U.S. Professor in Bahrain Charged With Insulting Prophet Muhammad

 

MANAMA, Bahrain —  An American teacher has been charged in Bahrain with insulting the Prophet Muhammad for displaying pictures of Islam's founder to university students, a spokesman for the tiny Gulf nation's general prosecutor said Friday.

The spokesman, Nawaf al-Maawdah, said the pictures showed the prophet in ragged clothing.

Most interpretations of Islam forbid any depiction of Muhammad because it is seen as encouraging idolatry — one of the biggest sins in the religion.

Al-Maawdah's reference to "ragged clothing" suggests the picture showed the prophet in an insulting way, which would make it particularly offensive to many Muslims. The spokesman did not elaborate on what the picture looked like.

He said the teacher also insulted a student for wearing a head scarf, which she described as "a barrier to knowledge." He declined to reveal the name of the teacher or the university.

A U.S. Embassy spokeswoman said she could not release any information about the case or confirm that an American was involved.

According to al-Maawdah, the case has been referred to court, but no trial date has been set. A Bahraini newspaper reported that the teacher in question has left the country.

In 2006, the publishing in Denmark of cartoons depicting the prophet sparked riots across the Muslim world. And last year, a British schoolteacher was prosecuted and sentenced in Sudan for letting her pupils name a teddy bear Muhammad. The British teacher was later pardoned and allowed to leave Sudan.

 

The Die-hard fan of David Arumugam

Daddy Kurapak: Sampaikanlah salam cintaku padanya.

Happy New Year, Pak Lah

Daddy Kurapak: I think the Malaysians are creative and humorous. They are friendly too.

Stop the killing in Gaza!

Why kill the innocent people?

An Anti-Israel protest in Malaysia

The Palestinian women are asking the world to interfere and ask Israel to stop the bombardment.

Daddy Kurapak: The Israelis won't stop because the Muslim Nations are weak and not united.

While celebrating the New Year Eve...don't forget

Happy New Year 2009

Look forward to a better future!

While you are enjoying at the most luxurious hotel....

...please don't forget

the Palestinian children...

the children are being targeted in the Israel attacks

Olmert says the raid will destroy Hamas forever

To Allah we seek His assistance.

Daddy Kurapak: I invite everyone (except USA) to condemn Israel for their disrespect of human lives.

Israel targeted and killed children in their attacks on Gaza

Daddy Kurapak: ...and these are the motivators!

Global Economic Crisis

He could afford this.....but

...he chooses this....because

Daddy Kurapak: He doesn't want to be bothered by its monthly installments.

Lumba Kambing Biri-Biri

Pigang kuat-kuat, Wang

Bangun!!!!adui....tapigang tai'enya tia.

Pemenang pertama...tahniah!!!!

Daddy Kurapak: Syok ni mun ada di Brunei. Cubatah duit banyak atu buat tampat main kanak-kanak. Inda jua boring. Ani kasian kanak-kanak tani langui-langui. Kan ke Miri...ada tia gangster.

Anakku Yang Hilang

 

Karya Yahya M.S

 

Di jenang pintu berdiri anakku

mula melangkah ke pinara dunia

bakal menjadi pendatang asing

mengharungi gelombang lautan tak bernama

dengan persoalan tak bergambar

Adakah ia akan seperti anak piatu

dan menadah tangan meminta bukai

biar pun, tapi, dikatakan waris yang baru.

 

Katanya ia sekarang dipeluk sedan

mungkin bajunya menjadi kumal

dan kainnya puah dipalu himpit

jahitnya tatas tiada bergantian

dan sudahnya

Balai yang tunjung dirobohkan

(ia sudah mendengar daun-daun berbisik

dan angin sampar bersiul-siulan).

 

Benar katamu itu anakku

dunia yang ditempuh asing selamanya

dan bunyi kerakahnya tajam berbisa

(jangan takut)

nyanyiannya manis mengandung bisa

ialah seperti ular mengintai mangsanya

 

Tapi telah ku mandihi engkau, bukan?

isim yang ku tanamkan di dalam kulitmu

menjadi penimbul dan penyangga

Kau telah biasa berdiri di saujana hitam

atau duduk di belantara yang panas

jadikanlah ia seperti abu terbang

akan lari dikibas-kibaskan

dan engkau berdiri dengan zat Asma mu

 

Maka dengan pancaran sinar ‘ainul-yaqin

berjalanlah engkau di titian haqqul-yaqin

InsyaAllah

akan sirnalah lontaran api keraguan

tiada kejahatan tiada kebuntuan

engkaulah yang tetap teguh berdiri.

