Jumaat, 27 September 2013

Chinese police rescue 92 children kidnapped for sale

Chinese police rescue 92 children kidnapped for sale - state media

 
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese police have rescued 92 children and two women kidnapped by a gang for sale and arrested 301 suspects, state media said on Saturday, in one of the biggest busts of its kind in years.

Police simultaneously swooped on locations in 11 provinces recently after a six-month investigation, China Central Television and state news agency Xinhua said, quoting the Ministry of Public Security.
An exact date of when the children were rescued and the arrests made was not given.

State media also did not give a breakdown of how many boys and how many girls were kidnapped.
A traditional preference for boys, especially in rural areas, and a strict one-child policy have contributed to a rise in the trafficking of children and women in recent years.

Kidnapped women are sold to men in remote areas who are unable to find brides due to a sex imbalance resulting from the draconian one-child policy, which has also encouraged sex-selective abortions.

The government would impose harsher punishment on people who buy kidnapped children, state television said.

Xinhua said the government would also punish parents who sell their children.

China has trumpeted the success of an intensified crackdown on the kidnapping and sale of children and women recently. In 2011, police said they had rescued more than 13,000 abducted children and 23,000 women over the past two years or so.

(Reporting by Benjamin Kang Lim; Editing by Paul Tait)

Isnin, 23 September 2013

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Are Christians Islam's Enemies?

Christians not Islam’s enemies, says minister

BY JENNIFER GOMEZ
September 23, 2013
Islam does not have any enmity towards Christians, said Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Jamil Khir Baharom, in response to a parliamentary question today.
Jamil, who is the minister in charge of Islamic affairs, said while Islam is the religion of the federation, other religions are free to be practised.
Jamil said this in response to a supplementary question from DAP's Beruas Member of Parliament Datuk Ngeh Koo Ham.

Ngeh querried if there was any truth in a report on the Friday sermon prepared by the Department of Islamic Development Malaysia (Jakim) at a mosque on August 30, in which Christians were labelled as enemies of Islam.

Jamil however sidestepped Ngeh's question on the Friday sermon, saying Islam was a state matter under the Agong and state Rulers.

He said freedom to practise other religions was evident even in Parliament today, saying a Muslim like him was answering a question from Ngeh, who is a Christian.

He went on to say that as Islam is the official religion, religious authorities in the country have a duty to promote the faith among Muslims.

Earlier, PAS's Marang MP Datuk Seri Hadi Awang wanted to know the measures by Jakim to educate people on the diversity of sects in Islam in order to preserve harmony in the Muslim community. -

September 23, 2013.

Ahad, 22 September 2013

Kenya At War, 68 People Died

Kenya: At least 68 killed in assault claimed by Somali militant group al-Shabaab

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Kenya’s armed forces say the hostage standoff has nearly ended at the Westgate mall in Nairobi, where militants attacked shoppers with guns and grenades on Saturday, killing 68 people, including at least two Canadians.

“Most of the hostages have been released, and the Kenya Defence Forces has taken control of most parts of the building,” Kenyan military spokesman Colonel Cyrus Oguna told the television station KTN. He did say how many hostages had been held or freed.


Another Canadian who died in the attack at the upmarket shopping centre has been identified by Vancouver-area family members as Naguib Damji.


Israel Is A Nazi State

Political Islam is the latest totalitarian ideology chosen by Europe to move towards liquidating the Jewish people - and it is working.


 


 
The fundamental Zionist idea about anti-Semitism was that once a Jewish State was realized, the problem of anti-Semitism in Paris, Berlin and Rome would be solved. Since Jews would have their own homeland, they could no longer be persecuted as religious and national strangers. But this neat packet of reasoning has turned out to be incorrect.


The Belgian Ministry of Education funds an organization, the Committee for Remebrance Education, which provides teachers with materials for their history lessons. One of the materials used is the cartoon “Never Again, Over Again”, which equates the treatment of the Palestinian Arabs by the Israelis today with the treatment of the Jews by the Nazis in the 40s.


“Never Again" means that what happened under Hitler should never happen again. And "Over Again" means that what is happening today is the same as in the past with Hitler, the Belgian school teachers are told. “In the past, the concentration camps were fenced off with barbed wire. Today, the border between Israel and Palestine is marked with barbed wire and a wall”.


