Merdeka

Alhamdulillah, dah 49 tahun usianya. Sama-sama kita mendoakan agar ia terus maju jaya dunia akhirat.

Yang belum lagi selesai, penjajahan budaya. Agama disimpan di dalam almari. hedonisme dirangkul rapi. Itulah suasana malam 31 Ogos.

Fahd Razy dengan karyanya... Tiga Cerpen Mini Malam? Maaf tak berapa ingat tajuknya. Kalau nak baca, kenalah beli dahulu Salju Jabal Musa. Dan baru-baru ini, GKLN pun telah menerbitkan Al-Andalus Menangis...

http://www.e-komuniti.com/esasterawan/1.asp?uid=33
http://gkln.blogspot.com

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Suasana malam 31 Ogos saban tahun semakin membimbangkan... terutamanya di pusat-pusat bandar. Huh! Bayangkan kalau disergah Izrail ketika itu...

Saya fikir, golongan yang ingat hendaklah turun ke ground zero pada malam 31 Ogos dengan menyertai trip-trip atau xpdc dakwah, sudah ramai pihak yang menganjurkan, Pemuda PAS, PERKID, etc etc, atau pun ikutlah program-program yang diadakan di masjid, seperti di Masjid KLCC. Didik diri mengenal apa itu hedonisme dalam erti kata sebenar. Supaya hati takkan terdetik - eh best juga ya macam tu...


//Foto tahun lepas. Ustaz Masridzi, Ustaz ex-Ali Setan (Azmil Mustafa), dan Ridhuan Tee Abdullah.


//Foto tahun lepas. Rasanya sama saja ramainya tahun ini di taman KLCC, atau barangkali lebih meriah!


//Been there, done that - ishh bad connotation

Tiada faedahnya duduk menunggu countdown melainkan buang masa, duit parking, duit LRT, duit minyak dan menambah dosa. Kalau bawa anak-anak lagilah, bertambah selesa duduk dalam lembah loklak. Lebih baik duduk di rumah tidur awal, supaya esok boleh bangkit, subuh jemaah, dan terus ke Dataran Merdeka untuk menonton parade dengan anak-anak dan adik-adik.

Alternatif malam 31 Ogos...

Untuk malam merdeka, kalau bertenaga bolehlah ke xpdc dan trip-trip turun padang. Kalau tak larat, bolehlah duduk rumah solat sunat hajat ka... baca doa, mohon supaya negara makmur dunia akhirat.

Cari vcd-vcd sejarah seperti Leftenan Adnan, Bukit Kepong, Darah Satria dan banyak lagilah. Lebih santai sedikit dari menelaah buku teks sejarah sekolah.

Tidur awal untuk menyaksikan perarakan kebangsaan di pagi esoknya. Sekurang-kurangnya boleh kenal anggota-anggota badan kerajaan - dari FRU in full gear (active demos participants, beware) hinggalah ke Kastam Di Raja. Juga boleh melihat kereta kebal, kereta perisai, meriam, pelancar roket berganda, trak dan jip. Janganlah ignorant sangat.

Jadi sahabat-sahabat sekalian, janganlah jadi orang yang lupa. Bersamalah dengan orang yang sentiasa mengingatkan.

Malam 31 Ogos di Kuala Lumpur dihiasi seloka asmara 'uda dan dara'
http://www.harakahdaily.net/v06/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4039&Itemid=1

Irish media laid siege on Irish Muslim?

With an 'analysis' of the Quran presented to the public in a blatantly misleading way (Allah knows what their intentions are, but I can say to bs the masses), I can say Irish newspapers - yes, Irish Independent and Sunday Tribune, have laid their siege over Irish muslims.

I guess it is time to buy newspaper rather than depending on those free tabloids off the street everyday.

Sample this from Irish Independent:

To quote the Koran: unbelievers are enemies, and Jews the sons of pigs

Sunday August 27th 2006

EXPRESSING concern that moderate Muslims, instead of protesting about the radicals in their midst, are blaming US and British foreign policy for terrorist plots is not Islamophobia, nor is it an attack on the principles and beliefs of Islam.

