Hitler dan Islam

Penghormatanku kepada lelaki agung, Adolf Hitler, semoga ada sepertinya di zaman ini...

Aku berbual dengan seorang ahli keluarga yang sedang menamatkan tesis PhD beliau dan aku amat terperanjat apabila beliau nyatakan tesis beliau berkaitan Adolf Hitler, pemimpin Nazi. Maka aku katakan "Takkan dah habis semua tokoh Islam di dunia ini sampai kamu memilih si bodoh ini dijadikan tajuk?"

Beliau ketawa lalu bertanya apa yang aku ketahui tentang Hitler.

Aku lalu menjawab bahawa Hitler seorang pembunuh yang membunuh secara berleluasa dan meletakkan German mengatasi segala-galanya...lalu dia bertanya dari mana sumber aku. Aku menjawab sumberku dari TV pastinya.

Lalu dia berkata : " Baiklah, pihak British telah melakukan lebih dahsyat dari itu...pihak Jepun semasa zaman Emperor mereka juga sama...tapi kenapa dunia hanya menghukum Hitler dan meletakkan kesalahan malahan memburukkan nama Nazi seolah-olah Nazi masih wujud hari ini sedangkan mereka melupakan kesalahan pihak British kepada Scotland, pihak Jepun kepada dunia dan pihak Afrika Selatan kepada kaum kulit hitam mereka?"

Aku lantas meminta jawapan dari beliau. Beliau menyambung : "Ada dua sebab -

1. Prinsip Hitler berkaitan Yahudi, Zionisme dan penubuhan negara Israel. Hitler telah melancarkan Holocaust untuk menghapuskan Yahudi kerana beranggapan Yahudi akan menjahanamkan dunia pada suatu hari nanti.

2. Prinsip Hitler berkaitan Islam. Hitler telah belajar sejarah kerajaan terdahulu dan umat yang lampau, dan beliau telah menyatakan bahawa ada tiga tamadun yang terkuat, iaitu Parsi, Rome dan Arab. Ketiga-tiga tamadun ini telah menguasai dunia satu ketika dulu dan Parsi serta Rome telah mengembangkan tamadun mereka hingga hari ini, manakala Arab pula lebih kepada persengketaan sesama mereka sahaja. Beliau melihat ini sebagai satu masalah kerana Arab akan merosakkan Tamadun Islam yang beliau telah lihat begitu hebat satu ketika dulu.

Atas rasa kagum beliau pada Tamadun Islam, beliau telah mencetak risalah berkaitan Islam dan diedarkan kepada tentera Nazi semasa perang, walaupun kepada tentera yang bukan Islam.

Beliau juga telah memberi peluang kepada tentera German yang beragama Islam untuk menunaikan solat ketika masuk waktu di mana jua...bahkan tentera German pernah bersolat di dataran Berlin dan Hitler ketika itu mennggu sehingga mereka tamat solat jemaah untuk menyampaikan ucapan beliau...

Hitler juga sering bertemu dengan para Ulamak dan meminta pendapat mereka serta belajar dari mereka tentang agama dan kisah para sahabat dalam mentadbir...

Hitler bersama Syeikh Amin Al-Husainiy

Beliau juga meminta para Sheikh untuk mendampingi tentera beliau bagi mendoakan mereka yang bukan Islam dan memberi semangat kepada yang beragama Islam untuk membunuh Yahudi...

Seorang tentera Nazi melekatkan gambar Mufti Al-Quds

Semua maklumat ini ialah hasil kajian sejarah yang dilakukan oleh saudara aku untuk tesis PhD beliau dan beliau meminta aku tidak menokok tambah apa-apa supaya tidak menyusahkan beliau untuk membentangkannya nanti. Beliau tidak mahu aku campurkan bahan dari internet kerana aku bukan pakar bidang sejarah. Tetapi gambar-gambar yang ada di sini sudah lama tersebar dan semua orang boleh melihatnya di internet.

Aku juga sedaya upaya mencari maklumat tambahan di internet dan berjumpa beberapa perkara :

1: Pengaruh Al-Quran di dalam ucapan Hitler.
Ketika tentera Nazi tiba di Moscow, Hitler berhajat menyampaikan ucapan. Dia memerintahkan penasihat-penasihatnya untuk mencari kata-kata pembukaan yang hebat tak kira dari kitab agama, kata-kata ahli falsafah ataupun dari bait syair. Seorang sasterawan Iraq yang bermastautin di German mencadangkan ayat Al-Quran :

(اقتربت الساعة وانشق القمر) bermaksud : Telah hampir Hari Kiamat dan bulan akan terbelah...

