Mengenali Allah, Tuhan Semesta Alam yang sebenar. Bab Pengenalan.

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim.

Assalamualaikum Warahmatullahi Ta'ala Wabarakatuh.

Wahai anak Adam Alaihis Salam sekelian.

Seandainya anda sedang membaca artikel ini, bermakna anda berupaya membaca dan memahami Bahasa Melayu dan sadar bahawa artikel ini ditulis oleh seorang berketurunan India Muslim kelahiran bumi Pulau Pinang dan seorang insan yang membesar diperkampongan Melayu terakhir di persisiran pantai Jelutong Timur di sana.

Bagi anda yang bukan Islam, maka saya alu alukan anda supaya turut belajar tentang Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, Tuhan semesta alam yang Maha Pencipta dan Maha Segala galanya.

Saya memilih untuk menulis tentang Allah Azza Wa Jalla kerana kini orang orang Kaffir Kristian sudah di izinkan oleh Dato' Seri Syed Hamid Albar bin Tan Sri Syed Jaafar Albar, Menteri Keselamatan Dalam Negeri, Kerajaan Malaysia untuk menggunakan perkataan 'Allah' didalam penerbitan majalah dalaman mereka didalam Bahasa Malaysia.

Selaku rakyat biasa, saya tidak berupaya untuk menentukan itu dan ini berkaitan keputusan Menteri ini tetapi selaku seorang penulis blog, saya berupaya menerangkan tentang Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala kepada anda disini supaya lebih faham tentang Allah Tuhan Sebenar yang kita sembah dan supaya jelas tentang 'Allah' rekaan pendakyah pendakyah fahaman Kristian sedunia.

Maka marilah kita bersama sama membaca tentang apakah penerangan Islam mengenai Allah, Tuhan Maha Suci dan Maha Agung dari segala sesuatu baik yang dapat kita melihat, merasa dan memikirkannya?

Insya Allah.

Saya merujuk kepada beberapa sumber yang sahih didalam kajian saya ini. Yang pertama sekali adalah :

• Kitab Suci Kalam Allah SWT Al Qur'anul Karim Tafsiran Abdullah Yusuf Ali
• Hadith2 Rasulullah SAW didalam Kitab Sahih Bukhari dan Muslim
  
• Kitab Hadith Bulugh Al Maram susunan Al Hafiz ibn Hajar Al Asqalani
  
• Kitab At Tauhid susunan Sheikh ul Islam Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhab
• Kitab Taqwiyat ul Iman karangan Shah Ismail Shaheed
• Kitab Mengenal Tuhan karangan Ulama Nusantara Syeikh Bey Ariffin
  
• dan lain lain lagi.

Ya Ikhwanul Muslimin.

Dewasa ini pihak kaffir seperti Kristian amat aktif menjalankan dakyah dakyah mereka dikalangan umat Islam Melayu di Nusantara kerana di rantau inilah paling liat sekali penerimaan masyarakat terhadap doktrin dan ajaran kefahaman Kristian yang berpelbagai aliran serta bercelaru diantara satu sama lain.

Namun kita sendiri harus sadar bahawa dikalangan umat Islam sendiri terdapat perpecahan fahaman dan berlainan mazhab serta amalan disebabkan kita sendiri rajin berlawan pendapat dan senantiasa aktif mempercayai guru guru itu dan ini seraya melibatkan diri didalam pelbagai jamaah dan tariqat yang berbeza pada konsep pemahaman dan pengamalan masing masing tentang apa itu Islam dan siapakah dia yang harus kita ikuti?

Walaupun Nabi Muhammad Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam sudah meninggalkan bagi kita Al Quran Kitabullah dan Sunnah Baginda Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam sendiri, kita masih berdegil keras menjulang fahaman dan cara beragama masing masing yang kekadang tersasar terlalu jauh dari landasan amal ibadah yang di gariskan Rasul Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam sendiri?

Sebagai manusia, kita dianugerahi Allah dengan daya pancaindera yang lima. Pancaindera itu adalah :

1. Deria Penglihatan
   
2. Deria Pendengaran
3. Deria Bau (Mencium menggunakan hidung)
4. Deria Rasa ( Rasa dengan lidah)
5. Deria Sentuhan ( Dengan tangan serta kulit)

Namun segala deria ini tidak akan dapat berfungsi dengan normal sekiranya tidak disertai dengan Daya dan Kuasa Berfikir yang di anugerahi Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala kepada kita dengan pengurniaan sistem Otak dimana bersarangnya kuasa akal manusia.

Daya berfikir ini lah yang kita gunakan untuk melakukan setiap sesuatu samada yang baik ataupun buruk, yang betul mahupun yang salah berikutan keputusan yang kita lakukan menggunakan akal kita yang berpusat di otak masing masing.

Bagi mereka yang mahu mengkaji akan asal usul kejadian kita, sudah tentu kita akan terpegun dan merasakan betapa hebatnya, betapa telitinya Sang Pencipta kita sehingga ke susun cara dan binaan sehalus halus sel tubuh kita ada kaedah dan caranya tersendiri!

Sebagai manusia yang hidup di akhir zaman ini, kita berhadapan dengan pelbagai perkara dan keadaan yang tidak di alami oleh mereka yang hidup di zaman zaman sebelum kita.

Dizaman zaman dahulu kita tidak akan dapat menyampaikan maklumat dan data seperti sekarang ini.

Selalunya akan dihantar penyampai berita menggunakan kuda atau berlari merentasi daerah, negeri atau negara didalam melaksanakan tugas mereka yang di amanahkan sang ketua, panglima tentera ataupun raja!

Bagi anda yang telah menonton filem 'The Message' arahan Arwah Moustapha Akkad, anda tentu akan dapat melihat perkara ini berlaku dimana Nabi Muhammad Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam mengutuskan wakil wakil kepada Maharaja dan Raja Raja di ketika itu tentang amanat Islam kepada mereka.

Saudara saudari ku,

Bilamana kini telah ghairah pihak gereja Kristian untuk menggunapakai perkataan 'Allah' untuk mengganti nama 'Tuhan' seperti yang sepatutnya digunakan bagi terjemahan istilah ' God' dari dalam Bible mereka, maka saya rasa sekiranya kita tidak berupaya untuk mendesak Dato' Seri Syed Hamid Albar yang telah tunduk kepada tekanan puak Kaffir Kristian dari Gereja Katolik ini, sia sia lah hidupnya kita ini sebagai pemegang amanah Nabi Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam untuk menyampaikan kepada semua walaupun hanya sepotong ayat!

Maka saya berpendapat bahawa kita sebagai Bloggers Muslim kena melipatgandakan usaha dakwah dan aktiviti penyampaian ilmu agama kepada masyarakat kita terutamanya kepada umat Islam seMalaysia supaya jelas dan faham perbezaan ketara di antara Allah Azza Wa Jalla Tuhan Sekelian Alam sebenar yang kita sembah dan dari 'Allah' ciplak Kaffir Kristian di Malaysia ini.

Ini penting supaya masyarakat Melayu seMalaysia faham dengan sebenar benar faham dan tidak terkeliru nanti bila bertemu risalah atau makalah dakyah Gereja Katolik Kristian Malaysia nanti di peti surat atau didepan pintu masing masing!

Percayalah! Perbuatan mengedar risalah risalah dakyah sebegini sudah lama dilakukan pihak mubaligh Kristian secara meluas kerana mereka mempunyai dana dan peruntukan khas bagi misi evangelis mereka.

Jamaah Islamiyyah selalunya bergantung harap kepada derma ikhlas jamaah masing masing tetapi bagi pihak pendakyah Kristian ini, mereka mendapat sumbangan dana yang amat besar dan meluas seperti dari Konrad Adeneur Foundation yang didokong oleh Christian Democratic Union dari Jerman.

Ada pelbagai lagi pertubuhan Kristian yang beroperasi disini tetapi kebanyakan dari kita tidak sedar akan kehadiran mereka kerana selalunya mereka berfungsi sebagai badan kebajikan dan tidak menonjolkan identiti sebenar mereka untuk mengelakkan tindakan dari pihak Kerajaan Malaysia yang masih berkuasa ke atas urusan hal ehwal agama rakyat negara ini.

Umat Islam Malaysia harus peka dan sedar akan segala taktik dan kaedah pihak pendakyah Kristian untuk menyusup masuk ke dalam kehidupan warga Melayu Muslim Malaysia ini secara halus.

Berikut adalah pendedahan dari website Islamonline.net tentang cara pendakyah Kristian menyasarkan umat Islam untuk dimurtadkan ke dalam fahaman mereka:
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"Step into Muslim neighborhoods, Muslim countries and the Muslim world," Azumah said. Four Steps to Christianize Muslims CAIRO — An ordained minister from Ghana recently gave participants in a high-profile international meeting of evangelicals in the US a four-step recipe to convert Muslims, The Christian Today reported on Wednesday, August 20. "Show interest in knowing their beliefs, fears, and joys," Dr John Azumah told the Inside-Out Evangelical Conference in California last week, describing the first step. Azumah, an ordained minister of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, explained that Christians should do their best to get to know Muslims. "A Muslim has a name, has a face," he said, noting that some Christians "don’t know them." The second step, suggested the ordained minister, is for missionaries to engage Muslims as "light" not "flashlights." He explained that some Christians tend to be like "flashlights," as they proselytize people in an imposing way. Azumah cautioned participants at conference, hosted by the US Presbyterian Global Fellowship, that pointing light directly into people’s eyes will likely make them cover their eyes or turn away. "Stop the flashlight approach and become lanterns. "Do not go sniping people with Bible verses. Engage them and show that you love them before you show verses." Gordon Showell-Rogers, the General Secretary of the European Evangelical Alliance (EEA), has called for proselytizing Muslims across Europe, considering Muslim immigration into the continent an "evangelistic opportunity." Germany-based Evangelical Alliance distributed in last Ramadan calendars featuring special prayers for Muslims to be guided to Christianity. Last December, the Roman Catholic Church defended its "right and duty" to spread its message to non-Christians. "Step Out" The third step for Christianize Muslims, Azumah said, is through sharing personal testimonies and experiences. He insisted that such experiences are very powerful when people know the one involved. The minister cited a story from the Bible which suggests that the personal experience of a Samaritan woman was enough reason for many from her town to follow Christ. The forth step according to Azumah is to wait for the change to take place. "You might have the resources; you might have enthusiasm and all the knowledge, but wait for the Holy Spirit to come to you," he told the crowd. "It’s a spiritual business." Azumah, who converted from Islam, urged Christians make their way into Muslim societies. "Step into Muslim neighborhoods, Muslim countries and the Muslim world — to move into people’s cultures and learn to speak their language, not force them to speak yours."

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Ya Ikhwanul Muslimin,

Perang agama diantara Kristian dan Muslim sudah sekian lama berlangsung secara tidak di isytihar diseluruh dunia.

Di bumi Palestin dan negara negara Islam lain dimana ada pihak tentera Kaffir menakluki dan menduduki secara haram tanah tanahair umat Islam, memang ketara dan kita boleh nampak pertembungan secara zahir tersebut.

Berjuta juta umat Islam telah mati dibunuh secara terang terangan oleh puak kuffar seperti rejim Zionis yang disokong dan ditaja oleh Amerika Syarikat tetapi keseluruhan negara negara yang mengaku sebagai negara Islam tidak terdaya melakukan apa apa dan hanya menjadi buta, bisu dan kelu terhadap penderitaan warga Palestin seperti yang kita lihat berlaku di Gaza baru baru ini.

Mana dia kerajaan Negara Islam yang berani menghantar bala tentera melawan Rejim Zionis Israel itu?

Sekarang ini perang saraf sedang dilancarkan oleh pendakyah pendakyah Kristian Malaysia kerana Kerajaan Malaysia yang ada sekarang bagaikan berada di kedudukan 'telor di hujung tanduk'.

Suasana perubahan politik nesional akibat ketidakadilan kerajaan kerjaan BN sebelum ini kini menyaksikan perubahan paksi kuasa politik dari berada didalam kekuasaan Melayu Malaysia kini berkeadaan genting mungkin jatuh ke tangan gabungan Kuffar dengan pemuka pemuka Islam.

Orang orang Melayu Muslim Malaysia kini bagaikan berada di neraca yang bila bila masa sahaja mungkin berat ke arah penguasaan puak puak kuffar.

Kerajaan Negeri Perak Darul Ridzuan contoh ternyata tentang perubahan kuasa politik ini. Bilamana Kerajaan Perak Pakatan DAP-PKR-PAS menyaksikan parti DAP, sebuah parti yang diterajui oleh kuffar yang terang terangan menyeterui Ad Deenullah memenangi sebilangan besar kerusi perwakilan politik di Dewan Undangan Negeri Perak @ 18 kerusi ADUN, parti pelbagai bangsa PKR memenangi 7 kerusi ADUN dan Parti Islam seMalaysia memenangi cuma 6 sahaja kerusi ADUN, maka sudah tentu pihak Kesultanan Melayu Perak yang berkuasa ke atas negeri tersebut sudah tentu tidak mahu bermenteri besarkan seorang Kuffar memerintah kerajaan negeri mereka!

Itulah sebabnya bialamana sahaja berlaku pertualangan 3 orang ahli Kerajaan Pakatan DAP-PKR-PAS kepada pengisytiharan mereka bahawa mereka memilih untuk keluar parti dan bebas tetapi menyokong BN, pertimbangan kuasa politik berubah kepada BN dan membuka pintu kepada Tuanku Sultan Perak membetulkan keadaan dan serta merta memecat Kerajaan DAP-PKR-PAS untuk mengembalikan kuasa politik kepada BN (UMNO 27 kerusi + MCA 1 kerusi ADUN) dan secara dasarnya Melayu kembali berkuasa di Perak Darul Ridzuan.

Keghairahan MB dari PAS (simbolik) untuk menderhaka kepada perintah Sultan Perak untuk meletakkan jawatannya menyaksikan kerosakan imej parti PAS sebagai gila untuk berkuasa walaupun terpaksa bersekongkol dengan parti kuffar DAP diatas kesediaan untuk mengorbankan apa sahaja baik dari kesan ke atas perhitungan politik dan kuasa Melayu Islam pada jangka waktu akan datang!

Prinsip Machiaveli secara terang terangan dipraktikkan di bumi Perak Darul Ridzuan.

Itu bab politik dan kesan jangka panjang kepada percaturan politik di sana.

Kesan keputusan Dato Seri Syed Hamid Albar mengizinkan puak Kristian Katolik untuk menggunapakai perkataan 'Allah' didalam penerbitan mereka mencemarkan nama suci Allah Tuhan semesta Alam bila ianya nanti digunakan untuk menyembah Konsep Triniti ( # Tuhan dalam Satu) yang dibawa Kristian itu.

Kemana hilangnya daya pertimbangan Dato Seri Syed Hamid Albar selaku seorang Muslim didalam perkara ini?

Saya mendapat maklumbalas akan tekanan yang amat hebat dari pelbagai pihak kepada dirinya tetapi itu bukan alasan untuk mengizinkan Kuffar menggunapakai nama suci 'Allah' untuk menyembah sesuatu yang bukan Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala!

Apakah kini negara Malaysia ini telah menjadi negara dimana apa sahaja boleh dilakukan diatas tiket bebas itu dan ini?

Saya serahkan kepada Dato Seri Syed Hamid Albar sendiri untuk menanggung akibat dan natijah pemberian izinnya kepada kuffar ini tetapi saya merasa sudah tiba waktunya kita yang beragama Islam untuk bangun melaksanakan Dakwah al Islamiyyah secara total dan tidak lagi sekadar melepaskan batuk ditangga!!!

Alang kepalang hidup sebagai Muslim biarlah kita hidup dan mati di jalan Allah!

Mulai saat dan ketika ini, saya Zainol Abideen @ Mahaguru58 akan mengaktifkan aktiviti aktiviti Dakwah al Islamiyyah saya melalui Muslim Bloggers Alliance dan juga melalui rangkaian pendakwah kami di Islamic Propagation Society International dibawah pimpinan saudara seperjuangan saya iaitu Haji Kamaruddin Abdullah dan jaringan network ACCIN.

Doakan kami agar berjaya di medan jihad fisabilillah melalui usaha Dakwah al Islamiyyah ini dengan pimpinan al Ulamak al muktabar dan naungan JAKIM, IKIM, Mahkamah Syarie Malaysia dan nasihat Menteri Hal Ehwal Agama, Jabatan Perdana Menteri.

Saya berpegang kepada amanat Rasulullah SAW iaitu untuk berpegang kepada Tali Allah dan Sunnah Rasul serta bersama dengan semua 'Ulul 'Amri yang muktabar.

Bersama samalah kita Umat Islam seMalaysia berganding bahu merapatkan saff menyemarakkan Dakwah al Islamiyyah dikalangan keseluruhan ummah dan jamaah Muslimin na wal Muslimat di Malaysia.

Insya Allah!

Wabillahi Taufik Wal Hidayah.

Wassalamualaikum Warahmatulillahi Ta'ala Wabarakatuh!

Takbir!!!!!

ALLAHU AKBAR! ALLAHU AKBAR! ALLAHU AKBAR!

Apa kata Umat Islam Malaysia tentang keputusan Menteri Dalam Negeri?

Assalamualaikum Tuan tuan dan puan puan, saudara saudari seIslam dengan saya sekelian.

Semalam saya menemu ramah beberapa umat Islam kita di sekitar Bandar Tun Razak dan Bandar Seri Permaisuri selepas Solat Jumaat.

Tajuk yang saya kemukakan kepada mereka adalah apa pandangan mereka tentang keputusan Kementerian Keselamatan Dalam Negeri untuk mengizinkan Gereja Katolik penerbit Majalah Herald menggunakan perkataan 'Allah' didalam majalah mereka itu?

Berikut adalah suara hati umat Islam yang sempat saya ketemu semalam.

Harap harap Dato' Seri Syed Hamid Albar sudi menonton video ini dan pertimbangkan menarik balik izin kepada pihak Kristian ini dari terus mengelirukan baik pengikut fahaman mereka sendiri dari terus berpura pura bahawa benda yang mereka sembah dan bergantung harap itu adalah Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala yang kita umat Islam sembah?

Sila edarkan video ini kepada pembaca blog tuan puan sekelian. Terimakasih.

Wassalamualaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh.

Hello Mr.Singh! Hah! Kenalilah King Sebenar! Hehehehe...

Hahahaha! Kadang kadang bila kita fikirkan balik Arwah P.Ramlee memang otak genius betul!

Beliau memang seorang bintang yang teristimewa sekali yang pernah mewarnai dunia seni perfileman ditanahair kita tercinta ini!

Bila kita menghadapi lawak sarkis King Karpal yang mengaku Singh is King, maka Tok Rimau telah mengaitkan dengan klip dari filem 'Seniman Bujang Lapok' yang memang amat relevan sekali dengan lawak antarabangsa tentang 'Raja Kapor' ini.

Tak kering gusi hamba bila menonton babak babak kelakar gila ini!

Terimakasih P.Ramlee!

Anda memang King!!! King Kong! Har! Har! Har! Har! ( copyright M.Rajoli ). :P

KENYATAAN MEDIA YB DATO’ MUKHRIZ MAHATHIR

Dari http://rockybru2.blogspot.com/2009/02/mukhriz-to-karpal-singh-king-jangan.html

"Saya mengecam sekeras-kerasnya keceluparan Pengerusi Kebangsaan DAP, YB Karpal Singh menggunakan kata-kata kesat terhadap Pergerakan Pemuda UMNO di Parlimen kelmarin.

Beliau bukan sahaja telah melanggar peruntukkan 36 (4) Peraturan Mesyuarat Dewan Rakyat yang tidak membenarkan kata-kata kesat digunakan sewaktu perbahasan di dalam Dewan, malah ianya berunsur fitnah dan pembohongan apabila menuduh Pergerakan Pemuda UMNO sebagai membuat ancaman jenayah dengan menghantar dua butir peluru kepadanya.

Melanggari peruntukkan 36 (4) tersebut, YB Karpal Singh telah dengan sengaja cuba mengalih perhatian rakyat terhadap penderhakaan beliau kepada DYMM Paduka Seri Sultan Perak.

Maka saya dengan tegasnya mendesak Pengerusi Kebangsaan DAP itu untuk mengakui Kedaulatan Raja-Raja Melayu dan menyanjung Sistem Raja Berpelembagaan.

Kegagalan berbuat demikian membuktikan bahawa YB Karpal Singh mengkhianati Rukunegara dan Perlembagaan Persekutuan. Justeru, saya menggesa pihak berkuasa agar segera menahan dan mendakwa YB Karpal Singh di bawah Akta Hasutan 1948 jika beliau terus enggan berganjak daripada sikap penderhakaan ini.

Pada masa yang sama, saya ingin berpesan kepada YB Karpal Singh agar jangan terlalu besar kepala sehingga tidak menghormati Raja-Raja Melayu kita.

Kenyataannya bahawa "Singh is King" menunjukkan bahawa beliau sudah terlalu takbur sehingga menganggap dirinya seorang Raja mengatasi kedaulatan Raja-Raja Melayu yang sudah bertakhta sejak turun temurun.

Bak kata pepatah Melayu, “Telajak perahu boleh diundur, terlajak kata badan binasa;, keceluparan beliau adalah provokasi yang tidak diundang.

YB Karpal Singh nyata tidak langsung menghormati mahupun mengendahkan tatasusila mesyuarat dan kesopanan Dewan Rakyat. Meskipun akhirnya YB Karpal Singh menarik balik kenyataan yang telah dibuat, saya menggesa beliau digantung dari menghadiri sidang Dewan Rakyat untuk suatu tempoh yang dianggap wajar sebagai sempadan yang mesti diawasi oleh ahli-ahli Yang Berhormat di dalam Dewan Rakyat.

SEKIAN".

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Tuan tuan dan puan puan pembaca blog yang dihormati sekelian.

Soal Karpal Singh seorang OKU tidak menjadi persoalan disini bilamana ia lantang memaki hamun Pemuda UMNO sesuka hatinya dan kemudian dengan jelas menuduh mereka yang menghantar 2 butir peluru dan ancaman maut terhadap dirinya dan keluarga!

Kenyataan Dato' Mukhriz Mahathir bahawa keceluparan Karpal Singh itu adalah provokasi yang tidak diundang!

Karpal Singh sudah sekian lama mengeluarkan pelbagai macam kenyataan yang menghiris hati Melayu dan Umat Islam di dalam negara ini.

19 tahun yang lalu Karpal Singh mencabar sesiapa sahaja yang mahu mendirikan Negara Islam di dalam negara Malaysia ini supaya melangkah mayatnya!

Seorang rakyat bukan Islam negara ini mencabar Kesultanan Melayu dengan secara langsung bilamana ia mencabar sesiapa sahaja ditanahair ini untuk melangkah mayatnya jika mereka berani menegakkan 'Negara Islam' di dalam Malaysia ini!

Hari ini manusia celupar ini semakin angkuh bila menggertak secara terang terangan akan mengambil tindakan terhadap sesiapa sahaja yang mencabar dirinya dengan membuat laporan polis terhadap niatnya hendak menyaman Duli Tuanku Sultan Perak!

10 tahun lalu Karpal Singh meminta maaf kepada umat Islam Malaysia bila saya mencabar kenyataan angkuhnya itu didalam Forum Keadilan yang dianjurkan DAP, ADIL dan PAS!

Namun hari ini saya rasa Karpal Singh tidak ikhlas memohon maaf dari kita umat Islam kerana masih terus menghuru harakan negara ini dengan kenyataan kenyataan angkuhnya menghina dan mencerca sesuka hatinya akan segala yang kita sayang dan hargai didalam tanahair tercinta kita ini!

Karpal Singh merasakan dirinya kebal dari undang undang kerana ia telah begitu lama mencari makan didalam bidang perundangan dan merasakan dirinya begitu gah sekali sehingga berani menggertak keseluruhan warganegara kita ini seramai 26 juta orang lebih secara terbuka!

Makanya dia berani bersuara lantang menyatakan ' Singh is King' didalam Dewan Rakyat di Bangunan Parlimen negara Malaysia ini sendiri!!!

Kerajaan Malaysia dan Barisan Nasional seolah tidak mampu mengambil sebarang tindakan keatas peguam ini kerana apa?

Apakah hanya kerana dia seorang yang dikatakan Orang Kurang Upaya, dia bebas berkata apa sahaja di dalam Parlimen?

Apakah hanya kerana dia seorang Ahli Parlimen dia boleh mencabar sesiapa sahaja dan menuduh Pemuda UMNO sebagai mereka yang bertanggung jawab mengirim ancaman maut terhadapnya?

Bukankah ini salah dari segi undang undang kerana tidak disertakan dengan bukti atau adakah negara kita ini mempunyai dua rang undang undang yang berbeza?

Bagaikan kaduk naik junjung!

OKU bebas memaki hamun sesuka hatinya dan disokong oleh puak yang sanggup menderhakai perjuangan ummah demi kuasa politik semata mata!

Kecacatan seseorang itu tidak menghalalkan ia berkata ikut suka dan menggertak keseluruhan masyarakat umum secara terbuka begitu!!!

Tegakkan undang undang demi masadepan negara ini atau bersedialah menghadapi risiko natijah kebangkitan massa akibat kebiadapan terlampau ini!

King Karpal Singh? Talk about Bollywood's Influence...hehehehehe...

Ladies and gentlemen, citizens of Malaysia,

Please make way for King Karpal Singh.....hehehehehehe.....

















I mean, dear people, the man has been on the receiving end of some deep shit in recent days , so let King Karpal have his way for a while....

Life lately has been quite stressful for King Karpal to the extent that his ardent admirers have sent him two live bullets and reminded King Karpal as to the challenges he faces as he rules the courts...

So, I'm not surprised if King Karpal takes some respite from the world of Bollywood!

Anything's possible in Bollywood, isn't it?

So let King Karpal fantasize as he pleases....

Malaysia now has a Bollywood King in its midst!

King Karpal Singh!

New attraction in Penang, eh?

















Lim Guan Eng must be very happy....now that Penang has an extra attraction to draw in the tourists....

Good times are back again for the Pearl of the Orient...we have King Karpal Maharaj Jai Ho in our midst!

Long live King Karpal Singh!

:)

Hanyu Trial Class at Asia e University Video Pt 2

Dear Readers,

This is the 2nd part video of the 1st ever Hanyu Trial Class that took place on last Saturday, 21st of February, 2009 at Classroom 1 of the newly opened Asia e University, here in the central district of Kuala Lumpur.

Those of you who would like to learn and master the official standard of Mandarin taught by Global Hanyu & Culture College lecturers trained by Shanghai Jiao Tong University are most welcome to join us for the next free trial classes scheduled to be held at the same classroom here at Asia e University.

Please email me at mahaguru58@gmail.com or tracy@get-ed.com to book your seats for the coming 14th and 21st March Hanyu trial classes.

You may also email syed.badrul@aeu.edu.my to reserve your seats for the classes.

Mandarin is not only fun to learn; it's also very enriching for us for we get to tap into the ancient heritage and classic refined and very much defined Chinese culture that transcends way before the times of the last batch of Allah's prophets and mighty noble messengers who are the pillars of Allah's Deen.

I invite you to come spend an hour with us in the trial class where we charge you nothing. You will even be treated to coffee provided the dispensing machine is in good running condition...hehehe.

All are welcome.

See you there.

You too can speak Mandarin if you really want to?

Dear fellow Malaysians.

These are non Chinese learners of Hanyu @ Mandarin who have come to be able to master the ancient language of a people whom even the Blessed Prophet Muhammad Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam enjoined to learn from?

'Utlub ilma walaw fis Sin' is a saying attributed to Rasul Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam meaning ,' Seek knowledge even if it takes you to China!'.

Well, good news for those of you who would love to be able to speak and express yourself as good if not better than the foreigners featured here who can even outspeak native speakers of the world's largest population @ the Chinese.

I know that there are many Malaysian Chinese here who can't speak even a word of Mandarin.

Well this is the opportunity that you are waiting for?

Come join us in the next Hanyu Trial Class scheduled for the 14th and 21st March, 2009.

I am uploading the recording I did of the first ever Hanyu Trial Class held at the Asia e University last Saturday, the 21st of February, 2009 starting at 11.00am.

Here's the 1st part.



Call / sms me at 016-3969881 if you want to attend our free trial class.

Mastering Hanyu @ Mandarin will surely open up many doors to you to excel in either your studies, job and careers, political and social scene, business, etc.

I myself have made a promise to myself to master this beautiful language. Come study with us and launch your career towards achieving all that there is for you to gain by having Mandarin as one of your spoken, written, expressed and understood language!

The opportunities are endless!

Xie xie!

Zai jian!

Dakwah session with RTM's cameraman Pt. 2

Assalamualaikum.

Dear brothers and sisters,

Here is the concluding part of my impromptu Dakwah session with the RTM Cameraman Brother Veeran which we shot yesterday.

The RTM journalist informed me yesterday that the program which she was interviewing me for @ Galeri Perdana was scheduled to be screened today at 4.30pm.

Seems there has been a mistake.

She just sms'd me that it's scheduled for broadcasting this Wednesday 25th of February at 4.30pm.

So please accept my apologies for this error.

Watch the video above and give me your feedbacks.

With decorum, of course.

:)

Wassalamualaikum wr wb.

Dakwah session with RTM Cameraman Veeran. Pt 1.

Assalamualaikum dear Muslims and those who have yet to learn about Islam?

Here is part 1 of a video recording of my Dakwah session with Mr.Veeran, an RTM TV1 Cameraman who was part of the RTM crew who came to shoot what I had to say about the subject matter concerning HIV and AIDS from the Islamic point of view?

Mr.Veeran who is just a year younger than myself paid devoted attention to what I had to say and share with him with regard to what Islam is about?

Frankly speaking, I had barely even shared 0.01% of what I have come to learn about Islam and I find that not quite enough?

Maybe I should seriously start thinking of a series of such explanative videos about Islam on my own and upload it to my account in Youtube?

Insya Allah!

Editor Sinar Harian memplagiat tulisan Blogger 'Bila Harimau Sudah Menaip'.

Assalamualaikum semua.

Saya terkilan apabila membaca blog rakan seperjuangan saya iaitu blogger 'Bila Harimau Sudah Menaip' @ BHSM yang popular dengan identiti Tok Rimau!







Rakan blogger saya itu agak sedih kerana Editor akhbar 'komuniti' Sinar Harian Mazlinda telah memplagiat tulisan artikel artikel karangan BHSM tanpa sedikit pun terasa bersalah tentang perbuatannya meniru yang tidak beretika langsung itu!



















Sila ke laman blog Bila Harimau Sudah Menaip untuk mengikuti pendedahan eksklusif Tok Rimau tentang betapa semberononya seorang editor akhbar edaran kebangsaan seperti Sinar Harian boleh menceduk begitu sahaja hasil penulisan seorang blogger nasional seperti Tok Rimau tetapi tidak pula mempunyai integriti untuk memaklumkan, meminta izin atau sekurang kurangnya memberikan pautan kepada laman blog berkenaan?

Apakah begini cara seorang Pengarang Akhbar bekerja?

Mencuri hasil tangan orang dan tidak langsung mempunyai perasaan bersalah terhadap blogger Tok Rimau seraya dengan tidak malunya menerbitkan artikel artikel yang memang terbukti diciplak dan diplagiat hampir sepenuhnya? Malulah sedikit!

Dunia kewartawanan setahu saya amat menitikberatkan ide dan hasil tulisan dari diri wartawan itu sendiri.

Sia sia sahaja belajar sebegitu lama dan kemudiannya lulus dari menara gading hanya untuk keluar mencuri hasil tulisan orang dan kemudian dengan muka tarpalnya meletakkan nama dan gambar sendiri di artikel artikel plagiat seolah diri itu sendiri yang mengarangnya!

Saya tidaklah mahu sampai menuduh tetapi kebarangkalian tabiat meniru ini bermula sejak dari dibangku sekolah lagi dari rendah ke menengah dan kemudian ke universiti berperangai serupa cuma ketika itu guru dan pensyarah tidak le sampai mengkhabarkan kepada masyarakat umum?

Entahlah!

Tetapi telah terbukti bahawa pengarang Sinar Harian ini memang bersalah meniru hampir seratus peratus tulisan Tok Rimau!

Wajar lah bagi Editor Sinar Harian yang berkenaan itu memohon maaf secara terbuka kepada Blogger Tok Rimau!

Saya rasa sekiranya beliau tidak berbuat demikian, maka integriti diri pengarang ini akan hancur dan tidak dihormati orang lagi?

Kalau zaman sekolah boleh lah kot Cikgu suruh sipeniru pergi berdiri kat sudut kelas atau berdiri diatas kerusi sebagai hukuman!

