KEMUNCAK KETAKSUBAN

29 AUGUST 2010

Salam 2 all.

Kejadian seorang wakil rakyat kafir iaitu Ahli Parlimen Serdang, YB Teo Nee Chin (DAP-Serdang) menyampaikan tazkirah dan angpau diruang utama solat Surau Al Huda Kajang Sentral Ahad lepas, kemudian diikuti dengan pencemaran ruang utama solat Masjid Attaqwa di Selayang Baru pada hari Khamis lepas oleh seorang lagi wakil rakyat kafir, YB William Leong Jee Keen (PKR Selayang) mencetuskan satu lagi polemik baru kepada umat Islam. Kejadian yang sama berlaku Ogos 2009 apabila seorang ADUN kafir dari PKR YB Dr. Xavier mengadakan majlis didalam surau di Klang.

Itu kejadian yang kita tahu, atau yang dah terbongkar. Entah berapa banyak lagi pencemaran dan pencabulan terhadap institusi Islam kita tidak tahu. Baru ini kita dikejutkan dengan seorang Pak Jangoat yang rela berdoa untuk seorang pemimpin kafir harbi, dengan mengenepikan doa untuk kebaikan pemimpin sendiri. Saya ingat lagi tahun lepas kejadian umat Islam berebut untuk mendapat agihan lembu qurban dari wakil rakyat kafir!! Entah apa nak jadi dengan umat Islam bangsa Melayu hari ini. Ketaksuban berpolitik menjadi modal penghalal segala tindakan! 

Saya tidak menyalahkan wakil-wakil rakyat kafir ini kerana mereka kafir. Walaupun saya tidak bersetuju dengan pandangan mereka mungkin tidak tahu adab dan hukum hakam memasuki masjid. Kerana sudah lebih beratus tahun kaum kafir Cina, India dan lain-lain tinggal didalam negara ini bersama masyarakat Islam. Kalau setelah begitu lama bersama kita masih mereka menggunakan alasan dangkal tidak tahu, sebagaimana ada diantara mereka masih tidak boleh berbahasa Melayu sehingga kini, maka saya rasa mereka tidak layak untuk terus menikmati taraf kewarganegaraan negara umat Islam ini.

Apa yang saya kesalkan ialah sikap segelintir orang Melayu yang membenarkan poerkara ini berlaku. Apakah kerana mereka jahil, atau kerana mereka terlalu pelahap saya sendiri pun tidak pasti. Atau apakah atas nama politik semuanya halal belaka sekarang ini?

Sudahlah nama tuhan mereka gadaikan, hasil arak kini halal diambil, anak bini pun boleh jadi bahan gadaian politik,kuil hindu nak disumbat dihalaman umat Islam, kini masjid surau pun kafir dah boleh masuk, siap bertazkirah lagi!!

Kalau tujuan membawa mereka masuk itu untuk didakwahkan satu hal juga. Tetapi apa yang jelas dalam semua kejadian diatas, matlamat segelintir kaum Melayu ini membawa masuk para kafir ini kedalam ruang utama solat tempat mereka bersujud ruku' kepada ALLAH kerana hendakkan habuan angpau dan wang ringgit daripada kafir-kafir ini. Maka terhegeh-hegehlah orang Melayu beratur berhimpun berjemaah didalam tempat sujud mereka menadah tangan memohon angpau dan bantuan para kafirun ini.

Mungkin lepas itu mereka bersujud syukur kerana mendapat habuan angpau para kafirun ini, sedang para kafirun ini berdiri megah memijak tempat sujud mereka dan menghulurkan habuan dan bantuan dalam angpau, envelop dan sampul. Begitu hina sekali bangsa Melayu bukan lagi didalam tanahair mereka, tetapi didalam tempat mereka bersujud kepoada ALLAH tuhan mereka. Macamlah dah tiada tempat lain untuk menagih angpau para kafir ini.

Saya tengok seteruk-teruk keadaan umat Islam di Gaza, mereka takkan benarkan seinci masjid mereka dijejaki oleh para kafirun disana. Apatah lagi ini adalah para kafir harbi yang terang-terang menolak Islam, menolak perlaksanaan hukum Islam, dan menolak penubuhan sebuah daulah Islamiyyah.

