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  • Malaysians Rejoice Sepang’s Exit From F1, Singapore Continues To Be Ripped Off

    Malaysians Rejoice Sepang’s Exit From F1, Singapore Continues To Be Ripped Off

    *Go away. We do not need old white men like Ecclestone to rip us off anymore*

    At first, I was perhaps 70% supportive of Malaysia dropping Formula One but after hearing what the moronic 86 years old former owner of F1 Bernie Ecclestone said, I am now 150% supportive.

    After Najib saw we were losing huge amount of money hosting F1 every year for 17 years, Malaysia decided to drop it from next year on.

    Ecclestone then shockingly admitted that F1 had been deliberately over-charging the venues including Malaysia for the rights to host F1 – hence causing them to make losses.

    In reply, our Sepang circuit boss Razlan Razali said that Ecclestone lacked respect and made promoters “look like idiots” when Ecclestone said they were deliberately overcharging.

    Ecclestone then replied that no one will miss Malaysia’s F1 as they still have Singapore. He then said:

    “Nobody made him look stupid, and it’s difficult to make people look stupid. If they are, they are,” and that it is not their fault that the Sepang race cannot make money.

    Well… Fook you, Eccelstone.

    We do not need to be deliberately ripped-off by old white men like you and treated with disrespect.

    We already have our old ex-PM to rip us off and insult us. We don’t need you, Ecclestone.

    No wonder so many famous tracks of the past such as Zolder and Zandvoort, Nürburgring and Brands Hatch had stopped hosting F1.

    South Korea even stopped their F1 in 2013 just three years after starting citing high costs.

    Even the famous Marseilles Grand Prix was axed for 10 years and will only resume next year.

    Therefore, I am now 150% supportive of not getting screwed by white-men, lose a lot of money each year (Forbes estimated the cost to be USD1 billion or RM4.34 billion over 10 years) and to add insult to injury, get insulted further.

    Our Prime Minister had made the right decision to drop F1.

    Don’t worry. You still have Singapore, right?

    LSS.

     

    Source: Lim Sian See

  • Cosplay In Hijab? No Problem

    Cosplay In Hijab? No Problem

    KUALA LUMPUR • Muslim women dressed as superheroes, princesses and mighty sword-wielding warriors took part in a hijab cosplay event over the weekend in Malaysia, where the role-playing craze continues to grow.

    About 20 women showcased their love for anime with elaborate make-up and costumes while still wearing the traditional hijab – the headscarf worn by many Muslim women in Malaysia – at the event in a mall on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur.

    Ms Nur Azlina, a 21-year-old university student, was decked out in a Power Rangers outfit.

    She said a hijab does not hinder her cosplay skills and that there were a lot of positive reactions.

    “Some people are sometimes surprised when they see my hijab… but it doesn’t bother me. My friends and family support me and I also get invited to attend birthday parties with my costume,” she added.

    Mr Raja Muhammad Rusydi, a 20-year-old cosplay enthusiast, hopes such events will generate more interest among hijab-wearing women to take part in cosplay activities.

    “I love cosplay and I get to make new friends here and in the international cosplay community. I support the women. If they love the character and have the passion, they should do it.”

    In cosplay, short for costume role-play, enthusiasts gather to imitate characters from anime series, comics and video games, many drawn from Japanese pop culture.

    The cosplay fad has swept much of the world and has been popular for more than two decades in Malaysia.

    But hijab cosplay has become popular only in the last few years in the South-east Asian nation and has generated much buzz among those in the cosplay scene.

     

    Source: www.straitstimes.com

  • Pilgrims To Fly In Style With Malaysia Airlines’ Six Haj Charter Jets

    Pilgrims To Fly In Style With Malaysia Airlines’ Six Haj Charter Jets

    Malaysia Airlines Bhd’s (MAB) chief executive Peter Bellew has revealed more details on the flag carrier’s plan to offer charter flights for Muslims to perform the Haj and Umrah pilgrimages in Saudi Arabia.

    In an interview with CNN Money, Bellew said six Airbus A380 jetliners will be retired from service and refurbished to include prayer areas and ablution rooms for its passengers.

    “I think this will be the greatest turnaround in the history of aviation and maybe even of any business,” Bellew was quoted saying.

    Bellew said the jumbo jets will carry 715 passengers, compared to 525 people in the usual three-class configuration or 853 in an all-economy class configuration.

    “We are trying to capture 5 to 6 per cent of the global market, which is growing all the time,” said Bellew, a former executive at low-cost Irish carrier Ryanair.

    “People save to go to this for up to 30 years, and we’ve got great interest in the product already.”

    In Malaysia, most Muslims fund their pilgrimages using deposits in Lembaga Tabung Haji, and adhere to a national quota imposed by the Saudi kingdom. The wait could take decades before they actually perform the pilgrimage.

    Last month, Bellew said MAB could form a new airline to serve the Haj and Umrah charter market.

    “Interviews for key positions, for this airline, have already been initiated with plans underway with Airbus to increase the seat capacity to 720 seats on aircraft,” he told state news agency Bernama.

    The airline said it recorded a stronger performance in the fourth quarter of last year on the back of higher bookings and driven by a greater focus on the premium business traveller as well as all-inclusive economy fares.

     

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    Source: http://www.themalaymailonline.com

  • Malaysia Attorney-General: Non-Muslims Rattled By Increasing Islamisation

    Malaysia Attorney-General: Non-Muslims Rattled By Increasing Islamisation

    NON-MUSLIMS are against Islamic criminal law amendments as they perceive them as another step towards the Islamisation of Malaysia, Attorney-General Mohamed Apandi Ali candidly told The Malaysian Insight yesterday.