Kalau di universiti pula, pensyarah akan memberikan markah kosong dan menggagalkan pelajar yang menciplak atau memplagiat itu!

Editor suratkhabar Sinar harian ni kita nak buat macamana?

Cuba tuan puan bagi pendapat yang asli dan dari benak fikiran sendiri?

Hehehehehe....

Mahaguru58 di wawancara Galeri Perdana RTM TV1

Assalamualaikum wahai pembaca blog Mahaguru58 yang dihormati sekelian.

Petang tadi saya di wawancara krew Galeri Perdana RTM TV 1 untuk slot program berkenaan yang dijadualkan tayangan petang esok Isnin 23hb Februari, 2009 jam 4.30 petang.

Topik yang dibentangkan kepada saya adalah tentang apakah pandangan saya mengenai perspektif Islam didalam menangani penyakit merbahaya seperti HIV dan AIDS?

Saya juga ditanya samada masyarakat Islam wajar menunjukkan sikap diskriminasi terhadap penghidap HIV dan AIDS itu?

Rakaman wawancara ini diadakan dihadapan Kolek Cafe, Dataran Dwitasik, Bandar Sri Permaisuri, Cheras, 56000, Kuala Lumpur.

Ikutilah siaran program Galeri Perdana RTM TV1 dan bersama samalah kita menghayati apa yang akan disiarkan oleh pihak RTM di TV1 jam 4.30 petang esok?

Saya sendiri ingin tahu apa lagi kandungan keseluruhan program tersebut kerana saya hanya sempat berucap tak sampai 10 minit.

Ianya mungkin akan disunting dan di adun dengan rakaman rakaman lain oleh pihak penerbit.

Mudah2an ada manfaat nya bagi kita semua.

Amin.

Kemaskini ****

Pihak RTM baru memaklumkan saya bahawa siaran program tersebut adalah pada hari Rabu 25hb Februari 2009. Jam 4.30 ptg.

Harap maklum dan maaf diatas kekeliruan yang tidak disengajakan ini.

Beyond the Veil ~ Pendant of Joy - Featuring Blogger Adawiyah.

Assalamualaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh.

Dear fellow Muslims, I am pleased to share with you a very heartfelt posting by the Blogger Adawiyah about her experience in wearing the niqab.

The niqab is wearing of the veil over the face, a measure taken voluntarily by Muslimah's out of devotion towards Allah Ar Rahman although in Islam it is allowed for the Muslimah to wear the hijab exposing their faces and to cover themselves with the hijab covering the head and also their chests.


To those like Adawiyah, the choice to wear the additional veil over their face is theirs to make.

Here is an interesting video that shows three different perspectives of 3 Muslim women who speak according to their different levels of Islamic knowledge and practice.



Here's an interesting response that Allahyarham Sheikh Ahmed Deedat gave to a Christian woman who asked him about the veil in Islam?


Amazing truth that hits home because Syeikh Deedat used even Christian Scriptures that enjoin the veiling of the women but which not that many Christian women put to practice today except those women who dedicate themselves to becoming nuns and sisters in the churches!

Let's read as to what Adawiyah has to share with us about her gauntlet of criticism that she went through at her home?

Beyond the Veil

Assalamu'alaikum and hello to my fellow readers.

It has been quite a while since I last updated my blog. Although I wasn't busy, my head was spinning with questions and more questions. I kept asking myself, "Am I strong enough to do this?" and "How will other people perceive me?"

What if I slowly move into this new era on a certain date where people might not take much notice of this sudden self-revolution? But how people view me shouldn't matter, should it? Only He should matter to me, not others. After all, my life, ibadah and death is only sincerely for Him. I come from Him and will return to Him eventually.

What is this self-revolution about? Why does it matter so much to me?

On 13 February 2009, I made a decision that will cause an impact in my life and perhaps in others. I made a decision that raised many eyebrows. I made a decision that affected myself greatly as well.

I made the decision to wear the niqab (purdah).

I chose 13 February 2009 to be my first date to wear the niqab as the International Cultural Festival was held that night. I figured that people wouldn't mind if I wore a niqab. Perhaps they might assume that I was just trying to appear Arabic. Or so I thought. Manay were shocked to see me and asked me what happened. All I could mutter to them at that time was, "InsyaAllah, I will be istiqamah..."

Some praised my efforts and a few criticised me and I was labelled as an extremist. Hahaha. One even told me to take off my niqab for the upcoming new students' orientation. Of course, I will not take it off. Once I've put my heart and soul into something, I will never leave it if it is good for me.

Surah Al-Kahf, ayat 39: Tiada daya dan upaya melainkan dengan pertolongan Allah (There is no power but with Allah).

The first day I wore the niqab, I had difficulties eating. Whilst drinking with my niqab on, my straw got stuck in my niqab and some of the drink spilled on to my jubah. Then when my soup arrived, I tried feeding myself with the niqab on as well and nearly fed my nose. In the end, I wemt to the toilet, took of my niqab and resumed eating. After eating, I quickly put on my niqab.

Well, I guess that practice makes perfect.

Yesterday was the first time I went back home clad in a hijab (tudung), my aurat fully covered according to the Islamic syariah. After my Maghrib prayers, I received an SMS from my stepmom stating that she had arrived at my college to fetch me home. I put on my hijab, pinned it to my T-shirt, put on a long black jacket, wore a long white skirt, put on my socks and arm socks, grabbed my shoes and off I went into her car.

I didn't wear my niqab back home because they would be shocked. First of all, they don't approve my wearing of the hijab. I would be toasted if they ever found out that I was happily wearing the niqab in college.

In the car, my stepmom looked at me, apparently puzzled. "Why didn't you change your clothes?"

"Well, I did," I said softly. "I changed into these."

My stepmom looked away. I didn't know what she thought of me going home like this. Throughout the whole 20-minute journey, my heart was thumping loudly in my chest cavity. I was nervous and the glum weather didn't do much to lift my spirits. I zikir-ed silently and prayed so that Allah will protect me no matter what happens next.

The car pulled to a stop in front of my house. My throat was dry and my stomach was empty. I wasn't thirsty nor hungry. I was anxious. There was my dad at the front door with a long rattan cane in his hand. He would cane Johan and Sofia, my younger siblings, whenever they were naughty and mischievious. My dad stared at me. I avoided eye contact with him, took my bag from the car and closed the door.

I walked to the front door, my heart beating even harder and my breath getting even shallower.

"Since when do you come home like this?" my father bellowed.

I kept quiet.

"My father repeated his question. Loudly. "SINCE WHEN DO YOU COME HOME LIKE THIS?!"

"It's not a good sight when I walk from my hostel to the car uncovered. What if the guys see me? I wear the tudung in college so I should wear it when entering the car as well," I tried to explain as nicely as possible to my father.

"Take it off now!" My father ordered.

"I'll take it off in my room," I said softly.

"You think you're so great wearing this?" My father shouted.

I kept quiet and gritted my teeth. Pools of tears slowly formed in my eyes. I blinked them away and quicky rubbed my eyes. My Muslim stepmom didn't even bother to defend me nor her religion.

I walked to the kitchen to get myself a mug of water, trying hard to filter my father's words.

"Don't be an extremist!" he half-shouted.

"From now on," I slowly gathered my courage to spill out my feelings, "I will cover myself up when I come back home and go back home and when I am out. I have to wear this. It's compulsory." I held my breath, waiting for my father to slap me. Alhamdulillah, the slap didn't come.

"All the nonsense," my father grumbled.

I blinked and quickly walked up the stairs.

"You think you look nice wearing such clothes?" My father hollered from downstairs as I climbed the stairs to my room.

In my room, I grabbed my handphone and called Ms. Rosinah, my ex-lecturer-cum-ustazah. I told her what happened and she told me that she was proud of me for defending my right. She congratulated me and told me to be strong.

"Don't give up, Adawiyah. Allah is always with those who defend Islam and what is right for them. This is a test from Allah ya Adawiyah. Be strong," Ms. Rosinah's words of advice consoled me.

"I will mujahadah fi sabilillah ya Ms. Rosinah. I won't give up. I have to face my mom and my stepdad next week," I explained, my tears swallowing my words.

"Be strong, Adawiyah. Be kind to your parents no matter what. This is what Islam taught us. Show them your best akhlak. Respect them. Pray for them so that they will accept you as well as receive His hidayah and taufiq," Ms. Rosinah added.

"InsyaAllah... Amiin..." I said softly. Syukran ya Ms. Rosinah. Assalamu'alaiki..."

"Wa'alaikumussalam warahmatullah."

*Click*

My life won't be the same after this.

Allahuakbar! Allahuakbar! Allahuakbar!

7 Comments:

Anonymous said...

There are no word in the world could describe how am i proud I'm with you.. I'm a born Muslim but i don't have courage like yours.. I hope Allah s.w.t give you all the happiness in the world.. I'm surprise how ur parent act because they are also Muslim.. Parent should be happy if their children are devoted to their religion.. Religion make good people..

February 21, 2009 7:07 PM

Afiqah said...

assalamualaikum akak...

mmg susah nak berubah...
tapi bila berubah kita akan rasa ketenangannya...
mmg bila berubah ada ujian yg mendatang...
tapi pastikan ketenangan yg telah kita perolehi dri perubahan kita dapat menangani ujian yg kita perolehi...
org yg terpilih sja yg perolehi hidayahNYA...
ujian yg kita hadapi itu lah sebenarnya yg menguatkan kita...
jgn putus asa...
ALLAH sentiasa dgn org yg BENAR...
May ALLAH Bless You...

wassalam...

=>maaf tulis bm...hehehe...

February 21, 2009 7:11 PM

cLoVer4miza said...

know what, person who love Islam are stronger than person who are juz born as a muslim with nothing..

keep it up ukhti!! you can do it if you think you can!! never give up, never surrender..this kind of small challenge is nothing compare to the heaven waiting for the true muslim..

salam ukhuwah fillah abadan abada...

February 21, 2009 8:16 PM

Abu Usamah Mohd Masri bin Mohd Ramli said...

Assalamualaikum wbt.

Congratulation. You have done the right thing.

February 22, 2009 1:16 AM

bluecrystaldude said...

Wow.. I am impressed with your courage. I personally think that you already grown up in a way that your decision or your faith lies within your hand. Beyond that, just take it as a challenge :)

Salam

February 22, 2009 1:16 AM

suhana said...

Assalamu'alaikum ukhti...

keep up the good work.. hehe. You've done the right thing.. always keep in mind.. Allah swt will be always with us.. insyaAllah..

well... im proud of you... chaiyok2 ukhti.. :D

juz pray n show to ur parents d good akhlak of muslimah.. let them know d islam is beautiful..
Wallahu'alam..

February 22, 2009 9:40 AM

bluecrystaldude said...

Salam Adawiyah,

If you don't mind, I am sending a few instant messages to my friends especially women about your story. I hope you will stay strong and more comforting words will come..

February 22, 2009 12:53 PM

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Well, it is as the Prophet Muhammad Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam foretold that in the Akhirul Zaman @ Last Ages which is the present, Islam and the Muslims will come to be regarded wrongly as those who are strange?

Strange in the sense that despite the atmosphere of permissibility and lawlessness prevailing in these times where moral fibre and chastity is somewhat regarded as belonging more in the museums instaed of being put to practice, the larger majority of human society tend to view those who fear Almighty God and wish to repent in worship of the Almighty as weird folks and out of touch with what's modern and hip?

Well, its not easy for clouded minds and diseased hearts to fathom the beauty of Islam for their mindsets have become rotten to the core and only a reform of their souls from deep within will open them up to the rational world of Islam and commonsense.

I do not see immediate changes taking place in the hearts of the Islamophobes present amongst us but I wish to call upon those of my fellow Muslims who are at the moment mired down in the pits of misguided ways of this so called modern stylo mylo lifestyle to please reflect back on what are the true foundations of our Islamic faith and be well aware of what is enjoined and as to what is forbidden in Islam?

Insya Allah, to those who wish to return to the Fitrah that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has created and imbued into us, you will find your way back to being in His Rahmah and receive His Taufik and Hidayah, Insya Allah.

Where there is a will, I assure you that there will be a way!

Almighty Allah's Way!

Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar!

Walillah hil Hamd.

Wabillahi Taufik Wal Hidayah.

Wassalamualaikum Warahmatu Lillahi Ta'ala Wabarakatuh.

Further reading : http://muttaqun.com/niqab.html

From the heart of a Malaysian Medical Doctor to his fellow Indian Makkals.

Assalamualaikum Warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.

My dear fellow Malaysians,

I am privy to some exclusive discussions amongst the online Malaysian Communities and from one of the special exclusive online groups discussing about the national social -political matters.

I came across this heartfelt plea from a medical doctor to his fellow Malaysian Indians to please be more aware of the real situation concerning the state of affairs regarding the treatment of the incarcerated leaders of the now banned Hindu Rights Action Force of Malaysia especially the condition of the ISA detainee Uthayakumar ( pictured below)?
















Without disclosing the identity of the said doctor or will I ever expose the particular online discussion group's website, here are the stirring words of a learned medical doctor pleading to his community to wake up and see the real situation concerning the said detainee and not to swallow hook, line and sinker as to any or everything that they get to read about from the self exiled chairman of the said group :

Quote :

"I have always recognized the HINDRAF as the champions of the Indian community and respected the bravery of the HINDRAF leaders .

They had created a stir leading to major defeat of the BN in last election and making other parties realize the importance of our society . They were my heroes.

A recent article forwarded to me in the form of a so called letter from Waytha Moorthy has got me into thinking.

Are they (really) our champions or are they just like the MIC?

In his recent letter , he mentioned about Uthaya Kumar being taken to hospital and exaggerated about how Uthaya could be dying and how he needs urgent surgery and how his sugar is high and so on and on?

Here is the truth.

I worked in the Taiping hospital and have seen many ISA patients including Uthaya.

Waytha Moorthy claimed that the doctors have not accorded Uthaya the proper treatments.

Bullshit!

Whether it is an ISA detainee or not every patients are treated the same.

Some of my house officers were frightened to see so many (prison) wardens (in the wards).

Uthaya was seen by the Head of the department themselves.

Both were from the orthopedic and medical departments.

Both are Indians and good in their work.

Dr. Letchumanan prescribed the best medicine and the most expensive medications yet Uthaya refused to be treated.

Inspite of (getting) counseling for a long time Uthaya still refused.

Many of the ISA patients usually request for special diets and I used to recommend them.

They do get these diets.

I had a friend look into the (medical) records.

Uthaya's X-Ray did not show any fractures.

His leg was not even gangrened. It was oedematous.

Waytha's letter is provocative.

It is making a fool of the young blooded youth who usually fail to think and respond to spinal reflex .

We do want to fight for our rights.

We have to fight the right way and not being manipulated by someone who knows Indians can be fooled.

Many of you might be angered by this mail.

Many of you have read my articles any you know I am not a supporter of MIC.

I feel we are being fooled in the name of HINDRAF and we are again going to be misguided by another group so that they can claim to be (our) heroes.

This is not right.

I have observed the Hindraf movements and their emails.

It is not guiding us to a better future. It is leading towards disaster.

If we are true Indians and if you are believer of AHIMSA and believe in Gandhi's words, we can fight for our rights.

First we must learn to think for ourselves.

If the youth fail to think and you fall for the trap that HINDRAF is setting for you, then all my time (spent) writing about bringing changes to our community and ensuring our survival and the future of our community is wasted.

I feel so sad for our community.

Inspite of having many who can lead us to the right path , we are still being led by the wrong leader to the wrong paths.

Street protests are not going to achieve anything.

It is not about (us) being cowards.

A stupid man who goes to war will stand to lose the battle but a smart man who knows when and how to fight the war, is surely bound to win.

Hindraf has created the awareness and unity amongst us but they are using our stupidity to fight their war.

Many of you are educated.

Take your time to think.

Please do not believe whatever (is) thrown to you by Hindraf.

Get the facts right. Please do not let us ruin our own community . THINK! THINK! THINK!"

End of quote.

Dear fellow Malaysians.

We, who blog for the sake of truth and justice aren't exactly free from being biased or opinionated about anything that concerns us, living here in this multi ethnic, multi faithed nation.

I myself have at times been discriminated against, called names, labelled as this and that by those who do not see eye to eye with me on certain issues based upon the differences between our activism based upon religious or racial values and standpoints.

To me, it matters not as to how those who have yet to know me for who I really am and choose to make themselves into my enemies on their own accord?

It's just part and parcel of being human.

'Birds of a feather do flock together' is a famous proverb and I for one agree that it's points are true.

We do tend to unite and congregate into a certain community whether we like it or not?

It's human nature.

Muslims congregate at the masjids and suraus. Christians at their churches. Hindus at their temples. Taoists do the same. Buddhists have their wats and temples too. Sikhs their Gurdwaras.Etc.

Even those who do not believe in any faith have their meeting spots. Coffee gardens, pubs, etc.

The online community too has developed a sort of a global village. Each complete with their own banners, memberships, house rules, etcetera.

I set up the Muslim Bloggers Alliance to pool the thoughts and ideas from those of my fellow Muslims who blog for the sake of spreading the truth about Islam and to help dispel or correct the misinformation being published online by those who love to do so.

In a way, we too are just looking out for our fellow Muslims, regardless of each MBA member's political standpoints.

I see the plea above from the medical doctor to be sincere in wanting to see his people not to be taken for a ride again by the new wave of Indian leadership calling itself as Hindraf.

I don't blame them ; for their chosen representatives in the Malaysian Indian Congress have failed them all these years.

Even as I type these words, their President (MIC) still seeks re-election despite losing his seat at his 3 decades old Parliamentary seat of Sg.Siput!

Other Malaysian race based political parties have had changes in their leaderships, but in the MIC, it seems that the incumbent and often despised chap still has it in him to keep an iron grip clutch on the MIC's presidency.

As a fellow Malaysian, I can't help but feel sorry for the Malaysian Indian community.

If only good natured, positive minded, learned persons like the medical doctor here was to be given a shot at leading the Malaysian Indian community, I am confident that the nation might see an end to communal strife and poverty amongst the Malaysian Indians.

I am sharing this heartfelt plea from the good doctor for public reading just to let you know that there is still hope for the Malaysian Indians with the presence of gems like this gentleman.

He's a bit frustrated at the state of affairs of his often strife torn community but if he remains steadfast and committed to bringing reform to the Malaysian Indians, all he has to do is to keep going at it and when the much needed opportunity presents itself, to seize the day and open up the Malaysian Indian community to the realities and vast opportunities still out there.

He won't be able to do it alone for he or anyone else are clearly just human!

Yet some individuals have it in them to shine forth and be a shining beacon to the down and outs, the forgotten folks in the rural and squatter areas who struggle to fork out a living despite having prosperity show its butt to them for those whom they trusted and depended on just took them to be nothing but collatoral fodder for their political ambitions.

I wish this doctor and those like him who live amongst us all the very best in their endeavors and hope to see him and them succeed in their honorable missions.

May truth and justice prevail upon this motherland of ours and bring forth a new line up of leaders for each community here in Malaysia who would be sincere in fighting for the rights and needs of the people.

Ameen.

For those who would like to read further and see some photographs of people demonstrating asking for proper medical treatment be accorded to ISA detainee Uthayakumar who is said to be in danger of succumbing to diabetes, you may want to visit a Hindraf supporting site here.

This site brands me as an Islamic terrorist. :)

Alhamdulillah.

Strange, isn't it?

An Islamic terrorist writing in support for the betterment of the Malaysian Indians!

Damn terrifying, wouldn't you agree?

We can't have bearded Muslim Bloggers championing the cause of his fellow Malaysians!

Something must terribly be wrong with me, eh?

Hehehehehe.....it's okay.

I don't mind the insinuations and misunderstandings as long as I can help improve the awareness of our nation's citizens about the real deal regarding any issue or matter that affects us in one way or another?

Even those like Haris Ibrahim call me up and propose to me for a meet up and have a cup of coffee and discuss things?

Insya Allah!

We may differ in our principles and perspectives here on Earth but deep in my heart, I still regard the fellow as a brother.

Aren't we all?

Good night Malaysians.

Keep on reading and blogging for the good of our nation and go easy on the labellings, eh?

Wassalamualaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh.

Malaysia Hindu Sangam happy with ACCIN's help.

As I wished for, the Malaysia Hindu Sangam have issued an update about the case of the dead Hindu Mr.Amaran, whose remains has been released to his family after ACCIN had successfully intervened and handled the case which was due to an error on the part of the Jabatan Pendaftaran Negara @ National Registration Department.

The late Mr.Amaran, a practicing Hindu had been erroneously registered as a Muslim in his MyKad.

I had written about it earlier and upon doing my follow up and research into the matter was equally relieved to learn that the matter had been solved by ACCIN upon getting an update from a Dr.Bala Tharmalingam, CEO of the Bukit Merah Laketown Institute of Allied Health Sciences, a nursing college.

Dr.Bala is an official of the Malaysia Hindu Sangam.

This is the Malaysia Hindu Sangam's official press statement following the settlement of the case.

PRESS STATEMENT - MHS happy with amicable solution.

19 February 2009

The Malaysia Hindu Sangam (MHS) is extremely delighted that the matter of the body of the deceased Mr Amaran has been safely released, by the Serdang Hospital authorities, to his family. They have now been able to complete the necessary Hindu funeral rites for the late Mr Amaran.

That this matter has been resolved swiftly in a peaceful manner, is a strong testimony to the importance of the ongoing dialogue between the representative bodies of the various religious groups in Malaysia as well as the Government. This initiative has resulted in arriving at a harmonious solution to this situation, and more importantly, the family is at peace during their time of grief.

The Malaysia Hindu Sangam wishes to extend our sincere thanks and appreciation to the Prime Minister, the Menteri Besar of Selangor, as well as JAIS (Jabatan Agama Islam Selangor), ACCIN (Allied Coordinating Committee of Islamic NGOs) and other NGOs that have approached this situation in a pragmatic manner.

We also now look forward to the joint-meeting to be held next week from 24th February, between MCCBCHS (Malaysian Consultative Council On Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Sikhism & Taioism) as well as ACCIN, together with the Ministry of Unity, Culture, Arts & Heritage. This joint-meeting will be an excellent opportunity for the representative bodies of various religious groups in Malaysia to openly discuss methods to improve and strengthen our multi-cultural ties, which has long been a Malaysian tradition.

The true spirit of Muhibbah has prevailed.


Dated 19th February 2009

Datuk A Vaithilingam
President
Malaysia Hindu Sangam

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My plea to all Malaysians especially to those who have errors in their MyKad.

Please go get those errors rectified immediately the minute you become aware of it!

I for one am perplexed as to how you can have such errors go unnoticed by you when you collect your MyKad from the National Registration Department?

How and why have you accepted such a MyKad when you know that the particulars aren't correct?

We can't just lay the blame on every other person can we if we ourselves are just too condescending in the first place?

We have the right to ensure that our details are correctly and properly registered in any official documentation no matter what!

It is our responsibility as well that we do not allow any error in any of our official identification and travel documents or anything that has to do with our person as a rightful citizen of this country!

Not a jot or a dot that is out of place or any typo errors must be disregarded no matter what?

Upon realizing that something is not right, you must there and then point it out to the official attendingto you and have it corrected at once.

No come back tomorrow's or next week, please.

If you allow such a lackadaisical attitude to prevail amongst the 9 to 5 government staff mindsets, this is exactly what will crop up later when circumstances leads us to such unnecessary and needless official bureaucracy!

You too have a say in the matter!

If you close one eye in such slip ups, believe me when I say that whoever had screwed up in handling your affairs , will just not waste a moment worrying about you?

They'd close both eyes, happy and contented that whatever it is that they fouled up in the course of their duties, they'll still receive a fat salary at the end of the month whilst you or your family will stand ready to face the gauntlet when you are no longer around to clear the mess such as what Mr.Amaran's family faced recently?

I recommend that each of us, regardless of race or religion, recheck and ensure that each and every detail regarding our person is absolutely up to date and free from error!

Failure to check and be sure of our information as registered in our MyKad, Passport, Driver's Licence or whatsoever will just turn into a living nightmare for our heirs when we expire from this life or are in a coma and not be able to verify anything about ourselves in such a state?

Be proactive and take the necessary steps or just be ready to suffer more when you end up like any of the deceased ones whose remains became the centre of a tug of war between the authorities and the deceased bereaved families.

I for one ask that there come into being a National Register of Converts to Islam to avoid any similar controversies crop up when a convert to Islam dies leaving his or her family and heirs in the dark about their becoming a Muslim.

Failure to do so will just see this heart wrenching emotional scenarios be a major cause of future headaches and turmoil for the nation.

Karpal Singh & Family gets death threat - 2 live bullets in mail.

Well, what can we say except that this nation's political scene has just descended into the danger zone!

If George Bush Jr was still in office, the red alert may have long gone off due to the ominous message that someone out there had sent to the nation's most in the news Punjabi lawyer!

No prizes for guessing! It's none other than the DAP Chairman himself!
















This is no joke! 2 live bullets in a brown paper envelope addressed to he who wanted to sue a Malay Sultan?

History records that the Malays once venerated their Sultans to such a degree that whomsoever was even to utter anything considered offensive to a royal wouldn't live to see the next sunrise!

Well, that was before. In the heydays of a time when the Sultans commanded almost the entire peninsular and had it their way until the advent of the Portuguese fleet who invaded and destroyed the Malaccan Empire in 1511.

Today, the Sultans have been reduced to being constitutional monarchs and the citizens of this country have now grown so enamored with their new found freedom to express themselves via the internet and also through racial politics that people like Karpal Singh a/l Ram Singh have no hesitations in taking legal action against a sovereign Malay Sultan such as DYMM Seri Paduka Baginda Sultan Azlan Muhibbudin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Yusuff Izzudin Shah Ghafarallahu lahu for His Majesty's sacking of the Pakatan Rakyat Perak Government!

So, I'm not surprised to hear of this death threat against Karpal Singh. I guess it goes with the territory. A commoner having the guts to go after the Sultan. That surely has its implications.

We may not be a gun toting nation such as the United States of America where its citizens are allowed to bear arms and even weapons such as the latest high powered super machine guns as what I came to discover recently online.

Malaysians are forbidden to possess even bullets so this death threat is not something to be dismissed off easily.

Karpal clearly knows the consequences of his actions and decisions for he has been in the legal scene for quite some time.

The Malays have a saying,' Kalau takut dilambong ombak; jangan berumah ditepian pantai!'.

It means that if one is afraid of being swept away by the waves to not make one's home by the beach!

The DAP Chairman is not a chambering student to not know the implications and consequences of his actions lately which challenges the sovereignty of one of Malaysia's most respected Malay Sultans?

He is right to ask for police protection round the clock for himself and his family.

In these tumultuos times, such a death threat ought not be dismissed easily.

Ahh...another Malay proverb to complete this posting...with a little innovation...

Kerana pulut santan binasa ; kerana mulut jiwa tersiksa....

Ish...ish...ish..ish...

Coba'an!

In P.Ramlee's times, they used to just fight raw with their hands like in this clip here but nowadays, when one pisses the Malays off, they send you live bullets so it's no joke anymore..

Prophet Muhammad Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam, the Last Messenger of God.

Assalamualaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh.

Dear brothers and sisters, Children of the Prophet Adam Alaihis Salam, our Father and borne of Sayyidatina Hawwa @ Mother Eve, Radhiallahu Anha.

I greet you in the name of Allah, God Most Compassionate, Most Merciful.

To those of you who are Muslims, I'd like to wish you a 'Blessed Juma'at'!

May you my brothers make your way to the masjid well in advance before the Jumaat prayers and refrain from engaging in idle talk whilst being in the masjid compounds.

As you know, Yaum al Qiyamat @ Doomsday is said to take place on a Friday ; so when here we are still alive on this Jumaat, we need to praise Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala for still giving us time to carry out our amals and ibadah for His Sake and for our Salvation.

Now, how many of us have prepared ourselves to be in a situation where we won't be embarrassed to stand before Allah Azza Wa Jalla should today be our last day here on Earth?

I'm sure not that many, me included.

I feel that I still have a very long way to go before I can even rest easy that hey, I have repented and I sincerely hope that Allah Ar Rahman Ar Rahim has it in Him to forgive me for my screwups here on Earth.

Really.

From the bottom of my heart. I feel so insignificant when I see myself prostrating before Him yet know that there have been so many times when I have at times been a bit nonchalant about my duties towards my Creator.

I really wonder at His Magnanimous Self.

I mean that if it was any one of us lording it over the entire creation, we really wouldn't be as forgiving as Allah, God Most Merciful, Most Kind.

I remember an incident when Allahyarham Sheikh Ahmed Deedat ( may Allah be pleased with him) was questioned by a Non Muslim Chinese lady here in Malaysia during his tour of this country as to why Allah, God Almighty if He is really the Most Compassionate God of all Mankind, allowed bad things to take place?

The learned Caller to Islam asked her whether she would like it if the second that she thought bad, a lightning bolt from the Heavens was to strike her?

Would she like that?

The woman shook her head indicating no.

The Sheikh asked whether she would be agreeable to having an electric shock buzz through her body the instant that she took something that was not hers?

Again she said no. She wouldn't like that at all!

So the Sheikh told her that Almighty Allah so loves us mankind that He is willing to let us choose between good and evil yet doesn't just leave us to our own devices.

He, the Almighty Creator and Lord of us all, so loves us that He has been sending a 124,000 prophets and messengers to Mankind since He created us through our Father Sayyidina Adam Alaihis Salam over Time.

He created us all from the Light of Muhammad Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam and from that Noor @ Light, Allah Azza Wa Jall chose to create the entire Creation.

This kind of knowledge can only be fathomed by those who are exposed to theological 'Ilm and have a wider sense of comprehension about the many facets of this earthly existence.

In Islam, we call this form of knowledge as 'Ilm Tasawwuf.

I for one am still and forever will be a diligent mureed @ student of this wondrous and amazing field of the study of the higher realms of the human endeavour to study beyond what we can normally see and comprehend.

Muhammad Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam's exemplary life remains as the standard and benchmark of an Abdillah's journey to understand and worship His Creator way beyond any other mortal's abilities.

If not for Rasul Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam, none of us would even be here, so to speak!

Yet there are many out there who deride the Noble Most Merciful Messenger of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.

They do so out of sheer ignorance and as a result of their unbridled ego which drags them closer and closer into the pits of the ever blazing Hellfire.

At the moment, the evildoers are still left to live out the remaining moments of their wasteful life's, giving them the illusion of being able to do and say as they please without realizing that each and every foul word, foul deed and foul intentions spewing out of their blackened hearts and rotten souls draws then nearer to an unfathomable doom.

We human beings are said to be forever in loss by Our Lord and Creator save for those who remain steadfast in our faith and in patience, enjoining all to the good and forbid the evil.

It's there in the Surah Al Asr.

Allah reminds us that :

1. Waal AAasri

1. By (the Token of) Time (through the ages),

2. Inna al-insana lafee khusrin

2. Verily Man is in loss,

3. Illa allatheena amanoo waAAamiloo alssalihati watawasaw bialhaqqi watawasaw bialssabri

3. Except such as have Faith, and do righteous deeds, and (join together) in the mutual teaching of Truth, and of Patience and Constancy.

The entire contents of the Qur'an, Allah's Final Testament to us Mankind was revealed to us through His Final Messenger, Muhammad ibni Abdullah, a thousand four hundred over years ago to guide us through these Last Ages.

Those who have it in them to learn and to study about who they are, what is their role here on Earth and as to what purpose they exist here as human beings do put in the effort and the struggle to learn all that there is to this life and when they realize their situations, waste no time in embracing the truth and choose to revere Allah and His Messenger for this blessing given to them to hold on to the Rope of Allah and the Sunnah of the Prophet with all their heart.

The irony is that there are millions of our fellow Children of Adam Alaihis Salam here who take their faith in vain and waste away their life's pursuing temporal pleasures, neglecting to make the best of their remaining moments here on Earth.

I can keep going on and on about the present status quo with regard to the waywardness of a major portion of our being clueless ummah but that would defeat the purpose of this write up this morning.

All I want to ask you, is to please reflect on the Life and Struggles of the Blessed Messenger and the immense sacrifices of his blessed Sahabahs @ Companions.

Watch the movie below to get an idea of how it was for Rasul Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam, the Mercy of Allah for all Mankind through this epic movie directed by the late Moustapha Akkad and a cast of talented actors.

May this movie stir you back to being the exemplary Muslim that you are and can be!

Ameen.

Wabillahi Taufik Wal Hidayah.

Wassalamualaikum Warahmatulillahi Ta'ala Wabarakatuh.