Ada pulak para agamawan yang menyokong dengan pelbagai teori dan falsafah. Habis dikorek segala kitab kuning untuk menghalalkan tindakan membenarkan kafir harbi ini memijak masuk tempat utama solat didalam masjid. Katanya Nabi dulu pun buat begitu!!

Memang benar Rasulullah membenarkan para kafir memasuki kawasan masjid, tetapi bukan untuk tujuan menagih angpau, envelop dan sampul dari para kafir tersebut. Nabi menyeru mereka kepada Islam, tunduk kepada keesaan ALLAH. Rasulullah tidak mengharapkan undi mereka, apatah lagi menagih seringgit dua dari mereka. Rasulullah melakukannya semuanya atas nama ALLAH, dan mengajak mereka kepada menjadi hamba ALLAH!

Apakah para agamawan ini membutakan mata mereka kepada hakikat dan fakta sebenar yang berlaku. Para wakil rakyat kafir itu datang dan hadir atas nama politik kepartian, mengharapkan undi untuk mereka bagi pilihanraya akan datang. Untuk itu mereka datang dengan sampul dan envelop serta angpau. Takkan itu pun para agamawan kita tidak nampak, atau sengaja mereka menutup mata kepada hakikat sebenarnya. Mereka sepatutnya lebih amanah dengan ilmu mereka dan bukan menggadainya untuk mendapat sokongan partisan politik kepartian.

Saya tahu ada kalangan agamawan yang terdesak untuk mendapat semula sokongan yang hilang, tapi bukan dengan mengkhianati ilmu mereka dan berselindung disebalik segala teori dan falsafah, sambil menutup mata kepada hakikat dan fakta sebenar.

Hakikat dan fakta sebenar kejadian membenarkan wakil rakyat kafir untuk memasuki ruang utama solat tempat umat Islam menyembah ALLAH itu bukan untuk tujuan dakwah, tetapi untuk mendapat angpau, bantuan dan kewangan dari mereka!! Wakil rakyat kafir ini dijemput bukan untuk diseru kepada Islam. Sebaliknya mereka yang tazkirahkan umat Islam. Mengingatkan umat Islam supaya bersyukur dan berterimakasih dengan angpau dan envelop yang diberi. Dan jangan lupa undi mereka dalam pilihanraya akan datang. Dan para wakil rakat kafir ini bukan datang melancong!!

Apakah para agamawan ini merasakan para kafirun itu akan pulang dengan penuh keinsafan akan kebesaran ALLAH? Saya percaya mereka akan pulang dengan bangga dapat memijak tempat sujud umat Islam kerana umat Islam terlalu mengharapkan angpau dan bantuan kewangan mereka, dan mungkin beberapa undi tambahan akan mereka perolehi dalam pilihanraya akan datang.

Saya mahu bertanya dah berapa ramai wakil rakyat kafir ini yang sudah menerima Islam? Sudah hampir tiga tahun tidur sebantal dengan mereka, dah berapa ramai yang kalau tak masuk Islam pun,ataupun sekurang-kurangnya memahami Islam.

Yang saya tengok, mereka makin angkuh dan sombong terhadap Islam. Kenyataan YAB Tok Guru Nik Aziz mendesak hudud dilaksanakan jika Pakatan Rakyat memenangi pilihanraya umum ditentang habis-habisan oleh para kafir harbi ini dengan sokongan balaci-balaci Melayu mereka. Akhirnya kata sepakat dikeluarkan bahawa hudud tidak akan dilaksanakan jika PR menjadi kerajaan!! Bukan sahaja mereka tidak berlembut terhadap Islam, malah kelihatannya mereka makin angkuh dan biadap terhadap perjuangan Islam.

Dan membenarkan mereka masuk memijak tempat sujud umat Islam membawa angpau dan envelop adalah satu penghinaan terbesar keatas Islam. Bukan mereka yang didakwahkan, tetapi umat Islam yang ditazkirahkan oleh kafirun ini. Mungkin juga mereka menasihatkan umat Islam supaya bersyukur dengan angpau dan envelop yang disedekahkan, dan jangan lupa undi mereka nanti dalam pilihanraya ke 13!!

