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Education Seminar in Kuala Selangor District

July 12th, 2007
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Hi all,

It's been a while since our last event, which was the Bowling Competition in May. We had few activities after that as listed below:

1. Sponsored workbooks for UPSR students at SJKT Ldg Sg Buloh on 12th May 2007.

2. Sponsored Teacher's Day hampers for teachers from SJKT Ldg sg Buloh and SJKT Bukit Darah.

3. Sponsored Motivational Talk for parents at SJKT Ldg Sg Buloh.

And I'm sure many forumers know about our ongoing food sponsorship for UPSR weekend classes at both the schools.

Our next event is a district level Education Seminar. Details below:

Date: 14/7/2007 (Saturday)
Venue: Sri Subramaniam Temple Hall, Kuala Selangor (along the road to Kuala Selangor)
Time: 8am – 5pm.
Organiser: Majlis Guru – Guru Besar Daerah Kuala Selangor and Sabak Bernam, & UMIC
Event Coordinator: SJKT Ldg Sg Buloh
Participants: minimum of 250 students from 25 SJKT schools
Note: to be officiated by Dato' G Palanivel

Due to the large number of students involved, we are looking for sponsors for the below items:
 
1. Breakfast @ RM 2.00 X 250 students = RM  500
2. Lunch     @ RM 4.00 X 250 students = RM 1000
3. Tea time  @ RM 2.00 X 250 students = RM  500
4. Speakers  @ RM 50.00 X 5 speakers  = RM  250
5. Files for students @ RM 1 X 250    = RM  250
6. Stationeries @ RM 1 X 250          = RM  250
7. Photostat costs                    = RM  100
8. PA system                          = RM  300

Other costs have been sponsored or are in the process of getting sponsors through the Majlis Guru – Guru Besar and UMIC's existing funds.

Sponsorship can be channeled via Maybank Account No 1148 3303 9081 (Ananthi Ramakrishnan – UMIC Pro-tem Treasurer). Please keep a copy of the deposit slip/online transaction receipt and drop us an email/sms.

We apologise for the rather late notice; there were difficulties in finalising some of the issues and logistics due to size of this seminar.

For further details, please contact Mr Murugesan at 012-3072027 or M Poobalan at 019-2664042.

As usual, all members are welcomed to attend the seminar and take this opportunity to meet UMIC Committee members there. Your presence will further cement our commitment toward the educational upliftment of our community.

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PM comments on Revathi’s crusade

July 10th, 2007
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Finally, we get some response from the top person himself regarding Revathi's crusade. Reading the Star's report, I was surprised to note that he "brushed off such claims as wild allegations." when asked about torture in these centers. Revathi may be a nobody, but what she mentioned was her own experience while at the center, and I seriously doubt it is merely allegations. Worse still, in NST, it is mentioned that "Rehabilitation centres are not for torturing, only counselling". Yeah, sure…and ice-creams don't have sugar in them too.
 
Let's pray that Revathi succeeds in her crusade against this evil,  to be in the path of her chosen faith.
 
 
The Star Version:source
PM: Find out grouses of those wanting to leave Islam

PUTRAJAYA: The Prime Minister wants the religious authorities to find out the grouses of Muslims who renounce Islam. 

Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said he had repeatedly told the religious officers to listen to their problems, to learn why they want to leave the faith, and in the case of converts, why they wish to return to their former religion. 

"Find out what they are disappointed with, why a Muslim convert would return to her earlier religion after the death of her husband," he told newsmen after opening the 18th Conference of International Islamic FIQH Academy here yesterday. 

The Prime Minister, who was asked to comment on the spate of court cases involving people seeking to leave the faith, admitted that he did not know why "suddenly these things seem to be coming out one after another." 

He recognised, however, that there was a problem and wanted to know the reasons why Muslims were leaving Islam. 

He also said he had not heard of people being tortured at religious rehabilitation centres, and brushed off such claims as wild allegations.

