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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

November 8, 2016
Singaporean Man Wants To Report Family For Sympathising With ISIS

Dear Editors,

I want to bring your attention to this shocking Facebook post online. This malay man made some shocking claims in response to the latest news of two teenage ISIS supporters in Singapore being arrested under the ISA.

In his Facebook post, he claims that his mother and his family are sympathisers of the ISIS terror group and that he wished to report them.

It is unclear if this is an elaborate joke or if the man is serious about his claims that his family are ISIS sympathisers. Will the authorities investigate these claims please?

Anonymous

Note: The contributor wishes to be remain anonymous for this tip-off.

Source: www.allsingaporestuff.com

May 28, 2015
Sasterawan Hasilkan Novel Mengenai Permasalahan Melayu

SEPERTI masyarakat lain di Singapura, orang Melayu turut dibelenggu pelbagai masalah.

Antaranya ialah pendidikan, peluang pekerjaan dan isu kekeluargaan. Bagaimanapun, terdapat dua lagi masalah yang sama genting, namun jarang ditampilkan.

Isu homoseksual dan murtad tetap tersulam dalam fabrik masyarakat Melayu di sini.

Sehubungan itu, nantikan kemunculan novel ke-10 penulis prolifik Singapura, Encik Isa Kamari, yang akan menggali kedua-dua isu tersebut.

“Kedua-dua isu ini telah mengajukan cabaran hebat kepada masyarakat Melayu masa kini.

“Permasalahan dalam novel ini agak berat dan saya jangka akan mengambil masa yang lama menyiapkannya,” ujar Encik Isa, ketika diwawancara menerusi e-mel baru-baru ini.

Encik Isa, 54 tahun, merupakan sasterawan mapan dalam persada sastera Melayu Singapura.

Sejauh ini beliau telah menghasilkan sembilan novel – Selendang Sukma (2014), Duka Tuan Bertakhta (2011), Rawa (2009), Memeluk Gerhana (2007), Atas Nama Cinta (2006), Tawassul (2002), Menara (2002), Kiswah (2002) dan Satu Bumi (1998). Tujuh daripadanya telah diterjemahkan ke dalam bahasa Inggeris.

Timbalan Pengarah Bahagian Infrastruktur Komuter Penguasa Pengangkutan Darat (LTA) itu juga mempunyai dua koleksi cerpen, enam koleksi puisi, satu koleksi naskhah teater dan beberapa skrip drama.

Atas segala usahanya selama ini Encik Isa diiktiraf, malah menjadi penerima termuda, menerusi tiga anugerah – Anugerah SEA Write pada 2006, Pingat Budaya pada 2007 dan Anugerah Tun Sri Lanang pada 2009. Pemegang ijazah Sarjana Falsafah Persuratan Melayu Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia itu juga antara 14 sasterawan dan penggiat sastera yang mendeklamasikan sajak dalam acara Malam Sastera Berita Harian bulan lalu. Encik Isa mendeklamasikan sajak karangannya bertajuk Raudhah dan Kepulangan.

“Saya ingin menawarkan persembahan berbentuk kerohanian untuk mengimbangi sajak kemasyarakatan yang disampaikan penyair lain.

“Dua kuntum puisi itu telah dilagukan sebelumnya, maka ia memberi peluang kepada saya menyampaikannya dengan cara bermelodi pula,” ujar Encik Isa.

Meskipun sibuk bekerja sepenuh masa, Encik Isa tetap mencuri masa menyerikan pelbagai kegiatan sastera dan berkarya. Setelah menghadiri Pesta Sastera Asean di Jakarta Mei lalu, beliau dijemput Nusa Centre dan Institut Terjemahan dan Buku Malaysia (ITBM) di Kuala Lumpur untuk membicarakan Selendang Sukma dan membaca puisi di Dataran Merdeka bulan lalu. Beliau juga baru selesai menulis buku berjudul Roh Angin, yang menghimpunkan tulisan mengenai proses kreatifnya.

Bapa dua puteri itu kini berusaha menterjemahkan baki dua novelnya – Kiswah dan Selendang Sukma – ke bahasa Inggeris.

“Usaha ini perlu bagi membantu saya bertapak di arena antarabangsa. Saya fikir dunia perlu tahu dan menghargai sastera Melayu Singapura.

“Terjemahan karya ialah jambatan yang membantu kita sampai ke matlamat tersebut. Saya gembira pengarang seperti Suratman Markasan, Mohd Latiff Mohd dan Rasiah Halil juga mengambil langkah yang sama,” ujar Encik Isa.

Berkenaan rancangan masa depannya, Encik Isa telah dijemput menghadiri Pesta Buku Antarabangsa Edinburgh di United Kingdom. Beliau bakal membicarakan novel terjemahan berjudul The Tower (Menara). Beliau sedang bekerjasama dengan sebuah stesen penyiaran untuk menghasilkan program mengenai warisan Raffles di rantau ini. Program tersebut akan menyentuh novel Duka Tuan Bertakhta.

“Sastera ialah hati nurani dan pemikiran masyarakat. Hakikatnya, kepentingannya setanding, malah lebih utama daripada keperluan ekonomi dan keselesaan yang bersifat keduniaan. “Ini disebabkan ia menawarkan makna kepada kehidupan manusia.

Maka, usah merendahkan martabatnya,” ujar Encik Isa.

Tulisan dari NURUL AIN RAZALI

Sumber: See more at: http://beritaharian.sg/premium/gah/bahasa-sastera/terjemahan-karya-jambatan-ke-pesada-antarabangsa

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July 14, 2014
Confession of an Ex-Muslim Lesbian

Greetings R1C,

I have a confession to make. I was formerly a Muslim who was interested in girls. It starts because I was confused about myself. Ever since I was young, I know that I dun really like boys. I feel very strange when I look at the TV and see so many people kissing. I didnt understand why pretty girls would kiss boys. I never saw my mother kiss my father as they were divorced when I was very young.