    It does not help either that the Syariah Courts (Criminal Jurisdiction) Act 1965 (or better known by its Bahasa Malaysia acronym, RUU 355) Bill was mooted by PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang, the propagator of hudud laws in Kelantan in the 1990s, with Terengganu following suit later.

    Wading into the issue after Barisan Nasional decided not to table Hadi’s private member’s bill in line with the principle of consensus, Apandi said this issue was always going to be a problem.

    “When Hadi introduced this bill and tried to incorporate the 100 lashes and other severe punishment, the perception of non-Muslims was that hudud is coming, in the guise of the private member’s bill.”

    In fact, Apandi said, RUU 355 was simply to amend the existing Syariah Criminal Law Act to enhance punishments.

    It was also to give Muslims a sense of “feeling good”, as the shariah court currently is even lower than the powers of the magistrate’s court. RUU 355 was to have increased the power of the shariah court  to the position of a Sessions Court.

    “They (non-Muslims), however, read it as the beginning of an Islamic state government like the ones in Iran, Iraq and Syria, despite being told it was not applicable to non-Muslims. That is why the strong resistance.”

    On a personal note, Apandi is relieved that the ruling federal coalition had made a U-turn on RUU 355, as that meant he would not have to draft the amendments to Hadi’s bill, which he felt would have been opposed anyway.

    “When we draft, we have to show that it is a government bill, so in the first place, my office will have to make sure that it is different from Hadi’s draft.

    “So maybe, just maybe, we may exclude Sabah (and Sarawak), to make it different, and even reduce the sentences.

    “On the number of strokes, and even the sentences, I would have probably reduced them.

    “The difference from the current laws which the Syariah Court Criminal Jurisdiction covers, imprisonment is only up to three years. They want to change it to 30 years, such a big disparity.

    “As for fines, currently it is RM1,000, they want to increase it to RM100,000. The disparity is so big. People are going to start questioning the logic behind this.

    “So that is why the perception by the people outside will be ‘Oh, this is definitely going to be hudud’.”

    Apandi also said he had mentioned the matter to BN politicians and they have indicated their concerns to him.

    Many had said it would be difficult for them to explain to their supporters if the government had adopted Hadi’s bill.

    They had also warned that BN could lose seats, especially in Sarawak and Sabah, if the government did not make that RUU 355 U-turn.

    Apandi also feels RUU 355 was more political than legal.

    “The purpose and intention of this is to reap political mileage. Have you heard anybody from the public clamouring for increase of powers of the shariah court? No, nobody asking is asking for it, isn’t it?

    “To my reading, it is mainly political. He (Hadi) has to satisfy the states that have already established hudud laws.

    “People in those states are beginning to question him: ‘Hey, we have the law, why can’t we enforce them? What’s happened?’ He needs to say something to these states. And that is why he is trying to get federal support.

    “So, yes… it’s political!”

     

    Source: www.themalaysianinsight.com

  • Qari Malaysia Tarik Perhatian Warga Saudi Dengan Bacaaan Yang Lunak

    Qari Malaysia Tarik Perhatian Warga Saudi Dengan Bacaaan Yang Lunak

    ARAB SAUDI: Meskipun orang Islam di Asia Tenggara sering merujuk kepada para ulama’ mahupun qari di Timur Tengah, namun tidak mustahil juga sekiranya perkara sebaliknya berlaku.

    Yang jelas, seorang warga Malaysia sudah berjaya menarik perhatian dan menawan hati mereka di negara-negara Arab dengan kemahiran beliau membaca kitab suci Al-Quran.

    Dalam tukilan laporan Al Arabiya, Mohamad Yusuf, yang berasal dari Kelantan, juga semakin menempa nama di kalangan warga Timur Tengah, terutama sekali di Arab Saudi.

    Dalam satu wawancara dengan Al-Arabiya.net, Yusuf berkata beliau sudah mula menghafaz Al-Quran sejak berusia enam tahun, setelah ayahnya mendapati beliau mahir menghafal ayat-ayat dari kitab suci selain mempunyai suara yang lunak.

    Ayahnya kemudian menyertakan Yusuf ke dalam kelas di masjid, di mana beliau lebih mempelajari tajwid serta hukum-hukum sebutan bagi bacaan Al-Quran.

    Pada usia 13 tahun, beliau sudah mendalami maqamat, iaitu cara melunakkan suara bagi bacaan kitab suci tersebut.

    Menurut laporan Al Arabiya, Yusuf sangat berterima kasih kepada ayah dan guru-gurunya atas sokongan dan dorongan mereka, yang banyak meningkatkan keyakinan dirinya.

     

    Malah, Yusuf berkongsi beliau turut menggemari bacaan Al-Quran daripada qari-qari seperti Sheikh Mustafa Ismail, Sheikh al-Shahat Mohammed Anwar, Sheikh Ahmed Naina dan Sheikh Yasir al-Sharqawi.

    Buat masa ini, Yusuf juga sedang menuntut di Fakulti Pengajian Islam di Universiti Sultan Ismail. Tahun lalu, beliau turut menjuarai sebuah musabaqah tilawah Al-Quran yang diadakan bagi universiti-universiti di Malaysia.

     

    Menjawab kenyataan-kenyataan bahawa qari-qari muda meniru-niru gaya bacaan mereka yang lebih berpengalaman, Yusuf berkata bahawa tidak salah untuk menggunakan teknik-teknik para qari terdahulu.

    Bagaimanapun, beliau turut menambah bahawa seseorang qari itu harus merancang dan membangunkan cara bacaan baru tersendiri.

    Menurut Al Arabiya lagi, Yusuf juga berkongsi bahawa beliau sedang berusaha keras untuk memperhalusi bacaannya dengan harapan untuk menjadi salah seorang qari yang dihormati

     

    Source: http://berita.mediacorp.sg