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  • Anak 2 Tahun Maut Dilanggar: “Saya Dengar Bunyi Tulang Anak Saya (Patah)”

    Anak 2 Tahun Maut Dilanggar: “Saya Dengar Bunyi Tulang Anak Saya (Patah)”

    Hancur luluhnya hati seorang ibu apabila orang yang menyebabkan kematian anaknya dilepaskan daripada hukuman penjara.

    Fahima Hassan yang berusia dua tahun, sedang berjalan dipimpin ibunya apabila dilanggar oleh sebuah kereta yang dipandu oleh Hoden Aden, 44 tahun, seorang ibu kepada tujuh orang anak, menurut Daily Mail.

    Mahkamah mendengar bahawa Hoden sedang bercakap di telefon sambil mencari tempat meletak kereta, memandu pada kelajuan lapan kilometer sejam.

    Namun, penglihatannya terhadang oleh sekotak tisu di bahagian depan keretanya dan tidak menyedari dia sudah melanggar seorang kanak-kanak.

    Yang paling mengejutkan, menurut laman Daily Mail, Hoden mempercayai bahwa dia terlanggar troli dan terus menerus melanggar kanak-kanak berkenaan untuk beberapa ketika.

    Pada awalnya, Hoden tidak mengaku bersalah menyebabkan kematian dengan memandu secara cuai namun didapati bersalah pada bulan lalu menyusuli perbicaraan selama empat hari.

    Kini, Hoden dijatuhi hukuman penjara 14 bulan, namun ia digantung selama dua tahun setelah mahkamah mendengar bahawa dia tidak sihat dan perlu menjaga ibunya yang sedang sakit.

    Ibu Fahima, Narmin Nur yang tidak dapat menahan perasaan semasa hukuman itu dijatuhkan berlari keluar dari mahkamah, lapor Daily Mail.

    Beliau yang berusia 31 tahun itu berkata: “Kami tidak gembira dengan hukuman itu.

    Bagaimana ini yang dipanggil keadilan? Kami amat bersedih.

    “Bagaimana seseorang boleh membunuh seorang kanak-kanak namun masih boleh keluar seperti biasa? Saya tidak boleh mempercayainya. Saya tahu tiada hukuman yang boleh membawa kembali Yaya (nama timangan Fahima), namun kami ingatkan dia mungkin dipenjara untuk beberapa tahun.

    “Semasa dia memandu saya boleh mendengar bunyi tulang-belulang anak saya. Saya tahu dia tidak sengaja membunuh anak saya, namun dia tidak pernah berkata apa-apa kepada saya,” tambah Cik Narmin.

    Sebelum kemalangan itu, Fahima bersama ibunya baru sahaja meninggalkan pusat beli-belah Asda pada bulan September 2014 apabila Hoden melanggar Fahima dengan kereta Volkswagen Tguan sekitar pukul 8.20 malam (waktu London).

    Source: Berita MediaCorp

  • Almakhazin: The Myth Of Decolonisation And Liberal Malay Impotence

    Almakhazin: The Myth Of Decolonisation And Liberal Malay Impotence

    One of the most defining moments in recent Malay history is Tunku Abdul Rahman’s proclamation of Merdeka in 1957.

    With his arm stretched upwards, the Tunku’s declaration was echoed by thousands others in a roar of pride, freedom and dignity. After years of European colonisation, Tanah Melayu was once again Merdeka.

    We are free.

    Or so we believe.

    While the British no longer rule Singapura and Malaysia directly and their Residents and the British crown no longer impose their violent authority, to believe we are actually free and decolonised is to live in an illusion.

    Previous colonisation model

    Colonisation was an expensive exercise. Even though the colonisers were able to extract our natural resources and labour for their benefit, the colonising state was directly involved in our administration.

    They needed to send administrative officers, maintain their lifestyle, a regimental force, establish and exercise the judiciary, manage local politics and commit to the defence of lands that are not militarily strategic to their own.

    Their inability to defend Singapura, the Gibraltar of the East, and the use of resources that could have been redeployed to their own land was strong indication of the folly of the direct colonial venture.

    This recognition led to British withdrawal form territories east of the Suez in 1971.

    However, it does not mean the British, and more generally the west, are no longer colonising us.

    Neocolonialism- Ideational and Systemic Colonialism

    Even though the western colonial states have withdrew from Singapura, Malaysia and the region, it does not mean they have given up colonisation.

    Colonisation is beneficial to the coloniser.

    It privileges their system, promotes our identification with their values, advances the sense of western superiority and ensure we only act and think the way they want us to.

    There are 2 main ways the west are still colonising us:

    1. Our countries exist within an international system created by the Western powers. This system define the rules, procedures, norms and how each state interact with each other.

    The system, whether it is the United Nations, WTO, IMF/ World Bank or the reference to secular, territorial states are created by the West, based on Western experience and preferences.

    We are required to operate within the system they established.

    And the rules they created. Our own socio-political system is removed and destroyed.

    All that we know of now, all that we seek to secure and strengthen, are Western political models.

    And approval of the west.

    2. The west is actively and continuously promoting their philosophies, based on liberalism to us.

    Some of the defeated, colonised Malays have adopted these philosophies.

    Like the eunuch, they are intellectually impotent. They throw themselves at the feet of the West and remain their faithful, unthreatening servants.

    And speak as though Western thought, ideas, practices are theirs too.

    The Liberal Malays do not need to be forced to be subjugated. Their admiration for the west and intellectual castration has led to their own colonisation.

    We have not truly been decolonised.

    Although while for some of us, our colonisation remains only as members of states colonised through an international system,

    for some Malays, their love for their colonial masters means that they want to remain and promote

    Their own colonization.

    And intellectual impotence.

     

    Source: Almakhazin SG

  • UK Police Face Backlash Over Allahu Akbar Chant During Anti-Terror Exercise

    UK Police Face Backlash Over Allahu Akbar Chant During Anti-Terror Exercise

    Efforts to fight terrorism should not be hampered by perpetuating sterotypes against Muslims, said the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), after police in England used the phrase “Allahu Akbar” at an anti-terror training exercise.

    Monday’s exercise at a shopping mall in Manchester comprised more than 800 volunteers, including a masked man dressed in black who, in video footage, was seen running and shouting the words before setting off an explosion.

    Miqdaad Versi, assistant secretary general of the MCB, told Al Jazeera that “by using this word [in the terror training], Muslims around the world are being associated with terrorists”.

    “Muslims use this term in prayers and is a perfectly noble term and we must not allow the terrorists to hijack it,” said Versi.

    Assistant Chief Constable Garry Shewan from Greater Manchester Police said while the exercise was based on a “suicide attack by an extremist Daesh [ISIL] style organisation”, the use of the word was unacceptable.

    “On reflection we acknowledge that it was unacceptable to use this religious phrase immediately before the mock suicide bombing, which so vocally linked this exercise with Islam.

    “We recognise and apologise for the offence that this has caused.”

    Versi added that “using this term in such exercises is not helpful in any way” before welcoming the police for “recognising the problem and for apologising”.

    Reactions raced through social media, mostly on Twitter, where people condemned the act.

    “I’m disgusted by Manchester Police using ‘Allah hu Akbar’ in a terrorism training exercise. Once again demonising Muslims and Islam,” said a Twitter user.

    Police said there was no specific threat in Manchester and that the exercise was devised in December, a month after the Paris attacks that killed 130 people.

    A British Muslim Labour party candidate, Sadiq Khan, was sworn in as London’s new mayor this month after receiving the largest number of votes of any London mayoral candidate ever.

    Some of the fault lines surrounding Khan’s election were visible on social media where many users mocked what they saw as xenophobic responses to Khan’s mayorship.

     

    Source: www.aljazeera.com

  • UK Academics Boycott Universities In Israel To Fight For Palestinians’ Rights

    UK Academics Boycott Universities In Israel To Fight For Palestinians’ Rights

    More than 300 academics from dozens of British universities have pledged to boycott Israeli academic institutions in protest at what they call intolerable human rights violations against the Palestinian people.

    The declaration, by 343 professors and lecturers, is printed in a full-page advertisement carried in Tuesday’s Guardian, with the title: “A commitment by UK scholars to the rights of Palestinians.”

    The pledge says the signatories, from a variety of universities in England and Wales, will not accept invitations to visit Israeli academic institutions, act as referees for them, or take part in events organised or funded by them. They will, however, still work with individual Israeli academics, it adds.

    The advert says the signatories are “deeply disturbed by Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian land, the intolerable human rights violations that it inflicts on all sections of the Palestinian people, and its apparent determination to resist any feasible settlement”.

