A motion tabled by a group of MPs, requesting the Federal Government to submit a bill to provide for the possibility of same-sex “marriages”, has been rejected by 110 to 26 votes in the Austrian National Assembly.
This shows once more that “homo-marriage” is neither inevitable nor unstoppable. Remarkably, however, there was no mention of this unsuccessful initiative, or of the vote against it, in any of the major media outlets in Austria…
Source: https://agendaeurope.wordpress.com
1- You can see clearly in this misTafsir of the Secular and Liberal Muslims an astonishing similarity with ISIS and other extremist groups with regards to the methodology they employed in reading the text of the Quran and Sunnah, clearly both used the same unacademic, out of context, cherrypicking and incomprehensive reading of the sacred texts. We can say either the liberals employed Tafsir Daeshiy or Daesh employed Tafsir Libraliy.
2- Ask any lay Muslim who actually have read the whole Quran, with technology they would easily quote you these three verses. Does these verses sound like a prohibition of rape? :
إِنَّكُمْ لَتَأْتُونَ الرِّجَالَ شَهْوَةً مِّن دُونِ النِّسَاءِ ۚ بَلْ أَنتُمْ قَوْمٌ مُّسْرِفُونَ
“Verily, you practise your lusts on men instead of women. Nay, but you are a people transgressing beyond bounds (by committing great sins).” (7:81)
أَئِنَّكُمْ لَتَأْتُونَ الرِّجَالَ شَهْوَةً مِّن دُونِ النِّسَاءِ ۚ بَلْ أَنتُمْ قَوْمٌ تَجْهَلُونَ
“Do you practise your lusts on men instead of women? Nay, but you are a people who behave senselessly.” (27:55)
أَتَأْتُونَ الذُّكْرَانَ مِنَ الْعَالَمِينَ وَتَذَرُونَ مَا خَلَقَ لَكُمْ رَبُّكُم مِّنْ أَزْوَاجِكُم ۚ بَلْ أَنتُمْ قَوْمٌ عَادُونَ
“You go in unto the males of the ‘Alamin (mankind), and leave those whom Allah has created for you to be your wives? Nay, you are a trespassing people!” (26:165-166)
3- The wife of Lut a.s and the people of the city were punished due to their complicity and tacit approval of the crimes, it is that simple, really.
4- The word ‘transgression’ (عادون and مسرفون) in the verses encompasses both sexual and non-sexual sins which includes rape as well as consensual sodomy and lesbianism. There is no evidence whatsoever to exclude consensual sodomy from the transgression of the people of Lut a.s, in the contrary, the textual, thematic as well as semantic evidences actually point to it as being one of the main reason that led to their destruction.
وَلُوطًا إِذْ قَالَ لِقَوْمِهِ أَتَأْتُونَ الْفَاحِشَةَ مَا سَبَقَكُم بِهَا مِنْ أَحَدٍ مِّنَ الْعَالَمِينَ إِنَّكُمْ لَتَأْتُونَ الرِّجَالَ شَهْوَةً مِّن دُونِ النِّسَاءِ ۚ بَلْ أَنتُمْ قَوْمٌ مُّسْرِفُونَ
“And (remember) Lut (Lot), when he said to his people: “Do you commit the worst sin such as none preceding you has committed in the ‘Alamin (mankind and jinn)?
“Verily, you practise your lusts on men instead of women. Nay, but you are a people transgressing beyond bounds.” (7:80-81)
5- The liberals were known to oppose literal reading of texts, but in this case it appears that they will only accept the criminal status of sodomy when there is a clear cut prohibition laid down in a verse with an explicit description of the act. Again, Tafsir Daeshy at work.
Source: Noor Deros
SINGAPORE: The quality of life for the Malay-Muslim community in Singapore has “improved tremendously” compared to 50 years ago, Minister-in-charge of Muslim Affairs Dr Yaacob Ibrahim said on Friday (Jun 26).
“Malays are now homeowners, we have a better educated population, wealth has been increasing in the Malay-Muslim community and we collected more ‘zakat’ last year compared to previous years,” he said to reporters at a Mendaki house visit.
“By and large, the state of affairs of the Malay-Muslim community here is quite good.”
Dr Yaacob, who is also the Minister of Communications and Information, was responding to comments made by former Malaysian law minister Zaid Ibrahim in his blog.
On Wednesday, Mr Zaid wrote that he couldn’t “wait for Malays (in Malaysia) to be like Singaporean Malays”, saying that the latter enjoyed a “clean and transparent system of government and a good and fair housing policy, on top of reaping the benefits of the modern advanced economy that is Singapore”.