It's a way of saying we are worried and that many of the things we see Muslims do around the world alarm and disturb us. We Irish are better at bashing one another than we are at hurting other people, and I'm sure Muslim Irishmen and women appreciate that.

All we want to do is talk things over. So far, however, moderate Muslims throughout the West have only wanted to talk about their sense of victimhood, and many seem to have gone into a state of denial about the ways in which the Islamic belief system can lead some people to espouse extremist views.

This needs to change. Just after the recent bomb plot in the UK was uncovered, a UK Muslim community leader was quoted as saying: "The reason young people are attracted to extremists is because . . . they are ignorant of what the Koran really says."

I don't doubt for a moment that his motive in saying this was sincere, but his statement encapsulates the problem with radical Islam better than he intended.

Here's the dilemma for moderate Muslims: the Koran really does say Muslims are to fight jihad until unbelief is destroyed, it really does say they should not make friends with unbelievers, it really does describe the Jews as the sons of apes and pigs. And to this day, mainstream Islam has not developed a form of interpretation that allows verses like these to be understood as relevant to the seventh century, but not to the 21st.

These are precisely the verses, backed up by Prophetic Traditions, which radicals use to lure young Muslims into terrorism.

Moderate Muslims - and there are many of them - have a responsibility to find a way past thisproblem.

We can offer advice, but we can't do it for them.

There is a long-standing convention in the interpretation of the Koran that early, tolerant verses can be abrogated by later, less tolerant ones. Thus, a verse revealed at the time Muhammad lived in Mecca (before he started to wage jihad) may be considered to have been rendered invalid by a verse from his Medinan period (when he fought battles and sent the first Muslim armies out on their campaigns of conquest).

In other words, the moderates don't have a leg to stand on if they try to argue this with the radicals. Not only that, but the radicals will often back up a jihad verse with traditions from the Prophet, which are sometimes more extreme. Nobody debates this publicly. No Muslim can challenge a single word of the Koran. To do so would be the ultimate blasphemy. It is the absolute word of God and unchangeable. Every attempt that has been made during the last century, not to challenge but simply to reinterpret the divine text has been met by imprisonment and the threat of execution.

The moderates simply dare not say that the verses condemning unbelievers or calling for a jihad against them are invalid. The radicals approach young Muslims who want to know what the Koran says, and there it is in black and white: "O Prophet! Urge the believers to slaughter . . . " (8:65) or, "Slay the polytheists wherever you find them!" (9:5) and so on through about 164 verses, every one of which is of later date than the ones preaching tolerance.

This is not going to go away. It has already been a problem for over a century, though it is now much more critical than ever. Non-Muslims really can do very little to change things. But I think it's time we did offer help to tolerant Muslims to take a long hard look at this problem.

Christian and Jewish scholars have struggled with this sort of problem for a long time now, and have achieved some great results.

If our Muslim friends would be willing to listen to their experiences and to learn from them, they could see off the radicals and help the next generation of believersto put jihad into the dustbin ofhistory.

It's a great challenge, but one we can all rise to together.

Daniel Easterman is the pseudonym of a Belfast-born former lecturer in Arabic,

Persian and Islamic Studies,

and he is also the author of numerous books and articles on these subjects

Daniel Easterman

Let me tell you something. People like him is the so-called 'non-conformist', 'bias-free', pseudo-intellectual, 'just' and the 'expert' on Islam. He or she is the only and may only the source about Islam. Somewhat a 'tailored' version. Subhanallah!

And this what the Irish newspaper and media are looking for.

What's next? Systematic cleansing of Irish Muslims? Maybe not, but it could be happening in near future.

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Mata semakin kuyu melihatkan jam di dinding - 3.15 pagi! Letih dan penat dari baru pulang.

Hai, lepas ini, apa-apa camping, gathering Muslims semua jadi perhimpunan terrorists!

Lebih dahsyat lagi, entah-entah Ramadan nanti, no more doa qunut masa terawih. Pak Imam kena ancam. Sebab nanti mendoakan terrorists!

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Surah Al-Qalam ada cerita menarik dari ayat 17-33. Jom baca...

Wallahua'lam.

Tukar lagu

Assalamualaikum.

Lama tak login, sampai tak terperasan yang telah terwipe out the whole template. Patut putih saja.

