What is the significance of religions?

Quick to follow in the foot steps of the London Bridge attack, the new target was Melbourne which happened yesterday, all carried out by ISIS followers.  Many leaders have tried to defray any accusation that the wanton act of this militants have anything to do with Islam.

Let's put matters into perspective.

Followers of any religion practice its teachings and doctrines. So when the followers promote peace and goodwill we credit that religion for guiding its followers to spread harmony and good relationships. Likewise when its followers kill others who disagree with their faith, should we look elsewhere to blame, or blame it on their beliefs, i.e. their religion?

Religion may be the saviour or destroyer of humanity. Most likely the destroyer. Unlike Islam which promote a self centred way to paradise, Christianity preaches an inclusive invitation to partake in a new life in eternity for all followers of Jesus Christ. That new life is not the state of the world we live in today certainly.

Can it be safely concluded that Islam promote destruction of other human beings who are not their sects or beliefs on the basis of what is happening now? Like in a bee colony, not all bees are soldiers but many are workers, yet their mission is the same - propagate and protect the queen. You can see the parallel.

Please stop saying the Nice attacks have nothing to do with Islam (by Maajid Nawaz)

In the wake of the Nice attacks people are already saying: "But the terrorist wasn't pious. See! It has nothing to do with Islam."

Please stop.

Your good intentions towards us Muslims are only making the problem worse. This is as dangerous as saying it is everything to do with Islam.

Read full article HERE.

Is our security situation getting better or is it getting from bad to worse?

A Bomb Was Found Next To Railway Tracks In Sentul, Sabotage Suspected

A water bottle filled with black powder, glass shards and ball bearings, was found by a member of the public at Lorong Kolam Air 9 in Sentul about 4pm yesterday.

Resembling a crudely made IED (improvised explosive device), the device was located near the Keretapi Tanah Melayu Berhad (KTMB) railway track as it neared peak commute hours on Wednesday, English news daily NST reports.

Police were notified at 4:35 and a bomb squad dispatched to investigate the suspicious object, a mineral water bottle wrapped in a plastic and newspaper which investigators later discovered contained gunpowder, ball bearings and glass shrapnel wrapped in a cylinder-shaped cardboard paper and plastic.

A police source said the top part of the bottle was covered with a cone-shaped polyvinyl chloride pipe and contained gunpowder similar to that used for fireworks, local news portal malaymailonline.com reports.

“It was an explosive. Sentul police immediately contacted Special Branch when they saw the contents in the bottle,” the source informed the local news portal.

Bukit Aman Special Branch director Datuk Seri Fuzi Harun was quoted by media reports as confirming the incident and said the case was being investigated as “sabotage”.

According to media reports, two trains have passed by the area within minutes before the bomb was discovered. The trains were from Sentul and Segambut stations heading to Putra station.

A KTMB spokesman had spoken to reporters at the scene about earlier warnings from the police to step up security.

“Special Branch has not informed us the outcome of its investigations. We are happy to assist in anyway possible.

“None of our auxiliary police personnel were allowed to go on Raya leave and it is thanks to their watchful eyes that they found the explosive,” he added.

At present, the police have not suggested indications of links to international terrorists and revealed that the IED was found where two heavily used KTMB lines run through, the Batu Caves-Tampin Komuter line and the Tanjung Malim-Port Klang line.

- mD

New terrorist attack, this time in Nice, France, with more than 50 people feared dead.

At least 73 people are dead and more than 150 injured after they were mowed down by a truck in a suspected terror attack during the Bastille Day celebrations in the French city of Nice.

Eyewitnesses say there was an exchange of gunfire in the aftermath of the incident before the driver was shot dead. ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attack, according to unconfirmed reports in the French media.

Guns and grenades were later said to have been found inside the truck, which mounted the pavement at approximately 40 mph and steered directly towards hundreds of people watching a fireworks display.

Anti-terror police swooped in as the city was put on lockdown and residents were warned to stay indoors for their safety. Gunshots rang out in the streets, with gunmen targeting hotels and cafes in the port city in the south of France.

One witness called Antoine said: 'We were at the Neptune beach and a firework display had just finished. That is when we saw a white lorry. It was going quickly at 60-70 kilometres an hour.'

