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  • Tulisan Yusuf Al Qaradawi Dikeluarkan Dari Kurikulum Pendidikan Menengah Dan Universiti Saudi Arabia

    Tulisan Yusuf Al Qaradawi Dikeluarkan Dari Kurikulum Pendidikan Menengah Dan Universiti Saudi Arabia

    Menteri Pendidikan Arab Saudi mengarahkan semua buku-buku tulisan ulama ulung Yusuf al-Qaradawi dikeluarkan daripada kurikulum pendidikan menengah dan universiti.

    Ini setelah ulama tegar Mesir itu dimasukkan ke dalam senarai pengganas bersama lagi 59 individu lain yang ada kaitan dengan Qatar, lapor Al Arabiya.

    Menteri Pendidikan Arab Saudi Dr Ahmed bin Mohammed Al-Issa mengeluarkan arahan tersebut bagi memastikan tiada buku-buku dan bahan-bahan tulisan Encik Yusuf al-Qaradawi di perpustakaan universiti, kolej, sekolah dan jabatan-jabatan pendidikan.

    Jika terdapat buku-buku tulisan ulama berkenaan, Dr Ahmed berkata, pihak berkuasa akan memastikan ia ditarik balik.

    Penulisan Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi juga tidak dibenarkan untuk diterbitkan di masa akan datang.

    Ini kerana ia mungkin berbahaya terhadap pembentukan pemikiran para pelajar disebabkan sensitiviti dan pentingnya topik tersebut, lapor laman Al Arabiya.

    Dr Ahmed sudahpun mengharamkan buku-buku semua pihak dan golongan intelek yang dikaitkan dengan fahaman berbahaya dan pelampau, malah memaklumkan kepada para ketua sekolah awam dan privet supaya jangan membenarkan mana-mana buku atau penerbitan dimasukkan ke dalam koleksi perpustakaan sekolah menerusi derma, persatuan atau ibu bapa, kecuali diluluskan oleh Agensi Ehwal Sekolah.

    Pihak berkuasa pendidikan di negara itu juga sudah memutuskan untuk membentuk sebuah jawatankuasa dalam setiap jabatan kementerian bagi menjalankan lawatan ke sekolah-sekolah.

    Ini bagi memastikan sekolah-sekolah bebas daripada buku-buku yang melanggar undang-undang.

    Kementerian itu juga menekankan pentingnya pemilihan para pegawai untuk menguruskan sumber-sumber pembelajaran yang datang dari para karyawan yang boleh diyakini dan berpengalaman dengan fahaman moderat, lapor Al Arabiya.

    Source: http://berita.mediacorp.sg

  • Laporan Di Doha: Jemaah Qatar Dilarang Masuk Masjidil Haram

    Laporan Di Doha: Jemaah Qatar Dilarang Masuk Masjidil Haram

    Tindakan pihak berkuasa Arab Saudi mencegah rakyat Qatar daripada memasuki Masjidil Haram, mengeruhkan lagi krisis diplomatik di negara Teluk.

    Demikian menurut laporan akhbar Al Sharq yang berpangkalan di Doha.

    Suruhanjaya Hak Asasi Manusia Qatar (NHRC) menerima aduan daripada rakyat Qatar bahawa para jemaahnya dilarang masuk ke Masjidil Haram, lapor akhbar itu pada Sabtu (10 Jun).

    Ketua NHRC, Ali bin Smaikh al-Marri menyifatkan insiden itu sebagai mencabuli secara terang-terangan hak untuk mengamalkan agama seperti yang dibenarkan oleh konvensyen hak kemanusiaan, lapor akhbar itu lagi.

    Lazimnya, pihak berkuasa Arab Saudi tidak menyoal para jemaah yang memasuki Masjidil Haram mengenai latar belakang kaum atau fahaman mereka.

    Dakwaan itu diterima beberapa hari setelah UAE dan Bahrain menyatakan “simpati” yang ditunjukkan kepada Qatar di media sosial adalah satu jenayah, lapor Aljazeera.

    Menurut Amiriah Arab Bersatu (UAE) para pesalah boleh dijatuhi hukuman penjara sehingga 15 tahun dan didenda $136,000 (S$188,290).

    Bahrain pula mengisytiharkannya sebagai kesalahan yang boleh dijatuhi hukuman penjara sehingga lima tahun.