ACCIN helps settle another 'corpse snatching' case.

Dear fellow Malaysians,

I am relieved to be able to report and relay to you about a wonderful job carried out by ACCIN, the Allied Coordinating Committee of Islamic NGO's who have helped solve a problem relating to the withholding of the remains of a Malaysian Indian Hindu man who had passed away as a result of a road accident on Sunday, the 15th of February 2009.

I was just surfing the headlines online when I came across this disturbing case published in the official website of Malaysia's Hindu Sangam, the official body representing our nation's hindu community.

I am referring to this press statement from the Malaysia Hindu Sangam dated 17th February, 2009.

PRESS STATEMENT : MHS Saddened By Confiscation Of Body.

The Malaysia Hindu Sangam (MHS) is gravely disturbed to understand that the body of a deceased man, a practicing Hindu, has not been released to his wife and family for final rites. MHS is informed that the body is being retained by the Serdang Hospital mortuary upon the interference by Islamic Authorities, who have claimed that the deceased is a Muslim.

Mr Amaran was killed in a road accident on 15th February 2009, and his body was sent to the Serdang Hospital for post-mortem. His wife, Valarmathi, was shocked when informed by the hospital mortuary that her late husband’s body could not be released to her for Hindu funeral rites, as the authorities had laid claim to his body for Islamic burial rites instead.

His family maintains that Amaran has been a practicing Hindu all his life. He was married according Hindu ceremonial rites, and his marriage was also recorded in the Civil Registry as him being a Hindu. His children are also registered as Hindus. The family has explained to MHS that when Amaran changed his identity card to the new MyKad, the National Registration Department had erroneously listed his religion as Muslim, when in actual fact he was a practicing Hindu. He had notified the department of this at the time.

This situation is most disturbing and goes against the grain of the spirit of dialogue that has been ongoing between MHS and ACCIN (the Allied Coordinating Committee of Islamic NGOs). This dialogue has been aimed at overcoming conflicting situations such as this from arising, as has been experienced in several prior incidents.

The MHS strongly urges the authorities to immediately release the body of the deceased to the wife and family, so that they may be able to placate their grief on their loss, by completing the necessary funeral rites.

Let the family be at peace. The true spirit of Muhibbah must prevail.

Dated 17th February 2009

Datuk A Vaithilingam
President
Malaysia Hindu Sangam

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As a Muslim blogger and heading the Muslim Bloggers Alliance, naturally I felt that if this situation is true and that the withholding of the deceased's remains by the authorities is due to another gross slip up of a staff of the National Registration Department, then I ought to help out to solve this matter for the benefit of the deceased's family and also the ummah in general because this kind of battling over dead bodies is surely an unnecessary blot in our nation's reputation especially of that involving the good name and reputation of our Islamic authorities.

I then decided to try and contact the Malaysia Hindu Sangam for more details and try to glean as much information as I possibly can so as to network with my contacts in ACCIN and also the government departments concerned.

I called the Malaysia Hindu Sangam's main line and spoke to a Miss Sumathi who informed me that Datuk A Vaithilingam is overseas at the moment and can't be reached.

I then asked for his deputy's number and she gave me a Dr.Bala Tharmalingam's contact number (019-212 7003) who was also not available for a discussion as he was said to be in a meeting.

Dr.Bala Tharmalingam is the Chief Executive Officer of the Bukit Merah Laketown Institute of Allied Health Sciences, a nursing college.

I then called back the MHS main line and told Miss Sumathi that I would need to speak to another person representing the MHS and she gave me a Mr. Pardip Kumar's number which is 03-2070 8055.

A Miss Sharon answered and said that Mr.Pardip is engaged in a meeting and asked for my contact details so that once he's done, she'd have him call me back.

Some of you might say as to why the hell should I bother? Well, I do. I care for this nation.

Frankly speaking these kind of reports stating that the Malaysian authorities are once again turning into corpse snatchers simply doesn't go well with me as a Muslim!

As one who is very concerned with these kind of unnecessary problems which in actuality crops up because some fool screws up over there at the National Registration Department, we do have to bother and take the necessary steps to nip such problems in the bud, so to speak!

Due to the errors committed by some clerk over there at JPN, the consequences of his or her mistakes have come home to roost in the form of these disputes as to whether a deceased Non Malay citizen is a Muslim or not?

Do we seriously need these kind of problems cropping up again and again without fail?

Can we afford to keep having such squabbles amongst us when we are already suffering from political turmoil and its ensuing race and religious strife as a result of some keyboard punching data operator or clerk who turns into 'Little Napoleons' in the JPN @ NRD office and causes so much grievance to so many people and also endangers the fragile peace and harmony that we so desperately need in these troubling times?

This is not something to be 'pooh pooh'ed away dear ladies and gentlemen.

Those who have been entrusted to register the particulars of each and every Malaysian or permanent resident really needs to be very, very thorough in their carrying out of their duties and they themselves need to be without fail be supervised by responsible professional people who are the best amongst their counterparts!

Failure to check and recheck by the staff over there in the Jabatan Pendaftaran Negara @ National Registration Department has again caused an unnecessary situation for the grieving families.

*** Update ***

As I was typing this report, Dr.Bala Tharmalingam called and we spoke about this matter.

Dr. Bala informed me that the problem has been solved as a result of the very good work done by members of ACCIN, the Allied Coordinating Committee of Islamic NGO's!

This good news came to be exactly what I had been hoping for!

Dr.Bala updated me that ACCIN had helped the MHS to solve this problem by having those concerned carry out a thorough rechecking of all the relevant documents and details of the deceased and that they have helped confirm that the late Mr.Amaran was indeed a practicing Hindu and his remains have been released to his family as of yesterday.

Dr.Bala has expressed his sincere gratitude to ACCIN and appreciates their timely help in solving this case and hopes to see a more harmonious relationship amongst the many faiths and ethnic groups of this blessed nation.

Alhamdulillah!

I am just so relieved to know that an unnecessary religious tension has been solved and removed due to the prompt action by our brothers there in ACCIN and have helped thwart another case of 'corpse snatching' from messing up our much needed peace and harmony amongst this nation's multi ethnic, multi faithed population.

The JPN staff really need to be very, very careful not to mess up again and to please confirm and reconfirm each and every MyKad applicant's status to avoid future religious turmoil from breaking out again due to their careless and silly mistakes!

Malaysia can't afford to have such flare ups!

To those on duty at the JPN.

A heartfelt plea from Mahaguru58.

Please! Carry out your duties diligently and remember that the safety and well being of this nation rests with you and the manner by which you perform your duties.

Believe me when I say that you can make or break this nation if you ever mess up again!

I thank Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala for sparing us another unnecessary fiasco due to the slip up of the concerned JPN Registration Officer and would like to express my sincere appreciation to the ACCIN team for helping to solve another screw up and defuse another religious time bomb which just might have exploded into another flurry of accusations of 'corpse snatching' against the Malaysian Islamic authorities.

Alhamdulillah.

All's well that ends well.......for now.

I call upon the Malaysia Hindu Sangam to please update your website and inform your readers as to the satisfactory outcome of this case and that the family has been given the remains of the deceased Mr.Amaran promptly upon the irrefutable evidence that the error was on the part of the JPN staff and that everything is now settled.

This will help clear the air and help the nation return to a sense of normalcy again.

Thank you.

May Allah the Almighty bless and guide us as we strive to help maintain and upkeep the precious peace and harmony between us for the sake of this nation which is our motherland and home.

Ameen.

Zaynab's Story - Learn how Israel exports stolen Palestinian produce?

Mahaguru58 berkunjung ke Melaka Bandaraya Bersejarah. Siri Pertama.

Assalamualaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh.

Tuan tuan dan puan puan sekelian.

Pada 9hb yang lalu, tergerak hati ini untuk terus memandu ke arah Negeri Melaka bekas Empayar Kesultanan Melayu selepas makan tengahari bersama isteri tercinta kerna memang tabiat saya begitu, membuat keputusan diluar jangka pada saat terakhir...hehehehe..

Selalunya bila cuti umum, saya akan membawa buah hati saya berjalan ke sana sini mengikut keadaan dan gerak hati.

Memandangkan saya ni 'hero bunga' sampai bila bila, makanya saya mengajak isteri tercinta pergi bersiar siaran 'Jalan Jalan Cari Makan'. Beliau pun bersetuju. Alhamdulillah! :)

Niat asalnya hendak bawa buah hati pergi makan 'Ikan Bakar' di Port Dickson tetapi entah kenapa semasa memandu di Lebuhraya PLUS ke arah selatan tanahair, hati saya berkata teruskan memandu ke arah Melaka kerna sudah lama tak merasa 'Asam Pedas Melaka'.

Makanya memandangkan buah hati sudah terlena disebelah semasa memandu kereta, maka saya terasa ingin membuat kejutan padanya dengan terus menuju ke arah Melaka yang belum habis kami terokai bersama.Terus lah saya memandu ke arah negeri Hang Tuah.

Sampai sahaja ke sempadan Negeri Melaka, isteri saya dah tersedar dan beliau sedia maklum akan perangai suami! :P

Suka buat 'surprise'. Selaku isteri mithali, beliau tetap menerima keputusan saya dan tidak membantah, membuatkan saya lebih bersemangat ingin kembali ke Melaka walaupun ketika itu sudah lewat petang.

Sebaik tiba saja ke kawasan tempat meletak kereta di depan bangunan Stadhuys yang kini menjadi Muzium Negeri Melaka, kami bernasib baik kerna mendapat ruang kosong disana dan terus meletakkan kenderaan kami di sana dan kemudian pergi berjalan jalan melawat tempat tempat bersejarah dipersekitaran itu.


















Gambar ini di ambil selepas kami selamat meletakkan kereta di tempat yang disediakan. Sebaik sahaja kami tiba,ada kenderaan yang keluar. Alhamdulillah!

Kami berjalan menyusur bangunan bangunan lama yang kini di pelihara sebagai pelbagai macam muzium.


















Ni gambar saya posing dekat dinding salah satu bangunan muzium disana yang bercat merah.

Agak teruja melihat bangunan bangunan pra Merdeka masih berdiri megah meniti dedaun masa dan telah melalui perubahan demi perubahan di dalam penggunaan dan fungsi premis premis bersejarah itu.

Namun keseronokan saya serta isteri menghayati pelbagai keindahan struktur bangunan bangunan bersejarah itu diganggu bunyi bising pelbagai macam lagu dan hiruk pikuk semacam Pesta Pulau Pinang atau gegak gempita Perayaan Chap Goh Mei atau Thaipusam.


















Yang menghingar bingarkan suasana adalah berpuluh puluh beca Melaka yang dihias bagaikan kavadi orang orang India beragama Hindu.


















Memang menyakitkan hati betul melihat beca beca itu dihias semberono tanpa mengambil kira nilai estetik atau ketinggian budaya bersejarah Melaka zaman dahulu!


















Tidak ada langsung ciri ciri yang memaparkan kepelbagaian budaya warisan bangsa pada cara hias beca beca tersebut.

Lihat sendiri apa yang saya maksudkan?













Tak ubah macam cara kavadi dihias di Thaipusam. Soalnya kemana menghilangnya daya kreativiti penarik penarik beca Melaka seperti dulu dulu?


















Sayang seribu kali sayang.

Sekarang ini nampak macam sarkis. Siap dengan lagu entah apa apa dipasang kuat dan tidak memaparkan langsung budaya tradisional Melaka bersejarah.

Apa salahnya mereka memainkan lagu lagu Melayu Asli, Dondang Sayang Baba Nyonya Melaka, lagu lagu Portugis, kaum Chitti Melaka?

Memang tidak kreatif langsung orang orang yang mencari makan kat kawasan bersejarah Melaka sekarang ini.

Pihak Muzium Melaka pun sama juga.

Jika saya lah Pengarah Muzium Melaka, dah lama saya arahkan para penggiat seni bangsawan dan teater untuk membuat persembahan harian di Muzium Kesultanan Melayu Melaka itu!























Apa kah kurang para pelakon dan dramatis tempatan yang mampu membawa watak watak Sultan Melaka, Datuk Panglima Hang Tuah, Hang Jebat, Hang Lekiu, Hang Lekir dan Hang Kasturi?
















Ramai penggiat teater tempatan yang boleh dipanggil untuk menjayakan persembahan drama pendek dan para pengunjung dicaj bayaran masuk untuk menonton persembahan teater Kesultanan Melayu Melaka tersebut?

Para pengunjung ke Muzium Kesultanan Melayu Melaka mesti teruja melihat persembahan seni silat Melayu terutama nya babak pergaduhan antara Hang Tuah dan Hang Jebat berhunus keris!

























Semangat pendekar Melayu mesti dipupuk dan terus disemaikan didalam hati dan peribadi setiap anak Melayu baik lelaki mahupun perempuan!

Persilatan Melayu amat kaya dengan nilai seni bela diri dan seni tempur baik bersenjata mahupun bertangan kosong!

Tiupan nafiri dan serunai perang akan membakar semangat keperwiraan pendekar Melayu menyusun dan membuka langkah sedia mempertahankan diri pabila diserang musuh dan membela nusa dan bangsa demi menegakkan panji panji Allah di Tanah Melayu ini.

Bukankah terletak pada diri kita sekarang ini untuk mempertahankan tanahair ini dari dijajah kembali baik dari sesiapa sahaja , baik musuh luar ataupun dari petualang didalam negara sendiri!

Maka saranan saya adalah untuk Melayu Melaka bangun meneruskan tradisi dan merubah sejarah bumi Melaka dengan mengembalikan Daulah Kesultanan Melaka ke tempat asal warisan Melayu Semenanjung.

Kos untuk menonton persembahan ini sepatutnya berpatutan dengan mutu persembahan teater bangsawan sepertimana yang saya cadangkan?

Tidak payah mahal sangat. Bayar RM10.00 ke RM15.00 sekepala pun dah memadai untuk menonton persembahan selama 30 minit ke apa?

Makanya penggiat penggiat seni teater tempatan terutamanya anak anak Melaka boleh mencari makan dengan mengadakan persembahan harian disana.

Seni tari tradisi Melayu Melaka juga boleh dipersembahkan kepada orang awam. Ini juga boleh membuka peluang kepada perbadanan kebudayaan Melaka untuk menghidupkan aktiviti aktiviti mereka.

Secara tidak langsung akan timbul peluang peluang pekerjaan untuk warga tempatan mengambil kesempatan untuk :

1. Menghidupkan kenangan zaman kegemilangan Kesultanan Melaka
2. Menyambung warisan kebudayaan Melayu Melaka supaya tidak hilang di telan zaman
3. Menghidupkan sejarah
4. Para pelancung asing dan tempatan dapat melihat dengan mata kepala mereka sendiri dan menikmati persembahan bermutu tinggi.
5. Nilai Kesusasteraan Melayu Lama dapat terus dihidupkan dengan cara dailog dailog yang indah disebut dan dilafazkan secara zahir untuk pendengaran sekelian penonton.
6. Seni silat Pendekar Melayu boleh terus dihidupkan dan dipertontonkan kepada para pengunjung, menaikkan martabat seni silat tempatan supaya dipandang tinggi oleh pelancung asing dan juga warga tempatan
7. Cenderamata berupa pakaian songket Melayu, alat alat kelengkapan perhiasan Melayu seperti kerongsang, cucuk sanggul, pin tudung dan brooch boleh dijual sebagai kenang kenangan dan ole ole dari Melaka Bandaraya Bersejarah.
8. Pelbagai macam peluang perniagaan sampingan sebenarnya boleh dilakukan secara sistematik dan berjaya sekiranya pihak Perbadanan Muzium Melaka benar benar bijak menjalankan peranan mereka untuk terus menghidupkan budaya warisan Melayu dari Kesultanan Melayu Melaka didalam ertikata sebenarnya.

Saya mempunyai pelbagai macam ilham dan idea untuk memajukan kawasan bersejarah Melaka tetapi tengok keadaan lah samada akan saya menghubungi pihak pihak berkuasa di sana nanti.

Akan saya sambung nanti dengan paparan pelbagai lagi gambar gambar menarik yang sempat saya ambil disana dan juga kisah saya ketemu teman blogger Nobisha bersama anak isteri beliau semasa saya membawa isteri saya gi makan malam menjamu selera dengan ikan bakar di Medan Ikan Bakar Terapung kat Umbai.


















Sebagai penutup untuk bahagian pertama siri jelajah kami ke Bumi Melaka ini , tatapilah gambar saya beraksi dibelakang meriam tembaga ditepi kota A Famosa di Melaka.























Ready, get set.....fire!!!!

Elizabeth Wong's case - It's not nice to be so nasty!

Dear fellow Malaysians.

I am referring to the case where the PKR Assemblywoman for Bukit Lanjan, Selangor has been ostracized by so many for something which is surely not of her own doing?

I mean the widespread forwarding of intimate photos of herself via the internet when she was photographed without her knowledge during sleep by obviously an irresponsible rascal with whom she has had the misfortune to have been involved in!

This man who is at large has so heartlessly betrayed her and has had her good name tarnished as a result of his deplorable act of criminal breach of trust!

If it is true that Elizabeth @ a spinster has been involved with a Malay Muslim member of the PKR, then our society should be more outraged that there is this Muslim male who had taken advantage of the poor lady and after having had his way with her in a clearly adulterous relationship should be the one whom both the authorities and the Malaysian society hunt down and made to pay for his vicious crimes?

The sad, sordid reality however is that this spinster is being hounded by our oh so righteous claiming to be sweet angel's delusional Malaysian general public despite the evidence showing that she was photographed in such compromising situations in the privacy of her own home!

I mean, how bloody hypocritical can we be when we assume the position of being so holy moly when each and everyone of us aren't exactly shining beacons of immaculate moral icons?

Is there anyone amongst us today who has not sinned?

C'mon! Let's be true to ourselves

As Muslims we pray 5 times a day and at times miss some of such prayers due to being caught in our earthly affairs or whatever but here we are having the gall to scrutinize and find fault with a woman who has been betrayed by a man who if dealt with under the Syariah Laws stands guilty and ought to be whipped with a 100 lashes if the idiot is a single unmarried male or be stoned to death under Almighty Allah's laws if he is married and if such Hudud Laws of Allah ever come to be imposed here in Bolehland?

I've been following the case in the online news websites and the myriads of blogs which are just so quick to condemn this unfortunate soul!

Sheeesh!!!

What is our nation coming to be?

Are we not safe in our own homes anymore?

When did we start descending into this hypocritical state that deludes itself into being a true blue Islamic nation when in the actual reality we can give the morally bankrupt nations of the West a run for their money, so to speak?

We have in our major towns and cities, equal number of sin spots that would make any true individual hang his or her head in shame due to the festering maksiat and debauchery that takes place all over the nation?

Let's not be nasty dear people.

Elizabeth Wong is the victim here unlike our former Health Minister who would make Pfizer damn happy and proud for demonstrating the effectiveness of their EDS treatment blue pills and who when caught on tape subsequently tendered in his resignation from all his governmental positions due to being caught in the act literally with his pants down or in his case totally zilch.

Elizabeth Wong is a Christian woman who maybe has had an affair with a Muslim male?

The culprit has betrayed her and shamed her further by taking those exposing shots and maybe even sold such nasty shots for profit, adding further injury to her already devastated heart.

I do not know Elizabeth in person except maybe have come across her once during the Walk for Justice Malaysian Bar Council demo at Putrajaya but in my heart I feel so much sympathy for her sad situation.

I think she should just carry on with the trust that the voters of Bukit Lanjan have put in her and that the real culprit must be traced by the law enforcement authorities and hauled to court for breaching her trust in him and of having committed the vicious crime of personal defamation.

It's time for this nation to get rid of all these holier than thou pretext and uphold true justice for each and everyone of its citizens if we really are a true blue fair and democratic country?

Be nice and not nasty for a change.

Please!

Some of our bloggers have ulterior motives when they publish the cropped pictures of Eli standing up close to the Selangor MB Khalid Ibrahim as if the lass is one itchy bitchy amoi when in reality Sivarasa is also pressed up against her for a Chinese New Year PKR photo shoot?

See what I mean by some folks getting just a tad too nasty?














They emphasized on Eli having her chest touch the S'gor MB's shoulder but they deviously didn't show you the full picture!

Here it is! It was surely taken at the spur of the moment before each of them even realized the consequences of having the situation turned into a major character assassination media spree!



















Let your conscience speak and let Malaysia stop being so pretencious for once!

Please go after the bloody idiot who went AWOL and stop the witch hunt till we really get to learn of the whole scenario before we get so hasty to be and act as the judge, jury and executioner of poor ol' Liz!

I'm not saying that Elizabeth Wong is an angel or what but compared to the other demons masquerading out there in our nation's political circus, I'd say don't be too nasty about this.

If we truly are to judge anyone, we should very often try standing before our own mirror?

Frankly, we will surely be more embarrassed when and if Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala decides to screen and broadcast our own deeds or misdeeds in the Yaum al Mahsyar later!

Yaum al Mahsyar meaning the Day of Reckoning!

Read up about it.

When Christians pretend to worship Allah!

Assalamualaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh.

Ya Ikhwanul Muslimin.

The latest attempt by the Christians here in Malaysia to create a storm in a teacup has come to its apex when their recalcitrant stand to continue using the term 'Allah' in their publications has now come to be discussed at the national level via RTM TV1 last night.

I watched the live telecast and was quite pleased to see and listen to the 3 distinguished panelists in the form of a former Christian priest who has embraced Islam and now being a Da'ee over there in Kuching's Islamic Information Centre, the President of Malaysia's Chinese Muslims and an academic from Malaysia's oldest university.

Each distinguished guest explained crystal clearly as to why it is wrong for the Christians to use the term 'Allah' to represent their idea of Almighty God because Allah is unique and sovereign on His Own and must never be misrepresented to be what the Christians here imagine Him to be?

In the Holy Qur'an Chapter 112, Surah Al Ikhlas @ Purity (of Faith) , Allah the Almighty describes Himself by this revelation :

1. Qul huwa Allahu ahadun

1. Say: He is Allah, the One and Only;

2. Allahu alssamadu

2. Allah, the Eternal, Absolute;

3. Lam yalid walam yooladu

3. He begets not, nor is He begotten;

4. Walam yakun lahu kufuwan ahadun

4. And there is none like unto Him.

Brothers and sisters,

Allah the Almighty crystal clearly is telling us that He is One. Allah is Eternal unlike us mortal beings who come into being with His Will and live or die as He pleases. Allah also tells us clearly that He does not beget (procreate) and that He Himself was not born or created for He is The Creator. Allah completes this Surah by telling us Mankind that there is none like Him.

Four short verses but which in actuality contain oceans of information to those who have it in them to think and comprehend.

Let's take the first verse.

"Qul huwallah hu Ahad!"

Say (O Muhammad) that Allah is One.

God is One.

We must see this as clear as it is. There is no such thing as 3 in 1 unless of course you are talking about the various coffee mixtures nowadays which are sold in the easy to use packs.

The dogma about Trinity which the amazingly confused folks amongst the Christian community worldwide ascribe to is just so unbelievable and obviously self imagined that only those who succeed in coming out of that self imposed mindset can clearly see as to why its preposterous to have 3 imaginary Godlike characters who when necessary morph into one as what the Christians would have themselves believe?

As a Caller to Islam, I have all these while kept myself out of the fray of those who relish to hurl insults and accusations between the Muslims and the Christians for I cherish not having to rub salt into anybody's wounds especially into the hearts and souls of my Christian brothers and sisters who as I see them are mostly made up of good gentle souls who cherish goodwill and love life itself but are sadly caught up in the bog of innovative religious dogma and assumptions.

I'm not saying that Muslims are picture perfect and absolutely sinless either. We all know that we have equal numbers of people who imagine this and that and often commit shirk and khurafat practices in the name of Islam and are at times even worse than the Kaffirs out there.

I am drawn into speaking about the Christians here due to one reason only. The current brouhaha about the Christians who publish the Herald Magazine to use the term 'Allah' instead of Tuhan in their Malay version of their church newsletter.

You see, whether we like it or not, the usage of Allah can lead to confusion amongst both Christians and Muslims alike if and when they do not have a strong solid base in their respective bedrock of beliefs.

I won't worry too much about the Christians for it is entirely up to them to learn and discover what their creed is about but I'm concerned as to the state of faith of the young and clueless amongst the rising number of Malaysia's wayward Malay youths of today.

Let's call a spade just that and the failure of the religious authorities of Malaysia in seeing to it that Dakwah al Islamiyyah should have been carried out in the real sense from day one of this nation getting free from the British Colonial rule in 1957.

Whether we like it or not, we have to dig into the truth and expose the root cause for the growing ignorance amongst the Malays as to what Islam is and what it is not?

The Malay Sultans despite having the amanah of being the 'Keepers of Islam' have failed in general to carry out their duties and roles in the truest sense of the word.

Just having Malaysians forcibly read and profess the Rukunegara where we are told to :

1. Belief in God
2. Be loyal to the King and Country
3. Submit to the Laws.
4. Uphold the Constitution
5. Be moral and civil.

...doesn't really produce the exemplary citizens that the founding fathers of this nation wished for?

We have the 'Belief in God' expressed in our nation's schoolgoing children and youngsters exercise books but in reality the gist of that principle is not professed with the deepest understanding and acceptance as it should?

We can just go up to any school kid and ask him or her as to what they understand to be God?

How many of even the adults of this land can actually come up with a satisfying answer as to who or what God is?

I don't wish to touch upon the other faiths.

I want to talk about Allah as per what we who are Muslims are expected to believe in and ought to come up with satisfying answers?

To me, the Surah Al Ikhlas compounds the whole identity of Allah to the 'T'.

Qul hu wallah hu Ahad.

Say Allah is One.

I accept that, plain and simple. I prefer to keep things simple.

Its a bloody waste of time for me to go dig too deep into this and that just to justify as to why I accept that there is only One God and that God is Allah!

I have no doubts about it at all.

I can't allow any doubts to offset my firm and absolute belief that there is any other supreme being worthy of worship other than Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.

If I have the slightest of doubts about that, I'd cease to be a Muslim.

That would be impossible for I am one who believes to the very last cell or atom in my body and soul that there is only One Rabb. One Creator and He is Almighty Allah.

For the Christians to come publish their description of God as they imagine Him to be 1 out of 3, is simply too preposterous for me and the rest of the Muslims here in Malaysia to accept that the 'Allah' that they describe their imagined deity to be is the very same Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala that we Muslims believe in and submit ourselves to!

To me that is a pretension of believing in Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala on the part of the Roman Catholic Christians of Malaysia who publish their 'Herald' magazine which gives way to confusion to set in the hearts and minds of all those impressionable minds out there who would come to a generalization that Christianity and Islam is the same when we have these people publishing and using the term 'Allah' to define their Christian concept of God and their Trinity. 3 in 1.

That we can't accept and just let it be.

No way.

A true Muslim must never let those who are out to undermine the supremacy of Allah's true faith of Al Islam here in Malaysia to be infiltrated and confused with their self imagined beliefs and concepts of belief.

Muslims wouldn't be bothered to interfere or question the Christians in any way here in Malaysia if the publishers of the Herald magazine had used the proper Malay translation of 'Tuhan' to describe 'God' in their publications.

Yes Sir.

We will just mind our own business and let the Christians or any other faith adherents to go about their own set of beliefs and customs.

We have much more better and important things to do in our own life's.

Yet this stubbornness on the part of the Christian publishers of the in church publication magazine who insist on using the term 'Allah' to describe their concept of God is deliberately creating a religious crisis in this nation to as I suspect to merit foreign intervention into the affairs of this nation and subsequently legitimize foreign attack and assault upon this country's sovereignty.

Who knows?

This is my own suspicion and I reserve the right to fear for my country as a loyal rightful citizen of Malaysia and a supporter of the Islamic authorities of Malaysia.

We have seen the foreign invasion and subsequent occupation of the once strong, rich with natural resources Muslim nation such as Iraq by the United States of America and the UK.

We have seen Afghanistan, a poor struggling Muslim nation be blasted back to the Stone Age by the Christians of America and the same colonial oppressor which is Britain.

We see American and British hands behind the tragedy that is Palestine which has been handed on a silver platter to the Zionist regime using their military might to rob the Palestinians of their lands and the systematic massacre and genocide of the Muslims there, right before the very eyes of the whole cuckolded world's nations.

This obstinacy on the part of the Herald magazine publishers seems to not be just an idle act of recalcitrance on their part.

Even the distinguished panelists last night on RTM's TV 1 spoke of hidden agenda's on the part of the Catholic Christians in publishing that magazine using the term of 'Allah' to describe their version of God.

The Christians pretend to worship Allah by using the term when in actuality they seriously do not submit to the very first verse of the blessed Surah Al Ikhlas.
Qul hu wallah hu ahad!

Say Allah is One! I call upon the Christian publishers to agree with us Muslims that there is only one Allah!

Come say with us that there is only One God and that He is Allah as they wish to address Him to be and the Christians who are publishing the Herald will find me to become one of their strongest supporters for the right to use 'Allah' in their publications.

I do not wish to go further on the subject. Just this one singular aspect covers it all.

Let's reflect on the mission of Allah's Final Messenger here on Earth who was appointed to call the pagans of Makkah a thousand four hundred over years ago to testify that ' There is only One God' and that God is none but Allahu Ta'ala!

He, Muhammad Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam, the Seal of the Prophets, did that for 13 long years in Makkah al Mukkarramah before the Hijrah to Madinah al Munawwarah.

Just calling people to worship only ONE GOD! Allah Azza Wa Jalla.

I invite with the best of intentions my Christian fellow Malaysians to attest with us who are Muslims the Declaration that ' There is only one Allah!

Come make an open statement that you agree with us that you too worship and glorify only One God!

I declare that you will find us to be your most ardent supporters to have the right to publish using 'Allah' in your publications.

Insya Allah!

May Allah bless and guide us all.

Ameen.

Wabillahi Taufik Wal Hidayah.

Wassalamualaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh.

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Here is an article that merits your attention as well. Taken from www.islam.org

Allah ( God )

"To God ( Allah ) belongs 99 names"

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It is a known fact that every language has one or more terms that are used in reference to God and sometimes to lesser deities. This is not the case with Allah. Allah is the personal name of the One true God. Nothing else can be called Allah. The term has no plural or gender. This shows its uniqueness when compared with the word god which can be made plural, gods, or feminine, goddess. It is interesting to notice that Allah is the personal name of God in Aramaic, the language of Jesus and a sister language of Arabic.

The One true God is a reflection of the unique concept that Islam associates with God. To a Muslim, Allah is the Almighty, Creator and Sustainer of the universe, Who is similar to nothing and nothing is comparable to Him. The Prophet Muhammad was asked by his contemporaries about Allah; the answer came directly from God Himself in the form of a short chapter of the Quran, which is considered the essence of the unity or the motto of monotheism. This is chapter 112 which reads:

"In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate.
Say (O Muhammad) He is God the One God, the Everlasting Refuge, who has not begotten, nor has been begotten, and equal to Him is not anyone."

Some non-Muslims allege that God in Islam is a stern and cruel God who demands to be obeyed fully. He is not loving and kind. Nothing can be farther from truth than this allegation. It is enough to know that, with the exception of one, each of the 114 chapters of the Quran begins with the verse: "In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate." In one of the sayings of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) we are told that "God is more loving and kinder than a mother to her dear child."

But God is also Just. Hence evildoers and sinners must have their share of punishment and the virtuous, His bounties and favors. Actually God's attribute of Mercy has full manifestation in His attribute of Justice. People suffering throughout their lives for His sake and people oppressing and exploiting other people all their lives should not receive similar treatment from their Lord. Expecting similar treatment for them will amount to negating the very belief in the accountability of man in the Hereafter and thereby negating all the incentives for a moral and virtuous life in this world. The following Quranic verses are very clear and straightforward in this respect:

"Verily, for the Righteous are gardens of Delight, in the Presence of their Lord. Shall We then treat the people of Faith like the people of Sin? What is the matter with you? How judge you?" (68:34-36)

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Islam rejects characterizing God in any human form or depicting Him as favoring certain individuals or nations on the basis of wealth, power or race. He created the human beings as equals. They may distinguish themselves and get His favor through virtue and piety only.

The concept that God rested in the seventh day of creation, that God wrestled with one of His soldiers, that God is an envious plotter against mankind, or that God is incarnate in any human being are considered blasphemy from the Islamic point of view.

The unique usage of Allah as a personal name of God is a reflection of Islam's emphasis on the purity of the belief in God which is the essence of the message of all God's messengers. Because of this, Islam considers associating any deity or personality with God as a deadly sin which God will never forgive, despite the fact He may forgive all other sins.

