Tag: Singaporeans

‘Generasi Muaz’ Mahu Lahirkan Pendakwah Fasih Berbahasa Inggeris

Berdasarkan pengalaman, setiap kali Jamiyah mempunyai acara syarahan, kebanyakan penceramah Singapura yang diundang selalunya bertutur dalam bahasa Melayu.

Secara tidak langsung, menurut Presiden Jamiyah, Dr Mohd Hasbi Abu Bakar, para penonton yang hadir juga merupakan mereka yang berusia sekitar 50 tahun ke atas.

“Agak sukar bagi generasi muda yang kebanyakan lebih mesra bertutur bahasa Inggeris memahami apa yang diketengahkan pensyarah.

“Ada kekosongan di situ. Justeru kami amat berharap dapat melahirkan lebih banyak pendakwah yang mahir menyampaikan ceramah dengan yakin dalam bahasa Inggeris,” ujarnya.

Dr Hasbi amat berharap mereka yang mahir bersyarah di depan khalayak ramai dan mempunyai pegangan agama asas menyertai program Generasi Mu’az yang diinspirasikan daripada program mencari pendakwah berjudul Pencetus Ummah yang popular di saluran televisyen Malaysia, Astro Oasis.

Sejauh ini sudah 30 peserta daripada pelbagai latar belakang telah mendaftar.

“Mereka yang daftar bukan sahaja golongan pelajar dari peringkat madrasah sahaja.

“Pelajar sekular yang mengikuti kelas agama hujung minggu tetapi yakin berpidato juga boleh tampil mendaftarkan diri,” tambahnya yang menyasarkan 50 peserta.

Sebagai permulaan, program itu dibuka kepada kaum Muslim berusia antara 17 dengan 40 tahun.

Semua peserta akan dibimbing empat pembimbing dari Singapura dan Malaysia yang akan mengongsi selok-belok menjadi seorang penceramah berkesan.

Empat finalis terbaik juga akan diundang memberi ceramah semasa acara Pelayaran Islamik.

Menurut Dr Hasbi, meskipun program Generasi Mu’az ini akan dijalankan dalam bahasa Melayu, memandangkan bahasa Inggeris merupakan bahasa utama di sini, ia secara tidak langsung memberi kelebihan berbanding pendakwah lain di rantau ini.

“Di Canada, setiap tahun mereka sering mengadakan konvensyen agama yang dihadiri lebih 17,000 penonton.

“Antara penceramah yang diundang selalunya dari negara itu sendiri, Britain dan Amerika Syarikat.

“Jadi saya juga mempunyai impian agar satu hari nanti seorang pendakwah Singapura juga akan diundang dan menyampaikan ceramah selain mengongsi pandangan kepada penceramah dan penonton antarabangsa lain,” ujarnya yang pernah diundang ke konvensyen di Canada itu.

Tarikh tutup pendaftaran ialah hari ini, 7 Mei, dan mereka yang berminat boleh mendaftarkan diri menerusi talian 6743-1211 atau e-mel ke [email protected].

Source: http://beritaharian.sg

May 7, 2015
Singaporeans Suck Up To PRCs Because PRCs Are Richer

Hi admin,

Look at this comment by a PRC woman, who scolded Singaporeans for saying that the 2 PRC bitches are wrong.

Translation “If you are so capable then kick all PRCs out of Singapore ah! You are not even able to do it! As long as PRCs have money, we can go anywhere! Even if you are jealous and hate us, you have no choice! We PRCs are rich! Not like you people, going to a store you can’t even buy a TV without paying in installments! Disgrace! PRCs have money so we are your boss! Your government must serve us! Even if you complain, it is worthless!”

I think our current government has really betrayed all of us big time now. Bringing in snakes like those 2 mad PRC women and this arrogant PRC bitch. We need a real political party that has the guts to really kick all these foreigners out of Singapore!

Source: www.allsingaporestuff.com

May 7, 2015
What Are Our Universities Doing About The LGBT Community?

Aku terkilan nampak posting dari NTU Kaleidoscope semalam. Makin baca makan hati aku membuak. Bingit siak.

Diorang repost satu article dari Today yang telah ditulis bersama oleh beberapa orang yang associated dengan Inter-University LGBT Network.

Aku ada satu soalan…kenapa cara hidup komuniti LGBT ni harus digembar-gembur dan diterima mayarakat? Nampak macam diorang ditomah lah selalu, macam hidup mereka tu susah merana. Orang-orang Nepal yang merana takda rumah, keluarga hapus keranan gempa bumi pun takda teruk asyik complain macam diorang. Macam kena victimised sangat ke apa sial…

Kelakar siak dapat tau yang ada banyak support groups untuk komuniti LGBT in our univeristies. As a graduate of one of the uni, aku malu siak nampak ni macam punya support for komuniti LGBT ni.

NUS je dah ada tiga kumpulan yang provide support. Tak rasa ada banyak group untuk budak-budak Melayu yang datang dari keluarga susah. Sedangkan korang tengok…NUS Muslim society agaknya ada satu, society Bahasa Melayu pun ada satu. Apa mereka lebih important daripada kita ke? Apa diorang punya problem lebih teruk dari problem masyarakat kita yang bertahun-tahun, tukar Minister ni Minister tu pun tak boleh solve jugak the problems.