Hitler berasa kagum dengan ayat ini dan menggunakannya sebagai kalam pembukaan dan isi kandungan ucapan beliau. Memang para ahli tafsir menghuraikan bahawa ayat tersebut bermaksud kehebatan, kekuatan dan memberi maksud yang mendalam.

Perkara ini dinyatakan oleh Hitler di dalam buku beliau Mein Kampf yang ditulis di dalam penjara bahawa banyak aspek tindakan beliau berdasarkan ayat Al-Quran, khususnya yang berkaitan tindakan beliau ke atas Yahudi...

2. Hitler bersumpah dengan nama Allah yang Maha Besar
Hitler telah memasukkan sumpah dengan nama Allah yang Maha Besar di dalam ikrar ketua tenteranya yang akan tamat belajar di akademi tentera German.

" Aku bersumpah dengan nama Allah (Tuhan) yang Maha Besar dan ini ialah sumpah suci ku,bahawa aku akan mentaati semua perintah ketua tentera German dan pemimpinnya Adolf Hitler, pemimpin bersenjata tertinggi, bahawa aku akan sentiasa bersedia untuk berkorban dengan nyawaku pada bila-bila waktu demi pemimpin ku"

3. Hitler telah enggan meminum beer (arak) pada ketika beliau gementar semasa keadaan German yang agak goyah dan bermasalah. 
Ketika itu para doktor mencadangkan beliau minum beer sebagai ubat dan beliau enggan, sambil mangatakan " Bagaimana anda ingin suruh seseorang itu minum arak untuk tujuan perubatan sedangkan beliau tidak pernah seumur hidupnya menyentuh arak?" Ya, Hitler tidak pernah menjamah arak sepanjang hayat beliau...minuman kebiasaan beliau ialah teh menggunakan uncang khas...

Bukanlah tujuan penulisan ini untuk membela apa yang dilakukan oleh Hitler, tetapi ianya bertujuan untuk menyingkap apa yang disembunyikan oleh pihak Barat. Semoga kita semua beroleh manfaat.




(Sumber : http://satuumat.blogspot.com/)


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Fikrah:-
Pernah dengar ungkapan "sejarah di tulis oleh mereka yang menang "!

Maka akan ada yang teramat hitam vs putih, antagonis vs protagonis, Hang Tuah yang setia vs Jebat yang derhaka, faham kanan vs faham kiri, kerajaan vs pembangkang, pejuang bangsa vs pengkhianat negara.

Maka nilai apa yang akan guna dalam pertimbangan hidup.... dari Mat Kilau, Dato Bahaman, Tok Janggut, Dr Burhanuddin Helmi, Pak Sako, pernah dianggap pengkhianat dan pemberontak .Belum lagi yang di labelkan dengan faham kiri dan komunis!malah gelar-gelar yang tak molek belaka ...!

Pertimbangan apa yang diguna???? Tukang ampu, angpau, kipas dan jilat diberi pangkat dan nama. 

Lalu dimasyhurkan orang inilah yang berjasa kepada bangsa dan negara.

Maka moga-moga kita yang terlibat dalam gerakan ini tidak tersilau dalam memilih antara intan dan kaca, antara yang iya atau reka, antara benar atau dusta. 

Maka  mohon didoakan untuk diri yang daif ini dan semua kerabat besar gerakan ini agar  dikurniakan petunjuk dari Allah , Tuhan Yang Maha Berkuasa !

Wallahu'alam.

Kempen Seorang Sekampit Beras

Sukacita ABIM Selangor melancarkan Kempen Seorang Sekampit Beras sempena Ramadhan Mubarak 1431H yang bakal menjelma

Teen Sex; the Truth!

Sunday July 11, 2010

The bare truth about teen sex

Stories by HARIATI AZIZAN
sunday@thestar.com.my

As much as we want to deny it, many young people in Malaysia are having sex, says Shelter Home executive director James Nayagam.

Nayagam, who has been assisting pregnant teenagers for 30 years, points out that the culture has changed and parents, educationists, authorities and policy-makers also have to change their mindset to keep up and deal with the new social trends.

“Young people now are more open, they are not shy about sex any more – many have multiple partners and they think it is okay – so we have to accept that fact first before we can find ways to deal with the growing phenomenon and its ensuing problems,” he says.