[Note that what is meant above applies ONLY to those people who die in a state wherein they are associating others with God. The repentance of those who yet live is acceptable to God if He wills. - MSA of USC]

The Creator must be of a different nature from the things created because if he is of the same nature as they are, he will be temporal and will therefore need a maker. It follows that nothing is like Him. If the maker is not temporal, then he must be eternal. But if he is eternal, he cannot be caused, and if nothing outside him causes him to continue to exist, which means that he must be self-sufficient. And if the does not depend on anything for the continuance of his own existence, then this existence can have no end. The Creator is therefore eternal and everlasting: "He is the First and the Last."

He is Self-Sufficient or Self-Subsistent or, to use a Quranic term, Al-Qayyum. The Creator does not create only in the sense of bringing things into being, He also preserves them and takes them out of existence and is the ultimate cause of whatever happens to them.

"God is the Creator of everything. He is the guardian over everything. Unto Him belong the keys of the heavens and the earth." (39:62, 63)

"No creature is there crawling on the earth, but its provision rests on God. He knows its lodging place and it repository." (11:6)

God's Attributes

If the Creator is Eternal and Everlasting, then His attributes must also be eternal and everlasting. He should not lose any of His attributes nor acquire new ones. If this is so, then His attributes are absolute. Can there be more than one Creator with such absolute attributes? Can there be for example, two absolutely powerful Creators? A moment's thought shows that this is not feasible.

The Quran summarizes this argument in the following verses:

"God has not taken to Himself any son, nor is there any god with Him: For then each god would have taken of that which he created and some of them would have risen up over others." (23:91)

And Why, were there gods in earth and heaven other than God, they (heaven and earth) would surely go to ruin." (21:22)

The Oneness of God

The Quran reminds us of the falsity of all alleged gods. To the worshippers of man-made objects, it asks:

"Do you worship what you have carved yourself?" (37:95)

"Or have you taken unto you others beside Him to be your protectors, even such as have no power either for good or for harm to themselves?" (13:16)

To the worshippers of heavenly bodies it cites the story of Abraham:

"When night outspread over him he saw a star and said, 'This is my Lord.' But when it set he said, 'I love not the setters.' When he saw the moon rising, he said, 'This is my Lord.' But when it set he said, 'If my Lord does not guide me I shall surely be of the people gone astray.' When he saw the sun rising, he said, 'This is my Lord; this is greater.' But when it set he said, 'O my people, surely I quit that which you associate, I have turned my face to Him Who originated the heavens and the earth; a man of pure faith, I am not of the idolaters.'" (6:76-79)

The Believer's Attitude

In order to be a Muslim, i.e., to surrender oneself to God, it is necessary to believe in the oneness of God, in the sense of His being the only Creator, Preserver, Nourisher, etc. But this belief - later on called "Tawhid Ar-Rububiyyah" - is not enough. Many of the idolaters knew and believed that only the Supreme God could do all this, but that was not enough to make them Muslims. To tawhid ar-rububiyyah one must add tawhid al'uluhiyyah, i.e., one acknowledges the fact that is God alone Who deserves to be worshipped, and thus abstains from worshipping any other thing or being.

Having achieved this knowledge of the one true God, man should constantly have faith in Him, and should allow nothing to induce him to deny truth.

When faith enters a person's heart, it causes certain mental states which result in certain actions. Taken together these mental states and actions are the proof for the true faith. The Prophet said, "Faith is that which resides firmly in the heart and which is proved by deeds." Foremost among those mental states is the feeling of gratitude towards God which could be said to be the essence of 'ibada' (worship).

The feeling of gratitude is so important that a non-believer is called 'kafir' which means 'one who denies a truth' and also 'one who is ungrateful.'

A believer loves, and is grateful to God for the bounties He bestowed upon him, but being aware of the fact that his good deeds, whether mental or physical, are far from being commensurate with Divine favors, he is always anxious lest God should punish him, here or in the Hereafter. He, therefore, fears Him, surrenders himself to Him and serves Him with great humility. One cannot be in such a mental state without being almost all the time mindful of God. Remembering God is thus the life force of faith, without which it fades and withers away.

The Quran tries to promote this feeling of gratitude by repeating the attributes of God very frequently. We find most of these attributes mentioned together in the following verses of the Quran:

"He is God; there is no god but He, He is the Knower of the unseen and the visible; He is the All-Merciful, the All-Compassionate. He is God, there is no God but He. He is the King, the All-Holy, the All-Peace, the Guardian of Faith, the All-Preserver, the All-Mighty, the All-Compeller, the All-Sublime. Glory be to God, above that they associate! He is God the Creator, the Maker, the Shaper. To Him belong the Names Most Beautiful. All that is in the heavens and the earth magnifies Him; He is the All-Mighty, the All-Wise." (59:22-24)

"There is no god but He, the Living, the Everlasting. Slumber seizes Him not, neither sleep; to Him belongs all that is in the heavens and the earth. Who is there that shall intercede with Him save by His leave? He knows what lies before them and what is after them, and they comprehend not anything of His knowledge save such as He wills. His throne comprises the heavens and earth; the preserving of them oppresses Him not; He is the All-High, the All-Glorious." (2:255)

"People of the Book, go not beyond the bounds in your religion, and say not as to God but the truth. The Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, was only the Messenger of God, and His Word that He committed to Mary, and a Spirit from Him. So believe in God and His Messengers, and say not, 'Three.' Refrain; better is it for you. God is only one God. Glory be to Him - (He is) above having a son." (4:171)

Source : III&E Brochure Series; No. 2
(published by The Institute of Islamic Information and Education (III&E))

Read also :

• http://godallah.com
• http://www.allahexists.com
• http://www.light-of-life.com/eng/gospel/g4105efm.htm

May you get to understand Allah the Most Merciful, Most Compassionate God, Creator and Lord of all Creation in the clearest manner as we should.

May Allah bless us all.

Ameen.

Lest we forget! Ongoing Zionist Israeli Atrocities upon Palestinians.

The whole nation's attention seems focused on Elizabeth Wong's exposed self where a culprit has betrayed her trust and besmeared her honor by spreading online images of herself asleep at her home.

Yes, she screwed up literally by allowing herself to be caught in such an embarrassing situation but we must not forget that over there in Palestine, the Zionist Israelis are waging war upon a poor defenseless people whose lands they have robbed!

The Zionist regime has the blood of so many innocent Palestinians on their hands yet almost the whole populace here in Bolehland seems fixated upon things such as how Elizabeth Wong looks like in the raw?

Has Malaysia been turned into a nation of sick, sex crazed perverts?

It's true that people nowadays are so bloody obsessed with matters concerning sin and debauchery that they miss the forest for the trees especially when it involves the calculated murder and ethnic cleansing of a people who were once living in relative peace in their own homeland.

Today, the whole world seems too busy to notice or do the right thing by getting the Zionist regime out of the occupied lands of the Palestinians and instead choose to waste so much time and money on matters that border on the ludicrous!

Sheeeesh...........

Usul2 YB Zulkifli bin Noordin Kulim Bandar Bharu Sesi Pertama Penggal Kedua Parlimen ke 12

Tuan tuan dan puan puan,

Berikut adalah usul usul yang akan dibawa YB Zulkifli Nordin, Ahli Parlimen Kulim Bandar Bharu. Selaku seorang rakan blogger didalam dunia siber, beliau meminta saya menyiarkan kepada umum sebagai makluman akan perkara perkara penting yang ada hubungkaitnya dengan kehidupan kita Umat Islam seMalaysia.

Sebarang persoalan hendaklah diemelkan kepada alamat beliau : zul_lawyer@yahoo.com

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USUL AHLI PARLIMEN KULIM BANDAR BHARU

MESYUARAT PERTAMA PENGGAL KEDUA PARLIMEN KE 12

1. Zulkifli Bin Noordin (Kulim Bandar Bharu) akan mencadangkan:-
   

“Bahawa Dewan ini mengambil ketetapan agar Kerajaan Persekutuan mengambil langkah supaya Artikel 3 Perlembagaan Persekutuan dipinda dengan menambah perkataan saperti berikut (saperti yang dihitamkan):

‘Islam adalah agama bagi Persekutuan termasuk dari segi undang-undang dan syariatnya’.

[ Perdana Menteri]

2. Zulkifli Bin Noordin (Kulim Bandar Bharu) akan mencadangkan:-
   

“Bahawa Dewan ini mengambil ketetapan agar Kerajaan Persekutuan mengambil langkah supaya Artikel 4 Perlembagaan Persekutuan dipinda dengan menambah perkataan saperti berikut (saperti yang dihitamkan):

‘Perlembagaan ini adalah undang-undang utama Persekutuan dan, kecuali undang-undang dan syariat Islam, apa-apa undang-undang yang diluluskan berlawanan dengan Perlembagaan ini hendaklah terbatal setakat ianya berlawanan itu’.

[Perdana Menteri]

3. Zulkifli Bin Noordin (Kulim Bandar Bharu) akan mencadangkan:-
   

“Bahawa Dewan ini mengambil ketetapan agar Kerajaan Persekutuan mengambil langkah supaya Artikel 11 (1) Perlembagaan Persekutuan dipinda dengan menambah perkataan saperti berikut (saperti yang dihitamkan):-

‘Tiap-tiap orang adalah berhak menganuti dan mengamalkan ugamanya, termasuk menukar agamanya kecuali bagi penganut ugama Islam yang hendaklah tertakluk kepada undang-undang dan syariat Islam.

Bagi maksud penganut ugama Islam, soal kemasukan dan kemurtadan dari ugama Islam hendaklah ditentukan oleh Mahkamah Syariah yang mempunyai bidangkuasa mutlak keatasnya’.

[ Perdana Menteri ]

4. Zulkifli Bin Noordin (Kulim Bandar Bharu) akan mencadangkan:-
   

“Bahawa Dewan ini mengambil ketetapan agar Kerajaan mengambil langkah supaya Jadual 9 Senarai 2 (1) Perlembagaan Persekutuan dipinda dengan membuang perkataan saperti berikut:-

‘…tetapi tidak mempunyai bidangkuasa mengenai kesalahan-kesalahan kecuali setakat yang diberi oleh undang-undang persekutuan…’ dan diganti dengan perkataan berikut;

‘dan mempunyai bidangkuasa mengenai apa-apa jua kesalahan jenayah syarie dan lain-lain yang ditetapkan atau diperuntukkan didalam hukum syara’ dan undang-undang Islam termasuk membicarakan, memutuskan dan menghukum mana-mana orang Islam yang berkenaan menurut sabitan dan hukuman yang ditetapkan oleh hukum syara’ dan undang-undang Islam’.

Dan Akta Mahkamah Syariah (Bidangkuasa Jenayah) 1965 hendaklah dipinda bersesuaian dengan pindaan kepada Jadual 9 Senarai 2 (1) Perlembagaan Persekutuan saperti yang dinyatakan diatas”.

[ Perdana Menteri ]

5. Zulkifli Bin Noordin (Kulim Bandar Bharu) akan mencadangkan:-
   

“Bahawa Dewan ini mengambil ketetapan agar Kerajaan Persekutuan mengambil langkah memansuh dan menghapuskan semua amalan dan upacara bertafakkur yang diadakan di hadapan Tugu Negara dan semua langkah yang berkesan dan efektif diambil agar anggota tentera, polis dan lain-lain anggota beruniform tidak dipaksa dan/ atau diarah melakukan upacara dan amalan kawad hormat dan/ atau bertafakkur di hadapan Tugu Negara”

6. Zulkifli Bin Noordin (Kulim Bandar Bharu) akan mencadangkan:-
   

“Bahawa Dewan ini mengambil ketetapan mendesak Kerajaan Persekutuan dengan kerjasama semua Kerajaan Negeri supaya melantik seorang Mufti Negara sebagai Ketua bagi dan dengan kuasa dan otoriti mengatasi kesemua Mufti-Mufti dan menjadi Pengerusi bagi Majlis Fatwa Kebangsaan dengan tanggungjawab dan menjawab hanya kepada Yang DiPertuan Agong dan Majlis Raja-Raja”.

[ Perdana Menteri ]

7. Zulkifli Bin Noordin (Kulim Bandar Bharu) akan mencadangkan:-
   

“Bahawa Dewan ini mengambil langkah untuk menubuhkan sebuah jawatankuasa caucus khusus untuk menangani dan memantau dan mengambil langkah-langkah berkaitan dengan masalah Palestin dan menamakan badan ini sebagai ‘Jawantankuasa Caucus bagi Palestin’ dengan Perdana Menteri sendiri sebagai Pengerusi Caucus tersebut”.

8. Zulkfifli Bin Noordin (Kulim Bandar Bharu) akan mencadangkan:-
   

“Bahawa Dewan ini mengambil ketetapan mendesak Kerajaan Persekutuan supaya peruntukkan pembangunan berjumlah RM1,000,000-00 dan lain-lain peruntukkan yang selama ini diberikan kepada Ahli Parlimen Barisan Nasional juga diberikan kepada kesemua Ahli Parlimen termasuk dari bukan kerajaan menurut terma dan syarat sebagaimana yang diberikan kepada Ahlim Parlimen Barisan Nasional”.

[ Menteri Kewangan ]

9. Zulkifli Bin Noordin (Kulim Bandar Bharu) akan mencadangkan:-
   

“Bahawa Dewan ini mengambil langkah untuk menubuhkan sebuah jawatankuasa caucus khusus untuk menangani dan memantau dan mengambil langkah-langkah berkaitan dengan hal ehwal Islam dalam negara ini dengan tujuan unjtuk memartabatkan, memperkukuhkan dan mempertahankan hal ehwal Islam dan menamakan badan ini sebagai ‘Jawantankuasa Caucus bagi Hal Ehwal Islam’ dengan Perdana Menteri sendiri sebagai Pengerusi Caucus tersebut”.

[ Perdana Menteri ]

10. Zulkifli Bin Noordin (Kulim Bandar Bharu) mencadangkan:-
    

“Bahawa Dewan ini mengambil langkah untuk menubuhkan sebuah jawatankuasa caucus khusus untuk menangani dan memantau dan mengambil langkah-langkah berkaitan dengan hal ehwal masyarakat India dengan tujuan unjtuk memantapkan kedudukan ekonomi mereka dan menyelesaikan permasalahan kewarganegaraan dan kad pengenalan mereka dan dinamakan sebagai Jawatankuasa Caucus bagi Hal Ehwal Masyarakat India’ dengan Menteri Kewangan sebagai Pengerusi Caucus tersebut”.

[ Menteri Kewangan ]

11. Zulkifli Bin Noordin (Kulim Bandar Bharu) mencadangkan:-
    

“Bahawa Dewan ini mengambil ketetapan mendesak Kementerian Pelajaran supaya dengan serta-merta memansuhkan pengajian matapelajaran Sains & Matematik dalam Bahasa Inggeris dan menggantikan ia dengan menggunakan Bahasa Melayu sebagai bahasa pengajian matapelajaran tersebut”.

[ Menteri Pelajaran ]

12. Zulkifli Bin Noordin (Kulim Bandar Bharu) mencadangkan:-
    

“Bahawa Dewan ini mengambil ketetapan mendesak Kerajaan Persekutuan supaya mengambil langkah menyiarkan dan mewajibkan siaran azan pada tiap-tiap waktu solat fardu yang lima dikesemua tempat awam tanpa sebarang sekatan dan/ atau halangan”.

[ Menteri Penerangan ]

13. Zulkifli Bin Noordin (Kulim Bandar Bharu) mencadangkan:-
    

“Bahawa Dewan ini mengambil ketetapan mendesak Menteri Hal Ehwal Dalam Negeri mengambil langkah supaya kesemua banduan dan tahanan yang disabit dan dikenakan hukuman penjara sepanjang hayat hendaklah dikurangkan hukuman penjara tidak melebihi 20 (dua puluh tahun) dan bagi yang telah menjalani hukuman melebihi jumlah 20 tahun tersebut (setelah ditolak cuti dan kelakuan baik) hendaklah dibebaskan dengan serta-merta”.

[ Menteri Hal Ehwal Dalam Negeri ]

14. Zulkifli Bin Noordin (Kulim Bandar Bharu) mencadangkan:-
    

“Bahawa Dewan ini mengambil langkah mendesak Menteri Pengangkutan supaya mengarahkan dan/ atau mengenakan syarat kepada syarikat penerbangan Air Asia supaya kakitangan wanitanya terutama pramugari hendaklah berpakaian yang lebih sopan sekurang-kurangnya saperti pramugari Penerbangan Malaysia”.

[ Menteri Pengangkutan ]

15. Zulkifli Bin Noordin (Kulim Bandar Bharu) mencadangkan:-
    

“Bahawa Dewan ini mengambil ketetapan mendesak Menteri Pengangkutan supaya mengarahkan dan/ atau mengenakan syarat kepada syarikat Penerbangan Malaysia dan Air Asia supaya membenarkan kakitangan wanitanya yang beragama Islam khususnya pramugari dibenarkan memakai tudung menurut yang ditetapkan oleh hukum syara’ dengan pakaian seragam yang bersesuaian sebagaimana yang telahpun dilaksanakan oleh banyak syarikat penerbangan antarabangsa lain saperti Saudi Air, Emirates Airways, Brunei Airline dan lain-lain”.

[ Menteri Pengangkutan ]

16. Zulkifli Bin Noordin (Kulim Bandar Bharu) mencadangkan:-
    

“Bahawa Dewan ini mengambil ketetapan mendesak Menteri Pengangkutan melarang dan/ atau mengenakan syarat kepada syarikat Penerbangan Malaysia supaya menghentikan penjualan arak dan lain-lain minuman keras dan yang memabukkan semasa didalam penerbangan sebagaimana yang telahpun dilaksanakan oleh banyak syarikat penerbangan antarabangsa lain saperti Saudi Air, Emirates Airways, Brunei Airline dan lain-lain”.

[ Menteri Pengangkutan ]

17. Zulkifli Bin Noordin (Kulim Bandar Bharu) mencadangkan:-
    

“Bahawa Dewan ini mengambil ketetapan mendesak Menteri Perdagangan Dalam Negeri dan Hal Ehwal Pengguna melarang dan/ atau mengenakan syarat kepada syarikat perniagaan runic Seven-Eleven (7-11) dilarang sama sekali daripada menjual arak dan/ atau apa-apa minuman keras dan yang memabukkan serta sebarang bentuk kondom dipremisnya”.

[ Menteri Perdagangan Dalam Negeri & Hal Ehwal Pengguna ]

18. Zulkifli Bin Noordin (Kulim Bandar Bharu) mencadangkan:-
    

“Bahawa Dewan ini mengambil ketetapan mendesak Menteri Dalam Negeri supaya dengan segera mengambil langkah membebaskan semua tahanan Akta Keselamatan Dalam Negeri yang ditahan kononnya atas dakwaan terlibat dengan kegiatan militant Islam saperti Kumpulan Mujahidin Malaysia (KMM), Jemaah Islam Malaysia (JI), Kumpulan Al Maunah dan lain-lain dan jika pihak keselamatan mempunyai apa-apa bukti dan keterangan terhadap mereka hendaklah mereka dengan segera dibawa ke hadapan sebuah Mahkamah yang berbidang kuasa untuk membicarakan mereka tanpa sebrang kelengahan lagi”.

[ Menteri Dalam Negeri ]

19. Zulkifli Bin Noordin (Kulim Bandar Bharu) mencadangkan:-
    

“Bahawa Dewan ini mengambil ketetapan mendesak Menteri Dalam Negeri supaya dengan segera mengambil langkah membebaskan semua tahanan Akta Keselamatan Dalam Negeri yang ditahan kononnya atas dakwaan terlibat dengan kegiatan militant Hindu Hindraf dan jika pihak keselamatan mempunyai apa-apa bukti dan keterangan terhadap mereka hendaklah mereka dengan segera dibawa ke hadapan sebuah Mahkamah yang berbidang kuasa untuk membicarakan mereka tanpa sebarang kelengahan lagi”.

[ Menteri Dalam Negeri ]

20. Zulkifli Bin Noordin (Kulim Bandar Bharu) mencadangkan:-
    

“Bahawa Dewan ini mengambil ketetapan mencadangkan kepada Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri supaya mengkaji dan melaksanakan projek membesarkan dan membaikpulih Masjid Jame’ Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur termasuk membina mihrab dan mimbar baru yang bersesuaian, menurap keseluruhan tapak Masjid tersebut dengan marmar sabagaimana yang dibuat di Masjidil Haram dan Masjid Nabawi serta memperkukuhkan bumbong Masjid tersebut agar dapat menampung jemaah untuk mengerjakan solat terutamanya solat Jumaat dan kedua Eidulfitri & Eiduladha memandangkan pertambahan jemaah yang semakin meningkat mutakhir ini”.

[ Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri ]

Khmer Rouge Murderer Stands Trial. When are the Memali Murderers going to face the courts?

From the BBC NEWS / Asia-Pacific :

Khmer Rouge's Duch set for trial

By Guy Delauney BBC News, Phnom Penh

Duch ran a Khmer Rouge prison where almost all inmates were killed

A former Cambodian prison chief accused of presiding over thousands of murders will be the first person to go on trial at country's Khmer Rouge tribunal.

Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Comrade Duch, faces charges of crimes against humanity and war crimes.

He ran Tuol Sleng prison, where detainees were tortured and executed.

As many as two million people are thought to have died during the four years of Khmer Rouge government in the late 1970s.

'Important moment'

Two years have passed since work officially started on bringing the former leaders of the Khmer Rouge to justice.

There have been numerous delays and controversies, but the formal indictment of Duch is a sign of the progress the tribunal has made.

A spokesman called it "an important moment in the history of the courts".

Putting the former prison chief on trial will give a boost to the credibility of the process.

Duch was in charge of the notorious facility known as S-21 or Tuol Sleng, where about 15,000 prisoners were systematically tortured.

Those who survived the ordeal were sent for execution in the so-called "killing fields".

Officials have indicated that Duch cooperated with the investigating judges and is willing to testify in court.

So the trial should be a chance for survivors of the Khmer Rouge era to hear directly at last from one of the organisation's key figures.

Progress on the judicial side is also a welcome distraction from the tribunal's many problems.

Donors are withholding promised funds because of corruption allegations and local staff have been working without pay.

* WHO WERE THE KHMER ROUGE?

• Maoist regime that ruled Cambodia from 1975-1979
• Founded and led by Pol Pot, who died in 1998
• Abolished religion, schools and currency in a bid to create agrarian utopia
• Up to two million people thought to have died from starvation, overwork or execution

Brutal Khmer Rouge regime

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Now, moving on to the local scene. Let's not forget that many villagers in the rural Malaysian kampong of Memali, in the District of Baling, Kedah Darul Aman were in fact massacred by the Malaysian authorities particularly under direct orders of the then Deputy Prime Minister Musa Hitam who remains free today without any action having been taken against him or his accomplice Datuk Radzi Sheikh Ahmad!!

Here's a report of what Fan Yew Teng had written about the case:

Disappointing Composition A Critique of the National Human Rights Commission by Fan Yew Teng As one of the NGO representatives involved in a two-day discussion session, in Kuala Lumpur sometime in 1996, with representatives from the National Human Rights Commission of Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines to explore the possibility of putting in place a regional mechanism to protect and promote human rights in Southeast Asia, I am pleased that, at long last, a National Human Rights Commission has been established in Malaysia. However, I am disappointed with the composition of the Commission. As I had commented last year, in response to a question from a local daily newspaper, our Human Rights Commission, like those in other countries, should have as little to do with politicians of all creeds and shades, and that it should not only be fully and truly independent of the government of the day but be seen to be so. This is a very fundamental point which is of the utmost importance and relevance, as it has to do with, from the very beginning of its existence, the Commission's perceived as well as actual independence and credibility. Aren't we seeing two or perhaps three members of the Commission who are regular singers of praises for the government? And, why, for instance, was no former national trade union leader of integrity appointed to the Commission? Now, I have nothing personal against Musa Hitam, the former Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister. Obviously, he has done some signal services for the government and for UMNO in particular and for the Barisan Nasional in general. However, let us not forget that it was Musa, in his capacity as Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister who gave the green light to the police to storm and open fire at demonstrators in Memali village in the State of Kedah on 19 November 1985, resulting in 18 Malaysians –14 villagers and 4 policemen – losing their lives, with many others injured seriously. As far as I know, Musa has never apologised for this atrocity, which was of course a grave violation of human rights. Has he ever felt remorse for the Memali bloodbath of which he was personally, professionally and politically responsible? After all these years of being rewarded by Prime Minister Mahathir as a so-called special envoy to the United Nations, has Musa ever felt contrite about the Memali Massacre? Calls at the time for an independent Commission of Inquiry into the Memali Tragedy were rejected by Musa and Mahathir. The public forum on Memali promised openly and solemnly by then Information Minister Rais Yatim was never honoured. Because there has never been a public and thorough accounting of what happened in Memali on 19 November 1985, one of the first tasks of the newly established National Human Rights Commission of Malaysia should be to conduct a no-holds-barred hearing – along the lines of the Truth Commission in South Africa – on the Memali Tragedy, with Musa as the chief witness. This would be a true litmus test of the independence, credibility and seriousness of our National Human Rights Commission. We as a people and as a nation cannot and should not allow a crime against humanity to be so easily forgotten, let alone forgiven. Musa is not the right person to head our National Human Rights Commission on other grounds as well. He has never hinted, let alone suggested or advocated, that highly repressive and obnoxious laws in Malaysia like the Internal Security Act, the Sedition Act, the Police Act and the Universities and University Colleges Act be abolished because they are an indecent affront to human dignity and basic human rights. Moreover, Musa is still very much a most loyal UMNO hack, often dispensing his wisdom on how UMNO should be better run and by whom. Consider, for instance, the front-page banner headline news in The Sun on Sunday of 20 February 2000 from Johor Baru that Musa had "openly supported Datuk Abdullah Ahmad Badawi" for UMNO's deputy presidency. According to the report, Musa said that he would like to see Abdullah move up as party president and Prime Minister. He was reported to have said, while speaking at the opening of the Johor Baru UMNO division's annual general meeting, that "Abdullah has proven his loyalty and shown patience in facing the challenges throughout the time he has been a member." Musa's right to his political inclination is not in dispute here. However, what is being disputed is his pretence that he is politically neutral. Some people outside UMNO – including some Opposition leading lights – even naively believe in the superstition that Musa has transcended national party politics! How and since when? Musa's recent Johor Baru statement, as cited above, goes to show that he is still very much a party political partisan. Appointing a loyal, party political partisan to head our National Human Rights Commission is a farce at best and a great disservice to human rights at worst. It is a far cry from India, for instance, where Justice J.S. Verma, a highly respected former Chief Justice of India, was appointed as the chairman of the National Human Rights Commission there at the end of last year. By the way, is K. Pathmanaban still a loyal and active member of the MIC, an obedient junior partner of UMNO? Firstly, why must complaints and other communications to our National Human Rights Commission be sent to the Foreign Ministry still? When will the Commission have its own office, postal address, its own staff and its own facilities? And, of course, its own initiatives? Fan Yew Teng is a writer, political commentator and former Member of Parliament.

Former Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister and now made Tun Musa Hitam. He ordered the Memali massacre.

So, for all that our nation speaks about injustice in the international arena, things aren't exactly squeaky clean here as far as these mass murders and massacres of innocent Kg.Memali villagers are concerned?

Here in Bolehland, mass murderers seem to be honored and decorated with prestigious titles and given a handsome pension to boot whilst the poor dead Kg.Memali villagers are forgotten over the passage of time and no restitution is made for their grieving families and survivors made orphans by that horrible blot in our nation's history.

Maybe its true that over here in the Kingdom of Malaysia, cucumbers remain the victim no matter what because the durians in power will rock and roll as they damn well please without a care in the world?

Those who can read and understand Malay, would want to read up on this massacre here and here.

Al Fatihah.

SMS Alert! Proton Wira JFA 4552 stolen with a 6 yr old boy in it! (Updated)

* Example of a maroon colored Proton Wira.

Dear fellow Malaysians.

Just received an sms from +60126389300 with the following message :

"Pls help to blast out this sms asap. A car was stolen by an Indian in Taman Berkeley, Klang early morning on 16 feb. A small boy aged 6 yrs old was inside the car. If u c a meroon Proton Wira JFA 4552, pls call Mr.Foo at 0196555174 / 0122838371 or the nearest police station. It is the kid who must be in fear now, that matters. Your immediate sms blast is very much appreciated."

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I called Mr.Foo at 0196555174 and he promptly picked up and confirmed that this news is true and asked for my help in spreading the news.

So dear Malaysians, please help by looking out for the maroon colored Proton Wira JFA 4552!

Call Mr.Foo at 0196555174 or 0122838371 or the Police at 999 to report if you see the stolen car!

I pray that the kid is unharmed and released by the bloody car thief!

Ameen.

***Update

Here is an update of the case as reported in The Star Online.

Tuesday February 17, 2009

Robbers drive off with victim’s son in back seat

By WANI MUTHIAH

KLANG: The Foo family had a most frightening experience when two robbers drove off in their car with their son still in the back seat in Taman Berkeley here.

Their nightmare began yesterday morning when Kendrick Foo, 43, returned home after dropping off his wife at the Meru wet market where she runs a stall selling noodles and soya bean by-products.

Six-year-old Foo Koo Ping was sleeping in the back seat when two men grabbed Foo, pushed him to the ground and took off in his Proton Wira.

He surrendered his wallet and threw himself in front of the car, screaming that his son was asleep in the back seat.

“I believe that they too panicked and sped off,” said Foo.

“He is our only child and we cannot imagine anything terrible happening to him,” said Foo, an employee at the IT department of a private hospital in Klang.

The robbers abandoned his car in front of Chemistry Department pensioner Zamedin Hasar’s house in Taman Desaria, near Sunway.

Zamedin, 65, said he was on his way to his neighbourhood surau at 6.10am when he noticed a maroon Wira parked outside his house with the engine running.

When he returned 30 minutes later, the car was still there.

Zamedin said looked into the car and saw the boy asleep in the back seat.

“The feeling of relief after being told that our son was all right is unexplainable,” said Foo, adding that he met Zamedin at the Sungai Way police station with his son and car.

Koo Ping, when asked what happened, coolly replied: “Two bad men drove my daddy’s car and I was very frightened.”

Meanwhile, Klang OCPD Asst Comm Mohamad Mat Yusop said the police received their first report at 5.15am. The two robbers are still at large.

On a another matter, City police said there was no such case of an eight-year-old girl being kidnapped from Taman Maluri in a Nissan Sentra that was circulated by SMS a few days ago.

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Thanks be to Almighty Allah for this miracle.

I am glad to know that the Foo family have got back their son unharmed and also their car.

I call upon the justice system to punish all those crooks and criminals who are brought before them to the maximum sentence laid out in the Penal Code.

These thieves and robbers must be taught a lesson so as not to endanger the public.

Now, anyone who has suffered the emotional trauma that the Foo's have just gone through will understand why Allah the Almighty has commanded that the Hudud Laws are imposed.

You wouldn't know the consequences of going easy on the wrongdoers until such a wrong happens to you or your loved ones.

To the Foo family, please learn from this horrible experience and be more careful from now on.

Manglish at its best.....hehehehe... Letter to Ah Lian

Dear Ah Lian

Thanks you for your letter. Wrong time no see you. How everything? For me, I am quiet find.

You say in your letter your taukeh soh want you to chain your look? Somemore you must wear kick kok soo, hope you can wok properly.

You know, Ah Kau Kia working in a soft where company now. Last week, he take I, Muthu & few of his friend to May Nonut to eat barger. After that he take we all go to kalah ok. Muthu sing and sing no stop until the sky bright.

Next week, my father mother going to sellerbread 20 years Annie wear sari. My father mother going to give a fist to all the kampong people. So you must come with your hole family.

I only hope one day we no need to write and send letter to you and to me. Better I e-meow you, you e-meow me. I will ketchup with you soon. And when you got time, please few free to call me.

Goo bye.....

Worm regard,

Ah Beng

An American's Call to the Citizens of Zionist Israel!

Watch Dennis Trainer Jr of UpTake Video dish it out to the citizens of the rogue regime illegal occupying and obnoxious American sponsored terrorist State of Israel!

Life's not altogether so rosy over there in the US of A!

Many people around the world seem to think that life for Americans must be quite heavenly ; what with the notion that the Land of the Free and so called home of the Brave must certainly be heaven here on Earth?

The reality that things aren't exactly as what they seem to be based upon all the Hollywood flicks that one might be viewing on the telly?