Daniel Goldhagen devoted his entire academic research to the analysis of the Nazi genocide. His international fame came with “Hitler’s Willing Executioners”, the book-indictment of one hundred thousand “ordinary Germans” who killed millions of Jews. Now it is the turn of Goldhagen's new book titled “The Devil That Never Dies”, published by Little, Brown and Company.


The book is most important as an analysis of “global anti-Semitism” as Goldhagen calls it, but it is also the indictment of Europe’s public opinion which depicts the Jews as “monstrous predators” who crush the Palestinians. Goldhagen enunclates Europe’s new anti-Semitism as follows: “Israel has no right to exist, so it is right and necessary to destroy the Jewish state. Two hundred million Europeans see the Israeli Jews as Nazis”.


That’s why, according to the Jewish People Planning Institute, 40 to 50 percent of European Jews are considering alyah. Because they do not feel safe.

And France is the most explosive example. Nathan Sharansky just landed in Paris to coordinate the departure of 800 French Jews. “I do not remember such a number of people interested in alyah since the days when Jews stood in line outside the Israeli embassy in Moscow”, Sharanski said from the French capital.


It is a peak of emigration which has not been seen since 2004, when during the Second Intifada Europe’s Jews suffered a wave of anti-Semitism and thousand of French Jews marched through the streets raising signs like “Synagogues brûlées, République en ranger”, i.e. synagogues burned, republic in danger.


At stake is the famous relationship between Jews and France symbolized by the French Air Force jewel created by Marcel Dassault; by the father of the Constitution, Michel Debré; by Simone Veil, first president of the European Parliament; by Pierre Mendes-France, Minister of Economy in 1945, and by the socialist leader Leon Blum.


The Israeli government recently released emigration numbers. France tops the global list after Russia, Ukraine and Ethiopia. It is the “Aliyah Tapis Rouge”, emigration on the red carpet.


In Paris, the Jews are advised to “walk in groups”, never alone. Better if above the kippah they wear a baseball hat. Half of the Jewish families in Villepinte, a proletarian suburb north of the capital, have left and the local synagogue, already burned down in 2011, is no longer able to set up the required 10-man quorum, called a minyan, for prayer.


Joel Mergui, historic leader of the Jews of Paris, has warned: “The mass migration is likely to clear the capital of the community”. It is a drama silenced by the French media: “Of the 600,000 Jews in France, only one third is in contact with the community and educates their children in Jewish schools. A third is about to be assimilated, and a third is on the fence”.


Nazism, Barth said, “is ... a religious institution of salvation. It is impossible to understand National Socialism unless we see it in fact as a new Islam”.


50,000 Jews have left France since 1990. But alongside real emigration, there is a new phenomenon which is difficult to count. That of the 30,000 French Jews who spend most of the year in Israel, but who have not yet taken out citizenship. 800 Jewish marriages occur every year in the town hall of Paris, but half of these are celebrated in Israel.


After the massacre at the Jewish school in Toulouse, in which a Muslim killed a Jewish rabbi and three children, Richard Prasquier, president of the Conseil des institutions représentatif juives de France (CIJF), stated that in France there is “an Islam of war” and he compared it to Nazism.


Political Islam is the latest totalitarian ideology chosen by Europe to liquidate the Jewish people.
In view of declarations of genocidal intentions by Arab and Islamic groups, it is interesting to remember an observation by the Swiss theologian Karl Barth. Nazism, Barth said, “is ... a religious institution of salvation. It is impossible to understand National Socialism unless we see it in fact as a new Islam”.


This is Europe 1933-2013. Or as Arnold Toynbee, the noted British historian, angrily referred to them, the Jews are “a fossil race” who have no right and reason to continue to exist.

Why the West Fears Islam: An Exploration of Muslims in Liberal Democracies

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Open to the Public - Center for European Studies (CES
September 24, 2013
4:15-5:30 p.m.


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Jocelyne Cesari, Lecturer on Islamic Studies, Harvard Divinity School. This event will be moderated by Pippa Norris, Lecturer in Comparative Politics, Harvard Kennedy School.
Part of the fall 2013 study group series on “Muslims and Democratic Politics: A Comparative and Inter-Disciplinary Inquiry” co-sponsored by the Center for European Studies at Harvard University.