He tells of a report he received some time ago.

“Some Form One students (13-year-olds) at a secondary school in PJ had a competition to find out who has had the most sexual partners. You know how many partners the winner apparently had? Thirty! And she’s only 13.”

He stresses that many are still ignorant of the facts or have various misconceptions passed on by their friends.

“Others are misled by what they read or watch in the media and on the Internet.”

Atikah is one. When asked about contraception, she replies: “It is the boy’s responsibility.”

Recently, the nation was gripped by various reports of teens who indulge in premarital sex as well as issues of teen pregnancies and child marriages.

A study done by Universiti Putra Malaysia revealed that more than 300 Malay teens aged between 13 and 25 admitted to having had sex, with 85% stating that they did not regret their actions and found sex very enjoyable.

This was followed by a news report of a nine-year-old girl in Penang who allegedly gave birth in a hospital after sleeping with her 14-year-old neighbour.

Welfare Department statistics reveal that by April this year, a total of 111 young girls have sought help for their pregnancies. Last year, there were 131 cases received while in 2008, there were 107 teenage girls who got pregnant. (2008=107, 2009=131, until April 2010=111)

Reproductive Rights Advocacy Alliance Malaysia (RRAAM) co-chair Rashidah Abdullah points out that the trend of pre-marital sex among young people has been growing for more than two decades.

Quoting the country report of Malaysia from the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) 15 Monitoring and Advocacy on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, she highlights a media survey by the National Population and Family Development Board (LPPKN), which showed that between 1994 and 1996, about 24% of 13- to 19-year-olds had engaged in sexual intercourse and 18.4% had their first intercourse between the ages of 15 and 18 years.

A study by the Malaysian Aids Council in 1999/2000 revealed that the youngest to have had sexual intercourse was nine years old. In its 2004 Malaysian Population and Family Survey (MPFS), LPPKN found that about 2.2% of the population have had sexual intercourse out of wedlock.

The board also drew attention to reports from government clinics and hospitals, which showed that cases of unwanted pregnancies and consensual sex among teens have increased: about 19% of cases of unmarried mothers involve teens below 18.

Despite the data, says Rashidah, many in the country still refuse to admit to the problem, hampering efforts to address it.

“Many have difficulty accepting the social reality that may be disturbing to one’s religious views or political sensitivities. And this holds true especially for top politicians, more than for parents or the youths themselves,” she says, adding that at the same time, there is a lack of up-to-date and comprehensive statistics on the phenomenon.

Focus on the Family curriculum and Melaka branch manager Joshua Liong concurs.

“We have not done any formal survey on the rise of teenage pregnancies but we have noticed that it’s a global trend. We have found through our No Apologies programme (pro-abstinence programme for teens) and from speaking to school counsellors, teenage pregnancies in schools seem to be a common occurrence, no longer shocking news for many schools.”

Waitress Nicole, who got knocked up by her 25-year-old boyfriend when she was 16, agrees. She shares that none of her neighbours or schoolfriends was surprised when she got married.

“It was so common in my neighbourhood (in Desa Petaling, Kuala Lumpur) for people my age to have sex, get pregnant and marry early. I have a friend who got pregnant when she was 14 and left school to have her baby. And it is not just common among one race, the trend cuts across the different races in the community,” she says, adding that, ironically, it was her 81-year-old grandmother who was the angriest with her for “throwing her life away and marrying early”.

Education needed

According to Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abd Jalil, a 2004 survey conducted on 1,700 young adults aged between 13 and 24 revealed that more than 50% of the respondents did not know in detail about the functions of reproductive organs.

“Teenagers lack information and access to birth control methods. Many teenagers are also not taught about ways to deal with peer pressure and how to say ‘no’ to sex before they are ready,” she said at a recent press conference.

Rashidah agrees, highlighting that the 2004 MPFS showed that a little less than half of young people aged 13-24 had heard of at least one contraceptive method.

“Surprisingly, although condoms are available at pharmacies, only one in four knew about the method,” she notes.

Stressing the importance of equipping our young with knowledge on reproductive health, Shahrizat had said her ministry would propose to the Government to include the sex education module they helped develop with the Education Ministry and other relevant agencies – aptly named Social and Reproductive Health (SRH) – as part of the co-curriculum programmes in primary and secondary schools.

Introduced in 2006 as part of subjects like science, language and moral education, the implementation of SRH has been hampered by various teething problems, including lack of teachers.

