FORBIDDEN FRUIT
The Fatwa Against Women Touching Bananas And Other Stupid Islamic Orders
ASRA Q. NOMANI12.11.112:40 AM ET
There is an interesting headline moving through Muslim community listservs: “Did an Islamic cleric really ban women from touching bananas and cucumbers?”
This past week, an email pinged around the world, claiming that a Muslim cleric “residing in Europe” issued a, well, interesting fatwa, or religious ruling, banning Muslim women from touching bananas or cucumbers: “He said that these fruits and vegetables ‘resemble the male penis’ and hence could arouse women or ‘make them think of sex,’” according to a report in a supposed Egyptian website, BikyaMasr. The Times of India ran the story: “Islamic cleric bans women from touching bananas.”
“If women wish to eat these food items, a third party, preferably a male related to them such as their a father or husband, should cut the items into small pieces and serve,” the cleric supposedly dictated.
It’s hard to confirm that the fatwa is true, but the fact that we, in the Muslim community, would even think it’s possible is a reflection of just how inane the phenomenon of fatwas has become in the Muslim community. The idea of the fatwa became notorious when an Iranian cleric called for the killing of author Salman Rushdie when he published the novel The Satanic Verses, about an erased portion in the Koran supposedly inspired by the Devil.
The fatwas used to carry the authority of divine ordination. But the years since have revealed that, indeed, there is nothing to fear—or revere—about the fatwa. In fact, nowadays, you can get a fatwa to validate any point you want to make. I call it “fatwa shopping.”
One American-Muslim blogger, Sheila Musaji, concluded the fatwa was “only shoddy reporting,” but admitted there have been enough “stupid fatwas” to “make anything easy to believe.” Another blogger tried to chase down the truth, writing: “That’s some pretty good flame-bait, but is it legit?” The BikyaMasr website credited “el-Senousa news,” but the blogger wrote, “Good luck finding it,” concluding that “the tale of the vegetable-fearing Mullah is starting to look a little short on authenticity.”
Before the story became just another apocryphal tale like the ones that emerge from the Onion, the satire magazine that makes up news, the e-trail to the original story was clarified. Sunday, after unprecedented attention to the bikyamasr.com website, an email shot out from a man identifying himself as the site’s editor, Joseph Mayton, apologizing for the mixup, correcting the original Egyptian media outlet that reported the “cucumber sheikh” as
and linking to the original story in Arabic. In an editorial, Mayton said that “the article should not have run when it did. Arguably, it should not have been run at all.” Most importantly, lest we wonder, bikyamasr.com ran an important followup story, “Cucumber sheikh ‘far from the truth,’ says Egypt Islamic leader,” Sheikh Gaber Taye’ Youssef, chairman of Egypt’s Religious Endowments Ministry—no pun intended, of course. The Islamic scholar was quoted saying, “God says in the Holy Qur’an ‘eat and drink from what we have granted you.’”
True or not, the possibility of such a fatwa underscores the long Ridiculist of fatwas, to borrow CNN host Anderson Cooper’s nightly feature of news stories of the absurd. “That cleric is an idiot,” one Muslim wrote. “But what am I going to do now? I eat lots of bananas because I am vegetarian,” wrote Farzana Hassan, a progressive Canadian-Muslim leader.
Accused admitted to theft that led to Low Yat riot, court told
Yes…. Protect THIEVES’ Honor!!!
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The Kuala Lumpur Magistrate’s Court was told that the accused who allegedly stole a mobile phone at Low Yat Plaza, admitted to the offence when questioned after the incident.
Chief security guard at Low Yat Plaza, Kamarudin Shariff, 55, said the accused, Shahrul Anuar Abdul Aziz, who was caught by members of the public at the mall, admitted to stealing the mobile phone when interrogated in his office.
He said, he then ordered the accused to remove all items which were in his possession including the mobile phone allegedly stolen, but the phone was not with him.
“Instead, the accused only took out money amounting to RM1.60 from his pants pocket. He failed to produce his identity card on the grounds that he lost it when he was robbed the previous day,” he said during examination-in-chief by deputy public prosecutor R Siamalah.
