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- Resentment Against Sekolah Agama.
- Peniaga Plaza Larkin : Jawapan Dari MARA
- K'naan
- Making Peace Not War
- Underground Cult
| Resentment Against Sekolah Agama. Posted: 10 Aug 2012 12:10 AM PDT I spent this morning sitting in a round table about education issues : Equity In Education. There was a very good mix of people (Malays, Chinese, Indians, ladies, men, academics, educationists, professionals, religious people, business people) all very eloquent and saying many right things. There are really a lot of smart and quick witted people in the country. They are NOT in politics. Sad to say ALL the political parties are terribly under populated with clever people - meaning they are over populated with the other category. The Government has to find a mechanism to co-opt the capable and cleverer non-politicians into the business of running the Government. There is little place for the clever in the political parties. That is why in the long run, you can (or will) lose the elections. I learnt something new and not so new also. The not so new thing was when the represenative from ABIM (Angkatan Belia Islam Malaysia) asked for more Government aid for religious schools which he said were good and not causing any problems in the country. Well, this is a free country and people are free to say whatever they want. But a lady speaker, who was quiet most of the time spoke up and really caught my attention. She represented a Yayasan which does serious charity work. She said that many school leavers from the 'sekolah agama' system (the tahfiz al Quran graduates, the sekolah pondok graduates, the madrassah, sekolah agama graduates etc) face dead ends. Their choices of furthering their education are very limited. (I think their whole lives are limited). They find it difficult to enter the local colleges and universities (except maybe to study religion). They even cannot get admission to the better institutes in the Arab countries (nauzubillah - may Allah protect us). They can hardly speak a word of English. Worse they cannot mix easily with other people around them, especially with non Muslims or with people of different races and languages. This is because of their limited exposure in the sekolah agama where everything is either "islam" or "kafir". In brief they become anti-social as well. Then the speaker also said that there is a lot of resentment building up among these young people. Many of them are beginning to realise that it is they who are different from the normal world. Of course they will feel resentment because compared to their other friends, their own futures have been destroyed. There will also be resentment against their parents as well for putting them in the sekolah agama in the first place. Many parents place their children in sekolah agama out of either ignorance or feelings of guilt. The ignorant think they are giving their children the best chances in life and in the "hereafter" by sending them to religious schools. How mistaken you are. The guilty have committed some serious 'perbuatan berdosa' in their lives. Maybe they cheated people of money, songlap too much money or some other guilt ridden actions. So to tebus their own "dosa", (repent for their own "sins") they seek to make amends and send their children to the sekolah agama. The children become sacrificial lambs for the parents' guilt. (In old Ireland, the very religious Catholics often wished that if they had sons, at least one would "serve the Lord". This meant joining the Church. Maybe the Lord would look favourably on the parents and improve their chances of making it to heaven) It is the same with some people who feel compelled to "naik haji" five times or go for "umrah" seven times. They have too much "dosa" or "sins" which they have committed. Cuci dengan sabun tak hilang, cuci dengan chlorox tak boleh hilang, naik haji sekali tak puas, dua kali, tiga kali they still feel guilty. Terlalu banyak dosa. So if they have children maybe they will also sacrifice their children "in the Lord's service". Send them off to sekolah agama. Maybe their children will learn how to baca Yasin and baca doa at their funerals which will help alleviate their burden of guilt and gain an entry to heaven. Hence many children end up at the sekolah agama because their parents had some motive or other. It is not in the best interest of the child's future. Some of you will say that there is Ma'ahad this and Ma'ahad that which produces students with 13 As or 17As. They then go on to become doctors and engineers as well. These are few and far between. They produce so many As because they follow the Government curriculum (the secular school curriculum). And it is yet to be seen if their graduates who become doctors can fit easily in society. Or can they only fit into a society that is sejiwa, sebangsa and seagama as them? Which means they still cannot compete or keep up with others in their chosen fields.  |
