Tag: Singapore

Osman Sulaiman: City Harvest Episode Shows Even ‘Man Of God’ Errs, Community Must Not Be Complacent

Generally, the Malay Muslim community placed their trust on MUIS to have the honesty, integrity and soundness of moral character managing funds and donations from the public.

With the recent convictions of CHC leaders, it showed that even a ‘Man of God’ can err. Therefore, we should not be complacent and relinquish our moral duty just because all is well now.

No system is perfectly safe. Without proper transparency and accountability, things might just go astray. There should exist within an organization, proper system in place to highlight any irregularities or suspicious activities.

Stakeholders should not just care when something goes wrong. It should be done continuously to ensure rot has not been given a chance to fester.

Questioning our religious leaders when we sense something is amiss, is not blasphemy. Although there are proper etiquettes to observe when doing so. It is part of our responsibility as a Muslim to always seek clarification.

Hopefully we can learn some useful lessons from the CHC’s case.

Source: Osman Sulaiman

October 23, 2015
PRC Waitress At Tang Tea House Takes Effort To Speak Malay To Malay-Majority Clientele

It is sad that there are still people who don’t recognize that Malay is our National Language. And worse still, they insist the minorities should learn Mandarin instead of the majority picking up the National Language.

It is also sad that there are some foreigners who don’t want to learn English.

I went to Tang Tea House for lunch just now. These days even Halal food outlets employ PRC. There was this waitress. She spoke with a Mainland accent. But what struck me was that she made the effort to learn Malay and took my order in Malay. I am a very happy customer. I patronize Tang Tea House because they trained their staff very well especially the foreigners.

Source: Hazrul A. Jamari

October 23, 2015
Sangeetha Thanapal: City Harvest Church Incident Shows Double Standards In Which Islam And Christianity Are Held Accuntable

What’s interesting to me in all this City Harvest stuff, is that no one is talking about this as a peril of Christianity. No one is using this as an example of how there’s something wrong with Christianity and Christians who are so easily misled and brainwashed.

Compare this to any rhetoric on anyone who is vaguely brown and Muslim. It immediately becomes about Islam, a failure or inherent flaw in Islam and these Muslims who are so easily radicalized and brainwashed.

As always, western religion when practiced by Chinese people gets a pass. They get to be people in their own right, not strereotypes to be made fun of.

Source: Sangeetha Thanapal

October 23, 2015
Malay Man Told To Learn Mandarin When Involved In Misunderstanding With PRC Waitress WHo Doesn’t Speak English

Went to a coffeeshop in Tuas, bought a can of coke zero an a bread ask the lady at the counter how much? And she replied in Chinese, so i told her in English pleased, but she keep repeating in Chinese… in a helpless situation i give her a $2 note and she look at me with such big eyes of hers and say out loud in Chinese which i still don’t understand and ask her how much?

At that point a customer come forward and say it is $2.20 so i give her another $2 note. The Chinese lady accepted it but she still scolded me in Chinese so i told her in English, i don’t understand a single word you say and you don’t understand a single word i say why don’t you learn English so that you can easily communicate with your customers, and a man came forward and say why don’t you learn chinese too?

And i ask him why should i? He goes on to say that Singapore is 80% Chinese and the goverment should made the chinese language as the national language not English.

With that i told him that the national language of Singapore is MALAY and that he and that lady should learn MALAY since it is the national language of Singapore.

He was looking rather angry at that point and i was readying myself for a fight when the owner of the coffeeshop came over and say sorry for the trouble that his staff has cause. I just walk away but what worrying me is what the man had said…….

Source: Pak Dolmat

October 22, 2015
Teens Mock Death Of Shina Hendricks, Claimed She Died Because Of A Dare

Recently the media reported on the death of a 14 year old girl, Shina Hendricks, a student with Spectra Secondary School. Speculation is rife that Shina fell from the fourth storey, while trying to do parkour. Police are investigating this as a case of misadventure.

http://www.tnp.sg/news/singapore-news/girl-14-falls-death-doing-parkour

There have also been murmurs that Shina was doing parkour on a dare when she fell. Facebook exchanges between several individuals acquainted with Shina suggest that they had been part of a group that had dared Shina to carry out a stunt as a dare. One girl even had posted that she “[has her] popcorn ready and waiting for the news to say that someone just committed suicide”.

They seem to be unhappy with a photo allegedly taken by Shina on the block with a caption that read “this is my last day”.

They even posted messages which disrespected the deceased and did not show any remorse at all.

Shina’s sister, Rina Hendricks, was distraught by her death and lay the blame on those who were “trending” Shina. According to Rina, Shina does not have any interest in parkour.

What really happened to Shina Hendricks? Who are responsible for her death?

Rilek1Corner

with contributions from Anonymous.

October 22, 2015