Bakar Quran

Orang Islam memang 'allergik' kalau ada kes-kes berunsur penghinaan kepada agama mereka. Hanya pelik, bantahan-bantahan yang dibuat akhirnya menyebabkan orang Islam sendiri yang terbunuh. Ancaman bom pula akan meningkat.

Tak percaya, tunggu episod lain penghinaan ini. Akan ada orang yang akan mati walaupun ia berlaku beribu batu dari tempat penghinaan itu dibuat. Orang lain menghina, orang lain yang mati.

Tapi bila bab menganjurkan persefahaman sesama Islam, persaudaraan, perpaduan, bersama dalam isu palestin, yang berkait dengan kekuatan umat Islam itu sendiri, jadi macam tu sajalah seruannya.

Apa Quran kata mengenai perkara ni? 

Bantah bakar quran merebak ke Pakistan

25/02/2012 2:48am

ISLAMABAD 25 Feb. - Beratus-ratus rakyat dan aktivis Pakistan hari ini mengadakan demonstrasi membantah pembakaran al-Quran di pangkalan tentera Amerika Syarikat (AS) di Afghanistan.
Penunjuk perasaan melaungkan slogan `Maut kepada AS’ dan mendesak pemimpin Pakistan yang merupakan sekutu AS dalam perang di Afghanistan untuk meletakkan jawatan.
Wartawan AFP melaporkan, demonstrasi tersebut diadakan di bandar-bandar raya di negara ini termasuk Islamabad, Karachi dan Multan. - AFP

Bekas Speaker Kongres anggap Obama mengaku kalah isu bakar al-Quran

SPOKANE: Bekas Speaker Kongres Amerika Syarikat, Newt Gingrich menyuarakan kemarahannya atas langkah pentadbiran Presiden Barack Obama meminta maaf kepada kerajaan Afghanistan kerana kejadian al-Quran dibakar di markas tentera Bagram.

Sambil menganggap tidak perlu mengambil langkah itu, Gingrich menyifatkan tindakan meminta maaf itu menunjukkan Obama mengaku kalah kepada golongan fanatik Afghanistan.

Permintaan maaf Obama disusuli dengan pembunuhan dua askar Amerika oleh seorang tentera Afghanistan selain mencederakan beberapa orang lain.

Ketika berkempen di Washington sebagai calon presiden Republikan, Gingrich berkata, Presiden Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai yang perlu meminta maaf atas pembunuhan askar Amerika dan ‘penduduk Afghanistan tidak layak menerima permintaan maaf dari Amerika.’

“Apapun yang dilakukan oleh golongan radikal Islam tidak dipandang negatif oleh Obama yang selalu meminta maaf kepada orang yang tidak layak mendapat permintaan maaf Presiden Amerika.

“Jika Karzai tidak fikir dia perlu meminta maaf, kita patut ucap selamat tinggal dan moga berjaya kerana kita tidak perlu hadapi risiko keselamatan dan buang masa kepada orang yang tidak pedulikan kita,” katanya.
Meskipun permintaan maaf Presiden Amerika jarang dibuat, Presiden George W Bush meminta maaf kepada Perdana Menteri Iraq, Nuri al-Maliki selepas seorang askar Amerika beberapa kali menembak sebuah kitab al-Quran pada 2008.

Bush juga ‘meminta maaf atas penghinaan terhadap tahanan Iraq dan keluarga mereka selepas skandal Abu Ghraib didedahkan kepada pengetahuan umum.

Bantahan anti Amerika berhubung pembakaran al-Quran berterusan buat hari ke-4 semalam apabila protes di Herat menyaksikan keganasan berlaku menyebabkan lima lagi maut dan menjadikan angka korban tunjuk perasaan kepada 23 orang.

Dua maut selepas penunjuk perasaan mata ke arah konsulat Amerika di kota itu manakala dua lagi terbunuh di daerah Adraskan.

Pegawai keselamatan awalnya memberitahu, dua penunjuk perasaan mati ditembak apabila cuba masuk ke konsulat itu.

Seramai 4,000 orang membantah di Khost, timur wilayah Nangarhar sambil menjerit ‘Matilah Amerika’ dan membakar gambar kadbod Obama.