Nayagam, however, feels that the introduction of the module as a separate subject is more urgent than ever.

“I was involved in the development of the module too and I strongly believe it has everything we need. A comprehensive, independent subject (on social and reproductive health) will be a better source of information than their friends anyway,” he says.

Rashidah agrees, cautioning that implementing an SRH module will need a lot of consideration.

“We need to think of how we can balance young people’s needs and the society’s sensitivities. We need to look at it as a health issue and highlight the rights and choices they have rather than prescribing moral solutions. Most of all, we need to show the young people compassion.”

Liong believes that the SRH needs to address the lack of understanding and skills in the area of building healthy relationships, something that he feels is the root cause of promiscuity and unwanted pregnancies among the young.

“The lack of self-worth and self-esteem pushes a person to find love and intimacy in anyone who shows a slight interest.

“Of course, the family plays the utmost important role in helping a teen find worth and a sense of belonging and hence the ability to build healthy relationships outside of the family.”

(Source : http://thestar.com.my/ )

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Fikrah :-

1) where do we stand, in this issue? To have the right mind set, is very important. As teenagers feel the important to have multiple partners, we, the so called activists, need to re-adjust the mind set of ours, so that we are in the same allignment and page.


2) Sin is one thing. No regret is another things. When the heart has no more interest in the hereafter business, then, what is suppose to be shocked, is no more shocked. The solution? Back to basic Questions, Why are We here? What are we doing now? Where are we going next? The answers will give us the ideas on what to do next.


3)To have knowledge on reproductive, on social skills, and on healthy relationships are the new vital skills for teenagers, to move on in this era of tribulation. Seek seriously, or you'll be trapped in this issues, yourself.

False Predictions from so called 'Experts'

Prediction on Radio, Air-plane, and X-ray
In 1894, the president of the Royal Society, William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, predicted that radio had no future. The first radio factory was opened five years later. Today, there are more than one billion radio sets in the world, tuned to more than 33 000 radio stations around the world. He also predicted that heavier-than-air flying machines were impossible. The Wright Brother’s first flight covered a distance equal to only half the length of the wingspan of a Boeing 747. He also said, “X-rays will prove to be a hoax.”

Prediction on Earth
In the 6th century BC Greek mathematician Pythagoras said that earth is round – but few agreed with him. Greek astronomer Aristarchos said in the 3rd century BC that earth revolves around the sun – but the idea was not accepted. In the 2nd century BC Greek astronomer Erastosthenes accurately measured the distance around the earth at about 40,000 km (24,860 miles) – but nobody believed him. In the 2nd century AD Greek astronomer Ptolemy stated that earth was the centre of the universe – most people believed him for the next 1,400 years.

Prediction on Automobiles
In the early 20th century a world market for only 4 million automobiles was predicted because “the world would run out of chauffeurs.” Shortly after the end of World War II (1945), the whole of Volkswagen, factory and patents, was offered free to Henry Ford II. He dismissed the Volkswagen Beetle as a bad design. Today, more than 70 million motorcars are produced every year. The Beetle became one of the best-selling vehicles of all time.

Prediction on Phones
The telephone was not widely appreciated for the first 15 years because people did not see a use for it. In fact, in the British parliament it was mentioned there was no need for telephones because “we have enough messengers here.” Western Union believed that it could never replace the telegraph. In 1876, an internal memo read: “This telephone has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication.” Even Mark Twain, upon being invited by Alexander Graham Bell to invest $5 000 in the new invention, could not see a future in the telephone.

Prediction on Trains

Irish scientist, Dr. Dionysius Lardner (1793 – 1859) didn’t believe that trains could contribute much in speedy transport. He wrote: “Rail travel at high speed is not possible, because passengers ‘ would die of asphyxia’ [suffocation].” Today, trains reach speeds of 500 km/h.

Prediction on TV

In 1927, H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, asked, “Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?” In 1936, Radio Times editor Rex Lambert thought “Television won’t matter in your lifetime or mine.”

Prediction on Computers

In 1943, Thomas Watson, the chairman of IBM forecast a world market for “maybe only five computers.” Years before IBM launched the personal computer in 1981, Xerox had already successfully designed and used PCs internally… but decided to concentrate on the production of photocopiers. Even Ken Olson, founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, said in 1977, “There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.”