Kamarudin is the fourth prosecution witness to testify in the trial of unemployed Shahrul Anuar Abdul Aziz, 22, who was charged with stealing a mobile phone worth RM800 at Techasia Boutique, Low Yat Plaza, Bukit Bintang, at 4.47pm last July 11.
Shahrul Anuar (photo) was charged under Section 380 of the Penal Code which carries imprisonment of up to 10 years and a fine, if found guilty.
Kamarudin who has served the mall for the past two years, said he then contacted the Dang Wangi police headquarters for further action.
When asked about the incident, Kamarudin said he saw a salesman from Techasis Boutique, See Ming Ho, helping to arrest the accused when the latter fell in front of an escalator while running to escape from the shop.
He said the salesman told him that the accused came to the shop to purchase a Lenovo phone worth RM800, but took the phone when he turned his back.
During cross-examination by lawyer Nur Hayati Don Omar, representing the accused, Kamarudin agreed that he did not submit all copies of the closed circuit television (CCTV) recordings including the scene of the incident to the police.
He said there were more than 200 CCTVs in the plaza, and he knew where the CCTVs were positioned.
Besides Nur Hayati, the accused is represented by three other lawyers, Mohammad Yahya Zakaria, Tan Sri Abdul Aziz Abdul Rahman and Mohd Khairul Azam Abdul Aziz.
The hearing before Magistrate Nur’Aminahtul Mardiah Md Nor continues tomorrow
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Marriage between Muslim and non-Muslim illegal, says Jakim
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 27 — Any marriage between a Muslim and a non-Muslim is disallowed and is not recognised in this country and action can be taken by the state Islamic religious authorities, said Malaysian Islamic Development Department (Jakim) director-general Datuk Othman Mustapha.
He said Islamic family laws state no Muslim man can marry a non-Muslim woman and no Muslim woman can marry a non-Muslim man.
“A marriage between spouses of different religions is completed prohibited and against the principle of beliefs of the Shafie sect (Ahli Sunnah Wal Jamaah) in Malaysia,” he said in a statement here today.
He was commenting on a Universiti Malaya study on the issue of liberalism in Muslim marriages with non-Muslim spouses not having to convert from their religions.
Two days ago, Universiti Malaya Academy of Islamic Studies, Department of Akidah and Islamic Thought Associate Prof Dr Khadijah Hambali told religious authorities in the country to carry out specific measures to curb the phenomenon. — Bernama
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Wanita MCA: Return children to Indira Gandhi now
PETALING JAYA: Wanita MCA has chided PAS Youth for saying that the Court of Appeal ruling on the Indira Gandhi case was a success for Islam.
Its chairman Datuk Heng Seai Kie (pic) said despite the devastating ruling by the Court of Appeal, PAS “persistently aggravates the injustice” and asked if the party “is unable to respect the rights of Indira Gandhi to raise her minor children in the common faith at the time of their birth?”
She was responding to PAS Youth deputy chief Khalil Abdul Hadi who reportedly said that the “court decision is a success for Islam and a victory for the religion against the evil that is promoted by the liberals."
Heng questioned if PAS, in particular its next generation of leaders, was capable of articulating any intellectual discourse based on the law and evidence.
“The only argument PAS can muster is a sweeping holier-than-thou statement of ’evil-by-liberals-insulting-Islam,’ dearth of logic to silence alternative views.
“PAS deliberately ignores the spirit of the law, the rights of the non-converting spouse and conveniently turning blind to the ex-spouse to unilaterally convert the minor children without informing Indira or his children.
“Is the father really spreading Islam or exploiting the Syariah court and Jabatan Agama Islam Perak to gain an upper hand on the children’s custody by making them Muslims?” she said.
The Court of Appeal last week, in a majority decision, ruled that Indira Gandhi’s case was a religious matter under the Syariah Court and not within the civil court’s jurisdiction.
Heng said PAS must clarify its view as to how Indira Gandhi’s yearning to be reunited with her last born child constitutes an “evil by liberals.”
She said the crux of the issue was that of justice and human rights for a mother who longs for an end from the separation from her daughter.