    Pertikaian antara Qatar dengan negara-negara Arab memuncak setelah satu serangan siber ke atas agensi berita pemerintah Qatar.

    Arab Saudi, Bahrain, UAE dan Mesir memutuskan hubungan diplomatik dan pengangkutan dengan Qatar pada Isnin lalu (5 Jun), menuduhnya menyokong fahaman “pelampau”.

    Qatar bagaimanapun dengan tegas menafikan dakwaan itu, lapor laman Aljazeera.

    Dalam kenyataannya, pemerintah Qatar menyatakan ia sudah lama menerajui negara-negara di rantau itu dalam menentang “pengganasan”, termasuk memberi golongan muda harapan menerusi pekerjaan, mendidik ratusan ribu pelarian Syria dan membiayai program-program masyarakat untuk mencabar agenda kumpulan-kumpulan bersenjata, lapor Aljazeera.

    “Pendirian kami dalam menentang pengganasan lebih kuat berbanding mana-mana penandatangan kenyataan bersama – satu fakta yang dengan mudah tidak diendahkan,” menurut pemerintah Qatar.

     

     

    Source: http://berita.mediacorp.sg/

  • Alternative Return Flights Arranged For Singaporeans In Mecca; May Be Used For Future Pilgrimages

    Alternative Return Flights Arranged For Singaporeans In Mecca; May Be Used For Future Pilgrimages

    Close to 300 Singaporeans who are in Mecca for umrah, a minor pilgrimage, are scheduled to return on alternative airlines, after Qatar Airways’ licence was revoked by Saudi Arabia on Tuesday.

    Mr Mustafa Jumat, vice-president of the Association of Muslim Travel Agents Singapore (Amtas), told The Straits Times yesterday that most Singaporeans have settled their return flight details. They also did not experience any major disruptions to their travel plans.

    “Qatar Airways assisted them and directed them to alternative airlines,” said Mr Jumat. Some of these alternatives include Malaysia Airlines, Etihad Airways and Emirates.

    Although the schedules of Singaporeans in Mecca are largely unaffected, their return flight routes will differ, with different stopovers.

    The disruptions started on Tuesday, when Saudi Arabia revoked Qatar Airways’ licences and ordered it to close its offices within 48 hours.

    The move came amid a diplomatic rift between Qatar and a powerful bloc in the Arab world – Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates – who are accusing it of supporting terrorism across the region.

    On its website, Qatar Airways indicated that all flights to the four states will be suspended “until further notice”.

    Should the ban continue, Mr Jumat said that alternative travel plans may be required for groups scheduled to go on pilgrimages in October and November this year.

     

    Source: http://www.tnp.sg/

  • Nazem Suki: Middle East Political Turmoil – No Military Intervention Needed, Islam Remains Uniting Force

    Nazem Suki: Middle East Political Turmoil – No Military Intervention Needed, Islam Remains Uniting Force

    Many are asking how we, the Muslims in Singapore & in this region, will respond to the current political crisis in the Middle East.

    I put forward these responds;

    1) We do not take sides between one brother state to the other. We love all of them in the spirit of Islamic brotherhood.
    2) We urge all parties to reconcile political differences diplomatically in brotherhood.
    3) We trust the basis of reconciliation is recorded & enshrined in the holy Quran & the Sunnah.
    4) We believe the interest of the Ummah precedes all political interest.
    5) We will not be pressured or forced to fix alliance with one state from the other.
    6) We do not subscribed to military intervention.
    7) Islam remains a uniting force of the Ummah of diverse opinions & political creeds.

    Wallahua’lam

     

    Source: Mohamed Nazem Suki

  • Muslim Asia Caught In The Middle As Diplomatic Row Rocks Middle East

    Muslim Asia Caught In The Middle As Diplomatic Row Rocks Middle East

    Non-Arab nations in Asia, such as Malaysia, Indonesia and Pakistan, are getting caught in the middle after Saudi Arabia led a clampdown on Qatar, accusing the tiny emirate of supporting pro-Iranian militants.

    Malaysia had rolled out the red carpet for Saudi Arabia’s King Salman at the end of February, the first by a Saudi king to Malaysia in more than a decade. Then, the following month, Kuala Lumpur signed a defence cooperation agreement with Qatar.

