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  • Wanita Yang Ugut Mahu Letupkan Masjid Ditangkap Polis

    Wanita Yang Ugut Mahu Letupkan Masjid Ditangkap Polis

    Seorang wanita ditangkap polis setelah mengugut mahu meletupkan sebuah masjid di Florida, di Amerika Syarikat.

    Menurut laporan Russia Today (RT), wanita tersebut, Irina Bihary, antara lain dituduh merosakkan harta benda dan memiliki bom palsu.

    Dalam kejadian pada Ahad lalu itu (19 Jun), Bihary, 40 tahun, datang ke masjid Yayasan Islam Selatan Florida pada sebelah pagi, dan bertindak mengoyakkan risalah-risalah serta menendang-nendang barangan di situ.

    Seorang jemaah masjid, Rabia Khan, memberitahu Sun Sentinel: “Dia berkelakuan amat aneh.”

    Bihary kemudian meninggalkan masjid itu, lapor RT. Namun dia kembali sekitar 5.00 petang dengan sebuah pakej dan telefon bimbit dengan bateri dan wayar-wayarnya kelihatan.

    ANCAM “SEMUANYA MELETUP”, “KITA SEMUA AKAN MATI”

    Wanita itu juga bertanya para jemaah soalan-soalan pelik, seperti berapa ramai orang akan hadir untuk menunaikan solat.

    Menurut Miami Herald, Bihary ketika itu berkata: “Saya menyampah dengan tempat ini. Saya tak sabar untuk memusnahkannya. Saya tidak kisah jika kita semua mati di sini hari ini dan semuanya meletup. Pada akhirnya, kita semua akan mati.”

    RT melaporkan, para jemaah kemudian menghubungi polis. Apabila polis tiba di masjid itu, Bihary cuba melarikan diri namun ditangkap. Masjid itu dikosongkan dan wanita itu disoal siasat.

    Skuad pemusnah bom, anjing polis, ejen-ejen FBI dan ejen persekutuan Alkohol, Tembakau, Senjata Api menjalankan siasatan di masjid itu. Namun mereka tidak mendapati sebarang bahan letupan dan mengesahkan ugutan wanita itu adalah palsu.

    Bihary dilaporkan memberitahu polis bahawa para jemaah masjid merupakan “parasit yang merampas wang” yang membunuh suaminya. Dia juga berkata jemaah di masjid bukan orang Islam yang sebenar dan masjid itu diasaskan oleh seorang pembunuh, lapor WPLG.

    JEMAAH LEGA UGUTAN PALSU

    Dia dibawa ke hospital untuk menjalani pemeriksaan mental.

    Bihary menghadapi dakwaan melakukan perbuatan nakal serta memiliki bom palsu.

    Menurut Sun Sentinel, dia dikenakan dua tuduhan merosakkan harta benda kerana menendang pintu balai polis.

    Bagaimanapun, para jemaah masjid berasa lega ia hanya ugutan palsu.

    “Dalam masa-masa berbahaya ini, kami risau ugutan seperti ini akan menjadi sesuatu yang buruk,” kata jurucakap Majlis Hubungan Amerika-Islam di Florida, Wilfredo Ruiz kepada WPLG.

    Source: Berita MediaCorp

  • Angry Iftar Diner Highlights Food Waste Issue In UAE

    Angry Iftar Diner Highlights Food Waste Issue In UAE

    This was the leftover food that a family of three walked away from after tucking in to iftar, prompting one angry diner to share the image online, sparking a debate about waste.

    Fifteen plates were crammed onto the table in the minutes before the trio ended their fast. A mother, father and child picked at the meal before leaving, according to a nearby diner who spoke to 7DAYS after sharing the image on Reddit.

    More than 80 people commented on the threat, with one, Java Beans, writing: “This is disgraceful. That’s exactly the opposite of what Ramadan is for.”

    It has been estimated that more than 3 million tonnes of food (worth about Dhs14 billion) is wasted in the UAE every year.

    The diner, who gave his name as Majid, said he took the snap at a restaurant in Dubai.

    He said: “I promised myself I would not go to any buffet again. All I could think of was how many people sleep every night with empty stomachs.”

    The diner told 7DAYS: “It was in an iftar buffet. There were two people and a child eating and they started putting food out 15 minutes before Iftar.

    “From the beginning you could clearly tell they were not going to finish what they put on the table.