This event will be held in the Cabot Room (105) at the Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138.

About Jocelyne Cesari:
Jocelyne Cesari, is an Associate at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and Center for European Studies and teaches at the Harvard Divinity School and Government Department. Dr. Cesari is a French political scientist, tenured at the French National Center for Scientific Research in Paris and specializing in contemporary Islamic societies. Before coming to Harvard, she served as an Associate Research Scholar and Visiting Professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. At Harvard, she is Director of the interfaculty Islam in the West Program (see http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/research/iw). This research program produced a major publication, the Encyclopedia of Islam in the United States, which was published by Greenwood Press in September of 2007. She also coordinates the new web-based initiative on contemporary Islamic thinking called islamopediaonline (www.islamopediaonline.org).

Her areas of expertise include Islam and globalization, Muslim minorities in Europe and America, and Islam and politics in North Africa. Over the course of her career, Dr. Cesari has published fifteen books and more than fifty articles in European and American journals. Her most recent books and articles are :Muslims in the West After 9/11: Religion, Politics and Law (2009, Routledge), “Islam in the West from Immigration to Global Islam”, Harvard Middle Eastern and Islamic Review, (8) 2009, pp.147-275, When Islam and Democracy Meet: Muslims in Europe and in the United States (Palgrave 2006) and European Muslims and the Secular State (Ashgate 2005).She has also received grants to write the reports “Islam and Fundamental Rights” and “The Religious Consequences of September 11, 2001, on Muslims in Europe” for the European Commission (see www.euro-islam.info).
 
 
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Sabtu, 21 September 2013

Mob Burn Down Rohingya Muslim Houses

Anti-Muslim rioters burned shops and homes in a fresh outbreak of communal unrest in Myanmar, police said on Sunday, as the former army-ruled nation grapples with destabilising religious violence.
Some 38 houses, nine businesses and a rice mill were torched during the unrest on Saturday night, which erupted after a Muslim man was arrested on suspicion of attempting to rape a Buddhist woman in a village at Kanbalu in the central region of Sagaing, according to a regional police official.
“About 150 people gathered at the police station last night, calling for them to hand over the detainee. When police did not respond, they started setting fire to nearby shops,” the official told AFP, asking to remain anonymous.
“These shops are believed to be owned by Muslim people but we are still trying to confirm it. Those people who attacked are believed to be Buddhists from two local villages,” the source added. No injuries have been reported.
Several episodes of religious unrest - mostly targeting Muslims - have exposed deep rifts in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, casting a shadow over widely praised political reforms since military rule ended two years ago.
Rights groups have accused authorities of being unable or unwilling to contain the violence, which has left around 250 people dead and over 140,000 homeless. Myanmar has rejected the claims.
Last week watchdog Physicians for Human Rights said Myanmar risked “catastrophic” levels of conflict with “potential crimes against humanity and/or genocide” if authorities failed to stem anti-Muslim hate speech and a culture of impunity around the clashes.
Many of the incidents have featured widespread retaliatory violence against Muslim communities in response to accusations of seemingly isolated criminal acts.
In the latest clash, the official said the suspect allegedly approached a 25-year-old woman, “grabbed her hand and attempted to rape her”.
Radical Buddhist monk Wirathu, whose anti-Muslim and nationalist speeches have been accused of stoking the unrest, posted a message about the incident on his Facebook page.
Using term “kalar” - a highly derogatory word - he blamed Muslims in general for the unrest.
“Kalars are troublemakers. When a kalar is there, the problem will be there. If every time kalar made trouble and people response in violent ways, both Buddhists and Buddhism will be harmed,” he said.
Two outbreaks of conflict in the western state of Rakhine in June and October last year left around 200 people dead, mainly Rohingya Muslims who are seen by many in Myanmar as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.
In March dozens of people were killed in sectarian strife in the central town of Meiktila, and thousands of homes were set ablaze.
The UN’s rights envoy on Myanmar, Tomas Ojea Quintana, last week slammed the government for allowing an angry crowd to surround his car and beat on the windows during a visit to Meiktila.
He said the incident gave him an “insight into the fear residents would have felt when being chased down by violent mobs”. Myanmar has said the envoy was not in danger.