Yang ada aku menyampah dia punya anggek macam dia bagus sangat. Tapi yang ada aku respect diorang as individuals. Yang ada mampus dia punya pandai dan konfiden.

Tapi as a Muslim aku tak boleh bawak diri aku nak accept mereka. Bukan aku je fikir macam ni. Ramai lagi orang dari agama lain pun macam tu juga. Ini agama kita tak accept kenapa ni uni-uni pandai-pandai nak force it down our throats? Kita boleh tolog diorang tapi kalau diorang yang tengok kita macam sial, sala siapa siak? Diorang yang suspicious of us. Kenapa?

Memang bukan tempat kita untuk judge diorang, memang terpulang pada mereka…aku pun tak kisah sebab aku pun ni bukan macam malaikat pun. Tapi kenapa sibuk-sibuk sangat pasal hal diorang? Kau tanya diri kau, apa diorang buat untuk be normal. Diorang yang ostracise diri mereka. adakau nampak orang cakap depan muka diorang…eh bapuk pergi berambus…ada?

Orang Melayu diorang suruh integrate. Apasal nak jadikan LGBT komuniti ni separate and distinct? Kena give diorang special treatment? Aapa counsellors kat NTU, SMU atau NUS tak cukup ke atau tak boleh handle?

Aku hope ni universities ni semua do something about this. Nanti tahun depan apa? 10 LGBT support groups in the unis?

Reader Contribution: Faiz S

May 7, 2015
Free Internet Group’s Ideas Destructive To Mutiracialism

I refer to the report “Blogger group slams shutdown of website as blatant censorship” (May 5).

The apparent proponents of a free Internet are fighting for something that may eventually incite hatred between foreigners and Singaporeans and, more destructively, among the various races and religions here.

The Media Development Authority (MDA) was clear that it would have initiated the suspension of The Real Singapore (TRS) with or without the sedition charges and that its move is not dependent on the outcome of the charges.

If one fights determinedly for Internet freedoms with no inkling of the nature of the damage that irresponsible sensitive postings, especially faked news, could cause, one would pour fuel on the MDA’s statement with politically motivated rhetoric.

Here lies the difference, however, between these parties and those who have gone through racial riots and appreciate the real dangers.

If the Internet and social media had been available in the 1960s, the damage Singapore had seen would have been greater or even irreversible, beyond the point of superficial racial self-restraint.

We have benefited from having many people who survived the riots and who can tell us of the tensions and fears during those dark times and of the precious lessons thereafter.

We also have imprudent parties who have no care for responsible media, ever comparing media controls and the latest clampdown with freedom of speech in the West, yet are awkwardly in denial of the disastrous events unfolding there even today.

If one sees the shutdown of TRS as the loss of a feedback channel for the Government and a curtailment of online voices, then one also has no care for multiracial and multi-religious mechanisms, and a denial of various avenues of feedback.

Regretfully, some people should have experienced our past riots to wake up to the fact that this is not a region where audacious free speech may work but where irresponsible utterances might get us or our loved ones killed.

I have tried over the years to caution against such dangers and have been called naively many names, such as a puppet of the establishment, or asked to return to my “own country”; childishness and a lack of knowledge abound.

If one does not get to know more deeply one’s history and what makes up Singapore, this lack of understanding of how our integration started off reluctantly, but works well today for a reason, is what would set us back.

This article by Eugene De Rozario first appeared on Voices, Today, on 7 May 2015

Source: www.todayonline.com

May 7, 2015
Ismail Kassim: Amos Yee Should Be Lauded For His Guts And Talents

Part II: Amos Yee saga

A clarification: Contrary to earlier reports, Amos prefers not to be out on bail as he considers the bail conditions too onerous. This was made clear by his bailor.

16 year old Amos Yee continues to languish behind bars with no one willing to post bail for him.

Is he a victim of his own making? An insufferable boy, who cannot refrain from violating his bail condition, by continuing to post comments online. Or is he a little rebel protesting against the way he has been treated by the police and the courts for his video rant.

I am beginning to think that he is fighting a one-little-boy battle against the overkill mentality of the authorities. Is it going to be a test of will between a teeny-weeny juvenile and an all-mighty state?

The way the multiple charges have been laid out against him and the onerous bail conditions show that the old bureaucratic mentality still prevails.

This is a bad omen. It dashes hopes of a new beginning in the post-LKY era. Change, if any, must always come from the top and filter down to the police, the judiciary, the courts and the bureaucrats.

Unless the authorities change the way they treat him or he decides to behave – like other normal, logical, law-abiding citizens, fearful of their rice bowls; neither of which seems probable at the moment, he may end up in prison for months or even years.

I am afraid we are seeing the making of another political exile. Is he going to be hounded out of our little red dot? Amos seems to be on track to share the same fate as Tan Wah Piow, Tang Liang Hong and Francis Seow.

With his attitude, he cannot survive in our strait-laced little island and the best hope for him – if he cannot control his urges – is to seek political asylum in a more conducive environment where his talents will be much appreciated.

I do hope it will not come about, for it will be a great loss for all of us. The boy has got talent and he has also got lots of guts.

Source: Ismail Kassim

May 7, 2015