Benarlah kata Rasulullah saw, kita sekarang hidup dizaman fitan. Zaman yang umat Islam rosak akibat kejahilan mereka, dan ulama' nya pula terlalu lesu. Poltik kepartian sudah semacam menjadi satu agama baru bagi segelintir umat, dan mendapat kuasa semacam menjadi satu matlamat yang mesti dicapai atas apa sebab sekalipun.

Saya menyeru diri saya dan kesemua umat Islam, kembalilah kita kepada Islam yang sebenarnya. Dibulan Ramadhan Al Mubarak ini, ingatlah pesan ALLAH, "dibulan Ramadhan ini turunkan Al Quran sebagai petunjuk bagi manusia, penuh dengan keterang dan bukti, supaya kamu dapat membezakan (yang mana Islam yang mana kafir). "Inilah kitab Al Quran, yang tidak ada keraguan sedikit pun padanya, menjadi petunjuk kanu untuk bertaqwa". Dan firman ALLAH, "diwajibkan keatas kamu berpuiasa dibulan Ramadhan, sebagaiaman diwajibkan ketas unmat terdahulu, semoga kamu berolah ketaqwaan".

Semoga ALLAH memberikan petunjuk dan hidayahNya, dan memberikan keampunan kepada kita. Doa Nabi saw diakhir tahiyyat, "lindungilah kami dari fitnah qubur, limdungilah kami dari fitnah neraka jahanam, lindungilah kami daripada fitnah dajjal".

Yang baik datangnya dari ALLAH, yang tidak itu dari kelemahan saya sendiri.

Selamat berpuasa, moga mencapai darjat ketaqwaan kelak.

Wassalam, adios amigos. Grasias.

Zulkifli Bin Noordin
Ahad
19 Ramadhan 1431
29 Ogos 2010

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Isu Khutbah Jumaat by Khairy Jamaludin

Isu Doa Khutbah Jumaat

Kerakusan kuasa YAB Lim Guan Eng di Pulau Pinang tampaknya semakin menjadi-jadi apabila telah 'dinobatkan' lebih afdal daripada Yang di-Pertuan Agong sendiri selaku Ketua Agama Islam di negari itu, sebagaimana laporan Utusan Malaysia yang menyatakan bahawa nama Seri Paduka Baginda telah digantikan dengan nama beliau semasa bacaan doa khutbah solat Jumaat di beberapa masjid di Permatang Pauh dan Jelutong sejak minggu lalu. Justeru, Pergerakan Pemuda UMNO Malaysia (Pemuda UMNO) mendesak agar suatu siasatan dibuat segera berhubung perkara ini. Pemuda UMNO juga membantah dan menolak dengan keras penggantian itu, sekiranya benar terjadi, yang mana bukan sahaja menghina institusi raja selaku ketua agama bahkan kesucian masjid dengan penggunaan mimbar sebagai saluran politik bagi mengagungkan Lim Guan Eng. Bahkan, kejadian ini adalah pelik lagi dangkal kerana pembacaan doa khutbah solat Jumaat sememangnya dikhususkan kepada Ketua Agama Islam Persekutuan atau Ketua Agama Islam Negeri, yakni Yang di-Pertuan Agong dan Sultan, dan bukannya untuk ketua eksekutif pentadbiran negeri iaitu Menteri Besar atau Ketua Menteri, tidak kira sama ada beliau itu Muslim atau tidak. Sikap biadap seperti ini pastinyamembuat luka yang menyinggung hati umat Islam di Pulau Pinang dengan pembatalan perarakanMaulidur Rasul pada Februari lalu berdarah kembali. Namun, apa yang lebih memeranjatkan adalah sikap membisu dan tidak ambil kisah oleh PAS yang sering mendabik dada sebagai pejuang Islam tetapi terbukti longlai di kaki 'Khalifah' Lim Guan Eng. Lembaran sejarah Islam menunjukkan bahawa apabila suatu jajahan itu telah ditakluki oleh pemimpin baru atau berlaku sebarang peralihan kuasa, maka doa khutbah solat Jumaat akan ditujukan kepada pihak pemerintah yang baru sebagaimana kisah penyerahan kuasa daripada Daulah Fatimiah kepada Daulah Abbasiah di Mesir pada tahun 567 Hijriah yang disusuli oleh simbolik penggantian doa khutbah Jumaat daripada yang menyebut Khalifah Al-Adhid kepada Khalifah Al-Mustadhi dari Daulat Abbasiah. Jadinya, sikap berdiam diri yang ditonjolkan oleh PAS bukan sahaja menzahirkan kerelaan mereka di dalam mempromosikan cengkaman dan campur tangan DAP di dalam urusan umat Islam malahan juga mungkin suatu pengiktirafan PAS kepada kuasa dan pengaruh DAP sebagai penakluk baru di Pulau Pinang. Malah ia juga membuktikan kuasa DAP yang bukan sahaja telah menguasai Pulau Pinang bahkan juga meminggiri PAS dan PKR, yang kelihatan begitu rela dan redha menjadi pak turut parti tersebut. Pakatan Rakyat atau PR kini nampaknya bukan lagi Pakatan Rakyat tetapi adalah Pelana Rezeki buat tunggangan rakus DAP.

