Tag: Singaporeans

  • Serangan Pengganas Adalah Ujian Sebenar Kepada Pembangunan Singapura – Ng Eng Hen

    Serangan Pengganas Adalah Ujian Sebenar Kepada Pembangunan Singapura – Ng Eng Hen

    Bagaimana rakyat Singapura memberi respons apabila berlaku serangan pengganas akan menguji pembangunan Singapura selama 50 tahun, menurut Menteri Pertahanan Ng Eng Hen.

    Beliau berkata demikian pada Ahad (9 Apr) di siri pertama majlis pengiktirafan bagi meraikan 50 tahun Perkhidmatan Negara (NS).

    Bercakap di majlis yang diadakan di Safra Toa Payoh, Dr Ng merujuk kepada insiden-insiden yang berlaku di beberapa bandar Eropah dan menegaskan bahawa apa yang harus terlintas dalam fikiran rakyat Singapura apabila mereka mendapat tahu tentang serangan sedemikian ialah “apa yang kita ada di sini adalah sangat berharga”.

    Beliau menarik perhatian bahawa menteri pertahanan pertama Singapura Goh Keng Swee juga membayangkan bahawa Perkhidmatan Negara (NS) bukan sahaja sebagai cara untuk mempertahankan Singapura tetapi juga bagi membangunkan negara dan mengeratkan rakyat.

    Sekarang ini, di tengah-tengah “serangan yang jelas dan nyata”, termasuk serangan pengganasan dan siber, keluarga juga memainkan “peranan penting” dalam menyokong anggota Perkhidmatan Negara dan Pertahanan Mutlak menjadi bertambah relevan lagi, kata Dr Ng.

    Sejumlah 52 majlis pengiktirafan bakal diadakan oleh Persatuan Rakyat (PA) sehingga bulan depan.

    Pada Ahad, Dr Ng juga menyampaikan Pakej Pengiktirafan NS50 yang pertama, termasuk baucar S$100, kepada hampir 100 pasangan ayah dan anak lelaki yang menetap di Toa Payoh.

    Bagi menekankan tumpuan kempen NS50 sepanjang tahun, yang bertemakan From My Generation to Yours – sebuah naratif yang dipetik bagi menunjukkan evolusi NS – Dr Ng menyamakan penyerahan tanggungjawab NS, dari bapa kepada anak lelaki, seperti menghulurkan baton dalam satu perlumbaan.

     

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    Source: http://berita.mediacorp.sg

  • Discrimination Against Muslimahs Wearing Tudung Is The Number 1 Factor Inhibiting Them From The Nursing Profession

    Discrimination Against Muslimahs Wearing Tudung Is The Number 1 Factor Inhibiting Them From The Nursing Profession

    AsSalaam’alaikum!

    There is a convoluted reasoning when it comes to the tudung. It is said that those who are calling for the end to the discrimination against tudung clad women are putting pressures upon Muslimah nurses such that these nurses are put into a spotlight thereby somehow such talk of tudung has disadvantanged and discouraged them from doing their work. The reasoning further goes to say that nursing is fardhu kifayah and thus must be encouraged.

    It is as if those calling for a stop to the ongoing discrimination are somehow at fault of inhibiting a fardhu kifayah which would benefit the society of which nursing is a prime example.

    Such a reasoning is flawed and can only be thought of by a muslim PAP cadre member who is trying to be too smart by half. Such reasoning ignores the fact that in the first place, it is the discrimination against muslimahs wearing tudung which is the number 1 factor inhibiting them from the profession which is a fardhu kifayah. Again to be clear, the fact is that those who promote and enforce the current policy of discrimination not allowing muslimahs to don the tudung are the ones inhibiting fardhu kifayah. Not to mention such discrimination against women belongs to the Dark Ages of Europe not the 21st century anywhere in the world.

    The fact is that the ongoing discrimination against women due to them choosing to wear the tudung is the policy denying them all sorts of working opportunities and professions. Such discrimination is totally indefensible. And yet some foolish people persist in their stupidity and indeed they are actually encouraging transgression against the Islamic prescription of covering the aurah. Their argument is invalid and exposes them as defiant of the Commands of Allah swt and the teachings of our beloved Prophet s.a.w.

