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  • Faizal Tahir Perjelas Kontroversi Kulit Album; Dituduh “Iluminati, Murtad”

    Faizal Tahir Perjelas Kontroversi Kulit Album; Dituduh “Iluminati, Murtad”

    Penyanyi Faizal Tahir memperjelaskan bahawa kulit album terbarunya berjudul Anatomi ada kaitan dengan beberapa perkara dalam kehidupannya.

    “Sejak kulit album ini keluar banyak tanggapan positif dan negatif saya terima, ada yang kata ia iluminati, freemason dan ada juga yang nampak ia seperti salib dan menuduh saya murtad.

    “Secara dasarnya kulit album Anatomi ini simbolik kepada lagu-lagu dalam album ini dan beberapa benda yang berkaitan dengan kehidupan saya,” kata beliau kepada mStar Online.

    Beliau juga menambah beliau mempunyai kepercayaan yang kuat terhadap Allah dan percaya Allah sentiasa memberi bimbingan kepadanya, tambah laporan mStar Online.

    Penyanyi lagu Assalamualaikum itu menjelaskan kontroversi kulit album baru yang menjadi viral di laman sosial sejak ia dikeluarkan minggu lalu.

    Beliau menerangkan bahawa simbol kuda merupakan lambang tahun kelahirannya, manakala sayap pula berkaitan dengan pasukan bola sepak kegemarannya iaitu Liverpool.

    mStar Online melaporkan bahawa menurut Faizal, gambar wanita berpurdah pula merupakan simbol rasa hormatnya kepada kaum wanita yang menutup aurat dan gambar kanak-kanak berkepala televisyen pula menonjolkan kanak-kanak zaman sekarang yang terlalu terdedah kepada internet dan televisyen.

    “Foto saya empat tangan dan kaki serta tidak berbaju pula adalah lambang lukisan Leonardo da Vincci. Ada juga yang mempersoalkan tentang aurat kerana saya tidak berbaju dalam kulit album ini.

    “Bagi saya ramai lagi penyanyi wanita yang kulit album tidak bertudung dan mendedahkan aurat,” ujarnya kepada mStar Online.

    Source: Berita MediaCorp

  • Mahathir ‘Iri Hati’ Dengan Kerajaan Pimpinan Najib Yang Kian Rapat Dengan China

    Mahathir ‘Iri Hati’ Dengan Kerajaan Pimpinan Najib Yang Kian Rapat Dengan China

    Komen terbaru Dr Mahathir Mohamad terhadap kerajaan Malaysia adalah kerana beliau cemburu dengan keupayaan Perdana Menteri Najib Razak menarik pelaburan bernilai berbilion dolar dengan China, kata Menteri Pelancongan dan Kebudayaan Nazri Aziz hari ini (3 Nov).

    Encik Nazri menyifatkan komen mantan perdana menteri itu sebagai iri hati kerana sepanjang 22 tahun beliau berkhidmat sebagai perdana menteri Dr Mahathir gagal meraih pencapaian sedemikian.

    “Saya rasa Dr Mahathir sedang memikirkan waktu beliau menjadi PM atau menteri. Pada masa itu China adalah sebuah negara komunis tetapi China kini sudah berubah.”

    “China sekarang berbeza daripada yang dulu. Beliau cemburu, saya rasa. Beliau tidak suka perkara ini sebab itu beliau masih berkata tentang keyakinan pelabur yang konon-kononnya sudah merosot dan kami akan menjadi bankrap,” kata Encik Nazri kepada para wartawan di lobi Parlimen.

    Menurut Encik Nazri, ia bukan mudah untuk mendapatkan pelaburan bernilai hampir RM144 bilion (S$48 bilion), walaupun dari sebuah negara seperti China.

    “Apabila China mahu melabur sebanyak itu di Malaysia, (ia) menunjukkan bahawa China yakin (dengan) bagaimana PM mentadbir negara,” kata Encik Nazri.

    Source: Berita MediaCorp

  • Mufti Keluar Fatwa Senaman Zumba Adalah Haram

    Mufti Keluar Fatwa Senaman Zumba Adalah Haram

    Mufti Sabah tampil kembali memberi peringatan kepada umat Islam khususnya, bahawa aktiviti tarian dan senamrobik yang diiringi muzik rancak atau lebih dikenali sebagai senaman zumba adalah haram.

    Peringatan itu dikeluarkan dalam satu kenyataan bersurat khas yang dikeluarkan bertarikh 19 Julai lalu.

    Tindakan surat peringatan itu dibuat berikutan senaman zumba kini semakin popular dan disertai umat Islam khususnya di Sabah.

