No couple seats for you, Perak cinema tells unmarried Muslims
The Lotus Five Star cinema in Seri Iskandar had issued the ban following ‘advice’ from the Perak Tengah Municipal Council.
KUALA LUMPUR, July 21 — A cinema outlet has banned unmarried Muslims from selecting couple seats when frequenting its outlets in Perak, according to a report today by news portal Astro Awani.
The report said that the Lotus Five Star (LFS) cinema in Seri Iskandar, a township with several tertiary education institutions, had issued the ban following “advice” from the Perak Tengah Municipal Council.
“Couples who are not mahram are not allowed to sit in couple seats,” said a notice in Malay issued by the cinema, in a photo that has since been circulated online.
Mahram, also pronounced muhrim in Malay, is a concept in Shariah law that refers to unmarriageable kin, such as blood relatives.
Awani also reported that the cinema, which has 12 couple seats, had kept the ban in force from as far back as two years ago when it first opened its doors.
It is unknown what by-law authorises the council to advise LFS’s management to implement the ban.
It is also unclear how the cinema enforces the ban or what action will be taken for those who defy the ban.
Malay Mail Online cannot yet reach LFS or the council for verification.
LFS operates over 25 cinemas across the country, and is popularly known for showing Hindi and Tamil films.
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These people pray so much to their deity until no brains liao….
After BigBang show, Islamist group claims DAP hand-in-glove with K-pop stars on Christian agenda
Isma had previously protested against highly-popular K-pop boyband BigBang ahead of its concert here last weekend. — Picture courtesy of IME Productions
KUALA LUMPUR, July 27 — Malaysia’s opposition DAP is working closely with Korean pop artistes who are using their concerts as a front to spread Christianity while chipping away at the Muslim faith, Islamist group Ikatan Muslimin Malaysia (Isma) claimed today.
The group had previously protested against highly-popular K-pop boyband BigBang ahead of its concert here last weekend, but which went off without a hitch.
“DAP which is close to the evangelists would surely support the concerts, just like how they previously supported a beer festival, even when the practice is detrimental to the public and was rejected by the majority of Malaysians,” Omar Kassim, who chairs Isma’s missionary bureau, said on the group’s website.
“However, they protest against good things such as making couple seats in cinema only for married couples, to prevent immodest acts. DAP’s action only shows how afraid it is of Islam becoming stronger in Malaysia,” he added.
Omar also claimed K-pop concerts “bring joy” but are actually “anti-Islam” and would allegedly destroy the Muslim community in the country.
He claimed K-pop artistes recite text from the Bible during concerts and invite their fans to attend church, but did not provide any proof to back his allegations.
This is not the first time Isma has accused K-pop groups of using their concerts as a front for evangelical missions.
In January, Isma had claimed that K-pop artistes from the Christian-majority nation may be using their music to covertly spread the religion.
Isma alleged that many K-Pop artistes are secretly “church activists” and have been directly involved in proselytisation programmes abroad.
The article provided no evidence to support Isma’s assertions other than excerpts and quotes from a blog run by A. Karim Omar — the secretary-general of another Malay NGO Pertubuhan Muafakat Sejahtera Malaysia.
BigBang held a two-day concert in Kuala Lumpur over the weekend for the Asian leg of its world tour, drawing over 15,000 attendees each night.
Prior to the concert, Isma’s student wing National Muslim Youth Association (Pembina) had launched a campaign calling for the cancellation of BigBang’s concert, and banning of K-pop concerts in general.
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Catfished! Girls Scam ISIS on Social Media for Travel Money
Three girls turned the tables on ISIS recruiters. (Photo: Jaber al-Helo/AP)
If you’re low on funds for that big vacation, you could always ask to borrow money, make a Kickstarter campaign… or swindle a couple of Islamic State recruiters. It may not be the safest way to make money, but that’s what three girls from Chechnya, a Russian republic in southeastern Europe, did.
The Chechen girls are under investigation for fraud after they allegedly scammed ISIS members into giving them money on the pretense that they would use it to travel from their homeland to Syria. The ladies got away with $3,300 before being discovered, according to RT News.
The ISIS members allegedly reached out to the girls’ social media accounts, asking the girls to join the militant cause. The young women kept in contact with the ISIS members and even sent fake pictures to string them along.