Predictions on IPod

After the invention of the transistor in 1947, several US electronics companies rejected the idea of a portable radio. Apparently it was thought nobody would want to carry a radio around. When Bell put the transistor on the market in 1952 they had few takers apart from a small Japanese start-up called Sony. They introduced the transistor radio in 1954. In 1894, A.A. Michelson, who with E.W. Morley seven years earlier experimentally demonstrated the constancy of the speed of light, said that the future of science would consist of “adding a few decimal places to the results already obtained.”

Prediction on The Beatles
In 1954, a concert manager fired Elvis Presley, saying, “You ought to go back to driving a truck.” In 1962, Decca Records rejected the Beatles, “We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.”

Predictions on Machines and Miniskirts
In 1966, Time Magazine predicted, “By 2000, the machines will be producing so much that everyone in the U.S. will, in effect, be independently wealthy.” In that year too CoCo Chanel said about miniskirts: “It’s a bad joke that won’t last. Not with winter coming.”

Prediction on Market Swing
Sometimes a few decimal places make a massive difference. Investment banks rely on computer models to direct trading activity; in August 2007, Goldman Sachs’s hedge funds and other quant funds were left exposed by a series of market swings, each of which their software predicted would occur only once every 100,000 years. Goldman Sachs required a $3 billion (€1.9 billion) bailout, with other banks joining the hand-out queue.


Perhaps the guy who got it wrong most was the commissioner of the US Office of Patents: in 1899, Charles H. Duell, assured President McKinley that “everything that can be invented has been invented.”

To prophesy is extremely difficult – especially with regard to the future – Chinese proverb

(Source : http://didyouknow.org/predictions/)

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Fikrah:-

1) Sometimes, It is tough to believe predictions from the Experts, especially when they have interest in particulars.

2) Sometimes, numbers also can be fluctuated and can be manipulated. Well, it still one of the method that help us to come out with a good prediction.

At least, it is much better than coming from an octopus!  

Melatih belia Islam

1) Muktamar Sanawi ABIM Selangor telah berlangsung dengan jayanya di dewan utama, Kolej Darul Hkmah (KDH), Sungai Ramal, Bangi. Program tahunan yang dilaksanakan pada 26 - 27 Jun 2010 yang lalu, diserikan dengan wacana pemikiran 'Badiuzzaman said Nursi', seorang tokoh reformis dan pemikir Turki. Menariknya, pada kali ini, 99% kehadiran adalah dari kalangan belia yang dengan erti kata 'di bawah umur 40 tahun'. Mungkin sejumlah besar abang-abang ABIM negeri Selangor harus ke Mesyuarat Koperasi Belia Islam (KBI) yang berlangsung pada hari yang sama.

2) Kehadiran adalah di tahap sederhana, namun masih boleh dibanggakan (sebagai langkah awal). Ini menunjukkan ABIM negeri Selangor harus memulakan langkah untuk menjana generasi penerus dengan lebih aktif dan progresif. Dasar ROY yang mendesak keahlian belia untuk terhad pada umur 40 tahun merupakan satu titik tolak untuk ABIM melakukan perubahan. Walaupun pencapaian kehadiran perwakilan dan pemerhati dilihat sederhana, jumlah ini sebenarnya amat memuaskan berbanding dengan persatuan-persatuan belia tertentu yang kononnya dilihat terkehadapan dalam isu ini. Pokok pangkalnya, usaha harus digiatkan dari sekarang untuk memantapkan lagi keberkesanan kepimpinan belia dalam ABIM. Kalau tidak tersangguk, kita mungkin tidak akan mengadah.

3) Usul yang dihantar oleh setiap daerah tidak menunjukkan ke'bitara'an belia yang seharusnya kritis dan kreatif dalam melihat permasalahan belia secara amnya. 2 daerah sahaja yang menghantar usul; mujur meliputi segala aspek aktivisme dan idealisme dalam hala tuju perjuangan ABIM. 8 Daerah lain? Harus lebih serius dalam menjanakan penggerak dalam masyarakat sedaya mungkin. Alasan ROY, mungkin boleh diterima pada tahun ini. Namun, adalah tidak relevan untuk tahun hadapan! Secara jujurnya, belia Islam harus lebih baik daripada ini.