    Dalam surat pekeliling itu, Datuk Bungsu @ Aziz Jaafar menggesa umat Islam menjauhi senaman tersebut kerana terdapatnya unsur-unsur yang bertentangan syariat dan akhlak Islam.

    “Antaranya seperti percampuran lelaki dan perempuan bukan mahram, pakaian menjolok mata, pendedahan aurat, elemen erotik dalam tarian dan persembahan muzik yang keterlaluan,” katanya

    Pada April 2014, Mufti Sabah pernah mengeluarkan fatwa rasmi bahawa senaman zumba itu adalah haram.

     

    Source: Bin Usrah

  • Are Malay Graduates And Job Seekers Being Discriminated In Malaysia? Yes, They Are

    Are Malay Graduates And Job Seekers Being Discriminated In Malaysia? Yes, They Are

    The high number of unemployed graduates, especially Malay graduates is not news in this country. We hear them blaming everything but themselves. But what if the Malays are indeed being discriminated against?

    “Yeah right,” I muttered at first as someone who is sometimes ashamed by my own race. How could I not, when I’m assumed to be ‘easily swayed and confused’ half the time?

    Trying to keep an open mind, I read this study, and was quite puzzled by the findings. It was entitled ‘Discrimination in high degrees: Race and graduate hiring in Malaysia‘ and was published in the Journal of Asia Pacific Economy by UM and UKM researchers. Here’s the paper abstract (bold is my own):

    This paper investigates racial discrimination in hiring fresh degree graduates in Malaysia through a field experiment. We send fictitious Malay and Chinese resumes to job advertisements, then analyse differentials in callback for interview attributable to racial identity, while controlling for applicant characteristics, employer profile and job requirements.

    We find that race matters much more than resume quality, with Malays, Malaysia’s majority group significantly less likely to be called for interview.Other factors, particularly language proficiency of employees, language requirements of jobs and profile of employers, influence employer biases.

    Applicants fluent in Chinese fare better, and Chinese-controlled and foreign-controlled companies are more likely to favour Chinese resumes, indicating that cultural compatibility explains part of the discrimination. Malay resumes tend to be perceived and prejudged adversely, and employers’ attitudes towards public policy outcomes, particularly pertaining to education quality and employment opportunity in the public sector, also account for the observed racial disparities.

    Let me simplify that for you:

    When researchers sent fake resumes of Malay and Chinese fresh graduates, the Malay applicants are much less likely to be called back for an interview. Employers perceive Malays negatively, think that they have lower-quality education and always have the safety net in the form of government jobs to fall back on.

    Huh. I’ve never been pro-Malay, but I hate discrimination more. How was the research conducted to come to this conclusion?

    How the research was conducted

    The research:

    • Sent over 3000 fake resumes, divided into 4 categories: AA Malay, AA Chinese, BA Malay and BA Chinese (AA = Above average; BA = Below average).
    • CGPA, university, language and technical skills were randomly assigned.
    • Sent the resumes to job vacancies in finance and engineering sector.
    • Did not include other races.

    The researchers:

    • Found that in general, AA applicants get more callbacks than BA applicants. Interestingly, AA Malay have lower callback rate than BA Chinese.
    • Showed that Chinese resumes received a 22.1% callback rate on average while Malay resumes received 4.2% callback rate on average.
    • Malay applicants for engineering jobs get the lowest callback rate at 2.9%.
    • Malay graduates from private universities get the lowest callback.
    • Showed that UTAR graduates get higher callback rates, but there is no penalty for UiTM degrees.
    • Malay resumes stating proficiency in Chinese get higher callback rates.
    • English and Malay proficiency and good English in cover letter have ‘negligible impact on call rates’.
    • Calculated callback rates among Chinese, foreign and Malay-controlled companies. Malays get lower callback rates in ALL of them.
    • Even Malay-controlled companies favour Chinese applicants 1.6 times more than Malays.

    As I read, it dawned to me the long-forgotten early struggles in my career, where I struggled to hear back from potential employers despite sending job applications after job applications. I thought it happened to everyone. I thought all job seekers faced the same problem.

    Was it… caused by my (very Malay-sounding) name instead?

    What caused this?