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Anwar Ibrahim standard modus operandi when meeting with Press

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Making Monsters Out of Our Students - The “Lucifer Effect” on Our Campuses

Making Monsters Out Of Our Students – The “Lucifer Effect” On Our Campuses

M. Bakri Musa

I commend Defense Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi for his swift action in reassigning the commandant of the Royal Military College (RMC) over the death of one of its students, Naim Mustaqim, during a ragging incident. Earlier, the college had expelled the alleged abusers. Likewise, I praise Higher Education Minister Khaled Nordin in issuing a stern warning of his “zero tolerance” for ragging in our public universities.

Ragging is now entrenched in our universities and residential schools, creating monsters out of these students, the “Lucifer Effect” being operative (more on that later). The ensuing scars and damages are consequential, both physical and psychological. A few like Naim get killed.

Ragging is one of those unsavory “traditions” of the colonial British that Third World natives have picked up with a vengeance. We denigrate everything associated with the colonials but somehow when it comes to ragging, we have no qualms in quickly adopting it. We have bested the Indians and Sri Lankans in the savagery of our hazing rituals.

The only effective way to end this pestilence that has plagued our schools and colleges is to initiate a “shock and awe” intervention that would impress everyone on the evilness of this hitherto foreign ritual. We have to do that now before we have other innocent victims.

Strong Individual and Collective Actions Needed

We need aggressive actions at both the individual and system levels.

At the personal level, we must help the family of Naim Mustaqim launch lawsuits against not only his alleged abusers but also the RMC authorities and personnel, including the reassigned commandant. They have been negligent in failing to provide a safe environment for those under their care. The government must also initiate criminal proceedings; those in supervisory positions including the wardens and teachers should also be prosecuted.

Naim’s family will not get their young son back, but by instituting civil and criminal actions we would make those responsible pay for their culpabilities. We cannot condone criminal behaviors lurking beneath ‘tradition.’

It is reprehensible that those who have been given the awesome responsibility for nurturing our young have neglected their duties, resulting in one promising young man being killed. Naim’s teachers and wardens had been with him for over six months, literally day and night, and yet they failed to notice the signs of his desperate need for help. I wonder how they would feel if their loved ones had been similarly neglected.

The first order of business for RMC’s new commandant must be to impress upon his staff their obligation to look after the safety of those under their charge. His second order of duty would be to punish those who had let this ugly situation occur. Those are his two immediate priorities, and not, as he was quoted, “to safeguard the college’s image and moral of students, staff, parents and the public alike.”

At the systemic level, the responsible ministers should issue directives to the vice-chancellors as well as principals of our universities and residential schools indicating that they would be held responsible for any ragging on their campuses. Were that to happen, they would suffer the same fate, or worse, as the RMC commandant.

I would like them to draw up specific rules and lists of “don’ts,” and the penalties for infringements, be given to student and parent (in the case of residential schools) before these students enroll. They (as well as their parents) would have to sign that document acknowledging their full understanding of the content.