Mr Zaid said he meant for the post to clarify a tweet he had posted earlier, responding to former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad’s criticism of current PM Najib Razak.
“I think the most important thing for me as a member of the Malay-Muslim community is to be thankful for what we have in Singapore,” Dr Yaacob said.
While the community does have its challenges, the important thing is to figure out how to go forward, he added.
“We need to preserve what we have and maintain the standards that we have lived by to ensure that the succeeding generations can also enjoy a higher quality of life, for themselves and for their children,” he said, citing values such as meritocracy and the absence of corruption.
Source: www.channelnewsasia.com
Nine regulars and 14 National Service full-time (NSF) officers will face varying punishments for their involvement in an incident where Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) officers were captured in two video clips thrashing a dormitory.
In a media release today (June 26), the SCDF said its investigations showed that these officers were attending a Section Commander course when they were found to be misbehaving and damaging property in a dormitory at the Civil Defence Academy on April 24.
The two short video clips, which attracted much criticism from members of the public after they were widely circulated on social media, show a trashed dormitory where SCDF personnel sporting close-cropped hair were flouting rules, such as smoking.
According to the SCDF, the nine regulars, which are facing Civil Service disciplinary actions, are liable for punishments ranging from letter of warning to dismissal, depending on their extent of involvement in the incident.
The 14 NSFs, who have been charged under the Civil Defence Act, are liable for punishments ranging from a fine to detention and demotion.
Another five SCDF regular officers with supervisory roles in the course “are facing disciplinary actions with a view to letters of warning or advice”, it added.
The SCDF said it deeply regrets the misconduct of its officers and takes a very serious view of it.
“Such behaviour does not reflect the culture and discipline expected of all SCDF officers. We expect all SCDF officers, whether regular officers, NSFs or NSmen, to demonstrate exemplary personal and professional conduct in line with our core values of Pride and Care,” it said.
Source: www.todayonline.com
For “cruel and inhumane” acts including scalding her domestic helper with a red-hot ladle because the curry cooked was not up to her standard, a 33-year-old minimart owner was sentenced to 15 months’ jail and ordered to compensate her victim S$4,900 today (June 25) by the State Courts.
District Judge Christopher Goh ordered Jayaraman Suganthi to compensate Ms Naw Mu Den Paw for the time the latter could not work due to ongoing investigations.
Suganthi’s offences were deliberate and malicious, and showed a profound lack of respect for the victim’s welfare, said DJ Goh, who noted that cases of maid abuse warrant a deterrent and retributive sentence. “You treated the victim more as chattel than a fellow human being,” he told Suganthi.
Suganthi’s offences were particularly aggravated by her “carelessness and lack of sympathy” in not taking Ms Naw for medical treatment, added the judge.
The abuse took place over four months between July and October 2013, and ended only after the victim ran away on Oct 3, he noted.
Suganthi pleaded guilty last month to three counts of voluntarily causing hurt, and had three similar charges taken into consideration for sentencing. The prosecution had pressed for a jail term of 12 to 16 months for her.
Besides placing the hot ladle on Ms Naw’s back and calf, Suganthi used a metal pestle on another occasion to hit the 24-year-old Myanmar national. This was because Ms Naw was not frying an Indian snack called vadai “fast enough”.
On a third occasion, Suganthi punched and bruised her victim’s left eye for failing to wake up at 6.30am to send her daughter to school — even though the maid had only completed her chores at 4am that day.
Despite the victim’s serious injuries, which included heavy bleeding from her head on one occasion, she was not given any medical help and was even told to wear long pants to cover up the injuries.
Suganthi also used household items such as a broom handle and kitchen scissors to assault Ms Naw on various occasions, the court heard.
Ms Naw lived in constant fear during the period of abuse and did not dare to inspect her wounds as Suganthi would scold her for it.
A medical examination revealed that she had suffered visible burns and injuries on her back, head, eyes and the back of her ears.
DJ Goh reiterated the gravity of foreign-worker abuse in sentencing Suganthi.
“There is no legitimate reason why an employer should inflict any injury on any of (his or her) employees, let alone workers who are at a disadvantage because they are working in a foreign country,” he said. “It will be a sad reflection of our society if we allow such acts to go unpunished.”
Suganthi, whose mother, husband and other relatives were present in court, sobbed loudly throughout the hearing today. She could have been jailed up to 10-and-a-half years and fined for causing hurt with a heated substance. She could have been jailed up to three years and fined up to S$7,500 for voluntarily causing hurt to her domestic helper.
Source: www.todayonline.com