| Peniaga Plaza Larkin : Jawapan Dari MARA Posted: 09 Aug 2012 04:22 PM PDT Merujuk kepada tulisan Blog saya pada Sabtu, 4hb Ogos 2012 bertajuk Rayuan Peniaga Plaza Larkin Kpd MARA, saya telah menerima jawapan berikut daripada Puan Hasni Bt Sulaiman, Pengarah Komunikasi Korporat MARA. Berikut adalah kenyataan MARA (yang telah di scan) yang sepenuhnya : +1.jpg) .jpg) Saya ingin mengucapkan terima kasih kepada pihak MARA atas maklumbalas yang segera. Saya harap Peniaga Larkin akan membaca kenyataan ini untuk dijadikan rujukan mereka. Saya ingin sampaikan sedikit pandangan sahaja kepada semua pihak yang terlibat. Sekali lagi saya ingin merujuk ayat Al Quran. Surah Taha : 2 "Kami tidak menurunkan Al-Quran kepadamu supaya engkau menanggung kesusahan." MARA diberi tanggungjawab yang besar untuk memajukan ekonomi bumiputera. Sudah tentu tugas ini rumit dan melibatkan banyak prosedur dan perancangan yang terperinci. Melihatkan hikmah dalam ayat Quran di atas, saya berpendapat bahawa segala usaha kita untuk membantu sesiapa pun (merujuk kepada MARA) dan untuk membantu diri kita sendiri (merujuk kepada Peniaga Larkin) perlu mengambil pendekatan supaya i. tidak menyusahkan orang (not to make things difficult) dan ii. akan memudahkan urusan (make things easy for people) Dengan itu, saya harap kedua belah pihak - Peniaga Larkin dan MARA - akan saling membantu dan bekerjasama untuk menjayakan perniagaan di Plaza Larkin.  |
| Posted: 09 Aug 2012 08:20 AM PDT  |
| Posted: 09 Aug 2012 06:40 AM PDT Here is some good news for a change : U.S. Navy Rescues 10 From Iranian Ship on Fire A U.S. Navy destroyer has rescued 10 sailors from an Iranian-flagged vessel that was on fire in the Gulf of Oman. The guided missile destroyer USS James E. Williams came upon the Iranian-flagged dhow as it was on fire Wednesday night. The 10 on board were picked up out of the water by the crew of the destroyer. A Defense official says eight of the 10 are Iranian; the other two are Pakistanis. According to a Navy press release the crew members "are being well cared for, receiving medical treatment and awaiting transport to aircraft carrier USS Enterprise." Commander Jason Salata, a spokesman for the Navy's Fifth Fleet, said they will be transported Thursday morning to the Enterprise and will be repatriated from there. "Our intent is to take care of them and send them [home]," said Salata. With its ships constantly deployed to the waters of the Middle East, it's not uncommon for U.S. Navy ships to rescue mariners in distress whatever their nationality. The Navy's rescue of 13 Iranian mariners in January made international headlines because it occurred shortly after an Iranian general had warned the U.S. Navy not to send an aircraft carrier back to the Persian Gulf. The destroyer USS Kidd had rescued the Iranian mariners from their fishing boat which had been hijacked by Somali pirates for more than a month and converted into a pirate mother ship. 15 Somali pirates were taken into custody and the grateful Iranian crew was repatriated to Iran.  |
| Posted: 09 Aug 2012 03:28 AM PDT
 In the picture above : A member of an underground sect in Russia's Volga River province of Tatarstan province stands at the gate of a house outside the provincial capital, Kazan, on Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2012. The reclusive sect that literally went underground to stop contact with the outside world kept 27 children in dark and unheated cells, many of them for more than a decade, prosecutors said Wednesday. The children have been freed and the parents charged with child abuse.Some of the children, aged between 1 and 17, have never seen daylight, health officials said. The sect's 83-year-old founder Faizrakhman Satarov, who declared himself a Muslim prophet in contradiction with the principles of Islam, has also been charged with negligence, Irina Petrova, deputy prosecutor in the provincial capital of Kazan, told The Associated Press. (AP Photo/ Nikolay Alexandrov)  |
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