Related: Requiem for History: Rare Look at What ISIS Destroyed in Iraq
After the ISIS members wired the money, the girls closed down their accounts, stopped all communication, and kept the windfall. The con artists had no intention of actually leaving the country, though one admitted that she used to consider joining.
“I don’t recall any precedent like this one in Chechnya, probably because nobody digs deep enough in that direction,” police officer Valery Zolotaryov told a local Chechen newspaper. “Anyhow, I don’t advise anyone to communicate with dangerous criminals, especially for grabbing quick money,” he added. Wise advise.
Related: Did ISIS Hack Its Way Into Paradise?
The girls’ (totally illegal) stunt isn’t the first of its kind. RT News reported that sometimes men create fake accounts, pretending to be females, with the same ISIS-swindling intentions.
The Islamic State often targets Muslim communities, like Chechnya, in Europe and the United States to recruit people who are willing to inflict acts of terrorism on their own soil. Members have been said to use social media to get a wide reach of followers and find those who will agree to commit violence. Often women are the ones cheated during these arrangements, as they are married off to fighters and often become victims of sexual abuse, Mirror reports.
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Why can’t women wear short skirts? — Kabberi Dutta
JULY 23 — Having grown up as a Malaysian Indian girl, who studied at an International school in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, I have been exposed to many different cultures and perspectives, which I am grateful for.
However, as a result of various exposures, I have come to find certain faults in Malaysian society that, although I do my best to understand and respect, urge me to question these ‘rules’.
Before I explain, I’m not biased against my own culture- Western culture too has many faults, some of which are more extreme (in different ways) than our own, but as a Malaysian, I feel more passionate and justified discussing my own culture.
There’s no avoiding the recent surge in the policing of women’s attires, from the woman who was required to cover her legs with a towel to visit a relative in hospital to the two women who were made to wear sarongs to cover the skirt that was barely above their knees.
As a teenage-cum-woman, I was already disgraced at the attitudes of these institutions that forced these women to cover up their bodies, thus humiliating them, but it wasn’t until my own experience with body policing that I felt the need to speak up.
Earlier this morning, I went to the Damansara Public Library to study for my exams- dressed in a long shirt and a short skirt (admittedly, well above my knees).
After sitting down at a table for a brief ten minutes, I was handed a notice highlighting the dress code for the library and although I wasn’t instructed to leave, my embarrassment caused me to quietly pack my things and return home.
I have multiple issues with this including the double standard that is in place when enforcing such rules as well as the reasoning itself behind dress codes for women. Before I elaborate, I’d like to highlight my reason for wearing the short skirt that was at the brunt of this issue.
As many are aware, growing up as a teenage girl is widely known to be filled with pressures from peers and society itself. Society places pressures on girls to conform to a certain image: in Western cultures, it’s always shifting but the current pressure is to look quite similar to Kim Kardashian — curvy with a full bum and breasts.
In Malaysian society, it’s more of the opposite — girls are expected to dress modestly and not show off excess skin by wearing revealing clothing.
What with all the external influences we are exposed to, being comfortable in one’s own skin has become increasing hard to do.
The statistics alone for eating disorders represents this — since the 1960’s, the number of emergence of eating disorders has doubled.
Shockingly, the age at which one becomes vulnerable to these pressures is continuously getting lower- reports have shown that an increasing number of children have fallen in to eating disorders at ages as young as six.
This article, however, is not to do with the pressures of image as a girl, however (not to say that men and boys don’t suffer from eating disorders) I am just explaining that given all these pressures, I am proud of the fact that, to the most extent, I am comfortable with my body, and this reflects in the way I choose to present myself, and dress.
I wear short skirts because I feel comfortable in them, the exact same reason that on other days, I wear jeans.
My choice of clothing is a reflection of what I feel comfortable in, nothing more. I don’t wear short skirts to grab the attention of men and neither do a lot of girls. Why is that not okay?
Relating this to the incident that occurred this morning, women aren’t allowed to wear short skirts because they are deemed provocative.
My biggest question is why are they deemed provocative? The word ‘provocative’ is defined as being ‘intended or intending to arouse sexual desire or interest’ and as I have stated, that was not my intention.
And if provocativeness arises from intent, then doesn’t it deem that I am the only person who can define my clothing as being provocative, since I am the only person who could accurately know my intentions?
For anyone else to define clothing as being provocative, would merely be making an assumption.