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Teringat belasan tahun dulu, ketika kaset-kaset My Little Yellow Bus dimainkan tiap kali berjalan jauh. Sampai terngiang-ngiang. Cuma sekarang dah jumpa versi untuk muslim. Alternatif. Versi asal adalah lagu popular "Three blind mice".

Three good boys,
Three good boys,
See how they pray,
See how they pray.

They pray together in a very straight line;
And follow the Imam in perfect time;
They're three good boys.

Three good boys,
Three good boys,
See how they pray,
See how they pray.

They listen and pray without any noise and
Think about Allah and not their toys;
They're three good boys,
Three good boys.

Ibu bapalah yang menentukan macam mana nak bentuk anak. Ke mana tak tumpah kuah kalau tak ke nasi. Jadi kalau mak ayah kurang ambil berat, dihantarnya ke tadika montessori, kristian atau yang tak islamik. Menyanyilah "Joy To World, The Lord Has Come...." sambil si guru memainkan organ, sedangkan semasa kanak-kanaklah patutnya dididik supaya selalu berdoa, suka kisah-kisah nabi dan rasul, adab-adab dan sebagainya.

Salah didik, bila dewasa jadi puak-puak liberal, sekular dan free thinker. Silap-silap murtad terus, seperti yang hangat sekarang di tanah air. Na'uzibillah. Ingat, nanti kita akan ditanya kelak oleh Allah. Mereka pun boleh jadi backup bila kita duduk dalam kubur nanti.

Alhamdulillah semakin ramai ibu bapa yang faham... lama dah bercambah kesedaran, sampai ada yang tak muat tadika-tadika islam seperti PASTI, TASKA ABIM dan banyak lagi, untuk menampung penambahan bilangan kanak-kanak yang mendaftar dari tahun ke tahun.

Jadi bolehlah hantarkan mereka ke tadika islam sementara waktu dan tempat masih ada. PASTI, TASKA ABIM, dan banyak lagi. Jauh sikit pun tak apa, asalkan mereka selamat...

Nursery rhymes for kids
British Muslim Song
Permainan, Lagu & Puisi Kanak-kanak

Lain-lain sumber bolehlah google sendiri. Saya pun tak tercari.

Wallahua'lam.

Haru biru di sini dan di tanah air

Ireland 'a fundamentalist haven'

Ireland has become "a haven for fundamentalism", one of the country's leading Muslim leaders has warned.

Sheikh Dr Shaheed Satardien said there was an "ocean of extremism" spreading among Muslims throughout Ireland.

"Irish Muslim leaders are failing our young people who are embracing fundamentalism," he told the Sunday Tribune newspaper.

Leading Northern Ireland Muslim Abdul Al Jibouri said terrorism went totally against the beliefs of Islam.

"It is very hurtful when people start talking about Islam and Muslim terrorists," he told BBC Radio Ulster's Sunday Sequence programme.

"I have lived in Northern Ireland for many years and we had so many terrorists, but nobody said 'Catholic terrorists' or 'Protestant terrorists'."

He added: "Islam does not encourage people to go and blow people up - this is based on fundamentalists and the way they interpret the Koran.

"Terrorism and active terrorism is totally against Islam and I would be the first person to condemn it."

Read the rest...

Heck, Supreme Muslim Council of Ireland? Never heard of that. I suppose it is just a joke or something.

FYI, I hope it will enlighten all of us a bit.

Assalamualaikum

I pray this finds you all in the best of health and eemaan insha'Allah

Satardien, as I am sure you all have been following, is becoming more dangerous. The media are giving him too much time to talk rubbish. He needs to be discredited immediately. I even got a call today from Newstalk 106 and just questioned his credentials as someone who knows what is going on in the Muslim community.

One of Satardien's main points is lack of leadership, umbrella groups, etc and he is pushing his Supreme Muslim Council as the main body. I have drafted a quick letter below which I think would be a good idea to get around that. If ICCI, IFI, FOSIS, MAI, Cork Islamic Society, Limerick and all the other mosques and ISOCs can put their name to this letter, we can try and shut him up because who does he represent then?