NST version: source

'Religious authorities should listen to grouses'

PUTRAJAYA: Religious authorities should be prepared to listen to Muslims who wanted to leave Islam, the prime minister said.

"I have always told our religious authorities that they should be ready to listen to these grouses and solve the problem," Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said at a press conference after opening the 18th Conference of the International Islamic Fiqh Academy here.

The prime minister was asked to comment on a number of highly publicised cases of Muslims wishing to renounce their religion, the latest of which was that of 29-year-old M. Revathi, born Siti Fatimah Abdul Karim, whose profession of the Hindu faith earned her a six-month detention at a rehabilitation centre in Selangor.

She was released into the care of her Muslim parents on Thursday.

Abdullah said he did not know why such cases were coming up one after another.

On allegations of torture at the Islamic rehabilitation centres, Abdullah said he had not heard of such claims.

"Rehabilitation centres are not for torturing, only counselling."

In his speech at the conference, the prime minister said the Muslim ummah needed to derive the necessary juristic approaches to enable it to engage in new developments in the field of sciences.

He called on Muslim scholars to be innovative, a premise upon which the principle of ijtihad stood.

"It is always easier to take the path of least resistance, to simply say 'no' but in doing so, we may rob the Muslim ummah of the opportunity for progress. Instead, Muslim scholars must have the courage to study and contemplate the great issues of the day with wisdom and sincerity."

Muslim scholars, Abdullah added, must always approach religious interpretation in the best interests of the ummah.

"The law does not exist in a vacuum, it is a product of the world's view and the ethics of society.

"We must walk away from senseless polemics in minor matters and instead focus on the priorities of the ummah."

Speaking to reporters, the prime minister said he had proposed Kuala Lumpur as a venue for ulama to find ways of ending conflict in the Middle East.

"I have discussed this with Fiqh Academy president (Dr Saleh Ibn Humaid) and secretary-general (Muhammad Al Habib Ibn Khuja). The ulama should be given the opportunity to express their views on the conflicts and whether there is a necessity to hold discussions between the factions, politicians and governments."

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Revathi and her family

July 7th, 2007
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Man fails to get ruling on wife's detention

By : V. Anbalagan

 
M. Revathi, her husband V. Suresh and their daughter Diviya Dharshini at the Shah Alam High Court yesterday.
M. Revathi, her husband V. Suresh and their daughter Diviya Dharshini at the Shah Alam High Court yesterday.

SHAH ALAM: An express bus driver failed to get a ruling yesterday to declare illegal his wife's detention by the Islamic religious authorities early this year.

The Shah Alam High Court ruled it had no jurisdiction to hear the habeas corpus application by V. Suresh because his wife M. Revathi was no longer under detention.

On Thursday, she was produced before the Syariah High Court in Malacca, which ordered that she be placed under the care of her Muslim parents.

Revathi, whose Muslim name in her identity card is Siti Fatimah Abdul Karim, had been detained at the Baitul Aman faith rehabilitation centre in Hulu Yam Bharu in Selangor since Jan 8.

The couple are from Cheng near Alor Gajah in Malacca.

Suresh, who married Revathi on March 10, 2004, had filed the application in May to secure her release on the grounds that her detention was unconstitutional.

He claimed that his wife was a practising Hindu.

Suresh had named the superintendent of the centre and its authority, the Selangor Islamic Religious Affairs Council, as respondents to the application.

The couple, both 29, were present at yesterday's court proceedings.

In her ruling, judge Datuk Su Geok Yiam said she was allowing the respondents' preliminary objection on grounds that Revathi had been released.

"The law is very clear. The court has no jurisdiction once the subject matter to such application is no longer under detention," she said.

Su said she could not accept the argument of counsel Karpal Singh, who appeared for Suresh, that the court should make a ruling on the application although it had been rendered academic.

"In the public interest, this court should make a ruling, or else cases of this nature will keep recurring in the future," he said.

Mohamed Haniff Khatri Abdulla, who appeared for the centre and the council, said the court had no authority to judge the merits of the case because Revathi was no longer in detention.