4) Dalam tangga untuk meningkatkan rasa ukhuwah fillah, dalam rangka gerakan rantaian PEPIAS-ABIM-WADAH, kita bergerak dalam 1 jalan yang sama; 3 gerabak dalam 1 landasan. Potensi, darah panas, daya agresif yang ada pada anak muda PEPIAS, harus terus diletakkan dalam acuan yang telah ABIM bina; namun harus diingat, untuk tidak sesekali menyejukkan darah panas, darah muda itu hingga hilang sifat dan watak yang seharusnya ada pada anak muda. Biarkan mereka lakukan apa yang mereka seharusnya lakukan; Laju, Gelojoh, Terumbang-ambing, Beremosi tidak Stabil, dan lain-lain kebobrokan yang seangkatan dengannya adalah apa yang perlu dilalui untuk belajar menjadi Pemimpin. Peranan ABIM adalah Mentor; asalkan mereka tahu rujukan mereka dan segera kembali kepada landasan acuan ABIM.

5) Risiko membina adalah sebesar risiko memusnah. Hanya mereka yang kembali pada landasan acuan yang disediakan, akan membesar sebagai Pemimpin yang sebenar. Mereka berkata tentang kualiti. Seorang pemimpin, merangkap SU, merangkap Bendahari, merangkap AJK!. Ini bukan kualiti. Ini zero produktiviti. (bercakap tentang diri sendiri.. yang lain terkena, sama la kita) Pandangan dunia tentang melatih pemimpin, adalah bersifat jangka panjang. Mana adilnya; dalam sekelip mata, mahu dilahirkan pemimpin dalam kuantiti yang besar. Jika dalam setahun, 10 orang muda dilahirkan sebagai pemimpin, sudah lebih dari cukup untuk menggegarkan dunia bertahun-tahun. Itu kata Sukarno. Dan beliau telah membuktikannya. Mungkin modul Rasulullah SAW, boleh dijadikan model gerakan. Memadai dengan 2 orang sahabat rapat; 1 receptif (Abu Bakr), 1 agresif (Umar),  beserta 2 orang anak muda; 1 aktivis / ekstrovert (Ali), 1 idealis / introvert (Uthman) dalam satu pentarbiyahan yang berterusan. Lihat kesannya dalam menjadikan umat terus-terusan hebat dan melahirkan lebih ramai pejuang Islam sejati.

6) Melatih orang muda, tak kira belia-remaja (15-25), atau belia-dewasa (25-40), harus menjanakan suatu potensi dan risiko yang terlalu besar. Namun, hasil akhirnya nanti, adalah sangat berbaloi. Tidak mudah berasa serik, dan bersedia untuk tidak bersedia. Itu petua asas dalam berhadapan dengan orang muda. Satu lagi yang menjadi taruhan, adalah jiwa muda yang sentiasa harus segar dan bersaiz besar. Ini amat penting dalam mendalami hati-nurani orang muda. Impian dan harapan orang muda sifatnya dinamik, dan sangat kreatif, jauh dari jangkaan dan jangkauan kebanyakkan orang dewasa, terutama generasi yang beza umurnya melebihi 20 tahun dengan satu-satu susuk orang muda. Motivasi untuk meninggalkan generasi pewaris yang mampu meneroka dan membangunkan fungsi maksimum khalifah dengan berkesan perlu disegerakan tanpa rasa kecewa dan putus asa. Usah dibiarkan kelompongan dalam satu-satu generasi. Usah ditangisi kegagalan hari ini. Usah juga menuding pada sesiapa.

Yang tidur, kita kejutkan; Yang terperangkap dalam musim sejuk, barangkali mereka selesa di sana, tegur-tegurlah, mungkin sapaan kecil kita dapat mengetuk pintu hati mereka untuk bersama.Yang penting, adalah untuk terus bergerak kehadapan tanpa ragu dan gusar. Kita berada pada jalan yang benar. Yakin dan percayalah, di depan sana, ada cahaya yang akan mengakhiri terowong kegelapan ini. Teruskan perjalanan, dan teruskanlah melatih belia Islam.

Majority Malaysians feel powerless

KUALA LUMPUR, July 9 — A disconnect between the government and the public has resulted in a majority of Malaysians feeling powerless in bringing about change in the country, a new poll of voters has found.

A recent survey by the independent Merdeka Center showed that the majority of Malaysians felt that they were incapable of bringing positive reforms to the country.

According to the survey conducted from January to April this year, 66 per cent of some 3,000 respondents believed that they had no say over issues raised in the survey.

Issues touched on by the survey included those such as national unity, integrity, democratic participation, and affirmative action.

The outcome of the survey suggests that the Najib administration has yet to effectively convince the public on its key policies.