USA CHINA AT WAR

Chinese Military Capable of Jamming U.S. Communications System

 Bill Gertz

September 20, 2013

China’s military is using stolen U.S. military secrets obtained from a convicted spy to defeat a high-technology communications system used in joint warfighting, combined arms warfare, and missile defenses, according to U.S. officials.The disclosure that China has the capability of jamming the Joint Tactical Information Distribution System, or JTIDS, was revealed in a Chinese military technical article published in July.JTIDS is part of a group of military communications systems called Link 16 that gives U.S. military forces jam-resistant communications, a key strategic advantage used in joint warfighting, a specialty of the American military.Read moreThis article was posted: Friday, September 20, 2013 at 5:19 pm

Rabu, 18 September 2013

The Book of USA Political Wars

Gates writes book on 'political wars'
 
Former Defense secretary Robert Gates has a book coming out Jan. 14, and it may discomfort some members of Congress, as well as former colleagues from the Obama and Bush administrations.
In addition to the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, Gates says he plans to write about "my political war with Congress each day I was in office," and what he calls "the dramatic contrast between my public respect, bipartisanship and calm,and my private frustration, disgust and anger."


Gates, who led the Pentagon for Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, says he also writes about "political wars with the White House, staff, and occasionally with the presidents themselves and often with their vice presidents, Dick Cheney and Joe Biden."


The publisher Alfred A. Knopf provided excerpts from the introduction of Gates' forthcoming tome, Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War.


There are also tales of a "bureaucratic war" within the Pentagon itself, Gates writes, all "aimed at transforming a department organized to plan for war into one that could wage war, changing the military forces we had into the military forces we needed to succeed."


As for the non-metaphorical wars, Iraq and Afghanistan, Gates writes that "initial victories in both countries were squandered by mistakes, short sightedness and conflict in the field as well as in Washington, leading to long, brutal campaigns to avert strategic defeat."


Gates also discusses the pursuit and death of 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden.
As for the two presidents he served, Gates is more coy -- at least for now.
As Mike Allen of Politico writes: "Over the years, Gates deflected questions about comparisons between Bush and Obama by smiling and saying: 'Wait for the book.'"

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Selasa, 17 September 2013

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The family of alleged Mossad spy Ben Zygier, who committed suicide in prison, will receive $1.1 million from Israel, the Justice Ministry said Wednesday. Zygier, a Jewish Australian who became an Israeli citizen and joined the army, was detained in ...
 
 
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Ahad, 15 September 2013

Zamboanga Philipines Blood Bath

Philippines: Nearly 100 Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) rebels killed or captured in Zamboanga

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Nearly 100 Muslim guerrillas who have held scores of people hostage for a week in Zamboanga City have been killed or captured in an offensive to retake rebel-held coastal communities, officials said Sunday.
Army troops and police special forces have regained rebel-held grounds and are pressing an assault deeper into communities in the coastal outskirts of Zamboanga city, where more than 100 Moro National Liberation Front guerrillas are holding an unspecified number of hostages, military spokesman Lt. Col. Ramon Zagala said.
“We’re gaining ground, we’re pushing forward,” he said.
Troops are calibrating their firepower to avoid harming civilians, Zagala said.
At least 51 rebels have been killed and 42 others captured, most while trying to escape along the coast after discarding their camouflage uniforms for ordinary clothes, Interior Secretary Manuel Roxas IIsaid, adding that the gunmen would face criminal charges.

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Obama: Clorado In State Emergency

Almost 500 people are unaccounted for in Colorado
Almost 500 people are unaccounted for in Colorado's flash floods.
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US President Barack Obama has declared a state of emergency in the state of Colorado as officials say almost 500 people are unaccounted for in devastating flash floods.


A disaster declaration for Colorado signed by the US president Saturday night would offer federal aid to facilitate recovery efforts.

“Assistance can include grants for temporary housing and home repairs, low-cost loans to cover uninsured property losses, and other programs to help individuals and business owners recover from the effects of the disaster,” the White House said in a statement.

On Sunday, authorities announced an 80-year-old woman presumed dead. The number of deaths blamed on the flooding could already be as high as six, reported CNN.

Meanwhile, officials have warned that the death toll will almost certainly rise as there are 482 people unaccounted for.