There are quite a number of homeless families who live out their lives travelling from town to town and try to survive in their mobile homes and campers due to the economic downfall that most Americans have inadvertently found themselves to be caught in when they lost their jobs and subsequently their homes as well due to unpaid mortgages to the banks.









The videos above captures a few of the unlucky ones who are living as the travelling homeless and showcases the immense problems which President Obama has been burdened with as a result of 8 miserable years of America stuck under the worst President who ever got to rule their nation of 250 over million people from all walks of life!

It's not gonna be a walk in the park for President Obama to change the lives of so many of his fellow citizens overnight.

There are many different type of causes as to how these people ended up on the streets?

Some of them might have mental problems, some of them having emotional crises and some might just have given up on trying to improve their lots?

Who knows or cares?

People nowadays are wary of lending a helping hand because at times they themselves end up getting hurt in return!

We have heard of good samaritans who in turn get bitten off by those whose personalities and characters sometimes borders on the criminally insane!

It's not easy to generalize the reasons as to why these people end up like what we see here?

This is something that the media just do not wish to highlight to the viewing public.

We always just get to see palatial homes of the rich and famous. Get to see the luxurious lifestyles of all the pop and film stars. Gawk at the filthy rich Americans with all their latest gadgetry and bling blings of the super rich.

Well, with the advent of You Tube, the world gets to see the other side of Life in the US of A.

When we compare this with our Malaysian way of life, hell...we aren't that bad after all.

My heart goes out to these unfortunate families and to the millions of others out there who live life a day at a time, wondering where they are going to end up next and as to whether they will be able to get a decent meal again?

But then again the Government of America seems to think that its worth much more to spend trillions of dollars in sponsoring their pet rogue State of Israel in bombarding the oppressed Palestinians out of their now destroyed homes and lands in Gaza!

Among the comments that I see being posted by viewers of these videos are those that condemn their American Government for spending so much in waging war overseas when such money could be better spent to improve the lives of their own unfortunate citizens?

That is something that President Obama needs to take very much into consideration and undo all the horrific damage that George Wacko Bush Jr has done to not only Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere but also to the United States of America itself!

America should also stop funding the Israeli Zionist regime at once and take care of its own people first and forever.

Behold! 'Bushville!'. A tent city that showcases exactly what the current Great American Depression is all about?



For all the hype that America gives out about the sorry state of affairs regarding life for countries all over the world, the reality is that its own people are suffering like hell and even worse!

May God bless us all and keep us safe from harm's way no matter where we are?

May Allah bless and provide us our daily sustenance and give us our shelter.

Ameen.

Bila mantan Mufti Perlis SS Dr. Mohd Asri berbicara...

Assalamualaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh.

Saudara saudari sesama Islam dengan saya. Ini ada satu rakaman video menarik yang menampilkan pandangan dan pendapat mantan Mufti Negeri Perlis Darus Sunnah iaitu Sahibul Samahah Dr. Mohd Asri Zainal Abidin.

Dr. Mohd. Asri berbicara tentang sikap taksub sesetengah pihak dikalangan orang orang Melayu yang semberono sahaja menganggap bahawa segala sesuatu yang berasas atau berasal dari budaya Arab itu betul dan boleh di ikut?

Didalam rakaman video diatas Dr. Mohd. Asri mendedahkan bahawa kekadang orang orang Melayu boleh tersalah bawa dengan mengikuti sesetengah amalan yang tidak ada asasnya didalam ajaran ajaran yang dibawa Nabi Muhammad Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam.

Budaya mengagung agungkan keturunan Syed Syed disentuh oleh bekas Mufti Perlis ini dan secara alami maka timbul lah rasa tidak puas hati dikalangan mereka yang di sebut Dr. Mohd. Asri.

Apakah Dr.Mohd. Asri telah memfitnah mereka yang berketurunan Syed Syed ini atau ianya cuma menyatakan hakikat dunia sekarang yang seolah tercipta budaya 'hero worship'?

Apa pandangan anda?

Harap dapat sampaikan pandangan tuan tuan dan puan puan secara berhemah dan berbahasa yang boleh diterima semua.

Terimakasih.

Wabillahi Taufik Wal Hidayah.

Wassalamualaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh.

Burning Conscience - Israeli Soldiers Speak Out!

Israeli Policy of stripsearching and humiliating Palestinians and others.

Assalamualaikum.

How many of you have known or read about the psychological, emotional,mental, spiritual and absolutely humiliating physical trauma that the Zionist Israeli bastards put millions of Palestinian young and old men, women, children and even babies through daily with their horrendous terrorism policy of collective punishment and breaking down of a people whose lives and lands they have robbed and are hell bent on exterminating at all costs?

How many people especially the American public whose tax dollars are spent in sponsoring and arming a rogue filthy regime of heartless inhumane rogue illegal nation of Zionist land grabbing terrorists know that with their US Dollars, they have been nurturing these devils to destroy a once free people of Palestine to be tortured physically and emotionally by unnecessary daily strip searching including cavity search on practically everyone who is travelling into or about the rogue nation that was once the State of Palestine?

Well, I'm too disgusted beyond words to continue.

Just read the article below which is from a collection of testimonies taken from some of those unfortunate persons who had to undergo such humiliating strip searches from Israeli soldiers, guards and police who just don't give a damn as to who you are and terrorize innocent people from all walks of life and nationalities, even if it be Americans whose government supports and provides everything for these murderous terrorists calling themselves the State of Israel!
Part 1

Part 2

Collective Punishment & Terrorism

Israeli Strip Searches: A Partial List

The following is a partial list documenting the use of strip searches and forced stripping as a method for humiliating men, women, and children – fishermen, women in labor, journalists, human rights workers, medical workers, and others – routinely employed by Israeli forces.

Compiled by Sarah Tiglao
If Americans Knew
Updated August 1, 2008

Children and Women (Sometimes in Labor)
Strip Searched, Cavity Searched

• Attorney Hala Gores: “[An Israeli official] took off my top. I helped to take off my pants and didn't really say much of anything. And she had me turn around. She felt my legs; my behind. So there I was as a ten-year-old, in this little room, just about completely naked, and knew that I could not challenge what was happening and I just complied. It just feels, sitting here as an adult, that as a child I really shouldn't have had to go through that.”
  
  - VIDEO: “The Easiest Targets:” Five women – Palestinian, American, Muslim, Christian, and Jewish – tell stories of humiliation and harassment by Israeli border guards and airport security officials.
• “Sometimes mothers and children are strip-searched together, at other times little girls are taken from their parents and strip-searched alone. Women are required to remove sanitary napkins, sometimes with small daughters at their side. Sometimes women are strip searched in the presence of their young sons.”
  
  “New Jersey stand-up comedian Maysoon Zayid describes being strip-searched at Ben Gurion Airport when she was ‘seven, eight, nine’ years old on family trips to visit her parents’ original home in Palestine. On her most recent trip in July 2006, Maysoon, an American citizen, had her sanitary pad taken by officials in Ben Gurion Airport. When the search was completed, she says, the Israeli official in charge, Inbal Sharon, then refused to return her pad or allow her to get another.
  
  “Zayid, who has cerebral palsy and was sitting in a wheelchair, was then forced to bleed publicly for hours while she waited for her flight.”
  
  “St. Louis resident Hedy Epstein, whose parents and extended family perished in Nazi camps, and whose story is featured in the Academy Award winning documentary "Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport," reports being strip searched three years ago following her participation in nonviolent protests in the West Bank. Epstein, who was 79 at the time, describes being forced to bend over for an Israeli official to search her internally.”
  
  - “An If Americans Knew Investigation: Humiliation and Child Abuse at Israeli Borders & Aiports – Strip-Searching Children,” Alison Weir, CounterPunch, March 15, 2007
• Maysoon al-Hayek in testimony to B'Tselem: “...my husband told the soldiers that we wanted to get into Nablus to get to Rafidia hospital because I was in labor. Initially, the soldiers refused to let us through, but I told them I was in severe pain and about to give birth. Then, a soldier told me to uncover my belly, to make sure I was really pregnant. I uncovered my belly because of the pain I was in and so that they would let through. The soldier let us enter Nablus, this after the searches, examinations and arguments which lasted for about an hour.
  
  “We drove about 300 meters and got to a large ditch that had been dug in the main road where we were travelling very slowly. 30 meters past the ditch, heavy gunfire was opened toward the front of the car. It lasted for about five minutes. My husband received a direct hit to the neck, and more hits to the upper body. 'Abdullah al-Hayek, my husband's father, was also hit in the upper body. I was hit by shrapnel and glass from the broken window which spread in the car. I lay down on the back seat. After the Israeli soldiers stopped shooting, the place became completely silent. I spoke to my husband, asking him to answer me. When he didn't answer me, I realized he was in a bad condition. His father couldn't speak either. I started to scream and cry. The soldiers came toward me from in-between the houses. They examined me and tried to give me first aid. They examined my husband, Muhammad, and his father and told me that they wanted to take him to hospital in Israel because his condition was severe. As for me, the soldiers called the DCO, I think, and called a Palestinian Red Crescent Ambulance for me from Nablus. The ambulance took me to Rafidia hospital in Nablus. I was completely naked, because the soldiers took my clothes off to check if and where I had been hurt. After the examination, they left me naked.”
  
  - B'Tselem, “IDF shoots Palestinian woman in labor while on her way to hospital, February 2002” February 25, 2002.
• “Sworn Statement, Maysoun Saleh Nayef Halek, 29 yrs: “My father-in-law was screaming in pain and the labour pains grew stronger. I saw a lot of soldiers in front of me. I called out at them using the word ‘baby’ which I think some understood. They started to talk to me in Hebrew as they pointed the guns towards me. They used signs and gestures. I understood that they wanted me to show them how pregnant I was which I did. One soldier asked me to take off my robe, which I did. But it was not sufficient and he asked me to remove the T-shirt and the trousers. I had no choice and I was ready to go as far as that in order to get to the hospital before it was late. He asked me to take off my underwear which I did. After this humiliation, they fetched a stretcher from one of the tanks. I was naked. I was carried to a tank and was given intravenous glucose into my arm. A few minutes later, they brought my father-in-law inside the tank. They drove for almost half an hour. I was thinking they were taking me to a nearby hospital but it turns out they were taking us back to the Huwwara checkpoint. We were taken out of the tank and were laid nude on the stretchers for almost one hour.”
  
  - ISRAEL’S IMPLEMENTATION OF THE UN CONVENTION ON THE ELIMINATION OF ALL FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN (CEDAW) IN THE OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES (OPT), Palestinian Center for Human Rights, May 2005
• “...she recounted events from her most recent stint in Israel/Palestine. My friend studies and conducts research in the region as part of her PhD program. This summer she was detained by the Israeli military at a border crossing. After answering a myriad of questions, including when she planned to leave the country, she was detained for approximately six hours. Then a female guard conducted a strip/cavity search while two male guards observed. Having found nothing, the guards eventually let my friend continue to Nazareth.However, when she arrived at the airport weeks later, airport security was expecting her. Given her name and passport number, the airport security was told to report whether she indeed left the country on the date she had previously reported.
  
  “As my friend told me of her experiences, she still seemed shaken. I do not know why my friend was selected for such questioning or such an intimate search of her person. Was she simply in the wrong place at the wrong time? Was she profiled because she was a student who speaks Arabic? Did she behave suspiciously? What intelligence did the military have that warranted such a search and detention? Whatever justification the military had for the search and seizure, it proved fruitless. Nothing was found. No information was gathered. My friend was and is simply an innocent American civilian. ”
  
  - Tara Harrison, “Cavity Searching in Israel,” The University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law Blogs, October 15, 2007.
• “’I arrived with one of my friends to the Bethlehem checkpoint, and after crossing several inspection points, we waited a little while, and while we were waiting, a group of female university students came out from one of the side rooms in tears. When we asked them why they were crying, they replied that they had been forced to strip naked during inspection. ‘
  
  “Manal continued: ‘I can not describe what happened to the students! They were forced to strip naked collectively in one of the rooms after women soldiers intimidated them.’ She added, ‘The female soldier asked me and my friend to enter the room for inspection, but we refused. She said that we can enter separately to be strip searched, and when we refused again she screamed at us and called us al kind of swear words. Then we got detained inside one of the room at the checkpoint, and after a number of phone calls to human rights organizations my friend and I were allowed to leave the checkpoint.’
  
  “Manal added that ‘On this particular day men were not inspected, but only women. This confirms that the Israeli authorities had serious intentions to humiliating us’. The young Palestinian lady also noted that, ‘if there were security reasons for this inspection, why not search all the people? Anyhow, don't the Israeli authorities refuse to grant permission for Palestinians who have security records to cross at this checkpoint? Apart from this we had already entered a number of checkpoints unscathed before this strip search; all these factors raise suspicions’.
  
  “Manal also stressed that stopping people at the Bethlehem checkpoint and only letting them go through after passing inspection procedures is normal, but forcing women to strip search is a new phenomenon in Bethlehem. This causes real fears among women that this procedure will become normal in the future.
  
  “Jamal Zahalka, an Arab member of the Israeli parliament received complaints about this matter. He responded by filing an investigation letter to the Israeli Security Minister Ehud Barak. Zahalka commented on the Israeli soldiers' demeaning act by saying, ‘There is no end to the moral degradation of the occupation, he who forces women to strip has sunk to the lowest morals level. He is a lowlife. We must stop this shameful action immediately.’”
  
  - Maisa Abu Ghazalah, “Israeli army forces women to strip at Bethlehem checkpoint,” IMEMC, June 28, 2007
• "the minister of Women's Affairs in the new emergency government, condemned the behaviour of Israeli soldiers in forcing Palestinians to submit to strip searches at a military check point near Beit Safafa, north of Bethlehem.
  
  "In a statement received by Ma'an, Daibes declared that several Palestinian women had raised complaints with human rights organizations and had petitioned Arab members of the Israeli Knesset over being taken to separate rooms in the checkpoint and being forced to remove all clothes, to become fully naked."
  
  “Du'ebes has demanded that United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, and the international community find immediate and urgent security for Palestinian women...”
  
  - “Khouloud Daibes: Israeli soldiers forcing women to submit to strip searches at checkpoints,”, Ma’an News Agency, June 30, 2007.
• “I have never experienced the suffering Palestinian women undergo every day, every hour, I don't know the kind of violence that turns a woman's life into constant hell. This daily physical and mental torture of women who are deprived of their basic human rights and needs of privacy and dignity, women whose homes are broken into at any moment of day and night, who are ordered at a gun-point to strip naked in front of strangers and their own children, whose houses are demolished , who are deprived of their livelihood and of any normal family life. This is not part of my personal ordeal.”
  
  - Israeli mother Nurit Peled-Elhanan, Speech On International Women's Day, The European Parliament
• “While men have also reported forms of sexual torture in jail, women prisoners are particularly vulnerable to this as a form of humiliation by their captors. Women are forced to strip naked in front of guards, many of whom are male, and subjected to brutal body searches. Many women prisoners have detailed sexual assault by Israeli military and prison staff. On some occasions women are detained as a way of threatening or putting pressure on a male member of the family.”
  
  – “Israel’s Palestinian Prisoners: The Forgotten Facts”, Islam Online, Isabelle Humphries
• “Sworn Statement, Amneh Jawad Ali Mona, 29 yrs: “Then the guard Sireet came and inspected me in front of all the jailers while my hands and feet were tied and my head and nose were bleeding. She opened my blouse from the front and also my pants. They insulted me using very bad words and then left.”
  
  - ISRAEL’S IMPLEMENTATION OF THE UN CONVENTION ON THE ELIMINATION OF ALL FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN (CEDAW) IN THE OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES (OPT), Palestinian Center for Human Rights, May 2005
• “The worst part of being imprisoned for Ikram was being strip-searched. While it was always a female that would search her, the male soldiers were only a few feet away with their backs turned. If Ikram refused to comply with a search, the female soldiers would often threaten to bring the male soldiers to search her instead. During these strip search sessions, Ikram felt complete degradation. She was forced to remove everything from her hijab to her underwear as the female soldiers would examine every nook and cranny of her body to make sure no names or numbers were written anywhere. Even her hair was examined strand by strand. While male prisoners are often strip-searched, a female generally holds a higher standard of bodily integrity which is completely destroyed by these constant strip-searches.”
  
  - Differentiates Palestinian Male from Female Prisoners and Detainees from ikram’s point of view, Appendix to Addameer report
• Israeli Gila Svirsky, 1996: “Have you heard about the incidents of 17 Palestinian women in Hebron who have been strip-searched by Israeli police looking for weapons? The B'Tselem human rights organization did excellent work in learning about this, documenting it, and publicizing it.
  
  “On Sunday, 40 Israeli women went to Hebron for a solidarity visit with two of the Palestinian women who had undergone a strip search. The B'Tselem fieldworker took us to the home of two of the victims and their families, with their prior agreement, of course, and we sat on their large balcony as they described the event: Israeli police entered their home, forcing the women to undress completely, doing body searches for weapons. In this case, policewomen conducted the searches, although in 2 homes, policemen were present during the undressing. No weapons were found anywhere, and no men were told to undress. This was clearly a case of harassment. We expressed our anger and shame to the women, and they expressed surprise that we had come out there just to tell them this.
  
  “In the next room were some 15 children, the smallest ones terrified of having Israelis in their home again, so I spent my time finding ways to get close to them, being playful in broken Arabic. On the balcony, I heard one of our women take a scarf off her neck and place it on the woman telling her story and embrace her. Another removed a peace dove pin and placed it on the other Palestinian woman. The ice broke, and soon the women were chatting, the baby (who had also been strip searched!!) was being passed from lap to lap, and we ate tangerines and sipped sweet dark coffee, trying to dissipate some of the bad feelings. It was good we had made the visit. As we were leaving, the children came over to me shyly, one by one, and shook my hand.
  
  “By the way, representatives of Bat Shalom, who met with the Minister of Internal Security to protest the strip searches, were told that this was not a policy. Seventeen cases in 3 months sounds a lot like policy, though.”
  
  - Gila Svirsky, December 31, 1996, “Strip Searches of Palestinian Women.”
• “Before leaving Maskobiyeh, I was strip-searched and I had my hands and feet cuffed... When I arrived at Telmond, I was again strip-searched and moved to section 12 which contains isolation rooms.”
  
  - Addameer: Affidavit Under Oath - Yaqeen Samer Mohammad Hasarmeh
• "One type of humiliation is the systematic harassment and strip searches targeted specifically at women at checkpoints. I have my own story to tell. I am not Palestinian. I am not Arab. I am not Jewish. I am American, and the following story happened to me the first time I visited Israel at the northern border crossing with Jordan last spring.
  
  “Last spring, I was on a study abroad trip in Jordan with CIEE and decided to travel with seven of my fellow Americans to Israel to visit the city of Jerusalem for three days. When my friends and I were passing at the border, things were going smoothly until they reached me at the end of the line. Not expecting to have problems crossing the border, all of my friends passed through, except one who noticed that I was being harassed. They took my passport from me and told me I had to wait while they did a security check. They held me there for 10 hours. About one hour before the border was going to close, they took me to a small room where they made me remove my clothing. They took my clothing from me and ran it through the X-ray machine. I was wearing a tank top, jeans and a pair of flip-flops, so this kind of procedure was clearly not for security.
  
  “After this, a man with a briefcase came, and I was told I must leave for questioning. I was taken outside, behind barbed wire into a small cubicle pumped with exceedingly cold air....I was terrified. I thought I was going to be raped sitting there alone with two men in this secluded cubicle.... When they finally returned my passport and let me go through, I broke down and started to shake and cry uncontrollably. The guards laughed and asked me why I cried. They had let me pass after all.
  
  “My family and friends wanted me to report this story, but when I returned to the U.S. I was still trying to comprehend what had happened to me. The blatant humiliation was unbelievable."
  
  The Bates Student, Senior Describes Strip-Search Experience at Israeli Border, April 3, 2007
• “Lieutenant Colonel Geva Saguy is awaiting a court martial on several charges, including ordering the boy to strip naked, holding a burning paper under his testicles, threatening to ram a bottle into his anus and threatening to shoot him. The boy's name and age have not been revealed.”
  
  - Chris McGreal, “Commander charged with torturing Palestinian boy,” The Guardian, October 22, 2002.
• “...the absolutely unimaginable strip search at the border of the 80 year old mother of a friend who wanted to go back to Jerusalem to see her daughter who was married there because her daughter was very sick and the mother could not bear the idea that the worst might happen to her daughter without having seen her once more after so many years. Her son who was my friend, went beserk at the Israeli border when he discovered that they had strip-searched his Mom (and more besides!) and was arrested and temporarily detained while his Mom went on.... luckily my friend had a US passport and therefore did not disappear into jail for long...but he says he asked the Israeli guards why did they do this to his old mother...and they said ‘We don't want you Jerusalemites to make it a habit to come back to Jerusalem!!’ He never did see Jerusalem which he had longed to see again after so many years ~he was released and sent back to Amman instead...”
  
  - Eugenie Trone, Letter to Editor, The Ethical Spectacle, February 2001.
• “Many children are being subject to torture and several have required medical treatment as a result of this torture, including 15-year old Mohammed Zaour, currently in Telmond Prison, who was stripped naked and had boiling water followed by freezing water repeatedly poured over his head.”
  
  - Defence for Children Iternational, Defence for Children International/Palestine Section meets with U.N Human Rights Inquiry Commission, February 17, 2001.
• “Ezzat then witnessed the soldier in the black T-shirt and the female soldier leading his sisters and mother to one of the rooms close to the boys’ bedroom. They closed the door of the room but Ezzat could hear the soldiers shouting at them. He overheard the soldier telling the female soldier to hit his mother because she was refusing to take her clothes off to be searched. After the incident was over Ezzat’s sister informed him that they were all strip searched by the female soldier, while the male soldier waited outside.”
  
  - Defence for Children International, “ 10-year-old subjected to torture by Israeli soldiers” July 2, 2008.
• “Khalid Raja Abdel Mohsen Taha from Hebron
  “Khalid was 17 when he was arrested by Israeli troops at his home in Hebron on 30 August 2004. In an affidavit, he describes his experience during detention and interrogation:
  
  “‘...I was taken to the District Coordination Office (DCO) in Hebron, where I was held for two hours before being transferred to Etzion detention centre, where I spent five hours standing outside, handcuffed and blindfolded. The soldiers carried out a strip search, and then took me to Ashkelon detention centre, where they conducted another strip search and then they started to interrogate me.’”
  
  - Defence for Children International, “Surviving the Present, Facing the Future: An Analysis of Human Rights Violations Against Palestinian Children in 2004,” April 2005.
• “Transferring the Child Prisoner from the Place of Detention to Military Court
  
  “Prior to transfer, the child is strip searched and his/her hands and feet are tightly bound.”
  
  - Defence for Children International, “Palestinian Child Political Prisoners: 2006 Report,” .
• “During the raid, Israeli soldiers forcibly entered the home of Ghazi ‘Abd al-Hakim Sawalha, forced the inhabitants, including the children, outside of the home, where they were then forced to strip naked and were beaten. As a result of the beating, Ghazi’s wife, who was pregnant at the time, miscarried. The humiliation and suffering experienced by the Sawalha family is not unique: it is the common thread that joins their story with those of others whose homes and bodies have been violated by Israeli occupation forces.”
  
  - Defence for Children International, “Annual Report, 200.”
• “...Riham As'ad Muhammad al-Shaikh Musa, is 15 years old from Tulkarem refugee camp. She comes from a large family of 9, who have suffered from financial problems since the death of their father. Riham was on her way to visit some relatives in al-Tira on February 20, but at a checkpoint en route, she was shot several times by Israeli soldiers who accused her of trying to stab one of them with a knife...
  
  “On 27 March 2003, Riham gave the following sworn affidavit to the DCI lawyer about the events of February 20 2003:
  
  “.....‘When the soldiers saw me, they opened fire on me and I was hit in the stomach, although I didn't fall to the ground. I kept standing in the same spot, not moving, so that they would stop shooting. However, another soldier shot me in the leg and then I fell to the ground. Many soldiers appeared and started to cordon off the area, but none of them came near me. They asked me - from a distance - to take all my clothes off including my underwear, so that they could examine them. I said not unless they brought me a cover, so they did that and I took my clothes off under the cover, and put them on one side. They took them, even though I was wounded and bleeding.
  
  “‘After this, they took me in an ambulance to (Ma'ir) hospital (in Kufr Saba). I lost consciousness in the ambulance and when I woke up it was Saturday, which means that I was unconscious from Thursday 20 February to the afternoon of Saturday 22 February. I remained in that hospital for 2 weeks.’”
  
  - Defence for Children International, “Children Behind Bars: Issue 13,” April 8, 2003.
• “The two children arrested along with Bassem were forced to remove their clothes down to their underwear at the time of their arrest. They were kept in their underwear without clothes for the two days of detention and were released in this state very late on Wednesday night. They spent most of the time handcuffed and blindfolded and were given very poor food and no access to medical services. One of the detainees held with them was epileptic and not provided with his required medication.”
  
  - Defence for Children International, “Violations of Palestinian Children's Rights, Submitted to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights,” April 19, 2002.
• “After they exited the house, the soldiers ordered the women and children to sit on the ground. They handcuffed Khaled, Mu’ath (17), Bilal (15), and Omar (15), and sat them down on the ground with their backs facing the women and children. The soldiers then started to beat them, hitting them with their guns and kicking them, as the women and children looked on. Testimonies from two eyewitnesses indicate the soldiers beat the two younger boys, Bilal and Omar, more than the others. Khaled tried to reason with the soldiers in Hebrew, telling them that his wife had been injured and needed medical attention. They replied by insulting him and his wife. One soldier, who was kneeling on the ground next to Nadia, laughed and verbally insulted her honour as she cried in pain and fear. Nadia reported that every few minutes a soldier would walk by and shoot the ground around where the women and children were sitting then laugh and walk away.
  
  “While Khaled and the three boys were beaten, one soldier ordered them to remove their clothing. They removed their shirts and trousers as they continued to be beaten. Another soldier then ordered them to remove their undergarments but Khaled refused because they were in the presence of women. The soldier once again ordered them to remove their undergarments, threatening to kill them if they did not comply. When they refused again, the soldier proceeded to fire gunshots on the ground all around their legs to further threaten and intimidate them. Khaled and the boys endured more beatings for at least another half hour and Khaled recalled hearing one of the soldiers say to another in Hebrew, ‘Let’s kill them all and be done with it.’ “...Mu’ath’s statement reveals that the soldiers subjected him to particularly harsh treatment when they learned he was Youssef’s son after he was asked to identify himself. The soldiers blindfolded Mu’ath, still stripped of his shirt and trousers, and forced him to go back inside the house as they searched its interior. One soldier grabbed him by the hair and pushed him forward into the house... “The soldiers ordered Khaled and Mu’ath to put their clothes back on, blindfolded them, and put them each in a separate jeep. The jeeps left first, taking Mu’ath and Khaled, then the helicopter, tanks and remaining soldiers began to withdraw. While inside the military jeep, Mu’ath recounts that the soldiers held him at gunpoint and tormented him. One soldier said to him while laughing, ‘Your father is dead. We killed him. He is over there (pointing) on the ground.’”
  
  - Defence for Children International, “Wilful killing of baby by Israeli army in Gaza house raid,” June 9, 2008.
• “‘And because there was no one I could talk to and I felt incredible frightened and scared I tried to commit suicide while being in solitary confinement. On October 12th I was moved to Ofer military prison camp. When I arrived the soldiers asked me to take off my clothes and I was standing in my underwear. Then one of the soldiers took off even my underwear and started to use the metal detector on my naked body. While he was doing that he used his other hand to touch my body concentrating mainly on my back and bottom. This continued for a while and I was crying being terrified that something would happen.
  
  “‘I prefer to stay in solitary confinement in Atzion detention center rather than to be with the soldiers in Ofer military prison camp.’”
  
  - 12-year-old boy's affidavit, Defence for Children International, Children Behind Bars: Issue 20, November 3, 2003.
• “Before going to the interrogation centre, I was taken to a police station. An Israeli officer there began shouting curses and threats at me. He demanded that I tell him what I had intended to do with the knife. He started to beat me with his hands. After that, a female soldier transferred me to another office and there she searched me while I was naked. She then took me to the doctor who examined me and after that she put me in an office where there were two soldiers to guard me. I was handcuffed and shackled.
  
  “I was then taken to Atzion and arrived there at about midnight. A doctor examined me there again. I was interrogated there for 12 continuous hours. During the interrogation they threatened to beat me if I did not confess. They cursed me and my family members. They touched certain parts of my body.
  
  “The interrogator said to me during the interview that they were going to transfer me to the Palestinian police so that the Palestinian police could collectively rape me.”
  
  - 16-year old girl quoted in Defence for Children International, “Palestinian Child Political Prisoners: Semi Annual Report 2007,” September 6, 2007.
• “Telmond Prison... The prison authorities frequently launch surprise raids and carry out body searches, forcing the children to remove their underwear.”
  
  - Defence for Children International, “Children Behind Bars: Issue 12,”, March 12, 2003.
• “Circumstances in Telmond are currently difficult with many small punishments and incidences of mistreatment which make life hard for the boys, who are all under 16.
  
  “One such incident happened on 13 May, when families from the Jerusalem area were allowed to visit the boys. Before the visit, prison guards searched the prisoners down to their underwear, which was a very humiliating experience, boys told the DCI lawyer. Prison guards had also searched their rooms and confiscated prayer mats. This mistreatment combined with the poor quality of the food prompted the boys to go on hunger strike for one day on May 14.
  
  “Ali Mughrabi, the boys representative, then asked the administration to stop these inspections and this was agreed. However, this has been agreed previously with little effect. ”
  
  - Defence for Children International, “Children Behind Bars: Issue 15,”, June 19, 2003.
• “In addition to being beaten, [Palestinian child] detainees complain that they are severely humiliated by prison guards during transport between prisons or on their way to and from trial hearings. In some instances detainees complain they have been strip searched, and metal detectors are run across their naked bodies.
  
  “Demands applicable to child detainees:
  
  “...Immediate cessation of strip searches.”
  
  - Defence for Children International, “Children Behind Bars: Issue 25,” August 18, 2004.

British Consul General Strip Searched

• "... the British deputy ambassador to Tel Aviv was forced to strip for a security search at the Israeli prime minister's office.... described the search as a "prolonged, needless and humiliating process" and said the diplomat was “visibly upset.”
  
  - The Guardian, British consul strip searched at Israeli PM's office, March 28, 2007

Journalists Strip Searched

• “...I watched as one of the Palestinian passengers exited securing his belt to his trousers. A second man followed behind and was struggling to put on his T-shirt. Immediately I realized I was not in a good place. The rooms from which they exited must be used for strip searching. Suddenly, I became nervous...
  
  “'Where is the money from the prize?'
  
  “I realized he was after the award stipend for the Martha Gellhorn Prize from the UK and I told him I did not have it with me. I’d arranged for a bank transfer rather than carry it with me. Visibly irritated the intelligence agent continued to press for money...
  
  “Seeing they had tapped out, he escorted me into another room, this one empty...
  
  “'OK take off your clothes' Avi the intelligence officer ordered.
  
  “I asked why. A simple pat-down would have disclosed any money belts or weapons; besides, I had already gone through an x-ray machine before entering the passport holding area.
  
  “He repeated the order.
  
  “Removing all but my underwear, I stood before Avi. In an increasingly belligerent tone he ordered, 'take off everything'.
  
  “'I am not taking off my underwear,' I stated. Again he ordered me to remove my underwear.
  
  “At this point I informed him that an escort from the Dutch embassy was currently waiting for me on the other side of the interrogation center and that I was under diplomatic transit.
  
  “He replied he knew that thus indicating he didn't care and again insisted I strip. Again I refused. There was no reason for me to do so.
  
  “At this point he placed his hand on his hip revolver and I became quite frightened. Tears welled in my eyes and I began crying, 'Why are you treating me this way?' I asked attempting to maintain my composure. 'I am human being.'
  
  “For a moment I flashed on the scene in the Oscar winning film, The Pianist where the Jewish man, being humiliated by a Nazi quoted Shakespeare, invoking his faith in place of written words, ‘Doth a Jew not have eyes?’ the old man queried, attempting to appeal to the humanity buried somewhere in the soul of his oppressor. Finding myself confronting the same racism and disdain I wanted to ask Avi, ‘Doth a Palestinian not have eyes?’
  
  “Like the Nazi, would his indoctrination inoculate him from empathy as well? Likely, I reasoned, it would.
  
  “Avi smirked, half chuckling as he informed me, 'This is nothing compared to what you will see now.'
  