Since taking over the government in April last year, Datuk Seri Najib Razak has laid down various ambitious reform plans including the National Key Results Areas (NKRA), which aims to, among other targets, eradicate corruption and forge national unity.

Merdeka Center director Ibrahim Suffian speculated that the sense of being powerless could be the result of government’s failure to conduct programmes that reflect the wishes of the public.

“A lot of things that the government have been doing might not reflect what the people want,” Ibrahim told The Malaysian Insider.

“Despite being able to vote, the people do not see how they can exert influence on the leadership. In many places, they still feel disconnected from the leaders,” he added.

Ibrahim said the survey reflected the wishes for greater public consultation on public policy formulation.

The poll outcome also showed that the majority of Malaysians were sceptical about government spending ,with 53 per cent of respondents believing that public funds were not being spent prudently.

About 63 per cent of the respondents also believed that government assistance would not reach the needy.

The survey also revealed that 72 per cent of youths aged 19 to 24 were not interested in politics, while only 52 per cent of respondents above 50 took an interest.

However, democracy was not an issue that resonated among Malaysians, with just 27 per cent of the respondents listing “making the country more democratic” as the most important change they wanted to see in the country.

Improving the education system was the second most important issue, with 20 per cent of the respondents wishing for it to become world class.

(Source :http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/)

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Fikrah:-

1) Sekiranya masyarakat mahu pada perubahan, maka masyarakat itu harus merasakan perubahan yang dijanjikan oleh pemimpin, dan sekurang-kurangnya, merasai wawasan akibat perubahan yang mahu dikejar. Apabila tiada rasa punya tanggung-jawab terhadap apa-apa isu yang berlaku dalam negara, adalah mustahil untuk memberikan dan mengharapkan apa-apa perubahan kepada kebaikan. Malah, mungkin masyarakat ini akan merasakan perubahan juga... ya.. perubahan kepada keburukan.

2) Perkara paling berbahaya, adalah apabila 72% belia remaja tidak berminat dalam politik. Politik yang difahami oleh orang muda ini, barang kali adalah politik kepartian, politik ala Machivelli yang sudah tentunya akan menegakkan syiar yang jauh dari kebenaran; ala-ala apa yang dilihatkan pada hari ini. Ini adalah sangat membimbangkan kerana gambaran berpolitik sebegini adalah suatu yang falasi.

3) Orang muda harus dididik dengan Politik seperti yang di bawa oleh junjungan besar, Nabi Muhammad SAW, dan para sahabat. Kaedah berpolitik Islami ini sangat suci, murni, dan membawa ummah kepada kemajuan dunia dan akhirat, suatu perjalanan yang sukar, namun, itulah model suatu kerajaan Islam yang memaksimumkan potensi sebagai Khalifah Allah di atas muka bumi.

4) Apa akan berlaku pada masa depan? Yang ada kesedaran, nampaknya, harus berkerja dengan lebih keras!

The bubble burst

To the human eye the bursting of a bubble is a simple affair. One prod of a finger and - pop! - it’s vanished in a split second.

But as these breathtaking pictures show, the process is spectacular - if only we could see it.
These images were taken with a slow-motion camera to show every stage of the soap bubble’s disappearance.

Richard Heeks spent weeks capturing his images of the bursting of a bubble: This is how it begins.

A tiny prod with a fingertip and the delicate surface of the bubble is broken

Photographer Richard Heeks, from Exeter, used a fast shutter speed of 1/500th of a second and chose a perfect wind-free day so nothing would disturb his shoot, while his wife Sarah provided the all-important finger.
A bubble is made up of three layers - one thin layer of water sandwiched between two layers of soap molecules.
As Mrs Heeks’s finger breaks the surface tension, the perfect sphere is replaced by a round mass of soapy droplets which dissolve into the air. And the bubble is gone.
Mr Heeks, a student, used a macro camera to get in close and had to wait patiently for a windless day.
He even had to find a sheltered spot in his garden so any sudden gust would not disturb the shoot.

As the droplets begin to fall away only a small part of the bubble’s surface is left intact

It took him a month until he got the sequence right after seeing his nieces playing with bubble mixture.

‘I was looking ideas for new things to photograph and I just thought the bubbles looked beautiful and with a bit of luck I managed to get one mid burst,’ he said.

‘That’s what started it off.

‘One day I was so absorbed in the project I didn’t notice a group of builders watching me. I think I must have looked a bit of an idiot, but maybe they thought it was fascinating. Who knows, because I got embarrassed and scuttled back into the house.’