    “I had to calm my friend down as she was going to talk to them, but it’s not our business and we didn’t we want to get in trouble.”

    Majid added: “A person in the Reddit thread shared a number of a charities that are willing to take extra food. Also I think restaurants should apply a policy of paying extra if you leave a full dish of food on the table.”

    Another wrote in response to the photo: “I see this behaviour a lot in iftar buffets. People should know after fasting for years that there is only so much their stomachs take.

    “This is just greedy and wasteful. Completely against Ramadan values.”

    Another added: “Sheer waste of food. The other day I was at Papa Johns for their Ramadan offer and I saw two kids leaving insane amount of uneaten food.

    “We even asked the lady who served us about the uneaten food and what they intend to do with it. She said they’ll have to bin it.”

     

    Source: 7days.ae

  • Angelina Jolie, John Kerry Sertai Majlis Iftar; Kritik Sikap Perkauman Trump

    Angelina Jolie, John Kerry Sertai Majlis Iftar; Kritik Sikap Perkauman Trump

    Setiausaha Negara Amerika Syarikat, John Kerry, mengecam Donald Trump kerana mengancam untuk mengharamkan orang Islam daripada memasuki negara itu.

    Encik Kerry melemparkan kecaman tersebut di satu majlis iftar yang disertai para penganut berbilang agama di Virginia.

    Tanpa menyebut nama calon presiden Amerika dari parti Republican itu, Encik Kerry berkata “retorik taksub dan berbaur kebencian terhadap orang-orang Islam hanya memanfaatkan golongan perekrut pengganas.”

    Encik Kerry memberitahu para hadirin bahawa tindakan seperti itu memanfaatkan “individu-individu yang menyebarkan pembohongan bahawa Amerika berperang dengan Islam.”

    Majlis iftar itu secara kebetulan diadakan pada hari yang sama dengan Hari Pelarian Sedunia, dan turut hadir di majlis tersebut ialah Duta Khas agensi pelarian Pertubuhan Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu (PBB), UNHCR, yang juga pelakon terkenal, Angelina Jolie.

    Jolie berkata “mencemuh sesiapa sahaja kerana agama, kerakyatan, orientasi seksual, jantina atau atas sebarang ciri-ciri atau perbezaan mereka, sama ada benar atau hanya bayangan, tidak membuat seseorang itu lebih kuat.”

    Kekuatan itu, katanya, ialah mengenal pasti cara mengatasi cabaran “kumpulan minoriti amat kecil yang memilih laluan ekstremisme yang ganas, atau menyalahgunakan sesebuah agama, tanpa melakukan stigma dan memencilkan jutaan orang yang menganuti agama indah itu.”

    Encik Kerry berkata “tiada bukti sama sekali” bahawa para pelarian yang melalui pemeriksaan ketat untuk memasuki Amerika Syarikat menjadi ancaman kepada masyarakat, seperti juga anggota kumpulan lain.

    Source: Berita MediaCorp

  • No Choice But To Raise Food Prices, Ramadan Traders In Malaysia Say

    No Choice But To Raise Food Prices, Ramadan Traders In Malaysia Say

    Several Ramadan bazaar stall owners in Petaling Jaya and in Penang feel uneasy charging their customers more following the 10 to 30 per cent increase in price of raw food items. But, they claim they have no choice.

    Fried chicken seller Ismail Ibrahim, 24, who is in his fifth year of selling at Ramadan bazaar lamented the price of chicken had increased by 40 per cent since the beginning of Ramadan and it was affecting his business.

    “Earlier this year, 1kg of chicken would cost around RM5.50 (S$1.81), but now it is roughly RM7.70 per kg,” he said.

    “Our fried chicken are sold cheap at RM1 per piece, but we now struggle to maintain the price.”

    The significant increase of price of poultry had also forced trader Mohd Ayob Yakob, 47, who had been selling chicken rice for 18 years, to offer a different menu at the Section 14 bazaar this year.

    “The price of chicken kept shooting up and I would have to sell a packet of chicken rice at RM5 to make a little profit. But if I do, nobody would buy from me,” he said.

    “So after much contemplation, I decided to stop selling my usual Ramadan fares and sell murtabak instead this year.”

    Mr Ayob said even by selling murtabak at RM3.50 per piece, he made just enough profit to cover his business for the next day.

    Last week Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism Minister Hamzah Zainuddin denied prices at Ramadan bazaar had gone up.