Please check letter, call me for any amendments and if everyoen is agreed, can we try and get this in Irish Times for Wednesday? Means, really getting all signatures by tomorrow 12pm. Names plus organisation and position. Please forward to other mosques, organisations.

Please keep me in your duas

Fahad Ansari
(local chap from Galway, now based in London working for Islamic Human Rights Commission)

---attached letter---

Dear Editor:

The views of Dr Shaheed Satardien that there is an "ocean of extremism" spreading among Muslims throughout Ireland must be deeply questioned.

The Muslim community in Ireland has always enjoyed a very cordial relationship with the wider Irish society. Mosques such as the Islamic Cultural Centre in Clonskeagh and the Islamic Foundation Ireland have always opened their doors and invited the public in to explain the true teachings of Islam. Muslim youth societies throughout Ireland, such as the Federation of Student Islamic Societies in Ireland, have contributed significantly in the efforts to build bridges with the wider society organising joint fundraising events for local, national and international charities. Only this year, the Muslim Youth Society in NUIG was nominated for a Metro Eireann MAMA award for its excellent work over the past few years.

That Muslim youth are becoming more politicised is something that should be welcomed, not feared. By engaging in the political process and understanding how the system works, they will use the system to further their beliefs. At a time when more and more Irish youth are becoming disillusioned with the political process, we should welcome that some young Irish men and women are becoming increasingly aware of the process.

Therefore, it comes as a shock to hear Dr Satardien scaremongering that young Irish Muslims are turning to extremism, particularly after visiting the countries of their parents. We ask upon what evidence does Dr Satardien base these allegations apart from mere speculation and conjecture.

Dr Satardien speaks on behalf of the Supreme Muslim Council of Ireland, a self-lauding body established recently by individuals with no grassroots support within the Muslim community. We question who has given Dr Satardien or the Supreme Muslim Council a mandate to speak on our behalf and we ask that the media investigate his qualifications before portraying him as a "one of Ireland's most senior Islamic clerics." Scaremongerers like him are not what Ireland needs.

Yours,
Print-your-name-here

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Tika melayari Utusan dan Berita Hairan, terdetik hati pula untuk mendalami FFM terkini yang hangat dengan isu menghina bahasa kebangsaan di khalayak penonton-penonton di studio, apatah lagi di seluruh yang duduk mengikuti FFM dari rumah - dahlah secara langsung... ishh ishh. Lagi haru, filem itu pula yang menang.... aisemen.

Setahu sayalah, tiada siapa yang pernah membuat gimik sarkas sedemikian rupa. Sungguhpun banyak lagi orang-orang kenamaan dan penting di tanah air yang taklah sefasih mana berbahasa melayu, tapi tidak pula sesuka hati berseloroh - 'Saya rasa seperti orang bodoh kalau saya bercakap dalam bahasa Melayu'.

Mungkin si dia cuba berjenaka riang, malangnya jenaka tidak menjadi. Bahkan, menikam gegendang telinga sesiapa saja yang mendengarnya termasuk pak menteri yang menjadi tetamu pada malam FFM tersebut. Alahai...

Ada laju saja menyelarnya sebagai kurang ajar dan biadap. Tak reti bahasa. Memang patut. Seeloknya orang yang tidak tahu beradab, duduk diam-diam saja. Bila bibir mula bergerak hendak berkata-kata, wajib berfikir dahulu apa-apa yang hendak diutarakan. Cakap lepas, bawa lebih banyak dari mudarat dari faedah, bukankah begitu?

Alahai... dia baru saja berusia 20 tahun. Masih banyak yang perlu dipelajari. Termasuklah cara-cara beradab.

Lagi satu, bila baca coretan-coretan orang tentang filem Gubra, ada yang kritik filem ikut ilmu filem. Tapi jika filem tersebut memang dah menyuburi benda-benda terlarang, relevankah ilmu filem? Kalau akar dah lari, usah berharap yang lainnya tulus mulus!

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Steadicam memang menjulingkan mata... rasa nak beli / buat satu!

http://www.tiffen.com/userimages/steadicam_merlin_demo_med.mov

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/steadycam

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/steadycam/girl3.mov


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Walaupun sudah ada gencatan senjata, saya fikir ia tidak akan bertahan lama. Bukannya saya sokong perang ke apa, cuma bila melihatkan rekod-rekod tentera Zionis yang sememang tidak bersih. Allah dan nabi kita dah sebut dulu-dulu lagi. Jadi, memang tak boleh percaya. Askar UN? Merely pawns. I bet the another puppet will be installed there. Same old same old.