Di Kabul, seramai 100 penunjuk perasaan berhimpun dekat Kementerian Pertahanan sebelum bersurai apabila askar melepaskan tembakan ke udara. – Agensi

Bantah bakar quran merebak ke Pakistan

25/02/2012 2:48am

ISLAMABAD 25 Feb. - Beratus-ratus rakyat dan aktivis Pakistan hari ini mengadakan demonstrasi membantah pembakaran al-Quran di pangkalan tentera Amerika Syarikat (AS) di Afghanistan.
Penunjuk perasaan melaungkan slogan `Maut kepada AS’ dan mendesak pemimpin Pakistan yang merupakan sekutu AS dalam perang di Afghanistan untuk meletakkan jawatan.
Wartawan AFP melaporkan, demonstrasi tersebut diadakan di bandar-bandar raya di negara ini termasuk Islamabad, Karachi dan Multan. - AFP

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Nasib 112,635 peneroka ditentukan esok
 

2012/02/21

KUALA LUMPUR: Esok, 1,200 perwakilan Koperasi Permodalan Felda (KPF) akan menentukan masa depan nasib 112,635 warga peneroka dan hala tuju agensi itu sebagai sebuah organisasi perladangan terbesar dunia, dalam mesyuarat agung perwakilan khas KPF.

Mesyuarat itu yang diadakan di Dewan Perdana FELDA, Jalan Maktab di sini, akan memperlihatkan perwakilan mengundi bagi meluluskan usul cadangan pelupusan pegangan 51 peratus milik KPF dalam FELDA Holdings Bhd, termasuk 10 anak syarikatnya kepada Felda Global Ventures Holdings Bhd (FGVH).

Tujuan penjualan itu bagi membolehkan pemindahan aset perniagaan milik KPF kepada FGVH yang akan berfungsi sebagai entiti rasmi dalam organisasi perladangan itu menguruskan hal ehwal perniagaan.

Sebagai timbal balas, KPF yang mana 80 peratus ahlinya adalah warga FELDA, akan diberi hak eksklusif sebagai pemegang saham terbesar iaitu 37 peratus dalam FGVH apabila ia disenaraikan di Pasaran Utama Bursa Malaysia pada Mei nanti.

KPF kini memiliki 51 peratus pegangan dalam Felda Holdings, manakala baki 49 peratus lagi dimiliki FGVH, yang juga anak syarikat milik penuh FELDA.

Pemerhati pasaran berkata, penyenaraian FGVH adalah program transformasi untuk membawa perubahan strategik kepada perniagaan kumpulan FELDA ke tahap lebih tinggi bagi merealisasikan potensinya dalam mengkomersialkan hasil perladangan dalam aktiviti huluan dan hiliran di dalam dan luar negara.

Malah, katanya, penyenaraian FGVH bakal meletakkan sumber perladangan negara di peta dunia.
“Justeru, jika perwakilan membuat undian positif, maka sudah tentu masa depan peneroka akan terjamin berikutan hasil dividen dan saham yang dimiliki mereka dalam FGVH melalui KPF, dan jika mereka menolak, sudah pasti nasib peneroka tidak akan berubah,” katanya.

Bagi FGVH pula, pemerhati pasaran itu berpendapat cadangan penyenaraian syarikat berkenaan tetap diteruskan kerana ia tidak memerlukan sebarang persetujuan daripada peneroka mahupun KPF berikutan ia dimiliki sepenuhnya oleh FELDA.

Sementara itu, Timbalan Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri, Datuk Ahmad Maslan, meminta ahli KPF berfikiran secara terbuka dan mengambil kira kepentingan jangka panjang kerana mereka boleh dianggap sebagai menolak tuah jika membantah usul cadangan penjualan 51 peratus saham milik KPF kepada FGVH.

“Andai mereka menolak cadangan (pelupusan) itu, boleh dikatakan mereka menolak tuah kerana saham majoriti yang sepatutnya diperuntukkan kepada KPF, bakal ditawarkan kepada agensi lain seperti Tabung Haji atau Kumpulan Wang Simpanan Pekerja (KWSP) atau kerajaan negeri yang berminat.

“Ini adalah tawaran yang menjanjikan pulangan besar kepada mereka untuk jangka panjang. Saya harap dan yakin 1,200 perwakilan ke mesyuarat agung khas ini akan meluluskan usul berkenaan,” katanya.