However, taking the definition of the word loosely and agreeing that I didn’t intend for my clothing to lead to ‘sexual desire or interest’, let’s assume that people were effected in a sexual sense by my clothing.
Is that my fault for wearing what I feel comfortable in, or the fault of the men who objectify women and see them merely as sexual beings? In a culture where victim blaming has risen, what with women being told not to dress a certain way to avoid being raped (in extreme cases), I think we’re tackling this problem all wrong.
Instead of demanding that women dress a certain way so as not to make men sexually aroused or uncomfortable, shouldn’t we actually teach men to respect women irregardless of what they are wearing?
That issue aside, I was also angered regarding the huge double standard in place when it came to enforcing the dress code of the library.
Having studied there for nearly a week, I had witnessed men in flip flops and shorts, to no comment by the librarian, but the moment a women breaks the rules- she has to change?
I understand why in certain areas one must dress a certain way — I would never wear a short skirt to a temple or church out of respect for the religion — but if you believe that an area needs to have a dress code, then it should be enforced without gender bias.
I’m not going to be defiant and try to return to the library in a short skirt, but at least make sure that the men are following the rules too.
I see no reason why they should be exempt.
* This is the personal opinion of the writer or publication and does not necessarily represent the views of Malay Mail Online.
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(IraqiNews.com) Dohuk – Media official of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Mosul, Said Mimousini, said on Monday, that ISIS executed 19 women in Mosul, attributing the cause to refusing the practice of the so-called sexual jihad.
Mimousini said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, “ISIS executed 19 women in the city of Mosul during the past two days,” claiming that, “the penalty decision came on the background of the refusal to participate in the practice of sexual jihad.”
He added that the last period has seen splits in the ranks of ISIS in Mosul and internal conflicts because of the money and distribution of women.
Mimousini also pointed out to the killing of 2 Kurdish militants in the city of Mosul.
Those wretched beasts…. I thought they want to spread their religion which states that all women are supposed to be chaste… Now, if they refuse to serve as sex slaves, they are now executed? WTF….
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KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 9, 2015;
An ustazah’s scientific understanding is being questioned by netizens who are also mocking her “theory” on cow’s milk and human behaviour.
Fatimah Syarha, who host TV3’s Fiqh Wanita, claims that cow’s milk should not be fed to babies, as the infant may “absorb” the obtuse DNA of the bovine in the milk would somehow affect the development of the child.
The religious teacher, when discussing the importance of breastfeeding, explained that a child who is regularly fed with the dairy milk may possess features that are generally associated with the animal.
Babies, Fatimah said on Friday’s show, catered for Muslim woman, may grow up to be hot-headed because cows were so.
Her assertions, however, bewildered netizens and Fatimah inadvertently became a laughing stock on cyberspace as social media users began questioning the lack of scientific evidence in her theory, which undermined her reputation as an educator.
Directing their comments towards the television programme’s official Facebook page, netizens express their dissatisfaction with the information that has been conveyed by the show.
Adila Musa Idris commented; “I find your lack of scientific fact disturbing. You cannot based your claims on blind assumptions alone.Where is your proof?”
One Siti Amiranah said while Fatimah’s point on the importance of breastfeeding was correct, the former did not agree with the claim that cow’s milk will cause brain damage.
“It’s just ridiculous, humans have been feeding children with milk from animals for centuries.”
Mariani Mohd Azlan said that the facts provided by the host are wrong and creates confusion among its viewers, who are generally young mothers.
“I request that TV3 and the ustazah correct and amend the information on this matter or at the least provide correct scientifically accurate information in such shows.”
Aishah Balqis said based on this logic, it was best to stay away from beef, chicken and sea food.
“Maybe we should eat human flesh then you get 100% human DNA. So shallow.”
Money, lust and kung fu: Shaolin’s ‘CEO Monk’ is under fire
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DENGFENG (China) — Incense drifting through ancient cedars. Saffron-robed monks, limbs a blur of movement, making quick work of imagined enemies. The boing of a giant bronze bell calling the faithful to prayer.
This is the scene at the fabled Shaolin Temple, a cradle of kung fu and Zen Buddhism nestled in the forests of the central Chinese province of Henan, where legend has it monks have trained in martial arts for centuries. But in recent days, another sound has been wafting across its hallowed grounds: The snickering of tourists trading the latest news about the abbot of Shaolin and his reportedly less than virtuous ways.