Sekarang risau mengenangkan sahabat-sahabat di sana. Masih adakah mereka?

Saya doakan agar hospital yang pernah kami lawati dahulu di Tripoli - sampaikan ada 3-4 tingkat di bawah tanah untuk perlindungan, masih teguh walaupun bom-bom menghujani bumi Lubnan. Amin.

Saya doakan agar sahabat yang menumpangkan kami dari tapak FIMA Summer Camp ke kota Tripoli masih bernafas. Juga rakan-rakan di IMAL, yang barangkali sudah pun mula mengatur langkah untuk misi bantuan kecemasan. Amin.

Ya Allah selamatkanlah... Amin.

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Copy dan paste dari sini.

Rules for reporting on the war

Rule #1. The “who started it?” rule. It is always the Arabs who attack first, and always Israel that retaliates in self defense. The current Israeli assault on Gaza is attributed to the capture (called a kidnapping) of corporal Gilad Shalit, by a group of Palestinians who tunnelled under the border and attacked an Israeli watchtower. But the day before Shalit’s capture, Israeli forces crossed into Gaza and captured (that’s captured, not kidnapped) a Palestinian doctor and his brother. Israel has kidnapped 64 Hamas members, including cabinet ministers, mayors and legislators. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

Rule #2. The terrorism rule. When Arabs kill Israelis, it’s called terrorism.

Rule #3. The self defense rule. When Israelis kill Arabs, it’s called self defense.

Rule # 4. The reaction of the international community rule. When Israel kills too many civilians all at once, the West calls for restraint. Israel pledges it will take care to limit civilian casualties, then goes about its merry way, blasting apart civilians, blaming the deaths on the militants. “We had to take out the civilians. They were in the way. But we didn’t mean to.”

Rule # 5. The kidnapping rule. Palestinians do not have the right to capture Israeli soldiers, not even a limited number, not even one or two.

Rule # 6. The war on terrorism rule. Israel has the right to capture as many Arabs as it wants. There is no limit. Israel doesn’t kidnap Arabs, it arrests them. This creates the impression of legality, and that Israel is simply carrying out a police action. Legitimate authority arrests “suspects” and “terrorists.” Criminals kidnap.

Rule # 7. The David vs. Goliath rule. When you say Israel, never say “supported by the US and Britain.”

Rule # 8. The destablizer rule. When you say Hezbollah, always add “supported by Iran and Syria.” Iran and Syria are a “destabilizing” force in the region, in the same manner Venezuela is a destabilizing force in Latin America. They resist the hegemony of the US and its subalterns. That’s why they’re destabilizing.

Rule # 9. Things we don’t mention rule. Don’t mention the occupied territories, ignored UN resolutions, or violations of the Geneva Conventions.

Rule # 10. Amplify the voice of the Israelis and minimize the voice of the Arabs. Let Israelis speak out as much as possible, so they can explain rules one through nine.

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Two freebies for today. Right click and save link/file as...

http://www.gundala.com/kopratasakekasih.mp3

http://www.gundala.com/gelombangkeadilan.mp3

Propaganda

http://www.aish.com/movies/haaretz/Lebanon.asp

I feel like punching my own flat panel screen.

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A Girl called Terrorism

Little girl covered in dust
pulled from the rubble,
as limp and lifeless
as the doll you played with yesterday,
now mangled and bleeding,
you do not know who killed you
or why you were killed.
And even though I know
that you died shahid
and that your spirit
is in the Garden,
where one day you will be reunited
with the ones you loved,
with the ones who loved you,
dwelling there in peace for ever,
in the mean time I pray:
may Allah curse the ones
who helped to kill you
– the ones
who financed the bomb,
who made the bomb,
who transported the bomb,
who loaded the bomb,
who fired the bomb,
that killed you
and especially the cowards
who say that they were only
making war on terrorism.
– and may Allah give victory to the mu'minun.

Hajj Ahmad Thomson