“It's unlikely at this point that we'll be able to reach those who are stranded in the hard-to-reach areas,” said Kim Kobel, a spokesperson for the Office of Emergency Management in Boulder, Colorado.

Authorities have said that fixing 100-150 miles of roadway and 20-30 bridges in Boulder County alone would cost an estimated $150 million.

“We have lost a great deal of infrastructure,” Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper said on Saturday.

Hickenlooper has also said that federal authorities have assured him that “the $5 million that was released Friday was just the beginning” of federal assistance to Colorado.

Meanwhile, more rain is expected and residents are worried that any additional water could cause more flooding and halt rescue efforts.

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Sabtu, 14 September 2013

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Rabu, 11 September 2013

US quit Syria war over possible reaction from Tehran: Iranian MP

Member of the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of Iran
Member of the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of Iran's Majlis,
Javad Karimi Qoddousi
 
 
An Iranian lawmaker has described possible reaction from Tehran as the main reason behind Washington’s decision to give up the idea of a military strike on Syria.


“When our military commanders introduced Syria as the red line and Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei sensibly elaborated on Syria developments, Americans came to realize that Iran as the regional superpower can hamstring the US in the Middle East, and no power can ignore the Islamic Republic of Iran’s red lines,” member of the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of Iran's Majlis, Javad Karimi Qoddousi, said on Wednesday.

He noted that US officials chose not to suffer a heavy military and historical loss at the current juncture of their political life.

The Iranian MP also said Syria is regarded as the axis and the birthplace of the anti-Israel resistance front in the Middle East region, adding that countries supporting the resistance front in Syria have lined up against the United States.

Karimi Qoddousi further noted that possible reactions from Hezbollah and the Damascus government were other reasons that averted the US military action against Syria.

“Americans knew that if they attacked Syria, their warships and destroyers deployed to the Mediterranean Sea would be struck by resistance missiles...” Karimi Qoddousi noted.

The US has based its recent threat of striking Syria on the unsubstantiated accusation that the Syrian government was behind a chemical attack in Damascus on August 21. The Syrian government has categorically rejected the allegation.

The White House, however, says it has no “irrefutable” evidence of the Syrian government's use of chemical weapons and that only a “strong common-sense test irrespective of the intelligence” suggests the Syrian army was responsible for the August gas attack.

Syria has been gripped by deadly unrest since 2011. The United Nations has reported that more than 100,000 people have been killed and millions displaced due to the violence.

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US declares victory with Russian plan on Syrian chemical arms

By MICHAEL WILNER, MAYA SHWAYDER JERUSALEM POST
09/12/2013 01:44

US President Barack Obama says threat of military action is what put diplomatic deal on table, hopeful Assad will follow through on his renouncement of his chemical weapons arsenal.

US President Barack Obama walks from his residence to the Oval Office on September 10, 2013.
US President Barack Obama walks from his residence to the Oval Office on September 10, 2013. Photo: REUTERS

Calamitous UN report on atrocities in Syrian war

DEBKAfile September 11, 2013, 12:44 PM (GMT+02:00)
UN investigators confirm allegations of chemical weapons use (east of Damascus on Aug. 21) but qualify their attribution of responsibility as “predominantly by government forces.”  The UN report Wednesday finds that all sides in the Syrian civil war are committing crimes in defiance of international law. Government forces have committed 8 massacres of civilians, bombed hospitals and committed other war crimes in widespread attacks. The Syrian rebels, including Islamist foreign fighters’ war crimes include executions, hostage-taking and shelling civilian neighborhoods.

Isnin, 9 September 2013

Krisis Ekonomi 20??: Adakah kita bersedia? Bagaimana saranan Islam.

Bismillah: Assalamu 'ala man ittba'a al-Huda

Adakah kita bersedia dengan krisis ekonomi yang biasanya selalu datang setiap 5 hingga 10 tahun mendatang selepas ia terjadi?

Adakah kita telah berjimat cermat, untuk membelanjakan wang kita hanya untuk yang perlu sahaja?

Adakah kita menyimpan dalam bentuk hartanah, atau kita menyimpan dalam bentuk ketulan emas?

Atau adakah kita menyimpan dalam bentuk duit berkodi-kodi di bank?