Be strict for a few years and we would effectively get rid of this scourge. When the present generation of students who had been brutalized by ragging graduate (in three or four years), then this odious practice would end. Then our new students could look forward to coming to our campuses for a different experience, one more welcoming and nurturing.

I was privileged to be spared from attending our local university and thus had a vastly different college experience. One of the sweetest and most comforting words that greeted me on my arrival on campus in Canada decades ago was an upperclassman extending his hand and saying, “You must be Bakri, from Malaysia! Hi! I am Ray, your resident advisor!”

Of course during orientation week we still had to wear that silly beanie and were made to steal apples from the nearby orchards, but nothing beyond that. What I remember most was my seniors helping and guiding me. It was to them that I turned to in seeking advice on classes and what was appropriate to wear to campus functions.

That is what orientation week is supposed to be, to help incoming students adjust to their new campus environment.

Lucifer Effect: How Good People Turn Evil

While I advocate severe punishment for the abusers of Naim Mustaqim, I am mindful that these kids are not intrinsically evil. On the contrary, what we have learned from the Stanford psychologist Philip Zimbardo’s famous prison experiment in 1971 is that those students who became torturers (and in Naim’s case, murderers) were normal human beings. Given a different set of circumstances they could very well become heroes.

Zimbardo’s “Lucifer Effect” (after Lucifer, God’s favorite angel who turned evil; the Quranic version is Iblis who, banished by Allah from Paradise to earth for disobeying Him, made it his mission to convert as many mortals to his new evil and Satanic ways) is what made otherwise ordinary soldiers into sadists and murderers in Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison. Those who have read the accounts of Kassim Ahmad, Syed Hussin Ali, Raja Petra and others incarcerated under the ISA would immediately recognize the local variation of this Lucifer Effect. The difference between Kamunting and Abu Ghraib is merely a matter of degree, not kind.

In his experiment, Zimbardo recruited ordinary college students looking to make a few dollars as subjects in a human psychology experiment simulating the prison experience. What he discovered about human nature from that innocent experiment shocked him, and forced him to prematurely terminate the study.

What Zimbardo discovered was that students who were randomly assigned to be “guards” soon became vicious, senselessly brutalizing and inflicting gratuitous punishments on their “prisoners.” Even though those students were aware that they were being monitored and that it was only an experimental situation, nonetheless they persisted in their brutish ways.

There are other experiments along the same vein where the social situation, in short peer pressure, made the subjects do things they would not otherwise do.

The Lucifer Effect illuminates how otherwise good people can turn evil, given the “right” circumstances. Humans are like pet dogs. In the calm and nurturing environment of a quiet home with a caring master, it is the most docile, playful and obedient pet, indeed almost angelic. It would not bark even if your toddler were to yank its tail. However, let it loose with his canine friends to maraud in the neighborhood as a pack at night, and they would become vicious predators.

We must make sure that the environment in our schools and universities would not turn our promising young students into evil fallen angels. Those in charge, from the ministers down to the teachers and custodians, have an awesome responsibility to make sure that this would not happen. If they fail, then they must be made to pay a stiff price.

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Can the people of M’sia ever forgive Mahathir?