Ahmad Maslan berkata, perwakilan perlu memikirkan tiga faktor utama mengapa mereka perlu menerima usul itu, iaitu memastikan kelangsungan dividen tinggi, memastikan penguasaan penuh kepentingan peneroka dalam FGVH, selain ahli KPF dijamin tidak akan mengalami kerugian.

Kepada semua wakil ahli KPF yang akan mengundi esok hari, selamat membuat pilihan. Semoga pilihan yang dilaksanakan esok adalah berdasarkan kepada pertimbangan fakta, pro dan kontra, jumlah risiko dan pastinya telah disembahkan kepada Allah Ta'ala untuk pedoman akhir melalui solat istikharah dan hajat.

Selamat bersidang.

"Strategizing for Church Planting Movements (CPM) in the Muslim WorldArtikel".

Ini adalah petikan kepada artikel oleh Rebecca Lewis mengenai gerakan kritianisasi dunia. Artikel beliau ini adalah bertajuk "Strategizing for Church Planting Movements (CPM) in the Muslim WorldArtikel". Secara ringkasnya ialah artikel ini adalah mengenai analisa mengenai kaedah dan strategi terbaik untuk penyebaran agama kristian.

Pandangan saya ialah tidaklah perlu kita marah, melenting dan melaknat kaum beragama kristian ini. Cukuplah apa yang disebut Allah dalam surah al-Maun (197) itu. Apa yang penting gerakan dakwah islami harus lebih subur dan lebih strategik menangani gerakan kristiasnisasi ini dengan keutamaan kepada pemeliharaan akidah, menguatkan sinergi antara kumpulan agama dengan tidak sendiri-sendiri merasakan kumpulannya lebih baik daripada yang lain, menguatkan juga sinergi individu-individu yang ada, institusi kekeluargaan juga dikuatkan. Tidak salah juga mengadaptasi strategi pergerakan kristianisasi ini.

Semoga memberi manfaat dan peringatan kepada kita semua. Allah A'lam.

"1. Community

"Once during a discussion with the leader of a mosque, the imam said proudly that a Muslim can worship anywhere, praying toward Mecca . . . any rug or piece of cloth can become a mosque. Christians, he said, need a special building in order to have a church. The Christian students I had brought to the mosque protested, pointing out that Christians met in homes for centuries before they were able to build public church buildings. The imam then asked, “So what is it that makes a church a church?” He seemed startled by the students’ answer, “There has to be a group of people, at least 2 or 3.” The idea that community was the basic unit of a church surprised him."


2. Secular education

"While Garrison does not talk specifically about the role of education in CPMs, there can be little doubt that the literacy level of a people group, along with having Bibles in their own language, are key factors. He does discuss the importance of worship in the vernacular, a factor common with the rapid spread of the early church. In Muslim areas, vernacular translations of the Bible for literate populations will enable those who are seeking to have access to holy books, even if they cannot read the classical Arabic of the “untranslatable” Koran."


3. Supernaturalism

"The Charismatic movement has helped de-secularize the Western church and return us all to a more biblical balance on the supernatural power of the gospel. In Muslim areas, the Holy Spirit has been moving through dreams, healings, and other supernatural means. Those being trained to go into Muslim areas need specific training in spiritual warfare and gifts that Christ could use to show that His power is greater than that of Muslim healers. Christianity must demonstrate that it has supernatural power and is not merely another philosophical construct."


4. Open Network

"Just as the early church spread through the Jewish diaspora, spilling over into the surrounding gentile communities, in the Muslim world it is important to work through existing Islamic networks, either ethnic or sects, etc. It is interesting to watch the spread of Islamic terrorist groups, which in some ways are a religious/identity revival movement. They demonstrate a desire on the part of Islamic young people for meaning in their lives, committed community, and international identity networks. They also operate covertly in Muslim countries, where they, like groups of believers, can be perceived as a political threat to the Islamic regime."

5. Cultural Continuity

"Early Christianity retained cultural continuity with the people’s background, enabling converts to continue to form new relationships with non-converts in their society. Stark points out that people do not so much seek a new faith, as encounter one through ties to others who have accepted the new faith. These encounters depend both on keeping open networks with non-believers, and with maintaining continuity with the culture of the non-believers."