    Mr Hamzah said if there were hawkers who contravened the price control scheme, the ministry could charge them under the Price Control and Anti-Profiteering Act 2010, adding he had instructed his officers to routinely conduct checks to prevent profiteering.

    Ms Nor Baaiah Yusoff, 45, who sells mixed rice at the USJ4 bazaar in Subang, said she was left with no option but to charge differently, depending on the size of the chicken parts.

    “If a customer picks a bigger part, it will be RM5. Otherwise, it is fixed at RM3.50.

    “If I don’t charge extra, I will be making very little profit or none at all,” she said, adding she made sure her fares are delicious enough to satisfy her customers.

    In George Town, kuih seller Rahimah Abdul Rahman, 36, at the Seberang Jaya bazaar said she had raised the prices of the items as the cost of ingredients had increased.

    “I cannot sell the items with last year’s price as there has been a price hike for cashew nuts, almond and flour,” she said.

    “I feel bad about selling at a higher price, but I have to accept the reality the price of everything has gone up now, especially after the introduction of Goods and Services Tax last year.”

    Mr Ismail Ariffin, 48, who sells rice at the same bazaar, said prices of chicken and vegetables had increased and he had to hike prices between RM1.20 and RM2. He said he charged RM5.50 for a packet of rice with a piece of chicken, some okra and an egg. The same items were sold for RM4.50 in previous years.

    Seafood stall operator Noor Anisa Mohd Desa, 31, who started her business four years ago, echoed the same sentiment.

    “The basic products and ingredients I use to prepare my dishes are mainly crabs and prawns, but of late, they have gone up by almost 20 per cent due to the decline in catch by the fishermen,” Ms Anisa said.

    “I try to manage without hiking my prices as I have so many regular clients.”

    Ms Anisa said she was paying RM32 per kg for crabs compared to RM25 to RM26 last year, and RM40 for prawns, which was about RM8 more expensive than last year’s price.

    She also had to pay an additional of RM4 to RM6 this year for a kg of sea shells, which only cost her RM8 to RM9 last year.

    However, Mr Naim Noor, 31, who runs Sate Kebab Malaiu Panahan Arjuna at the Balik Pulau bazaar, said although the cost of food items had gone up, he still charged his customers at a reasonable rate.

    “I cannot charge my customers exorbitantly as it will only turn them away to other stalls. It is the fasting month and we should not be out to make unreasonable profit,” Mr Naim said.

    He also said prices of beef and chicken had risen about 10 per cent, but he did not pass the extra cost to his customers.

    Mr Naim said a kg of beef cost him RM10 this year compared to RM8 last year and approximately RM9 per kg of chicken which was priced at around RM7.50 last year.

     

    Source: TODAY Online

  • Walid J. Abdullah: Islam Always Quick To Be Blamed For Terrorism

    Walid J. Abdullah: Islam Always Quick To Be Blamed For Terrorism

    A few days after the murder of Jo Cox, most of the major media outlets (local or foreign) still have not characterized the attack as an act of terrorism.

    Imagine if it was a brown, Muslim man who had done the exact same thing. These same outlets would have had a field day. Experts – or as Dr Saroja terms them, ‘Islam-perts’ – would appear to give their opinions on what is wrong with Islam. Politicians would pounce on the opportunity to push their various narratives. Muslims would then go on various platforms condemning the attacks, stating that Islam is a religion of peace.

    But no need for all of that, since the perpetrator is not a Muslim. No need for deep discussions on radicalism, extremism or ‘Reformation(s)’.

    One does not need to have the mind of a conspiracy theorist to understand that there are double standards, hypocrisy and unfairness when it comes to Islam, and Muslims.

    And to compound matters, Muslims are called to condemn extremism in the most vociferous of voices, and to categorically state our opposition to terrorism. Each and every time. While others are not.

    This, in spite of the fact that Muslims – from scholars to politicians to the lay person – repeatedly disavow terrorism and engage in all sorts of initiatives to combat it.

    Sure, the media’s purpose is, at the end of the day, to make money or support particular political positions. And it would be foolish to expect them to be ‘balanced’.

    But surely it is not too much to ask from the average person to exercise a little more discretion in accepting information? And to judge someone by his/her own actions, rather than that of others?

    So the next time you go through an airport security screening, do spare a thought for the bearded, brown dude who is miraculously always selected for a ‘random’ check.

     

    Source: Walid J. Abdullah