He said the Syariah Court had the discretion to issue an order to place Revathi in the custody of her parents and it was not done to frustrate the husband's application in the High Court.

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Revathi’s glad to be back home – NST version

July 7th, 2007
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Housewife glad to be back home

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SHAH ALAM: M. Revathi, the housewife and mother who was released on Thursday after six months' internment in a faith rehabilitation centre, is overjoyed at being reunited with her family.

"The separation was unbearable. I do not want any woman to go through the same ordeal," she said at the Shah Alam High Court yesterday, where she was following a habeas corpus application her husband V. Suresh filed on her behalf two months ago.

The mother of an 18-month-old daughter described her stay at the centre in Hulu Yam Bharu, Selangor, as a sad chapter in her life.

"I really missed my husband and daughter who was then still being breast-fed."

Revathi, whose Muslim name is Siti Fatimah Abdul Karim, said she had always looked forward to seeing them once a fortnight even if it was for a short while outside the centre's gates.

Wearing a red pottu on her forehead to symbolise her marriage to a Hindu, she said she would continue to profess and practise the Hindu faith.

Revathi was detained at the Baitul Aman faith rehabilitation centre on Jan 8.

On Thursday, the Malacca Syariah High Court ordered that she be placed under the care of her Muslim parents.

Revathi said the court had also ruled that she should remain a Muslim.

Recollecting her time at the centre, Revathi said she would be up at 5am and undergo religious programmes until 11pm each day.

"But I was left alone when others performed obligatory prayers five times a day," she said.

She said the other women, including wayward girls, at the centre sympathised with her and comforted her.

Revathi said she cried a lot, especially when she was left alone.

"I looked forward to the day I would be set free," she said.

Her parents had converted to Islam before their children were born. Revathi, the eldest of five siblings, was raised by her grandmother in Merlimau, Malacca.

She met Suresh nine years ago and in 2004 they underwent a Hindu wedding, whereupon she took the name Revathi.

Soon after the marriage, she attempted to change her Muslim name and religion at the National Registration Department but was told to get a certificate from the Syariah Court.

Her misery began when she made the application and the state religious authority obtained a court order to send her to the rehabilitation centre.

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Rais waiting for Indian community recommendation – National Heritage listing

July 7th, 2007
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Dr Rais said he was now waiting for recommendation of cultural practices from the Indian community to be included in the list. 
 
any idea who is in charge of providing the recommendations for the indian community?

Parliament and Batu Caves among 50 national treasures on heritage list
 
By IZATUN SHARI

KUALA LUMPUR: The Parliament House, Batu Caves, St George Church in Penang, Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall building and the lion dance on a pole have now something very important in common – they are all considered national heritage.  

Roaring tradition: The lion dance on a pole being performed outside the Parliament House. Both the dance and the building have been declared as part of our national heritage

They are among the 50 things (18 buildings, 20 objects and 12 cultural practices) that were granted such status in conjunction with the country's 50th Merdeka celebrations. (See graphics for full list) 

Culture, Arts and Heritage Minister Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim said the ministry had looked at 500 things, but currently, it only conferred the national heritage status to 50. 

"Today, the lion dance on pole which originates from Malaysia and not from China, has been declared a national heritage.  

"We should all be proud of it," he told reporters at the declaration of the 50 national heritage and the launch of national heritage register. 

He said with the declaration as stipulated in the National Heritage Act, Malaysia now joins countries such as Britain, the United States, France, Germany and Australia as having legislation to protect their heritage. 

Dr Rais said he was now waiting for recommendation of cultural practices from the Indian community to be included in the list. 

Asked whether Baratanatyam dance could be included in the list, he said: "It is not a problem. It is one of the foremost dance which has been performed by various sectors.  

"Classical Indian dancer, Ramli Ibrahim has performed it worldwide. 

"The only thing is that we would like the dance to be localised by the Indian community. If that is done, I will forward the suggestion that it be included in the list."

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