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http://www.sun2surf.com/article.cfm?id=7148
theSun Says
Keep Peeping Toms locked at home
Updated: 08:47PM Sat, 22 Jan 2005
LEVEL-HEADED readers must have scarcely believed their eyes when they read
on Friday that the 4B youth movement in Malacca wants to set up vigilante
squads to spy on youths engaging in immoral activities.
The proposal came to light when its deputy president Hassan Rahman was
reported in Berita Harian to have rejected advice from a senior officer to
Datuk Dr Abdullah Md Zin, a Minister in the Prime Minister's Department,
that the views of the Islamic development department Jakim be sought in the
matter.
The youth leader's best intentions, however, are sadly a poor substitute for
good sense.
Let's look at the issue in the eye. Promiscuity, drug-taking and other
irresponsible behaviour among the young need to be handled above all else
with better guidance, closer family ties and a more supportive social
environment.
Mounting youth posses to hunt down frisky adolescents frolicking in the dark
can only lead the whole pack over the cliff.
It would make some sense if the religious authorities were to undertake the
task of monitoring public mores and recommending appropriate remedies for
maintaining a wholesome social environment.
They have, in plain language, the appropriate grounds to assume that role.
But what moral authority does the 4B youth movement claim to possess?
And if this bull-headed approach is adopted, what is to stop other youth
groups from joining in to share the sordid limelight? Where will it all end?
Even more disturbing, however, is the news that Malacca Chief Minister and
Umno vice-president Datuk Seri Mohd Ali Rustam, who heads the national 4B
movement, has endorsed its new role.
The chief minister's judgment in this matter must be seriously questioned,
to say the least.
The state's chief executive would be better advised to pay more attention to
developing the social infrastructure instead of riding on ill-conceived
schemes like this.
If Hassan and his gung-ho band would take a moment to consider the matter,
the grotesque nature of the job they have chosen to shoulder would become to
them as clear as daylight.
That is the message State Mufti Datuk Wira Rashid Redza Md Salleh has so
tactfully tried in Friday's report to put across to the would-be moral
guardians.
In discharging their purported duty, they would become as good as voyeurs,
no less. And that, our holier-than-thou friends should note, is both a moral
and criminal offence.
The 4B should stop its boys before it creates a monster.
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http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Saturday/National/
NST32217910.txt/Article/indexb_html
Snoop unit to target youths of all religions
MALACCA, Jan 21:
The "moral squad" being set up by the Malacca 4B Youth Movement to spy on
wayward Muslim youths will eventually target youths of other religions.
http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/dav/2005/01/06/feat/
hepatitis.b.the.silent.killer.html
Hepatitis B: The silent killer
By Henrylito D. Tacio Thursday, January 06, 2005
HEPATITIS B is a viral infection of the liver. According to the Geneva-based
World Health Organization (WHO), more than two thousand million people alive
today have been infected with HBV.
Hepatitis B is very common in Asia. In Southeast Asia, more than half the
population becomes infected with the virus. About 130,000 people are chronic
(lifelong) carriers of hepatitis B in Singapore. In the Philippines, one in
10 Filipinos are suffering from the disease.
The Philippine Cancer Society (PCS) estimates some eight million Filipinos
are HBV carriers. Of those who are infected, around two million would die of
liver failure, according to studies by the Philippine Society of
Gastroenterology. About 7,477 people will die from liver cancer this year,
PCS projects.
"I call HBV a silent epidemic and a silent killer in the Asian community
because many Filipinos and other Asians don't even know they have been
infected because there are usually no symptoms. By the time they develop
symptoms, it is usually too late," deplores Professor Samuel So, director of
the Asian Liver Center and Liver Cancer Program of the Stanford University.
Unknowingly, hepatitis B is all too easy to catch. It is more common than
the dreaded Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and far more
infectious. "While 90 percent of the people who get hepatitis B recover
spontaneously with their body's defenses, the 10 percent who maintain the
infection for six months or longer and who do not produce an effective
antibody response are considered chronic carriers," explains Dr. Ernesto
Domingo, head of the Liver Study Group of the University of the Philippines
in Manila.
From Singapore Straits Times
11 January 2005
KL film industry: It's a black and white script
By Leslie Lau
Malaysia Correspondent
KUALA LUMPUR - IN THE world of Malaysian films, a certain political
correctness has crept in over the years, reflecting the moral codes of
a more religious society.
Director Yasmin Ahmad's new film Sepet is the most recent example.
Official censors wanted to know why the script did not show any
attempt to convert to Islam the main character, Jason, a Chinese boy,
after he fell in love with a Malay girl.
The censors also objected to the depiction of a Malay man expressing
affection for his wife by tickling her in bed.
'It seems it is not okay to show affection, but they did not object to
another scene in which a man assaulted his wife,' Miss Yasmin said at
a private viewing recently.
Censors asked for more than 10 cuts to the film, resulting in the
director deciding not to show it at all in Malaysia.
Closer official scrutiny of films is not confined to new productions.
In recent years, Malaysian film legend P. Ramlee's films have also run
foul of the moral guardians. Many of his films depict Malays drinking
and gambling, habits that are more frowned upon today than in the
1950s and 1960s when the films were made.
Satellite television station Astro, with its more limited audience,
has aired most of the late P. Ramlee's films, but industry observers
note that free-to-air stations like RTM have avoided doing so.
The actor's legendary status and immense popularity mean that
sometimes the unwritten rules are bent. Just a few weeks ago, the
classic comedy Keluarga 69 was shown over RTM despite its scenes of
Malays enjoying a tipple.
Not much can be done with the P. Ramlee classics but in many of the
newer films or television dramas, when scenes are shot in a bar, Malay
actors are invariably shown sipping orange juice or rose syrup.
Dear Sirs,
We refer to your news article in today's Straits Time where you included
Malaysia among nations which "have been criticised for not doing enough
to help those affected by the tsunamis."
http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/
sub/topstories/story/0,5562,294485,00.html?
You may be surprised to know that Malaysia was listed as one of the victim
nations, suffering losses of human lives and property, albeit on a smaller
scale than its neighbours in Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka and India. We
were fortunate enough to be able to help ourselves so perhaps it is
understandable that we did not really focus on whether others were stingy
or forthcoming with aid.
We shall be most grateful if you can enlighten us as to who and/or which
organisation has criticised Malaysia as "doing not enough"? Perhaps you
will cite the old journalistic chestnut about protecting your sources but
we ask that these sources at least provide some justification for what we
feel is a baseless and malicious claim against our nation and its people.
You may, with some research, find that Mercy Malaysia, a voluntary
organisation was one of the earliest to send material and personnel to
assist the tsunami victims in Indonesia. ABC
[http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2004/s1274058.htm] describes Dr. Kwabun
Leong of Mercy Malaysia as (quote) "one of the first to arrive".
The Washington Post on December the 30th
[http://media.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A36054-2004Dec30?language=palm&vendor=avantgo]
report that the Malaysian Air Force already had personnel in Meulaboh. It
is fair to assume the disaster happened only the day before and we
already had people on the ground. How many other countries affected by
the disaster can make this claim?
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