Sadly, Siti’s ignorance showed when she, in an RTM programme last week, linked V's Day to Christianity and immoral activities. She said "immoral activities, partying and unmarried couples associating in private are traditions of the Christian community"!
By Martin Jalleh
Siti Nor Bahyah Mahamood is a well-known Islamic motivator on local television and a popular TV personality, with Semanis Kurma on TV9 and Astro being her biggest hit.
As a famous personality, one would expect her to have all the facts on her fingertips in her efforts to educate, motivate and even propagate her faith! Surely her experience as a professional motivator would teach her that you can’t motivate people by humiliating others!
Recently, she decided to discourage Muslim youth from celebrating Valentine's Day. It is actually quite a noble effort. I too do not believe in V’s Day (Catholic though I be) and I think it is tragic to have to say “I love you” only once a year and with a blooming rose that costs a bomb!
But I have no problem with the rest of the world who are caught up by the commercialization of love and romance (though now its extended to more than just a celebration of lovebirds) and are ready to pay a crazy and costly sum, probably to make up for their neglect of 364 days in the year!
V’s Day has become a day when, love is blind, the florists flourish, and hotels and restaurants reap roaring profits by holding the ridiculous! It has no religious significance whatsoever! As for those who wish to unleash their lust on V Day, VD (a different kind of rose) might await them!
Sadly, Siti’s ignorance showed when she, in an RTM programme last week, linked V's Day to Christianity and immoral activities. She said "immoral activities, partying and unmarried couples associating in private are traditions of the Christian community"!
Surprisingly, as a motivator, Siti is glaringly show of understanding. V’s Day is not a Christian tradition and all Christian traditions and tenets do not condone, in fact abhor "immoral activities”, and “unmarried couples associating in private”.
If only Siti would sit quietly and ponder she will realize that vice and virtue lie in the adherents of every faith and there is really no need of making a scapegoat of other religions and insulting them for the sins of the people of her own faithful!
A Christian Conspiracy to Corrupt Muslims?
The Malaysian Insider reported on 11 Feb. 2011 that both the KL Islamic Department (Jawi) and Selangor Islamic Department (Jais) have banned Muslims from celebrating V’s Day, calling it “a Christian tradition” in a Friday sermon delivered in mosques on that day.
Alas, if Jawi, Jais or Jakim want to reduce themselves into one big Joke, it is really none of our business, but claiming that V’s Day is a Christian tradition and inferring that it is part of a Christian conspiracy to “corrupt” Muslims, is to say but the least, a jaundiced view…very unislamic indeed!
The sermon continued with its slanderous spree: “Remember that the Jews and Christians would continue to deceive Muslims. They will do everything to undermine the Muslims’ belief and personality”!
Prepared by the Selangor’s Islamic authority, the sermon also said that V’s Day “is celebrated in many ways, starting with greeting cards, flowers and dance parties. In fact some celebrate it with a date which would eventually lead to illicit sex”!
What about the illicit sex that takes place on non-Valentine Days? Who is to be blamed? What about the sex scandals committed by Members of Parliament, Ministers and a host of people in high places….were they all committed on V”s Day? Were they the result of a conspiracy by the Jews and Christians?
Jais caused quite a jolt when it pointed out that there were 257,411 births out of wedlock between 2000 and 2008 and blamed V’s Day celebrations as one of the causes. You mean to say nine V’s Days could produce 257, 411 births? Is this what Najib’s model of moderate Islam is all about?
Not only are they insulting the Christians but they are so condescending in how they view the Muslims in Bolehland – who have in recent times been portrayed as people who are so very easily confused, convinced, converted and corrupted! But then again, we are told that is none of our business.
It appears that Siti, Jawi, Jais and Jakim need to do a lot of soul searching. Surely the strength of Islam does not lie in creating a “siege mentality” and in their ignorance, insulting other religions.
The different faiths in this country are often faced with many similar challenges which could be more easily overcome if we were to synergise our earnest efforts rather than creating slurs and suspicions on the supposed salacious conspiracies of other religions to turn young Muslims into sex fiends!
May I wish Jawi, Jais and Jakim Happy Anti-Valentine’s Day! And to those who celebrate it in a big way, Happy Valentine’s Day – whatever it means!
To PAS Youth, instead of conducting “immorality checks” on V’s Day in opposition-ruled states, why not take a break from politics and be romantic enough to spend precious time with your beloved under the moon, always conscious that God is watching you from a distance!
To the Muslims who really want to celebrate V’s Day but cannot as a result of the recent ban, please do not be angry but in keeping with the spirit of the day, send a rose to Siti, Jawi, Jais and Jakim – unless the rose is deemed by them as a Christian flower used to seduce Muslims into immorality!
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Arnez Hamidi
Yesterday at 3:36pm · · 3 peopleLoading...
Being moslem myself, I disagree with the ignorance of some our schoolars who were not careful with their facts and words they said. All religions share common opinion and teaching which prohibit bad elements in our daily lives. Worse still ...such statement by them would create unneccessary tension among us. No religion allow stealing, killing, raping, telling lies ect..What really happened is that there's always some black sheps in whichever society and there's always some extremists in whichever cultures and religions. I can't tender my appology to our christian friends on behalf of the said person, but I can always tender my absolute regret and deep concern to such unwarranted statement and felt sorry to our christian friends who were hurt by it.See More
KuJack Dunnai Daniel ok laa klau Jakim nak mengharamkan....saya setuju.....tetapi kenapa nak membohongi umat Islam sendiri dgn menyatakan Valentine's Day adalah upacara Kristian....sedangkan ianya adalah tradisi masyarakat eropah yg telah dijadikan ikutan....
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Samson Quintin Being a Roman Catholic this i say ti Datuk Siti... she is fed up with the harmonious society we have in Malaysia now... she wants something new.... could be something very very new...
10 hours ago ·
Paul D Simon Sorry klu tlebih sdh sa ckp ni coz pedas juga lah tapi ni mmg kenyataan. Mereka melarang kaum M menyambut Valentine Day tapi kaum mereka juga yg banyak buat maksiat.Mcm kebebasan anak2 mudi kaum M tlalu d kawal menyebapkan kaum mereka sdiri yg bnyk sekali buat kes. Mmg tekanan bah gia klu mcm 2 coz klu start dr rumah pun kbebasan terhad apatah lagi d luar rumah kjaan pun menghalang ini, menghalang itu last2 muda-mudi kaum M yg tekanan dr pubahan semua ini.Klu btl mereka yg bekenaan melarang kaum mereka sdiri menyambut Valentine Day, kenapa tdk dr dulu lagi.Bilal sdh jadi kbiasaan kaum mereka menyambut seperti perayaan2 yg lain baru buat kjaan buat undang2 ini tdk buli, itu tdk buli.Apa mcm bah ni apa pendapat kamurang?
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Paul D Simon Klu d SABAH keluarga M masi yg tbaik kerana kurang maksiat berlaku. So kwn2 yg keluarga M teruskan khidupan kitorang semua d SABAH seperti biasa.Dr.Mahadir pun pernah berkata melayu mudah lupa. Bagi sa bkn pd rakyatnya tapi pd pemimpinnya yg mudah lupa.Bila sdh d pilih rakyat utk mbangunkan kwsn2 DUN mereka tandingi, mereka lupa menunaikan janji2 mereka sblm PR.So kita fikir2kan lah klu ada pemimpin d SABAH mcm ni.
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Arnez Hamidi : SQ, we knew each other very well all this while.. and we knew how good our relationship are despite the difference in race & religion. It didnt affected our very cordial brotherhood..we can joke, we can exchange ideas, we can drink & eat together. We appreciated each other. We knew very well religion is a very basic and fundemental need to our soul, thus its our wisdom which faith we choose to in life. We can see and share those similarities, while the religious difference that may occured we accept them with an open mind..now its no more and option its an imperative to accept each other..didnt we.?
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Paul D Simon AH:Mmg sa setuju komen kamu.2 lah sa bilang keluarga Melayu d SABAH d tahap yg amat2 tbaik berbanding d semenanjung coz keluarga Melayu d Sabah masi boleh join kita makan & minum klu ada perayaan.Ini bukan bmakna kaum M d semenanjung tdk bagus cuma tekanan dr pubahan & larangan dr pihak kjaan.Harap2 virus yg ada d semenanjung skrng ni tdk merebak kemakmuran keluarga M dgn keluarga yg lain d Sabah.Sabah contoh negeri yg berbilang kaum, agama, bangsa & keturunan.So kita teruskan semua ini utk menyatupadukan rakyat sabah.
8 hours ago ·
Wilion Rigah Wilion Rigah as a believer i do believe that there is a God. i do believed that ustazah got excited with her speech, she tought that she done enough research, sadly she din't. not all the person in one's religion is a good seeds, some of it are rotten, and the rotten seeds made a bad trees, and the bad trees made a bad impression to the world that sees it, do we all, can be considered as a good trees if we judge them from what they are? don't we just put ours self as bad and rotten as the bad trees?? labelised, and throw them at the corner rather then lead them to a right path from their missedleaded way? God never do that ever, just imagine if god take the same act from what we do? If we continuing to curse and get her to her knees, we are much more the same as what we afraid to be. Think this, are there any of the religion that God created ask us to do any bad things, i should ask you all, to ask any of the religious person, if you do not know the answer, how many religion God send to earth? the 1st what? the 2nd? the 3rd? Datuk Siti din't look at this fact, that is why i strongly believed that she din't do enough research at all and got excited by that, you all know, if people listen any words that poped out from your mouth, you tend to be aggressive and bigheaded most of all too excited to be true. That is what happend to her, i'd felt so sorry for her mistakes and hope that she will get her forgiveness, she could ended up in hell right here on earth before the next life.
8 hours ago ·
Kamal Ariffin Mn khas buat Siti Nor Bahyah Mahmood: BILA BERCAKAP SOAL MAKSIAT, JANGAN SESEKALI MENUDING JARI KEPADA KOMUNITI TERTENTU, KECUALI KOMUNITI ANDA BENAR BENAR BERSIH DARIPADA MAKSIAT... ITU NAMANYA ZALIM!!! ... JIKA ANDA "MARAH" KERANA V-DAY MEROSAKKAN KOMUNITI ANDA, JANGAN SALAHKAN ORANG LAIN ... BETULKAN KOMUNITI ANDA DAHULU SEBELUM GHAIRAH MENUDING KOMUNITI LAIN ... PEACE 1 MALAYSIA.
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Taman Minda Sayang kekhilafan bicara ini datang dari motivator popular seperti Datuk SNM. Mungkin salah sumber..that's actually from european culture..bkn dan x ada kena mengena dengan agama C.
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