  “With that the intelligence officer unholstered his weapon, pressing it to my head and with his full body weight pinning me on my side, he forcibly removed my underwear. Completely naked, I stood before him as he proceeded to feel me up one side and down the other. He knew I had no weapons. The x-ray would have shown such and once people pass through the first security check, no one is allowed to leave the area, even to go have a smoke, get food or drink.
  
  “Avi then proceeded to demand I do a concocted sort of dance, ordering me to move to the right and the side. When I refused, he forced me under his own power to move side to side. Terrified now, I started to cry. Backing off, he ordered me to get dressed and follow him.”
  
  - Mohammed Omer, “Summary of Events in Detention”
• “As related by Andre Marty: On Friday, 12th May 2006, at around 6.30 p.m. Swiss journalist KARIN WENGER wanted to pass the Erez crossing coming into Israel from Gaza. Under the instruction of a female voice from the loudspeakers she was forced to strip, put her pants into the ex-ray-machine and to stand in her underwear and with hands up into the new body check ex-ray-machine. After having put her pants on she had to repeat this procedure six times.
  
  “The spokesperson of the Ministry of Defence, Rachel Naideh Ashkenazi apologised to Marty for the incident, which according to Ashkenazi - occurred because of technical failure.”
  
  - Foreign Press Association
• “Once you make it past the first check, (if you make it through the first check) there's the routine metal detector and x-ray machine, followed by the side trip behind the curtains for a body search. Only, this time, I was asked to drop my pants. ‘Really?’ I asked the security officer, who seemed slightly embarrassed by it all, though, since he does it all the time, I suspect he wasn't really... The security guard said he needed to check the zipper of my jeans, though security also made other international reporters in normal pants strip before getting into the press conference.”
  
  – “Checkpoint Jerusalem,” blog by Dion Nissenbaum, Jerusalem bureau chief for McClatchy Newspapers, Strippin' for Cheney
• “Bassam Wahedi got permission for emergency eye surgery in Israel to save his sight.
  
  “Wahedi, 28 and a journalist, said he, too, was strip-searched at Erez and taken to an underground interrogation room with a two-way mirror on the wall. Wahedi said his interrogator offered to send him to a better Israeli hospital if he agreed to collect information on militants firing rockets at Israel.
  
  “’You will never leave Gaza unless you support us and help us,’ Wahedi said his interrogator warned.
  
  “Like Hiyya, Wahedi refused the offer.”
  
  - “Activists: Israel pressuring ill Palestinians to be informers,” McClatchy Newspapers, October 24, 2007.
• “Last year I arrived in Israel to help in The Times’ coverage of the Lebanon war. The country was obviously on edge, and the treatment I received was, at times, officially hostile.
  
  “On the way in, I was held up for more than three hours at Ben Gurion airport, languishing alongside a dozen Palestinians. After spending several weeks in Gaza, I experienced my first full-scale pants-down strip search while re-entering Israel.
  
  “Things really got ugly at the airport on my way out. As I returned to my bags after yet another strip search, I was informed that I (and no one else) was forbidden to carry my computer bag onto the plane.
  
  “’OK, fine,’ I said, not wanting to start a fight, ‘Just let me grab the book I’m reading.’
  
  “’No you can’t take that either. You can’t carry ANYTHING onto the plane.’”
  
  - Ashraf Khalil, LA Times Blog - ISRAEL: Border crossings
• “One journalist reported being forced to strip and march at gunpoint to search offices in Ramallah during the largest and most recent IDF operation, ‘Operation Defensive Shield."’ Other civilians had similar testimony.”
  
  - Human Rights Watch: In a Dark Hour
• “After that they made me go to another office and strip naked. An official came in stands next to me, while I’m naked with a machine gun in his hand.”
  
  - Argentine journalist Tamara Lalli quoted in ZNet Blog

Palestinians Stripped at Checkpoints

• “The glass sheet, 30 centimetres wide and 30 centimetres long, separated me from the soldiers. I knew these two soldiers. One was a white man of medium build in his twenties. He spoke Hebrew. He asked me to take off my jacket and I did as he said. Then he asked me to remove the clothes from my upper body and my pants. I did as he said and was left in my underwear.
  
  “The two soldiers started laughing at me hysterically. Then the same soldier who ordered me to remove my clothes asked me to take off my shoes and turn around. I saw writing in Arabic and Hebrew on the wall of the room. It said, ‘Additional Inspection.’ Believe me, even if you shouted in your loudest voice, no one would hear you from inside that small room. The soldiers did not find any metal objects on me throughout all the inspection processes I went through. I remained naked for around half an hour. After that, without any instruction from the soldiers, I put my clothes on. I believe that this room contained surveillance cameras. After half an hour, the Israeli soldiers returned my ID and allowed me to pass through the gate to Barta'a.
  
  “These inspection rooms were constructed by the Israeli occupying forces at the barrier of Barta'a just two months ago. They were constructed to humiliate and suppress the citizens of Barta'a. This situation has had a negative psychological impact on its citizens. The people have become afraid to leave their village because they don't want to be subjected to humiliation in those closed rooms when they return to their village.
  
  “...All the male residents of Barta'a have been subjected to this type of inspection for approximately one month.”
  
  - Sworn Affidavit of Mahmoud Ibrahim, Al Haq, February 7, 2006.
• “In the same period, a resident of the village was required by the forces at the gate to undress as a precondition for entry into the village.
  
  “These facts were reported in a letter of complaint sent by the representative of the petitioners on 9 October 2005 to the region’s Attorney General, demanding an immediate intervention to halt the harassment”
  
  - Al Haq, Petition for an Injunction to the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, unofficial translation.
• “In addition to the severe restrictions on movement persistently imposed on al-Nu’man’s residents, they endure physical harassment and psychological humiliation at the checkpoint. Numerous villagers have testified that they have been ordered to remove their clothes under threat of being shot. Children have also been subjected to intimidating and degrading treatment.
  
  “...According to Jamal Suleiman Dir’awi, harassment increases in the evenings. He describes one of his experiences:
  
  “‘It was approximately 11:00 pm [on 13 May 2006]. The soldiers ordered us in Arabic through loud speakers to take off our clothes. One of the soldiers ordered me to lift up my shirt and pull down my trousers. I refused his demand whereas the four other men did what the soldiers ordered them. They pulled down their trousers a little but the soldiers constantly asked them to further remove their trousers and take them off. The four young men also lifted their shirts up to their chins. This took place in front of a number of the citizens of al-Nu’man. I refused to follow the soldiers’ orders and, as a result, one of the soldiers threatened me and aimed his weapon at me but I nevertheless continued to disobey. Eventually, they released me and I arrived in Bethlehem.’”
  
  - Grazia Careccia and John J. Reynolds, “Al-Nu’man Village: A Case Study of Indirect Forcible Transfer,” Al Haq, November 2006.

Strip Searches at Border Crossings & Airports

• “Before any visitor gets in, however, he must go through a stringent security check at the Israeli terminal. Besides being examined by metal detectors, each visitor must undergo a private strip search...”
  
  - The New York Times, “ALLENBY BRIDGE JOURNAL; A 15-Yard Span Over a Great Divide,” Thomas L. Friedman, July 18, 1987:
• “It's difficult to find Palestinians or Arab-Israelis who don't have at least one story about a humiliating airport security check. For many, the screening, which can include strip searches and security escorts to the gate, is seen as an unavoidable inconvenience.”
  
  - Dion Nissenbaum, “Treatment of Israeli official spurs look at airport security,” McClatchy Newspaper, April 2, 2007.
• “Because Israel has full control of the Palestinian territories it occupied since 1967, it manages all border traffic.
  
  “...Until recently, interrogation and body searches at the airport were carried out almost exclusively on two groups only: Israel's Palestinian citizens, who comprise nearly 20% of the population, and foreign activists suspected of belonging to Palestinian solidarity movements.
  
  “...Palestinians with Israeli citizenship, in contrast to foreign visitors, have been subject to stringent security checks since the creation of Israel.
  
  “Despite Israeli claims that such checks are carried out only in the interests of ensuring the safety of passengers, Arab citizens report being treated uniformly in a humiliating manner.
  
  “This was highlighted last month by the experience at Ben Gurion airport of Lutfi Manshur, the editor of one of Israel's most influential Arab newspapers, al-Sinara.
  
  “He had been invited to join Israeli President Moshe Katsav, as the only Arab representative on a visit to France where Katsav was to speak about anti-Semitism.
  
  “Manshur found himself singled out from the 35-member delegation for extra security checks, including having his bags X-rayed and undergoing a body search.
  
  “He eventually declined to board the plane and stayed in Israel.
  
  “Afterwards, Manshur said: ‘I told some of my Jewish friends that I felt like a Jew in the last century. The problem is that [the security officials] were contemptuous of the president. I'm used to it. But remember, the president is going to France to talk about racism, not shellfish.’
  
  “After Katsav publicly denounced Manshur's treatment, the head of the Shin Bet, Avi Dichter, sent a letter to the newspaper editor to apologise for the "extensive" security procedures.”
  
  “...it has become apparent over the past few months that a new group has been added to the list of those likely to be humiliated at the airport: leftwing Israeli Jews.”
  
  “...A former airport security officer recently told Haaretz anonymously: ‘Once, every Arab was considered a terrorist. Then it was everyone who knows an Arab, and now it's anyone who knows someone who knows an Arab. Altogether that adds up to quite a few people.’”
  
  - Jonathan Cook, “Airport security as political bullying,” Al Jazeera online, March 12, 2004.
• “SUZY SALAMY: I attempted to get into Israel. I flew into Ben Gurion Airport on the 4th of January, was immediately pulled aside. Once they see your passport and they see your last name—my last name is Salamy; it’s Palestinian—even though it’s an American passport, they pull you aside, and you’re held for many hours. I was held for eight hours, and during that time, I was interrogated by four different people. And they decided at the end of it that I was going to not be allowed to enter. They put me in a detention center. They strip-searched me. They put me in a detention center and then the next morning brought me directly to an airplane, Air Canada airplane.
  
  “AMY GOODMAN: Suzy, did you say they strip-searched you?
  
  “SUZY SALAMY: Oh, yes. They do that all the time to people they deem as security threats. They went through my items, you know, to see if they had any sort of bomb residue on it. And then they took me into a room and, you know, made me take off my bra, drop my pants, etc., even though I had already been there for eight hours. If anything was going to happen, it would have already happened, if I had anything on me. But, you know, the point is to humiliate and make you feel powerless.”
  
  - Democracy Now!, Transcript: “Entry Denied: Palestinian-Americans Among Thousands Blocked by Israel from Occupied Territories”, January 18, 2007.
• “While Israeli security won't admit it, it is a widely accepted secret that Palestinians and Arabs get the worst of it. Arab travelers are routinely subjected to intense, hours-long questioning that can include strip searches.”
  
  - Dion Nissenbuam, McClatchy Newspapers, “Travelers sing the Ben Gurion blues,” July 13, 2007.
• “Yasser Hiyya didn't know why he was always so weak and tired until this summer, when doctors discovered a small hole in his heart. Israel gave Hiyya permission to leave the Gaza Strip last month and cross Israeli territory for immediate surgery in the Palestinian-controlled West Bank.
  
  “But when he arrived at the Israeli border crossing, he learned that there was a catch. In a daylong interrogation, Hiyya said, Israeli intelligence offered him a deal: Tell us about your brother, a wanted militant, and we'll let you enter Israel for the operation you need.
  
  “When Hiyya refused, they turned him away.
  
  “...For 12 hours on Sept. 18 at the Erez border crossing, Hiyya said, he was strip-searched, taken to a below-ground interrogation room and grilled about his brother.”
  
  - “Activists: Israel pressuring ill Palestinians to be informers,” McClatchy Newspapers, October 24, 2007.
• “Three years ago, Salim Kayat, a 74-year-old businessman, arrived at Ben-Gurion International Airport for his flight abroad. Kayat, a member of one of the families that comprised Haifa's moneyed Arab nobility until 1948, arrived at the airport with his wife, Paula, and her elderly mother, who suffers from heart disease and sits in a wheelchair. They were bound for Italy to visit their daughters, and then to Austria, to attend the wedding of Edgar Kayat, Salim's son from a previous marriage. “According to a suit brought by the Kayats' attorneys, Alexander and Inbal Beit Halahmi, ‘they presented their luggage for security inspections, as required, and X-ray screening revealed nothing suspicious. Then, three security officials appeared and ordered them to step aside and empty their suitcases and carry-on luggage, while passing each item through an X-ray screening instrument. Here, as well, no suspicious items were revealed.’
  
  “At that point, Kayat showed the inspectors a certificate from the honorary consul of Spain in Haifa. But the inspectors ignored the certificate and began to search them, ‘at first, with an electronic wand, and, later, by means of very thorough use of hands, which included inspection of intimate areas.’ The latter included a body search of Kayat's elderly mother-in-law, who was lifted from her wheelchair. At the end of these inspections, Kayat was informed that he would not be permitted to board the plane with a hand-held bag containing medical instruments used to check blood pressure and blood glucose. Kayat told the security officials that without the blood glucose meter, he would be forced to fast throughout the flight. This did not persuade them to change their orders.
  
  “...Nearly all Israeli Arabs who travel abroad experience similar humiliation. First, security officials identify them as Arabs and ask them to leave the line of waiting passengers; then, they are asked to open their suitcases so that every item may be slowly examined, and finally they are subjected to lengthy questioning. The few Israeli Arab passengers who are willing to fly with El Al or other Israeli carriers are subjected to a similar process abroad, before boarding the plane back to Israel.”
  
  - Aryeh Dayan, “Come with me, please,” Haaretz, February 20, 2007.
• “Israeli media have for several years reported on suspicions that non-Jews, including Israel's more than one million Arab citizens, are being routinely subjected to lengthy interrogations, bag checks and invasive body searches at Israeli airports and land crossings.
  
  “...Fairuz Nasrallah, a nurse, says she was recently stopped by Israeli officials at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris and subjected to lengthy interrogation and a strip search after her name was revealed - she shares a common last name with the leader of Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hassan Nasrallah.
  
  “‘The whole time I tried to complain about their offensive attitude, but the security guards kept telling me that these were their orders and that if I chose to travel with El Al, I had to bear the consequences.’
  
  “As well as exhaustive luggage searches, Arab travellers are often taken to side rooms where they are made to strip before being subjected to a body search.
  
  “Ibtisam Maranah, a film director who represented Israel at an international film festival in the Netherlands in 2005 along with several Jewish colleagues, reports that Israeli staff took her off alone to an underground section of the Dutch airport, away from the rest of her group and local airport staff, where she was made to undress.
  
  “‘They were searching me underground, out of sight. Someone who has not undergone this kind of search can't imagine how humiliating it is. You aren't worth anything in this situation. At the time I thought about the Palestinians who go through the checkpoints every day - I thought about the daily searches and humiliation.’
  
  “Maranah has refused to travel since, despite several invitations to film festivals in the US. ‘I considered handing in my passport and identity card - what meaning does citizenship have if it makes me a victim of this kind of treatment?’”
  
  - Jonathan Cook, “Israeli Arabs ‘racially profiled,’” Al-Jazeera Online, January 13, 2007.
• “After searching the suitcases, the physical search began in a side room. They removed my shoes and searched my clothes. Then they removed my pants and began to feel my clothes and body, including in the most intimate places. It really disgusted me. The physical search took about fifteen minutes. They also performed an embarrassing search like this on our friend, who is barely capable of walking.
  
  “...We had been delayed on our way to the plane by hours of humiliating and offensive searches, and after all that we did not even board the flight.”
  
  - Testimony of Hathem Habiballah, resident of Ein Mahel, The Arab Association for Human Rights, “Suspected Citizens,” April 2006.
• “While the cameras were being inspected, another guard came up and ordered me to come for a physical search immediately, or I would be unable to complete the search process and would be late for the plane. I refused and said that the plane would have to wait, and that I would not move until they gave me the cameras and equipment. He answered rudely, ‘No plane is going to wait for you.’
  
  “I went for the physical search and my father waited by the suitcases. They told me to take off my shoes and pants. I couldn’t stand the shame any more and started to cry. I felt that I might collapse at any time.
  
  “While I was undergoing the physical search, the woman at the counter told my father that the plane and flight were closed and he should take me home. My father asked whether I could get a place on another flight, and she replied that I was losing my ticket and would have to buy a new one. My father was shocked and did not know what to say. The problem was solved when the security guards asked the women to let me through, and took me directly to the airplane.
  
  “After the physical search, I was the last person to hand in my bags at the desk. My father seemed very worried about what they had done to me.
  
  “...I said goodbye to my father in tears, and saw that he was very worried and had tears in his eyes. I thought to myself, ‘This is great! I’m going abroad to have fun and this is what they do to me...’ One of the guards accompanied me to the plane, although I was entitled to go to the duty free and have the plane wait. I cried all the way to the plane and throughout the flight. It was very difficult for me to come to terms with what I had been through. I felt really bad.
  
  “...I must emphasize that the rude and insulting attitude, and the lack of human respect, were reflected in every word and every glance of the inspectors. This was a very difficult and exceptional experience, unlike anything else I have ever known.”
  
  - Testimony of Nadin Saruji, resident of Nazareth, The Arab Association for Human Rights, “Suspected Citizens,” April 2006.
• “Then it was time for the physical search. They told me to take my shoes off and took them off to be inspected. Then they took me to a corner of the room and shut it off with a curtain. They told me to take off all my clothes, apart from my underpants, and they even looked into my underpants. I was very angry and disgusted by their attitude. I told them that I would not remain silent about their behavior and would publish it in the press and file complaints with the relevant bodies. They coolly responded that this was a routine inspection.
  
  “...The interrogation lasted almost three and a half hours, including the time at the external gate, and was extremely humiliating. I never imagined that I would be forced to undergo a strip search.”
  
  - Testimony of ’Abud Badawi, resident of Kafr Qasem, The Arab Association for Human Rights, “Suspected Citizens,” April 2006.
• “Then they told me to remove my jacket, shoes, and belt which they took for inspection outside the curtain. They also told me to place my wallet and mobile phone on the table. Then they began to examine my whole body with the scanner device. Suddenly the man who was inspecting me said that he wanted to check that the device was working. He said, ‘I’ve got a feeling this isn’t working properly.’ He said this in an ironic tone, as if he had expected the machine to beep when he checked me. They brought a new machine and he checked my whole body; once again, it didn’t beep.
  
  “He went on checking me and began to feel my shirt and pants, arms and legs, and even my intimate parts. I felt humiliated and helpless.
  
  “...I was very angry at the humiliating treatment, the lack of respect, and the denigration during and after the search. The other passengers on the flight were not delayed and did not go through this series of humiliations before boarding the flight. Jews go through, and Arabs are held and delayed. 350 passengers got on the plane, and no-one stopped them – they only stopped me. Why? Its pure racism.”
  
  - Testimony of Walid Khutba, resident of `Arabah, The Arab Association for Human Rights, “Suspected Citizens,” April 2006.
• “I am a television and cinema producer. I come from Fureidis originally, but I now live in Tel Aviv-Jaffa. Last year, 2005, I traveled to an international film festival in Holland that intended to screen one of my films. I traveled together with Jewish colleagues to represent the State of Israel. I was the only Arab in the group...
  
  “Unfortunately, the humiliation didn’t end there. When I arrived at the Dutch airport to fly back to Israel, I went through the inspection by the Dutch security guards without any problem. The hair clip also beeped in the scanner, but they did not demand that I remove it. When I reached the Israeli guards from El-Al – the airline I was traveling with – they stopped me at Gate No. 8 and told me to move over to Gate No. 10. I went there, and found that this gate did not lead to the plane, but to a lower level of the airport. I went down the stairs and found a group of foreign passengers on their way to Israel. There were seven people there, and I was the only one with an Israeli passport. They began to inspect us one by one.
  
  “They put my bags to one side and took me into an area enclosed with curtains, I could not see what was going on around me. A woman guard from El-Al came in and told me to remove some of my clothes, and suddenly I found myself topless. This was the most humiliating and offensive part. I was representing Israel at an international festival – how could they treat me in such a humiliating way?
  
  “Then I took my bags and went to the plane. One of the guards accompanied me to Gate No. 8 and then to the boarding ramp. I returned to Israel. I didn’t argue with any of the guards about the humiliating inspection and search. I just put myself in their hands. I felt helpless. I felt that I couldn’t refuse. They were searching me underground, out of sight.
  
  “Someone who hasn’t undergone this kind of search can’t imagine how humiliating it is. You aren’t worth anything in this situation. At the time I thought about the Palestinians who go through checkpoints every day – I thought about the daily searches and humiliation. I considered handing in my passport and identity card – what meaning does citizenship have if it makes me a victim to this kind of treatment?
  
  “I have been invited many times to travel to the United States on work-related visits. I have not gone, because I constantly think about the humiliating inspection and search I would have to undergo at the airport. The experience has even affected my career.”
  
  - Testimony of Ibtisam Mar`anah, resident of Fureidis, The Arab Association for Human Rights, “Suspected Citizens,” April 2006.
• “I just returned from a 2 week trip to the Middle East including a few days in Ramallah. I will not even mention the Israeli treatment of the Palestinians (which is horrendous) but will focus on thier treatment of me – a caucasian american. At the TelAviv airport i was held up for an hour for intensive questioning. I requested a detachable visa but they stamped my passport anyway. It took me 2 hours to drive 45 miles due to long waits at the checkpoints. On the way out of the country – my taxi driver and I were pulled over at the checkpoint 5 miles from the airport. I was kept there for 1 hour including a humilating strip search. I did hear one military official at the checkpoint say ‘forgive me it is not my fault.’ I then went through 4 seperate airport security checkpoints. Having left Ramallah 4 hours before my flight – i got to the gate with 10 minutes to spare. As an american, i have become utterly ashamed at my country’s blind support for this type of behavior. It is inhumane.”
  
  - Comment ‘Posted by mark,’ New York Times Blog: Nicholas D. Kristof On the Ground, June 21, 2008.
• “My grandmother is from Jaffa, she used to tell us stories about her jewish neighbors borrowing sugar and cooking for each other...
  
  “My first visit to the area came in 1975 after 6years in the US, I was only 7yrs old at the time, they took me away from my mother and i had to strip to my underware; it was the most frieghtening and humiliating experience of my life, I could never understand the reason but i know heatred was created and the true knowledge of the word enemy was embeded in my mind.
  
  “At that time, there was no terrorist attaks, no suicide bombers, there was a clear understanding of the gorilla warfare mindset. what i am trying to say is that you harvest what you seed...”
  
  - Comment ‘Posted by Samer Hjaij,’ New York Times Blog: Nicholas D. Kristof On the Ground, June 21, 2008.
• “Two months before my father died in 1994 I travelled on my Australian passport to Amman in Jordan on the way to visit my parents in the occupied West Bank.”
  
  “...Being identified as Bethlehem-born on my passport did not help much at the Israeli crossing at River Jordan. Like most other Western passport holding Palestinians, I had to strip naked as a condition of being grante.”
  
  - Comment on a blog by Abe Ata of Melbourne
• “I heard a couple of horror stories about entering Israel. The folks who told me the stories were fine after all, if a bit scarred. They were both Americans whom I met in Jordan, and who had flown with El Al, the Israeli air carrier. Both men had been interrogated intensely before being allowed on the plane. Both had all of their clothes individually X-rayed, and one was strip searched twice. The latter had previously visited Lebanon for a week, and they wanted to know everything about his visit. Upon their arrivals in Tel Aviv, they had deja vu and instead of El Al agents, Israeli border officals held them for a hours of interrogations before letting them in, accusing them of having ‘arab contacts.’”
  
  - Travel Experience in Entering Israel, TravelPod Blog, March 5, 2006.
• “ Inside the building where our documents were processed, an Israeli soldier looked up our names on a computer, and then motioned my father into a cubicle. I could hear my father’s angry voice, the insistent voice of the soldier. Suddenly my father stormed out of the cubicle and told my mother that we were going back to Jordan: he refused to submit to these conditions. The official had decided to strip-search my father, a humiliation our American passports had usually spared us. My mother was in a quandary. If we turned back, we would be abandoning the guests we had promised to accompany. Finally the situation was defused: the Israeli told my father he would only be required to take off his shirt and loosen his pants, and my father, urged by my mother, grudgingly agreed. We passed through border control without further incident. But as we seated ourselves in the Arab car that would take us to Jerusalem, I could still see the set of my father’s jaw.
  
  Years later, I found myself standing in a cubicle at the bridge with my sister, my pants around my ankles. The female Israeli solider who had ordered me to unclothe was writing something on a clipboard and had not bothered to glance at my naked legs to verify that I was not, in fact, concealing contraband. My jaw was so tightly clenched that my teeth ached. My sister, who had only been required to take off her shoes, raised her eyebrows and shook her head at me. But I was too upset to heed her silent warning. ‘Why do I have to take off my pants but she doesn’t have to take off her skirt?’ I demanded of the soldier. ‘If you’re worried about security, why don’t you check us both?’ Without looking up, the Israeli woman shrugged. ‘She can hide something in her shoes, you can hide something in your pants.’ I glanced at my sister, whose open sandals revealed most of her feet, but whose long skirt, unlike my tight Capri pants, could have hidden all manner of things. The point, evidently, was not security but harassment. I had revealed more resentment during our initial questioning than my sister, and I was being punished for it. I had a sudden vision of my father in perhaps that same cubicle, stripped to the waist while a bored young Israeli man wrote on a clipboard. Ten or fifteen years had passed, but the humiliation was the same.
  
  Later, as my sister and I rode in a taxi through Jericho, I recalled how we had stopped in Jericho’s central market after my father had been strip-searched to purchase large burlap sacks of oranges and tangerines for our Jerusalem relatives. The purchase, I think, was more for my father than for our relatives, as if the familiar gesture of generosity could restore his sense of honor.”
  
  - Lisa Suhair Majaj, “Journeys to Jerusalem,” The South Atlantic Quarterly, 102:4, Fall 2003.
• “The experience began when I crossed the Allenby Bridge from Jordan to the West Bank with the other members of my group. The foreigners and the Arabs cross separately there. We crossed with the foreigners, but as American and Canadian Arabs we were treated somewhat differently. When our names were found to be Arabic, we were detained in a room with two Palestinian American families. The ‘normal’ foreigners streamed through, even laughing when we pointed out to them that we were being treated differently.
  
  “The members of our delegation with darker skin were strip-searched. Even the twelve-year-old son of the Palestinian American family was strip-searched. However, due to my appearance—I am blond and have blue eyes—I was asked specifically at this point if I was an Arab. I responded with a question, ‘Why are you asking me?’ The young female border guard laughed and let me go.
  
  “...A soldier admitted to us that we were considered Arabs first and Americans second.”
  
  - Karima Bennoune, “An Arab American’s Experience in the Occupied Territories,” Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 17, No. 3 (Spring, 1988)
• “Ya’aqubi was then taken into a side room and asked to remove his clothes and shoes... Ya’aqubi then underwent a body search and was asked a number of questions.
  
  “...‘This is the most offensive and humiliating experience I have ever had. I was immediately suspect just because I am Arab. The fact that I am an outstanding student, was traveling as a representative of an academic institution, and was selected to represent Israel at an international conference didn’t help me at all.’
  
  “The experience related by Salah Ya’aqubi is a classic example of the treatment encountered by Arab citizens of Israel when they come to Ben Gurion Airport in order to board international flights... This phenomenon is so widespread that it is hard to find any Arab citizen who travels abroad by air and who has not experienced a discriminatory security check at least once.
  
  “...After the inspection of the baggage is completed, the next stage is a physical search. The Arab passenger is led into a small room, asked to remove their shoes and belt, and their body is then searched thoroughly. The security personnel feel the passenger’s clothes and sometimes touch their intimate parts, even inserting their hands into the clothes. Passengers are often required to remove their clothes and remain only in their underwear.
  
  “...The sense of humiliation was particularly strong during the physical search, due to the manner in which it is carried out and the injury to personal modesty.
  
  “...After the questioning comes the physical search. In many cases, the security guards order the Arab passenger to remove all their clothes, apart from their undergarments, and undertake a detailed search of their body, touching their intimate parts.”
  
  - The Arab Association for Human Rights and The Centre Against Racism, “Suspected Citizens: Racial Profiling against Arab Passengers by Israeli Airports and Airlines,” December 2006.
• “...After a young woman told me that she need to check my body, and with a smile in my face i answered, ‘OK, no problem’, when she was checking me she told me whispering ‘i am sorry, but is my work, can you take of all your clothes?’, i answer yes, but i want to keep my t shirt (i didn't want to show my tattoo), well, she checked me all, open your legs, close your legs, sit here, up and open your legs again, etc... like last year.”
  
  - Nadia Hasan, quoted by Sabbah, “Interrogation and Denial: How Israel Keeps Palestinians Down and Out,” Daily Kos, May 4, 2007.
• “It occurred to me while the soldier was making me pull down my pants to check for weapons with her magnetic wand and her hands. She asked me, ‘do you have a weapon?’ Of course, I said no, because I didn't. But, as I watched her search my body I looked down to notice that I was fingering a pen in my hand and thought to myself, well, yes, in fact, I do have a weapon. It's my pen. Indeed, as I wrote down notes for this blog on a piece of paper as they looked carefully at each piece of underwear very carefully, each drop of shampoo, each q-tip, one of the soliders told me to stop writing and came glance over my shoulder at my scribbles. They wanted to take my paper and see what I was writing, but I refused to let them see. Fortunately, they didn't push the issue.”
  
  - Dr. Marcy Newman, “‘every tool is a weapon if you hold it right’” body on the line blog
• “He looks me dead in the eyes and points to my shirt; as I stare back into his cold eyes, I realize what is happening: I’m being subjected to my first official strip search. There is a moment of static in my mind, and as I begin to lift my shirt, off in the distance I start to hear the ascending notes to Right Said Fred’s 1992 one hit wonder ‘I’m Too Sexy’. My shoulders begin to inevitably bounce as I hand him my shirt, and at first my movements are concealed and he pays them no attention, but by the time he is feeling the lining of my shoes for concealed weapons and flattening my socks looking for my drug stash I am smiling and my upper body is going though controlled miniature convulsions.”
  
  - Sky Cohen, “How Friere’s ‘Pedagogy of Hope’ Almost Saved Me, but Ultimately Was One of the Implicators of My Status as a Thought Criminal.,” Blog: once told, April 29, 2008.
• “...she called me at 1:30 in the afternoon from the bus to Jerusalem – after 5.5 hours at the border and a strip search, to tell me that she made it.”
  
  - Sahar, “Strip Searches and Refugee Camps,” Blog: Standing Witness, October 15, 2005
• “’OK, sure, but I think you mean a strip search?’
  
  “[I had my first Dec. 2005, triggered because I had Palestinian NONVIOLENT literature in my suitcase.]
  
  “She didn’t respond and led me to the examining room where my shoes, belt, and jewelry came off and she told me to sit down and she would be right back. After my shoes and belt passed the x-ray inspection, she returned to me and told me to extend my legs so she could pat them down. Then she instructed me to stand up and hold my arms out so she could wand me all over. The wand kept alarming in the vicinity of the metal buttons and rivets on my jeans. She said, ‘Have a seat; I must get my supervisor.’
  
  “She returned with a young woman, who also never made eye contact with me and commanded, “You need to drop your pants around your knees.”
  
  “I complied and after she wanded me all over she turned and left, and I called to her back, ‘Did I pass the inspection? Can I get dressed?’
  
  She never responded but my first ‘companion’ said ‘Yes.’
  
  - Eileen Fleming, “Telling the Truth at Ben Gurion...”, May 26, 2008.
• “While the practice is widely applied, many people find it too humiliating to speak of. One 68-year-old Christian businessman, who had been stripped naked at Ben Gurion airport in 2006 before being allowed to board his flight to return home, had never revealed his experience to his family until he learned of the If Americans Knew investigation. He then explained to his daughter why he had previously told her that he might never return to his original home, now in the state of Israel.”
  
  - Alison Weir, “An If Americans Knew Investigation: Humiliation and Child Abuse at Israeli Borders & Aiports – Strip-Searching Children,” CounterPunch, March 15, 2007.
• “You see everything in Israel is color-coded and segregated: different colored-Ids; different-colored license plates; ‘Arab rooms’ in the airport where we get the 4-hour interrogation/strip-search special while Jewish travelers walk through security in minutes; and special foreigner border points across the Jordan river so tourists will not see the day-long torture sessions ordinary Palestinians have to twice endure every time they need to travel abroad through Jordan.”
  
  - “A stranger on my own land,” Trip to Palestine, July 19-25, 2004.

