states that she was “in a safe location, completely unharmed + healthy.”

    “I have been shown in darkness, light + have learned that even in prison, one can be free,” the letter states. “I am not breaking down + I will not give in no matter how long it takes,” the letter states.

    US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel said in a statement, “The world is united in condemning ISIL’s continued murder and imprisonment of innocents.”

     

    Source: www.straitstimes.com

  • Former Islamic State Commandant Arrested In Kuala Lumpur

    Former Islamic State Commandant Arrested In Kuala Lumpur

    KUALA LUMPUR – A 45-year-old former commandant of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), on the most-wanted list in the Middle East, was detained by the Malaysian Police Counter Terrorism unit in Kuala Lumpur on Jan 31.

    The suspect, who had been part of the terrorist group operating in Syria from May 2012 to May 2014, was deported to his country of origin yesterday (Feb 6) after five days in detention for allegedly using a fake passport.

    Police, who seized a large amount of money from the suspect, have yet to release more details of the operation, saying keeping the identity of the suspect under wraps is vital until the entire operation is completed.

    The arrest was a result of cooperation between Malaysian police and other foreign countries that have vouched to tackle the terror group from widening its influence abroad.

    Intelligence sources said the man from the Middle East who arrived in mid-January was detained at a four-star hotel near Bukit Bintang.

    Inspector-General of Police Khalid Abu Bakar in a statement today (Feb 7) confirmed the arrest, but did not link the terrorist to any group.

    It is understood that the suspect had travelled to several countries in the Middle East, North Africa and South-east Asia before slipping into Malaysia.

    “The Royal Malaysian Police takes a serious view of the activities of foreign terrorists attempting to use Malaysia as a transit, safe haven and base of operations.

    “The success in the suspect’s arrest is the result of close cooperation between the police and foreign enforcement agencies. This cooperation will continue to eradicate and manage the threat of terrorism, be it regionally or globally,” Mr Khalid said.

    About 59 Malaysians are officially known to have joined ISIS.

    More than 65 have been arrested by police either on their way to Syria and Iraq or on their way back since the start of last year.

     

    Source: www.todayonline.com