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WRITTEN BY HUSSEIN HAMID

MONDAY, 21 JUNE 2010 14:35

“[Mahathir Mohamad has] ... created a legacy so monumental that no one could have presumed his mantle.” That was what Abdullah Ahmad gushingly said of Mahathir when the ‘great man’ announced his resignation as prime minister. Tan Sri Abdullah was group editor-in-chief of the New Straits Times when he wrote the above on June 26, 2002 following news of Mahathir’s intention. I believe that that came from Abdullah’s heart for you cannot write anything so ‘moving’ if it does not come from the heart. Now let me tell you what comes from my heart when I read that. Who would be foolhardy enough to presume Mahathir mantle? This man used money and power like no other PM of Malaysia has ever done! Like no other leader in most parts of the civilized world has ever done, save for some parts of Africa and some parts of our world where accountability for one’s action is easily dismissed through the barrel of the gun!  Who would dare to presume the monumental mantle of this Mahathir who was instrumental in bringing into our way of life such concepts as Operasi Lalang (ISA and the ends justify the means of preventive detention), nepotism, money politics, greed, privatization, IPPs, and Perwaja; the monumental mantle of this Mahathir that displayed such utter vindictiveness to those who simply do not agree with his point of view? It is a monumental mantle to have left as his legacy – negotiated tenders, a tainted judiciary, Bakun, Renong and its horrendous debts, Khir Toyo, Daim Zainuddin, and the list is endless. The monumental man almost left us a crooked bridge as well. Every government machinery, every high public office appointment, every political decision made during Mahathir’s time was at his pleasure and made to do your biddings. Not Dollah, not anyone …. nobody would be foolhardy enough to try and assume that mantle. All the personal excesses that we now talk about had its beginnings, development and reached its zenith during Mahathir’s time. Samy Velu, Rafidah, VK Lingam, Augustine Paul, Liong Sik, Daim, Vincent Tan, Abdullah Ang, Eric Cheah…the mind boggles at the billions these people made at the expense of the nation! Sir, you need to take responsibility What defines greatness in a man? “It’s not what you take but what you leave behind that defines greatness.” – Edward Gardner.  Mahathir left us with debts measured in billions, not millions!  This man left us with monuments of First World stature but failed miserably to prepare our then third-world mentality to be ready for these iconic structures. If you bring a nation into an era that it is not ready for, you are being irresponsible! If you cut corners and award projects to people who YOU think can do the job and they fail to do that job – you take responsibility!  If you do nothing about a leader that robs his own people blind – like Samy Velu did to the Indians – then you take responsibility. If you take power away from the Sultans and empower Umno with the same power and Umno abuses that power – you take responsibility!  When you remove two of your deputies and in so doing caused: 1) Within Umno, a factionalism that forever weakened the party; 2) and had one of these removed deputies, Anwar, come back 10 years later and inflict upon Umno its biggest defeat, you take responsibility.  When you take a dentist and make him Menteri Besar of Selangor – and this MB then proceeds to enrich himself so excessively that it finally culminated in the loss of Selangor to the opposition – then you take responsibility.  When you take oil royalties away from Terengganu and Kelantan because the people voted for the opposition, you take responsibility for the suffering of the people within that state who are now without the funds for development.  When you use Petronas money to bail out your son’s shipping company to the tune of hundreds of millions, then you take responsibility for abusing the trust the people placed in you as the guardian of public money.  Can he walk down a street unmolested? That a man of your previous stature would require me, a 62-year-old man living in Adelaide, Australia to write this biting and hurtful article about you simply indicates the depth you have allowed yourself to sink to.  Once you told us to look East. We looked East. You told us to buy British last. We bought British last. You told us to buy Proton, we bought Proton – albeit with a little arm-twisting. Possibly all those were relevant at that point in time. So Tun, using that analogy, let me respectfully tell you this: “Tun, you are no longer relevant”. You are no longer relevant in Umno except to serve the selfish purpose of certain factions. “Hear! Hear!” or as (the blogger) Antares said for the benefit of Ibrahim Ali, “Dengar, Dengar!” You are no longer relevant to the Malays. You have done enough damage to us and we see thorough your deceptions. You are no longer relevant to the people in this country. We have all moved on and demand a more open and responsible government. We see through your duplicity and untruths. Tun, you are only relevant to those that still love you for what you are – a grandfather, a father and a husband. Is it not time that you return their love and their need to have you back in their fold? And that you return the love and respect that they give to you for what you are today? An 84-year-old grandfather, father and husband. Sir, you would need all the goodness that is in Mecca, all the forgiveness that Mandela has shown to the very people that imprisoned him, and all the love that the families of Teoh Beng Hock, Kugan and Aminulrasyid have for their loved ones if you are ever to be forgiven by the people of Malaysia.  And I know that even with all that, you would still have a hard time walking down the streets of KL without worrying that someone might spit on you…and that Sir is the whole truth and nothing but the truth…so help me God!  This article was first published as ‘Sir, you need to take responsibility!’ in Hussein Hamid’s blog on June 21 and reproduced here with minor editing by CPI.

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