A bubble is actually made up of three layers - one thin layer of water sandwiched between two layers of soap molecules. No matter what the shape the bubble is initially, it will always try to become a sphere because it as the smallest surface area and requires the least amount of energy to achieve. The biggest bubble ever blown was 50 feet by 2 feet in diameter. It was achieved by David Stein from New York in 1988.

Issues in Education System

Muhyiddin has his hands full

ON THE BEAT
By WONG CHUN WAI

The Education Minister has to tackle a lot of issues in the present education system, besides deciding on whether to abolish exams.

LET’S not rush into abolishing the Ujian Pencapian Sekolah Rendah (UPSR) and Penilaian Menengah Rendah (PMR) examinations until we’ve heard the views of everyone. The issue is not about whether the majority wants it but what’s the right thing to do even if it was the minority’s views.

It is reassuring to hear from Education Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin that he would hold a round-table discussion to allow stakeholders to deliberate on whether the two examinations should be scrapped.

He has said the views of all quarters including teachers and parents had been gathered, adding that he had received overwhelming response to the proposal to replace the two public examinations with a school-based assessment system.

Muyhiddin is right in stating that the consensus among Malaysian parents is that our students are overloaded with examinations. The schoolbags have been getting heavier. The media have already reported on how these bags could damage the backs of our students but nothing much has really changed.

Most parents would agree that the fun has been taken out of schooling. Students have little time for anything after school except tuition classes while sports is hardly on the priority list.

Yet, there seems to be some apprehension over the proposal to do away with the two exams.

Really, a Year Six student should not be facing exam pressure at that age. In most countries, and especially those in Europe, taking exams at an early age is unheard of.

This uncertainty among parents could be due to the fact that they have seen so much backtracking – a more polite word for flip-flop decisions – in the past.

Every new Education Minister seems to be eager to leave their mark behind and even if their decisions come with the best of intentions, they could be disruptive to our students if they are changed every few years.

We have tried teaching Mathematics and Science in English. Every politician seems to have commended the move when it was implemented but these same politicians would find more reasons to argue against it later. It makes Malaysians wonder why these politicians did not have the hindsight of all these arguments before the decision was made.

So, the students are now back to square one – learning these two subjects in their mother tongues.

When Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim was Education Minister, he imposed the tongue-twisting Bahasa Baku. Every newscaster seemed eager to please Anwar then with the best and correct pronunciation, even if an hour after the news bulletin, P. Ramlee was speaking a different kind of Bahasa in a movie.

Muhyiddin could be right. Without these exams, the media could stop highlighting the top scorers. Over the years, the media have in fact started to feel that we should not be promoting such an exam-oriented culture.

So many Malaysian students seem to be able to score so many distinctions that many are asking whether their strings of As accurately reflect their capabilities. Many employers who have interviewed these scorers have the right to be sceptical because for many a distinction in English for the Sijil Persekolahan Menengah (SPM), for example, is really a D in the days of the Malaysia Certificate of Education (MCE) of the 70s.

Put simply, our standards have plunged. We have compromised on our grading. Many school leavers and graduates are unable to speak and write proper English but they believe they are proficient because they have passed the exams.

Worse, there is a false sense of confidence and hope among our students, thus the demand for places in universities.

Many students seeking to enter international schools in Malaysia and boarding schools overseas have found themselves failing the entrance examinations. This has come as a rude jolt because many of them are from well-to-do families and speak English at home.

The entry point into a prestigious British university such as Oxford, the London School of Economics or the University College of London is only a maximum three distinctions. They do not need a Malaysian with 14As but the rules are rigid and the standards high.

There is also a serious lack of analytical and communications skills among our students but that is also partly because our teachers, the product of our education system, have failed miserably in these areas.

Many students are ill-prepared for working life, unable to write a proper e-mail to apply for a job or to express oneself at interviews. Many employers in the private sector have long expressed their frustrations and alarm at this state of affairs.

Muhyiddin is aware of these problems. It would appear that he wants to end the examination culture, the long teaching hours, the endless tuition classes and homework.

The education system seriously needs fixing. This could be a first step but he needs to clearly comb out the problems, point out the priorities and tackle them one by one because there is so much that is wrong with the system.

Malaysians want him to succeed, to get it right, so that there will be no need to shift gear midway. It is all right to seek more views before implementing them because our students should not be guinea pigs for any decision.

(Source :http://thestar.com.my/)