    And as for the Muslim men who make such convoluted arguments and therefore allow such discrimination to continue, their hypocrisy lies in the fact that their own wives don the tudung in public.

    Allahu Musta’an!

     

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    Source: Ustaz Abd’ Al-Halim

  • When Will Ideals In Singapore Pledge Be Reality For Malay Singaporeans?

    When Will Ideals In Singapore Pledge Be Reality For Malay Singaporeans?

    This is not a religious issue. It is about equality before the law.

    The desire to be treated equally before the law is imbedded in every human soul. It is a universal yearning.

    Even our Constitution refers to the inalienable right of every citizen to equal treatment on all fronts regardless of race, language and religion.

    And therefore PAP leaders should strive to be more understanding of the passions underlying the tudung issue and other issues such as the discrimination in the military services.

    The Malays have been very patient and understanding towards the PAP in the last 50 years.

    Do not make us wait for another 50 years before making the National Pledge a reality to all Singaporeans – please.

     

    Source: Ismail Kassim

  • Why Have GRCs If Minority MPs Can’t Speak Up On Minority Issues?

    Why Have GRCs If Minority MPs Can’t Speak Up On Minority Issues?

    This week, when WP MP Muhammad Faisal spoke up against the ban on the wearing of tudung in certain occupations here, PAP Minister Masagos Zulkifli rebuked him for “subtly and frequently needling” the Malay community with this issue.

    Minister Masagos said that Parliament is not the the platform to discuss such issues. He further implied that MP Faisal is sowing discord and disrupting Singapore’s racial and religious harmony.

    According to the Election Dept, which comes directly under the purview of PM Lee, the GRC system was “established in 1988 to ensure that the minority racial communities in Singapore will always be represented in Parliament”.

    WP MP Faisal was the minority GRC candidate elected by Aljunied residents to ensure that their Malay community will be represented in Parliament.

    So, when MP Faisal is talking about issues related to the Malay community, how is he sowing discord? And why can’t he bring minority issues up in Parliament?

    How is he supposed to “represent” minority racial communities in Parliament? By keeping his mouth shut and not talking about any minority issues in Parliament?

    That being the case, why are we having GRCs in the first place?

     

    Source: www.theindependent.sg

  • Police Warn Of Impersonators Forcibly Seeking Donations

    Police Warn Of Impersonators Forcibly Seeking Donations

    Walking to Punggol MRT Station after school, she was surrounded by three men who looked like they were in their late teens outside the station’s entrance.

    They claimed to be from the Criminal Investigation Department and demanded donations.

    Nothing less than $10 would do.

    But the Secondary One student from Peicai Secondary School was unconvinced.

    They looked like gangsters, she recalled, and stared at them before walking away without giving a cent.

    In the past week, messages have been circulating about the men demanding money from students and the elderly from various places like Lavender and Boon Lay MRT stations, Nex shopping mall at Serangoon Central and Tampines Bus Interchange.

    Parents took to Facebook to post about their children’s encounters with the men at various MRT stations across the island.

    The New Paper (TNP) was at Punggol MRT station yesterday, where the suspects had been seen canvassing for donations, and saw police officers patrolling the area.

    The student, who was at the station, told TNP: “I knew the men were lying. They didn’t look like real policemen.”

    On Thursday, the Police posted an advisory on their Facebook page saying they were looking into reports of people forcibly seeking donations in public.

    They added: “The Singapore Police Force would like to clarify that we do not seek donations.”

    They said only those with a valid licence issued by them or the National Council of Social Services can ask for donations.

    Offenders can be fined up to $5,000 or jailed up to two years or both.

    The police added anyone who impersonates a public servant can be jailed up to two years, or fined, or both.

    Another student, from a nearby secondary school, told TNP her friend had also been approached by three men outside Punggol MRT station.

    They showed her a certificate, claimed they were soliciting donations to help ex-convicts and demanded at least $10.

     

    Source: www.tnp.sg

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