    A source close to the Malaysian government said that the recent efforts to strengthen ties with Qatar, including a visit by the foreign minister last month, will probably now be put on the backburner.

    “We have more to lose by siding with Qatar,” said the source, who requested anonymity.

    On Monday, a half-dozen countries, including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, and Bahrain, cut diplomatic ties with the energy-rich emirate, accusing it of backing Tehran and Islamist groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood. Qatar has said it does not support terrorism and the rupture was founded on “baseless fabricated claims.”

    Doha now faces an acute economic plight as it relies on Gulf neighbours for 80 per cent of its food imports.

    The diplomatic clamp down on Qatar is seen as an indirect jab at Iran, and leaves non-Arab Muslims countries in an “uncomfortable position”, according to James Dorsey, a senior fellow at Singapore’s S Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS).

    “The Saudis view Iran as the foremost terrorist threat rather than the Islamic State and a lot of non-Arab Muslims countries … would probably not agree with that,” Dorsey told Reuters.

    PAKISTAN’S OFFICIAL SILENCE

    Indonesia, Malaysia and Pakistan are predominantly Sunni-Muslim countries like Saudi Arabia. Jakarta has sometimes tried to play a mediating role when inter-Arab tensions have flared, particularly between Saudi Arabia and predominantly Shi’ite Muslim Iran.

    Jakarta’s Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi received a phone call from Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Monday who wanted to discuss the rift, Foreign Ministry spokesman Arrmanatha Nasir said.

    Indonesia has called for reconciliation and dialogue in the latest diplomatic clash.

    The dilemmas are particularly acute for nuclear-armed Pakistan, which has the world’s sixth-largest army and the largest military in the Muslim world.

    Sunni-majority Pakistan maintains deep links with the establishment in Riyadh, which provided Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif with political asylum after he was ousted in a 1999 military coup.

    But with a large Shi’ite minority and a shared western border with Iran, Pakistan has a lot to lose from rising sectarian tensions. In 2015, Pakistan declined a Saudi call to join a Riyadh-led military intervention in Yemen to fight Iranian-allied insurgents.

    Pakistan has maintained official silence about the latest rift in the Arab world, loathe to be seen taking sides between Saudi Arabia and Iran. Pakistan also has close ties with Qatar itself, including a 15-year agreement signed last year to import up to 3.75 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas a year from the emirate, a major step in filling Pakistan’s energy shortfall.

    “Pakistan has to act very carefully. In my opinion, there is only one option for Pakistan: to stay neutral,” said retired army Brigadier Shaukat Qadir, now an independent risk and security analyst.

    ISLAMIC MILITARY ALLIANCE

    Pakistan’s recently retired army chief, General Raheel Sharif, travelled to Riyadh in April to lead the Saudi-led Islamic Military Alliance. The stated mission of the multinational alliance is to fight terrorism but it is increasingly seen as anti-Iran.

    “There are rumours flying around that Raheel Sharif is pulling out of the Saudi-led military alliance. I hope they are true and he comes back soon,” said Qadir.

    Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in January 2016 visited both Riyadh and Tehran along with Shariff, who was then the army chief, in an attempt to bridge the deepening chasm.

    Relations between Malaysia and Saudi Arabia have been in the spotlight over the last two years after Saudi Arabia was dragged into a multi-billion dollar corruption scandal at Malaysian state fund lMDB, founded by Najib.

    Najib has denied any wrongdoing in the money-laundering case which is now being investigated by several countries including the US, Switzerland and Singapore.

    During King Salman’s visit to Malaysia, Saudi oil giant Aramco [IPO-ARMO.SE] agreed to buy a US$7 billion equity stake in Malaysian state energy firm Petronas’ major refining and petrochemical project.

    But Qatar has also invested between US$12 billion and US$15 billion in Malaysia, according to media reports.

    RSIS’ Dorsey said non-Arab Muslim countries like Malaysia would be “put on the spot” if the Saudis demand that its trade partners pick a side.

    “They (Malaysia) can say either I do business with you, or say I’m not going to make that choice. Then the question would be how would the Saudis or Qatar respond to that,” Dorsey said. “But we’re not there yet, and there’s no certainty that it will get there.”

     

    Source: http://www.channelnewsasia.com