Over the past week, much of the nation has been transfixed by salacious allegations that the famed abbot, Mr Shi Yongxin, known as China’s chief executive officer Monk for transforming Shaolin into a global commercial empire, is a swindler and serial philanderer who secretly fathered children with two of his lovers, vows of celibacy notwithstanding.
The accusations — new tidbits have appeared almost daily in the Chinese news media — are mostly based on documents released by a self-described former monk at the temple who says the abbot owns a small fleet of fancy cars, has embezzled millions of dollars from a temple-run corporation and has funnelled some of the cash to a mistress now living in Australia.
Beyond the obvious legal repercussions, the abbot’s apparent lust for women, money and bling runs counter to the virtues of chastity and austere living that he has long sought to personify as one of the most prominent figures in Chinese Buddhism. To his growing legion of critics, the scandal has heightened public cynicism about a society in which greed and crass materialism often seem to trump morality, especially among those in positions of power.
The informer, a mysterious figure using a name that translates as “seeker of justice”, has told reporters he is fed up with the abbot’s hypocrisy and wants to see the “grounds of Shaolin purified again”. He declined interview requests and has yet to appear in public, saying he is afraid for his safety following threats from what he called “Shi Yongxin’s henchmen”.
“We want the outside world to know that the Shaolin abbot, using Buddhism as a cloak, is a maniacal womaniser and corrupt ‘tiger’ who brazenly exploits Shaolin’s assets and tarnishes its reputation,” he wrote in a statement last week that pleaded for a government investigation.
Among the evidence he has made public to support his accusations are police depositions and photographs of a woman said to be one of the abbot’s lovers, a Shaolin nun who appears dressed in brown monastic robes while holding the baby she says was fathered by Mr Shi Yongxin. Another supposed mistress claims to have physical evidence of his lechery: Semen, collected in a condom, that she sent to a doctor for safekeeping. Over the weekend, she used a social media account to post a photo of the underwear she says she wore during sex with the abbot.
During a visit to the temple last week, the modest grey-brick pavilion where Mr Shi Yongxin lives and works was padlocked, and monastery officials declined interview requests. In a statement posted online, they called the allegations against Mr Shi Yongxin “vicious, groundless libel”.
Local police officials say they have opened an investigation, perhaps moved by the media maelstrom and a public finger wag by the powerful State Administration for Religious Affairs, which warned that the scandal threatened to tarnish Chinese Buddhism.
Critics have complained for years that Mr Shi Yongxin has overcommercialised Shaolin through product licensing and overseas franchises, including plans for a US$300 million (S$415 million) luxury Shaolin kung fu resort and golf course in south-eastern Australia.
Like the paying tourists who flock to Shaolin’s hourly “fighting monks” acrobatic show, other controversies have come and gone, including reports that the monastery spent more than US$400,000 on “luxury toilets” and an initial public stock offering that was scuttled amid criticism that monks sworn to asceticism should not be playing the stock market.
News accounts have also detailed Mr Shi Yongxin’s taste for Apple products and gold-filament robes — all gifts, he pointed out — and a 2011 Xinhua report said the authorities were investigating claims he managed to escape prosecution after being caught in a brothel raid.
Through it all, the abbot has remained stoic, refusing to respond to allegations of impropriety while brushing off requests to release details of the monastery’s finances, which include those of Shaolin Intangible Assets Management, a corporation that invests in seven Buddhist-themed enterprises and is largely owned by him.
“If these things are problems, they would have become problems by now,” he told the BBC elliptically during a visit to London last year.
A pudgy, soft-spoken man with a round, shaved head, Mr Shi Yongxin, 50, is alternately lionised in the Chinese media for reviving the 1,500-year-old monastery complex after decades of desecration and neglect and criticised for his mercantile approach to its management.
In interviews, he has described the business deals and his globe-trotting ways as necessary to promote Buddhism, and especially Shaolin’s unique brand of martial arts, mysticism and faith.
“If China can import Disney resorts, why can’t other countries import the Shaolin Monastery?” Xinhua quoted him as saying in March amid criticism over the Australia project. “Promoting culture abroad is a very dignified undertaking.”
Even if officially atheist, China’s ruling Communist Party has come to appreciate Shaolin’s global profile and its ability to generate revenue. Judging from the parade of officials who have visited in recent years, many also evidently believe in the mythological protective powers of Shaolin’s fighting monks, a reputation dating from the seventh century, when, as the story goes, a band of 13 monks saved a Tang dynasty prince from a predacious warlord.
Appreciative officials have returned the favour, giving Mr Shi Yongxin a US$125,000 luxury vehicle and anointing him as a representative to the country’s ceremonial legislature, the National People’s Congress. His other political sinecure is a top job with the state-run Buddhist Association of China.
Mr Shi Yongxin’s defenders say successful people invariably draw enemies. Dr Li Xiangping, director of the Religion and Society Research Institute at East China Normal University, said the critics had misunderstood his role as a bridge between Buddhism and the secular world, and especially a government that has the ultimate say over religious affairs in China.
“They think monks should just study scripture really hard and sit meditating morning and night,” Dr Li said. “But if you really want to promote Buddhism and influence society, you have to interact with the society.”
Amid a party campaign against corruption and gluttony that has toppled scores of powerful figures, the fact that the story has remained alive in the tightly controlled state news media for so many days does not bode well for Mr Shi Yongxin. On Monday (Aug 3), news outlets gleefully reported that he failed to show up in Thailand over the weekend for a previously scheduled martial arts performance because he was “tied up” with the investigation.
But here at the heart of Shaolin, home to 400 resident monks and where thousands of students study martial arts in private academies that line the main road to town, support for Mr Shi Yongxin remains strong.
Last week, a group of 30 monks released a public letter rejecting the allegations against him, and even the trinket vendors wave away the innuendo. “You won’t find a more virtuous man,” said Mr Wang Daling, 50, a tour guide who has been leading groups through the temple complex for two decades.
Many tourists, however, were not buying the denials. “Just the sight of his fleshy face to me suggests he’s guilty,” said Mr Li Yanan, 24, an engineering student on a visit from nearby Shandong Province. “Monks aren’t supposed to be so fat.”
Still, few thought Shaolin would suffer lasting damage given the temple’s popularity both in China and abroad.
“The more gossip about Shaolin, the more tourists will come,” said Mr Zhang Jianzhen, 32, a snack vendor whose concession sells US$1.50 bottles of water, a 400 per cent markup over those sold outside Shaolin’s gates. “That can only be good for business.” THE NEW YORK TIMES
SAS Sniper Kills IS Executioner Before He Can Behead 8-Year-Old Boy
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A British sniper from the elite SAS saved an 8-year-old boy and his father from an Islamic State executioner by shooting the executioner in the head last month.
The SAS sniper team was reportedly tipped off to the execution in the Syrian desert by an Iraqi spy. When they arrived, they found that several Shia Muslims had already been beheaded by their captors. The IS (commonly referred to as ISIS) executioner, flanked on both sides by armed companions, was preparing to kill a young boy and his father next when the SAS team deployed its .50-caliber silenced sniper rifle.
The father and son were slated to be executed for not renouncing their faith
“The ISIS thug who was about to decapitate the father was shot in the head and collapsed,” an unnamed source told the Daily Star. “Everyone just stared in confusion.”
“The sniper then dispatched the two henchmen with single shots–three kills with three bullets.”
The young boy and his father were last spotted heading to the Turkish border as the Syrian town they were evacuating celebrated the killing of the IS fighters.
“It was a good day’s work,” the source told the paper.
Yeah! Kill those ISLAMIC state fuckers
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DPM: I will never eat pork to get votes from Chinese
TAMPIN, Aug 16 — While maintaining a healthy relationship between Malaysia’s different races is important, Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi told Umno delegates today that there were some lines which he would not cross like eating pork to gain votes from Chinese voters.
In his opening address at the Tampin Umno division meeting here, the Deputy Prime Minister said that he is well-versed with the Chinese culture, especially Chinese opera as he took up four minor subjects in Chinese which included writing and Chinese literature.
“I believe in cross-culture. Though we are Malays, we must respect the Indians and the Chinese cultures.
“I only don’t eat pork to get votes from the Chinese… that I will never do,” Ahmad Zahid said.
The Home Minister said that though he has always defended the Malay community, he has also not deprived fair opportunities to other races.
“Yes I defend the Malays, but I never deprive opportunities of other races.
“Since Umno’s formation… we never deprived others races. Why? Because Umno is led by credible and rational leaders,” Ahmad Zahid said to cheers from the crowd.
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He got nothing else better to say?
Someone should stuff him and his kind with Mooncake (Halalalalala one of course)