The gunman jumped out of the truck after ploughing through the pedestrians and began opening fire, witnesses said. Officials said the driver was shot dead near the scene. A second suspect is thought to be on the run.

Eyewitness Wassim Bouhlel said that he saw a truck drive into the crowd and then witnessed the man emerge with a gun and start shooting.

'There was carnage on the road,' Bouhlel said. 'Bodies everywhere.' 

For rest of news article, read HERE.

The Gay Question.

EXPOSED - GAY MALAY LEADERS IN NAJIB REGIME: YET BEAST-MINDED MALAYSIAN MUSLIMS CHEER KILLING OF ORLANDO GAYS
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The Orlando mass shooting that left at least 50 people dead while injured another 53 can be used to provide an answer to a burning question. Nope, we’re not going into the debate of “Not all Muslims are terrorists, but all Terrorists are Muslims”. After the Sunday terrorising by Omar Mateen (full name: Omar Mir Seddique Mateen), the answer is obvious.

For as long as one can remember, while all terrorists targeting non-Muslims’ interest and innocent lives somehow ended up as Muslims, the Muslimswouldn’t admit they support terrorism. But if they don’t support such violence, as they claim they are, one would expect them to condemn and protest the killing of innocent lives – in a massive way.

Orlando Florida Terrorism - People Mourning

Was there any huge demonstration by Muslims community around the world condemning the Orlando terrorism? Nil, Nada, Nothing, Zero, Zilch. Therefore, can we conclude that Muslims actually do celebrate the slaughtering of innocent lives, as long as those being butchered were non-Muslims? Are you already mad and foaming on the mouth with this fact?

Look no further for proof but Malaysia, a country whose prime minister was President Barack Hussein Obama’s golfing buddy. Not only did some Malaysian Muslims celebrate the Orlando killing, some actually wished those injured would not make it. These show there’re Muslims in Malaysia who are no difference from ISIS who treats human no better than animals.
Malaysian Muslims Protest Gays Lesbians

Like it or not, some Muslims do love reading mass killing of non-Muslims by their Muslim brothers. It was what the Muslims do, or don’t do, that add fuels to Islamophobia. When we called Omar Mateen a radicalized Islamic terrorist, some Malaysian Muslims retaliated and justified that those gays deserved to be slaughtered because homosexuality is forbidden in Islam.

Recently, a 15-year-old boy was arrested by ISIS militants on charges of homosexuality and he was thrown from the top of a building in central Deir ez-Zor, Syria. Amazingly, the man who raped him – a prominent ISIS officer Abu Zaid al-Jazrawi – was just demoted and sent to the front lines. Going by these Malaysian Muslims’ logic, is their Islamic teaching the same as those practiced by ISIS?

Tim Cook - Pose with Male

Some Malaysian Muslims might not realize it but the iPhone they used to send message celebrating the Orlando terrorism came from a company called Apple, whose CEO Tim Cook is “gay” (*grin*). Guess what; a former MP – Zahrain Mohd Hashim – whom Malaysian Muslims had helped voting into the parliament is also “gay”.

Heck, not only “homosexual” Mr Zahrain got elected, he was also later promoted as Malaysia’s Ambassador to Indonesia by Prime Minister Najib Razak, a Muslim. There’s more; to balance the “Yin” and “Yang”, Najib had also promoted a “lesbian” – Azalina Othman – as Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department.

Zahrain Mohd Hashim - Malaysia's Ambassador to Indonesia
Azalina Othman – Minister in the Prime Minsiter’s Department

What should these Malaysian Muslims do about the gay and lesbian in their own backyard? Ahh, it’s OK for Malaysian Muslims to be gays or lesbians, as long as they keep it quiet and deny about their sexual preference. Get real, there are tons of gay within Muslim men and it wasn’t their fault. One just needs to pay a visit to Kelantan, the Muslim’s holiest city in Malaysia, to see gay men.

While some Malaysian Muslims are cheering hero American-born Muslim Omar Mateen slaughtered non-Muslim gay Americans, turns out Mateen was a gay himself who had visited gay nightclub Pulse and frequented other gay clubs in the past. And he had used a dating apps – such as Grindr and Jack’d– on his phone to meet other men.