She said the issue was one of seeking a solution on cases of wayward parents who embrace Islam and then take advantage of religious authorities and the Syariah court to circumvent and even discard civil laws and the rights of the non-convert spouse.
“At no material time at all is there any challenge or insult to Islam, a religion grounded on justice, mercy and compassion and exalts the position of mothers.
“Why is PAS unable to respect the rights of Indira Gandhi to raise her minor children in the common faith at the time of their birth?
“Is this part of PAS’ grandiose plan to turn Malaysia into a theocratic state whereby the Federal Constitution, the supreme law of the law is relegated as inferior to PAS’ intended hudud enactments?”
Muslim women can’t freeze their eggs before marriage, says fatwa
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This is soooo stoooopid. Men can have 5 wives and 72 virgins but women can’t freeze eggs.
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 7 — Muslim women in Malaysia are forbidden by a fatwa to freeze their eggs before marriage.
Shariah law only allows a woman’s eggs to be fertilised by her husband’s sperm. Thus, freezing her eggs for social purposes is not allowed, said fertility expert Dr Natasha Ain Mohd Nor.
“A fatwa has been established for Muslim women, where freezing their eggs before marriage is not permissible,” she told Bernama. “However, after marriage, they can freeze their eggs provided they be fertilised by the sperm of the husband.”
Dr Natasha said egg freezing in Islam was only encouraged if the woman is unable to conceive naturally due to a medical condition, and not for social reasons where young single women freeze their eggs to become pregnant later on in life.
Asked what the current thinking was among Muslim women in Malaysia on egg freezing, she said: “They haven’t caught up with the idea as it is very expensive. Egg freezing could cost a woman between RM15,000 and RM17,000.” Dr Natasha, who works at the KL Fertility Centre, said Muslim women who opted to freeze their eggs were usually those with life-threatening illnesses such as cancer.
“Muslim women wishing to freeze their eggs do it for medical purposes. But this is still a very small minority,” she said.
“These women are usually undergoing chemotherapy. They are referred by their doctor to a fertility expert to assist them freeze their eggs as an option should they later decide to have children.”
Asked whether there were other reasons for Muslim women seeking to freeze their eggs, Dr Natasha said she had helped freeze the eggs of Muslim women whose husbands could not produce enough sperm.
“What happens is that we freeze the woman’s eggs, and then give the husband a day or two to produce the sperm to fertilise them.” Dr Natasha encouraged women in general not to delay pregnancy, saying egg freezing was not a 100 per cent guarantee that they would conceive. “Egg freezing is an option, but the likelihood of the woman becoming pregnant is not 100 per cent guaranteed,” she said.
“If a woman wants to freeze her eggs, she is encouraged to do so in her early 30s while she still has enough eggs. In her 40s, it would be difficult.” Dr Natasha said a woman’s eggs could last five to 10 years after they were frozen.
“Therefore, it would be advisable for a woman who wants to delay pregnancy to see a gynaecologist and have a full health assessment to know about the fertility of her eggs.” — Bernama
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Man with knife killed by Paris police on anniversary of Charlie Hebdo attacks
(CNN)Paris, on edge after weathering a year of jihadist violence, faced a fresh scare Thursday as police shot dead a knife-wielding man on the anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo attacks.
An image of the ISIS flag, printed on paper, was found on the man’s body, along with a handwritten note in Arabic from him claiming responsibility for the attack, the Paris prosecutor’s office said in a statement. The office’s anti-terror section is investigating.
The man, whose identity is not known, was shot as he attempted to enter a police station in the northern Paris neighborhood of Barbes, bearing a butcher’s knife and yelling “Allahu Akbar,” the statement said. He was carrying a fake explosive device, it said.
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said at a press conference that investigations were underway to determine the identity of the attacker and his motivations.
“In a country where the threat level is extremely high, the police and gendarmerie are on the front lines,” he said. “I’d like to thank them for their very great courage … and their commitment to protect the French people.”
The attempted attack took place at 11:30 a.m., the Paris prosecutor’s office said – a year to the minute since the Charlie Hebdo killings, the first of a spate of deadly jihadist attacks that have roiled the French capital over the past 12 months.
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In those attacks, two gunmen killed 12 people at the offices of the French satirical magazine, which had angered Islamists for its irreverent approach to Islam and publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
Two more attacks – one against a police officer and another that included a hostage-taking at a kosher supermarket – brought the final death toll to 17.
On high alert against the jihadist threat since then, France suffered an even greater blow November 13 when 130 people were killed in Paris in coordinated attacks on a concert hall, bars, restaurants and a sports stadium. ISIS claimed responsibility.
In the aftermath, French President Francois Hollande declared that the country was at war with the terror group and set about strengthening international efforts to strike ISIS on territory it controls in Syria and Iraq.
Caroline Fourest, former journalist at Charlie Hebdo, responded like many Parisians with weary resignation to Thursday’s attempt – a reflection that such incidents had become “the new normal” in France over the past year.
“We know that ISIL or al Qaeda is encouraging (such attacks) in Europe, not only in France,” she told CNN, using another name for ISIS. “So we’re fortunate to see when those attacks are failing.”
Europe was “just at the beginning” of weathering the threat from jihadism, she said.
“We know that it’s going to be this way for the next years as long as the people who are giving orders from Syria are not disconnected.”
She said the work of her former colleagues was badly missed on such occasions.
“We are missing them, but we’re missing their cartoons too, to laugh a little bit.”
In the aftermath of the shooting, a heavy security presence was in force at the scene near the police station in Goutte D’Or in the 18th arrondissement.
Officers advised residents to remain indoors and attempted to clear the area. At the Polyvalent de la Goutte d’Or, a school on the same street as the police station, students were confined in the building, school director Eric Denis told CNN.
Parisians, already wary on a highly sensitive anniversary, were left to speculate about the attacker’s motivations: whether he was a lone wolf, a disturbed individual or possibly the first wave of the kind of coordinated attacks that struck in November.
Terrorism expert Jean-Charles Brisard, president of the Center for Analysis of Terrorism, noted the attack occurred in the 18th arrondissement, which could have a symbolic connection to the ISIS-claimed November attacks
The terror group’s claim of responsibility for those killings referred to an operation in the 18th arrondissement, but none occurred there. That statement, along with a reference to eight attackers when there had only been seven, led to speculation an eighth jihadist had planned an attack in the district but backed out.
Regis Le Sommier, co-editor of Paris Match magazine, said he was inclined to think the latest attack was self-directed, rather than coordinated by the central command of ISIS or another terror group, since it took place on the anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo assault.
Since 9/11, he said, jihadists had not shown any particular interest in striking on the anniversaries of terror attacks despite the sensitivities around the dates. “That probably makes me think that he decided to do it on his own,” he told CNN.
CNN’s Niki Cook, Saskya Vandoorne, Greg Botelho, Kristie Lu Stout, Margot Haddad, Alexander Felton and Lindsay Isaac contributed to this report.
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Jakarta blasts: ‘A loud bang boom, it felt like an earthquake’
Fuck these Jihadis, hope they die a fucking painful death for nothing
JAKARTA: An eyewitness told reporters he had seen a “terrorist“ repeatedly shooting at bystanders, including a local journalist.
Ruli Koestaman, 32, who had been in a meeting in a nearby building, said the attack started around 10:35am (0335 GMT).
“Then I heard a loud bang, boom. It felt like an earthquake. We all went downstairs,” he said.
“We then saw that the Starbucks downstairs was destroyed too. I saw a foreigner – westerner, a man – with a mangled hand but alive.
“A Starbucks waiter then ran out with blood coming out of his ear. And I asked anyone hurt inside, he said yes, one. Dead already.
“Then everybody gathered and a terrorist appeared. He had a gun and started shooting at us and then at Starbucks. Then the police post… exploded.”
Koestaman said the attacker shot at a reporter who was at the scene.
“Police then started to shoot at the guy, who kept reloading his gun. And then there was another explosion. Then shootings.”
The blasts - at least six, according to eyewitnesses - were close to a shopping centre, the Sarinah.
Graphic photographs from the scene showed the bloodied bodies of what appeared to be two men in civilian clothes lying by the side of a road next to the wrecked police post.
Another body, also apparently male, dressed in black was pictured lying on his back in the centre of the street while another, almost naked, lay nearby.
Police initially said that the explosions were caused by bombs but later said the cause was unclear.
“This is not a suicide bomb. Based on witness account at the police post it was something that was thrown, whether it was a grenade or a bomb we still haven’t been able to confirm,” Charliyan told Metro TV.
He said at least one attacker, or perhaps two, fled afterwards on a motorbike.
The area is home to a number of embassies, including those of the United States, France and Spain. A number of United Nations agencies are also housed nearby.
Gunfire and explosions in Jakarta killed at least four people Thursday.
Witnesses said a powerful blast ripped through a Starbucks cafe in the city centre - near a cluster of embassies and United Nations offices - and a nearby police post was badly damaged.
At least one gunman fired repeatedly at bystanders, reloading his weapon as police flooded the streets, they said.
Badly mangled bodies were seen lying on the road as security forces moved in behind the cover of moving vehicles, with regular bursts of gunfire and warnings of a sniper in the area.
“Four people died, one police officer and three civilians,” national police spokesman Anton Charliyan told AFP.
“For now the gunfire has stopped but they are still on the run, we are afraid there will be more gunshots.”
Officers at the scene told AFP reporters to “get back” because there “is a sniper” on the roof of a building.
Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country, suffered several major bomb attacks by Islamic radicals between 2000 and 2009, including the 2002 strike on the resort island of Bali that killed 202 people.
A security crackdown weakened the most dangerous extremist networks, leading to a long lull in large-scale strikes.
However, the emergence of Islamic State raised concern that Indonesians returning from Middle East battlefields could stage attacks on home soil. - AFP
‘Pakatan Harapan cannot defend Malays’, says Umno division chief
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KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 14, 2016:
The Pakatan Harapan opposition pact is incapable of defending the position of the Malays and Islam in the country, says a prominent Umno politician.
Cheras Umno division chief Datuk Seri Syed Ali Alhabshee also questioned whether the pact would be able to defend the Malays, claiming that PKR and DAP were parties that were responsible for triggering divisiveness among the Malays who were baited with racially-tinged political propaganda.
“Since its formation, PKR has not cared for the interests of the Malays while DAP is a racist party that has always doubted and challenged the position of the Malays in the country.
“The widening cracks among the Malays and Muslims is becoming more and more apparent with the Opposition’s political gaming which is driven by the lust for power with the playing up of racial and religious sentiments.
“PH does not have any relation to the struggle among Malays as the collective is a political pact that is too frail and wants to gain power,” he said in a blog posting today.
He said this in response to PKR secretary-general Rafizi Ramli’s statement at a forum in Petaling Jaya last night.
At the forum, the Pandan MP said the Opposition pact had pledged to continue placing the interests and position of the Malays and Islam at the centre of its cause after admitting that the matter was not given due attention during the last election.
Syed Ali, who is the Federal Territories Umno Liason Committee Secretary, added that Rafizi’s statement was merely a political gimmick that was meant to attract the attention of the general public.
He said this only meant that the Opposition had realised that the Malays had centred their support towards Umno as the ruling party.
“Since its formation, Umno had placed the position and future of the Malays as the core of its struggle while Islam would be defended.
“On the basis and confidence, Umno until today has been a large part of the way of living and culture for the Malays, Umno is the flesh and blood in the lives of the Malays.”
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THE MALAY NOUVEAU RICHE: OF BLING BLINGS, GRAND PIANOS THAT NO ONE PLAYS & MILLION RINGGIT OFFERS
Watching these three videos, one will almost be nauseated by the flaunting of materialistic wealth. However, one must give it to them for having become millionaires through sheer hardwork in their businesses which cater to the millions of Malay women who give priority to their health and beauty.
I am talking of three millionaires (probably billionaires?) — Datuk Aliff Shukri of D’Herbs Terlajak Laris, Datuk Dr Hasmiza Othman (known as Datuk Vida) of Qu Puteh, Erni Dekritawati Yuliana Buhari (known as Rita Sosilawati) of Nouvelle Beauty — who have become social media sensations after videos of their wealth became viral.
Although for many non-Malays, these names are almost unknown. These are the biggest players in the Malaysian cosmetic industry with their health and beauty supplement which Malay women are swearing by.
Their products — comprising health supplements, jamu, anti-collagen and whitening products — are sold in thousands of small outlets nationwide.
In an Astro Awani programme titled Terlajak Putih Nampak, host Datuk Aznil Nawawi amazingly manages to get these three competitors to open up their personal mansions (more like palaces) to the public and display everything.
The videos are three parts, Part 1, Part II and Part III and are viral now in the social media.
As they rattle off brand names such as Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Piguet, Fendi, DSV and many others, the three claim that they did so to “encourage those who want to make it in the business world to emulate them”.
The host throughout the show digs at the three but they seemed unfazed and are more interested to show off their blings which not only dazzles but blinds.
The interesting thing however is the mentality with which they buy things. The worldly material that they cherish and boast of such as hundreds of branded handbags, shoes and rings may evoke envy of certain handbag collectors in the country.
They even buy stuff which they do not use. In one case, Aliff has a watch costing hundreds of thousands of ringgit which he could not even pronounce the brand.
“They have a list of most expensive watches and I will buy all brands on that list. It gives me satisfaction,” says Aliff.
Two of them - Aliff and Vida - have pianos costing RM100,000 in their houses but no one plays it.
“In the Malay dramas, the expensive houses have pianos, so I also bought one. But no one plays it,” says Aliff.
Also, Aliff stands out as the one more attached to his worldly stuff as he logs and keeps the price tags on all things he has bought in his RM22 million mansion - even the chandeliers.
Rita keeps insisting that she does not want to show everything and cooks herself with the help of three maids looking after her children. She also states that she goes to normal hair salons to get her hair done, to which the host quips she is a miser.
All of them, interestingly, dotes on their wealth and bling-blings but insists that they are also catering to their hereafter.
Aliff, without batting an eyelid, says he is one of the biggest zakat payers in the country, while Vida says she is working on setting up a religious school in the name of her two late sons who perished in a fire three years back.
Rita has her boys running around and says that she tries to live a simple life like others, to which the host quips “no one simply lives like this”.
Although the worldly materials which they have collected in their palaces are indeed “overpowering” to the senses of normal Malaysians, it proves the adage that in Malaysia, if one does work hard, one can be rich — no need to be corrupt or take from the poor. -
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Neighbour says Malaysian brothers who became suicide bombers were friendly
File picture of a bombing in Iraq. A neighbour claimed that two Malaysian brothers who joined the Islamic State and became suicide bombers were friendly and never talked about the Islamic State. — Reuters pic -
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 14 — Two brothers, who were reported to have been involved in suicide bombings in Iraq, were known as friendly people.
Shocked by the news of their deaths recently, a neighbour, who declined to be named, said Mohamad Shazwan Mohd Salim, 31, and his brother Muhamad Shazani Mohd Salim, 28, would greet him when they bumped into each other.
“The older brother was affable, the younger brother was quite short-spoken, but still friendly, they would say hello whenever we met,” he told Bernama when met here, today.
Mohamad Shazwan, who carried out the mission on January 3, was one of seven suicide bombers to infiltrate a police training centre at the Speicher military base, about 160km north of Baghdad, Iraq.
Muhamad Shazani was reportedly killed in a suicide mission on September 18 last year in Bayji, northern Iraq.
Defence Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein had confirmed the death of the two brothers and another suicide bomber, a 26-year-old Mohd Amirul Ahmad Rahim from Terengganu.
“I saw the news about the suicide bombers on TV, but never thought that they were my neighbours.
“No wonder I have not seen them for a long time,” said the neighbour, who recognised the brothers’ faces from the pictures in media reports.
He said the brothers had not shown any signs that they were involved in extremist activities ever since they knew each other more than seven years ago.
“In fact, they had never talked about Daesh or tried to influence me to join them.
“Their appearances were normal, dressing like normal people and so were their family members,” he said.
He believed that they were not influenced by their friends as there were not many people of their age who lived in the neighbourhood.
“They will not act that foolish. I think maybe they were sponsored to go there,” he said.
Meanwhile, Bernama checks on the family house found that it was locked. — Bernama
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