Di dalam Islam ianya terbahagi kepad dua kategori.

Kategori negara dan kategori rakyat.

Untuk rakyat, ianya terpulang kepada individu, samada mereka mahu menggunakan pendekatan zikir atau bersyukur.

Jika mereka menggunakan pendekatan zikir, maka tidaklah perlu mereka menyimpan, bahkan menyimpan juga merupakan suatu yang mengganggu kehidupan berzikir itu sendiri. Kerana orang yang menyimpan duit yang banyak, selalunya sukar untuk berzikir. Sebagaimana Saidina Ali r.a. telah memberikan rumah yang diberikan kepadanya pada orang lain, kerana katanya rumah itu menganggunya untuk berzikir dan beribadat kepada Allah swt. Namun pendekatan seperti ini tidak digalakkan untuk saudara-saudara yang baru dalam Islam, ianya juga tidak digalakkan untuk individu yang lemah imannya.

Kita juga boleh menggunakan pendekatan Syukur, sebagaimana Nabi Daud a.s dan juga Nabi Sulaiman a.s. yang diberikan anugerah oleh Allah swt kekayaan sebagai raja dan Nabi dan menakluki jin jin dan sebahgian manusia. Mereka diberikan kerajaan, istana, peralatan peperangan dan lain-lain. Gunanya ialah agar mereka bersyukur kepada Allah swt. Dengan pendekatan syukur ini, umat islam siapapun jua, boleh berusaha dan menyimpan asalkan usahanya itu halal dan perbelanjaannya selepas itu baik dan diredhai oleh Allah swt.

Untuk pihak kerajaan pula, mereka tidak mempunyai pilihan lain dalam mentadbir kerajaan mereka dengan kaedah Syukur, mereka tidak boleh menggunakan kaedah zikir seperti diatas. Sebab ianya adalah wajib bagi mereka menyediakan apa jua pun yang mereka boleh berikan kepada rakyat. Namun jika sekiranya rakyat tidak mahu mengambilnya kerana mahu pendekatan zikir, setelah rakyat itu ditanya secara individu, maka ia terpulang selepas itu kepada rakyatnya itu, namun sebelumnya, kerajaan wajib menyediakan segala yang diperlukan itu kepada semua rakyatnya.

Perkara ini jelas sebagaimana atsar Saidina Umar al-Khattab r.a, yang menyatakan bahawa baginda takut disoal oleh Allah swt jika seekor keldai di Baghdad terjatuh kerana ada lopak di jalan raya Baghdad.

Untuk berusaha sebaik mungkin dalam menjana ekonomi dan berjimat cermat kerana menunggu krisis yang akan berlaku, ia jelas sebagaimana yang dibuat oleh Nabi Yusuf a.s. setelah mentafsirkan mimpi raja Mesir. Dan kini, krisis ekonomi bukanlah suatu statistik lagi. Hampir semua ahli ekonomi tahu, bahawa krisis ekonomi sentiasa berlaku sekurang-kurangnya dalam masa 10 tahun.

Oleh itu, sebagai pihak yang mentadbir kerajaan, mereka perlu mempastikan segala keperluan-keperluan terpenuhi dalam menghadapi krisis-krisis tersebut. Jangan leka pada pembangunan sahaja. Tetapi kita lupa  pada permakanan. Kita lupa pada pakaian, kenderaan perubatan dan lain-lain lagi. Dan yang paling menyedihkan ialah jika kita lupa pada Allah swt untuk berdoa agar Allah swt mengelakkan negara dari dilanda krisis itu.

Selain dari berdoa dan berusaha dalam menjana ekonomi, kita perlu tahu bagaimana cara berjimat dan kita perlu tahu bagaimana mengelakkan krisis ekonomi.  Salah satunya jalan untuk mengelakkan krisis ekonomi yang teruk ialah dengan mempastikan Negara tidak berhutang, tidak mengalami inflasi, tidak mengalami defisit yang teruk.

Salah satu jalan bagi menggalakkan pertumbuhan ekonomi ini ialah dengan memperbanyakkan hasil negara sebanyak-banyaknya sehingga negara-negara lain berebut-rebut melabor di negara kita. Sama seperti yang dibuat oleh Jepun dan China.

