Akhbar Alam Islami

Malaysian Privacy Raids Under Fire

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KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysian human rights activists and lawmakers on Thursday, February 22, blasted plans by the northern Terengganu state to use voluntary corps to provide tip-offs about couples engaged in inappropriate behavior.

"We call on the Terengganu government to call off its plan and to stop turning the people of Terengganu into spies of the state," Zaitun Kasim, the program manager of Sisters in Islam, a woman group championing gender rights, said in a statement cited Agence France-Presse (AFP).

Rosol Wahid, chairman of the state's Islam Hadhari and Welfare Committee, defended the measure.

He said the aim was to curb the rising number of couples committing "khalwat", close proximity between a man and a woman who are not married.


AT: Susah betul nak membenteras maksiat ni, kerana pendokong kebathilan menentang atas nama hak asasi manusia. Ditambah pula dengan kehadiran NGO yang bernama Islam tetapi tidak Islamic prinsip dan tindakannya. Sepatutnya SIS dikenali sebagai SISR iaitu Sister in Social Right kerana ternyata ia tidak mendahulukan ketetapan Quran dan Sunnah. Tiada sumbangan signifikan kepada umat Islam. Cadangan sukarelawan membenteras maksiat bukan baru, dan ternyata ia berkesan membenteras maksiat. Namun apabila ia dikaitkan dengan tip atau bayaran, ia boleh dipandang dari dua perspektif. Perspektif pertama ia positif dalam melahirkan masyarakat berkualiti dan mengurangkan statistik bayi luar nikah. Ia juga akan menjadikan orang berlumba-lumba mencari orang bermaksiat. Ia bagus tetapi dikhuatiri niat dah tak betul. Sepatutnya kita menginsafi dan berisytigfar melihat kemungkaran. Kedua ia akan melahirkan kesan negatif, seolah-olah kerja membenteras maksiat adalah mengada-ngadakan cerita, membuat fitnah dan seolah-olah Islam agama yang terlalu mengongkong.

Melaksanakan perintah suatu hal, tetapi memberi peluang kepada yang tidak faham tentang Islam untuk memahami juga penting. Ia tergambar dari apa yang orang bukan Islam lihat dan baca di akhbar setiap hari. Maka kepada pemerintah, pejuang kebenaran, NGO dan individu sertailah setiap tindakan dengan ilmu dan fiqh syarienya sekali dalam rangka mendekatkan bukan Islam dengan keindahan Islam

Iraqi Troops Admit Rape Charges

Addtional Reporting By Anas Al-Ubaidi, IOL Correspondent
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"They threatened me that if I did not cooperate they would use the tape and cause me a scandal," said the victim.
BAGHDAD — One Iraqi officer and three soldiers have confessed to raping a Sunni woman in northern Iraq, the second such sexual assault of Sunni women by Iraqi security forces this week.

"We received a complaint from the citizen... that a group of soldiers entered her house few days ago and raped her," Tal Afar Mayor Brigadier General Najim Abdullah Al-Jubari told Agence France-Presse (AFP) on Thursday, February 22.

He said one of the five soldiers tried to stop his colleagues from raping the Iraqi woman.

"He wanted to stop his mates by threatening them with weapons because it is an immoral act, but the rape took place anyway."

Jubari said the troops – three soldiers and an officer – initially denied the charges but later confessed when the women identified them at an identity parade.

The victim, a 40-year-old married mother of 11 from Iraq's Turkoman minority, earlier appeared on the Doha-based Al-Jazeera television.

"They threatened me that if I did not cooperate they would use the tape and cause me a scandal."

When asked why she did not report the attack, she said: "Who do I complain to? No-one allows us to complain."

According to human rights groups, several Iraqi women fell victims for sexual abuse by both Iraqi and US forces, but most of the cases went unreported.

A US soldier was sentenced to life in prison in November 2006 for raping and murdering a 14-year-old girl and her father, mother and six-year-old sister.

AT: Inilah yang terjadi sekiranya kita biarkan US bermaharajalela di bumi orang Islam yang di dalamnya terdapat ibu-ibu dan anak-anak gadis saudara seIslam kita. Walaupun laporan terbaru ini menyebut ia angkara polis Iraq, namun tragedi ini terjadi kerana kekacauan dan ketidaktenteraman yang dicetuskan White House sekian lama di bumi Iraq. Nyawa umat Islam menjadi murah, kehormatan muslimah menjadi murahan dan hak asasi manusia menjadi bahan ketawa.

"Mengapa kamu tidak mau berperang di jalan Allah dan (membela) orang-orang yang lemah baik laki-laki, wanita-wanita maupun anak-anak yang semuanya berdoa: "Ya Tuhan kami, keluarkanlah kami dari negeri ini yang zalim penduduknya dan berilah kami pelindung dari sisi Engkau, dan berilah kami penolong dari sisi Engkau!" (An-Nisa 4.75)