"In Muslim countries, reversion to Islam is a common and significant problem. If natural leaders are immediately allowed to fulfill leadership roles within the new believing community, bodies of believers could grow along culturally acceptable lines. Without the stigma of foreign involvement, solutions to major problems (like remaining in the Muslim community for marriage, circumcision and death rituals) could be more easily negotiated. Stark points out that for up to two centuries we still find quite a few Christians being buried in Jewish cemeteries, demonstrating continued cultural continuity."


6.Courage of believers and high cost of believing

"While the Muslim converts often show a lot of courage, modern missionaries from the West are often unwilling to suffer significant material hardship, much less danger to their lives. The credibility of our faith would increase significantly if more missionaries would show a willingness to suffer, and stay in dangerous situations to care for the sick or hurt. Garrison specifi­cally points out in his book that the willingness of missionaries to suffer is a key factor in most CPMs. A recent example of this is the suffering of Mrs. Gladys Staines who remained in India to preach the importance of forgiveness after her husband and two sons were burned to death in their car by radical Hindus. Her words now carry almost as much respect as that of Mother Teresa, according Tim Stafford in a recent issue of Christianity Today. Many baptisms are resulting from her ministry."


7. Women

"When we were in Morocco, I noticed an interesting phenomena. While many men who had become believers reverted to Islam at the time of marriage, those who remained believers almost always had a believing mother standing behind them. In the more oppressive Muslim societies, the women seek power and security through their sons, who serve both as protection and as support once their husbands die. It follows that believing wives, while not necessarily able to win their husbands to the Lord, will have power to win their sons, even if secretly."

"Like in ancient Rome, the women in many Islamic countries feel tremendous insecurities due to easy divorce, the husband’s control over the children of divorce, and infidelity. Some would argue this makes them more likely to hide their faith, which is true. But it also makes them people searching for the kind of relationship with God, and the power and joy it brings, that only Isa al Masih (Jesus the Messiah) can give them. They and their children can become the foundation of tomorrow’s house-church movement within Islam."

"The women of Islam could very well be the gateway of the gospel into Islamic networks, as was true in Roman society. Perhaps we should encourage believing women in Muslim cultures to fulfill their evangelistic potential through strategic marriages and service. Throughout history, women have played very significant roles in introducing Christianity into new areas, even when taken against their will. Winning the discontented women could be our greatest entree into Muslim society. For this to happen, women missionaries and mission societies need to value and make a top priority reaching the women of Islam. With 50% of the population in many Muslim countries under the age of 15, the remaining 25% that are adult females have become even more strategic, because of their influence over the children."


8.  Urbanisation

"As Stark points out, the gospel spread quickly in the crowded cities, which disrupted normal social networks and created a great need for solutions to immorality, family disintegration, and isolation. And Christianity provided answers. The same is true today, where an increasing percentage of the population in Muslim and other countries are being dislocated to the outskirts of cities. David Garrison does not comment on whether or not modern CPMs tend to be more rural or more urban in nature. However many of the same reasons why urbanization gave impetus to the early church movement would still be true today. The Islamic world, like most other developing areas, is increasingly urban in nature, giving us one more reason to hope for many CPMs in Muslim areas in the near future."


9. Moral Vision

"The “moral vision” of Christianity has unfortunately been significantly damaged by the general perception in the Muslim world that all Westerners are Christians. The church and missionaries need to have the integrity to denounce Western abuses and the degeneration of morals in the West. When the U.S. government sides with despotic regimes, particularly those in the Muslim world, American missionaries need to be Christians first and Americans second, even willing to admit that some of the complaints of Muslim radicals are valid. The church in the West keeps quiet on many moral issues to preserve their popularity and immunity from criticism. However, the fast-growing church of Roman times, compared to the slow growing “state church” post-Constantine, demonstrates that persecution is less of a detriment to the spread of the gospel than moral compromise."

Conclusion"Can we expect rapidly expanding CPMs to develop in the Muslim world? If you look at the above qualifications, not only is the answer a resounding yes, but the Muslim world may actually be one of the best places for this to happen, when correct strategies are applied. The most exciting thing to realize is that there may already be many more such movements going on in the Muslim world than we are aware of. IJFM"