Negara juga memerlukan orang yang kuat bekerja dan dibayar gaji yang tinggi kerana kerja mereka itu sehingga mereka menggunakan duit itu untuk perkara-perkara yang berfaedah.

Pemberian sedekah kepada masyarakat untuk mengelakkan negara daripada masalah bukanlah suatu jalan yang baik. Sebab apabila rakyat diberikan duit tanpa sebarang usaha dari mereka untuk menghargai duit yang mereka dapati, maka duit itu akan digunakan tanpa berfikir panjang. Akhirnya barangan menjadi mahal dan duit menjadi terlalu murah.

Pemberian barangan makanan dengan secara kupon kepada fakir miskin atau pihak-pihak tertentu adalah suatu solusi yang baik, agar belanja yang diberikan kepada mereka tidak digunakan kepada perkara lain. Namun cara seperti ini biarlah digunakan untuk pihak-pihak yang tidak mampu bekerja saja. Sebab kita mahukan keberkatan. Rezeki yang dibelanjakan dengan boros tentulah termasuk kategori rezeki yang tidak berkat.

Kerajaan boleh menggunakan kuasa kewangan fiat yang mereka miliki untuk menjana apa sahaja bentuk ekonomi yang menjana pekerjaan di dalam negara. Perkara ini tidak akan menimbulkan sebarang masalah, jika kerajaan bertawakkal kepada Allah swt, menggunakannya dengan baik dan menggunakannya dengan berhemah serta tidak boros dengan tidak memberikan hasil yang menguntungkan kepada kroni.

Sebab duit yang diberikan kepada kroni itu, bukanlah nanti akan memberikan mereka semangat untuk berusaha agar disokong semula oleh rakyat, tetapi akan menjadikan mereka malas berusaha membantu rakyat dan hanya akan menghamburkan duit itu untuk meminta dilantik semula oleh rakyat. Duit yang diberikan kepada rakyat itulah yang akan digunakan rakyat sesuka hati tanpa berkira, sehingga menjadikan inflasi menegak kelangit.

Kerajaan sepatutnya menilai setiap projek sebaik-baiknya kepada yang terbaik dan memberikan kepada pihak lain untuk menilai projek itu, samada ia mengikut prosedur yang betul, pembayaran yang betul atau tidak. Pihak lain perlu dibenarkan mendakwa projek-projek kerajaan yang tidak mengikut piawaian yang betul itu ke Mahkamah. Jika perkara ini tidak dibuat, bagaimanakah kerajaan nanti akan dapat mengawal inflasi yang tinggi itu? Bagaimanakah kerajaan nanti akan dapat menjamin negara dari terkena masalah ekonomi?

Jika kroni dibayar dengan harga yang tinggi dalam projek yang sebenarnya boleh ditaksir dengan harga yang murah, maka tentulah barangan semakin meningkat mahal, mata wang pula akan jadi semakin murah, jika harga berangan tidak terkawal, maka bagaimanakah negara akan dapat berjimat untuk menghadapi masalah yang tidak diketahui di hari muka?

Namun yang penting lagi, jika negara tidak mengawal kroni-kroninya dari bersifat tamak dan boros, maka bagaimana negara akan mendapat keredhaan Allah swt sehingga negara akan menjadi negara yang baik dan maju?

Wahai negara-negara Islam, berusahalah menambah rezeki untuk rakyat sebanyak-banyak dan sebaik-baiknya dan simpanlah harta itu untuk rakyat dihari depan, dan berusahalah menyimpan makanan untuk  10 tahun yang akan datang dan berjimatlah, Simpanlah harta dan makanan itu untuk waktu-waktu yang tidak diketahui. Kita tidak tahu dalam masa setahun ini, samada perang dunia atau perang nukelar akibat peperangan US dengan Syria akan melanda atau kemarau panjang selepas itu akan terjadi. Namun kita masih tetap wajib untuk bersedia. kerana jika salah satunya terjadi, tentunya ia akan menyebabkan kekurangan bahan makan pada dunia ini dengan kekurangan yang amat teruk sekali. Wa iyadzu billah mindzalik. Jika ianya terjadi, semoga Allah swt memudahkan kita di nusantara ini untuk menghadapinya.  Aaamiiin.


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