Prisoners Strip Searched

• B'Tselem found in May 2007 that 2/3 of [detainees] surveyed had been subjected to abuse: "The [Israeli] interrogation system includes seven key aspects which harm, to varying degrees, the dignity and bodily integrity of the detainees." Category 5 is "cursing, strip searches, shouting, spitting etc."
  
  - B'Tselem, “Absolute Prohibition: The Torture and Ill-Treatment of Palestinian Detainees,” May 2007, Joint report with Hamoked - Center for the Defence of the Individual, Summary.
• “Just yesterday, Israeli prison authorities violently assaulted detainees in Nafha Prison, using special forces and dogs to attack the prison cells and to physically abuse the detainees and strip search them.”
  
  - Identical letters dated 15 August 2007 from the Permanent Observer of Palestine to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General and the President of the Security Council.
• “At the beginning, I would like to talk about stripping off the clothes of prisoners, which has been used for a long time. However, in 2001, the arrogance of the occupation increased and stripping off the clothes of prisoners occurs at any time and soldiers have the right to order any prisoner to strip off his clothes whenever they want especially if they suspect a prisoner. Not only this but also there are types of stripping. Every prison has its own style and every soldier has his own way. For example, in Jalbou' Prison, one of the prison guards ordered me to stand opposite to him in a room where he and I were alone and asked me to take off my clothes piece by piece, wave by every piece and then put it on the floor. After I took off almost all my clothes (99 percent) and only my underwear was left, he cuffed my hands to the back, fiercely took off my underwear and ordered me to sit on the floor and then stand up. After I did that several times he ordered me to put on my clothes after he uncuffed my hands and went out of the room. In al-Damoun Prison, stripping is different. I was received by four policemen and four officers, who forced me to strip off my clothes in front of them. The only piece left on my body was my underwear, which they took off with a fierce movement after they cuffed my hands to my back. Then they ordered me to sit on the floor and stand up several times and then ordered me to put on my clothes. Every time this happened with me, I felt that I was raped.”
  
  - Sworn affidavit of Sami Yousef, Al Haq, July 4, 2005.
• “There, we were forced under the threat of arms and curses, to take off our clothes. We remained in our underwear in front of the occupying forces; both male and female eyes were on us. They were using very bad words and pointing at us in a humiliating manner.
  
  “They tied our hands behind our backs with plastic cuffs and we were carried in military vehicles to unknown places. I later learned that we were in Ferdrigo Military Camp near Jericho. We stayed there three hours, naked and handcuffed. They released our cuffs temporarily and moved them from behind our backs to the front. Female soldiers, acting rude and naughty, photographed us while we were naked. Then they brought our clothes and questioned us. We were released the next morning, Wednesday, 15 March 2006.”
  
  - Sworn affidavit of Ibrahim 'Abdallah, Al Haq, March 19, 2006.
• "Some 2,400 Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli Al Naqab Prison are on hunger strike this week in protest of routinely being stripped naked.
  
  "The naked body searches are described as humiliating and sometime Israeli prison authorities conduct them against political prisoners' parents and other family members during visits."
  
  - Palestine News Network,“Palestinian political prisoners hunger strike against strip searches,” Network for the Freedom of All Political Prisoners, August 24, 2006.
• “The plight of the 8,400 Palestinian political prisoners has attracted little attention outside Israel, even though there have been warnings from human rights groups about the dire conditions they endure and reports of abuse at the hands of guards, including a widespread policy of strip searching and severe beatings for those who refuse.
  
  “...Many prisoners have complained to their lawyers that even when their families are allowed to see them -- often after being held up for many hours at checkpoints -- they are strip- searched, offered no visitor facilities and allowed only a few minutes of contact.
  
  “...Strip-searching has resulted in an increasingly hostile environment in many jails and several violent attacks by guards on prisoners. The worst incidents have occurred in two neighbouring prisons in the Lower Galilee, Shatta and Gilboa jails.
  
  Last month the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel decried an incident, following a fight between an inmate and a guard, in which a special unit, the Nachshon, stormed a ward in the Gilboa prison and sprayed tear gas into the cells. The ward's prisoners were forcibly removed from their cells, they had their hands tied behind their backs and were forced to kneel in the yard in the midday sun. Severe beatings with batons resulted in more than a dozen prisoners being badly injured.
  
  Another disturbing incident, which occurred in January, only came to light recently after the mother of one of the inmates concerned was able to visit her son.
  
  Diana Hussein, aged 44, found out that her 18-year-old son, Rabiah, and two other prisoners had been left unconscious by a beating from guards after they refused to undergo a strip search in Shatta jail during a Muslim religious festival. According to reports, the guards then attempted to rape the three inmates.
  
  Rabiah was placed in isolation for several weeks and refused access to a doctor. Unable to walk, he had to be carried to the bathroom for many days by other inmates. His mother says he is still in severe pain and has difficulty moving. ‘The doctors are refusing to treat him and giving him only Acamol [a mild, paracetamol-based pain killer],’ she said.”
  
  - Jonathan Cook, “Israel's Abu Ghraib,” Al-Ahram Weekly, August 12-18, 2004.
• “Israeli Army officials ordered inmates to strip to their underwear, which many did, marching out with clothing on their heads, an embarrassing and completely unnecessary provocation that trampled the dignity of any Palestinian watching that spectacle.”
  
  - New York Times Editorial, “As if That Fire Needed Fuel,” March 16, 2006.
• “During 10 hours of testimony, Dirani presented a horrifying account of his treatment by the army. He said that after he was captured six soldiers stripped him naked, shackled him and brutally interrogated him around the clock on the whereabouts of Arad.
  
  “Interrogators alternately splashed him with hot and freezing water, shook him until he fainted, squeezed his testicles, sodomised him and sexually assaulted him with a stick, he said. ‘I would pray that I'd die.’ He accused an army intelligence officer known to him only as ‘Major George’ of coordinating the torture.
  
  “Dirani testified that one uniformed soldier named Kojak was ordered to force him down on to a bench. ‘I couldn't see or resist ... I was raped by the soldier. He said he would rape me, and he did,’ he told the court. ‘Two or three days later they started raping me with a police baton. It's impossible to describe the pain. I yelled to high heaven.’
  
  “Lawyers representing the state have argued that Dirani's suit is ‘an insurance policy’ he needed to create before his return to Lebanon so that he would not be criticised for divulging information to Israel.
  
  “However, Dirani's account has been confirmed by several former soldiers who served at the same prison. One has said: ‘I know that it was customary to threaten to insert a stick if the subject did not talk.’
  
  “A petition signed last year by 60 officers in defence of ‘George’ does not deny that such practices were employed, only that it is unfair to victimise him for using working methods standard in military intelligence. ‘George‘ has also admitted that it was normal practice for detainees to be naked while being interrogated.
  
  “But the biggest blow to the state defence team came last week when a video was handed to Israeli television showing a former interrogator whose identity was concealed talking about George.
  
  “‘I remember one instance that I still feel until today, which makes me shudder, in which a baton was used -- not for hitting,’ he said. ‘Even in the field, George did what he wanted, in front of my eyes and the eyes of everyone else.’”
  
  - Jonathan Cook, “‘I would pray that I'd die’“, Al-Ahram Weekly, February 5-11, 2004.
• “Palestinian detainees have submitted demands particularly focused on: ...stopping the humiliating daily strip searches;
  
  “...They regularly undergo frustrating and deplorable treatments such as humiliating strip searches, while they are naked, before leaving their cells, including when they are going to meet with the doctor of the center or their lawyers.”
  
  - Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group Press Release, “The PHRMG expresses its maximum solidarity supporting Palestinian Political Prisoners,” August 27, 2004:
• “According to testimonies of those who have been recently released, detainees were subjected to insults and degrading treatment, including being forced to stand naked outdoors in the rain with their hands and feet bound.”
  
  - Palestinian Center for Human Rights, “Fear of Torture and Ill-Treatment of Thousands of Palestinians Detained by Israeli Occupying Forces,” April 9, 2002.
• Another common practice, which according to the testimonies was exploited by the soldiers to humiliate the detainees, was body searches during intake at the detention facility. Some of the interviewees reported that, during these searches, they were forced to strip and stand naked, or partially naked, in front of a number of soldiers, who mocked and swore at them. ...Of all the humiliating practices described here, strip searches are the only one that the authorities are empowered to employ under Israeli law. But strip searches, too, are subject to various conditions. When a person is taken into custody, the prison guards may make a "visual inspection of his naked body" to prevent prohibited items being taken into the detention facility.¹ However, the statute states that the detainee's consent must first be obtained. In the absence of such consent, the search is allowed only if it is authorized in writing by an officer after providing the detainee with an opportunity to be heard. Body searches, and all the more so when the person is naked, must be done with "maximum respect for human dignity, privacy, and health, and with the minimum degree of injury, discomfort, and pain."² Given the technological means available today, it must be asked whether it is not possible to conduct a thorough and efficient body search without requiring the subject to strip naked. In any case, performing searches of naked detainees, without their consent and without giving them an opportunity to be heard, and often with the addition of curses and mocking in front of several police officers or prison guards, and in front of a large number of officials, as described in some of the testimonies, undoubtedly are in clear violation of the statute.
  
  [1] Criminal Procedure Regulations (Enforcement Powers – Body Search of Suspect), 5756 – 1996, section 17(4).
  [2] Ibid., section 2(d).
  
  - B'Tselem and Hamoked, “ABSOLUTE PROHIBITION: THE TORTURE AND ILL-TREATMENT OF PALESTINIAN DETAINEES”, May 2007
• “During the arrest, detainees have often been forced to strip in public before being arrested. Family members have also been forced to remove their clothes in house to house arrest campaign raids.”
  
  - Addameer, Prisoners' Support and Human Rights Association, “Political Detention.”

Warnings to Travellers

• “If you wish to leave Gaza, you should contact the Consulate-General in Jerusalem for advice before attempting to do so. Entering Gaza can involve lengthy delays and searches. Leaving Gaza is even more difficult. Since the beginning of 2008 there have been several incidents of British nationals undergoing a strip-search and delays of several hours (or in one case three days) are common.”
  
  - Foreign & Commonwealth Office of UK Government
• “If you're unlucky, you'll be detained in the maze of body scanners. There is a separate section that will reveal itself to you if the guards in the gallery above feel they need to strip search you. Exit from Gaza could take an hour or several hours. The soldier at the final exit gate will ask you such pressing questions as ‘Where have you been?’ and ‘Did you speak to any Arabs?’.”
  
  - wikitravel, as of July 21, 2008.

People Forced to Strip in Public (Including Medical Workers & Children)

• “RAMALLAH, West Bank, Nov 25 (Reuters) - Three Israeli soldiers forced a Palestinian man to strip naked at gunpoint and walk like a dog in a West Bank city under curfew, Palestinian witnesses said on Monday.
  
  “A Reuters photographer snapped Yasser Sharaf, 25, standing naked in a cold, muddy street in Nablus on Sunday as two men were handing him clothes to put on and two Israeli armoured vehicles were pulling away from the scene.”
  
  - Mohammed Assadi, Reuters, Israelis make Palestinian strip naked -witnesses, November 25, 2002.
• “’The soldiers took us to an open area outside of Jenin and forced us to take off our clothes and, threatening to crush our bones under the tanks, forced us to lie down on broken glass.’
  
  “...Kamal Hussein, 30... They arrested him and used his naked body as a shield in front of resistance fighters. They then propped their guns on his shoulder and head and started firing at the fighters.
  
  “...Jamal Zubaidi, 16, said Israeli troops ordered all men living on his block to come out on the street with their hands up on April 7.
  
  “...The men were then driven to a nearby yard, ordered to strip naked, and made to lie face down in the dirt, Zubaidi said. ‘While my neighbor Jamal Sabar was taking off his pants, they shot him dead,’ he said in a stony voice, his eyes wandering into the distance.
  
  “Naiem Ghazani, a doctor, displayed a photograph taken of him by the army after he had been forced to strip naked upon his arrest in Jenin.
  
  “’I asked them why they were arresting me," said Ghazani. ‘And they said that they were taking all men of fighting age because they didn't know which of us were involved in the battles.’
  
  - IslamOnline & News Agencies, “Jenin: Lying Down On Broken Glass, Crushing Bones,” April 16, 2002.
• “On Monday, November 25, Israeli soldiers ordered a young resident of the town of Nablus to strip completely naked in the street, according to Palestinian witnesses.
  
  “Yasser Sharar, 25, was caught violating the curfew in Nablus and was stopped by Israeli soldiers at gunpoint, who immediately ordered him to remove his clothes.
  
  “In an interview with Reuters, a witness explained, ‘They forced Yasser to take off all his clothes including his underwear...they ordered him to walk like a dog and then he burst into tears,’”
  
  “...recent interviews conducted by the Palestine Chronicle with scores of residents of the Jenin refugee camp contradicted the Reuters claim. Dozens of residents of the refugee camp claimed that during the Israeli invasion of April, 2002, it was a common practice to force residents to strip naked as a form of humiliation, or as the Israelis say, a ‘security operation.’
  
  “Na'el Ammar, 43, is a resident of the Jenin refugee camp and explains how Israeli soldiers arrested and detained scores of men from the refugee camp, and forced many to strip naked, ‘We were mostly older people, sick and wounded. We had nine handicapped people with us, three were from the same family, sons of Abu Ibrahim. Some of us were too old, they were senile. When they told them "go left" they would go right, but they stripped them naked anyway. I tried to help them as much as I could. I was the only one who spoke Hebrew...Close to us was a group of young men. They were handcuffed, naked and lying on their stomachs. The Israeli tanks would pass by them so fast, only forty centimeters away from their heads.’
  
  “Nawal Hawashin, a mother of eight, told Palestine Chronicle reporters that they threatened her 18 year old son with death if he did not follow their orders to strip naked, ‘They ordered my son and other young men to take off all their clothes and throw them on the ground. The soldiers warned that if the boys made any move, they would be shot. Near the Sahah, there was a body of a man with a white beard. He was lying dead on the ground, and tanks were rolling right over him. I couldn't recognize him. My son Mohammed said, "Mother, I am too ashamed to take my clothes off in front of women." I told him, "Son, this is our fate."’
  
  “Jamal Hussein has a family of thirteen. A man who worked as a cheap laborer in Israel before the invasion of Jenin described in detail how terrified Jenin residents were gathered in the center of the camp and forced to undress, ‘Soldiers stationed on the top of a nearby house started throwing dirt on us.. We remained 15 men and boys. Half an hour later a tank came and stood near us. They pointed the canon at us. And they spent over an hour terrifying us that way. The commander of that unit spoke in Arabic to us, "Go to Saha". While we were on our way, we kept reading Koran. We felt that they were going to execute us. Once we arrived there, we found a large number of men, forced to strip completely naked. There was a big pile of clothes. Soldiers started shooting right above our heads, they would call on us, one by one. Once they pointed at you, you would have to pull your pants down and your shirt up, when it was my turn, as I stood up, I noticed the body of a man, Jamal Sabbagh. It was some sort of a test. If you pass, you are arrested and if you don't, they'll shoot and kill you.’
  
  “According to Jenin residents, Israeli forces were not discriminatory in their aggression, young men, old and disabled were targeted. 45-year old Um Siri lamented how her son was not only forced to strip naked, but how he was later used as a human shield, ‘Then they took my son, they had him strip naked, and they also started firing between his legs to terrorize him.’”
  
  ...“Other residents described how young men were stripped naked and then shot. Yusuf Shalabi, a young man from the camp explained how the Israeli soldiers denied medical treatment to the wounded, ‘...I remember this nightmare very well. It is very difficult to talk about it. I remember them stripping the people naked, they would handcuff them and blindfold them. I remember seeing two wounded men, one was wounded in the shoulder and the other in the leg. They were screaming in pain and the soldiers would not allow them to be treated.’”
  
  ...“‘We found some doctors and medical workers, forced strip naked, handcuffed. Then they put them in trucks and took them to the Salem detention center’”...
  
  ...“Mohammed Rafi' the director of the Red Crescent Society's youth development programs in Jenin recounted how the Israelis held medical workers hostage in the Jenin hospital for days, and then forced them to strip naked as well. ‘They did not allow anyone in or out. If one of us wanted to leave to the hospital across the street, it would take two hours of telephone calls and deliberation. Ambulance drivers would be forced to wait for two hours with people bleeding inside before they were allowed entry to the hospital, they would take our volunteers or drivers, have them stripped naked, and interrogated and insulted.’
  
  “Of the scores upon scores of interviews conducted by Palestine Chronicle reporters in the Jenin refugee camp, that act of forcing civilians to strip naked was reported time and again. The Israeli army has defended the action, saying that such tactics are necessary to assure that Palestinians are not carrying explosives.”
  
  - Suzanne Russ, “Stripping Palestinians has Become Common Practice: Eyewitness Accounts,” Palestine Chronicle, November 26, 2002.
• “Palestinians residing near the Kissufim crossing in the central Gaza Strip say Israel Defense Forces troops have been conducting raids in the area, during which residents are taken away for lengthy questioning and returned without their cloths.
  
  “Dozens of such testimonies from the residents of nearby villages indicate young Palestinians return naked from questioning that lasts 24 hours or more.”
  
  - Haaretz Staff and Channel 10, “Gazans: Palestinians detained by IDF return naked,” Haaretz, November 12, 2007.
• “In Arabic, the Israeli soldiers asked me to lift up my clothes from the upper half of my body, and then to pull down my clothes on the lower half of my body, which I did, but then they asked me to remove my underwear, which I absolutely refused to do. They then told me to walk towards them.”
  
  - Sworn affidavit of Kamal Abu-Zeid, Al Haq, October 1, 2005.
• “On 16 August 2007, Adalah sent a letter to the Israeli Prime Minister, the Minister of Public Security, the Head of the General Security Services (GSS) and the Attorney General, following an article published in the Haaretz newspaper on the subject of a new method of torture being employed by the GSS against Palestinian detainees. In a recent development, investigators have forced detainees to remove their clothing in front of other detainees, soldiers and interrogators and to put on disposable nylon overalls. In the letter, Adalah demanded that the use of this practice be ceased immediately and that a criminal investigation be opened into the actions of the GSS’s investigators.
  
  “According to the article written by journalist Amira Hass, the GSS made two Palestinian detainees enter a three-walled wooden hut. The interrogators then asked the detainees to remove their clothes and ran a metal detector over their naked bodies in front of soldiers standing nearby. Then the detainees were asked to put on overalls and to place their own clothes inside a black plastic bag. Their hands were then bound with plastic ties and blindfolds were placed over their eyes.
  
  “The GSS has been employing this method of torture for three months against detainees from the Gaza Strip, according to the evidence presented by the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights-Gaza to Haaretz.
  
  “In the letter, Adalah Attorney Fatmeh El-‘Ajou argued that this practice violates the constitutional rights of the detainees, including the right to dignity and privacy and causes them severe humiliation, in breach of the Basic Law: Human Dignity and Freedom. “The new method used by the interrogators of the General Security Services is a cruel, inhumane and exceptionally humiliating method of torture, which violates international law, and is considered a crime under Israeli law. Under international law such methods are absolutely prohibited without exception,” argued Attorney El-‘Ajou.
  
  “Adalah further argued that the GSS employs this method of torture for the sole purpose of humiliating the detainees and affronting their dignity. According to the aforementioned article, the investigators who used this illegal method work for the GSS. The GSS Law does not authorize the employees of this service to inspect detainees in a way that entails a violation of their basic rights and is at odds with international laws, emphasized Adalah.
  
  “Adalah further indicated that forcing Palestinian detainees to wear disposable nylon overalls raises numerous questions regarding the intentions of the GSS, as the goal behind this practice could be the creation of a genetic data bank from material gathered from the overalls, such as blood, sweat and hair. This is also an illegal action that is in breach of human dignity, freedom and privacy.”
  
  - Adalah, The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, “Adalah: Forcing Palestinian Detainees to Strip Naked is a Method of Torture Prohibited under International Law,” News Update (text in full), August 20, 2007.
• “Old age does not protect workers from soldiers' abuse. Old workers are exposed to the same insults and degrading treatment if they do not follow security procedures. They are also forced to lift parts of the clothes and rotate in a circule naked in front of soldiers to make sure they are not carrying anything to threaten security. - Palestinian Center for Human Rights, “Special Report on the Israeli Closure of the Gaza Strip,” June 12, 2006.
  
  
• “They surrounded the Haseeba building and used loudspeakers to order residents to leave the building. This was conducted while shots were fired into the air and sound charges were detonated. IOF forced one of the residents to surrender, after forcing him to take off his clothes and walk out naked, under threat of blowing up the whole building. The man who surrendered was Ashraf Abu El-Rous, 30.”
  
  Palestinian Center for Human Rights, “On the Eve of Palestinian Legislative Elections: Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Continue to Perpetrate Human Rights Violations throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT),” January 19-25, 2006.
• “IOF also arrested Eyad Mohammed Mo’een, 29, who was allegedly wanted for being a member of the Islamic Jihad. They forced him to get out of the building almost naked. IOF then destroyed parts of the fence and the first floor of the house.”
  
  - Palestinian Center for Human Rights, Weekly Report: On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, 27 April- 03 May 2006.
• “A soldier inside the jeep ordered me to raise my hands and get out of the car and said, ‘take off your shirt.’ I did; then he said, ‘and the pants.’ I did; then he said, ‘the undershirt and underwear.’ I begged him not to force me; and he said, ‘I’ll shoot you.’ And all the soldiers pointed their guns at me. I took off my underclothes and stood naked in front of everybody. He ordered, ‘proceed with your hands up.’ I came up to him and he gave me a transparent plastic bag to cover myself. He blindfolded me and made me sit 20 meters away. Then the soldier shouted at a passenger called Islam 'Abed al-Sheikh Ibrahim, 18, who was sitting in the front seat, and ordered him to get out of the car. He told the soldier that his leg was broken, but the soldier insisted. He Islam got out and stood on his crutches. The soldier ordered him to take off his clothes. He tried by failed. The soldier came to me and removed the binding off my eyes and told me at gunpoint to go and help him take off his clothes. I went and helped the passenger take off all his clothes. The soldier told me to help him walk to the soldier. We walked up and he gave me another nylon bag for Islam. Then, he told us to sit on the ground. Soon after, the soldier ordered another passenger, Yasser Rasheed al-Sheikh Ibrahim,60, to get out of the car and take off his clothes like us. He did and sat beside us. Then, he ordered Reyad Mahmoud Mohammed Melhem, 49, As’ad Faleh Yehya, 35, and 'Ali Sa’abna,43, to get out of the car and take off their clothes, and they obeyed the order. Soon after, the soldier asked the girl to take off her head cover and she did. Then, he ordered her to take off her clothes. She screamed at him, ‘I won’t even if you shoot me.’ Then, he told her to come and sit next to us. The soldier asked us to get into the jeep and we obeyed. He took us to "Maveh Dotan" outpost, where we sat for 5 hours without anyone saying a word to us. After that, an intelligence officer came and said, ‘Kufor Ra'ei and Fahma, stand up.” Five of us stood and he told us to get into the jeep. They took us to where we came from. When we reached the place, we were still naked and had the nylon bags only. We did not find our clothes or the car. I called my nephew, Rami, and told him what happened. He told me that the car was with people from 'Arraba. We went there and found our clothes in the car, except for the clothes of Yasser and Reyad.’”
  
  - Palestinian Center for Human Rights, Weekly Report: On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, 01 - 07 September 2005.
• Same incident: “The soldier called out to the driver, Abu Hassan, and ordered him to turn off the engine and put the keys on the roof. Abu Hassan did as the soldier said, and then the soldier ordered him to get out and stand in front of the taxi. Abu Hassan did that, and then the soldier ordered him to take off his clothes. Abu Hassan took off his shirt and pants. He tried to convince the soldier not to make him take off his underpants, but the soldier threatened him and said on the megaphone, ‘We are going to shoot you.’ Abu Hassan took off his underpants, and the soldier ordered him to go over to them. The soldier ordered him to turn around all the time, even though he was naked and did not have a weapon on him. When Abu Hassan got to the soldiers, they gave him a white plastic robe and ordered him to sit down.
  
  “After that, the soldiers ordered the other passengers, one after the other, to get out of the taxi. . The soldiers tried to separate a small boy who was in the taxi with his father, but the boy screamed and cried. There was a woman in the taxi and the soldier ordered her to take off her head covering. She removed it partially, and the soldier ordered her to take it off completely. He also ordered her to throw her bag onto the ground and told her to go over to them, together with the child, who was still screaming that he wanted his father. Then it was the father's turn.
  
  “I was the last passenger to get out of the taxi. The soldier asked me if anybody else was in the taxi. I told him there wasn't anybody else, and he ordered me to take off my clothes. I took off my shirt and undershirt, and stood there in my pants. He ordered me to open the doors of the taxi. I did as he said. Then he told me to remove everything from the taxi. I took everything out of the taxi including all of the passengers belongings. When I finished, the soldier said, ‘Undress completely.’ I undressed and went over to the soldiers. There weren't any more robes, and they gave me a blanket to cover myself. They blindfolded me and handcuffed me, and sat me down with the other passengers.
  
  “I don't know exactly how long we sat there, but it was about two hours. During that time, the soldiers wandered about in the area, and army vehicles came and drove around. Nobody asked me anything. After a while, the soldiers took us by hand and sat us down elsewhere. When I got up, the blanket fell and I stood there naked. After that, the soldiers removed my handcuffs so that I could hold up the blanket to cover myself. The soldiers brought us water, but I didn't drink even though I was thirsty. Even if I had drunk I would not have felt better, because I was in a very tough situation.
  
  “About an hour later, the soldiers took us somewhere. Later, when we were released, people from 'Araba told me that they had taken us to the Dotan army base, near 'Araba. The soldiers took us out of the vehicle one at a time, and we waited there for between an hour and a half and two hours, until somebody began to call our names. He gave me my ID card and took off my blindfold. I saw that he was wearing civilian clothes. He said, "Whoever has things in the box, take them." We took our things, and a short while later, the soldiers blindfolded us again and took us to where they had originally stopped us. When we got there, they removed the blindfolds and handcuffs and let us go. We did not find our clothes or the taxi that we had been in. A passing taxi took us to 'Araba. The driver said that Abu Hassan's taxi and our clothes were in 'Araba. We went to the house where our clothes were, and we got dressed.
  
  - Jasser Ibrahim, age 64, IDF soldiers order taxi driver and passengers to undress in public and detain them for hours wrapped in nylon sheets, 'Araba area, September 2005 B'Tselem, September 11, 2005.
• “Israeli security forces in full combat gear carried out a predawn raid on the Mount of Olives yesterday, detaining 16 Americans and four others from a Christian evangelical group and preparing to deport them for ‘endangering public safety.’
  
  “...The tactics used by Israeli security forces and border police yesterday, which eyewitnesses said involved strip-searches of both men and women, troubled many Christians living in Israel as well as Israelis who follow the Christian community closely.”
  
  - Charles M. Sennott, “Israelis arrest 16 from US in roundup of Christians,” The Boston Globe, October 26, 1999.
• “In the most recent Israel Defense Forces raids in the Gaza Strip, during which dozens of people were detained for interrogation by the Shin Bet, the security service adopted a procedure unknown in recent years: The detainees were forced to undress in the presence of another detainee and a soldier or a member of the Shin Bet and then be interrogated while wearing a disposable, blue paper overall. This emerged in cumulative testimony from the Strip. In the West Bank, apparently, the color of the overall is white. “
  
  “...Othman Hussein, a resident of Shuka who works in the research and planning department of Palestinian Authority Chair Mahmoud Abbas' bureau, was detained with another 83 people during an August 3 raid, along with his 16-year-old son. All of them - except for an employee of the Gaza European Hospital - were released within 24 hours. “
  
  “...Four children under the age of 15 and about 20 adults over the age of 45 were also detained...
  
  “...A man wearing civvies told them to undress completely in front of him and passed a metal detector over their naked bodies, including their behinds, according to Hussein's testimony.
  
  “Hussein and his son were put together in the hut. According to additional testimony, men and women soldiers were walking near the open hut all the while. Afterward, everyone was told to don an overall and put his clothes in a separate black bag, and then the detainees were handcuffed and blindfolded again.”
  
  “...Then he asked me about what had happened between Hamas and Fatah. I answered him: 'You strip me next to my son, sit me in the sun for about four hours, and then you want me to tell you my opinion of Hamas and Fatah? I don't want to tell you.’”
  
  “...At 10 P.M. they were allowed to look for their clothes in a pile of black bags and were taken by bus to the Sufa crossing, north of Kerem Shalom. From there, in the middle of the night, in a dangerous border area, they made their way on foot several kilometers to Rafah.”
  
  - Amira Hass, “Gaza residents tell of demeaning questioning by Shin Bet,” Haaretz, August 17,2007.
• “Israeli soldiers forced the detainees to undress and led them out clad only in their underwear. Images of the naked detainees were broadcast in the electronic media, and published widely in the press in Israel and throughout the world. In testimonies given to B'Tselem, detainees stressed the humiliation they felt as a result of their naked images appearing in the media.”
  
  - “B'Tselem and PHR: Parading of Naked Prisoners in Jericho Violated International Law,” Arabic Media Internet Network March 16, 2006.
• “Dr. Barghouti also explained how the Israeli army attacked and humiliated emergency health workers, forcing them to crawl on the ground, hit them with mud, removing them from their vehicles and holding them for hours at a time and forcing them to strip naked in public places.”
  
  - Health, Development, Information and Policy Institute, HDIP Press Conference Summary, April 26, 2002.

Fishermen Forced to Strip & Swim

• “In the last half of the year, Israeli Navy patrols limited fishing to less than 6 nautical miles (11 km) off the Gazan coast and in only one area, shooting at those who strayed and arresting them. IDF made some fishermen strip naked and swim 100 yards to its warships in January temperatures, physically abused them on board, and then made them swim back.”
  
  - U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, World Refugee Survey: Israeli-occupied territories, 2008.
• “The practice of forcing sailors to strip and swim naked from their boats has become a routine method of humiliation. The Israeli human rights group B'Tselem reports that near-naked fishermen must then endure freezing temperatures while being taken to an Israeli port. Fishermen are later returned to their boat and again forced to swim across.”
  
  - Rami Almeghari, Gaza's fishing industry under siege, Live from Palestine, March 5, 2007.
• “The soldier asked the three who were in charge to undress and swim to the Israeli ship. They undressed to their underwear. I saw that they were freezing from the cold. The water was cold as well. One of the fishermen didn't want to go into the water, and the soldier threatened to kill him. At that moment, the ship was around one hundred meters from our boats.”
  
  - Amin Hasuna, fisherman, B'Tselem, “Soldiers force fishermen to abandon their boats and to swim in freezing-cold water, Rafah, Jan. 2007,” January 22, 2007.

End of article.

You might also want to read:

• http://a-mother-from-gaza.blogspot.com
  
• http://www.shovrimshtika.org/index_e.asp
• http://ifamericansknew.org/about_us/easiesttargets.html

Britain usir Ahli Parlimen Belanda - Laporan Utusan Malaysia

LONDON 13 Feb. - Britain semalam mengusir ahli Parlimen Belanda yang telah dikecam kerana menghina Islam, Geert Wilders apabila beliau cuba memasuki negara ini.

Wilders yang telah mencetuskan kemarahan masyarakat Islam di negara ini menerusi filemnya, Fitna, dihantar pulang dengan menaiki sebuah pesawat penumpang, beberapa jam selepas ditahan oleh pegawai imigresen, setibanya beliau di Lapangan Terbang Heathrow di sini semalam.

Jabatan Dalam Negeri Britain mengumumkan bahawa Wilders dihantar pulang untuk menghalangnya daripada menyebarkan "mesej kebencian dan keganasan."

"Beliau tidak dibenarkan masuk. Sesiapa yang tidak dibenarkan memasuki United Kingdom (UK) akan ditahan dan dihantar pulang.

"Mereka tidak akan dibenarkan masuk ke UK," kata seorang jurucakap.

Setiausaha Luar, David Miliband yang mengaku beliau belum menonton filem tersebut memberitahu stesen Perbadanan Penyiaran British (BBC): "Filem berbaur kebencian yang bertujuan untuk mencetuskan kebencian agama dan kaum di negara ini adalah bercanggah dengan undang-undang kita."

Menteri Luar Belanda, Maxime Verhagen memberitahu rakan sejawatannya di Britain dalam satu perbualan telefon semalam bahawa The Hague "amat kesal" dengan pengusiran Wilders itu.

Ahli Parlimen tersebut telah dijemput untuk menayangkan filemnya selama 17 minit itu di House of Lords iaitu dewan tertinggi Parlimen Britain.

Fitna menyamakan Islam dengan fahaman Nazi dan menggandingkan imej-imej serangan 11 September di Amerika Syarikat (AS) dengan gambar al-Quran.

Ia telah digambarkan sebagai "filem anti-Islam yang sangat menyinggung perasaan" oleh Setiausaha Agung Pertubuhan Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu (PBB), Ban Ki-moon.

Wilders, 45, yang bakal dibicarakan di Belanda kerana mencetuskan kebencian dan diskriminasi terhadap penduduk Islam, ialah pemimpin parti pelampau berhaluan kanan, Parti bagi Kebebasan (PVV) yang memenangi sembilan kerusi dalam Parlimen Belanda. - AFP

Laporan Utusan Malaysia Online.

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Assalamualaikum Ya Ikhwanul Muslimin na wal Muslimat sekelian.

Semoga anda semua berkeadaan sihat sejahtera dan selamat senantiasa.

Merujuk kepada berita laporan diatas.

Saya mengucapkan syabas dan tahniah kepada Kerajaan Britain diatas pengusiran tersebut.

Mana mana manusia yang menimbulkan masaalah kepada keharmonian sejagat harus di halau dan ditegah dari memasuki negara yang mahu mencari kedamaian.

Saya percaya keadaan sekarang dimana Presiden Amerika Syarikat sudah bertukar dari George Bush Jr yang memang tidak ada integriti langsung dan menjadi kuda tunggangan rejim Zionis Israel kepada Presiden Barack Hussein Obama Jr. yang terpaksa akur sama kepada rejim Zionis itu tetapi masih ada perbezaan sedikit dari cara perintah bekas Presiden ke 43 Amerika Syarikat dari segi intelek dan sifat kemanusiaan.

Kita tidak boleh mengubah sejarah yang lalu tetapi kita semua masih mampu untuk menentukan apa yang akan datang?

Belanda telah membiarkan Geert Wilders yang merupakan salah seorang ahli parlimen nya untuk mencetuskan kemarahan umat Islam sedunia dengan penerbitan filem anti Islam berjudul 'Fitna' dan menggambarkan Islam serupa dengan Nazi.

Yang saya hairan macamana ada pula mangkok hayon dari Parlimen Britain boleh mengundang di penyebar kebencian ini hadir ke sana untuk menayangkan filem sampahnya untuk tontonan Ahli Ahli Parlimen Britain di House of the Lords?

Silap haribulan mesti kena tumbuk dengan George Galloway, Ahli Parlimen Britain yang lantang menghentam sesiapa sahaja yang mencemarkan kesucian Islam!

Pada perhatian saya, George Galloway ini sudah lama memeluk agama Islam cuma ianya tidak mengumumkan keislaman beliau.

Cuba lihat beliau berucap di protes protes anti kekejaman rejim Zionis yang menyerang Gaza baru baru ini?

Beliau akan memulakan ucapan beliau dengan salam yang sempurna dan kemudian menterjemahkannya didalam bahasa Inggeris.

Semoga MP George Galloway benar benar telah menjadi seorang Muslim di UK kerana dengan kehadiran dan kelantangan beliau bersuara, sekurang kurangnya ada juara di kalangan masyarakat Islam di Britain untuk membela kepentingan dan nasib saudara saudari kita disana.

Tuan tuan dan puan puan sekelian.

Bukan didalam sekelip mata dapat kita hapuskan permusuhan sebilangan manusia manusia sejagat terhadap kita umat Islam ini.

Ianya memerlukan langkah langkah pro aktif dari keseluruhan umat Islam terutama dari Muslimin dan Muslimat yang berupaya melakukan pendekatan Dakwah al Islamiyyah didalam skop kebolehan masing masing.

Bukan semua orang berupaya untuk memimpin dan berucap didalam perhimpunan perhimpunan massa.

Ada yang merasa segan dan malu kerana penguasaan Bahasa Inggeris, Melayu, Mandarin atau Tamil tidak sebagus mana dan membuatkan mereka fobia untuk mengeluarkan pendapat atau berucap di khalayak awam.

Bagi saya, ini tidak menjadi hal kerana mereka masih boleh menyumbang untuk usaha dakwah ini dengan melalui laman laman web, blog dan sebagainya.

Dewasa ini kita tahu ada langkah langkah beberapa pihak seperti orang orang yang cenderung kepada pemahaman 'liberalisasi didalam agama' untuk menghasut dan merubah pemikiran umat Islam supaya terpesong dari ajaran Rasulullah Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam dan perintah Allah Tuhan Semesta Alam.

Sisters in Islam yang terdiri dari kumpulan wanita wanita Melayu telah memulakan persidangan Islam Liberal di ibukota negara kita sekarang dengan menjemput salah seorang penasihat mereka si Amina Wadud yang telah mencetuskan kontroversi di dunia Islam dengan mengimamkan Solat Jumaat di Amerika Syarikat beberapa tahun lalu.

Hadirnya beberapa lelaki Muslim solat berimamkan Amina Wadud ini jelas menunjukkan kesempitan ilmu agama yang di miliki mereka dan kejahilan umat Islam yang menjurus kepada perbuatan bodoh sebegitu.

Sekarang ini para pendukung Islam Liberal sedang berkampong di Prince Hotel, Kuala Lumpur dengan menjemput para pemimpin mereka dari seluruh dunia untuk bersidang dan menggarap beberapa tuntutan lagi untuk memperjuangkan kesamarataan bagi wanita mengikut acuan pemikiran mereka yang bersambalkan semangat feminisma terlampau berlaukkan gulai fikrah Barat yang melampaui batasan batasan agama Islam.

Baru baru ini didalam pertemuan saya dengan pemimpin kerajaan yang bertanggung jawab menguruskan hal ehwal agama Islam negara kita, beliau telah meluahkan rasa bahawa bukan mudah bagi beliau dan pegawai pegawai jabatan agama untuk membanteras penyelewengan penyelewengan seperti yang dibawa Sisters in Islam kerana adanya sekatan dari pihak tertinggi lagi yang bertanya apakah beliau dan pegawai pegawai agama hendak merampas kuasa istana?

Saya harap tuan tuan dan puan puan faham dan dapat menangkap maksud dan isi perenggan diatas?

Ada tangan tangan yang secara tidak langsung tidak gemar akan ketegasan pemimpin agama sekarang untuk menghapuskan cabaran cabaran terhadap ummah kerana satu sahaja masaalah iaitu masaalah ego.

Iya. Hanya ego sahaja yang menjadi batu penghalang kepada pelaksanaan Hukum Hakam Allah diatas muka bumi Malaysia ini.

Bayangkan bahawa di Malaysia ini, kita semua di kabarkan bahawa kuasa tertinggi di Kerajaan Malaysia terutama didalam bab pentadbiran hal ehwal Agama Islam, kuasa memutuskan sesuatu perkara itu terletak pada tangan Sultan Sultan dan Raja Melayu.

Namun didalam istana sendiri, Duli Duli Tuanku senantiasa didampingi dan dinasihati oleh mereka yang mempunyai agenda dan kepentingan masing masing.

Saya hairan kenapa Sultan Sultan dan Raja Melayu telah membiarkan puak puak dajal perosak keamanan negara dari segi penyelewengan ajaran ajaran Islam ini untuk terus bebas menjalankan dakyah dakyah mereka dan kenapa Sultan Sultan Melayu takut untuk menegakkan panji panji Islam sepertimana yang telah diamanahkan terhadap baginda sekelian?

Apa masaalah nya?

Apakah dengan Duli Tuanku sekelian menegakkan panji panji Islam dengan menitahkan Menteri Agama kita beserta para pegawainya menjalankan kerja kerja membersihkan negara kita ini dari ajaran ajaran songsang dan apa apa sahaja gerakan seperti Islam liberal yang bercanggah dengan Ad Deenullah akan menyusahkan Tuanku sekelian?

Susah kat mana tu?

Duli Tuanku Sultan Melayu sekelian tidak dipertandingkan didalam pilihanraya umum.

Baginda Tuanku semua selamat bertakhta dinegeri masing masing.

Ubahlah pendirian lampau dan berhijrah lah ke arah memartabatkan Daulah Islamiyyah didalam ertikata sebenar.

Jangan diganggu gugat tugas tugas Menteri Agama di Jabatan Perdana Menteri dan berikan lah kuasa sebenarnya kepada Ketua Pengarah JAKIM, JAIS, JAWI dan segala JA yang ada didalam negara kita untuk menegakkan yang makruf dan mencegah serta menangkap yang mungkar!

Berikanlah kuasa sebenar kepada Polis Di Raja Malaysia untuk membanteras segala salah laku di atas tiket kebebasan itu dan ini yang sedang menghuruharakan tanahair tercinta kita ini.

Sepatutnya Kerajaan Malaysia berani menegakkan Undang undang Allah didalam ertikata sebenar benarnya dari mengikut telunjuk dan kehendak mereka yang keliru agama ini!

Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi akan bersara pada bulan depan ini dan digantikan Datuk Seri Najib.

Buatlah sesuatu yang baik untuk ummah dengan memperkasakan mereka yang di pertanggungjawabkan dengan amanah menjaga urusan ummah.

Usahlah bertindak sebagai dinding halimunan untuk menyekat para pegawai agama kita untuk bertugas dengan sempurna.

Masyarakat umum tidak sadar akan ujudnya halangan halangan birokrasi yang terdapat di peringkat teratas pentadbiran negara.

Masaalah masaalah ini lazimnya berasas pada satu sahaja.

EGO!

Sekiranya Duli Tuanku benar benar menghayati erti sujud terhadap Ar Rahman dan sadar akan tanggungjawab terbesar Duli Tuanku sekelian terhadap memupuk kesedaran dan kefahaman Islam warganegara kita dalam ertikata sebenar nya maka tidak lagi akan Tuanku sekelian dituduh sebagai Raja dan Sultan Melayu yang lalai dan gagal didalam menjaga kepentingan umat Islam seMalaysia ini!

Ramai yang mengirim emel dan komen bertanyakan saya tentang apa dia sumbangan Sultan Sultan dan Raja Melayu terhadap Islam dibumi Malaysia ini bilamana saya tegas bangun membela Sultan Perak yang dihina dan dicerca sebilangan besar pendokong Pakatan Rakyat didalam kes pemecatan MB Perak dari Pakatan Rakyat?

Saya sadar bahawa memang teramat kurangnya rekod jasa Duli Tuanku Sultan dan Raja Melayu didalam satu satunya bidang kuasa yang Tuanku kesekelian diberikan tugas dan tanggung jawab selaku Ketua Agama Islam di negeri masing masing dan Yang Di Pertuan Agong keatas negeri negeri seperti Pulau Pinang, Melaka, Sabah dan Sarawak.

Selaku seorang penulis blog Muslim yang ta'at kepada Ulul Amri selagi Ulul Amri itu sendiri ta'at terhadap Allah Azza Wa Jalla dengan memerintah negara ini mengikut apa yang di perintah Allah dan menjalankan pentadbiran negeri masing masing sesuai dengan anjuran Rasul Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam, maka saya menulis semua ini supaya dibaca dan dihayati masyarakat sesama Islam dengan saya.

Insya Allah, tidak lama lagi akan saya beserta rakan rakan seperjuangan menjalankan aktiviti Muslim Bloggers Alliance untuk membawa mesej Islam kepada masyarakat melalui 'Unit Bergerak Dakwah' yang sedang saya merangkakan dan Alhamdulillah mendapat restu dan sokongan pihak berwajib.

Doakan lah kejayaan kami didalam menerobos sempadan minda masyarakat dan rakyat negara kita ini yang kini dilanda fitnah Islamofobia yang menjurus kepada kebencian terhadap Islam dan Muslim tanpa perlu.

Puak puak peracun fikrah warga Malaysia akan kita hadapi sepertimana dituntut didalam Islam.

Membujur lalu melintang patah.

Insya Allah!

Wabillahi Taufik Wal Hidayah.

Wassallamualaikum Warahmatulillahi Ta'ala Wabarakatuh.

Kenyataan Akhbar Persatuan Ulama Malaysia Cawangan Pulau Pinang membantah program Islam Liberal anjuran Sisters in Islam

Assalamualaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh.

Tuan tuan dan puan puan, Ikhwanul Muslimin na wal Muslimat sekelian.

Sepertimana yang kita sedia maklum, di Akhirul Zaman ini, telah ada pelbagai macam golongan yang sesat lagi menyesatkan didalam umat Islam sendiri.

Tuan tuan dan puan puan semua mesti ingat akan hadis Rasul Sallallahu Alaihi Wassallam tentang keadaan umat Baginda berpelah kepada 73 golongan dan 72 dari golongan itu akan dihumban ke api neraka melainkan hanya satu jamaah yang memegang teguh akan Tali Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala dan Sunnah Rasulullah Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam iaitu Ahli Sunnah Wal Jamaah.

Didalam negara kita ini telah ada segolongan manusia yang luarannya Islam tetapi dalamannya tak ubah seperti Kaffir Harami Laknatullah.

Golongan ini menjadi musuh didalam selimut bagi umat Islam dan mereka dipuja dan dipuji oleh Kaffirin yang teramatlah gumbira kerna adanya talibarut seperti golongan yang bangga menjadi 'Islam Liberal'.

Berikut adalah kenyataan akhbar Persatuan Ulama Malaysia cawangan Pulau Pinang yang membantah keras satu program 'Musawah' anjuran Sisters in Islam, sebuah pertubuhan yang memperjuangkan liberalisasi kaum wanita yang menurut kacamata mereka amatlah terkongkong kononnya ditanahair ini?

Kenyataan Akhbar 12 Februari 2009

PUM PP selar penganjuran MUSAWAH membawa agenda Islam Liberal ke Malaysia dan mempertikaikan prinsip-prinsip asas Islam

Persatuan Ulama’ Malaysia cawangan Pulau Pinang (PUMPP) dengan ini menyelar sekeras-kerasnya program ‘Musawah’ iaitu Global Movement for Equality and Justice in the Muslim Family anjuran pendukung kuat fahaman sesat Islam Liberal di Malaysia iaitu Sisters in Islam (SIS). Pertemuan Musawah dilihat berhasrat mempertikaikan pelbagai prinsip-prinsip Islam khususnya dalam hukum syariah berkaitan wanita dan kekeluargaan yang dipersetujui dan diterima oleh kesepakatan ulamak muktabar.

Perjumpaan ini bakal dihadiri oleh pelbagai tokoh Liberal Muslim yang dipertikaikan oleh ulamak Islam muktabar. Mereka yang hadir termasuklah Muhammad Khalid Masud, iaitu pengerusi Majlis Ideologi Islamik dari Pakistan, Farida Bennani dari Morocco, Sana Benachour (Tunisia), Hussein Muhammad (Indonesia), Ziba Mir-Hosseini (Britain), Zainah Anwar (Malaysia), Siti Musdah Mulia (Indonesia) dan Nur Rofia (Indonesia) dan aktivis bukan Islam seperti Cassandra Balchin (UK) dan lain-lain.

200 Liberalis Muslim telah dijemput dari 40 buah negara dan berkumpul di hotel mewah (bertaraf lebih lima bintang) The Prince Hotel, Kuala Lumpur pada 13 Februari 2009 bagi menghadiri mesyuarat 5 hari tersebut. Perjumpaan tertutup ini juga tidak membenarkan penyertaan dari pihak luar selain dari jemputan tertutup mereka. PUM PP melihat perjumpaan dengan dana besar ini berkemungkinan disokong oleh kepentingan Barat dengan tujuan meliberalkan Islam dan mengharapkan pihak penguatkuasa dapat menyiasat punca sumber-sumber dana membiayai program terbabit.

Perjumpaan ini juga akan memberi persepsi yang negatif kepada Malaysia yang bakal digambarkan sebagai negara yang mengamalkan undang-undang Syariah yang mendiskriminasi wanita, terutamanya apabila perjumpaan ini bakal dibawa perhatian kepada wakil Pertubuhan Bangsa-bangsa Bersatu dengan kehadiran Professor Yakin Erturk (The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women) yang akan merasmikan perjumpaan tersebut.

PUM PP juga menyelar kehadiran pimpinan negara bagi merasmikan program tersebut seolah-oleh tidak merujuk terlebih dahulu kepada pihak autoriti agama dalam negara seperti JAKIM dan Majlis Fatwa Kebangsaan.

Kertas kerja dan bengkel-bengkel yang bakal dibentangkan semasa perjumpaan dilihat berhajat untuk menginterpretasikan semula al Quran dan Hadith dari sudut pandang wanita yang selama ini dikatakan bias pada lelaki. Musawah juga bakal mengenengahkan isu hak samarata antara lelaki dan perempuan dalam kekeluargaan Islam melalui hukum-hakam seperti poligami, faraid, ketaatan isteri, izin keluar rumah, aurat wanita, dan sebagainya. Hukum-hakam ini bakal dipertikaikan dengan melanggar segala Syari‘at yang dibawa oleh al-Qur’ān dan al-Sunnah.

PUM PP juga mengharapkan kumpulan-kumpulan dan masyarakat bukan Islam tidak terpengaruh dengan propaganda kumpulan liberal Islam ini dan tidak campurtangan dalam urusan Aqidah dan prinsip-prinsip ajaran Islam sepertimana Islam mengajar penganutnya untuk tidak campurtangan dan menghormati dalam ajaran agama-agama lain sepertimana penegasan al Quran

لَكُمْ دِينُكُمْ وَلِيَ دِينِ (109:6)

· 109:6 Unto you, your religious law, and unto me, mine !" ^[3]

Sehubungan dengan itu, PUM PP menyelar pelaksanaan program ini dan dilihat bakal merosakkan lagi aqidah umat Islam di Malaysia seterusnya membawa perpecahan kepada umat Islam dan member persepsi yang salah kepada Islam kepada semua pihak, termasuk masyarakat dunia yang hadir dan melihat perkembangan di Malaysia.

Dr Wan Salim Wan Mohd Nor

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Letter of the day - Wearing badge of corruption proudly.

Dear Readers,

I came across this Letter to the Editor of The Star Online which I figure merits republishing and posting everywhere.

Date : Thursday February 12, 2009

Wearing the badge of corruption proudly.

I was watching TV3 prime time news on Tuesday, Feb 10, 2009.

There were three news coverage involving corruption.

The first corruption case involved the handicapped wife of a former Taiwanese leader. She was charged with bribery worth over US$2mil. Throughout the visual news of her, she kept smiling and kept waving to the crowd outside the court.

The second case involved a local government official for a bribe, if I am not mistaken, of around RM60,000.

He also smiled at the crowd and even went a bit further by showing a peace sign to whoever was around him, complemented by a big smile.

The third case related to the two Perak state assemblymen who are now Independents and friendly to the Barisan Nasional.

Mohd Osman Mohd Jailu, state assemblyman for Changkat Jering), came an hour late to the court, resulting in the issuance of an arrest warrant against him. The warrant was later withdrawn. The other was Jamaluddin Mohd Radzi for Behrang.

Both were full suited. A large crowd was there outside the court and both accused never stopped smiling. Apart from that, there were hugs, patting and shaking of hands.

I am very bemused with all the three news coverage. It looks as though being charged with corruption is something to be proud of or which is normal. It also looks as though all of them had gone to war and returned victorious.

It looks as though corruption is part of our daily life.

None of them looked remorseful and sad at being charged in court.

If such attitude spreads, then it would be easier to count those not corrupt than those who are.

I think Pendidikan Moral should be introduced as a compulsory examination subject.

P. SRITHANRAN,

Johor Baru.

End.

Is this what this nation has come to be? A nation where crooks and criminals are celebrated and hailed as their party's heroes?

Damn!

I recall a hadith of the Prophet Muhammad Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam where the Blessed Messenger prophesied that the the Muslims in the Last Ages (which is now) will be ruled by those who are the worst amongst them!

Isn't it obvious that this nation's political leaders are the ones who are the most corrupt amongst the people?

Each and every political leader from both sides of the field are most often tainted by scandals and charges of corruption in one way or another?

Both the Barisan Nasional, the Pakatan Rakyat and even the Monarchy are often rife with all kinds of news of the not so good to hear kind.

Which is why I feel that Mr.Srithanran's letter is worth reposting here?

May we all be saved from the crooks in power.

Ameen.

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Malaysian politics hits rock bottom -Recalcitrant 101

Assalamualaikum Warahmatulillahi Ta'ala Wabarakatuh.

My dear fellow Malaysians,

My thoughts for today are centred around the controversial sorry state of affairs concerning the political circus over there in the State of Perak Darul Ridzuan.

For the first time in our fledgling nation's history, we have two state governments locked in limbo, courtesy of turncoat politics which was first enjoined by the Pakatan Rakyat Supremo Anwar bin Ibrahim.























I find it ridiculous that those who advocated the treacherous act of switching alliances of the BN's Members of Parliament are now crying foul when 3 of their own defected to the Barisan camp, pulling the rug of political power from the Pakatan Rakyat held State Government of Perak on the 4th of February, 2009 as reported here.

Isn't it quite ludicrous for the Pakatan Rakyat to be so offended by the leap frog politics of their 3 State Assemblymen and woman to the opposing BN camp when they themselves were so bloody gung ho in going after the BN MP's who had gone on a 'field trip' to Taiwan to try and persuade those BN MP's to turn traitor?

What's honorable by trying to induce such BN MP's to join the Pakatan Rakyat in toppling the current BN Federal Government under PM Abdullah Badawi just to realize Anwar Ibrahim's lifelong mission to be the CEO of Malaysia Incorporated by September the 16th, 2008?

Well, September 16th is dead and gone and further announcements made by the one who was always seen to be so bloody desperate to warm the Numero Uno's seat at Putrajaya is now being whacked by the DAP's Chairman Karpal Singh for being the very cause of the Pakatan Rakyat Perak government's downfall and being asked to step down from being the Opposition Head!























Things aren't exactly being quite rosy for the DAP Chifusan himself for Lim Kit Siang & Son who have bigger interests in capturing the Federal Government of Malaysia have voiced out their continued support for the PKR de facto leader and don't give a shit about Karpal's tantrum!

The DAP Godfathers @ Lim Kit Siang and his son Lim Guan Eng need Anwar as their Pakatan Rakyat figurehead so as to continue garnering support for their mission to takeover the Federal Government at all costs.

Same goes for the scenario over there in Perak.





















Sacked PR MB Nizar

Although PAS won the least number of seats there (6) in last year's 12th Malaysian GE, they have no choice but to nominate and appoint PAS Deputy Commisioner of Perak, the now sacked Menteri Besar Muhammad Nizar as their top man for the controversy ridden Pakatan Rakyat State Government of Perak.

The overwhelming DAP Chinese majority EXCO's in the Pakatan Rakyat Perak State Government must have been a bone of contention to the Perak Sultan who begrudgingly had consented to the installation of the PR Perak State Government back then?

So when the defections of the 2 PKR corruption laced State Assemblymen jumped ship together with the lone DAP State Assemblywoman together with the UMNO 'Trojan Horse' Bota State Aseemblyman took place, I believe that the Sultan of Perak must have breathed a very big sigh of relief?

Tuanku Sultan Azlan Shah then promptly sacked the now lack of State Assembly seats majority, Pakatan Rakyat Perak State Government without paying heed to MB Nizar's announcing the dissolution of the Perak State Assembly which the PR MB had made in haste without getting consent of the Perak Sultan as he should have?

As I have stated here, this is all my own conclusions and wish to point out that it is my right to think so as a lawful citizen and registered voter here in Malaysia.

Please don't say that it's not our business to say anything about what is taking place there in Perak for the repercussions of what is taking place there in the controversy ridden state will have its implications upon the rest of the country and eventually in our own life's as well!

We all have a stake here as to what is being decided over there in Perak Darul Ridzuan.

Every voter is involved in politics no matter who or what we are or deemed to be?

As long as our vote is accounted for and has its role in deciding who gets to rule over us, then each and every one of us has a right to speak our mind as to what has and is taking place in this nation's politics no matter which state or constituency we are opinionating about?

We now know that the Sultan of Perak, being the Sovereign Ruler of the State of Perak has decreed that the Pakatan Rakyat Perak State Government is no longer the ruling government of His Majesty's state.

We also know that the Pakatan Rakyat MB refused to step down and is now recalcitrantly remaining in the official residence of the Perak Menteri Besar to which he has no more legal entity to occupy.

We also have learned that the Pakatan Rakyat sacked government no longer have access to the State Secretariat building and that they are now using the official vehicles of the now deposed Pakatan Rakyat Perak State Government illegally.














Photo courtesy of The Star Online.

My question is as to how the hell are they the recalcitrant deposed Pakatan Rakyat EXCO's under Nizar going to come up with the allocations for the projects that they keep announcing from the MB's residence as being reported here?

The BN MB Dato Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir is I think being made into a pawn in this political chess game being played by the powers that be for if we are to hold true to the fairness of politics, then a dissolution of the Perak State Assembly should be the order of the day and the people of Perak be given their rights to elect whomsoever they want as their rightful state government?

Zambry is also in danger of having his political career be turned into the BN's sacrificial lamb in this bloody quest for political supremacy over there at the expense of everyone involved.

His future political standings depends very much as to how all this mess is going to unravel in the very near future?

I'm sure that he is having sleepless nights over there due to the political stalemate into which he has inadvertently being thrown into by the PM in Waiting, the Deputy Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak!

Najib's just sort of played out Anwar in this jump ship policy for now and caused Anwar to be back slapped at his own game!

The way things are taking place there in Perak is not good for the political future of this nation.

If the Pakatan Rakyat MB Nizar continues to remain there in the official Perak Menteri Besar Residence and keeps claiming that he is still the MB of Perak when His Highness the Sultan of Perak himself has disowned him, I wonder as to how he is going to remain recalcitrant when the next Majlis Raja Raja Melayu @ Malay Rulers Council meet comes up where the respective Malay Sultans and Raja will be accompanied by Their Majesties Menteri Besar's?

How will it be for him when there will be Datuk Dr Zambry sitting next to Tuanku Sultan Azlan Shah and Nizar be barred from even entering the function rooms of wherever the next Malay Rulers Conference be held?

To the Malays, such a situation would be the utmost degree of shamelessness if Nizar remains defiant of the Perak Sultan yet still claim to be the Menteri Besar of the state?

Tch...tch...tch..tch...

Such a disgraceful situation would cause the Japanese to commit harakiri or seppuku but such a choice or way out isn't there for Nizar for he is a Muslim and ought to just resign with honor.

That is if he is the man most people take him to be ?

A honorable man caught between the Devil and the deep blue sea or in our case...murky polluted seas.

Things don't look good for Nizar if he still chooses to remain recalcitrant at the expense of his own self dignity and honor?

Islam doesn't teach us this.

The best thing for Nizar and the PR Exco's to do would be to either resign honorably and boycott the next sitting of the Perak State Assembly which will force the installed Perak BN Government to be caught in an uncomfortable position as to come out looking so out of place where there is no opposition?

The PR chaps should consider suing the BN and fight it out in the courts rather than have their supporters get whacked by the FRU on the streets of the nation as the riot that took place there in Kuala Kangsar during the installation of the new BN MB Datuk Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir?
















I mean, hello ?

Serbans and kopiahs pitted against tough helmeted licensed to kill law enforcement officers?

Just not right my man! It's a classic sorry ass case of the cucumbers against the durians!

Whichever angle you put them against the FRU, the poor folks will be left smashed and beaten black and blue!

Absolutely not right at all!

Consider the impact and impression that you guys are making on the young minds and souls of our nation taking all these into consideration as to how they should in turn act and behave when their time comes to call the shots or run this country?

Let commonsense prevail and look for better alternatives to pursue your case.

P.S.

For the record, I do not have any political ambitions or vested interests in any bloody party ruling over this nation except to voice out and speak up for my wish that whoever it is who is running the country to please do so in a manner befitting our positions as God fearing Muslims for if we do anything illegitimately like this staging of a turncoat policy, then your rule is haram and whatever that you gain from such rule is haram as well!

Do the right thing and call for fresh elections so that whoever it is that wins this fresh new elections gets a solid mandate and rules in peace for the benefit and betterment of the nation.

May justice prevail both for the opposing political parties and the general populace of Perak and Malaysia.

Ameen.

Wassalamualaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh.

Protes Anti Karpal Singh Video

Assalamualaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh Wahai Ikhwanul Muslimin sekelian.

Video rakaman diatas adalah usaha saya sebagai seorang Blogger Muslim untuk menunjukkan kepada umum akan keperluan kita selaku umat Islam di dalam tanahair yang sedang bergejolak dengan masaalah siasah politik dalam negara hari ini, untuk hadir menyatakan pendirian kita bilamana ada petualang dari kalangan rakyat yang tidak sedar di untung akan natijahnya jika melampaui batas.

Saya bercakap mengikut pandangan saya dan prinsip prinsip peribadi saya yang menjunjung Kedaulatan Islam dan sekaligus Kedaulatan Kesultanan Melayu di negara ini dimana saya lahir sebagai anak watan.

Saya tidak mahu ambil tahu akan prinsip dan pegangan sesiapa sahaja yang mahu menjahanamkan institusi beraja di Tanah Melayu ini.

Terpulang kepada masing masing untuk memikirkan apa sahaja kerna di akhir hayat masing masing, Insya Allah akan di pertanggungjawabkan pada diri sendiri akan perbuatan kita.

Ini ruang saya menyatakan pendapat saya. Saya tidak memaksa sesiapa pun untuk akur terhadap penulisan saya disini ataupun melarang barangsiapa yang mahu menyokong fikrah saya ini.

Harap maklum.

Dunia penulisan blog ini adalah ruang untuk mereka yang ada kemampuan mengendalikan sistem internet untuk menyampaikan kata, menyiarkan visual atau audio diatas kemampuan dan kebolehan masing masing.

Apa sahaja yang diterbitkan atau diulang siar di laman blog masing masing mencerminkan pegangan dan pendirian si tuanpunya blog atau laman web.

Saya berpegangan bahawa setiap insan yang Muslim didalam ertikata sebenarnya hendaklah berusaha menyatupadukan ummah bukan asyik mengadu domba dan mencari kesalahan dan kesilapan masing masing.

PAS dan UMNO bagi pendapat saya wajib bersatu. Ini adalah tuntutan Islam.

Sesiapa sahaja yang berpendapat sebaliknya mengikut hemat saya tidak akan dapat lari dari menjawab kepada Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala di Padang Mahsyar nanti.

Akal yang Allah Azza Wa Jalla kurniakan hendaklah digunakan sebaik mungkin untuk mengikat tali persaudaraan antara umat Islam di negara ini terutamanya diantara bangsa Melayu yang mendokong Daulah Islamiyyah.

Sekian lama ini, UMNO dan PAS asyik bertelagah tak sudah membuka ruang dan peluang kepada musuh musuh durjana memecah belahkan diantara kita.

Apa kejadahnya semua ini?

Apakah begitu sekali kesombongan masing masing sehingga begitu keras kepala tidak mahu duduk semeja berunding sebaik mungkin untuk menyatupadukan ummah?

Kita solat menghadap Qiblat yang sama!

Kita bertakbir mendaulatkan dan mengagungkan Allah yang Maha Esa!

Kita bertasbih zikir yang sama, selawat yang sama, malah bila mati nanti, talqin dan sebagainya serta kubur yang sama.

Kenapa kah begitu bengap sekali fikiran para pemimpin kedua parti politik Melayu dan Islam yang terbesar dinegara ini TIDAK MAMPU merapatkan saff?

Tidak mampu bertolak ansur didalam pembahagian kuasa?

Banyak mana lah yang boleh di mentekedarah segala hasil mahsul bumi ini kedalam tembolok masing masing?

Perut itu jika di isi dan disumbat segala makanan yang tersedap dan termewah sekali pun bila dah kenyang hanya akan memuntahkan isiperut yang hanyir dan memualkan!

Ada had bagi segala sesuatu.

Ini hakikat alam.

Usahlah terus bermusuh musuhan diantara satu sama lain.

Sudah sudah lah!

Saya hadir di protes ini dengan niat mahu menyatupadukan Ikhwanul Muslimin.

Sekiranya bijak pandai dalam PAS merasakan diri lebih sempurna di dalam ilmu agama , saya persilakan mereka menjalankan usaha Dakwah al Islamiyyah membimbing saudara mereka didalam UMNO.

Pemuda pemuda UMNO ini bukannya musuh sebenar kita @ para pendokong Daulah Islamiyyah.

Hampirilah mereka dengan penuh keazaman mahu membawa saudara seagama dan sebangsa dengan kamu kembali ke jalan Allah!

Apakah mereka akan membantah?

Sedangkan kaffir harbi laknatullah boleh kamu dakap dan peluk dengan mesra ; inikan pula saudara seagama kamu?

Apakah begit