 

28 Syawal 1422H

12 Januari 2002M

 Yahya M.S.

Solat Hajat untuk Rakyat Palestin

 

"Hermetically under siege, after decades of occupation and years of Intifada in which Israel destroyed the little infrastructure that the Strip ever had, following many months of total embargo on everything except basic food products, which brought the economy to a halt, with daily invasions of Israeli tanks and extra-judicial killings by Israeli airplanes, and now with gasoline supplies cut and electricity supply to be reduced soon, the Gaza Strip (1.5 million people, 80 percent refugees) is no longer the world's biggest open-air prison. It's a huge laboratory for human experimentation, run by the Israeli army."

Lancarkan demonstrasi, boikot dan solat hajat lindungi rakyat Palestin!

 

 

KUALA LUMPUR, 29 Dis (Hrkh) -Selepas PAS mengutuk serangan Israel di Gaza, Teras Pengupayaan Melayu (Teras) menggesa supaya dilancarkan demonstarsi di seluruh negara bagi menyatakan bantahan keras terhadap tindakan biadap Israel itu.

 

Selain turut mendesak supaya bantuan ketenteraan daripada negara-negara Islam dihantar segera untuk melindungi rakyat Gaza.

Presiden Teras Mohd Azmi Abdul Hamid berkata Persidangan Negara-negara Islam (OIC) mesti segera bersidang untuk melaksanakan kerahan bantuan ketenteraan ini kerana serangan yang tidak berperi kemanusiaan itu telah mengorbankan lebih 200 orang dan ratusan lagi tercedera malah kesannya bukan sahaja mempengaruhi keadaan semasa di Gaza tetapi dalam jangka masa panjang juga kerana banyak kemudahan awam seperti hospital,air dan elektrik telah musnah dalam serangan tersebut.

"Kita menyeru umat Islam seluruh negara mengadakan dan solat hajat dan demonstrasi di semua masjid bagi menyatakan bantahan keras terhadap serangan ini.

"Umat Islam di Malaysia mesti menegaskan pendirian terhadap negara pengganas Israel yang didalangi Amerika Syarikat. Untuk itu umat Islam mesti memperharui serta mempertajam kempen boikot terhadap produk Amerika da Israel," katanya dalam satu kenyataannya kepada Harakahdaily.

Dalam masa yang sama Teras juga mengesa supaya semua kerajaan negara-negara Islam memutuskan hubungan diplomatik dengan Amerika yang menghalalkan tindakan Israel di Gaza. - azm _

 Daddy Kurapak: Orang mukmin itu umpama satu badan. Yang satu bahagian sakit, tersemua bahagian sakit - al hadith

Daddy Kurapak condemns Israel Attacks on Gaza

One of the children killed during Israel attacks.

Now more than 300 hundred people including women and children have been killed by Israel bombardment on Gaza Strip.

USA keeps quiet allowing the Israelis to continue their attacks, killing innocent people.

To all Brunei Bloggers, Let us show our sympathy to the victims of the terrorists supported by Uncle Sam. 

Daddy Kurapak: Allahu Akbar

Oldest man in the US dies in Sacramento at 112

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SAN FRANCISCO – George Francis, the nation's oldest man, who lived through both world wars, man's first walk on the moon and the election of the first black president, has died. He was 112.

 

Francis died Saturday of congestive heart failure at a nursing home in Sacramento, his son, Anthony Francis, said Sunday.

 

"He lived four years in the 19th century, 100 years in the 20th century, and 8 years in the 21st century. We call him the man of three centuries," said the younger Francis, 81.

 

UCLA gerontologist Dr. Stephen Coles, who maintains a list of the world's oldest people, said Francis lived 112 years and 204 days.

 

With Francis' death, Walter Breuning of Montana, who is 112 years, 98 days old, becomes the country's oldest living man. At 114, Gertrude Baines of Los Angeles is the nation's oldest living person. The world's oldest person is Maria de Jesus of Portugal, who is 115 years, 109 days old, and the oldest man is Tomoji Tanabe of Japan, who is 113 years, 101 days, Coles said.

 

Francis, who at his prime barely weighed more than 100 pounds, was born June 6, 1896, in New Orleans. As an African-American in the South, he felt the sting of the Jim Crow-era segregation laws in his early life.

 

His son said Francis tried to enlist in the U.S. Army during World War I but was turned down because of his stature.

 

"We always attributed his longevity to his mental and physical toughness," Anthony Francis said.

 

George Francis quit school after the sixth grade, became an amateur boxer as a young man and later worked as a chauffeur, an auto mechanic and a barber.