When I was growing up I also dun understand why my friends like to go out with boys. I felt very lonely and kept this to myself until later when I was in secondary school. In sec 4, I met this nice girl and that was when I had my first kiss with another girl. I felt at that time like I truly loved her. She meant a lot to me. I know that Islam says LGBT is wrong but nobody reminded me and all the religious teachers didnt really talk about LGBT. Most of the Muslim religious preachers were silent about the dangers of LGBT so I was not aware of how much sin and danger I was in.

Anyway suddenly this girl disappeared and dun return my calls. I was so sad at that time. I saw her again 2 years later. I had been with a few other girls but broke up after another short term relationship. I asked her why she never returned my calls. She said that she had met this Pastor at her church. He was so wise and know so much about God and told her she was living in sin. I was at first unhappy and angry with him. When I first met him, I wanted to slap him. But he was very calm and listened to what I had to say.

He then invited me to one of his sessions at his church. It was so different from the religious classes I went to in the part time madrasahs that I went to. They were so open and welcoming and loving and supportive. It was also quite fun and joyful with a lot of singing. When I saw him speak, I realized that I could actually love a man. I also met alot of new friends who pulled me away from the sinful LGBT lifestyle. I am forever grateful to him and the church for opening my heart to God and leading me away from my sinful lesbian lifestyle.

Now I read about the wearwhite movement. Even though Ustaz Noor Deros may not be the pastor who converted me from my life of sin, I see that inside he is sincere, and this movement will attract people to turn away from homosexuality. Maybe if he was born earlier I could have left the LGBT lifestyle but remained a Muslim.

I hope our Lord grant the Ustaz with the strength in battling the evils of homosexuality and unnatural lust, and grace him and his followers with the knowledge that the only true marriage in the eyes of God is between one man and one woman (I left Islam partly because of the fact that someone pointed out that they support polygamy, which is a slippery slope to gay marriage, bestiality and pedophilia.) But I am glad that there are church leaders like Pastor Lawrence Khong who are standing up together with the Muslims to protect our morality.

Sincerely,
Rebecca Maryam

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July 2, 2014
Singapore Muslim Youth Left Islam to Become Atheist

Hi everyone, I’m a 20-year-old Atheist and former Muslim from Singapore. I’ll be withholding my real name to protect my identity.

Like many other Muslims, I was raised while being taught Islamic values and attended Madrasah/Sunday school until I was 16. I didn’t wear a hijab/tudung or pray daily but I claimed I was proud to be a Muslim. I defended Islam online whenever it was under attack and ignored all the supposed evils of Islam brought up by people I debated. I looked down on people who left Islam and judged them for it. Now that I think about it, I was blinded by my love for the religion and I did not realise it.

I first started questioning Islam and religion not long after I stopped attending Madrasah. I did not want to be a Muslim simply because Mummy told me so and because it just so happened I was born into Islam. I was at the age where most teens think about their place in life. I thought about my purpose. I read books on Philosophy which had chapters on God and the logical impossibility of his existence.

The road to my apostasy was a slow process. I was a self-professed Agnostic for several years. I questioned Islam and religion in general, but I never outright denied the existence of the Muslim God. Looking back, I now see that I was too afraid to leave the religion. I believed in God just in case, as in Pascal’s wager. I didn’t realise back then that I had a 1 in 3000 chance of believing in the right God. After all, who’s to say Zeus doesn’t exist? Or Yahweh? How can Muslims know for sure that Allah is the one true God?

I had an irrational fear that something horrible would happen to me once I apostatised. I blame Islam for this – from a very young age, Muslims are ingrained with the fear of Hell, the fear of a vengeful God and the idea that apostasy is unthinkable (God forbid!). That’s Islam for you, using fear as a tool to ensure submission.

I eventually realised the concept of God is logically flawed. I read The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, whom I now look up to. I questioned further when I read the following Epicurus quote:

“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?
Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing?
Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing?
Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God?”

I also love using this argument as believers cannot answer it: If God is as great and merciful, then why does he condemn thinking men and women who question his existence to Hell for eternity (according to the Bible, Quran and Torah, etc)? Why are they condemned just for not bowing down to him, even those who were morally upright in their lifetimes? Is he that petty and narcissistic?

The way I see it, if a God really does exist and if he’s everything people claim him to be, I have nothing to worry about. He would recognise that I am not a bad person despite the many mistakes I have committed. Today, I consider myself an Atheist and a Humanist. For those who are unaware, I quote: “Humanism is a progressive philosophy of life that, without supernaturalism, affirms our ability and responsibility to lead ethical lives of personal fulfillment that aspire to the greater good of humanity.”

I also started to have issues with Islam. One of the things I don’t like about Islam is its treatment of women. Justify it all you want (just as I did back when I believed) but it degrades women. For example, I don’t agree with women having to cover themselves up and take the blame for inciting lust in men.

When I was 19, I finally declared my Atheism and apostasy. I’m happier now that I no longer have a fear of God and Hell and I feel like a huge weight has been lifted from my shoulders. I don’t live to please God anymore. Basically, to me that’s all there is to it – we live then we die, so we might as well make the most of it. As of today, I strive to be a good person. You don’t have to believe in God to be morally upright. I knew I no longer had a reason to be afraid.

Unfortunately, I remain in the closet. It’s especially difficult being an ex-Muslim Atheist. I doubt my family would be very happy to hear the news when I tell them in the future.

To those of you who believe, do take a moment to question all you have been told. Do not have blind faith. I wish you all the best.

Source: http://bit.ly/1fBtpFe

February 20, 2014