    The research said that the data generated cannot give conclusive reasons. But some important points to highlight:

    • Cultural compatibility and language ability matters. Employers with predominantly Chinese employees perceive that Malays are less likely to take jobs offered anyway (or quit within a few months), as Malays have the tendency to feel uncomfortable in these settings. The researchers theorise that Malays prefer environments where their religious customs and spoken language in work environment are catered to.
    • Malay applicants are negatively prejudged. This explains why BA Chinese get higher callback rates than AA Malays. No conclusive reasons are given, except that the negative stereotypes may be reinforced by past experience and lack of contact between these two groups to prove otherwise.
    • Appears to be the result of pro-Malay affirmative actions. People tend to think that Malays have lower-quality education and higher opportunities in the public sector anyway. This is a very complex issue, and further research are needed, but the researchers suggest that pro-Malay policies may in fact hurt Malay graduates’ job prospects.

    What does this mean?

    For the longest time, I thought, “Man, Malays are complainers,” when they say they can’t get jobs or get high pay or have limited opportunities. I thought: ‘The PM is Malay, the Parliament is majority Malay, the Kings are Malay, the policies are pro-Malay… what more do you want?’

    There’s substantive proof now to back up this discrimination claim. 22.1% callback rate vs 4.2% callback rate is a big difference. 1 in 5 Chinese applicants get called for interview, while less than 1 in 20 Malay applicants get the same. Remember that the quality of resumes were already factored in.

    Less callbacks means less opportunities, more likelihood to take lower-salary but stable jobs, and being stuck in lower-economic power for longer time.

    This is only one research though, and I’m happy to be pointed to other studies to disprove this or question the methodology of this research (for example, I didn’t like that it only compared Malay and Chinese resumes). But until then, won’t you agree that discrimination is discrimination?

    How now, brown cow?

    I hate the blame game, so I’m going to end this with a few suggestions on how can we level the playing field a bit more, so deserving Malay candidates get equal and fair chance in the job market, too.

    Employers (of ALL races):

    • If your employees are predominantly composed of a single race, get more diversified. Diversified workplaces earn more profits. It’s literally to your advantage to have a racially-balanced workforce.
    • Know that you (even Malay employers) have negative bias against Malays, and that potentially makes you lose out on those good Malay candidates.

    Malay graduates and job seekers:

    • If you have Chinese proficiency, put it in your resume. If you don’t and have difficulty getting callbacks, take Mandarin classes at the same time. This research proved that Chinese proficiency increased callback rates.
    • Make more friends outside of your race. Make more friends outside of your race. Make more friends outside of your race. You’re the majority. It’s up to you to reach out to others, not the other way around. Actively attend and network in events, not just Malay-organised events. Be a good friend, be a respectful person.
    • Even though you believe in your faith and race 100%, stop making remarks that make you sound stupid, non-accommodating and even violent. Be easy to work with.

    HXSM does this best so I’m just going to leave these examples of Malay-spewed absurdity to end this. If you’re gonna comment, be nice.

     

    Source: https://vulcanpost.com

  • Walid J. Abdullah: Racism Only Exists When It Is Not Spoken By Them

    Walid J. Abdullah: Racism Only Exists When It Is Not Spoken By Them

    It’s funny how some people are so bent on using anecdotes -parliamentarians especially love to talk about their personal experiences – to display the truly multi-racial nature of Singapore, and to prove racism doesn’t exist.

    ‘My son didn’t want to bring a ham sandwich to school to respect his Muslim friends; see, there is no racism!’

    ‘I saw an Indian man calling an ambulance for a Chinese lady, and a Malay dude was the medic. Singaporean multiracialism ftw!’

    ‘I got into the lift and saw a Malay man, and i smiled and had a conversation with him. Only in Singapore do you get this.’ (somehow, speaking in a polite manner to other humans is uniquely Singaporean, and shows racism is absent!)

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    But when these people come across other anecdotes that actually work against their ‘all is hunky dory’ theory, they will find all sorts of excuses to dismiss them.

    ‘Oh, our MP wasn’t being offensive. She just proposed the fence because it was practical. She gets along well with Indian workers, you know. Her suggestion is nothing like Trump’s.’

    ‘Oh, the portrayal of a hijabi as parking attendant in the children’s book is actually a good thing and does not reinforce stereotypes. Exposes children to the hijab. Good job author!’

    ‘The blackface incident was just something light-hearted. Please don’t be so sensitive. We must learn to laugh at ourselves.’

    ‘Yeah he said Malay and Indian workers cannot speak English properly. But that’s not what he really meant. We must look at the context.’

    And, the get-out-of-jail card for when one cannot perform intellectual gymnastics and is forced to admit that an incident is racist:

    ‘Yes, this was racist. But racism exists everywhere else. So be thankful for what you have here.’

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    Yeah, continue telling yourselves that racism doesn’t exist. Continue glorifying your own experiences as the norm, and continue dismissing others’ encounters with racism as anomalies.

     

    Source: Walid J. Abdullah