    In a statement on behalf of the organisers of the boycott, Prof Jonathan Rosenhead, of the London School of Economics, said Israel’s universities were “at the heart of Israel’s violations of international law and oppression of the Palestinian people”.

    He said: “These signatures were all collected despite the pressures that can be put on people not to criticise the state of Israel. Now that the invitation to join the commitment is in the public domain, we anticipate many more to join us.”

    The initiative brought immediate criticism from the British and Israeli governments. The British ambassador to Israel, David Quarrey, said he was “deeply committed” to promoting academic and scientific ties. He added: “As David Cameron has said, the UK government will never allow those who want to boycott Israel to shut down 60 years worth of vibrant exchange and partnership that does so much to make both our countries stronger.”

    The Israeli embassy in London published a scathing response to the ad, saying: “Boycott movements only aim to sow hatred and alienation between the sides, rather than promoting coexistence.

    “The only path to advancing peace between Israelis and Palestinians passes through the negotiation room. Israel has called time and again for the renewal of talks immediately, without any preconditions. Those who call for a boycott against Israel during a month which saw 45 stabbing attacks – in which more than 100 Israelis were wounded, and 10 were murdered – blatantly ignore the lives of Israelis, and the conditions necessary for peace.”

    The advert was also condemned by Richard Verber, senior vice-president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews. He told Jewish News: “We would ask why these academics are singling out Israel in such a discriminatory fashion. At a time of immense, often barbaric, upheaval in other parts of the Middle East, Israel remains a beacon of academic excellence and progressive thinking.

    “In the complex conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, boycotting either side will lead to zero progress. Their energy would be much better spent encouraging academic dialogue and relations between like-minded Israelis and Palestinians who believe in a brighter future.”

    The advert comes less than a week after a group of writers, academics, MPs and others, among them JK Rowling, Simon Schama and Zoë Wanamaker, wrote to the Guardian to criticise the idea of such boycotts. The letter followed a pledge in February by hundreds of artists and musicians to instigate a cultural boycott of Israel due to the country’s “unrelenting attack on [Palestinian] land, their livelihood, their right to political existence”.

    The counter-letter called boycotts singling out Israel “divisive and discriminatory”. It said: “We will be seeking to inform and encourage dialogue about Israel and the Palestinians in the wider cultural and creative community. While we may not all share the same views on the policies of the Israeli government, we all share a desire for peaceful coexistence.”

     

    Source: www.theguardian.com

  • UK Enacts Tough Anti-Foreign Students Law, Why Not Singapore?

    UK Enacts Tough Anti-Foreign Students Law, Why Not Singapore?

    Hi A.S.S.,

    I read today from The Independent about a new law in the UK which bans foreign students from taking up jobs in the country – in other words these foreigners must go home immediately after they complete their studies in the UK and not use their studies as a backdoor to find employment and UK citizenship.

    Why can’t Singapore do the same? Look at the rate that the Singapore government is giving subsidies to foreign students, all at the expense of more deserving locals! Do you really think some Ah Tiong from China who can barely speak English deserves our tax payers’ money more than our own local born and bred Singaporean children?

    Just go to any famous private university in Singapore and look at the calibre of foreign students at these schools! Well known that many rich local sugar daddies drive their expensive cars just to pick up their PRC “god daughters” for some action after work! Pui!

    Read the full UK article here: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/foreign-students-will-be-banned-from-working-in-the-uk-and-forced-to-leave-as-soon-as-they-finish-course-under-theresa-mays-tough-new-visa-rules-10385232.html

    Foreign students will be banned from working in the UK while they study and will be forced to leave the country as soon as they finish their course under tough new rules unveiled by Theresa May, the Home Secretary.

    The move, which was confirmed by the Home Office this morning, is designed to crack down on visa fraud in the UK.

    The new rules will only apply to non-EU students, who accounted for 121,000 immigrants last year. Only 51,000 of those foreign students left the UK, leaving a net influx of 70,000 and Mrs May pointed to these figures to defend her efforts for the stricter rules.

    She hopes to stop immigrants using colleges as a “back door to a British visa” and has banned 870 “bogus colleges” from accepting foreign students.

    Ashton
    A.S.S. Contributor

     

    Source: www.allsingaporestuff.com