 

He and his wife, Josephine Johnson Francis, had a son and three daughters. Josephine Francis died of cancer in 1964.

 

Even in his waning days, Francis never lost his passion for politics, his family said. He voted for Franklin Roosevelt in the 1930s and for Barack Obama in 2008.

 

In an interview with The Associated Press after Obama's victory, Francis, who used a wheelchair, said he felt like jumping up and down. "He is going to give black men a break in the world, and give them a better opportunity to live and make more money," he said. "For people who say voting doesn't matter, I think that's crazy."

 

Anthony Francis said his father was devoted to his family and that he attributed his longevity to them.

 

"He said `My children and my friends, I live off of them,'" he said.

 

Besides his four children, Francis is survived by 18 grandchildren, 33 great-grandchildren and 16 great-great grandchildren.

Daddy Kurapak: Ian Fleming says, "You only live twice."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our gymnast for the Olyampic

Daddy Kurapak: Not like before, now we start our training at the early stage. Usually we train our athletes few months before the SEA games. Other participating countries train for years, while we prepare our athletes like Instant Mee. No wonder we are always the first from the last. 

Biological Age

Brigette Bardot (So young and sexy). But that was 40 years ago.

Now. The biological age is unstoppable.

You don't stay young 4ever.

Hi Madonna. What's your secret of looking younger? Botox or plastic surgery?

Hey Paul, I don't see the wrinkles now.

Daddy Kurapak: Believe that you are young now. Feel that you are healthy. Who cares about other people's perception. Cos you are just what you are.

Our Future Leaders

Daddy Kurapak: Our leaders are still relaxing. 

Happy Birthday, Sayang Bapa

Youth is a blunder

Now is time to struggle

Old age is just a regret

Daddy Kurapak: We love you so very much. Take good care of yourself.

Our long time friends

We are still young!!!

How about you two lovely ladies??? If you say you are young, then definately you'll always be young as long as you stay on that positive frequency. However if you prefer to admit that you are already old, then please don't get irritated if we (the above young men) solemnly declare that we are still as young as we used to be.

The young and younger!!!!!

Daddy Kurapak: Once upon a time, we were very young couples.

Relaxing

This one is ok

This one also ak

But this one.....he'll be sitting in Hell soon!!!!!

Try this if you dare

Daddy Kurapak: At your own risk, of cos

Relaxing

Daddy Kurapak: If you relax too long, you may turn to stone!

A Land full of Hatred & Vengeance

Israeli attacks on Gaza kill 227

More than 700 people were injured, including children, as Israeli warplanes and combat helicopters fired at least 30 missiles on the security installations which were reduced to rubble.

The attacks took place as youngsters left school for the day and television pictures from one compound showed uniformed bodies lying in a pile as those wounded writhed in pain.

Rescuers carried bodies showing signs of life to cars and ambulances, while others tried to revive the unconscious. One of the police stations had been hosting a graduation ceremony at the time of the attacks.

Gaza police chief Tawfiq Jabber is among those killed in the raids which took just minutes and left columns of thick black smoke billowing across the area.

There were more casualties in Khan Younis, a refugee camp in the south. At one site, a huge crater was left in the ground. Nearby medics carried people into an ambulance.

Later, a retaliatory strike by Palestinian militants from Gaza killed an Israeli woman. Another two people in the Israeli town of Netivot were wounded, the Magen David Adom ambulance service said.

The Israeli military confirmed they had conducted strikes, saying they targeted "terrorist infrastructure".

An Israeli military spokeswoman said Hamas leaders could be attacked as part of the offensive. Major Avital Leibovitch, said: "Anything belonging to Hamas could be a target. You can interpret that as you like."

The US has urged Israel to avoid civilian casualties and said Hamas must stop rocket attacks into Israel for the violence to cease. However, the White House did not call for an end to the air strikes.

The attacks followed a decision by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's security cabinet to widen reprisals for cross-border Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel. He had warned Hamas to stop firing rockets or pay a heavy price.

On Friday, about a dozen rockets and mortar bombs were fired from Gaza after Israel eased a blockade of the Strip bowing to international pressure to reopen border crossings.

One accidentally struck a northern Gaza house killing two Palestinian sisters, aged five and 13, and wounding a third, Palestinian medics said.

 Israel withdrew its forces and settlers from Gaza in 2005 and Mr Olmert has said he does not wish to re-occupy the coastal strip. Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni discussed the crisis on Thursday with President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, which borders Gaza to the west and which brokered the truce in June. Mr Mubarak urged restraint on both sides.