Orlando Florida Terrorism - Omar Mateen - Middle School Yearbook Photo - Driver License Photo - Gay

Mateen’s family said his acts of murder were committed due to his hatred of homosexuality. But his ex-wife Sitora Yusufiy, who was married to Mateen in 2009 for three months, claimed in an interview on Brazilian television station SBT Brazil that she believed he was homosexual. In fact, Mateen’s father had even referred to him as “gay” in front of her on at least one occasion.

According to a former classmate, he, Mateen and a few other friends went tofour gay clubs in the Treasure Coast and West Palm Beach in 2006 – Kashmir Night Club in West Palm Beach, Byrd Cage in Port St. Lucie, Cold Keg in Melbourne and Rebar in Port St. Lucie. So, was Mateen really a gay but chose to hide it because of anger or shame?

Sitora Yusufiy – Omar Mateen’s Ex-Wife

But if he was gay, why did he choose spraying bullets on gays? His father claims it was the kissing incident – he saw two men kissing in Miami – that had actually fueled his rage and subsequently the shootings. Does it make sense that Mateen couldn’t stand the sight of two men kissing but had enjoyed partying in gay nightclubs, where people did more than kissing?

Was Omar Mateen a Muslim gay or a radicalised Islamic terrorist? Perhaps both. Perhaps he wanted to be open about being gay, like other happy gay couples, but was stuck because of his religion. Perhaps the sight of two men kissing was his tipping point and he snapped because he couldn’t enjoy such delicious moment – openly.

Orlando Florida Terrorism - Omar Mateen

And since he was radicalised from his trips to Saudi Arabia, allegedly performing “umrah”, he saw it as an opportunity to end his miserable and shameful life using Islam as a tool to kill all the happy gays on that fateful Sunday. Will he still get 72 virgins (guys) in heaven? If only the God could Whatsapp a message, or at least update His Facebook. -http://www.financetwitter.com/

Will Najib do what President François Hollande did?

It's sad that an innocent person has lost his life to a bunch of religious fanatics. Now the BIG question, will Malaysia send in its fighter jets to bomb the daylights out of these b******s or will Bernard Then become just another statistic because he is Chinese. If France is bombing ISIS in Raqqa where the latter's headquarters is located, in retaliation for the killings of its citizens, I am sure Malaysia can do the same with Abu Sayyaf. What say you Najib? What say you Hishamuddin?

RIP Bernard Then

Read news article here.

Remember Malala Yousafzai?

Malālah Yūsafzay, born 12 July 1997) is a Pakistani school pupil and education activist from the town of Mingora in the Swat District of Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. She is known for her education and women's rights  activism in the Swat Valley, where the Taliban had at times banned girls from attending schools. In early 2009, at the age of 11–12, Yousafzai wrote a blog under a pseudonym for the BBC detailing her life under Taliban rule, their attempts to take control of the valley, and her views on promoting education for girls. The following summer, a New York Times documentary was filmed about her life as the Pakistani military intervened in the region, culminating in the Second Battle of Swat. Yousafzai began to rise in prominence, giving interviews in print and on television and taking a position as chairperson of the District Child Assembly Swat. She has since been nominated for the International Children's Peace Prize by Desmond Tutu and the Nobel Peace Prize, being the youngest nominee in history for the latter. She is the winner of Pakistan's first National Youth Peace Prize.

On 9 October 2012, Yousafzai was shot in the head and neck in an assassination attempt by Taliban gunmen while returning home on a school bus. In the days immediately following the attack, she remained unconscious and in critical condition, but later her condition improved enough for her to be sent to the  Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham in the United Kingdom for intensive rehabilitation. On 12 October, a group of 50 Islamic clerics in Pakistan issued a fatwa against those who tried to kill her, but the Taliban reiterated its intent to kill Yousafzai and her father, Ziauddin.
Former British Prime Minister and current U.N. Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown launched a United Nations petition in Yousafzai's name, using the slogan "I am Malala" and demanding that all children worldwide be in school by the end of 2015. Brown said he would hand the petition to Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardariin November. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon has announced on 10 November that 12 July, the birthday of Malala Yousafzai will be celebrated as Malala Day.

In the 29 April 2013 issue of Time magazine, Malala was featured on the magazine's front cover and as one of "The 100 Most Influential People In The World". Her section was written by Chelsea Clinton, daughter of former US President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton.