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Baca elok-elok khat ini. Ianya keratan dari Bible — Gospel of Matthew.

Inilah masalah yang ditimbulkan segelintir penganut ugama ini yang tidak henti-henti suka mensubversikan ugama Islam. Seni khat yang diketahui seluruh dunia dan berzaman-zaman sebagai seni Islam pun hendak diambilnya. Masalah ini perlu ditanganii.

Perkara sebeginilah yang menimbulkan keresahan di kalangan umat Islam di Malaysia apabila kalimah “Allah” dan perkara-perkara yang dikaitkan dengan ugama Islam “dipinjam” untuk menyebarkan ugama lain yang mungkin mahu meningkatkan kegiatannya di rantau ini memandangkan bilangan penganutnya semakin merosot di negara-negara tradisinya di benua Eropah.

Imej didapati dari laman SatD yang memberikan sedikit “write-up” mengenai metode mubaligh kristian.

Den tak syak lagi kemelut mengenai kalimah “Allah” akhir-akhir ini berkaitan dengan usaha “Contextualisation of the Gospel Among Muslims.” Ikut pautan ke laman SatD untuk mendapatkan penjelasan lanjut. Rakan aden apocryphalist pun ada menurunkan sebuah esei yang menarik di sana.

Dan oh ya, jangan lupa bawa kitab suci al-Quran sebagai rujukan apabila anda mahu membeli hasil penulisan khat terutama dari pasar malam atau pasar raya.

Selamat.

[Deklarasi lanun: Nasib baik aden ada masuk kelas dewasa bahasa Arab, jadi tahulah sikit-sikit selok belok bahasa tersebut]

Tomorrow is the start of the new school year and the whole blessed country will reverberate with an irruption of parental joy as the kids troop back into the classroom and out of their parents’ hair.

Malaysian parents will be off to kindergarten or primary school with their younger offspring to register them and cough up the requisite PTA fees. The roads will be choked with amber-coloured ‘people movers’ — for that is the term of the moment — to deliver the older kids to their respective destinations where they will report to the classroom, register themselves and hand over the PTA fees coughed up by their parents. The whole scene will be a riot of white, dark blue, dirty green and turquoise with a sprinkling of yellow and skyblue and a touch of purple. Malaysian parents will sigh a collective sigh of relief, confident in the knowledge that their kids will be in good hands, protected from harm in an environment conducive to learning and nurturing. The kids will break out their new textbook, sharpen their pencil, break the crease in their newly-pressed uniform and will receive a good education. Scribble, scribble, scribble. And hopefully they will grow into good adults.

Aah, lucky Malaysian kids.

This Palestinian kindergartener (pre-schooler in the parlance of me art) is not having any of that. No. She “is the vision of innocence, peering up into the dull eyes of a soldier towering over her. She can only be four or five years old. Black slacks with a green striped short skirt fanning out beneath her short black jacket indicate that she is a kindergarten student. She strains to hand the backpack, which is half her length, up to the soldier who orders her to stop. He systematically opens every zipper and plunges his hands into each pocket before handing the backpack back. It slumps to the ground.

Gallantry at its best

The little girl carefully closes the zippers and with considerable effort slings the backpack onto her back; the young soldier, who has moved on to the next search, has already forgotten her. She stumbles as she hurries to catch up with her friends. This encounter is a significant part of her education under the Israeli occupying power, which seeks to clip her fragile wings.”

That vision of the barbaric treatment of a Palestinian pre-schooler — designed to break her spirit — along with a silent prayer, will be in me head when I send off me crew to school tomorrow.

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